ABSTRACT
Tulsidas was the writer of the Ramayana in Hindi. This chapter is taken from Mahatma Gandhi’s book called Hind Swaraj. The poet Tulsidas had said: “Of religion, pity (or love) is the root, as egotism is of the body. Therefore, we should not abandon pity so long as we are alive.” This appeared to Gandhi to be a scientific truth. The fact that there are so many men still alive in the world shows that the world is based not on the force of arms, but on the force of truth or love. Therefore the greatest and most unimpeachable evidence of the success of this force is to be found in the fact that, in spite of all these wars, the world still lives on. Passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is matchless. It is superior to the force of arms. It cannot be considered merely a weapon of the weak.
