Non-violence

 Please let us not be misled by the word "non-violence". The word "non-violence" has been used to translate the word that Gandhi used in Hindi or Gujarati, which was "Ahimsa." That word if it is correctly translated, would mean "creative love", not "non-violence". Non-violence appears to be something opposed to violence. That here is violence and then you are going to cultivate non-violence. That was never the meaning of Mahatma Gandhi.

He said it's creative love that will enable you  to get rid of all the violence by which you are conditioned. If I have learned something from the teachings of Mahama Gandhi, I have seen that this myth of the inner being separate from the outer, the personal being independent of the collective, is a very dangerous myth. 

That myth has got to be explored.  What has got to communicated to the people of the world, along with the people of America and  Russia is this necessity -- if the person, the human being, remains violent; if anger, irritation, annoyance is looked upon as natural human psychology, there cannot be an ending of violence and world wars do what we will. Whether we have one United Nations or half a dozen United Nations, we will reach nowhere because a violent human being is the root and source of wars, psychology of assertion, aggression, and confrontation -- in family life, with the wife, the children, the neighbor, the colleague in the office.  So we are faced with this challenge of integrating the outer and the inner. And starting with oneself!