Nathuram Godse - Assasin of Gandhi

Namaskar. 

I heard a lot about Godse and I just wanted to bring few things about him.

Godse
as a personality is very very interesting and by far the most complex
to understand of assasins any time in history, to kill such a powerful
leader of Non Violence , someone to the stature of Gandhi.

1. Godse was at the time 37 year old and single and spent his whole life single, fighting for independence against British

2. He was a great freedom writer and well versed in marathi as he was the editor in chief for the paper called "Hindu Rashtra"

3. He was very strong in his ideologies and never ever a blind
follower nor was swayed by what masses thought or felt, he did what was
right to his heart and joined Hindu Mahasabha as a pacifist by holding
silent and peaceful demonstrations.

4. He never ever spoke personally abot Gandhi and admired him as a
human being but hated the ideologies springing forth which he felt was
too biased to Muslims and unjust in some case with Hindus.

5. He had great respect for his Idol Veer Sarvarkar and truly was a
disciple to the fullest and sincere sense when he was working under the
Hindu mahasabha. Eventhough like many he was a volunteer and actvist ,
he would not blindly follow what was given to him but would reason and
question and in tht process would reject or suggest alternative ideas
during the freedom struggle and hindu-muslim violence.

6. This is what he had to say "Before I fired the shots I actually wished him(gandhi) well and bowed to him in reverence"

7. His chargesheet statement referring to gandhi as Gandhiji
clearly marks the respect he had for him all the way through. "But
above all I studied very closely what Veer (brave) Savarkar and
Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies
have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the
Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other factor
has done. "

8. he was a historian who studied the ancient history of America,
Russia, France and Britan and also studied the tenets of Socialism and
marxism.

9. A follower on teachings of dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekananda, Tilak
, he never believed in caste system and had demonstrated numerous anti
caste protests. "Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively
came to rever Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had,
therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I
developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious
allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked
actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system
based on birth alone."

10. A man of no regrets, and a nationalist , he wanted after his
death to spread his ashes in the Sindh river ater which the word India
derived from. He as ready to give up his life and sacrifice, he was
ready to take the life of a Mahatma for what he felt would bring
justice and not the continued threats of fasting to death by Gandhiji ,
which IS NOT AHIMSA BUT A CLEAR MARK OF SELF INFLICTED VIOLENCE.

Neither it was right nor it was wrong , like Subash Chandra bose
who wanted to fight for freedom based on the Hindu Dharma principles ,
so was Gandhi with his so called Self inflicted Violence , but the due
credit if it should go to one single person , it should to Gandhi as
the world as and will never see an unmatches leader like him ever
again.

This was what Albert Einstein had to say about Gandhiji
"Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as
this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth"

R.R.N.V.SASTRY.