Showing posts with label mahatma gandhi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label mahatma gandhi. Show all posts

Saturday, September 24, 2011

Quotes

''Love me or hate me,both are in my favour... If you love me, I'll always be in your heart... If you hate me, I'll always be in your mind....'' ~ William Shakespeare.

"Never Play With The Feelings Of Others Because You May Win The Game 
But You Will Surely Lose The Person For Life Time" ~ William Shakespeare.

"If friendship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world." ~Abraham Lincoln

There's always these I guess Instinctive Feelings of, like Fear or Jealousy or Sexual Tension or Resentment between People - There's always something that you have to consciously pretend isn't there, it feels like.

"The world suffers a lot. Not because of the violence of bad people, but because of the silence of good people!" ~Napoleon Bonaparte

"A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first." ~ Chanakya

 "Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous." ~ Chanakya



"The biggest guru-mantra is: Never share your secrets with anybody. It will destroy you." ~ Chanakya


"There is some self-interest behind every friendship. There is no friendship without self-interests. This is a bitter truth." ~ Chanakya


"Before you start some work, always ask yourself three questions - Why am I doing it, What the results might be and Will I be successful. Only when you think deeply and find satisfactory answers to these questions,
go ahead." ~ Chanakya



"As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it." ~ Chanakya


"The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman." ~ Chanakya


"Once you start a working on something, don't be afraid of failure and don't abandon it. People who work sincerely are the happiest." ~ Chanakya


One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds. ~ Mahatma Gandhi


Character, not brain, will count at the crucial moment. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Some men are born great, some achive greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. ~ William Shakespeare

Education is the chief defense of a nation. ~ Burke

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to reach at the second or even the third place. ~ Cicero

He who fears you present, will hate you absent.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue. ~ G. K. Chesterton

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience? ~ Adam Smith

Generally the theories we believe we call them facts, and the facts we disbelieve we call them theories. ~ Felix Cohen

To err is human; to forgive, divine. ~ Alexander Pope

A specialist is one who knows everything about something and nothing about anything else. ~ Ambrose Bierce

Millions said apple fell but Newton was the one to ask why. ~ Bernard M. Baruch

A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. ~ H. L. Mencken


There is no sadder sight than a pessimist. ~ Mark Twain


Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king. ~ Mark Van Doren

The powers of mind are like the rays of the sun dissipated. When they are concentrated, they illuminate. ~ Swami Vivekanand

Always behave like a duct - Keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle with great vigour underneath. ~ Jacob Braude

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress. ~ Joseph Joubert

When i was 10 yrs old .RUBBER meant eraser, ASS meant donkey, GAY meant happy ,STRAIGHT meant linear,MAKING OUT meant logical deduction, LAYING meant sitting aside ,COCK meant a rooster ,PUSSY meant cat ,STAG meant a male deer, a TIT was always for a TAT ! The english has changed so much !!!

One single object (a woman) appears in three different ways: to the man who practices austerity it appears as a corpse, to the sensual it appears as a woman, and to the dogs as a lump of flesh.

I know how ingratitude burns, how falsehood tortures, for I have been deceived in friendship and in love; I have learned to lose and to resign myself.

'Aut viam inveniam aut faciam', in other words 'I'll either find a way or make one."

Years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do than by the things you did do.So, throw off the bowlines.Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore, Dream,Discover,innovate because "The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step as One secret of success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes "...

In the blink of an eye, my whole outlook on life can profoundly improve. In one small moment, disappointment can be transformed into positive resolve and commitment.

A moment ago, I may have been discouraged, or resentful, or frustrated, or miserable. Now, I can be whatever the way I choose to be.


"When people talk behind your back,it means you are two steps ahead".

''Always be a first-rate version of yourself,instead of a second-rate version of somebody else''~ Judy Garland.


I look the way I look, think the way I think, feel the way I feel, love the way I love! I am a whole complex package. Take me... or leave me. Accept me - or walk away! :P

Find that pursuit that will energise you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don’t, you are working.

"Man truly achieves his full human condition when he produces without being compelled by the physical necessity of selling himself as a commodity."


