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What does it mean?
Non-violence is the only path to achieving truth.
In plain terms
Truth can only be reached through non-violence.
What can you take from it?
Ahimsa is the necessary method for finding truth.

Where it applies

  • spiritual pursuit
  • ethical decision making
  • conflict resolution

Putting it to work

  • personal reflection
  • mediation
  • activism

Questions to consider

  • Can truth exist without peace?
  • Is violence ever justified for truth?

Another view

Some argue force is sometimes needed to reveal truth.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. Those who want to lead the people to satyagraha ought to be able to keep the people within the limited non-violence expected of them.

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  2. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him.

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  3. You can wake a man only if he is really asleep, no effort that you may make will produce any effect upon him if he is merely pretending sleep.

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