Friday 7 April 2017

IN THE DEEP DARK NIGHT ... 1


Satyendra Singhji, we are eager to know more about your prospective book on Swamiji, Gandhiji and Netaji. Please enlighten us a bit more about your book if you can.
Let us start afresh with Swamiji, Gandhiji and Netaji this time which is the subject matter of Satyendra Singhji's prospective book, Bhaskar Mukherjee.
I think Netaji was far more influenced by Swamiji than Gandhiji was. In Subhas Chandra it was a boyhood absorption but in Mohandas Karamchand it was a much later encounter with the works of Swamiji. Both, however, were powerfully moved by the Swami's words. Subhas was, however, much more attracted by the magnetic masculine personality of the Swami. I wish Satyendra Singhji would enlighten us on these areas of his research.
Between the three of them, Swamiji, Gandhiji and Netaji, they encompassed the gamut of India's hopes and aspirations and gave us our freedom in every sense of the term.
I trudge alone when friend there is none in the midst of the dark deep night with the trio to keep me company, they who never sleep when the world sinks into slumber, they who ever remain vigilant that we may not fall into error and oblivion. It is they who draw out my heart's ardour and I sing to them my heartfelt songs, songs of bliss in bondage, prison songs, a patriot's store, and songs of the INA march to freedom through the jungles of Burma and over the high hills of the northeast.

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