A letter of Subhas to Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das from Mandalay Jail

Deshabandhu Chittaranjan Das expired in Darjeeling on Wednessday , 16th June 1925,  while taking his rest there.   Subhas Chandra Bose wrote a letter dated 3rd March 1926 to Hemendra nath Das, biographer of C.R.Das, expressing his mental conditions at  the death of Chittaranjan Das. He expressed Das' qualities on different aspects, such as,  in organising power, in love towards his followers,  in writing poetry, in religion, in service to the poor and needy person. The letter written by him gave an explicit statement which was rarely seen.  This was given below in some of its paragraph;
" I was with him  and worked with him , as an assistant,   for three years only.I could have learned a lot if I would have tried. But 'one   does not feel the need of one's  teeth till they exist'. .......Lastly, I met him at the Alipore Central Jail. He went to Simla for a change to recover his health. But, at once,  he came  to Calcutta  on hearing the news of our arrest. He came to Alipore Central Jail twice to see me and our last meeting was held just on the previous day of my going to Berhampur  at the end of our conversation I took dust from his feet and said, " Perhaps, it will take some time to see  you again". He replied in the negative that he was making arrangements for our release.
Alas! who knows that he will leave us for ever. .....I am still carrying the memory of his last meeting.....Many of us tried to find the secret reason of his influence over the mass. At first, I want to point out the reason of his influence. I have seen that he could love each person without looking into his merits and demerits. ....Many people used to come to him at the call of his heart for different reasons as the air rushes to the point of depression in a sea. If one could not love his comrades, he would not claim to get so much devotion.. He did not  care to feel any sense of kith  and kin in his family life. He left  everything of his family open to everybody. Every one had free access to his house , even to his bed room......The only rule in his association was self-restraint and discipline. There may be some point of difference during discussion but once when decision is taken it should be followed in Toto.This rules and regulation are not new to India. This lesson was first taught   by Lord Buddha. about 2400 years ago.Even today, the Budhists say duringbtheir prayer " Buddhong Saranang gacchami, Dharmang saranang gacchami, sanghang saranam gacchami"
In fact, in propagating religion or in social service sense of association and sense of discipline is essential......" --- quoted from "Deshabandhusmriti" p-543-585.
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