Religious truth, or for that matter any truth, requires a calm and meditative atmosphere for its percolation.
Men of stainless character and self purification will easily inspire confidence and automatically purify the atmosphere around them.
In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.
Non-co-operation in an angry atmosphere is an impossibility.
Such expression is impossible in a cramped atmosphere. As I have no desire to offer civil disobedience I cannot write freely. As the author of satyagraha I cannot, consistently with my profession, suppress the vital part of myself for the sake of being able to write on permissible subjects. ... It would be like dealing with the trunk without the head.
By noiselessly going to a prison a civil-resister ensures a calm atmosphere.
I well remember how the thoughts I had up to the time of my discharge from the jail on every occasion were modified immediately after discharge, and after getting first-hand information myself. Somehow or other the jail atmosphere does not allow you to have all the bearings in your mind.
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