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Regarding
Suicide
You
know
it
that
the
suffering
of
political
prisoners
in
the
jails
of
Russia
caused,
in
the
main,
the
revolution
in
the
prison-administration
after
the
overthrow
of
Czardom.
Is
India
not
in
need
of
such
persons
who
are
fully
aware
of
this
problem
and
have
personal
experience
of
these
things?
It
will
not
suffice
to
say
that
someone
else
would
do
it,
or
that
many
other
people
are
there
to do
it.
Thus,
men
who
find
it
quite
dishonourable
and
hateful
to
leave
the
revolutionary
responsibilities
to
others
should
start
their
struggle
against
the
existing
system
with
total
devotion.
They
should
violate
these
rules
but
they
should
also
keep
in
mind
the
propriety,
because
unnecessary
and
improper
attempts
can
never
be
considered
just.
Such
agitations
will
shorten
the
process
of
revolution.
All
the
arguments
which
you
gave
to
keep
yourself
aloof
from
all
such
movement,
are
incomprehensible
to
me.
Some
of
our
friends
are
either
fools
or
ignorant.
They
find
your
behaviour
quite
strange
and
incomprehensible.
(They
themselves
say
they
cannot
comprehend
it
because
you
are
above
and
very
far
from
their
understanding.)
In
fact,
if
you
feel
that
jail
life
is
really
humiliating,
why
don't
you
try
to
improve
it by
agitating?
Perhaps,
you
will
say
that
this
struggle
would
be
futile,
but
this
is
precisely
the
argument
which
is
usually
used
as a
cover
by
weak
people
to
avoid
participation
in
every
movement.
This
is
the
reply
which
we
kept
on
hearing
outside
the
jail
from
the
people
who
were
anxious
to
escape
from
getting
entangled
in
revolutionary
movements.
Shall
I now
hear
the
same
argument
from
you?
What
could
our
party
of a
handful
of
people
do in
comparison
to
the
vastness
of
its
aims
and
ideals?
Shall
we
infer
from
this
that
we
erred
gravely
in
starting
our
work
altogether?
No,
inferences
of
this
kind
will
be
improper.
This
only
shows
the
inner
weakness
of
the
man
who
thinks
like
this.
You
write
further
that
it
cannot
be
expected
of a
man
that
he
will
have
the
same
thinking
after
going
through
14
long
years
of
suffering
in
the
prison,
which
he
had
before,
because
the
jail
life
will
crush
all
his
ideas.
May I
ask
you
whether
the
situation
outside
the
jail
was
any
bit
more
favourable
to
our
ideas?
Even
then,
could
we
have
left
it
because
of
our
failures?
Do
you
mean
to
imply
that
had
we
not
entered
the
field,
no
revolutionary
work
would
have
taken
place
at
all?
If
this
be
your
contention,
then
you
are
mistaken,
though
it is
right
that
we
also
proved
helpful
to an
extent
in
changing
the
environment.
But,
the,
we
are
only
a
product
of
the
need
of
our
times.
I
shall
even
say
that
Marx
- the
father
of
communism
- did
not
actually
originate
this
idea.
The
Industrial
Revolution
of
Europe
itself
produced
men
of
this
kind.
Marx
was
one
among
them.
Of
course,
Marx
was
also
instrumental
to an
extent
in
gearing
up
the
wheels
of
his
time
in a
particular
way.
I
(and
you
too)
did
not
give
birth
to
the
ideas
of
socialism
and
communism
in
this
country;
this
is
the
consequence
of
the
effects
of
our
time
and
situations
upon
ourselves.
Of
course,
we
did a
bit
to
propagate
these
ideas,
and
therefore
I say
that
since
we
have
already
taken
a
tough
task
upon
ourselves,
we
should
continue
to
advance
it.
The
people
will
not
be
guided
by
our
committing
suicides
to
escape
the
difficulties;
on
the
contrary,
this
will
be
quite
a
reactionary
step.
We
continued
our
work
despite
the
testing
environment
of
disappointments,
pressures
and
violence
ordained
by
the
jail
rules.
While
we
worked,
we
were
made
target
of
may
kinds
of
difficulties.
Even
men
who
were
proud
to
proclaim
themselves
to be
great
revolutionaries,
deserted
us.
Were
these
conditions
not
testing
in
the
extreme?
