Hey guys, welcome back to my YouTube channel. This is Daniel Rossell here I'm going to talk today about a book that I reviewed on Amazon and Google a couple of days ago, but as video is very much the platform I'm feeling most comfortable engaging with right now I said I would put up a video because there's really a lot to unpack about this book. It's called But it's your family cutting ties with toxic family members and loving herself in the aftermath by Dr Sherry Campbell and I've just added it Which way am I pointing here? This way this way this way. I've added it there onto my screen a lot of per second just so you can see The book so this is what it is Firstly Yeah, this is definitely a Important book or rather it promised to be an important book within the whole world of Narcissistic abuse and emotional abuse and verbal abuse and they all they tend to go hand-in-hand There is a small literature of books on this subject matter There's definitely books like there's a very well-known book called Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Adults Parents. Did I get that right? I think I got that slightly wrong, but those who are aware of this space know what book I'm talking about and What I was particularly looking for in this book was something that went past that so I've talked about the reddit communities Which are wonderful online spaces for people who've dealt with relatives who behave in toxic or north or abusive manners towards them and The way it's separated on Reddit and I think this is not just a smart thing for Reddit It's a great paradigm to look at it is there is a subreddit called raised by narcissists for people who are like Hmm, this doesn't feel normal and could this be gaslighting and you get you kind of get people coming out of the fog there And then there's one called life after narcissism I have a separate video on the narcissistic support subreddits if you're if you've never used reddit before Reddit is particularly good at this area of support groups because of the fact that a lot of people Need to remain anonymous. I'm just neurotically editing the size of the cover a little bit here. Excuse me for a moment So that's the reason in itself to explore reddit to check out check out these groups So what I was looking for if we use that Distinction between raised by narcissists in life after narcissism. I was looking for the life after narcissists in book Okay, we know what? Narcissism narcissistic abuse toxic abuse. Sorry Verbal abuse emotional abuse. We know what it looks like. We know what the patterns of gaslighting Hoovering all the jargon. I can never even remember the jargon myself, but there is a lot of it. We've Become aware of these dynamics. I was going to use a word. Whoa, can it's better not to we've become aware that at dynamics We know what kind of a situation we're enmeshed in and Now our focus has shifted to Moving on where whether we're in a position of no contact commonly Acronomized as NC or very low contact VLC or Gray rocking or whatever Stratagem we are using that's allowing us to minimize the damage from this person in our life We've got there and now we're looking to rebuild a new kind of life with a surrogate family or community of trusted and loved Friends who can provide us the emotional support and backing that we didn't get from our family of origin As the terminology is currently called. So this was what this this was my expectation for but it's your family And I don't think it's an unreasonable expectation Maybe I I did order it in a haste. So maybe I sort of didn't study the cover As carefully as I should have But so I have a few good things to say about this book and a few criticisms about this book The first thing is there definitely is a lot of good material in here Regarding all that stuff that I mentioned in the raised by narcissists part of the picture In other words, there's a lot of good explanation here about what abuse of relationships look like and how to recognize toxicity And why it's better to free yourself from toxicity and all this kind of good stuff, right? You can't if but that's not the reason I bought this book. I bought this book for the post no can't post no contact post boundary setting stage and You're at that point where you're like, well, what now or how do I if this is your case? And I'm not saying this is my case. This is just want to be clear This review is not necessarily referring to me or my personal situation But you're at that point where you're like, okay I'm now scared and this is an emotion that comes up in this book You know, she mentions after you go no contact the most common Feelings are those of anxiety Liberation and anxiety at the same time you're free from having to put up with constant belittlement Negative comments hurtful comments abuse, but you're like I'm on my own in the world and you know, a lot of people are not necessarily on their own in the world like literally you have friends I have a wife but There is something a powerful that I read once on the internet that these ties It's impossible really to be a full surrogate for the support of ties one should have with their family So even if you have a fantastic husband a fantastic wife an amazing community of friends who still this missing place that comes from That kind of gaping wound that you experience so That's and again, she does mention at some point share share Campbell mentions, you know after you do the no contact You're gonna feel afraid. You're gonna feel You're gonna feel free and afraid but this really comes I'm just looking at the book here chapter 9 hoovering separation of you so already into kind of It takes all the way to chapter 9 and this is just the this is chapter 9 and the remaining part of the book And this is the foregoing in the book. So it takes all the way till the very end before we actually get to And the healing process for instance. I'm just looking for what chapter that is that's chapter 12 We're really at the tail end in the book. So the majority of this book is actually taken up with I'm describing narcissistic dynamics. That's my first criticism is that It was good. It was good content I don't criticize that and I don't criticize her description. You can see talks I'm just leafing through the chapters here toxic mothers toxic fathers toxic adult children. You're not crazy No contact But that's the majority of the text unfortunately the maddening world of manipulation again All these are really really important things to cover but This was not the book I was looking for I was looking for something very specific The second criticism and I've seen a lot of people on Amazon saying this and it annoyed me more and more as the book continued Was the author? It feels like she wrote this book for two reasons. One of those was to help people and the second one was to Rage against her own abuse, which is understandable. I'm not a believer in revenge I think healing is the objective and you know trying to use a platform like a book She mentions that you wrote her first book and there was just way too much detail This this detail isn't really helpful in my opinion for you know for most people Who are trying to just get advice and clarity on their own situations? Hearing about what happened in this author's life and her experience of abuse and in one sense It is helpful because I think every time we hear a story like this If this is your case it resonates and you say oh wow, I'm not the only one that's had this experience equally I Think it's attracted I was looking for a very cut and dried manual almost of you've gone no contact You've set your boundaries and here is what the roadmap looks like for recovery And I didn't really find that much in this book So I mentioned two very good subreddits one is life after narcissism the one is a strange adult child adult children I think anyway look it up on Reddit and I'm gonna continue the process of searching for this subset of the literature where we're not talking about You know the ABCs or the one-on-ones of recognizing gaslighting recognizing You know codependency knowing what flying monkeys are knowing what the usual tactics look like in toxic or narcissistic family systems We're looking for the next step. We we want to put it past us We want to deal with our natural feelings of grief that come with separating from our birth family and that is certainly Something that the author talks about those feelings of grief which are inevitable she likens it to death actually death of a loved one But we're looking for More recovery oriented resources. So yeah, it was definitely I mean, I don't regard it as a as a bad book or as a bad purchase I think I gave it a three stars on Amazon because there there is good info there But unfortunately, I didn't find it the road map to Recovery that I was looking for if anyone watching this video happens to know of such a book Or such books Please do drop me a comment on YouTube because for me right now the search is going on Thank you guys for watching and if you want to get more videos feel free to subscribe to this YouTube channel


