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MANIFESTO
OF
NAUJAWAN
BHARAT
SABHA,
PUNJAB
A
world
about
social
servicre
here.
Many
good
men
think
that
social
service
(in
the
narrow
sense,
as it
is
used
and
under
stood
in
our
country)
is
the
panacea
to
all
our
ills
and
the
best
method
of
serving
the
country.
Thus
we
find
many
ardent
youth
contending
themselves
with
distributing
grain
among
the
poor
and
nursing
the
sicks
all
their
life.
These
men
are
noble
and
self-denying
but
they
cannot
understand
that
charity
cannot
solve
the
problem
of
hunger
and
disease
in
India
and,
for
that
matter,
in
any
other
country.
Religious
superstitions
and
bigotry
are a
great
hinderance
in
our
progress.
They
have
proved
an
obstacle
in
our
way
and
we
must
do
away
with
them.
“The
thing
that
cannot
bear
free
thought
must
perish.”
There
are
many
other
such
weakness
which
we
are
to
overcome.
The
conservativeness
and
orthodoxy
of
the
Hindus,
extra-territorialism
and
fanaticism
of
the
Mohammedans
and
narrow-mindedness
of
all
the
communities
in
general
are
always
exploited
by
the
foreign
enemy.
Young
men
with
revolutionary
zeal
from
all
communities
are
required
for
the
task.
Having
achieved
nothing,
we
are
not
prepared
to
sacrifice
anything
for
any
achievement;
our
leaders
are
fighting
amongst
themselves
to
decide
what
will
be
the
share
of
each
community
in
the
hoped
achievement.
Simply
to
conceal
their
cowardice
and
lack
of
spirit
of
self-sacrifice,
they
are
creating
a
false
issue
and
screening
the
real
one.
These
arm-chair
politicians
have
their
eyes
set
on
the
handful
of
bones
that
may
be
thrown
to
them,
as
they
hope,
by
the
mighty
rulers.
That
is
extremely
humiliating.
Those
who
come
forth
to
fight
the
battle
of
liberty
cannot
sit
and
decide
first
that
after
so
much
sacrifices,
so
much
achievement
must
be
sure
and
so
much
share
to be
divided.
Such
people
never
make
any
sort
of
sacrifice.
We
want
people
who
may
be
prepared
to
fight
without
hope,
without
fear
and
without
hesitation,
and
who
may
be
willing
to
die
unhonoured,
unwept
and
unsung.
Without
that
spirit
we
will
not
be
able
to
fight
the
great
two-fold
battle
that
lies
before
us
–
two-fold
because
of
the
internal
foe,
on
the
one
hand,
and a
foreign
enemy,
on
the
other.
Our
real
battle
is
against
our
own
disabilities
which
are
exploited
by
the
enemy
and
some
of
our
own
people
for
their
selfish
motives.
Young
Punjabis,
the
youth
of
other
provinces
are
working
tremendously
in
their
respective
spheres.
The
organisation
and
awakening
displayed
by
young
Bengal
on
February
3,
should
serve
as an
example
to
us.
Our
Punjab,
despite
the
greatest
amount
of
sacrifice
and
suffering
to
its
credit,
is
discribed
as a
politically
backward
province.
Why?
Because,
although
it
belong
to
the
martial
race,
we
are
lacking
in
organisation
and
discipline;
we
who
are
proud
of
the
ancient
University
of
Texila,
today
stand
badly
in
need
of
culture.
And a
culture
requires
fine
literature
which
cannot
be
prepared
without
a
common
and
well
developed
language.
Alas,
we
have
got
none.
While
trying
to
solve
the
above
problem
that
faces
our
country,
we
will
also
have
to
prepare
the
masses
to
fight
the
greater
battle
that
lies
before
us.
Our
political
struggle
‘began
just
after
the
great
War
of
Independence
of
1857.
It
has
passed
through
different
phases.
Along
with
the
advent
of
the
20th
century
the
British
bureaucracy
has
adopted
quite
a new
policy
towards
India.
They
are
drawing
our
bourgeoisie
and
petty
bourgeoisie
into
their
fold
by
adopting
the
policy
of
concessions.
Their
cause
is
being
made
common.
The
progressive
investment
of
British
capital
in
India
will
inevitably
lead
to
that
end.
In
the
very
near
future
we
will
find
that
class
and
their
great
leaders
having
thrown
their
lot
with
the
foreign
rulers.
Some
round-table
conference
or
any
such
body
will
end
in a
compromise
between
the
two.
They
will
no
more
be
lions
and
cubs.
Even
without
any
conciliation
the
expected
Great
War
of
the
entire
people
will
surely
thin
the
ranks
of
the
so-called
champions
of
India
independence.
The
future
programme
of
preparing
the
country
will
begin
with
the
motto:
“Revolution
by
the
masses
and
for
the
masses.”
In
other
words,
Swaraj
for
the
90%;
Swaraj
not
only
attained
by
the
masses
but
also
for
the
masses.
