Part 77 (1/2)
”The more weapons of violence, the ht ”The triu”
”I a less than world peace,” Gandhi has declared ”If the Indian movement is carried to success on a nonviolent SATYAGRAHA basis, it will give a newto patriotism and, if I may say so in all humility, to life itself”
Before the West disram as one of an impractical dreamer, let it first reflect on a definition of SATYAGRAHA by the Master of Galilee:
”Ye have heard that it hath been said, An eye for an eye, and a tooth for a tooth: but I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: {FN44-20} but whosoever shall sht cheek, turn to him the other also”
Gandhi's epoch has extended, with the beautiful precision of cos, into a century already desolated and devastated by two World Wars A divine handwriting appears on the granite wall of his life: a warning against the further shedding of blood a brothers
MAHATMA GANDHI'S HANDWRITING IN HINDI
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Mahat at Ranchi
He graciously wrote the above lines in the Ranchi guest-book The translation is: ”This institution has deeply ih hopes that this school will encourage the further practical use of the spinning wheel”
(SIGNED) MOHANDAS GANDHI Septe]
A national flag for India was designed in 1921 by Gandhi The stripes are saffron, white and green; the CHARKA (spinning wheel) in the center is dark blue ”The CHARKA sy the past eras of prosperity in India's history, hand spinning and other domestic crafts were prominent”
{FN44-1} His family name is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi He never refers to himself as ”Mahatma”
{FN44-2} The literal translation fro to truth” SATYAGRAHA is the famous nonviolence movement led by Gandhi
{FN44-3} False and alas! malicious reports were recently circulated that Miss Slade has severed all her ties with Gandhi and forsaken her vows Miss Slade, the Mahatned statement to the UNITED PRESS, dated Dec
29, 1945, in which she explained that a series of baseless rus, for a small site in northeastern India near the Hi there her now-flourishi+ng KISAN ASHRAM (center for ricultural aid to peasant far 1946
{FN44-4} Miss Slade rearet Woodrow Wilson, eldest daughter of Areat president I met her in New York; she was intensely interested in India Later she went to Pondicherry, where she spent the last five years of her life, happily pursuing a path of discipline at the feet of Sri Aurobindo Ghosh This sage never speaks; he silently greets his disciples on three annual occasions only
{FN44-5} For years in A periods of silence, to the consternation of callers and secretaries
{FN44-6} Harmlessness; nonviolence; the foundation rock of Gandhi's creed He was born into a family of strict Jains, who revere AHIMSA as the root-virtue Jainism, a sect of Hinduism, was founded in the 6th century BC by Mahavira, a contereat hero”; may he look down the centuries on his heroic son Gandhi!
{FN44-7} Hindi is the lingua franca for the whole of India An Indo-Aryan language based largely on Sanskrit roots, Hindi is the chief vernacular of northern India The main dialect of Western Hindi is Hindustani, written both in the DEVANAGARI (Sanskrit) characters and in Arabic characters Its subdialect, Urdu, is spoken by Moslems
{FN44-8} Gandhi has described his life with a devastating candor in THE STORY OF MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH (Ahraphy has been summarized in MAHATMA GANDHI, HIS OWN STORY, edited by C F Andreith an introduction by John Haynes Holraphies replete with famous names and colorful events are almost completely silent on any phase of inner analysis or development One lays down each of these books with a certain dissatisfaction, as though saying: ”Here is a man who knew many notable persons, but who never knew hiraphy; he exposes his faults and subterfuges with an ie
{FN44-9} Kasturabai Gandhi died in imprisonment at Poona on February 22, 1944 The usually unemotional Gandhi wept silently Shortly after her adested a Memorial Fund in her honor, 125 lacs of rupees (nearly four million dollars) poured in froed that the fund be used for village welfare work alish weekly, HARIJAN
{FN44-10} I sent a shi+pment to Wardha, soon after my return to America The plants, alas! died on the way, unable to withstand the rigors of the long ocean transportation
{FN44-11} Thoreau, Ruskin, and Mazzini are three other Western writers whose sociological views Gandhi has studied carefully
{FN44-12} The sacred scripture given to Persia about 1000 BC by Zoroaster