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Bones in Havan
Our thinking – our way of thinking has been the target of

all people’s inflamed sight. Had it been any other country where
such unique, such rishi-like good person lived, he would be
honoured with a number of titles as the “world’s man” or
“world’s dignitary” or the like, sometimes even leading to the
Nobel prize; but it is our misfortune that our views are so narrow
that we feel trivial when we talk of good things or accept them.
We even take pure gold for ordinary metal in order to degrade it.

We were celebrating the centenary programme for Shastriji.
People started to put bones in the havan. I had to regrettably
remark, “What type of deformed mentality this is! People are
feeling bad when Shastriji is being honoured. It is quite
unfortunate, friends, it is absolutely unfortunate. Either you are
living in ignorance, or you don’t know that he is an invaluable
gem of Gujarat. You are not able to assess him, or you are the
victim of deformed mentality. I feel pity on you. You must have
stood by us when such a large celebration is underway. It would
have illuminated to its glory had it been joined by people from
the opposition camp. But instead, you are doing such things,
aren’t you? You are pointing out why the government is doing
this. Why is the government doing all this with the public
money? A great man who has given so much to Gujarat, isn’t it
good for Gujarat to give him something in return? Friends, he
is the honour of Gujarat.

“He is the gentleman who brought the remains of Shyamji
Krishna Varma to India – the same leading light of Gujarat – a
revolutionary – Shyamji Krishna Varma. He gave the nation the
volunteers who fought for freedom of the country, yet his
remains kept waiting on the foreign soil for the son of the soil
to come and carry them back to India. You never thought of
this, but when we did, we accomplished the task. You
propagated that you would not offer floral tributes to the
remains of Shyamji Krishna Varma. This son of Mother India
sacrificed his life for the sake of freedom of Mother India, yet
you are feeling ashamed on even offering flowers to his remains.
Such is your deformed mentality.