Light of Nonviolence

Author(s): Sushilmuni
Publisher: Vishwa Ahimsa Sangh Delhi

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energy of his being even if they did not understand it. He glowed like a comet in the night sky for a while and we remember how he lit up everything.
You, the reader, must decide to what degree the stories are credible, truthful, or at least entertaining. Certainly a few are not really stories at all, but insights and conclusions from a series of Guruji's experiences. A few are autobiographical sketches with moral lessons. A few read like parables which are only real for the imagination. A few are fables making analogies to human nature, which was Guruji's favorite subject. And the remaining stories, mostly in chapters nine and ten, are ones told to Guruji by persons whom he had met in his journey. Anyway I hope that you enjoy reading these stories as much as I did writing them.
The Light of Nonviolence is Guruji's inspiration both in title and content. I only caught the light from his consciousness for a while but I was transformed by the experience. The subjective, unwritten record of those rare interactions with Guruji as a person is an invaluable one for me. What you see on paper in the stories are the surface traces of a great soul leaving his sounds and meanings for us to understand and live by. It may be enough to say that I loved Guruji. Thousands perhaps millions of others also loved him as their guru.
Guruji wanted our memory of him and his teachings to be an inspiration for our own journeys, not an ob
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