Heroism and Fearlessness शौर्य व साहस

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Having seen combat through my years in one of the world’s most professional and capable militaries, I can tell you that it is difficult to fully understand acts of heroism and fearlessness. What drives heroes to put everything they have worked so hard for their families and their own lives-at stake during an anti terror operation? What compels a pilot to delay an ejection so he may save lives on the ground even though such a delay means certain death for him? What pushes a sailor to willingly venture into harm’s way if it means the oceans are just a fraction safer? 

One of Mahatma Gandhi’s lesser-known quotes perfectly captures how we in the armed forces regard acts of courage:

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral.

For all the decaying values we tend to be surrounded by, let nobody convince you that true heroes don’t exist. It is therefore with great pride and anticipation that I recommend to you the true stories you are about to read. May India never forget her most fearless one. 

Jai Hind.
New Delhi

General Bipin Rawat, PVSM, UYSM, AVSM, YSM, SM, VSM 
(16 March 1958 – 8 December 2021)
Chief of the Army Staff

एखादा जवान जेव्हा एखाद्या आणीबाणीच्या प्रसंगी आपला जीव धोक्यात घालतो किंवा एखाद्या अशा क्षणी तो झडप घेतो जेव्हा त्याला माहीत असते की यात आपला प्राण जाणार आहे तेव्हा अशा क्षणी त्याला हा निर्णय घ्यायला भाग पाडणारा विचार काय असतो? 

भगवद्गीतेत सांगितलेले 

‘हतो वा प्राप्स्यसि स्वर्गं जित्वा वा भोक्ष्यसे महीम्’  

हे तत्वज्ञान त्याच्या मनात असते की इतर कुठली प्रेरणा?  हे आपल्यासारख्या सामान्य माणसाला सांगता येणार नाही.  

हे तोच सांगू शकेल जो या चक्रव्यूहामध्ये शिरला आहे. अनेक वेळा….. अनेक प्रसंगी….


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