Gandhi on Non-Violent Non-Cooperation
By Steve Beckow
Posted on July 1, 2023
Part 1
Happy Canada Day, Canada! Time to organize again!
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good. – Mahatma Gandhi
In my view, it’s time to become globally organized in the furtherance of world peace. To assist with that, I repost a collection of Gandhi’s sayings for any who wish to reflect on them. But first, may I comment?
I assert that halting war will not come from our governments. Surely we see that by now.
They’re focused on blowing up pipelines and derailing trains, burning down food-production plants and causing weather catastrophes.
They’re after world control and depopulation. In my view, there’s no satisfaction to be expected from that quarter.
The peaceful and effective opposition to them will have to come from a peaceful but organized We the People.
We need to show our governments that we demand peace. We demand an end to war. We demand the defunding of all black projects and unnecessary military expenditures. We demand an equitable redistribution of the planet’s wealth.
We demand, after the establishment of world peace, the founding of one unified global military defense force, under the direction of a civilian planetary council, and the destruction of all nuclear and other offensive weapons. (1)
We need to use the Internet much more fully to globally organize ourselves and build momentum for a world that works for everyone. We need to draw more fully on Starlink, the Quantum Financial System, and white-hat tech resources.
We need to get the word out. So you can’t write. Can you post pictures?
“A world that works for everyone” (the phrase is Werner Erhard’s) (2) is a description of a higher-dimensional world. The love that flows there entirely satisfies and makes the world one that cannot but work for all.
But we’re here now. And between now and then, we need to dismantle the power structures of the deep state and the doing of that needs to be peaceful and legal.
This is not tumbrils and guillotines. While there is a hidden war going on, and people are dying, the hope of the white-hat military is that the rest of us will stay calm and out of the way of what amounts to the removal teams.
Obviously the legality of removal derives from the American Constitution in the States and G/NESARA, the Global/National Economic Security and Reformation Act, in other places that lack democratic foundational documents. (3) G/NESARA mandates a return to world peace.
Who better to turn to for inspiration and guidance than Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi, whom we know to have been a reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi? (4) The article, below, from 2017 gives us some of his brilliance, born of the divine state of peace.
Having tasted higher-dimensional peace myself, I know the secret of his solidity, his immovability. (5) Higher-dimensional peace makes a person immoveable.
What is there to move? Gone is the divided mind, the house that cannot stand. We’re embarked on and rooted in the Mother’s service. What better anchor could we attach to? At this time we see the spiritual strength of peace.
Remember Murray and Goethe? When once the mind is settled, Heaven moves in support of us? (6)
When there are no issues, when no hatred or anger arises, a person’s will transforms and becomes solid. It remains so as long as we choose peace. When we choose violence – or untruth – this strength and solidity quickly erodes and disappears.
I’ve often said the present moment is a portal. In the same way, the experience of true peace is also a portal.
All that as an intro to Gandhi!
For Gandhi’s considered wisdom, born of immoveable peace, see the next post.
Footnotes
(1) None of which will work anyways. See There Will be No Nuclear War for the World at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/No-Nuclear-War-R4.pdf
(2) “Each of us has the opportunity, the privilege, to make a difference in creating a world that works for all of us.” (Werner Erhard, A World That Works, 1980, cited at https://www.worldthatworks.org/.)
“Transformation does not negate what has gone before it; rather, it fulfills it. Creating the context of a world that works for everyone is not just another step forward in human history; it is the context out of which our history will begin to make sense.” (Werner Erhard – A Shot Heard Round the World: A World that Works for Everyone at https://www.scribd.com/doc/143329822/Werner-Erhard-A-Shot-Heard-Round-the-World-A-World-that-Works-for-Everyone.)
I owe a huge debt of gratitude to Werner Erhard. Of all the teachers I listened to, I benefitted the most from his wisdom, despite the attempts by his detractors/competitors to spread false rumors about him.
(3) See What is NESARA? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/What-is-NESARA-R2.pdf
(4) Steve Beckow: Were you Mohandas Gandhi?
St. Francis: Yes, I was.
SB: Oh, my! I’m so overwhelmed to hear that. I feel so affected. Thank you.
SF: You know that you are ferreting out my secrets, do you not? But yes, I am glad to share it with you. (“St. Francis Reveals at Least One of His Later Lives: As Mohandas Gandhi,” at http://the2012scenario.com/2012/09/st-francis-reveals-at-least-one-of-his-later-lives-as-mohandas-gandhi/)
Note: Some have asked about the spelling of St. Germaine as reflected here. Linda has shared that St. Germaine requested that the “e” be added to the end of his name to honor the divine feminine. (Suzi Maresca in “Transcript: St. Germaine on Heavenly Blessings – the Violet Flame and the I AM Presence,” Dec. 2, 2012, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/12/02/transcript-st-germaine-on-heavenly-blessings-the-violet-flame-and-the-i-am-presence/).
(6) “Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too.
“All sorts of things occur to help one that would not otherwise have occurred. A whole stream of events issues from the decision, raising in one’s favour all manner of unforeseen incidents and meetings and material assistance which no man would have dreamed would come his way.
“I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe’s couplets:
“’Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it!
Boldness has genius, magic, and power in it.’”
(W.H. Murray, The Scottish Himalayan Expedition, and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.)
Part 2
“Mahandas Gandhi on Peace and Love,” April 29, 2017, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2017/04/29/mahandas-gandhi-on-peace-and-love/
A summary of what follows is:
“100 Mahatma Gandhi Peace Quotes,” at https://members.tripod.com/lutheran_peace/gandhi-peace-quotes.html.
The day the power of love overrules the love of power, the world will know peace.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
My life is my message.
First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, and then you win.
I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings.
A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.
An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
I cannot teach you violence, as I do not myself believe in it. I can only teach you not to bow your heads before any one even at the cost of your life.
I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. (1) Learn as if you were to live forever.
Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
Intolerance betrays want of faith in one’s cause.
Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit.
It is any day better to stand erect with a broken and bandaged head then to crawl on one’s belly, in order to be able to save one’s head.
It’s the action, not the fruit of the action, that’s important. You have to do the right thing. It may not be in your power, may not be in your time, that there’ll be any fruit. But that doesn’t mean you stop doing the right thing. You may never know what results come from your action. But if you do nothing, there will be no result.
Justice that love gives is a surrender; justice that law gives is a punishment.
I know, to banish anger altogether from one’s breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God’s grace.
My religion is based on truth and non-violence. Truth is my God. Non-violence is the means of realizing Him.
Non-cooperation with evil is as much a duty as is cooperation with good.
Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.
Non-violence is not a garment to be put on and off at will. Its seat is in the heart, and it must be an inseparable part of our being.
Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed.
Non-violence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.
Non-violence requires a double faith: Faith in God and also faith in man.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
“From Peace Quotes – Mahandas Gandhi,” at https://archives.forusa.org/blogs/for/peace-quotes-mahatma-gandhi/10229
When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always!
Nonviolence, which is a quality of the heart, cannot come by an appeal to the brain.
We must be the change we wish to see in the world.
We may never be strong enough to be entirely nonviolent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep nonviolence as our goal and make strong progress towards it. The Attainment of freedom, whether for a person, a nation or a world, must be in exact proportion to the attainment of nonviolence for each.
Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it stands than to anything on which it is poured.
Woman is more fitted than man to make exploration and take bolder action in nonviolence … There is no occasion for women to consider themselves subordinate or inferior to men … Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity … If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man’s superior … If nonviolence is the law of our being, the future is with women.
The science of war leads one to dictatorship, pure and simple. The science of non- violence alone can lead one to pure democracy … The states that are today nominally democratic have either to become frankly totalitarian or, if they are to become truly democratic, they must become courageously non-violent.
Power is of two kinds. One is obtained by fear of punishment and the other by arts of love. Power based on love is thousand times more effective and permanent than power derived from fear of punishment …
Violence breeds violence … Pure goals can never justify impure or violent action … They say the means are after all just means. I would say means are after all everything. As the means, so the end … If we take care of the means we are bound to reach the end sooner or later.
Whenever you are in doubt or when the self becomes too much with you, try the following experiment: Recall the face of the poorest and most helpless person you have ever seen and ask yourself if the step you contemplate is going to be for any use to him or to her … Then you will find your doubts and your self melting away.
Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be … Truth is the first to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you … An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it … Truth without humility would be an arrogant caricature … The quest of truth involves self-suffering, sometimes even unto death.
A non-violent army acts unlike armed men, as well in times of peace as in times of disturbances. Theirs will be the duty of bringing warring communities together, carrying peace propaganda, engaging in activities that would bring and keep them in touch with every single person in their parish or division. Such an army should be ready to cope with any emergency, and in order to still the frenzy of mobs should risk their lives in numbers sufficient for that purpose. … Satragraha (truth-force) brigades can be organized in every village and every block of buildings in the cities. In non-violent bodies the charger or soul force must mean everything and the physique must take second place. It is difficult to find such persons. That is why the non-violent force must be small if it is to be efficient.
[If the nonviolent society is attacked from without,] there are two ways open to non-violence. To yield possession, but non-cooperate with the aggressor … prefer death to submission. The second way would be non-violent resistance by the people who have been trained in the non-violent way … The unexpected spectacle of endless rows upon rows of men and women simply dying rather than surrendering to the will of an aggressor must ultimately melt him and his soldiery …
A nation or group which has made non-violence its final policy cannot be subjected to slavery even by the atom bomb … Before general disarmament commences some nation will have to disarm herself and take large risks. The level of non-violence in that nation, if that even happily comes to pass, will naturally have risen so high as to command universal respect.”
Credit: Kathleen Mary Willis
Footnotes
(1) Helen Keller: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
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