When I was a child I once laughed at the feeble picture of Mahatmas Gandhi and I thought that this was a man who looks like he must be very weak. When I became a man and had to test my pain endurance because of many minor and some major injuries, I realized that Mahatmas Gandhi was very strong. Gandhi took the pain of fasting and abuse for his people and for his cause. Mahatmas Gandhi preached non-violence, not because he was physically weak, but because Gandhi's threshold of pain was extremely high. Ordinary men or even strong men would not be able to do what Gandhi has done. It takes an unbelievable person to take a beating and endure pain for his people.
"The first step in non-violence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, and loving kindness" (Gandhi). Gandhi believed that nonviolence was an extremely important and effective method of fighting injustice. Gandhi said, "We must be the change we wish to see in the world." In a world where we see little action and all we hear is talk, Gandhi said, talk is not enough. We can best express a belief by putting our bodies on the line, by making statements with our bodies, but by doing this in a honorable and peaceful manner. He defined for the world a beautiful, and sometimes quite effective, form of expression, known as nonviolence. Gandhi wanted peace and unity in the world, so the means in which he tried to obtain that was done by peaceful and nonviolent methods. .
Gandhi argued that nonviolence is the right way to go because it is how God wants us to be and how He wants us to depict ourselves. Gandhi stated, "God is that indefinable something which we all fee1 but which we do not know. To me God is truth and love; God is ethics and morality. God is the fearlessness of the morally good man. God is the source of light and life, and yet above and beyond all these, God is conscience." According to Gandhi, God was truth, and the only means to attaining unity and peace was through truth.
