The author argues that violence is a necessary choice in situations where cowardice or cowardice is required. However, he believes that non-violence and forgiveness are more manly than punishment, as they are more manly and can be used for a better purpose. He acknowledges the sentiment of those who cry out for the condign punishment of General Dyer and his ilk, but he does not believe India to be helpless.
Strength comes from an indomitable will, and India may soon realize that one hundred thousand Englishmen need not frighten three hundred million human beings. A definite forgiveness would mean a mighty wave of strength in India, which would make it impossible for a Dyer and a Frank Johnson to heap affront on India’s devoted head.
The author is not a visionary, but a practical idealist. The religion of non-violence is meant for the common people as well, as violence is the law of the brute. The dignity of man requires obedience to a higher law – the strength of the spirit. He has ventured to place before India the ancient law of self-sacrifice, Satyagraha and its off-shoots, non-co-operation, and civil resistance, as new names for the law of suffering.
Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering, not meek submission to the will of the evil-doer, but putting of one’s whole soul against the will of the tyrant. Working under this law of our being, it is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save their honor, religion, and soul, and lay the foundation for that empire’s fall or its regeneration.
The author is not pleading for India to practise non-violence because she is weak, but because she has a soul that cannot perish and can rise triumphant above every physical weakness and defy the physical combination of a whole world. He wants India to recognize that she has a soul that cannot perish and that can rise triumphant above every physical weakness and defy the physical combination of a whole world.
If India takes up the doctrine of the sword, she may gain momentary victory, and the author is wedded to India because he owes his all to her. He believes that India has a mission for the world and that India’s acceptance of the doctrine of the sword will be the hour of his trial. His religion has no geographical limits, and if he has a living faith in it, it will transcend his love for India herself. His life is dedicated to the service of India through the religion of non-violence, which he believes to be the root of Hinduism.
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