Assasination Of Mahatma Gandhi

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रामनाम मेरे लिये अमोघ शक्ति है!
आत्मार्थी के लिये रामनाम और रामकृपा ही अंतिम साधन है!
रामायण-श्रवण, रामायण के प्रति मेरे अत्यधिक प्रेम की बुनियाद है!
मै तुलसीदास की रामायण को भक्तिमार्ग का सर्वोत्तम ग्रंथ मानता हूँ!


डा. सर्वपल्लि राधाकृष्णन ने बापू से एक बार तीन प्रश्न किये:
- आपका धर्म क्या है?
- आपके जीवन मे धर्म का क्या प्रभाव है?
- सामाजिक जीवन मे इसकी क्या भूमिका है?

बापू ने कहा:
मेरा धर्म है हिन्दुत्व, यह मेरे लिये मानवता का धर्म है और मै जिन भी धर्मो को जानता हूँ, उनमे सर्वोत्तम है!

दूसरे प्रश्न के सन्दर्भ मे बोले, कि सत्य और अहिंसा के माध्यम से मै अपने धर्म से जुडा हुआ हूँ. मै अक्सर अपने धर्म को सत्य का धर्म कहता आया हूँ. यहाँ तक, कि ईश्वर सत्य है के बजाए सत्य ही ईश्वर है कहता हूँ.

तीसरे प्रश्न पर उनका उत्तर था, इस धर्म का सामाजिक जीवन पर प्रभाव दैनिक सामाजिक व्यवहार मे परिलक्षित होता है. ऐसे धर्म के प्रति सत्यनिष्ठ होने के लिये, जीवन पर्यंत अपने अहँ को त्यागना होता है. इसलिये मेरे लिये तो समाज सेवा से बचने का कोई रास्ता है ही नहीँ.

जितनी गहराई से मै हिन्दुत्व का अध्ययन करता हूँ, उतना ही मुझमे विश्वास गहरा होता जाता है, कि हिन्दुत्व ब्रम्हाण्ड जितना ही व्याप्त है. मेरे भीतर से कोई मुझे बताता है कि मैँ एक हिन्दू हूँ और बस.

तीर्थोँ के विषय मे एक बार उनसे किसी ने पूछा. ये बोले, हमारे पूर्वज बहुत गहन दृष्टि रखते थे. यूँ ही तीर्थ पूरे भारत के हर कोने मे नहीँ बना दिये गये. भला यदि अर्चना ही इनका उद्देश्य होता, तो वह तो घर बैठे भी हो सकती थी. इसके लिये दक्षिण मे रामेश्वर, पूर्व मे जगन्नाथ उत्तर मे हरिद्वार इत्यादि जाने की क्या आवश्यकता थी? किंतु हमारे पूर्वज मनीषी थे, दूरदर्शी थे. ये सभी सुदूर तीर्थ इसलिये ताकि हम, भारतवासी, अपने पूरे देश को एक समान आदर और पूजनीय दृष्टि से देख सकेँ. ये तीर्थ हमे यही याद दिलाते हैँ.

(महात्मा गान्धी की आत्मकथा तथा वांग़्मय से)
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Portrait of Gandhi as a Hindu
By Jagmohan
Former Governor of J&K and Minister of India

It has not been sufficiently noticed in our country that Hinduism, as viewed by Gandhi, is nothing but spiritual secularism and a service-oriented way of life based upon the highest principles of ethics and morality. That was why he was able to assert without any hesitation that his devotion to truth had drawn him to politics and those who believed that religion had nothing to do with politics did not understand what religion meant.

Gandhi's interpretation of Hinduism becomes clear from his reply to the three questions from Dr. Radhakrishnan. The questions were: What is your religion? How are you led to it? What is its bearing on social life? Gandhi's answer to the first question: ``My religion is Hinduism which, for me, is the religion of humanity and includes the best of all religions known to me.''

