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SATYAGRAHA
Immediately the rest of the poison sank into the ground, and Yaññadatta got up and began to frisk about.13
This is a tale that could be taken as a text for psychoanalysis. The opening up of the repressed truth, deeply hidden beneath the years of lies and dead actions that have killed the son (i.e., have killed the future, the life, of this miserable, hypocritical, self-deceiving household), suffices, like magic, to clear the venom from the poor, paralyzed body, and then all of that deadness (asat), “non-existence," is truly non-existent. Life breaks forth anew, in strength, and the living is spliced back to what was living. The night of nonentity between is gone.
Satyāgraha
THIS PRINCIPLE of the power of truth, which we all recognize in our personal histories as well as in what we have been able to fathom of the private historics of our friends, Mahātma Gandhi is applying, in contemporary India, to the field and problems of international politics.14 Mahātma Gandhi's program of satyāgraha, "holding (āgraha) to the truth (satya),” is an attempt to carry this ancient Indo-Aryan idea into play against what would seem to the eye to be the vastly superior powers of the highly mechanized, industrially supported, military and political equipment of the Anglo-Saxon's victorious machine of universal empire. For when Great Britain, at the opening of the first World 18 Jalaka 44. Burlingame, loc. cit., pp. 447-448. 14 Editor's note: This lecture was delivered in the spring of 1943.
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