भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 57, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 57
- This excessive propaganda for unrestricted 'ahimsa', which Ashoka carried on by the use of his political authority throughout his empire and the countries beyond it, cut at the very root of the Indian empire, and was even more harmful than any other acts of his for the national existence and national independence! Thousands of bhikksus, appointed and maintained by Ashoka, preached everywhere that armed strength of every sort was violent and sinful, and that all those who followed the life of a Kshatriya, were violent and so irreligious! Everyone who vowed to practise 'ahimsa', everyone who renounced the use of weapons and his family life and lived the life of a 'bhikksu' in the viharas according to the Buddhistic principles was greater, holier and so more praiseworthy than the brave Kshatriya soldier, who fought and bled and died in the defence of his nation. Naturally, the common people too came to think that any and every wandering parasite of a 'bhikksu' was more respectable and religious- minded, than the brave armed warrior.
- Ashoka had precepts, commonly preached by other religions also, inscribed on his 'pillars': "Religious victory is more valuable than the one gained by means of arms." But was this religious victory possible in the earthly life? Was it practical? A draught of nectar is said to make a man immortal, maybe! But can anybody tell the whereabouts of the shop where that nectar is available? 156A. Whoever can satisfy his hunger by eating the rice and curry made of words? बोलाचीच कढी बोलाचाचभात। जेवूनिया तृप्त कोण झाला॥
- Was not the empire of Ashoka with the unlimited resources, power and wealth, with which he could carry out, throughout the whole of India and abroad, a vigorous propaganda 'that religious victory was superior to victory on the battlefield', itself gained on the strength of the mighty and invincible four-fold army built up by Chandragupta and Chanakya? Had all that army forsworn arms and lived the idle parasitic life of the 'bhikksu' in the 'Viharas' embracing Buddhism, as soon as Ashoka ascended his ancestral throne, would it have been possible for him to sit there securely as an emperor even for a moment? Even at that time, the Greek states beyond the Indian border and farther off than these the more ferocious wild tribes of the Saka-Kushan-Hun type, who recognized 'violence' as the only mean of achieving their objectives were anxiously waiting for an opportunity to pounce, like a lion, on India, but they feared the four-fold