NON-VIOLENCE THE CORE OF RELIGIOUS EXPERIENCE IN GANDHI
Keywords:
Religion, Non Vilolence, GandhiAbstract
Attainment of truth in the Gandhian philosophy demands love. To cling to the truth is to stand up against untruth and evil. But the law of love demands that violence and hatred should be excluded from the fight for truth. Resistance to untruth is a duty and one cannot resist without using force. But the force to be employed is the force of love—a love that proves itself in suffering. For Gandhi, Ahimsa (non-violence) 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 a smooth unstamped metallic dice. Who can say, which is the obverse and which is reverse.
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