What's up everybody Jason here for jazby's case race calm jazby's five box top shelf hockey mixer is sold out Random teams number three includes a box of cup hockey guys. So it's 31 spot break all-card ship everybody gets a random team in the NHL So again a box of 1920 cup and then everything else is 2021 black diamond as px trilogy and synergy So there you go guys. So here's the dice really here's the customer names the first 10 got spots straight up Or I should say 11 and then Sean Mattick from a lower pack filler number 35 I'll be now David a lapenia. It's 36 one those for a fraction of the price There's the teams. Let's roll it and it's a one and a six seven times. Good luck one two three four six and It was a seven Sean O'Leary done a Sean Mattick seven times one two three four five six seven San Jose sharks down to the Calgary Flames I was Sean a little bit of sharks Steven George my Kings Jeff Cohen with the Panthers Matt bubbler with the blue jackets David The capitals Nicola stone with the blues Mike tower last one multiple Leafs David a lapenio with the red wings Sean Mattick with the star Sean a leader with the blackhawks Steven George with the Flyers David a lapenio with the wild Kevin Kelly with the Vancouver Canucks Sean Mattick with the ducks and lightning Chris Max With the Bruins Sean a leader of the Vegas Golden Knights Chris Maxwell with the Buffalo sabers Kevin with the Canadian Sean Mattick with Rangers Matt Butler with avalanche as well as the Islanders Sean Mattick with the Senators Chris Max with the penguins Matt Buckler with the oilers David a brand with the yachts Kevin with the Jets Joseph with the Devils Steven George with the Preds and Sean Mattick with the Carolina Hurricanes with Sean Mattick at the Calgary Flames So again quick trade window guys if you guys want to trade 30 seconds, like I said, I'll give you guys a quick 30 seconds to a minute if no trades then we'll Close the trade window And I think I can turn on the camera. Yeah, let me actually rip some boxes like synergy and trilogy And kind of get those out of the way in the meantime Avalon should be a popular team in this member 1920 would be Cal McCarrookies In that cup hockey get a true RPA potentially Joseph's actually here. There you go. He has the Devils. I'm assuming you want to do Devils because you love the Devils and Want to get a Hughes? Jack Hughes RPA Fits better. You're in your PC. So then we'll pull the trigger in the right now. I'm done with this. What a deal Joseph All right, so Joseph we get now the Colorado avalanche and Matt Buffer now with his ducks. All right, let's go with trilogy the Gabor Valardi and Gustav Lindstrom rookie premieres 399 first autograph off the board for the Redwinks, give you a penny Dylan Kozen's to 499 Jason Robertson Morgan the Cane and Martin for the avalanche a little trade mojo level one rookie premieres coleslaw Tyler Benson and the key to goose I Let's go with the next one here kill McCart to 349 Quinn Hughes Oliver and Larson to 349 and sometimes a little rough to 99 exceptional stars Chris Lutang Patrick Kane to 99 JT John Tavares Brock Besser Conor May David To 749 Igor Zamula car and then out of two seven forty nine other kill the car Conor Ingram rookie 749 Braden Shen another 749 Thomas Harley 449 David Pasternak Alexa the Furnier 999. Whoa You got a metal card Nathan McKinnon It's actually a really cool cards. Nice trade mojo working out really good right now pure Oliver Joseph Here we go four hits here one hip per pack contains two to three autographs Mark Shifley superscripts for the Winnipeg Juts Kevin Kelly with that one and we got John Carlson to 299 for the capitals. We've got a thick part Definitely got a patch right here Or maybe not Jason Robertson prime rookies out of 35 This one should be an autograph though Sean McGregor Dallas Ars Calvin Turkov for the blue jacket SPX jerseys Columbus blue jag is my bumper All right, there you go. There's only have one autograph bummer couple high-end boxes and there we go Good luck like that in time It's got a quad diamond. Shall we might have a diamond here to Master Bob? All right to 349. I think this actually is a diamond, so But we skip that Leave that over there Then we have a Liam Foddy to 399 diamond debut relics another one for the CBJ We got Connor McMichael the Washington capitals 349 and Nathan McKinnon black diamond two out of 99 At launch man popping up a lot more than I thought they would Last one here is a exquisite performers David Pasternak pasta Bruins Chris Maxwell, and we do have a diamond guys.  Oh, yeah, there's definitely a metal card in here. There's something heavy. Nick actually picked out this box, so Bang bang. I don't even think you notice how heavy it was. It's heavy Yeah It's the one all In the thing yeah, I Got it. I don't want to show it right away They did when they first came out so we do have a metal one. We'll say that to be last I Know I remember I used to be so They have actually like a little extra protective now looks like yeah, I can't believe next year or this year's not They delayed again all the way But I guess this 1920 came out in March this year. Yeah, that's true. It did come out late. Everything got pushed back now Glue Dylan Carlson Prince cards blew up and it killed two people. Oh my god It's like how dangerous could that be but I guess it could be dangerous First one is part of a gay to 249 little rookie patch autograph Could be David. I didn't take a peek. Although Nick might have seen it. I didn't see it That is for the avalanche or sorry an avalanche Lightning shamanic we got Joel Pearson Gold rookie patch autograph to 24 Another one there for the Hoylers and Matt Buckler We have a mark Giordano Enshrimants now with the Seattle Kraken, but of course this would be Calgary Flames edition Going to the Flames of Sean Maddock How about more card of a gay this time a rookie masterpiece burning plate autograph one of one? And that's going to the lightning Sean Maddock All right guys. We got a metal card. Good luck Hopefully it's a rookie No, it's Kirby Dodge for the Chicago Blackhawks Sean O'Leary They go thankfully we have to ship this out. It's a heavy box There you go. Very nice pure silver Kirby Dodge Rookie for the Blackhawks very nice one right there. They go Sean. They're congratulations man. That's a sick hit right there And boom That was the break guys really appreciate a pretty solid solid mixer I got a diamond out of the black diamond got some nice hits back here as well It's got another one of those metal technology cards I got to go get some 3-1 80's so I'll top it with that right now But appreciate it guys. This was the top shop hockey mixer round on team number three I think we could run it back. We do have a lot of this stuff still so stay tuned guys jazby's casebrief.com


