"I consider myself a soldier, but a soldier of peace. I am aware of the value of discipline and truth."
On October 2, 1869, in a humble fishing village of Gujarat, Gandhi was born .
His thought and his idea, based on a life simple and adhering to the truth, the core of things, all costs are valid then, and very valid today, when the frantic race for luxury, power and visibility, with new means of exploitation and with new methods of handling risks destroy our own planet.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948) changed the course of the history of billions of Indians. Father of the immense nation, Gandhi, suspended in a prodigious ambiguity between the mystical and practical, has made known to the world the concept of Satyagraha , that is not compromised, the absolute acceptance - without loss and without svabature romantic - a principle strongly considered valid.
The Satyagraha is implemented through the civil disobedience of the law, the peaceful strike, the suspension of all activities, the arrest of national life. But it was not an abstract concept: it was the demonstration in the Salt March to Dandi, where April 6, 1930, in violation of the law of the British monopoly, Gandhi first drew the salt from the sea. It was moved and boldness that drove like a flood the whole of India, and the non-violent rebellion spread like wildfire throughout the country.
The Ahimsa or nonviolence self-discipline, the ideal of total consistency of Satyagraha, that is, passive resistance - the two cornerstones of the struggle that he led India against the colonialism - were achieved not through an icy control of himself, brooding resentment in our hearts, but through love, and ethical, through mutual tolerance, a principle that makes each of us accept the differences in the way of thinking and living of the other.
His speeches, his books, his thinking has cambizto deeply the lives of many people: a consistency kind, but "in all firmness" to their ideals, their ideas on what we know right to the truth interior, filing and chiseling their own lives to take away all the superfluous. A great man who has made known to the West a new way of life and thought, absolute adherence to themselves, "politely but firmly," and revolutionized the way we perceive the West: a way that was valid in the dark days of dictatorship - and is even more valid today.
On this day the United Nations General Assembly established for October 2, just days of the birth of Gandhi, the World Day of Nonviolence inviting states, personalities and organizations to celebrate the anniversary.
violence in today's world is growing and expanding in all areas, creating a climate of fear, uncertainty, asphyxia and closing. It is not just the physical violence of war and crime, but also the economic, racial, religious, psychological, of the home and family and domestic violence. According
Gandhi non-violence does not mean "docile submission to the will of the wicked, but it means the use of all the forces of the soul against the will of the tyrant. Nonviolence is not a justification for the cowardly, but it is the supreme virtue of courageous. The practice of nonviolence requires far more courage the practice of weapons ... The revenge is a sign of weakness ... A dog barks and bites qando afraid. A man who fears no one in the world found it unnecessary to even be angry against those who seek in vain to cause offense. " For
Gandhi nonviolence was more than a form of control or half to achieve a political end. Nonviolence is the fight against injustice, affirmation of love for others, seeking the Truth.
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