मो. रोम्यँ रोलां यांचें निधन

Death of Mo. Romya Rola

Date- 6^th January 1945 

Few debts are personal and few are national debts. Among these national debts, well educated people in Hindustan very well know about the debt of Romyarola.  He was famous and know as a biographer of M. Gandhi, Ramkrishna Paramhansa and Swami Vivekanand. When the foreigners know about our leaders they naturally feel sympathetic towards Hindustan. Though there in no benefit of this sympathy in practical, instead of having a bad impression it is better to have some inclination towards us, in this view his books were of use to us.

Romyarolas biographies on Ramkrishna, Vivekanand are useful to educated people for comparative studies. Even educated people among us do not have the habit of comparison of our religious history and history of foreigners’ religion. They are not used to think about the similarity and differences about their experience of God and our experience. This type of comparison is seen in Romyarola’s books. That is the reason why his book got more importance not just because it was biography written by a foreigner.

This is just a thought about his books written on Indian subject. Before writing this he was teacher of foreign music, writer deeds of music scholars, biographies of great writer was well known in the whole Europe. For all this he won a nobel prize for his wonderful book ‘Jya Christoph’ Music was his most liked subject. He has written the ‘Jya cristopn’ on the deeds of a music scholar. Due to this crave for music he first got the opportunity to listen to the history of saints and sages of India.

A famous singer and writer Mr. Dilipkumar Rai was the one from Hindustan who first introduced the great Indian men first to Romaya Rola.

There are two reasons why ‘Jya Christoph’ book is specially important. In this book he has described the life of a talented person from his birth to his death. Specially the first three books of the ten books have not only truly described but are fully devoted to the childhood of the Kristoph in the book.

Dyuma in his books of deeds of shiledars has described their Life since they have joints the army. But the important part of life of the talented people is before they have grown up, this secret was known to all by Rola’s novels.

Famous writer Whales has followed Rola in his novels, showing that Rola’s novels are also inspiring to others. Readers in Hindustan are not acquainted with the history of French, German, European novels from the base so they are read and understood by the specs of the English writer so they ought to fire themselves in the slavish thoughts and dependence on the English goes on increasing. But great European writer like Rola introduce from the basic the falseness of English writers comes forward.

Rola’s novels were inspiring and educating not only to Hindustani Novel writers but also the philosophers for some other reason. Since puberty he was confused whether a leaner should take part in the political, social and financial agitation. Finding difficult to keep his mind aloof from the surrounding agitation he answered his question in a practical way and acted accordingly. But the difference created by learning and agitation at every step makes you feel that your own thoughts differ from ones you had before due to the improved status of your mind. He put forth many entertaining and provoking examples in his bio graphs for this reason itself many writers of some generation said that art learning and knowledge learning should be kept separate from the party related agitations. The disputes between Rola and his fellow writers were very important.

What is knowledge? What is act or action? People who know nothing or understand anything of the other keep talking in a childish manner about knowledge.

Instead of their vain and tedious reiteration the discussion of Rola and his co writers, about the problems confronted by us in our day to day life are more provoking. But the importance of this is only to those who discuss these problems in historic view. 

Translated by Mrs Vitasta Kashikar