Peace is the Path-- Ahimsa

–peace is the path—

"We feel too downtrodden not to be angry and revengeful.
But I must not refrain from saying that India can gain more by
waiving the right of punishment. We have better work to do,
a better mission to deliver to the world.

I am not a visionary. I claim to be a practical idealist.
The religion of non-violence is not meant merely for the rishis
and saints. It is meant for the common people as well.

Non-violence is the law of our species as violence is the law
of the brute. The spirit lies dormant in the brute,
and he knows no law but that of physical might.
the dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law -
the strength of the spirit.

I have therefore ventured to place before India
the ancient law of self-sacrifice...

"The rishis who discovered the law of non-violence in the
midst of violence, were greater geniuses than Newton...

Having themselves known the use of arms, they realised
their uselessness, and taught a weary world
that its salvation lay not through violence
but through non-violence."

M.K. Gandhi
Young India, 11.8.1920

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