My love for nonviolence is superior to
every other thing mundane or supramundane. It is equaled only by my
love for Truth, which is to me synonymous with nonviolence through
which and which alone I can see and reach Truth.
....Without ahimsa it is not possible to
seek and find Truth. Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is
practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. They are like
the two sides of a coin, or rather of a smooth, unstamped, metallic
disc. Who can say which is the obverse, and which is the reverse?
Nevertheless ahimsa is the means; Truth is the end. Means to be means
must always be within our reach, and so ahimsa is our supreme duty. If
we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner of
latter. When once we have grasped this point, final victory is beyond
question.
Ahimsa is not the goal. Truth is the
goal. But we have no means of realizing truth in human relationships
except through the practice of ahimsa. A steadfast pursuit of ahimsa is
inevitably bound to truth not so violence. That is why I swear by
ahimsa. Truth came naturally to me. Ahimsa I acquired after a struggle.
But ahimsa being the means, we are
naturally more concerned with it in our everyday life. It is ahimsa,
therefore, that our masses have to be educated in. Education in truth
follows from it as a natural end.
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