And the secret, the crap, crap work has evolved this protective mechanism to not get ignored called deadlines, right? And so if you look at what most people do instead of their great vision for their life, they spend their time doing things that have deadlines.
So one of the secrets to getting stuff done is to be able to blow off stuff. Even stuff that seems important.
I see, piss off some people who have imposed a deadline on you.


Some funny Quotes on women By some funny man......
1) What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman. -Lord Byron
2) Man has will; but woman has her way. -Oliver Wendell Holmes
3) Women are like cars : we all want a Ferrari, sometimes want a pickup truck, and end up with a station wagon. -Tim Allen
4) When women go wrong, men go right after them. -Mae West
5) Despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, I have not yet been able to answer the great question that has never been answered : What does a woman want? -Sigmund Freud
6) I love women. They're the best thing ever created. If they want to be like men and come down to our level, that's fine. -Mel Gibson
7) A woman is like a tea bag - you never know how strong she is until she gets in hot water. -Eleanor Roosevelt
8) To be happy with a man you must understand him a lot and love him a little. To be happy with a woman you must love her a lot and not try to understand her at all. -Helen Rowland
9) Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent. -Friedrich Nietzsche
10) It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily. -Mignon McLaughlin

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. - Martin Luther King


Friday, September 23, 2011

WHY I KILLED GANDHI ??? - NATHURAM GODSE’S FINAL ADDRESS TO THE COURT


WHY I KILLED GANDHI ??? - NATHURAM GODSE’S STATEMENT IN THE COURT

Gandhiji’s assassin, Nathuram Godse’s Final Address to the Court.

Nathuram Godse right after he shot Mahatma Gandhi

Nathuram Godse was arrested immediately after he assassinated Gandhiji, based on a F. I. R. filed by Nandlal Mehta at the Tughlak Road Police staton at Delhi . The trial, which was held in camera, began on May 27, 1948 and concluded on February 10, 1949. He was sentenced to death.

An appeal to the Punjab High Court, then in session at Simla, did not find favour and the sentence was upheld. The statement that you are about to read is the last made by Godse before the Court on the May 5, 1949.

Such was the power and eloquence of this statement that one of the judges, G. D. Khosla, later wrote, “I have, however, no doubt that had the audience of that day been constituted into a jury and entrusted with the task of deciding Godse’s appeal, they would have brought a verdict of ‘not Guilty’ by an overwhelming majority”
WHY I KILLED GANDHI

Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to revere Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up, I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone. I openly joined anti-caste movements and maintained that all Hindus were of equal status as to rights, social and religious and should be considered high or low on merit alone and not through the accident of birth in a particular caste or profession. I used publicly to take part in organized anti-caste dinners in which thousands of Hindus, Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, Chamars and Bhangis participated. We broke the caste rules and dined in the company of each other. I have read the speeches and writings of Dadabhai Nairoji, Vivekanand, Gokhale, Tilak, along with the books of ancient and modern history of India and some prominent countries like England, France, America and’ Russia. Moreover, I studied the tenets of Socialism and Marxism. But above all I studied very closely whatever Veer Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other single factor has done.

 All this reading and thinking led me to believe it was my first duty to serve Hindudom and Hindus both as a patriot and as a world citizen. To secure the freedom and to safeguard the just interests of some thirty crores (300 million) of Hindus would automatically constitute the freedom and the well-being of all India, one fifth of human race. This conviction led me naturally to devote myself to the Hindu Sanghtanist ideology and programme, which alone, I came to believe, could win and preserve the national independence of Hindustan, my Motherland, and enable her to render true service to humanity as well.

 Since the year 1920, that is, after the demise of Lokamanya Tilak, Gandhiji’s influence in the Congress first increased and then became supreme. His activities for public awakening were phenomenal in their intensity and were reinforced by the slogan of truth and non-violence, which he paraded ostentatiously before the country. No sensible or enlightened person could object to those slogans. In fact, there is nothing new or original in them. They are implicit in every constitutional public movement. But it is nothing but a mere dream if you imagine that the bulk of mankind is, or can ever become, capable of scrupulous adherence to these lofty principles in its normal life from day to day. In fact, honour, duty and love of one’s own kith and kin and country might often compel us to disregard non-violence and to use force. I could never conceive that an armed resistance to an aggression is unjust. I would consider it a religious and moral duty to resist and, if possible, to overpower such an enemy by use of force. [In the Ramayana] Rama killed Ravana in a tumultuous fight and relieved Sita. [In the Mahabharata], Krishna killed Kansa to end his wickedness; and Arjuna had to fight and slay quite a number of his friends and relations including the revered Bhishma because the latter was on the side of the aggressor. It is my firm belief that in dubbing Rama, Krishna and Arjuna as guilty of violence, the Mahatma betrayed a total ignorance of the springs of human action.

