Great Warrior Of Ahimsa

Author(s): Pratap J Tolia
Publisher: Vardhaman Bharati International Foundation

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BABA: Now I take your leave... (breathing his last very consciously, he being a self-controlled seeker of the soul).... My dear Major! You are a warrior... May God make you also a really brave warrior-the warrior without violent weapons, even far more advanced than Gandhi... May my dream of preventing these world-destructive wars[..effect of remote bombing) come true through you. This is my deepest prayer to God before I leave this body... May God bless you..Good bye..JaiJagat"... "Jai Shanti" (meaning: "Let the whole world be victorious...." "Let Peace be victorious..")
Baba dies...the Lion-hearted Major also feels somewhat moved...eyes full of tears for a while...Prays for him silently for half a minute... covers his body and then moves, loiters for some time)
[Background Music : Tragic instruments, Raghupati Raghav Mantra dhoon) . MAJOR : (after loitering and pause, reacting..) Could there be such a warrior ? Should I also become such a warrior?....Ne...No... I doubt. I must continue and carry out my space war plans-not only for my country's protection and justice but also for establishing world peace...! [Gets absorbed in deep thinking and loiters speedily, then immediately opens the Bundle and taking out the Tape Recorder first, listens to a recorded speech of Gandhi..the deep powerful base voice of Gandhi effects him...he sits down in thinking mood on the stone near his parachute umbrella) M.GANDHI'S VOICE : "I AM A MAN OF PEACE. I BELIEVE IN PEACE, BUT I DO NOT WANT PEACE AT ANY PRICE. I DO NOT WANT THE PEACE THAT YOU FIND IN THE GRAVE, BUT I DO WANT THE PEACE WHICH YOU FIND EMBEDDED IN THE HUMAN BREAST WHICH IS EXPOSED TO THE ARROWS OF THE WHOLE WORLD BUT WHICH IS PROTECTED BY THE POWER OF THE ALMIGHTY GOD... (Major picks out a book titled "Gandhi-the Peace Seeker" and again gives an ear to the speech keeping the
book in hand) "EACH ONE HAS TO FIND HIS PEACE ONE'S OWN SELF WITHIN, AND PEACE TO BE REAL MUST BE UNAFFECTED BY OUTSIDE CIRCUMSTANCES". (*2) [Major stops the Tape Recorder, reads the titles of the Books loudly] MAJOR : [Holding the books one by one); The Story of my Experiments with Truth..." ... "Mahatma" : "The last phase.." "Gandhi-the warrior"... "Gandhi-the Revolutionary" "Gandhi-the Truth Seeker"... "Gandhi-the Peace Seeker".......................(reacting) Could there be all of these things together-revolution & war & truth & peace...? (Starts the Tape Recorder, listens one sentence and stops immediately] M. GANDHI'S VOICE : "THE WAY OF PEACE IS THE WAY OF TRUTH..." (*3) MAJOR: [repeating) "The way of Peace is the way of Truth" (Loiters thinking and looking at the wrist watch...enters Marshal, his subordinate with two armed soldiers and torch in hand to receive the Major who has landed as per their plan through Parachute..)
(*2) & (*3) "Gandhi the Truth Seeker" By self