I
am an irrepressible optimist. My optimism rests on my belief in the
infinite possibilities of the individual to develop nonviolence. The
more you develop it in your own being, the more infectious it becomes
till it over-whelms your surroundings and by and by might over sweep
the world.
I
have known from early youth that nonviolence is not a cloistered virtue
to be practised by the individual for his peace and final salvation,
but it is a rule of conduct for society if it is to live consistently
with human dignity and make progress towards the attainment of peace
for which it has been yearning for ages past.
To
practice nonviolence in mundane matters is to know its true value. It
is to bring heaven upon earth. There is no such thing as the other
world. All works are one. There is no 'here' and no 'there'. As Jeans
has demonstrated, the whole universe including the most distant stars,
invisible even through the most powerful telescope in the world, is
compressed in an atom.
I
hold it, therefore, to be wrong to limit the use of nonviolence to
cave-dwellers and for acquiring merit for a favoured position in the
other world. All virtue ceases to have use if it serves no purpose in
every walk of life
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