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Epigrams.Pdf EPIGRAMS FROM GANDHIJI (Quotations) Abstinence Abstinence is forgiveness only when there is power to punish; it is meaningless when it pretends to proceed from a helpless creature. T-2-4 Abuse The best way of losing a cause is to abuse your opponent and to trade upon his weakness. T-51 Action Action for one’s own self binds, action for the sake of others delivers from bondage. T-2-278 My Gita tells me that evil can never result from good action. XXV- 520 What is faith worth if it is not translated into action? T-5-180 Administration You assist an administration most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such allegiance. T-3-26 Advaita I believe in advaita , I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. XXV-390 Affliction Every affliction has its own rich lesson to teach, if we would learn it. T-8-24 Africa The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters. T-7-46 Aggressor The aggressor always had a purpose behind his attack; he wanted something to be done, some object to be surrendered by the defender. T-8-86 Agriculture To forget how to dig the earth and tend the soil is to forget ourselves. MM-364 Weeding is as necessary to agriculture as sowing. MM-182 Agricultural colleges to be worthy of the name must be self- supporting. EWE-26 Ahimsa Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly. T-7-128 Ahimsa is the eradication of the desire to injure or to kill. XIV-463 Ahimsa is not a matter of mere dietetics: it transcends it. MM-117 Ahimsa is the highest duty. Even if we cannot practice it in full, we must try to understand its spirit and refrain as far as is humanly possible from violence. T-7-61 Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering. MM-295 Ahimsa is an attribute of the brave. Cowardice and ahimsa don’t go together any more that water and fire. T-5-83 Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God. T-5-248 The highest religion has been defined by a negative word: ahimsa. MM-425 Ahimsa is one of the world’s great principles which no power on earth can wipe out. MM-147 Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa Means moksha , and moksha is the realization of Truth. MOG-117 Love and ahimsa are matchless in their effect. TIG-57 Love in the sense of ahimsa had only a limited number of votaries in the world. T-3-144 Ahimsa is the attribute of the soul, and therefore to be practised by everybody in all the affairs of life. MM-24 Ahimsa is the strongest force known. T-5-307 Ahimsa is the height of Kshatriya dharma as it represents the climax of fearlessness. XXV-563 The fullest application of ahimsa does make life impossible. XXVI- 335 The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India’s culture is the doctrine of ahimsa . T-2-341 True ahimsa should mean a complete freedom from ill-will and anger and hate and an overflowing love for all. T-2-318 Ahimsa and love are one and the same thing. TIG-19 Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them. TIG-37 Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God. MM-24 Truth and ahimsa will never be destroyed. T-5-245 The principle of ahimsa is hurt by every evil thought, by undue haste, by lying, by hatred, by wishing ill to anybody. TIG-36 Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any. T-7-75 Ahimsa can be practiced only towards those that inferior to you in every way. XIV-463 Ahimsa was preached to man when he was in full vigor of life and able to look his adversaries straight in the face. XIV-476 The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa , the greater the illumination. XXV-521 The path of Truth is as narrow as it is straight. Even so is that of ahimsa . TIG-36 Use truth as your anvil, nonviolence as your hammer and anything that does not stand the test when it is brought to the anvil of truth and hammered with ahimsa, reject as non-Hindu. XXVI-374 The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa . T-4-239 Cow-protection can only be secured by cultivating universal friendliness, i.e. ahimsa . XXV-520 Ahimsa is nothing if not a well-balanced exquisite consideration of one’s neighbour, and an idle man is wanting in that elementary consideration. T-2-354 Ahimsa is a science. The word ‘failure’ has no place in the vocabulary of science. T-5-81 Ahimsa magnifies one’s own defects, and minimizes those of the opponent. It regards the mole in one’s own eye as a beam and the beam in the opponent’s eye as a mole. T-5-91 Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. The alone it becomes irresistible. T-5-127 Ahimsa must express itself through the acts of selfless service of the masses. T-5-81 Ahimsa is no mere theory with me, but it is a fact of life based on extensive experience. T-7-402 Ahimsa should not fear the secret of open hand of imperialists. T- 7-402 When the Gita was written, although people believed in ahimsa , wars were not only taboo, but nobody observed the contradiction between them and ahimsa . TIG-103 My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals. MM-429 What is it but my ahimsa that draws thousands of women to me in fearless confidence? T-5-291 Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization. T- 4-250 Truth and ahimsa demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be. XXVI-374 One who hooks his fortune to ahimsa , the law of love, daily lessens the circle of destruction and to that extent promotes life and love. T-4-33 My anekantavada is the result of the twin doctrine of satya and ahimsa. TIG-12 When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war. TIG-40 My ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way. MM- 194 Ahimsa and Truth are as my two lungs. I cannot live without them. MM-425 My errors have been errors of calculation and judging men, not in appreciating the true nature of truth and ahimsa or in their application. T-2-204 Indeed, these errors and my prompt confessions have made me surer, if possible of my insight into the implications of truth and ahimsa . T-2-204 For me the only certain means of owing God that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. T-2-126 All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body. T-5-225 Whatever strength the masses have is due entirely to ahimsa , however imperfect or defective its practice might have been. T-7- 147 True ahimsa should wear a smile even on deathbed brought about by an assailant. It is only with that ahimsa that we can befriend our opponents and win their love. T-5-243 If out ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if will bend the knee before himsa , Gandhism deserves to be destroyed. T-5-242 The alphabet of ahimsa is best learnt in domestic school and I can say from experience that if we secure success there, we are sure to do so everywhere else. T-5-304 A votary of ahimsa always prays for ultimate deliverance from the bondage of flesh. MM-425 A steadfast pursuit of ahimsa is inevitably bound to truth-not so violence. MM-118 I see clear breach of ahimsa even in driving away the monkeys; the breach would be proportionately greater if they have to be killed. T-2-322 A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize the ideal. TIG-139 Woman is the incarnation of ahimsa . (Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.) T-5-227 Woman is more fitted than man to make explorations and take bolder action in ahimsa . MM-294 Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail. T-5-242 Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi - wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity. T-4-21 In Swaraj, based on ahimsa , people need not know their rights, but it is necessary for them to know their duties. MM-135 No power on earth can subjugate you when you are armed with the sword of ahimsa .
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