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I take an exemple in the Bible, in David's life.He had taken the wife of one of his soldiers and had sent that brave man to his death.
And everything was fine for him, he had no remorse.
Until the day when the prophet comes in his room and tells him : "I have a poor neighbour who had nothing but a sheep, and he loved it...
...and the lord of the place seized the sheep for one of his feasts, but he also lured the poor man into a trap and killed him.
-Oh ! What a scoundrel ! -That scoundrel, that's you !
Hit ! Here we are.
So, you see, that adulterer, that murderer and so on, how his judgement is right when there is no passion.He judged very well...
He threw his judgement in the air, then the prophet takes it all at once and with one word put it on David.
and the judgement falls on his head, he can't help it,
and immediatly, it's the conversion : the bag and the rope and the hymns, the penitential psalms.
Well, you see, just one word, but a word that cost the life, naturally,
because that's not always safe to speak in this way to a king, to say him he's a scoundrel. Isnt'it?
And the king knows it, and the prophet knows it, and that's it which give its weight to that affirmation.
and we must take it into account.
Here, in these few words, you have the weft of non-violent action : the aim is to make that the man judges himself and stops on his own.
You don't force him. Isnt'it ? That's the truth that forces him, the truth is very strong.
When I tell you that two and two are four, that's an extremely powerful affirmation,
because it doesn't depend on my willingness or unwillingness, on my interests or on my passions that two plus two equals something else than four.
I'm forced ! Ah ! I have to...Ah ! I...I...
And I told it myself.
If I can take up a word of the adversary where he told the thing himself...Isnt'it ?
Peace soldier whose the conquest is gift
Armed of strenght and decked out of forgiveness
Gandhi, great soul
Victor of the throne and victor of the office, reigning by divine right of saintliness
Only human having authority on humans, who measures it to the weight of the sacrifice
Victor of love, chastising the people he loves
Victor of the world and victor of himself
Victor with open heart, with open hands, whose victory is a discovery in the continent of the human greatness
Simplicity severing all wefts
Solar glory of the spinning wheel
Thread of ingenuousness
Gandhi, great soul
I wrote this in 1936, a few time before leaving for the Indies.