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Letter
to
Shaheed
Sukhdev
This
letter
deals
with
the
views
of
Bhagat
Singh
on
the
question
of
love
and
sacrifice
in
the
life
of a
revolutionary.
It
was
written
on
April
5,
1929
in
Sita
Ram
Bazar
House,
Delhi.
The
letter
was
taken
to
Lahore
by
Shri
Shiv
Verma
and
handed
over
to
Sukhdev
it
was
recovered
from
him
at
the
time
of
his
arrest
on
April
13
and
was
produced
as
one
of
the
exhbits
in
Lahore
Conspiracy
Case.
DEAR
BROTHER
By
the
time
you
receive
this
letter
I
will
be
gone,
going
to a
far
off
destination.
Let
me
assure
that
I am
prepared
for
the
voyage
inspite
of
all
the
sweet
memory
and
inspite
of
all
the
charms
of my
life
here.
Upto
this
day
one
thing
pinched
in my
heart
and
it
was
this
that
my
brother,
my
own
brother,
misunderstood
and
accused
me of
a
very
serious
charge
- the
charge
of
weakness.
Today
I am
quite
satisfied,
today
more
than
ever
do I
feel
that
was
nothing,
but a
misunderstanding,
a
wrong
calculation.
My
overfrankness
was
interpreted
as my
talkativeness,
and
my
confession
as my
weakness.
And
now I
feel
it
was
misunderstanding
and
only
is
understanding.
I am
not
weak,
not
weaker
than
anyone
amongest
us,
brother.
With
a
clear
heart
I go,
will
you
clear
too?
It
will
be
very
kind
of
you.
But
note
that
you
are
to
take
no
hasty
step,
soberly
and
calmly
you
are
to
carry
on
the
work.
Don't
try
to
take
the
chance
at
the
very
outset.
You
have
some
duty
towards
the
public,
and
that
you
can
fulfil
by
continuing
this
work.
As a
suggestion
I
would
say
that
M.R.
Shastri*
appeals
to me
more
than
ever.
Try
to
bring
him
in
the
arena,
provided
he
himself
may
be
willing,
clearly
knowing
the
dark
future.
Let
him
mix
with
men
and
study
their
psychology.
If he
will
work
in
the
right
spirit,
he
will
be
the
better
judge.
Arrange
as
you
may
deem
fit.
Now,
brother,
let
us be
happy.
By
the
way,
I am
say
that
I
cannot
help
arguing
once
again
my
case
in
the
matter
under
discussion.
Again
do I
emphasise
that
I am
full
of
ambition
and
hope
and
of
full
charm
of
life.
But I
can
renounce
all
at
the
time
of
need,
and
that
is
the
real
sacrifice.
These
things
can
never
be
hinderance
in
the
way
of
man,
provided
he be
a
man.
You
will
have
the
practical
proof
in
the
near
future.
While
discussing
anybody's
character
you
asked
me
one
thing,
whether
love
ever
proved
helpful
to
any
man.
Yes,
I
answer
that
question
today.
To
Mazzini
it
was.
You
must
have
read
that
after
the
utter
failure
and
crushing
defeat
of
his
first
rising
he
could
no
bear
the
misery
and
haunting
ideas
of
his
dead
comrades.
He
would
have
gone
mad
or
committed
suicide
but
for
one
letter
of a
girl
he
loved.
He
would
as
strong
as
any
one,
nay
stronger
than
all.
As
regards
the
moral
status
of
love
I may
say
that
it in
itself
is
nothing
BUT
PASSION,
not
an
animal
passion
but a
human
one,
and
very
sweet
too.
Love
in
itself
can
never
be an
animal
passion.
Love
always
elevates
the
character
of
man.
It
never
lowers
him,
provided
love
be
love.
You
can't
call
these
girls
- mad
people,
as we
generally
see
in
films
-
lovers.
They
always
play
in
the
hands
of
animals
passions.
The
true
love
cannot
be
created.
It
comes
of
its
own
accord,
nobody
can
say
when.
It is
but
natural.
And I
may
tell
you
that
a
young
man
and a
young
girl
can
love
each
other,
and
with
the
aid
of
their
love
they
can
overcome
the
passions
themselves
and
can
maintain
their
purity.
I may
clear
one
thing
here;
when
I
said
that
love
has
human
weakness,
I did
not
say
it
for
an
ordinary
human
being
at
this
stage,
where
the
people
generally
are.
But
that
is
most
idealistic
stage
when
man
would
overcome
all
these
sentiments,
the
love,
the
hatred,
and
so
on.
When
man
will
take
reason
as
the
sole
basis
of
his
activity.
But
at
present
it is
not
bad,
rather
good
and
useful
to
man.
And
moreove
while
rebuking
the
love.
I
rebuked
the
love
of
one
individual
for
one,
and
that
too
in
idealistic
stage.
And
even
then,
man
must
have
the
strongest
feelings
of
love
which
he
may
not
confine
to
one
individual
and
may
make
it
universal.
Now I
think
I
have
cleared
my
position.
One
thing
I may
tell
you
to
mark;
we
inspite
of
all
radical
ideas
that
we
cherish,
have
not
been
able
to do
away
with
the
overidealistic
Arya
Samajist
conception
of
morality.
We
may
talk
glibly
about
all
the
radical
things
that
can
possible
be
conceived,
but
in
practical
life
we
begin
to
tremble
at
the
very
outset.
This
I
will
request
you
do
away
with.
And
may
I,
Without
fear
at
all
the
misapprehension
in my
mind,
request
you
do
kindly
lower
the
standard
of
your
over-idealism
a
bit,
not
to be
harsh
to
those
who
will
live
behind
and
will
be
the
victims
of a
disease
as
myself
?
Don't
rebuke
them
and
thus
add
to
their
woes
and
miseries.
They
need
your
sympathy.
May I
repeat
that
you,
without
bearing
any
sort
of
grudge
against
any
particular
individual,
will
sympathise
with
those
who
needed
the
most
? But
you
cannot
realise
these
things
unless
and
until
you
yourself
fall
a
victim
to
this.
But,
why I
am
writing
all
this?
I
wanted
to be
frank.
I
have
cleared
my
heart.
Wish
you
all
success
and
happy
life.
Yours.
B.
S.
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