Nathuram Godse - Assasin of Gandhi

Godse as a personality is very very interesting and by far the most complex to understand of assasins any time in history, to kill such a powerful leader of Non Violence , someone to the stature of Gandhi.

1. Godse was at the time 37 year old and single and spent his whole life single, fighting for independence against British

2. He was a great freedom writer and well versed in marathi as he was the editor in chief for the paper called "Hindu Rashtra"

3. He was very strong in his ideologies and never ever a blind follower nor was swayed by what masses thought or felt, he did what was right to his heart and joined Hindu Mahasabha as a pacifist by holding silent and peaceful demonstrations.

4. He never ever spoke personally abot Gandhi and admired him as a human being but hated the ideologies springing forth which he felt was too biased to Muslims and unjust in some case with Hindus.

5. He had great respect for his Idol Veer Sarvarkar and truly was a disciple to the fullest and sincere sense when he was working under the Hindu mahasabha. Eventhough like many he was a volunteer and actvist , he would not blindly follow what was given to him but would reason and question and in tht process would reject or suggest alternative ideas during the freedom struggle and hindu-muslim violence.

6. This is what he had to say "Before I fired the shots I actually wished him(gandhi) well and bowed to him in reverence"

7. His chargesheet statement referring to gandhi as Gandhiji clearly marks the respect he had for him all the way through. "But above all I studied very closely what Veer (brave) Savarkar and Gandhiji had written and spoken, as to my mind these two ideologies have contributed more to the moulding of the thought and action of the Indian people during the last thirty years or so, than any other factor has done. "

8. he was a historian who studied the ancient history of America, Russia, France and Britan and also studied the tenets of Socialism and marxism.

9. A follower on teachings of dadabhai Naoroji, Vivekananda, Tilak , he never believed in caste system and had demonstrated numerous anti caste protests. "Born in a devotional Brahmin family, I instinctively came to rever Hindu religion, Hindu history and Hindu culture. I had, therefore, been intensely proud of Hinduism as a whole. As I grew up I developed a tendency to free thinking unfettered by any superstitious allegiance to any isms, political or religious. That is why I worked actively for the eradication of untouchability and the caste system based on birth alone."

10. A man of no regrets, and a nationalist , he wanted after his death to spread his ashes in the Sindh river ater which the word India derived from. He as ready to give up his life and sacrifice, he was ready to take the life of a Mahatma for what he felt would bring justice and not the continued threats of fasting to death by Gandhiji , which IS NOT AHIMSA BUT A CLEAR MARK OF SELF INFLICTED VIOLENCE.

Neither it was right nor it was wrong , like Subash Chandra bose who wanted to fight for freedom based on the Hindu Dharma principles , so was Gandhi with his so called Self inflicted Violence , but the due credit if it should go to one single person , it should to Gandhi as the world as and will never see an unmatches leader like him ever again.

This was what Albert Einstein had to say about Gandhiji "Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth"