Law of Love
--by Mahatma Gandhi (Nov 14, 2000)
I have found that life persists in the midst of destruction. Therefore
there must be a higher law than that of destruction. Only under that
law would well-ordered society be intelligible and life worth living.
If that is the law of life we must work it out in daily existence.
Wherever there are wars, wherever we are confronted with an opponent,
conquer by love. I have found that the certain law of love has
answered in my own life as the law of destruction has never done.
It takes a fairly strenuous course of training to attain a mental
state of nonviolence. It is a disciplined life, like the life of a
soldier. The perfect state is reached only when the mind, body, and
speech are in proper coordination. Every problem would lend itself
to solution if we are determined to make the law of truth and
nonviolence the law of life.
Just as a scientist will work wonders out of various applications
of the laws of nature, a man who applies the laws of love with
scientific precision can work greater wonders. Nonviolence is
infinitely more wonderful and subtle than forces of nature like, for
instance, electricity. The law of love is a far greater science than
any modern science.
-- Mahatma Gandhi, http://www.mkgandhi.org