Hello everybody. This is Don Bester speaking. Jack Benny hasn't arrived yet, but we have finally located him on the 20th century train nearing New York. So we will now take you to the 20th century to Jack Benny and his 19th century joke. Stay welcome to hear that crack Don Bester just made, trying to be funny. I wish we were in already. Well Jack, we'll soon be in New York. Are you glad to get back? You bet I am Don. I like New York. You know the first thing I'll do is take a nice cool ride in the subway, get a home cooked meal in the automap, and then a dip in the ocean. What beach do you go to Jack? Coney Island, very exclusive there, you know. So where do you go to cool off Don? Oh, I generally hop in the bathtub in my apartment. Hmm, you like exclusive places too. Magazine. Stay down at the West Park, huh? Well, there he is sitting about five feet behind us. When I rised our smiling suit, it's like a modern spring. Hey hey hey, class please, I'm trying to sleep. I'm very sorry, mister. You know I have to broadcast tonight. I'm getting my voice in shape. All right, but can't you sing a love-dying neighbor? Sure. Sure, I can sing love-dying neighbor. Me, me, me, me, me. Oh, keep on, me, me, me, me. When I resize a smiling suit, it's like a modern spring. You can have the whole feed. Goodbye. Ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba, ba. All good, sir? All out, public, okay, sir. Leave down these last few hours and the trains seem long, don't they? Well, they sure do. Pardon me, friend, sir. Is this seat is taken? No, no, sit right down. Thank you. Slepperman is my name. Irving P. Slepperman. And- and you? Jack Denney. I'm glad to know you, mister Maya. Are you going to New York? Yes, this is Mr. Wilson, Don Wilson. Hello. Likewise to you.  Yes, yes, yes. Well, don't get the ashes on my coat, please. So you gentlemen are both going to New York, eh? Yep. So am I. I have to go on the pressing business. Is that so? What line are you in? I told you, pressing business. Oh, and how is the pressing business? Very depressing. Oh, oranges, apples, pears, all kinds of fruit. Any apples, the pears, mister? Here, I'll have an apple. How about you, Mr. Sleperman, have an apple? No, thanks. I just had some herring, and I don't want to lose the taste. Ah, go ahead, take one, sir. All right, all right, I'll be social. Say, Jack. Oh, hello, Mary. Where have you been? I've been playing bridge in the next car, and I need some more money. Oh, lost your money? Playing bridge, eh? Yeah, I had a full house, and the woman next to me had four queens. You'll stay out of those kind of bridge games. Mary, this is Mr. Sleperman. Mr. Sleperman, this is Mary Livingston. Hello, Slep. I'm glad to know you, Miss Livingston. That's Livingston, Livingston. Livingston, livingston, as long as you're healthy. OK, that's my line. Say, Mary, get Parker over here, will you? We ought to have a little chat. OK. OK, that's my line. Say, Mary, get Parker over here, will you? We ought to have a little rehearsal for tonight's broadcast. You'll pardon us, Mr. Sleperman. I like that. OK, sit, all out for a kiss, sit. Now, listen, Mary, we're joining Don Besser in his orchestra again tonight, and I want you to tell some new jokes with Don. You know, for the first program. Oh, yeah, that's right. What do I say, Jack? Well, for the first joke, you say to Don how many hairs on a monkey's face, see? And he'll say, I don't know how many. And then you say, next time you shave, count them. You see? You know that, sir. See, that's good. But does Don know that one? No, he doesn't know what time it is. Now, don't forget that joke. Leave it to me, Jack. Say, Wilson, have you rehearsed your part for tonight's broadcast? Oh, yes, Jack, but I'll run over it once more to be sure. Blow out proofs, generals, with their low-priced, air-confident safety can be purchased on convenience terms to the general's hire dealers. How's that, Jack? Oh, I knew you'd have that. By the way, what time is it now, Don? 25 minutes to 11. 25 minutes to 11? I better send a telegram right away. Oh, Porter, Porter. Yes, sir. Send a telegram for me right away, will you please? Yeah, well, where to? Don Bester, care of the general-tire program, NBC Studio, New York. How many words? Two. What are they? Pray, Don. So, Porter, what time do we arrive in New York? 10.45. Daylight saving time, sir. That's 9.45 standard time, isn't it? Yes, sir, but we's hour late and that gets you right on time. Yeah. Has he got a dialect? Oh, no. You're talking. You know, Don, I'm getting nervous. We're liable... You know, we're liable to... We're liable to miss that program tonight. What time have you got, Jack? I don't know. Hey, Sleperman, what time is it? My watch says 2.15. 2.15? Where'd you set that watch? In Russia. Somehow, are you Russian? No, but I'd like to get in already. I don't blame you. I've been riding all the way from Hollywood. From Hollywood, California? That's a place... You can see all the movie stars there? Sure, sure. Tell me, what kind of a girl is that Zuzu Pot? That Zazu Pit. Zazu Pit, that's who it is. What's the difference? As long as you're healthy. I'm glad I got that. Okay, all out for a look at this. Now we're getting someplace. Mary, answer that phone. There's no phone on the train, Jack. Train or no train, answer that phone. Oh, all right. Hello? Hello, I want to talk to that guy in the second seat. It's for you, Jack. Must be Don Bester. Hello? Hello, say, what are you going to do about this huge murder case? Oh, for heaven's sake. Can't you wait till we get to the studio? Who's this talking? All right, I give in. This is Sergeant O'Hare, remember? Who? O'Hare, O'Hare. I don't get the name. O'Hare, what have you got on your head?  All right, all right. What do you want? Well, listen, we left this murder case in your hands. Is there anything new? No, anything new with you? No. Well, then, goodbye. We'll certainly work on it. You should live so. In this crime, we can't get away from that huge murder case. These telephone calls every week are driving me mad. But no matter where you're driving, use the general's tire, as only generals give you blow-off protection with a new silent safety tread. Cut it out, Clancy. There's no time for advertising. We've got to get to work. Ms. Donahoe. Yes, Sergeant. Wake up the phantom. He's in the back seat. Okay, sir. Hey, fathead, wake up. That's phantom, Mary. I know what I'm doing. Hey, wake up. You too, Mr. Phantom. Well, I'm glad they're all here, anyway. Hey, Sergeant. What is it, Clancy? There's several suspicious-looking characters in this train, but they know it. That's the trouble. Well, if we can only get a stool pigeon. That's it, Clancy. Where can we find a stool pigeon? Here's a stool, Sergeant. Now, if we can only get a pigeon. Magazines, all the late murder mysteries. The green room murder, blue room murder, murder at the vanities, and just plain murder. Murder, Mr. Hey, boy, how much for the green room murder? One dollar. That's murder, too. Look at this. All else, look at this. Are we here again? I've got an idea, Clancy. What is it, Sergeant? I'll have this guy here get some information for us. Now, listen, you. Are you talking to me? Yes, I'm talking to you. I'm Sergeant O'Hare from police headquarters. You get me? Likewise.   Now, I'll be in the back seat, and if you get any clues, just holler, Yoo-hoo! But don't let anybody hear you. I got you, Steven. Come on, Clancy. Can I go, too? Yes, Miss Donahoe, and keep your eyes wide open.  