Vinayak Damodar Savarkar

n 1923, Veer Savarkar wrote his seminal book 'Essentials of Hindutva' in Ratnagiri Jail where he was kept for nearly two years after being brought to the Indian mainland from the Andamans. It must be remembered that conditions in Ratnagiri Jail were so bad that Savarkar records that he considered committing suicide there.

Essentials of Hindutva

Quite surprising intro, for a political text 

Editing This : Had to Go into a Whole Rabbithole about Names, In the end, all i could say is, the, Obsession with preserving the Maya they were into, They recorded something as mundane as a River as a Goddess, They made Death not be loss of Existence, and instead be a cycle.

Maybe they did Fear Non-existence of the State of Existence. that they were even forced to define Shunyata, Nothingness,  Even Nothing must mean Something. 

For this fear they carry, Even Savarkar himself does.

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We hope that the fair Maid of Verona who made the impassioned appeal to her lover to change 'a name that was 'nor hand, nor foot, nor arm, nor face, nor any other part belonging to a man' would forgive us for this our idolatrous attachment to it when we make bold to assert that, 'Hindus we are and love to remain so!' We too would, had we been in the position of that good Friar, have advised her youthful lover to yield to the pleasing pressure of the logic which so fondly urged 'What's in a name? That which we call a rose would smell as sweet by any other name!' For, things do matter more than their names, especially when you have to choose one only of the two, or when the association between them is either new or simple. The very fact that a thing is indicated by a dozen names in a dozen human tongues disarms the suspicion that there is an invariable connection or natural connection or natural concomitance between sound and the meaning it conveys. Yet, as the association of the word with the thing is signifies grows stronger and lasts long, so does the channel which connects the two states of consciousness tend to allow an easy flow of thoughts from one to the other, till at last it seems almost impossible to separate them. 

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