“My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth. And if every page of these chapters does not proclaim to the reader that the only means for the realization of Truth is ahimsa, I shall deem all my labour in writing these chapters to have been in vain. And, even though my efforts in this behalf may prove fruitless, let the readers know that the vehicle, not the great principle, is at fault.”
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Ends and means are treated as inseparable here: a truth reached through cruelty stops being true. Refusing to harm isn't a soft add-on but the actual road, and when the effort falls short the fault lies with the imperfect seeker, never with the ideal itself.
When to use it
- An activist refuses to smear an opponent even when the lie would clinch the vote.
- A journalist declines to entrap a source, trusting patient reporting to surface the facts.
- A parent corrects a child's lie with steady honesty rather than humiliation.