१८५७ का स्वातन्त्र्य समर (वीर विनायक दामोदर सावरकर - अंग्रेजों द्वारा छपने से पूर्व प्रतिबन्धित महाग्रन्थ)

CHAPTER VI
LIT UP
THE SACRIFICIAL FIRE
IT is then inevitable that we must resist sword
in hand and wage a relentless struggle to win
back our political independence and to safe-
guard the honour of the ashes of our fathers and
the temples of our gods. We must hence hasten
first to propitiate the God of War, the Lord
of Hosts, even as Indrajit did before he marched on to the
battlefield, as the ‘Puranas’ tell us, to secure the uncon-
querable Chariot which he expected to appear forth out
of the blazing Sacrificial Fire. True it is that Indrajit was
foiled in his attempt to secure it because unrighteous was
his cause. But our cause is just, is righteous ! We need
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