To the second question, he said: ``I take it that the present tense in this question has been purposely used, instead of the past. I am led to my religion through truth and
Non-violence. I often describe my religion as religion of truth. Of late, instead of saying God is Truth. I have been saying Truth is God. We are all sparks of truth. The sum total of these sparks is indescribable, as-yet unknown truth, which is God. I am daily led nearer to it by constant prayer.''

To the third question, Gandhi replied: ``The bearing of this religion on social life is, or has to be, seen in one's daily social contact. To be true to such religion, one has to lose oneself in continuous and continuing service of all in life. Realization of truth is impossible without a complete merging of oneself in and identification with this limitless ocean of life. Hence, for me, there is no escape from social service; there is no happiness on earth beyond or apart from it. In this scheme, there is nothing low, nothing high. For all is one, though we seem to be many.''

Gandhi elaborated: ``The deeper I study Hinduism; the stronger becomes the belief in me that Hinduism is as broad as the universe. Something within me tells me that, for all the deep veneration I show to several religions, I am all the more a Hindu, nonetheless for it.''
On the Mahatma's 128th birthday, it seems necessary to bring home these fundamentals of his beliefs to the people of India, particularly to those who go on condemning Hinduism without even studying it and also to those members of the ruling elite whose attachment to fake and fraudulent `gods' have made the country a den of corruption, callousness, confusion and criminality. They call Gandhi the Father of the Nation. And yet, in practice, they do everything to negate all his beliefs.

While religion has its influence in every country, it is more so in India. As Swami Vivekananda said, ``in India, religious life forms the centre, the keynote of the whole music of national life. Take away religion from India; nothing would be left.'' The need for building a healthy India demands that Hinduism, as seen by Gandhi, should not be ignored as an instrument of state policy.

Power can corrupt. But it can also ennoble. It can elevate the wielder to a higher pedestal and transform him into a nobler creature. The tragedy of contemporary India has been that power has largely remained in the hands of those who were seldom inspired by a nobler purpose. And those who have that purpose do not get the opportunity; rather, the system denies it. It is unfortunate that the ethical foundation of Hinduism, as interpreted by Gandhi, which could provide ``an awakened conscience'' to an individual and make him an honest, just and compassionate component of society, has been destroyed partly by the stink and slush of our past degeneration and partly by the type of spurious secularism which has been exploited in the post-Independence India.

Hinduism, as made clear by Gandhi, sees all human beings as ``sparks of truth/divinity''. It doesn't go against any other religion. Nor is it incompatible with the constitutional goals of equality, fraternity, liberty and justice. If the same divinity constitutes the core of all individuals, they cannot but be equal. And divinity in one person cannot be unjust to the same divinity in another person.

(Article by Shri Jagmohan and a letter in response by Shri Nani Palkhivala)

The article "Portrait of Gandhi as a Hindu" by Mr. Jagmohan, MP and former
Governor of J & K (IE, Oct. 2), is a one which every Indian should
wholeheartedly agree with, irrespective of whether he is a Hindu or a
Muslim, a Christian or a Jew, a Zoroastrian or a Buddhist. Hinduism is the
only religion in the world which was not founded by any identifiable
person. It is a universal, eternal religion and the credit for having
evolved that religion goes to India.

I wish more Indians would realize what this universal, eternal religion of
India is. Gandhiji was right when he said, "My religion is Hinduism which,
for me, is the, religion of humanity and includes the best of all religions
known to me." Even if one per cent of the Indian people realize the truth
of that statement, we could say that we deserved to have Gandhiji as our
national leader. It is because Gandhiji had the right attitude to religion
that he became the leader of the entire nation which has followers of all
known religions of the world. And it is because of this fact that
Gandhiji, diminutive as he was, still continues to be regarded as the most
towering figure that India ever produced.

Mr. Jagmohan's article deserves to be read by every school child in India. I
was so touched by it that my first impulse was to write to you and tell you
that the article should be most widely circulated among students in every
school and college. I wish the Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan would undertake this
task. I am willing to defray the entire expense involved in the
nation-building project.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->