PATRIOT OF PERFECT PURITY

1. Netaji was preeminently a spiritual person, though a hidden yogi, one who kept his spiritual pursuit entirely a personal affair with no shadow of it being allowed to fall on his public life explicitly.

2. He was an ardent follower of Ramakrishna-Vivekananda and remained their great devotee lifelong.

3. Netaji was a student of philosophy and had laid his devotions at the hallowed feet of the spiritual duo only after due consideration of all other spiritual personages of the day and all other systems of spiritual thinking.

4. His was a life of unsullied purity, unbroken chastity in keeping with his early pledge to remain true to the ideals of his spiritual mentors.

5. That he was attributed with carnal associations after his disappearance without credible proof for such labelling is blasphemy of the most heinous kind.

6. 'The dead' do not speak and this was squarely made use of in maligning Netaji and tarnishing his spotless character with the episode of profane relations, unsubstantiated in law and unacceptable by the standards of civil society.

7. For assassins of the character of Netaji to say that detractors of such assassination are defaming him is logic that is at once preposterous as it is perverse.

8. All attempts to reduce Netaji to fallible human terms by force, trickery or deceit has not largely succeeded for the very buoyancy of the hero's innate unsullied purity has put paid to all such effort and rendered sterile such sacrilege. The world at large continues to behold Netaji as the model of patriotic purity with not a tinge of selfishness besmirching his lifelong dedication to purification of the flesh and the spirit.

9. Netaji had never publicly admitted that he had any love-association with any or that he had been secretly 'married' and had progeny thereof. We who believe in his words must go by his words alone, uttered or written while he was with us in the open and corroborated by him as well.

10. Any claim made 'posthumously' (labelling here his disappearance as 'death' for want of a better word for which my apologies I offer) cannot be accepted as valid in the absence of hard legal evidence and, as such, Netaji remains, as he ever was, the fragrant flower, untouched and unsullied, fit to be offered at the feet of his chosen Deity, Ramakrishna-Vivekananda.