Page 4 - Chhatrapati Shivaji and His Work

SHIVAJI

God extended to me His protection and moved the heart of a woman to

give me love and aid. Traditions change. The ideal of the Rajput has its

future, but the mould had to be broken in order that what was temporary

in it might pass. Loyalty to the sovereign of my choice, that is good; but

loyalty to the sovereign of my nation’s choice, that is better. The monarch

is divine by the power of God expressed within him, but he has the power

because he is the incarnation of the people. God in the nation is the deity

of which the monarch must be the servant and the devotee. Vithoba, Virat

of the Mahrattas,—Bhavani, incarnate as India,—in that strength I

conquered.

JAYSINGH

Your political ideal was great, but your standard of means was abhorrent

to our morality. Ruse, treachery, pillage, assassination were never

excluded from your activity.