MAY-20 BOUDHIK YOJANA

 

2-Dec-2018:          Samachar Samiksha: Pa Pu Mohanji Bhagwat’s Boudhik

 RSS has stopped all Residential and large gatherings till June end. We should follow rules and regulations. It is our society and we have to involve ourselves in Seva of this society. True patriotism is when citizens follow the discipline set by a society. Discipline should be the bedrock of the society’s progress post Covid 19

We are not into Seva to prove any point to anybody. It is our society and we have to involve ourselves in Seva of this society.

 Whoever is suffering from #Covid19 we have to extend our support and Seva, there is no reason to differentiate. Let us not be competitive during Seva, but work with one another to ensure Covid19 is eliminated.

Fear, anger, lethargy, deferring things unnecessarily- are the foes not only of an individual but also of a society. Sane minds across the country should strive to keep amity & calm during this hour, fortify minds with fresh thoughts, avoid politicizing issue.

Swadeshi, self-reliance should be the development model that also makes our society competitive as well. Let us buy goods produced from our nation. Let us help Swadeshi products. Also help manufacturers who would want to produce Swadeshi products.

It’s not only the government that will make the country independent in the economy. It’s we as a society should contribute to making it possible by India made products not lower in the quality to them. Swadeshi is the only way and we should think of it.

 We should convert this crisis into opportunity and spearhead the mission of helping the world revive this from situation.

Swadeshi, cleanliness, environmental concerns & organic farming are the new horizons where not only Govt & Administration but even the society will have to take special efforts.

The lockdown has ensured that the Samvada within the family has bettered. It is certainly good for the family. The pollution has also reduced. We need to think how we can continuously think about nature, environment.

Even during the crisis some fundamental truths are being tested. We should also take the project of national reconstruction with the fundamental principle of self-reliance.

The time has come to establish harmony in the society. For the people, the way ahead to rebuild Bharath is to not being Selfish but to be selfless and self-reliant.

Be and make is our real work, programs and events are but a transient feature of long journey. Inward journey (Atma Sadhana) in confinement, serving needy (parOpakar) when free is an ideal life.

 Hindu Saints killed in Palghar; it was a very unfortunate thing that happened. The Police should have to take strict action and find the culprits.

 

10-May-2020        Boudhik: First War of Independence

The first war of independence started on 10th May 1857.The day decided was 31st May and the planning was meticulous, a simple roti or a lotus was the symbol which was circulated through villages, cities and cantonments. Everybody consuming roti had to take oath of fighting against the foreigners. Every village, which received a roti, had to prepare as many rotis as received which were then circulated through other villages. Everyone taking a bite had taken oath to fight the war of independence. Similarly red lotus was circulated through cantonments and every soldier holding the lotus took an oath for the struggle. In today’s age of instant communication it is bewildering to imagine that a nation spanning thousands of kilometers and millions of people was united in cause through simple and effective means. British spies noticed this and reported to officers, however it was rubbished off as superstition.

Many British and Indian historians have pointed the reason to cartridges and trivialized the movement. Large kingdoms like Awadh, Satara, Jhansi and many others were acquired on one pretext or other fueling discontent. Annexation of kingdoms destroyed the support base of artists, schools, and temples Exorbitant taxes (~ 50% was average rate in few provinces ) were used by British to destroy the Indian industry and agriculture leading to widespread penury. Agriculture became unprofitable leading to people abandoning their lands hence production fell drastically. Lack of production led to widespread famines killing millions. De-industrialization wiped out small-scale industry spread across villages pushing people into abject poverty and destroying their purchasing power. Indian textiles which were a rage in Europe were literally wiped out from global trade.

Nanasaheb Peshwa and his brother Raosaheb from Brahmavart, Tatya Tope, Rani Laxmibai of Jhansi, Kunwarsingh from Ara, Ahmedshah from Awadh were few prominent leaders of the movement. Almost 100 thousand soldiers forgetting their caste & creed fought as sons and daughters of our beloved motherland. The movement started from Meerut and soon spread to Kanpur, Jhansi, Ambala, Delhi and almost entire nation was up in arms. The news of the events at Meerut and Delhi spread rapidly, provoking uprisings among sepoys and disturbances in many districts. In many cases, it was the behaviour of British military and civilian authorities themselves which precipitated disorder. The military authorities also reacted in disjointed manner. Some officers trusted their sepoys, but others tried to disarm them to forestall potential uprisings. At Benares and Allahabad, the disarmings were bungled, also leading to local revolts. There were Islamic scholars such as Maulana Muhammad Qasim Nanautavi and Maulana Rashid Ahmad Gangohi who took up arms against the colonial rule. But a large number of Muslims, among them ulema from both the Sunni and Shia sects, sided with the British.

Initially, the freedom fighters were able to push back Company forces, and captured several important towns in Haryana, Bihar, the Central Provinces and the United Provinces. However large principalities like Nizam of Hyderabad, Shinde of Gwalior, Bhonsale of Nagpur, Sikhs and Gorkhas supported the British cause. If these kingdoms had sided with the national cause it would have stretched the British War effort and eventually broken the Empire. When European troops were reinforced and began to counterattack, the mutineers were especially handicapped by their lack of centralized command and control. It took time to organise the European troops already in India into field forces, but eventually two columns left Meerut and Simla. They proceeded slowly towards Delhi and fought, killed, and hanged numerous Indians along the way.

