Basic HTML Version
18
LEAOVE _O,ISA111.t8 ON SATYARTHA PRAKASH
pretation and application of the law, protection of the
innocent and punishment only of the offender. That explains
the frantic efforts of the Ministry to ban
Satyartha Makash
by clutching at the War-time Defence Rules at one time
and the Criminal Procedure Code at another. In the light
of these facts there is warrant for the presumption or
suspicion that what the Covernment has done for banning
the book the second time is to stretch S. 99A of the Code to
fit in with the Procrustean bed of the All-India Muslim
League demand, and that, therefore, the grounds set forth in
the Government Notification are contrary to facts, malicious
and false
and tillSastainable
in law.
We have observed a little while ago, quite in a casual
manner tie-ugh, that Rishi Dayananda t s object in writing
the
Sat/fan/ea Parkas', vas
to expose the many fallacies mid
superstitions which
we Yu, and
still are, eating into the vitals
of the Indian society and undermining the foundations of
its stability and strength and independence in the name of
"divine religion- . We have also observed that he was lievei
immindful of the fact that Islam preached also Vedic truth,
great Divine truths, and he had on several occasions openly
acknowledged that. fact. There is therefore no question of
his having reviled
01
misrepresented the Divine truths of
Islam which the Duran, teaches. What he has certainly
ridiculed, denounced and iondemned
is
certain racial, tribal
and territorial mental prepiAsessions, un-Divine, mispiritual
obsessions, miscalled •initiefs', and soulless observances of
rituals and ceremonials which pass for God's Religion.
If we turn the pages of human history we will find that all
reformers who were worth their salt, all teachers of mankind
worth the name, have done the
same
work. It is a gross
misstatement of fact
,
nay, it is blasphemy, to say that their
intention in doing so was to promote "feelings
of
enmity or
hatred between the different classes" of the population.
As we have slated above, the fourteenth chapter is an
essential and inseparable
part
of the book, and therefor: it
should not be treated independently of the other parts of,
book. The fourteen chapters are the chapters of the book,
each dealing with a specific subject which serves the central