Dun, dun, dun, dun dun, dun du done, dun dun, dun, boom. Answer that phone for me, Slap. Hello? Hello, who is this? Sergeant O'Harewitz. O? O'Harewitz, O'Harewitz. O'Hare, O'Hasht Sciase? Not what. Read. Wrong number. Goodbye. Likewise. O'Kip's sis. All out! One, again, we're never getting to New York. Let's hear what's going on. We're late. And now, Frank Parker, your favorite tender will sing. I never had a chance. Frank Parker, how did he get there? He got out of Poughkeepsie and walked in. Oh, sing, Frank, sing, sing. But with Frank Parker singing, I never had a chance. I'll say Frank. Isn't Jack here yet? No, he's still on the train. I left him in Poughkeepsie. Well, I guess we'll have to tune in on the train again. Miss Donohue, what patient was that we just had? South Poughkeepsie. Anyone get on the train? Yes, two suspicious-looking characters with long beards. Let him alone. That's a Smith brother. They were coughing. I know, but we're working for General Tire. Hey, Clancy, who's that fellow walking towards our stool pigeon? I don't know, sirs, but he's been hiding in the baggage car since Chicago. Oh, yeah, looks like a tough egg. What nationality do you think he is? He looks like a slob. Well, that should help us slob this murder case. He's falling right into our trap at the stool pigeon. Quiet. Quiet. Next station for Kipsie, and all is well. Quiet. Hey, buddy, is this seat taken? No, seat right down. Thanks. Nice day, ain't it? Who knows? They're going to a tunnel. Hey, what line of business are you in, partner? In the pressing business, but at the pressing time, I'm a stool pigeon. That's right, Slap. Get to the point. Hey, what business are you in, friendzah? Well, you look like a fella I can talk to. Can you keep a secret? Sure, that means in one ear and on top of the other. Clancy, I think he's getting someplace. Well, buddy, I tell you, I caught a guy in New York about ten weeks ago, and I ducked out of town with a heat cooler. But don't tell the buddy things. Tell? Don't be foolish. Yoo-hoo! Yoo-hoo. Quiet, Mary. Get ready, Clancy, that's a... Hey, hey, hey, what are you hollering Yoo-hoo for? Do you play pinnacle? I want you to meet a couple of friends of mine. Well, be careful what you do around here. I'll take this 38 a minute and I'll plug you. Yoo-hoo! What'd you say? For heaven's sake, Yoo-hoo! Come on, Clancy, that's a... That's him, Clancy. Put the bracelets on him, quick. See, they're cute. Wear them in the good health crooks. Hey, hey, hey, what's all this about? I arrest you for the murder of Mr. Stuge. Now listen, you might as well come clean. You killed Mr. Stuge, didn't you? Well, yeah, I guess you got me. Yeah, I killed him, but I didn't mean it. Oh, you didn't mean it, eh? Now tell us how it happened. Well, Mr. Stuge was a darn good friend of mine. We were both in love with the same guy. I see, great tales, eh? I liked him like a brother. Of course. Yeah, we had lots of laughs together. We used to rub each other. I remember when I took a nap, he'd light a match and he'd stick it in the soul of my shoe. You know, we used to do that, too. You remember, Barry? Some fun, I'll say. Then I used to get even with him by putting iodine in his coffee. You know, just for the kid. Now tell me, listen, how did you come to kill him? Well, I'll tell you, I was going hunting and I had an old gunner wanted to try out. Yeah, go on. So I fired a few shots to see how she worked. And, Stuge, he was in the way, see? Well, I just wanted to scare him a little. You know, that's all.  That is a doornail. Oh boy, do you know what you'll get for this? No. You'll get the gallows. I will. Well, as long as I'm stuck, I might as well confess. I killed eight other guys. Well, what are you laughing about, Mary? Imagine him with nine ropes around his neck. Play, Don, he's killing me, too. Play.  Stop, Don, stop. I'm here. That was Don Vester and his Russian Yankees. Hello, Jacks. Hello, Mary. Hello, Don. Well, well, Don, it's sure good to see you again. I'm glad to see you, too, Jack. You look swell. You have a wonderful tan.  Now, tell me, Jack, how did you do in Hollywood? How did I do in Hollywood? How did I do in Hollywood? Great, Don. You know, that $10 I borrowed from you when I left? Well, here's five of it back. How did I do in Hollywood? Well, tell me something about your picture, Jack. How is it? Great, Don. Gable isn't in it. He should have been. Is that so? Well, did you make a picture, Mary? Yes, I've got it with me. It's only a snapshot, but don't I look good? Say, Don, you're looking swell yourself. You've got a better tan than I have. You've got it out of the window. It's pretty the same sun and a little more reasonable. Yeah, that's wonderful. Mary, we must try that next summer, you know. Well, Don, I'm glad we're all back together again. Come on, let's get this program started. I'm sorry we were so late.  Hey, Jack, I forgot. What was it again? You know, the radio routine. Come here. You say to Don, how many hairs on a monkey's face? He says, I don't know. And then you say, next time you shave, count them. Oh, yeah, yeah. Say, Don. How many hairs on a monkey's face? Well, I should say about 1,216. What do I do now, Jack? I don't know. It's the same problem we had before. The minute we get back, we have trouble. Well, Jack, you know, I just gave her a conservative estimate of the Harrison and Simeon's proboscis. Same old Don. We never will understand each other. Well, we've got to finish this half hour some way. Look at this. All of them, look at this. Hey, we're not on the train. What page are you on? 15. Well, we're on 18 already. It's a fine program. Anyway, folks, we're back in New York with the Sooch Murder Mystery Solve and next week we will have new plays, new jokes, and new Sooches. But the same general blowout-proof tire with a new silent safety trance. And the same old Wilson. You say, Jack. What is it, Parker? Can I go now? You know, I'd like to drive up and see my folks tonight. Yeah, where are they? Up at Lake Makawaka. Oh, that's a nice place. How do you get there? You go right through Poughkeepsie. Well, never mind. Good night, Frank. Oh, Jack. Now, what do you want? I wrote a poem while I was on the train all about our homecoming. Do you want to hear it? Go ahead. Anything to finish up this program? What's the title of it? The title is, See It's Great to Be Back Home Again Once More, Old Palomai, my buddy. That's a good poem. That's only the title. Oh, I see. Oh, I go ahead and read it, get it over with.  See It's Great to Be Back Home Again from that trip way out west. And see your folks once more again. The ones you love, I guess. And your dog is at the door just the week you're welcome to. And the babbling brook is waiting just for me and you and you. You and you? Yeah, that's you and welcome. Oh, I see.  A hidey-ho and abadabba. Blah, blah, blah, and vodio. See It's Great to Be Back Home when you have no place to go. Way down the Palomai River. Mary, Mary, it's totally like that. That makes me say play, Don.  I don't play.


Guys are excited to go out there game one and to just start this season off the right way. But yeah, man, we're all excited.  Little acts would go down this year. I mean, I think it's just well known that I'm a competitor and I love being out there.  But everybody knows that I love to compete and I love to be out there on the field. You haven't been given freelance on your hands, Sam. I need a break and they ignore you. No, I do whatever I'm asked to do. That freedom that you guys have, the freelancing, how do you develop that camera for you to the point where I'm going to shoot this way and you cover me? How does that go about? I think it's just about knowing your teammates and knowing the guys you're out there on the field with knowing their skill set and what they like to do and what they do best.  And I think that's where the reps at practice and the confidence we've been building through the preseason leading up to this game, I think it's helped us a lot with building that chemistry. Do you guys have conversations about that?  So can you make sure that you're there? Yeah, for sure. Yeah, we definitely have those conversations. Is there any communication during a play ever now? Yeah, that can come up. You know, they come out in a certain look that we know we'll like to do a certain thing to. So the communication will pick up during a play. But I mean, it's pre-snap, during snap, it's all the time. On the sideline, adjustments. Yeah, I mean, this is the most excitement I've seen going into week one. And I mean, like I've been saying, it's just a real exciting time right now. And you can see the genuine excitement on everybody's faces after everybody makes a play. And like I've been saying, we're just excited to go out there and play our game. And then impact game. Oh, yeah, I mean, I think we've just been building confidence all the way up to this game. The preparation hasn't stopped. It won't stop until, like our coach, like says, the ball hits the foot. But now, we're very confident in our room. It's a game-changing position. We just got to keep preparing and keep building and let the game come to us.


