söndag 26 februari 2012

Söndagsord av Gandhi

But the path of self-purification is hard and steep. To attain to perfect purity one has to become absolutely passion free in though, speech, and action; to rise above the opposing current of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. Ever since my return to India I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated, though not defeated. The experiences and experiments have sustained me and given me great joy. But I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. 
-Gandhi

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