भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
भारतीय इतिहास के ६ स्वर्णिम पृष्ठ (वीर सावरकर - विदेशी आक्रान्ताओं पर विजय गाथा)
Six Glorious Epochs of Indian History by Veer Savarkar
स्वातंत्र्यवीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर द्वारा
DevanagariHindipublished494 पृष्ठ
पृष्ठ 57, कुल 494 में से
संदर्भ में पढ़ेंपृष्ठ 57
- This excessive propaganda for unrestricted 'ahimsa', which Ashoka
carried on by the use of his political authority throughout his empire and the
countries beyond it, cut at the very root of the Indian empire, and was even
more harmful than any other acts of his for the national existence and
national independence! Thousands of bhikksus, appointed and maintained
by Ashoka, preached everywhere that armed strength of every sort was
violent and sinful, and that all those who followed the life of a Kshatriya,
were violent and so irreligious! Everyone who vowed to practise 'ahimsa',
everyone who renounced the use of weapons and his family life and lived
the life of a 'bhikksu' in the viharas according to the Buddhistic principles
was greater, holier and so more praiseworthy than the brave Kshatriya
soldier, who fought and bled and died in the defence of his nation.
Naturally, the common people too came to think that any and every
wandering parasite of a 'bhikksu' was more respectable and religious-
minded, than the brave armed warrior. - Ashoka had precepts, commonly preached by other religions also,
inscribed on his 'pillars': "Religious victory is more valuable than the one
gained by means of arms." But was this religious victory possible in the
earthly life? Was it practical? A draught of nectar is said to make a man
immortal, maybe! But can anybody tell the whereabouts of the shop where
that nectar is available?
156A. Whoever can satisfy his hunger by eating the rice and curry made
of words?
बोलाचीच कढी बोलाचाचभात। जेवूनिया तृप्त कोण झाला॥ - Was not the empire of Ashoka with the unlimited resources, power
and wealth, with which he could carry out, throughout the whole of India
and abroad, a vigorous propaganda 'that religious victory was superior to
victory on the battlefield', itself gained on the strength of the mighty and
invincible four-fold army built up by Chandragupta and Chanakya? Had all
that army forsworn arms and lived the idle parasitic life of the 'bhikksu' in
the 'Viharas' embracing Buddhism, as soon as Ashoka ascended his
ancestral throne, would it have been possible for him to sit there securely
as an emperor even for a moment? Even at that time, the Greek states
beyond the Indian border and farther off than these the more ferocious wild
tribes of the Saka-Kushan-Hun type, who recognized 'violence' as the only
mean of achieving their objectives were anxiously waiting for an
opportunity to pounce, like a lion, on India, but they feared the four-fold