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not mean to love one whom we like but to love whom we like to hate. On 7th July 1940, he wrote in Harijanbandhu after atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima : "The moral of this bombing - the most tragic event in History - is that violence can not be destroyed through violence and one bomb can not be destroyed with another more powerful one. For mankind to survive, nonviolence is the only way open to it. Love is the antidote to violence, for violence leads to more violence."
If a person can follow and practice his religion with least violence in any form, then he / she should avoid it completely. Gandhiji would not permit plucking a flower for worship, if one can worship without offering a flower. He drew our attention to a very important fact, namely, the presence of violence in every religion and sect. To hurt the religious feelings of people of a particular sect, to hold their beliefs to ridicule are also subtle forms of violence. This inevitably leads to enmity and hatred. To behave in a way which one's religion does not permit or to impose one's religion, on the strength of power and money, on others against their
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