Welcome to morning prayer from the Radiant City Center. We get the privilege and honor to approach the throne of grace boldly this morning, offering our thanksgiving which is our spiritual sacrifice and to bring our requests before the Father. I want to begin as we enter into worship today and pray at a Psalm 149, just one of my favorite psalms that leads us into the place of corporate praise. Starting in verse 1 it says praise the Lord, sing to the Lord a new song and his praise in the assembly of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in their maker and let the children of Zion be joyful in their king. Let them praise his name with the dance, let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp, for the Lord takes pleasure in his people, he will beautify the humble with salvation. Let the saints be joyful, let them sing aloud on their beds, let the high praises of God be in their mouth and a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance on the nations and punishments on the peoples, to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with fetters of iron, to execute on them written judgment. This honor have all the saints praise the Lord. The scripture talks about the honor that we have to sing joyfully and to praise, but also the power of intercession, that it's a sword that is driving back the forces of darkness. And I just love the paradox too, let the saints be joyful in glory, let them sing aloud on their beds and let the high praises of God be in their mouth. It's saying even in the most intimate places it says in the action we all get together and we all pretend we're someone we're not, but there's this continuity between the altar at home and the corporate altar of singing his praises and lifting up his name and exalting the Lord that we come together. So let's come before him this morning with hearts of gratitude and thanksgiving and just begin right now like we often do, but go through the journey of Psalm 100 to enter the gate through thanksgiving and into the courts with praise. This is how we begin, this is how we offer ourselves before him daily. We need to get good at just being able to overflow with thanksgiving and praise. You need to have phrases that come to you easily because you're used to offering thanksgiving. And so let's just begin as the singers lead us, let's just begin offering up praises of thanksgiving and praise, glorifying God together. Hold a throne with our praise for you to rule and reign from. King Jesus, come rule in our midst. King Jesus, come reign amongst us. Sing these two simple words, thank you. The perspective waits on the other side of this phrase. A new lens, a new filter when we offer our thanksgiving. Let's just push in a little longer and keep singing this. It's unlocking our spirits just as we're thanking him. And this morning, just of the supreme worthiness of Jesus, just the progression of us walking through the gate of thanksgiving and blessing his name into the courts where we see him rightly and we start to be consumed with his worthiness. Just as Josh just led us in that moment of just offering ourselves our time, our family, our work, our anxieties, all those things at the feet of Jesus. We wash ourselves clean with the water of the word that speaks of the worthiness of Jesus. Lord, wash over us with that reminder of your supreme worthiness. There was no one more worthy and deserving of our time, our affections and our love. Lord, even in the midst of summer, Lord, where there's so many things around us and so much happening and so many events and the busyness of life and fun and rest that you're in the middle of it, but just think of Song of Solomon 1, your love is better than wine. That your love is better than even the best things of this life. Lord, your love is better than all and everything. Your love is better than a great summer day. Lord, your love is better than everything. We just pour out our affections on you this morning. We offer our prayer and our worship, our love and our attention and our affections before you. I want to turn our attention and prayer and intercession to Isaiah 56-7 as we're singing of the worthiness of Jesus. Just praying Isaiah 56-7 over the church asking that he would raise us up as his house of prayer out of Isaiah 56-7. Even then, I will bring to my holy mountain and make them joyful in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar for my house shall be a house of prayer for all nations. The Lord God who gathers the outcasts of Israel says I will gather to him others beside them who are gathered to him. So, Lord, we come before you this morning, Lord, from a room designated for prayer, Lord, in this city.  And, God, I ask that you would raise up your house of prayer in America. God, I ask that you would set your watchman on the wall, Lord, intercessors who do not rest day or night contending for the return of Jesus, contending for Israel, your people, contending for revival in America, contending for habitations of God to rest and to dwell. God, we thank you for what you began pouring out at Asbury, Lord, what you did even in our midst in February and March, what you began. I just think of Jim LeFoon's word of just unique spilling over. It's like the bowls were tipping in these little splashes of your glory and your presence that fell. Lord, we thank you for those. But, Lord, we're hungry for more. We're asking for you to tip the whole bowl over. Lord, we want to see an outpouring of your glory. But we know that we need to be the wine skin where we are the house of prayer able to walk in the glory that you pour out. So God, I ask that you would raise up your house of prayer. God, I ask right here in Kalamazoo, Lord, that you would raise up your intercessors, your musicians, your worship leaders and singers. Lord, I think of the presence worship camp happening in two weeks and these 40 teenagers that are coming to learn about music and to learn a little bit about worship. God, I ask that you would ambush them with your presence. Lord, you would ambush them and reveal your hearts for the prayer room. Lord, your hearts for prayer. Lord, your heart for prophetic worship and prophetic musicians. Lord, I ask that you would call forth prophetic singers and musicians, Lord, all over this nation. God, those who are just singing in their bedrooms right now that are reading their word, Lord, that you would begin to take them deeper into the river of your pleasure and presence, Lord, and that you would set them on the wall.  You said you would make them joyful in your house of prayer. God, we ask that you would even release new expressions of enjoyable prayer. Lord, where being in your presence is actually joyful and enjoyable for your people, that prayer would not be a drudgery or people showing up just because it's a requirement because they have to, but Lord, there would be a delight to come into your house to the corporate altar and to bring forth sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving. And so Lord, we look over the state of the entire nation, Lord, for the church in America and we say, raise up your house of prayer in the name of Jesus. It's joyful in your house. Lord, draw people into your presence. God, I ask that you would release the spirit of Elijah, the hearts of the fathers turn toward the children, Lord, just like we are singing in worship earlier, the generations, one generation declaring to another. God, just think of my parents starting 6 a.m. prayer meetings when I was 12, 13 years old and inviting me to come and play guitar and lead worship for it, even though I had no idea what a prayer meeting was. There was something about the older generations going before and inviting me in that love and appreciation for your presence and a love and appreciation for your house of prayer. God, I just ask for the hearts of the fathers to turn to the children. Well, I just think of the Psalm, come, let us go to the house of the Lord together. Come, let us go to the house of the Lord together. God, I ask for parents to grab the hands of kids and bring them into your presence. Lord, even this summer that would not be neglected. Lord, amidst the fun and going to the beach and the water and the zoo and the museums and the camps and all the fun of summer, Lord, I ask there still would be a cry in the heart of the older generation that says, come, let us go to the house of the Lord together. Bring a generational unity, Lord, that our kids would grow up to the corporate altar, 12 year old singing instruments and serving the Lord with a family to come on a Wednesday night or a Thursday night into your house and to pray for kids to see their parents in devotions at home and prayer at the family altar. God, I just ask that you would release the spirit of Elijah, the hearts of the fathers to the children, the children to the fathers, Lord, that there would be such a unity, Lord, in your house of prayer in the name of Jesus. This house of prayer to release grace over his people to pray day and night in this hour. Luke 18, Jesus was telling the disciples a parable to show that at all times they ought to pray and not to lose heart. And the parable that he tells is of the unrelenting widow and the unrighteous judge. And he said, she just kept coming to him. She just kept coming. And the unrighteous judge says, all right, I will give her legal protection. Otherwise, by continually coming, she wears me out. And the Lord says, hear what the unrighteous judge said. Now will not God bring about justice for his elect who cried to him day and night? And will he delay long over them?  However, when the son of man comes, will he find faith on the earth? And so, Jesus, I thank you that your answer to wrong things being made right is your praying church. Lord, I thank you that you ordained God that from the mouths of broken and weak human vessels who just stand in agreement with you, Lord, you turn the tables. You make wrong things right in the earth. So God, we stand before you this morning. And we ask you for grace, God, to pray as we ought to pray day and night with the tenacity God of the unrelenting widow who just kept coming. Father, our confession is that apart from you, we can do nothing. So we're asking, Lord, would you open up the heavens over this very altar, over these very intercessors? Would you open up the heavens over our homes, God, and our family alters? Would you open up the heavens, God, over the congregations across this city in America? And would you give grace to stand in the day watches and to stand in the night watches, God, tugging on the hem of your garment, Lord, until we see the rain cloud on the horizon? Wrong things made right. Your people grace to pray in this hour in Jesus name. Can't do it without the grace of God. We can't do it in our own human eye. Would you Holy Spirit? We need the Holy Spirit's power on the inside. Fan the flames. Fan the flame, God, fan the flame. Holy Spirit on the inside. Fan the flame. Fan the flame, God. Yes, God. Oh, Lord, we cry out to you right now. Oh, God, we need you, Lord. We can't do it in our own human effort. Holy Spirit, come. Oh, Holy Spirit. The faith is a smoldering prayer. Safe vocabulary. Again, God, that we would be unrelenting. Left us on our own. Grow dull in our hearts in the mystery of delay. So Holy Spirit, we just say, come and fortify your praying church in this hour. Come and strengthen us with might on the inner man. That we would stick the landing on the walls of intercession across this land, God. When we fall off, God, we jump right back on. I pray, Holy Spirit, that you would fortify your bride. That you would put in her mouth the cry, even so, Lord, come. That you would fortify family, God, and build those family altars in this hour. That even as Pastor Caleb prayed earlier, that the generations, God, would be brought into your presence together. We're asking Holy Spirit for an outpouring of grace to believe, to hope, and to stand in the power of agreement with your heart as intercessors in this hour. We love you, Lord, and we thank you for this honor and this privilege to minister to your heart this morning. I agree with you as the great intercessor, and, Lord, we do bless you. We do bless your name, your beautiful name, Jesus. All that is transpired this morning, God, we ask that you would multiply it many times over, many hours over, many watches over in this place, in this city, across this land, and across the nations of the earth. That you would find God's perpetual prayer fires burning on earth, mirroring the reality of the heavenly sanctuary for your name's sake, for your glory. We love you, Lord, in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, thank you for joining us for morning prayer this morning. We're back here at noon again at 6.30 tonight.


