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pride and he lifted the brick to help the old man without thinking of his own position, power and pride. Vālmiki, the great poet, who wrote the great epic – Rāmāyaṇa – was a dacoit and hunted for food. Once his arrow pierced a Krauñca bird and its mate started crying due to enforced separation. Vālmiki's heart was so moved by its crying that he gave up robbery and became a great poet. Saint Tukārām had just taken some bread in his plate when a dog came and took it away. Saint Tukārām ran after it with a bowl of clarified butter saying that he never ate bread without it so how could the dog eat dry bread. His heart was so kind that he wanted to apply butter to the bread for the dog. Śrī Rşmakışņa Paramahamsa saw a dog being beaten and his feelings for it became so intense that he felt the beatings on his own body and welts came up on his back. He suffered for quite a few days. When Mahātmā Gāndhi told a poor old woman to change her torn saree she replied that she could not as she had only one saree to wear and no change was available. Mahātmā Gāndhi was so moved by pity for the poor in general that from that day onwards he stopped wearing his clothes and spent the rest of his life in just one loincloth that he wore below and above his waist half and half.
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Positive Non-Violence
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