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killing off a few officials. All these are actuated by hatred, cowardice and fear. Here love of the cow or the country is a vague thing intended to satisfy one's vanity, or sooth a stinging conscience.
Ahimsa, truly understood, is, in my humble opinion, a panacea for all evils mundane and extra-mundane. We can aever over-do it. Just at present we are not doing it at all. Ahimsa does not displace the practice of virtues, but renders their practice imperatively necessary before it can be practised even in its rudiments. Lalajı need not fear Ahimsa of his father's faith Mahavira and Buddha were soldiers, and so was Tolstoy. Only they saw deeper and truer into their profession, and found the secret of a true, happy, honourable and godly life Let us be joint sharers with these teachers, and this land of ours will once more be the abode of Gods.
M. K GANDHI.