The theme that I have chosen for presentation here is about Mahatma Gandhi and the concept of Nish. I think this is very important for the reason that the chairman pointed out in his introductory remarks that we are having a totally false nationalism and therefore it is important that we present the concept of nation, the concept of a free nation, independent nation that grew up, that developed in our national movement, in our freedom movement. And of course this means to a very large degree, not totally but a very large degree, the concept of nation as it developed in the mind and speeches of Mahatma Gandhi. So I hope you will excuse me if I begin first with the notion of what a nation is about in the discourse of the world and therefore I go back to the concept of a nation. There are various definitions ranging from that of John Stuart Mill for example and JV Stalin on the other side. They have many differences among them but there is one thing common. A country becomes a nation only when there is a serious effort within the nation, within the country to constitute it as a political entity. A country can be a geographical expression, a cultural expression, a social expression, you could say that India was a country where the caste system prevailed, it doesn't make it a nation. It becomes a nation when its people or when a large number of its people are convinced that it should have a government of its own. So the political entity to establish a political entity over the whole country is the very heart of the concept of nation. Now this concept of nation goes back to relatively recent times particularly the French Revolution of 1789 when the slogan was first raised of independence of nations. In the English language and other languages of Europe nation meant a class, a caste, a group but now it meant in the sense that I am speaking of a country which is on the way of becoming a separate political entity. Whether it's France or Germany or Italy it doesn't matter. Now when the French Revolutionists gave the slogan of independence of nations they were actually thinking of European multinational states like the Holy Roman Empire, like the Russian Empire and so far. They were not thinking of colonial states, colonial domination, countries under colonial domination and this remained the case almost throughout the 19th century and early 20th century in discussions about the nation in the west. Among Marxists also in the social democratic parties of the second international the debate was almost entirely confined to Europe whether you take power's discussion of it or whether you take Stalin's discussion. At best they considered that one country is a dominant country in a particular empire and so Lenin for the first time asserted that nations should have the right of self determination. They should decide whether to secede or not. Now this was a very limited concept of nation admittedly because it was confined to Europe and there was also a very strong view by Rosa Luxemburg and others who cited the communist manifesto, workers of all countries unite that actually it is internationalism that should be promoted and not the separate nationhoods of different countries. There was this debate in Europe but this debate did not include and this must be frankly recognized the bulk of the world. The bulk of the world in the bulk of the world outside Europe colonial system prevailed. Countries were ruled by European powers and a nearest Russia additionally by Japan by 1905. The bulk of the population of the world was enslaved by colonial powers. Here therefore the situation was different. Nations would grow up in the struggle against colonialism. This was not simply a case of cultural development, linguistic development. This was essentially a political struggle between the enslaved nations of the colonial world and the colonial powers. There was a total difference between the nationalism of the colonial powers and the nationalism of the enslaved countries. And here therefore is the essential difference, the practical irrelevance of the European debate about nations to the colonial world and this brings us therefore to India. In India, as Nehru noted in his autobiography, the economic nationalists, Dada Bhai, Noroji, Ramesh Dutt and others played a revolutionary part in that they showed that colonialism not only enslaved nations, it exploited nations. It drew wealth from these countries and took them to Europe. Marxists practically had forgotten and in Europe they still forget that this entire thesis was present in Marx's capital, Volume 1, which was published in Marx's own time in German and translated into English soon afterwards. Where in the chapter Primitive Accumulation of Capital, this was in fact written out with clarity that it was the wealth looted from the colonial countries that greatly helped the development of capitalism in Western Europe. And therefore this essential truth was now revived by the Indian economic nationalists and therefore if countries were to rise against colonialism, colonial powers, they must have as wide unity as possible. You could not have divisions. Already India in the 18th century had lost to Britain primarily because of the division of the country into so many states. So essentially for the struggle against colonialism, it was important to aspire to have large nation states, to unite large masses of people for the anti-colonial struggle. Now it is true that the Indian middle classes whose leaders formed the Indian National Congress in 1885 were not conscious of mobilizing the masses. But by the very name they gave to their organization, the Indian National Congress, they aspired to make India into a nation, to have a political entity of its own, to unite all of its people as far as they could be united against British rule or to rest concessions from the British rulers. Now therefore when you come to the colonial countries, it was an essential aspect of anti-colonial struggle that there should be larger and larger unity of larger and larger regions in the country. India, I have already given you the example. The provincial associations, the middle classes found were not effective. They must unite on the country-wide basis in the Indian National Congress that particularly came to be established in 1886 by the Congress meeting in Calcutta. For the West Asian countries, Jamaluddin Afghani, who is often reviled by unthinking people, was dreaming of pan-Islamism as one way of uniting the different countries of West Asia against British and French imperialism and colonialism. It must be remembered that Jamaluddin Afghani when he was exiled to India by the British in 1884 addressing Muslim youth in Calcutta said that his theory did not apply to India that here Muslims must join Hindus in opposing British rule. But as one could see, the pan-Islamist scheme could not succeed because of the various differences among the West Asian countries. But look at China where there are so many regional dialects and how the colonial powers by open door policy tried to exploit these divisions, developed, nurtured, bought lords and so on. Yet it was realized widely in China that in order to oppose colonialism, all the Chinese must stand united. So nations must be large countries in order for anti-colonial struggle to succeed. People of different regions as far as possible should be united. And that is why the concept of the Indian nation has really originated from the freedom movement. It does not come from the Rig Veda as RSS sites, RSS people to tell us. It came out of our own freedom struggle. And this brings us to Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi ji was not politically inclined as one can see from his memoirs. A very frank biography, my experiments with truth. In England, in late 1880s, he was confined to a concerned home home mainly with religion and vegetarianism. Certainly influenced by New Testament, whose truths he wanted to see in the Bhagavad Gita which he only read in an English translation. But essentially, except for attending Dada Bhai Narod's lectures, there was little to see in Gandhi the future father of the nation. It was when he went to South Africa in 1893 on behalf of a Muslim mercantile firm that actually the racist policy of South African government united Indians of both religions, Indians from Tamil Nadu, Indians from Bihar, Indians from Gujarat, merchants and workers. And therefore the idea of there being an India to which all these belonged actually was imposed in Gandhi's mind by the racist policy of the South African regimes. Where he began to work for their unity and work for their liberation, their release from the large number of restrictions that were placed about over Indians. I am not going into that discussion. Certainly Gandhi led Indians in acts of passive resistance which had no earlier president in India, no earlier president. Whether in the March of women in 1913, over provincial boundaries, some 200 women who were all arrested and badly treated including Gandhi's own wives, or the March of the 2000 miners into Transylvania. But there he learned that there he framed the vision of the Indian nation. Now what was this vision? In 1909 he penned his vision in what he called Hinswara. I would like you to stay a moment on the title. Already in the title he is conscious that there is only not one tradition by which India must swear. The very word Hinde and not Bharat, it tells its own story. His Swaraj was for all traditions and even the name of the country he derived directly from Arabic and Persian and Urdu. In this Hinswara he conceived a country free of Britain. Again there was something new in it when Indian politicians including Dada Mai Noroji or R.C. Dutt wrote about in Britain's exploitation of India. They always began with praises of British rule, of British people, of the important reforms they had brought in India. But in Hinswara there is no such concession. Not a single concession