NETAJI --- MAN, MYSTERY AND MYTH ... 4
It is strange that Netaji's followers demand documentary evidence for his alleged death --- which they very much ought to --- but require no such proof when they propagate fantastic stories about his whereabouts. Whither good sense and reason? This sort of puerile affirmation bespeaks of a mind that dwells in the realm of fantasy and has no footing in the world of reality as such. One wonders what Netaji would have thought of these adherents of his unceasing fleshly existence on earth on the basis of their suppositions and ardent assumptions and their oft-quoted aphorisms from hatha yoga that supposedly makes men live well and way past a century in fine youthful fettle. The arguments they posit are facile, the features disjoint and having no bearing on the inferences drawn to support Netaji's highly healthy and active survival at the age of 121 and his possible return to lead a revolutionary revival of India and the suppressed nations of the world.
It is difficult to engage in a discussion or a debate where reason is first thrown out of the window as the first proposition on account of it being an insufficient tool for the examination of yogic truth, for Netaji in the minds of these devoted ones was/is an Avatar of unlimited powers and having, thus, the capacity for impossible attainments. After all, as the Bible says, 'Nothing is impossible with the Lord'. The Biblical consequence of such affirmations we know of as the advent of the Dark Ages and rational beings would wonder if we are in this age of modernity being confronted with yet another edition of it in the clamour and claim of these pious and not-so-pious affiliates to hyper-imagination tending to untruth. I rest my case here in the hope that sustained rational discourse on the historical Netaji will yet position him more firmly in the national imagination than the rabble of irrational propositions.
Written by Sugata Bose
It is strange that Netaji's followers demand documentary evidence for his alleged death --- which they very much ought to --- but require no such proof when they propagate fantastic stories about his whereabouts. Whither good sense and reason? This sort of puerile affirmation bespeaks of a mind that dwells in the realm of fantasy and has no footing in the world of reality as such. One wonders what Netaji would have thought of these adherents of his unceasing fleshly existence on earth on the basis of their suppositions and ardent assumptions and their oft-quoted aphorisms from hatha yoga that supposedly makes men live well and way past a century in fine youthful fettle. The arguments they posit are facile, the features disjoint and having no bearing on the inferences drawn to support Netaji's highly healthy and active survival at the age of 121 and his possible return to lead a revolutionary revival of India and the suppressed nations of the world.
It is difficult to engage in a discussion or a debate where reason is first thrown out of the window as the first proposition on account of it being an insufficient tool for the examination of yogic truth, for Netaji in the minds of these devoted ones was/is an Avatar of unlimited powers and having, thus, the capacity for impossible attainments. After all, as the Bible says, 'Nothing is impossible with the Lord'. The Biblical consequence of such affirmations we know of as the advent of the Dark Ages and rational beings would wonder if we are in this age of modernity being confronted with yet another edition of it in the clamour and claim of these pious and not-so-pious affiliates to hyper-imagination tending to untruth. I rest my case here in the hope that sustained rational discourse on the historical Netaji will yet position him more firmly in the national imagination than the rabble of irrational propositions.
Written by Sugata Bose
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