MEN CHANGE THROUGH EXPERIENCE AND CHANGE WHEN HURT

And through such change they hold on to the changeless ideal of life, Self-realisation and its national corollary, patriotism, even as Netaji held on to. His love of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and the motherland remained as complementary features of his spiritual life, a constant note running through the variations, the meanderings of his tempestuous career that carried him across continents to seek a destination so close to home. Bruised and battered by the perfidies of the times, betrayed at home and befriended abroad, Subhas Chandra remained true to his motherland and to all who stabbed him from across and behind, even unto that last brutal blow that felled the hero at the base of the altar of freedom whence he fled to foreign lands to seek succour, for it was the fundamental note of the harmony he heard, freedom, freedom, freedom in the midst of the myriad melodic divergences, freedom amidst the cataclysms of a war that left him not an inch-space where to stand upon, not a man among his former friends to bank upon, yet, a freedom changeless and divine, beating in every pulse of his hero's heart, in every throb of his soul, as unvanquished in defeat he proclaimed, "There is no power on earth that can keep India enslaved. India shall be free and before long. Jai Hind."