to colonialism. And this is of course its second element of greatness. It looks to India without British domination. But here we come to the real difficulties. He confuses British colonialism with western civilization. That is the essential element of Hinswara. By western civilization he means freedom for women, by western civilization he means freedom of labour, mobility of labour. He speaks about the Indian caste system as a very good organization for fixed labour, for an economy without competition. Glorifying in fact the caste system. He rejects technology, he rejects railways, he rejects doctors, he rejects lawyers which of course I wouldn't want very much. But he himself being a lawyer with doctors, it should be without doctors, it should be without railways, it should be without modern education. These are all signs of western civilization which he rejected. Therefore he looked forward to an India of poverty, never prosperity, but of regular poverty, people of leaders who would be honest, but wedded to poverty as if poverty represented the greatness of India. I will not go into other details within Hinswara, but let us come to the credit points. His Hinswara is religious but not sectarian. He rejects modern education and he wants education to be conducted by Mullahs, Parsi priests, Dastur and Brahmins. He supposes that these religious men will really inculcate virtues among the Indian people. So he is not secular. In fact he is glorifying a past that is imaginary. But what can be said about him is that he takes his hypothesis, his principles to their practical conclusion. If Hindus and Muslims have to live in enmity as he desires, he says frankly that a nation is not linked to religion, then Hindus must give concessions to Muslims. He therefore says as far as the moral reforms are concerned that those Hindu leaders are mistaken who are criticizing them for giving more privileges and rights to Muslims. What if our younger brothers get more rights? They are our brothers. This was not a position easy to take, but Gandhi takes this position very firmly as one must say his mentor Gokhale did. But Gokhale rejected the entire idea of Hinswara. When he said I am horrified at this kind of notion of India, you should withdraw this book. When Gokhale visited South Africa in 1912, Gandhi records his extreme disappointment with Hinswara. Not the elements of communal enmity, but the whole outlook of rejection of western civilization and going back to a past and imagined past in which religious communities would live together in poverty and under a religious education which does not make them quarrel with each other. As we know this was a total illusion. Religions make people more quarrel more than a religion, but that is what Gandhi believed. Another point that I am striving at is that when Gandhi arrives in India and already in South Africa when he leads women to cross the borders and get all of them arrested, when he leads minors into a trans wall, already the whole picture of Hinswara begins to fade. If women are to stay at home, why are you sending them to prison? But when he comes to India, it becomes clear to at least us now that we can study Gandhi, that if masses were to be brought into the national movement, then Gandhi's vision of a poverty stricken India with no reform in property and with almost traditional education, with no technological development, was not one which could attract people to his, to the struggle against it. They were not going to struggle against Britain for this kind of India. And therefore when he goes to Champaran, doesn't he attack property? Doesn't he attack property of the Indigo farmers? When he goes to Ahmedabad in 1980, doesn't he attack the property of the mill owners? A man who was saying that I would prefer that India send money to England to buy milk cloth from England rather than multiplying mills here, was now standing up for the textile factory workers. If they have to be brought into the movement, are you going to say that we will get you unemployed by closing your factories? It is a situation which was unthinkable and whatever you may say about Gandhi, his heart was with the poor. So obviously this kind of future could not be set forth for the masses of Indians. Later when he raised the issue of Khilafat, he was there true to himself. To him, religion was no bar to politics. To him, whether it was Islam or Hinduism, they have equal claims to the nationalist allegiance. So if Muslims were worried about the safety of Khilafat after the end of the World War I where Turkey was defeated, then all Indians should stand by the Muslims. And you must remember that non-pooperation movement started on the issue of Khilafat. Gandhi's religious position was totally different from Tilak's. To him Islam was as important in political matters as Hinduism. To me this was an unfortunate position but for Gandhi this was an honest position totally arising out of his principles in the Hinsor aisle. But it was soon found in practice that you can't have non-cooperation over Khilafat unless you offer something else as an objective to the masses. And therefore the first time the issue of Swaraj is brought in. Swaraj is ordered to the Khilafat. And still more an appeal is being made to peasants that they should be prepared not to pay tax when U.P. of course in provinces like U.P. most of India not paying tax really meant not paying rent to the landowners who paid the tax. So the peasants are brought into the concept of nation. Their rights are brought in. In 1922 when the non-cooperation movement as withdrawn, Gandhi issues an appeal to the peasants. Our subaltern friends denounce this as a concession to landowners. But if you read the report when he says we he means peasants. When he says they he means landowners. And in it he says plainly that there will be occasion when you will be asked to refuse to parent. So now the needs of the national movement even enforce a new position on Gandhi that property rights could be challenged. That peasants could obtain land. This is a position very hard for him to tie at right. There were many withdrawals from that position but clearly that particular principle came to be more and more strengthened in the national movement as attempts were made to expand its base in Gandhi's own constructive program. There was a whole new of 1920s. There was a whole attack on untouchability. When you take Hinsoran, untouchability is not treated as an evil of Indian civilization. When you take Gandhi's constructive program of 1920s, untouchability is one of the for leading evils that have to be eradicated. Clearly if the so called untouchables were to be brought into the national movement you must for that up to that extent modify the caste system. Increasingly Gandhi begins to subvert in his mind the different aspects of the caste system. For instance, temple entry. He never went to a temple but he insisted that temples should be open to the untouchables whom he later called the Harijans. And then of course the Harijan movement from 1933 onwards. Clearly it was these conditions which shaped Gandhi's increasing departure from Hinsoraj in his views during the civil disobedience movement. Look at his 11 points and it became clear that if civil disobedience movement was to be carried forward, peasants had to be to form its real base and that meant that workers and peasants, women, ordinary people had to be given a picture of India which was in total contrast to the Hinsoraj. This brings us to the Karachi resolution. The resolution on fundamental rights passed at Karachi in 1931. This resolution is a total rejection of the vision put forward in Hinsoraj. Abolition of untouchability, equal rights for men and women, protection of women workers whom Gandhi had said should not be workers at all. Agrarian reform and a man who had such great regard for territory added something to the original draft and that was abolition of indebtedness, cancellation of debts which was a real burden on the presently. So if you look at the Karachi resolution which Gandhi accepted and moved himself, you will see what the needs of the national movement had brought about. They had imposed on Mahatma Gandhi a vision for India which was totally at variance with Hinsoraj. A welfare state, a capitalist state but a state with state capitalism control and ownership of industry by state it says. Neutrality among all religions but not pursuit of religion, nothing against modern education. And therefore although there were slight backs and if you read Nauru's autobiography you will see his irritation as now Gandhi ji sometimes assured support to the landowners, sometimes even support to princes in his autobiography written in 1934. But essentially Gandhi in practice was abandoning the vision of Hinsoraj. He didn't concede it entirely but he did say in early 1930s when a new edition of Hinsoraj came out that he had learnt many things after writing Hinsoraj that he is more concerned with truth rather than consistency. A very important concession that he was not going to be consistent to Hinsoraj if things indicated otherwise, they were indicating otherwise. Essentially he was now coming close to the picture of an Indian nation, a united Indian nation, almost secular. If you read Karachi Resolution it presents a vision of a secular India, not a multi-religious India as in Hinsoraj. But there were also other difficulties in the world and I come now to those difficulties and their influence on Gandhi and the differences between Gandhi and the left. In the 1920s after World War II among the defeated powers and also among the victorious powers there was a growth of national chauvinism. And therefore the left movement in Europe became more and more suspicious of the world nation. At the same time in the world outside Europe anti-colonial struggles became stronger and stronger, India, China, West Asia already in Latin America. And with his great genius