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Tonomous reptiles do bim no harm This is said to have been the experience of St Francis of Assisi
In its negative form it means not injuring any lirmg being whether by body of miod I may not thereforo hort the person of any wrong-doer, or bear any 171 will to him and so causc bim mental suffering This statement does not coversuffering caused to the trrong-doer by natural acts of mine which do not proceed from will it, therefore, docs not prevent me from with drawing from his presence a child whom he, we shall imagine, is about to strike Indeed the proper practice of Abiosa requires me to withdraw the intended netim from the wrong-doer if I am in any way whatsoever the guardian of such a child It was therofore most proper for the passive resisters of South Aína to hore resisted the evil that the Union Government sought to do to them They bore no ill will to it They showed this by helping the Goremment whenever it needed their help Their resistano consisted of disobedience of the orders of the Goiemment cren to the extent of sufler ing death at their hands Ahimsa requires deliberate injuring of the supposed wrong-doer in its positive form, Ahimsa means the largest lore, the greatest charity If I am a follower of Ahimsa I niust lore my enemy I must apply the rules to the wrong-doer iho is my caemy or a stranger to me as I would to my wrong-doing father and son This active Abimų) necessarily indudes truth and fearlessness Aman
