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Just 2-3 days before his death, P.P.Doctorjee was visited by a person unknown to Sangha workers of Nagpur.
When the new person came to the bedside, P.P.Doctorjee immediately got up, and
hugged him. In an over joyous voice, P.P.Doctorjee said, “How many years have
passed since I last saw you, my elder brother (“Dada”)!” P.P.Doctorjee was
speaking in fluent, contemporary Bangla (the Bengali language).
The “new” person was a former close associate (and a fellow Revolutionary
Freedom Fighter) of P.P.Doctorjee from his youthful days in Bengal. The two
friends had not seen each other for nearly 25 years. There was no
correspondence between them either. However, all Nagpur swayamsevaks were dumb
founded to see the close friendship and brotherhood between the two old
Revolutionaries.
All of their old memories of the Revolutionary Freedom Struggle naturally
resurfaced. The friend invited P.P.Doctorjee to come to Bengal, and
jump-start again the slowing spirits there.
P.P.Doctorjee slowly replied: “Yes, I would love to come to my dear Bengal.
However, my plan to come there will be with one purpose alone. When I will
meet my old Revolutionary Brothers, I want to say this to them. ‘The old days
of secret, Revolutionary Freedom Struggle are now over. Let bygones be
bygones. Today, it is not the right approach. We used to stay in secrecy, away from the society at large, to
carry on with our Freedom Struggle. Today, we must come out openly, and mix,
and mingle with the common man. We should awaken the noble consciousness of
the common people. The whole nation should be unified, and act with a common
sense of purpose; and with tremendous self-discipline as well as honesty,
integrity. It is the urgent, overwhelming need of the hour to build a united,
disciplined and morally noble, strong society. I feel a very strong urge to
invite all of my patriotic, selfless, Revolutionary brothers, with great
respect and love, to join Sangha, which embodies this work’.”
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