Lenin as early as 1920 recognized that the whole view of nation for the colonial world must be different. In his thesis he styled the national colonial question mark this hyphenated word national colonial question. He imagined the rise of nations in the colonial world and the rise of national struggle in which the capitalist, the bourgeoisie, the middle class would also play a role and he imagined that this would be a revolutionary movement very much like that of the French Revolution. Land to the peasants, some rights to workers but essentially capitalism to continue. And he looked favorably despite being the leader of the communists of the world, he looked favorably at this particular vision. Let us all combine, let us build a nation both consisting of peasants, the working class and the middle and capitalist classes. But this vision was at odds with the situation in Europe and therefore from 1928 the communist international took a position which was against nationalism and promoted internationalism. And if you read Nehru's glimpses of world history and autobiography you will see the influence of this point of view on his own writings. In glimpses he is suspicious of nation, nations divide humanity. In autobiography he rejects nationalism, one should be international. Of course this true was a position my throat doesn't like my speaking on a nation. He but as far as Gandhi was concerned his heart and mind was on India. True he was not unconcerned when injustice occurred elsewhere. He had been greatly concerned when Turkey had been defeated in World War I and he was all for Turkish independence. He was greatly concerned when in 1930s these ionists began to oppress the Arabs of Palestine and he had contacts with the leaders of the Arab people of Palestine at that time. And he issued statements in their favor. Those statements should be read out to the present leaders of India who love Israel so much these days. But as I say his attention was riveted to India. At the same time because of the opposition to fascism and the idea of popular front the communists also changed their position from their attack on nationalism of all use to support of the national liberation movement. And the Dutt Bradley thesis and I am happy to say that I have darshan of both Rajni Bam Dutt and Ben Bradley who was one of the accused in the Mirat conspiracy case. The communists who had been suppressed so long Peshawar conspiracy case, Kanpur conspiracy case, Mirat conspiracy case, membership of the Communist Party itself a criminal offense. Now were asked by the Dutt Bradley thesis to cooperate with the Congress to form a united national movement which indeed they did. Now this situation continued of cooperation and strengthening the national movement and the left was fairly strong. You know in 1939 the election of Subhash Bose as president showed its strength within the Congress against Gandhi's candidate and up till 1941 the communists were quite important in the individual Satyagraha launched by the Congress. Mr. Chairman, kindly I am not over excess of time. I misled my watch so I am conscious about time. Well as you know in 1942 came the major test between nationalism and internationalism and in this test as Nehru said nationalism prevailed over internationalism. What did internationalism demand at that time? Consider the situation. Germans are at Stalingrad on the brink of crossing the Wall. Japanese have started a new offensive in China and they are up on the Indian border with Burma. The Allies are nearly in crisis. When later on the letters of Stalin were published there is a letter there around this time in which he said that Russia may be defeated. The only concession he ever made on this point that Russia may be defeated. At that time to reject total negotiations with the British government and to pass the quit India resolution as if it is the immediate demand of Indian people that the British should quit India was a total rejection of internationalism. We know that both Nehru and Abul Kalam Azad, then President of the Congress were opposed to this position. But Gandhiji pressed on with this position and gave Britain the greatest opportunity of saying that Indian nationalists are behind fascists. And as you know immediately after passing the quit India resolution they arrested all the Congress leaders. Now unlike, I don't know how many who are 87 today in this audience, I was a school boy. I know that the protests against Britain were not about quit India, they were about arrests of Congress leaders. Why have you arrested Gandhiji and Nehru? They were about arrests but they were so large that despite their suppression the British government was at heart convinced that India could not be ruled in the old way. Nevertheless it does not justify I think the quit India resolution. That had a very unfortunate effect on communists because of their rift with the Congress they began to incline towards the Muslim League. Up till now there had been no differences on the communal situation between us and the Congress. Communists had also always supported the Congress position which was that of a secular body and denied that a nation could be religious, be formed on religious grounds. But this situation changed after the Congress and inclination towards the Muslim League. A position had been taken in 1924 that no member of a communal organization like Hindu, Mhasa or Muslim League could be a member of the Communist Party. In effect as far as the Muslim League was concerned this bar was lifted. Communists went into the Muslim League and were forever lost to the Communist movement. It was said that Pakistan was justifiable because Muslim Punjabis could form a nation with Sindhis and Bhattans. Although even if you go by Stalin's definition they spoke three or four languages. They had different cultural regions. Only religion united them. This was called the Adekari thesis. Thankfully in 1946 Arpidat again came forward and in a very important article rejected the theory of Pakistan. And the Communist Party then changed its position of nationalities and began to speak about the importance of a united India. By this time it was too late. Already in 1946 a vast majority of Muslims from Punjab to Tamil Nadu to Madras had voted for Pakistan. The ideological battle was lost. Partition became practically after that, but practically inevitable. In this situation Gandhi did not resile from his principles. Whether it was Calcutta, Noachali, Bihar, he was there. Stem violence and riots and after independence which he did not celebrate because to him a divided India was not after his own vision. He went into and fast in Calcutta and that fast prevented not only riots in Calcutta but also, and this must be remembered to the honour of Gandhi and to the honour of Bengal, a slaughter of Muslims and non-Muslims in the division divided Bengal. Bengal did not give the same example which Punjab unfortunately was to present after independence. Much of it we must acknowledge was owed to Gandhi's presence and first his earlier tour of Noachali right in the heart of Muslim district villages and later his fast in Calcutta. He moved then to Delhi and it must be recalled that now India had committed one of the worst acts of ethnic cleansing and religious slaughter in world history. Talk about Hitler's murder of 5 million Jews. Why not talk about perhaps a million Hindus and Muslims and Sikhs killed in 1947. Something to be proud of. So it was then that Gandhi went on fast on 13 January. In that fast there were two demands Muslims must be protected in Delhi and given back their houses to India must pay 55 crores to Pakistan. I have been reading some recent works my friend Sudhir Chandra's work and Mr. Raghavan's work and both of them denounced the fast. Pakistan was to be paid 55 crores. Sudhir Chandra says militarily suicidal and absurd. In France what was military in it? Pakistan had to be paid 55 crores which was its due. Why don't you pay it? Nobody speaks about the vile slander that RSS indented at that time. You read Sudhir Chandra's so-called possible impossibility or impossible possibility. There is no condemnation of those who were inciting riots. Those who were denouncing Gandhi. But only a condemnation of his fast. But that fast saved the honour of India. So when Gandhi said I am speaking for Pakistan because I belong to both countries. I don't believe in partition. So I belong to both countries. That was a real assertion of opposition to partition. Not hostility to Pakistan but enmity with Pakistan. Sudhir Chandra also says that we killed Gandhi before God se killed him. Did we kill Gandhi? We actually rose in his defence. We forced people to acknowledge even RSS leaders to acknowledge that they would accompany Muslims back to their homes.  RSS and God se killed him. RSS and Mahindu Mahasabha created the atmosphere which God se committed that act. When Patel taxed Gol Valkar saying that you celebrated Gandhi's murder, Gol Valkar did not deny it. So today when the RSS and their government in India are treating the father of the nation as only a senior sanitary inspector, then is it not time for us to celebrate Gandhi as the father of the nation? Who told us two truths. Nationalism doesn't mean quarrelling with other countries. Nationalism means sympathy with people, our own people and people of other countries. When universities celebrate the surgical strike, a strike which if Pakistan denies it could be a fraud and a strike if it really took place was a violent, was a gross violation of international law. You are celebrating it in Indian universities which are supposed to belong to educated people. Then isn't it time that we should also celebrate Gandhi and we should take 13th January when he went on his last fast to assert that Gandhi had a different vision of the Indian nation. Then the present semifaces who are in power today. Thank you.


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