Gandhi Day: Gandhi’s Poignant Legacy

October 1, 2012 By GWEI Editor Leave a Comment On the 143rd birth anniversary of my grandfather I am reminded of a poignant statement he made to a journalist who asked: What do you think will happen with your philosophy after you die? With sadness in his voice he said: "The people will follow me in life, worship me in death but not make my cause their cause." How right he was! We have either rejected the philosophy of nonviolence as impractical or we have reduced it to a weapon of convenience and misused it. The philosophy is about personal transformation changing greed, anger, frustration and other negative attitudes into love, respect, compassion, understanding and acceptance. We have the capacity to act either way but we chose to suppress the positive and display the negative in order to project ourselves as powerful. What we forget is that the greatest power in the world is LOVE. It is also the basis of all civilization. We are materially wealthy, but morally bankrupt. Can we Become the Change We Wish To See In The World? Arun Gandhi www.gandhiforchildren.org www.arungandhi.org www.arungandhi.net