Word: gandhis
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This incident on a South African coach in 1893 foreshadowed a movement that has since made history. The young Indian was Mohandas Gandhi, and the nonviolent resistance he was practicing later became a mighty weapon for a weaponless people. To Gandhi himself, nonviolence was much more than a weapon; it was part of a religious way of life which he called Satyagraha. In a short book published this week-Satyagraha (Henry Regnery, $2)-Gandhi Disciple Ranganath R. Diwakar explains this philosophy to Western readers...
...word Satyagraha is Sanskrit in origin-a combination of satya (truth) and agraha (insistence). Gandhi's passion for truth was evident from the beginning of his life. Truth, he once wrote, "became my sole objective." The only way to approach that objective was through love. Evil must always be opposed, but not by making the evildoer suffer. Rather, one must influence the evildoer to change his ways by undergoing suffering oneself-even, if need be, unto death...
...those unable to drink of this heroic cup, violence is preferable to cowardly submission. "When there is choice between cowardice and violence," said Gandhi, "I advise violence ... I cultivate the quiet courage of dying without killing. But to him who has not this courage I advise that of killing and being killed, rather than of shamefully fleeing from danger...
Invitation to Learning (Sun. 12 noon, CBS). Vincent Sheean and others discuss Mohandas Gandhi's autobiography...
...teapot tempest? One nervous Delhi churchman said: "It is a symptom of a subtle attempt to put Mahatma Gandhi-for whom, mind you, I have the greatest respect-on the same pedestal as our Lord Jesus Christ...