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

glorification yourself? If you did, well, then you deserved to be baffled
and defeated in such a selfish and demoralising ambition! But God and I
know you did not covet any reward personally—no, neither fame nor
name nor land nor lucre, nay, not even happiness. The only thing you
wanted was to be privileged to suffer most! At least, that is what you used
to say in my presence—to sacrifice most, for others, for humanity. Then
lo! where is the disappointment? you have done ‘यज्ञम् सर्वस्वदक्षिणम्’
are suffering without end, without limitation of time! Not a minute, not an
action of yours that is not dedicated to the purification of the race through
suffering. Then rejoice! What could you have done better than this? And
the mind plumes its feathers again, and soars, and rises and sings once
more! But if ever the mind still goes on still puffing up its little ego, then
the Grandam takes it out and showing the world says: ‘There are the
Himalayas! There was a time that they were not there and a time there will
come when they shall not be there!!! And this moon and this solar system
and the Sidereal!! It is too much then for that little mind; it forgets itself, is
absorbed in the Universe—ashamed of its self-importance and self-care!!!’
So my beloved Bal, both of us here are in perfect health of body and mind.
Do not care at all about us. The only thing that we feel still individually
attaches us to this world is thy health and safety. So if you guarantee these
two—of course, try your best and then we do not care for the result—we
shall be happiest. As yet jail has left no mark, no shadow on us for
anything, worse—and all this health is in spite of circumstances and not in
virtue of them. You have written about the petition you sent to the
authorities here enquiring about the time of visit. Well, in fact, I ought to
have been, according to the practice here, released from this Cellular Jail
and allowed to live on the island. My ‘behaviour’ is admittedly good. But
then neither of us is released. I am trying to request the Government to
reconsider this and you, too, whenever you know anything be writing to the
authorities here. Very soon our dearest Baba will have done his 5 years and
you can then claim a visit. But our release and permission to bring our
relations here to live with us, the authorities here can do very little, though
they can do every thing in the case of other convicts. Nor are they very
much to be blamed, for orders we suppose come directly from the Indian
Government. So, you better send a petition to the Indian Government
whenever you fail to know anything directly from the authorities here. But
even as it is, do not worry yourself about any arrangements concerning us.