[nukkad] The Power of Non violence.

[Kedar Naik Gaonkar <>]

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hi,
i have joined to this list few days back and i found it very
interesting.!!!

here is a small fact which proves the power of nonviolence.
hope it helps u in some or the other way.

bye,

enjoy!! 


A beautiful story to keep us all thinking.

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Dr. Arun Gandhi, grandson of Mahatma Gandhi and
founder of the Gandhi Institute for Nonviolence, in
his June 9 lecture at the University of Puerto Rico,
shared the following story as an example of
nonviolence in parenting:

"I was 16 years old and living with my parents at the
institute my grandfather had founded 18 miles outside
of Durban, South Africa, in middle of the sugar
plantations. We were deep in the country and had no
neighbors,
so my two sisters and I would always look forward to
going to town to visit friends or go to the movies.

One day, my father asked me to drive him to town for
an all-day conference,and I jumped at the chance.
"Since I was going to town, my mother gave me a list
of groceries she needed and, since I had all day in
town, my father ask me to take care of several pending
chores, such as getting the car serviced.

When I dropped my father off that morning, he said, 'I
will meet you here at 5:00 p.m., and we will go home
together.' After hurriedly completing my chores, I
went straight to the nearest movie theatre. I got so
engrossed in a John Wayne double-feature that I forgot
the time. It was 5:30 before I remembered. By the time
I ran to the garage and got the car and hurried to
where my father was waiting for me, it was almost
6:00. "He anxiously asked me, 'Why were you late?' I
was so ashamed of telling him I was watching a John
Wayne western movie that I said, 'The car wasn't
ready, so I had to wait,' not realizing that he had
already called the garage.

When he caught me in the lie, he said: 'There's
something wrong in the way I brought you up that
didn't give you the confidence to tell me the truth.
In order to figure out where I went wrong with you,
I'm going to walk home18 miles and think about it.'

So, dressed in his suit and dress shoes, he began to
walk home in the dark on mostly unpaved, unlit roads.
I couldn't leave him, so for five-and-a-half hours I
drove behind him, watching my father go through this
agony for a stupid lie that I uttered. I decided then
and there that I was never going to lie again. I often
think about that episode and wonder, if he had
punished me the way we punish our children, whether I
would have learned a lesson at all. I don't think so.
I would have suffered the punishment and gone on doing
the same thing. But
this single non-violent action was so powerful that it
is still as if it happened yesterday. That is the
power of non-violence."

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With luv,
Kedar,

Email:kedar@darya.nio.org
      kedar4u@yahoo.com
      hikedar@rediffmail.com
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