 
	 GANDHI 
	SEVAGRAM 
		ASHRAM
	GANDHI 
	SEVAGRAM 
		ASHRAM
Written by :  M. K. Gandhi
Compiled and Edited by : Sailesh Kumar Bandopadhyaya
First Edition : 3,000 copies, November 1960
ISBN : 81-7229-223-6
Printed and Published by : Navajivan Mudranalaya, 
Ahemadabad-380014 
India
© Navajivan Trust, 1960
"Look at Italy," said Gandhiji the other day to a 
friend who would have independence at all costs. "Garibaldi was a 
great man. He brought deliverance to Italy. And Mussolini did make 
her look great. But where is she today? Look at Japan, look at 
Germany. The very violence which brought them to the pinnacle of 
power has razed them to the ground. And has not the atom bomb proved 
the futility of all violence? And yet we are crazy enough to think 
that we can win Swaraj by breaking a few skulls and destroying 
property which, after all is said and done, is our own." Needless to 
say that all these happenings have filled him with unspeakable 
-anguish. But he is an irrepressible optimist. "I am sure, out of 
this orgy of violence the people will learn the lesson of 
non-violence," he remarked. The sense of oppression and misery that 
he feels at what is happening is so great that only his 
unquenchable faith in the God of Truth and Non-violence could 
sustain him. 
Poona, 
3-3-'46
Harijan, 10-3-1946