Then,
what
was
the
reason
and
the
logic
of
continuing
our
agitation
and
efforts?
Does
this
simple
argument
not
by
itself
give
added
strength
to
our
ideas?
And,
don't
we
have
instances
of
our
revolutionary
comrades
who
suffered
for
their
convictions
in
jails
and
are
still
working
on
return
from
jails?
Had
Bakunin
argued
like
you,
he
would
have
committed
suicide
right
in
the
beginning.
Today,
you
find
many
revolutionaries
occupying
responsible
posts
in
the
Russian
state
who
had
passed
the
greater
part
of
their
lives
in
prison,
completing
their
sentences.
Man
must
try
hard
to
stick
to
his
beliefs.
No
one
can
say
what
future
has
in
store.
Do
you
remember
that
when
we
were
discussing
that
some
concentrated
and
effective
poison
should
also
be
kept
in
our
bomb
factories,
you
opposed
it
very
vehemently.
The
very
idea
was
repugnant
to
you.
You
had
no
faith
in
it.
So,
what
has
happened
now?
Here,
even
the
difficult
and
complex
conditions
do
not
obtain.
I
feel
revulsion
even
in
discussing
this
question.
You
hated
even
that
attitude
of
mind
which
permits
suicide.
You
will
kindly
excuse
me
for
saying
that
had
you
acted
according
to
this
belie
right
at
the
time
of
your
imprisonment
(that
is,
you
had
committed
suicide
by
taking
poison),
you
would
have
served
the
revolutionary
cause,
but
at
this
moment,
even
the
thought
of
such
an
act
is
harmful
to
our
cause.
There
is
just
one
more
point
which
I
will
like
to
draw
your
attention
to.
We do
not
believe
in
God,
hell
and
heaven,
punishment
and
rewards,
that
is in
any
Godly
accounting
of
human
life.
Therefore,
we
must
think
of
life
and
death
on
materialist
lines.
When
I was
brought
here
from
Delhi
for
the
purpose
of
identification,
some
intelligence
officers
talked
to me
on
this
topic,
in
the
presence
of my
father.
They
said
that
since
I did
not
try
to
save
of my
life
by
divulging
secrets,
it
proved
the
presence
of an
acute
agony
in my
life.
They
argued
that
a
death
of
this
kind
will
be
something
like
suicide.
But I
had
replied
that
a man
with
beliefs
and
ideal
like
mine,
could
never
think
of
dying
uselessly.
We
want
to
get
the
maximum
value
for
our
lives.
We
want
to
serve
humanity
as
much
as
possible.
Particularly
a man
like
me,
whose
life
is
nowhere
sad
or
worried,
can
never
think
of
suicide
even,
leave
alone
attempting
it.
The
same
thing
I
want
to
tell
you
now.
I
hope
you
will
permit
me to
tell
you
what
I
think
about
myself.
I am
certain
of
capital
punishment
for
me. I
do
not
expect
even
a bit
of
moderation
or
amnesty.
Even
if
there
is
amnesty,
it
will
not
be
for
all,
and
even
that
amnesty
will
be
for
other
only,
not
for
us;
it
will
be
extremly
restricted
and
burdened
with
various
conditions.
For,
us
neither
there
can
be
any
amnesty
nor
it
will
ever
happen.
Even
then,
I
wish
that
release
calls
for
us
should
be
made
collection
and
globally.
Along
with
that,
I
also
wish
that
when
the
movement
reaches
its
climax,
we
should
be
hanged.
It is
my
wish
that
if at
any
time
any
honourable
and
fair
compromise
is
possible,
issue
like
our
case
may
never
obstruct
it.
When
the
fate
of
the
country
is
being
decided,
the
fate
of
individuals
should
be
forgotten.
As
revolutionaries,
we do
not
believe
that
there
can
be
any
sudden
change
in
the
attitude
of
our
rulers,
particularly
in
the
British
race.
Such
a
surprising
change
is
impossible
without
through
sustained
striving,
sufferings
and
sacrifices.
And
it
shall
be
achieved.
As
far
as my
attitude
is
concerned,
I can
welcome
facilities
and
amnesty
for
all
only
when
its
effect
is
permanent
and
some
indelible
impressions
are
made
on
the
hearts
of
the
people
of
the
country
through
our
hanging.
Only
this
much
and
nothing
more.
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