 In more recent history, it was the heroic fight put up by Chhatrapati Shivaji that first checked and eventually destroyed the Muslim tyranny in India. It was absolutely essentially for Shivaji to overpower and kill an aggressive Afzal Khan, failing which he would have lost his own life. In condemning history’s towering warriors like Shivaji, Rana Pratap and Guru Gobind Singh as misguided patriots, Gandhiji has merely exposed his self-conceit. He was, paradoxical, as it may appear, a violent pacifist who brought untold calamities on the country in the name of truth and non-violence, while Rana Pratap, Shivaji and the Guru will remain enshrined in the hearts of their countrymen forever for the freedom they brought to them.

The accumulating provocation of thirty-two years, culminating in his last pro-Muslim fast, at last goaded me to the conclusion that the existence of Gandhi should be brought to an end immediately. Gandhi had done very well in South Africa to uphold the rights and well-being of the Indian community there. But when he finally returned to India he developed a subjective mentality under which he alone was to be the final judge of what was right or wrong. If the country wanted his leadership, it had to accept his infallibility; if it did not, he would stand aloof from the Congress and carry on his own way. Against such an attitude there can be no halfway house. Either Congress had to surrender its will to his and had to be content with playing second fiddle to all his eccentricity, whimsicality, metaphysics and primitive vision, or it had to carry on without him. He alone was the Judge of everyone and everything; he was the master brain guiding the civil disobedience movement; no other could know the technique of that movement. He alone knew when to begin and when to withdraw it. The movement might succeed or fail, it might bring untold disaster and political reverses but that could make no difference to the Mahatma’s infallibility. ‘A Satyagrahi can never fail’ was his formula for declaring his own infallibility and nobody except himself knew what a Satyagrahi is.

Thus, the Mahatma became the judge and jury in his own cause. These childish insanities and obstinacies, coupled with a most severe austerity of life, ceaseless work and lofty character made Gandhi formidable and irresistible. Many people thought that his politics were irrational but they had either to withdraw from the Congress or place their intelligence at his feet to do with, as he liked. In a position of such absolute irresponsibility, Gandhi was guilty of blunder after blunder, failure after failure, disaster after disaster.
 Gandhi’s pro-Muslim policy is blatantly in his perverse attitude on the question of the national language of India. It is quite obvious that Hindi has the most prior claim to be accepted as the premier language. In the beginning of his career in India, Gandhi gave a great impetus to Hindi but as he found that the Muslims did not like it, he became a champion of what is called Hindustani. Everybody in India knows that there is no language called Hindustani; it has no grammar; it has no vocabulary. It is a mere dialect; it is spoken, but not written. It is a bastard tongue and crossbreed between Hindi and Urdu, and not even the Mahatma’s sophistry could make it popular. But in his desire to please the Muslims he insisted that Hindustani alone should be the national language of India. His blind followers, of course, supported him and the so-called hybrid language began to be used. The charm and purity of the Hindi language was to be prostituted to please the Muslims. All his experiments were at the expense of the Hindus.

 From August 1946, onwards the private armies of the Muslim League began a massacre of the Hindus. The then Viceroy, Lord Wavell, though distressed at what was happening, would not use his powers under the Government of India Act of 1935 to prevent the rape, murder and arson. The Hindu blood began to flow from Bengal to Karachi with some retaliation by the Hindus. The Interim Government formed in September was sabotaged by its Muslim League member’s right from its inception, but the more they became disloyal and treasonable to the government of which they were a part, the greater was Gandhi’s infatuation for them. Lord Wavell had to resign as he could not bring about a settlement and he was succeeded by Lord Mountbatten. King Log was followed by King Stork.