This
is a
very
difficult
task.
Thought
our
leaders
have
offered
many
suggestion,
none
had
the
courage
to
put
forward
and
carry
out
successfully
and
concrete
scheme
of
awakening
the
masses.
Without
going
into
details,
we
can
safely
assert
that
to
achieve
our
object,
thousands
of
our
most
brilliant
young
men,
like
Russian
youth,
will
have
to
pass
their
precious
lives
in
village
and
make
the
people
understand
what
the
Indian
revolution
would
really
mean.
They
must
be
made
to
realise
that
the
revolution
which
is to
come
will
mean
more
than
a
change
of
masters.
It
will,
above
all,
mean
the
birth
of
new
order
of
things,
a new
state.
This
is
not
the
work
of a
day
or a
year.
Decades
of
matchless
self-sacrifice
will
prepare
the
masses
for
the
accomplishment
of
that
great
work
and
only
the
revolutionary
young
men
will
be
able
to do
that.
A
revolutionary
does
not
necessarily
mean
a man
of
bombs
and
revolvers.
The
task
before
the
young
is
hard
and
their
resources
are
scanty.
A
great
many
obstacles
are
likely
to
block
their
way.
But
the
earnestness
of
the
few
but
sincere
can
overcome
them
all.
The
young
must
come
forth.
They
must
see
the
hard
and
difficult
path
that
lies
before
them,
the
great
tasks
they
have
to
perform.
They
must
remember
in
the
heart
of
hearts
that
“success
is
but a
chance;
sacrifice
a
law”.
Their
lives
might
be
the
lives
of
constant
failures,
even
more
wretched
than
those
which
Guru
Govind
Singh
had
to
face
throughout
his
life.
Even
then
they
must
not
repent
and
say,
“Oh,
it
was
all
an
illusion.”
Young
men,
do
not
get
disheartened
when
you
find
such
a
great
battle
to
fight
single-handed,
with
none
to
help
you.
You
must
realise
your
own
latent
strength.
Rely
on
yourselves
and
success
is
yours.
Remember
the
words
of
the
great
mother
of
James
Garfield
which
she
spoke
to
her
son
while
sending
him
away,
penniless,
helpless
and
resourceless,
to
seek
his
fortune:
“Nine
times
out
of
ten
the
best
thing
that
can
happen
to a
young
man
is to
be
thrown
overboard
to
swim
or
sink
for
himself.”
Glory
to
the
mother
who
said
these
words
and
glory
to
those
who
will
rely
on
them.
Mazzini,
that
oracle
of
Italian
regeneration,
once
said:
“All
great
national
movements
begin
with
unknown
men
of
the
people
without
influence,
except
for
the
faith
and
the
will
that
counts
neither
time
nor
difficulties.”
Let
the
boat
of
life
weigh
another
time.
Let
it
set
sail
in
the
Great
Ocean,
and
then:
Anchor
is in
no
stagnant
shallow.
Trust
the
wide
and
wonderous
sea,
Where
the
tides
are
fresh
for
ever,
And
the
mighty
currents
free.
There
perchance,
O
young
Columbus,
Your
new
world
of
truth
may
be.
Do
not
hesitate,
let
not
the
theory
of
incarnation
haunt
your
mind
and
break
your
courage.
Everybody
can
become
great
if he
strives.
Do
not
forget
your
own
martyrs.
Kartar
Singh
was a
young
man.
Yet,
in
this
teens,
when
he
came
forth
to
serve
his
country,
he
ascended
the
scaffold
smiling
and
echoing
“Bande
Mataram”.
Bhai
Balmukund
and
Awadh
Bihari
were
both
quite
young
when
they
gave
their
lives
for
the
cause.
They
were
from
amongst
you.
You
must
try
to
become
as
sincere
patriots
and
as
ardent
lovers
of
liberty
as
they
were.
Do
not
lose
patience
and
sense
at
one
time,
and
hope
at
another.
Try
to
make
stability
and
determination
a
second
nature
to
yourselves.
Let
then
young
men
think
independently,
calmly,
serenely
and
patiently.
Let
them
adopt
the
cause
of
Indian
independence
as
the
sole
aim
of
their
lives.
Let
them
stand
on
their
own
feet.
They
must
organise
themselves
free
from
any
influence
and
refuse
to be
exploited
any
more
by
the
hypocrites
and
insincere
people
who
have
nothing
in
common
with
them
and
who
always
desert
the
cause
at
the
critical
juncture.
In
all
seriousness
and
sincerity,
let
them
make
the
triple
motto
of
“service,
suffering,
sacrifice”
their
sole
guide.
Let
them
remember
that
“the
making
of a
nation
requires
self-sacrifice
of
thousands
of
obscure
men
and
women
who
care
more
for
the
idea
of
their
country
than
for
their
own
comfort
and
interest,
than
own
lives
and
the
lives
of
those
who
they
love”.
Bande
Mataram.
6-4-1928
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