The Englishman unleashed unimaginable horrors where villages supporting the revolutionaries where hanged from the trees. Even women and children were not spared. Women with their suckling babies where hanged. Soldiers where either bayoneted or blasted into smithereens from canons. Prominent leaders also met the same fate, Tatya Tope was supposedly hanged, Rani Laxmibai was martyred in the war, Kunwarsingh died at age of 80, Bahadurshah was deported to Myanmar. Bahadurshah’s sons were killed in front of his eyes to set an example.

Although 1858 proclamation, passed on the power to British Government instead of East India Company, but Englishman took all measures to avoid the repetition. Indian people were completely disarmed i.e they could not hold any weapon in their household. It was a Hindu practice to keep weapons at home and worship them and use them for the defense of Dharma. The practice was completely banned and Government confiscated all weapons. A systematic study of people participating in the revolt was taken and these groups were systematically banned from any martial activities. British took such a fear of united front of Hindus and Muslims that they systematically targeted all fissures in Indian society and exploited them to avoid lasting unity.

They failed but in act not in vision. They had a clear vision of free India and wanted it at the cost of even their kingdoms, families and lives. They did what they could to the best of their efforts and finally all of them except Nanasaheb who vanished gave the last measure of dedication i.e life for the dearest cause of Independence. It is to those that we should look upto when in doubt that what can a common man like you and me do for a country of continental proportions not only in size but in problems.

 Further reading : https://www.savarkarsmarak.com/bookdetails.php?bid=11 First War of Independence by Veer Savarkar

 17-May-2020 Boudhik for Dakshata Varg will be planned separately

24-May-2020        Katha: Swatantraveer Savarkar (28^th May 1883 – 26 February 1966)

Veer Savarkar was born in Bhugur near Nasik in a Kokanastha Maharastrian family. He was the second son i.e younger than Ganesh (Babarao) and elder to Narayan Savarkar. Inspired by the sacrifice of Chapekar brothers he took an oath at the young age of 8 in front of their family goddess that “he will struggle for his whole life to free the country from foreign yoke”. He founded the revolutionary organization “Abhinav Bharat” and was the first to organize a pyre of foreign clothes under guidance of Lokmanya Tilak. To become a barrister he sailed to England and stayed at India House in London.

 In 1908, he celebrated the golden jubilee of 1857 War of Independence in London and inspired the Indian youth to take up the national cause. He was the inspiration behind Madanlal Dhingra, a carefree youth turned into revolutionary, who killed Curzon Wayli. He was hanged in London but sacrificed his life without any remorse and roared in the British court that “It was God’s work to fight for the cause of freedom of motherland”. Veer Savarkar was involved in smuggling weapons like guns into India from England. One of the smuggled weapon i.e revolver was used by Anant Kanhere to kill Jackson, collector of Nasik. The weapon was traced to London and he was arrested for conspiring against the government. He was awarded 2 back to back life imprisonments in Andaman i.e 48 years and the year of start was 1912.He is said to have commented in the court that “ With 2 life imprisonments, British government has accepted the Hindu concept of rebirth”. During transportation to India, he jumped from ship at Marseilles and was captured illegally from French coast by British police. Hence he became the first Indian whose case was argued at International Court of Justice at Hague.

When in chains in jail of Mumbai his young wife came to meet him. It was probably the last meeting as he was going into jaws of death but the confidence of this man was unshakeable. How he consoled his wife is legendary, he said “if accumulating a few sticks and giving birth to children is life, then it is led by birds and animals but we are HUMAN. Even if we are ruined today, imagine thousands of lives who will smile because of us”. They both agreed to recite a shloka at same time during the day and thus meet mentally if not physically.

When in Andaman he was put in solitary confinement and was subjected to “kolhu” for oil extraction. If one did not fulfill the stipulated amount of oil one would receive lashes or would be confined in chains in a very uncomfortable position. Even for nature’s call a fixed time was allotted and at night one had to relieve himself in a pot which would lie in the same cell. Talking to any other prisoner was a strict NO and others would get harsh punishment for talking to Savarkar. No newspaper or books or paper for a literary giant like him. Several revolutionaries were either driven to suicide or became mentally unstable due to the inhuman treatment. After a year he came to know that his elder brother was also in Andaman and with lot of efforts could only see him once.

He wrote novels, dramas and poetry on the walls of cell. Since there was also change of prison cells, he would memorize all the text he had written before. Every day he would memorize text he had composed before and while completing hard physical labor would compose poems or dramas. He composed literature of 10000 lines during his confinement in Andaman. The jail superintendent being a Pathan, there was a lot of encouragement for conversion of prisoners. Savarkar not only stopped that but reversed the trend by claiming that a person can become a HINDU with bath and chanting OM NAMAH SHIVAY. The methods were so successful that Mulsims started complaining to British officials that their numbers are dwindling due to proselytization activities of Hindus.

When the question arose about official language he encouraged people for their preference to HINDI breaking the supremacy of URDU/PERSIAN. It was due to his efforts that not only INDIAN but BRITISH PARLIAMENT had to discuss the condition of prisoners in ANDAMAN and soften the treatment meted out to them. During confinement at Ratnagiri, he took up the cause against untouchability and started the first temple which was open for all castes. He composed several seminal works during his confinement in Ratnagiri, prominent among them are Hindutva, Six Golden Pages of Indian History, My Life Imprisonment and several others. Doctorji met him during his stay and discussed the cause of Hindu Organization which fructified in form of RSS.

Further reading: https://www.savarkarsmarak.com/bookdetails.php?bid=55

Biography of Savarkar by Dhananjay Keer.

 

 31-May-2020        Prarthana Abhyas