The Congress, which had boasted of its nationalism and socialism, secretly accepted Pakistan literally at the point of the bayonet and abjectly surrendered to Jinnah. India was vivisected and one-third of the Indian Territory became foreign land to us from August 15, 1947. Lord Mountbatten came to be described in Congress circles as the greatest Viceroy and Governor-General this country ever had. The official date for handing over power was fixed for June 30, 1948, but Mountbatten with his ruthless surgery gave us a gift of vivisected India ten months in advance. This is what Gandhi had achieved after thirty years of undisputed dictatorship and this is what Congress party calls ‘freedom’ and ‘peaceful transfer of power’. The Hindu-Muslim unity bubble was finally burst and a theocratic state was established with the consent of Nehru and his crowd and they have called ‘freedom won by them with sacrifice’ – whose sacrifice? When top leaders of Congress, with the consent of Gandhi, divided and tore the country – which we consider a deity of worship – my mind was filled with direful anger.

 One of the conditions imposed by Gandhi for his breaking of the fast unto death related to the mosques in Delhi occupied by the Hindu refugees. But when Hindus in Pakistan were subjected to violent attacks he did not so much as utter a single word to protest and censure the Pakistan Government or the Muslims concerned. Gandhi was shrewd enough to know that while undertaking a fast unto death, had he imposed for its break some condition on the Muslims in Pakistan, there would have been found hardly any Muslims who could have shown some grief if the fast had ended in his death. It was for this reason that he purposely avoided imposing any condition on the Muslims. He was fully aware of from the experience that Jinnah was not at all perturbed or influenced by his fast and the Muslim League hardly attached any value to the inner voice of Gandhi.

 Gandhi is being referred to as the Father of the Nation. But if that is so, he had failed his paternal duty inasmuch as he has acted very treacherously to the nation by his consenting to the partitioning of it. I stoutly maintain that Gandhi has failed in his duty. He has proved to be the Father of Pakistan. His inner-voice, his spiritual power and his doctrine of non-violence of which so much is made of, all crumbled before Jinnah’s iron will and proved to be powerless.

Briefly speaking, I thought to myself and foresaw I shall be totally ruined, and the only thing I could expect from the people would be nothing but hatred and that I shall have lost all my honour, even more valuable than my life, if I were to kill Gandhiji. But at the same time I felt that the Indian politics in the absence of Gandhiji would surely be proved practical, able to retaliate, and would be powerful with armed forces. No doubt, my own future would be totally ruined, but the nation would be saved from the inroads of Pakistan. People may even call me and dub me as devoid of any sense or foolish, but the nation would be free to follow the course founded on the reason which I consider to be necessary for sound nation-building. After having fully considered the question, I took the final decision in the matter, but I did not speak about it to anyone whatsoever. I took courage in both my hands and I did fire the shots at Gandhiji on 30 January 1948, on the prayer-grounds of Birla House.

I do say that my shots were fired at the person whose policy and action had brought rack, ruin, and destruction to millions of Hindus. There was no legal machinery by which such an offender could be brought to book and for this reason, I fired those fatal shots.

I bear no ill will towards anyone individually but I do say that I had no respect for the present government owing to their policy, which was unfairly favourable towards the Muslims. But at the same time I could clearly see that the policy was entirely due to the presence of Gandhi. I have to say with great regret that Prime Minister Nehru quite forgets that his preachings and deeds are at times at variances with each other when he talks about India as a secular state in season and out of season, because it is significant to note that Nehru has played a leading role in the establishment of the theocratic state of Pakistan, and his job was made easier by Gandhi’s persistent policy of appeasement towards the Muslims.

I now stand before the court to accept the full share of my responsibility for what I have done and the judge would, of course, pass against me such orders of sentence as may be considered proper. But I would like to add that I do not desire any mercy to be shown to me, nor do I wish that anyone else should beg for mercy on my behalf. My confidence about the moral side of my action has not been shaken even by the criticism levelled against it on all sides. I have no doubt that honest writers of history will weigh my act and find the true value thereof some day in future.

-NATHURAM GODSE