To End Slavery, You Must Overcome The

Charkha Is An Instrument Of Service.

The Sermon On The Mount...went Straight To My Heart. I Compared It With The Gita. My Young Mind Tried To Unify The Teaching Of The Gita, The `light Of Asia' And The Sermon On The Mount. That Renunciation Was The Highest Form Of Religion Appealed To Me Greatly.

Ahimsa Must Express Itself Through Acts Of Selfless Service Of The Masses.

I Do Believe That Where There Is A Choice Between Cowardice And Non-violence I Would Advise Violence. Thus When My Eldest Son Asked Me What He Should Have Done, Had He Been Present When I Was Almost Fatally Assaulted In 1908, Whether He Should Have Run Away And Seen Me Killed Or Whether He Should Have Used His Physical Force Which He Could And Wanted To Use, And Defended Me, I Told Him That It Was His Duty To Defend Me Even By Using Violence.

I Am Not Fighting Machinery As Such, But The Madness Of Thinking That Machinery Saves Labor. Men Save Labor Until Thousands Of Them Are Without Work And Die Of Hunger On The Streets. I Want To Secure Employment And Livelihood Not Only To Part Of The Human Race, But For All. I Will Not Have The Enrichment Of A Few At The Expense Of The Community. At Present The Machine Is Helping A Small Minority To Live On The Exploitation Of The Masses. The Motive Force Of This Minority Is Not Humanity Or Love Of Their Kind, But Greed And Avarice.