Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaJuly 24I do believe that all God's creatures have the right to live as much as we have.Instead of prescribing the killing of the so called injurious fellow creatures ofours as a duty, if men of knowledge had devoted their gift to discovering waysof dealing with them otherwise than by killing them, we would be living in aworld befitting our status as men animals endowed with reason and the powerof choosing between good and evil right and wrong, violence and non-violence,truth and untruth.H, 9 Jan. 1937July 25We are living in the midst of death trying to grope our way to Truth. Perhaps itis as well that we are beset with danger at every point in our life, for, in spiteof our knowledge of the danger and of our precarious existence ourindifference to the source of all life is excelled only by our amazing arrogance.YI, 7 July 1927July 26Both my intellect and heart refuse to believe that the so-called noxious life hasbeen created for destruction by man. God is good and wise. A good and wiseGod cannot be so bad and so in wise as to create to no purpose. It is moreconductive to reason to own our ignorance and assume that every form of lifehas a useful purpose which we must patiently strive to discover.H, 9 Jan.1937July 27I verily believe that man's habit of killing man on the slightest pretext hasdarkened his reason and he gives himself liberties with other life which hewww.mkgandhi.org Page 56