ISKCON Founder-Acarya His Divine Grace AC Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada's veritable account of Subash Bose's death

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February 3, 1977, Bhubaneshwar

 

Prabhupada: ...India because the Japanese people, they were trying to expand.

Two, three wars they tried, they could not. They wanted to take this advantage,

Subash Bose's cooperation. But their motive was different. And therefore they

killed Subash Bose. Subash Bose was... (break)Svarupa Damodara: ...in Manipur.

So they wanted to construct some sort of memorial building but, somehow, India

government is not granting them. So instead of doing that, they were just

collecting the bones. They found out some bones by some...

(laughter)Prabhupada: Bhutejya. This is called bhutejya.Svarupa Damodara: And

they carried those bones along with them. Just in the village where I lived

many Japanese bones were found. And they were coming very frequently to collect

the bones.Prabhupada: Just see.Gargamuni: When we were in Dvaraka they also

showed us some shells.Prabhupada: How these Japanese died? In Manipur?Svarupa

Damodara: Yes.Prabhupada: How?Svarupa Damodara: They came. I think in the

war.Prabhupada: Oh, they attacked Manipur, and they were killed.Svarupa

Damodara: Actually the main Second World War was in Manipur towards the

end.Prabhupada: Yes. Towards the end. The Japanese were trying to enter India,

and Subash Bose was there.Svarupa Damodara: Yes, many people saw Subash

Bose.Prabhupada: So Japanese planned that "Kill Subash Bose, and let us enter."

Subash Bose wanted Japanese help to enter India. The Japanese took this

opportunity that "We shall enter India and kill Subash Bose." That was their

trick.Bhagavata: So then they killed him. They killed him in that plane

crash.Prabhupada: Yes. The Japanese had no honesty, dishonest. You see? They

thought "This is the opportunity that this Indian leader wants our help. So

with his help we enter India. And this is the opportunity to occupy India."

Because they are searching after land. They are very poor in land. They have no

place, and very little land. Therefore they are now going to Hawaii to settle

down. They have no place.Bhagavata: How did Subash Bose get from India to

Germany?Prabhupada: That is also political. He was, what is called, interned at

home.Bhagavata: By the British. Kept in his house.Prabhupada: Hm. So there was

the minister Nizamuddin, I think, he helped him to go out. He was going for

evening walk with police force and other. So it became accustomed. Police

became lenient, in the meantime slipped. And in a dress of a Kabuli,

Kabuli-wala, Pathan he crossed India. In this way he went there.Bhagavata: I

heard he took the dress of a Muslim?Prabhupada: Yes, this is called... Yes.

This is called pathan. So after going outside India, he organized this INA,

Indian National Army. And Hitler helped him. Tojo also wanted to help him, but

he had a plan.Bhagavata: Different motive. So Hitler, he had no...Prabhupada:

No Hitler actually helped him, all the soldiers. And then the Sikh soldiers and

Gurkha soldiers voluntarily surrendered to join INA. And this information

obliged the Britishers to go away. Then "Now the army is joining national

movement, so there is no hope." The Gandhi's noncooperation, the clerks'

noncooperation the, some of these teachers' noncooperation what do they care

for? But when they saw that "The soldiers are now going to join this non..."

Gandhi diagnosed the disease rightly, that "The Britishers are here on account

of our cooperation. Without this cooperation, they'll go away." That's a fact.

So his noncooperation movement was... It was a good trick, but actually he did

not succeed. And this movement succeeded. That "Now he's organizing Indian

soldiers for national movement. There is no chance."Gargamuni: That Mrs. Lalita

Bose, she compared you to Nethaji, that you went outside of India and organized

an army, (laughter) then came back to India. She said that. She's the

grand-daughter? That Lalita Bose?Prabhupada: Oh, yes. Niece.Gargamuni: She

said, "Your Guruji is just like Nethaji. He went outside of India and organized

army of Vaisnavas."