The Genesis
The Great Experiment
As Ahimsa pervaded the day to day life of the people, they seemed to have lost their ability for self defence. The last 400 years had been years of suppression and torture; first by the Mughals and then by the British. The armed war of Independence of 1857 had proved abortive.
There was a need for somebody to show the way - the way that would appeal to the vast masses and move them to action to regain their lost independence.
The way was found in the early years of the 20th century, Mahatma Gandhi gave the call for a non-violent freedom struggle, and for supreme sacrifice by the people. India’s long standing tradition of Ahimsa culminated in a non-violent freedom struggle.
A new era in the history of Mankind was born.
Man generally resolves conflict by the physical might, by bloody warfare and by inhuman suppression. Saints and mystics have employed the higher law of peaceful non-cooperation on individual level in their personal struggles. For the first time in history Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi later known as the Mahatma, extended the ideals of non-violence in the struggle for social justice and for political freedom. He called this his experiments with Truth. This is the experiment which opened up a totally new , highly dignified and peaceful path not only for conflict resolution but also a way of truly human life.
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