Passive Resistance

��HOW THE IDEA ORIGINATED

In answer to a question put to him by* ^the Joseph Do"Jce t his biographer \ as to the birth and .t> of this principle so far as he was concerned, Mr, replied as follows: t

I remember , ha said, " how one verse of a Gajftrati poem, which, as a child, I learned >at> Rehool, clang bo me, In substance ib was this: , c/ .

" If a man gives you a drink of water and you give him a drink in return, that is nothing.: ,

Real baaufcy consists io doing good againato evil,",

"As a oh ild, this verse had a powerful influence over -trie, and I tried to oarry ib into practice. Then oatne the 'Sermon on the Mounb."' ' j '

"Bub, " said I, " surely the Bhagavad-Gita came

��"No," he replied, " of ooucse I knew tho Bhagavad- in Sanskrit tolerably well, bufc I had not made its teaching., in thab particular a study, Ib was the New Testament whioh really awakened mQ-to -the rightn&es and value of Passive Resistance. When I read in fehtf 'Sermon on the Mount' auoh passages aa *R^aist[ nob him that is evil bub whosoever sirtUeth thee on thy right) aheek turn bo him tha other also ' and 'Love your ene- mies and pray for bhem bhab persecute you, thab ya

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