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Vol. XXIII, No. 1
13 (5) Daily Meditation.
Four themes of meditation, Har Dayal recommends : (a) The 4-fold ideal of self-culture; physical, intellectual, aesthetic and ethical; (b) the 4 principles of political and economic organization : Democracy, Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; (c) Virtues of great men and women; (d) Those who are afflicted by poverty, oppression and exploitation. Send to them your thoughts of love and sympathy; (e) Those who may be rejoicing at the moment. Send them your good wishes; (f) Unity of mankind. Have a globe in your room, and also pictures of your friends belonging to different races and nations. Cultivate cosmopolitan ideal; and (8) Some great precepts and maxims culled from the scriptures of all religions and the poets of all countries.
I have taken the liberty of quoting Har Dayal at some length because in bis thirties he was an ardent revolutionary, who believed in the cult of the bomb for the liberation of the Motherland. A learned scholar, he sacrificed everything for the cause of India and humanity. He was the high priest of the Gaddar movement which was launched to uproot the British Empire from the soil of India during the Ist World War. He had a phenomenal memory and was stadent prodigy. Having won the State Scholarship in 1905, he proceeded to England for higher studies where he joined the St. John's College, Oxford. I.C.S. was the next step, but having come in contact with Shyamaji Krishnavarma and Savarkar, he began to think differently. It may be noted that this was the period when the Swadeshi movement in Bengal had stirred up the whole country. The victory of Japan over Russia had raised the self-esteem of Asians; and then followed the kisan agitation in the Punjab, culminating in the de portment of Ajit Singh and Lajpat Rai, in 1907. This year fell the anniversary of the Ist Battle of India's Independence, and Shyamaji Krishnavarma undertook the formation of an organization of Political Missioneries in India Har Dayal wrote its constitution. What sort of men do we want for this Society, he asked. "They should love nothing more than the cause”, he proceeded to answer. It should be to them in the place of the father, the mother, the brother and the friend.... They should undertako the task in a reli
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