भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)

or guile of the enemy. They should have thrown to the winds, the old
traditional views and customs. They ought to have made it the religion of
the day!
550A. The Hindus were not averse to idolatory. Many of the Hindu seats
and many of the Hindu religious tenets had been established by great
personalities, and the Hindu society as a whole, had recognized them and
adapted them to the framework of their religious code, at least so far as
they concerned their followers. In their own individual capacity, the
followers of those particular religious heroes, obeyed those particular codes
of conduct. But the otherwise, highly idolatrous Hindu society did not
follow these new idols—the new heroes—who effected individual and
mass conversions and reconversions, carried on equally violent religio-
political counter-offensives. They avenged the humiliation and persecution
of the Hindu women on the Muslim women by similar treatment. The
national heroes, who did all this, have all along been highly honoured and
worshipped as idols among the Hindus, yet the way they showed as the
most suitable for the age was not actively and enthusiastically followed,
after they had passed away. As soon as those heroes died, their particular
followers relegated to oblivion their practical lessons of violent or non-
violent religious counter-aggression and their teaching in this respect. Why,
while the particular sects of Chaitanya and others have been still alive so
far as the other aspects of their teachings are concerned, and their
eulogistic biographies like the भक्ति विजय have been written and read
most devoutly, not the slightest mention of the armed revenge these very
heroes took against the Muslims is to be found in them. Does it not sound
very strange? Nor is any heroic ballad seen to have been composed on their
counter-aggression or on their mass reconversions by any of the minstrels
or bards or ‘Charans’ of those days! The Hindu society in general felt no
urgency of handing down to the later generations, the anecdotes and
legends of those heroic deeds.
551. FOR DEEP DOWN, THE MODERN HINDU MIND IS
TOLERANT, WHICH IN THE VULGAR MEANS SHAMELESS OR
CALLOUS!
THE MODERN-MOST EVENT OF THOSE TIMES, WHICH LENDS
THE STRONGEST HISTORICAL PROOF AND SUPPPORT TO ALL
THE STATEMENTS AND REMARKS THAT HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED
SO FAR IN THE EARLIER CHAPTERS OF THIS BOOK.