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Regarding
Suicide
Letter
to
Sukhdev
[Hearing
of
the
case
was
over.
Judgement
was
expected
any
day.
Sukhdev
expected
life
transportation
for
him.
To
him
the
idea
of
remaining
in
jail
for
20
years
was
repulsive.
He
wrote
to
Bhagat
Singh
that
in
case
he (Sukhdev)
is
convicted
for
life
he
will
commit
suicide.
He
stood
for
release
or
death;
no
middle
course.
Bhagat
Singh's
reaction
to
Sukhdev's
letter
was
very
sharp.
Serve,
suffer
and
live
to
struggle
for
the
cause
-
that
was
his
stand.
"Escaping
from
hardships
is
cowardice",
he
said.
This
letter
privides
one
more
window
to
peep
into
the
martyr's
mind.]
DEAR
BROTHER,
I
have
gone
through
your
letter
attentively
and
many
times.
I
realise
that
the
changed
situation
has
affected
us
differently.
The
things
you
hated
outside
have
now
become
essential
to
you.
In
the
same
way,
the
things
I
used
to
support
strongly
are
of no
significance
to me
any
more.
For
example,
I
believed
in
personal
love,
but
now
this
feeling
has
ceased
to
occupy
any
particular
position
in my
heart
and
mind.
While
outside,
you
were
strongly
opposed
to it
but
now a
drastic
change
and
radicalisation
is
apparent
in
your
ideas
about
it.
You
experience
it as
an
extremely
essential
part
of
human
existence
and
you
have
found
a
particular
kind
of
happiness
in
the
experience.
You
may
still
recollect
that
one
day I
had
discussed
suicide
with
you.
That
time
I
told
you
that
in
some
situations
suicide
may
be
justifiable,
but
you
contested
my
point.
I
vividly
remember
the
time
and
place
of
our
conversation.
We
talked
about
this
in
the
Shahanshahi
Kutia
one
evening.
You
said
in
jest
that
such
a
cowardly
act
can
never
be
justified.
You
said
that
acts
of
this
kind
were
horrible
and
heinous,
but I
see
that
you
have
now
made
an
about-turn
on
this
subject.
Now
you
find
it
not
only
proper
in
certain
situations
but
also
necessary,
even
essential.
My
opinion
is
what
you
had
held
earlier,
that
suicide
is a
heinous
crime.
It is
an
act
of
complete
cowardice.
Leave
alone
revolutionaries,
no
individual
can
ever
justify
such
an
act.
You
say
you
fail
to
understand
how
suffering
alone
can
serve
the
country.
Such
a
question
from
a
person
like
you
is
really
perplexing,
because
how
much
thoughtfully
we
loved
the
motto
of
the
Naujawan
Bharat
Sabha
-
"to
suffer
and
sacrifice
through
service".
I
believe
that
you
served
as
much
as
was
possible.
Now
is
the
time
when
you
should
suffer
for
what
you
did.
Another
point
is
that
this
is
exactly
the
moment
when
you
have
to
lead
the
entire
people.
Man
acts
only
when
he is
sure
of
the
justness
of
his
action,
as we
threw
the
bomb
in
the
Legislative
Assembly.
After
the
action,
it is
the
time
for
bearing
the
consequences
of
that
act.
Do
you
think
that
had
we
tried
to
avoid
the
punishment
by
pleading
for
mercy,
we
would
have
been
more
justified?
No,
this
would
have
had
an
adverse
effect
on
the
masses.
We
are
now
quite
successful
in
our
endeavour.
At
the
time
of
our
imprisonment,
the
condition
for
the
political
prisoners
of
our
party
were
very
miserable.
We
tried
to
improve
that.
I
well
you
quite
seriously
that
we
believed
we
would
die
very
shortly.
Neither
we
were
aware
of
the
technique
of
forced
feeding
nor
did
we
ever
think
of
it.
We
were
ready
to
die.
Do
you
mean
to
say
that
we
were
intending
to
commit
suicide?
No.
Striving
and
sacrificing
one's
life
for a
superior
ideal
can
never
be
called
suicide.
We
are
envious
of
the
death
of
our
Comrade
Yatindra
Nath
Das.
Will
you
call
it
suicide?
Ultimately,
our
sufferings
bore
fruit.
A big
movement
started
in
the
whole
of
the
country.
We
were
successful
in
our
aim.
Death
in
the
struggles
of
this
kind
is an
ideal
death.
Apart
from
this,
the
comrades
among
us,
who
believe
that
they
will
be
awarded
death,
should
await
that
day
patiently
when
the
sentence
will
be
announced
and
they
will
be
hanged.
This
death
will
also
be
beautiful,
but
committing
suicide
- to
cut
short
the
life
just
to
avoid
some
pain
- is
cowardice.
I
want
to
tell
you
that
obstacles
make
a man
perfect.
Neither
you
nor
I,
rather
none
of
us,
have
suffered
any
pain
so
far.
That
part
of
our
life
has
started
only
now.
You
will
recollect
that
we
have
talked
several
times
about
realism
in
the
Rusian
literature,
which
is
nowhere
visible
in
our
own.
We
highly
appreciate
the
situations
of
pain
in
their
stories,
but
we do
not
feel
that
spirit
of
suffering
within
ourselves.
We
also
admire
their
passion
and
the
extraordinary
height
of
their
characters,
but
we
never
bother
to
find
out
the
reason.
I
will
say
that
only
the
reference
to
their
resolve
to
bear
pain
has
produced
the
intensity,
the
suffering
of
pain,
and
this
has
given
great
depth
and
height
to
their
characters
and
literature.
We
become
pitiable
and
ridiculous
when
we
imbibe
an
unreasoned
mysticism
in
our
life
without
any
natural
or
substantial
basis.
People
like
us,
who
are
proud
to be
revolutionary
in
every
sense,
should
always
be
prepared
to
bear
all
the
difficulties,
anxieties,
pain
and
suffering
which
we
invite
upon
ourselves
by
the
struggles
initiated
by us
and
for
which
we
call
ourselves
revolutionary.
I
want
to
tell
you
that
in
jail,
and
in
jail
alone,
can a
person
get
an
occasion
to
study
empirically
the
great
social
subjects
of
crime
and
sin.
I
have
read
some
literature
on
this
and
only
the
jail
is
the
proper
place
for
the
self-study
on
all
these
topics.
The
best
parts
of
the
self-study
for
one
is to
suffer
oneself.
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