Love as
Fearlessness Kaka Sahib
Kalelkar, one of the closest associates of Mahatma Gandhi, shares his thoughts. OUR GREATEST
STRENGTH must be love, which is fearless—non—violent love. It is time the world was viewed as a great
family; I think it is ripe for the establishment of a familyhood of all
religions, all cultures, and all races.
If it doesn’t come about, a world war may well happen; and with the
present development of science it could be an unprecedented disaster. Sant Kirpal
Singh Ji is doing this work—that of making all religions and races one—and as a
humble servant of Mahatma Gandhi, I congratulate him for organizing this
conference. Now we have to establish
that family hood—through love, complete fearlessness. If we want to establish peace, we have to work for others. Sant Ji wants us to give thought to these
things, and to do service for the whole world.
We are in a country where people of all races and religions are gathered
together. We must love each other. All our energy should be saved for actual
work. We invite
Muslims, not as Hindus, but as members of one human family. We should have hope
for our towns and villages. In the
villages, people do not understand economics; but they understand religion and
they understand culture—that has been the tradition of our country. We must now have a great organization and go
to the villages and tell the people the central part of their religion is to
love others. We must ourselves stop
hating others and start loving; mere speaking won’t do. Under Sant Ji’s initiative and guidance, we
should have small groups all over the world; we should, as members of the same
family, build a new culture, a new civilization. Science is
very useful, because scientists worship truth.
We want to make science more spiritual, and only saints can do it. So I express
my gratitude to Sant Ji for organizing this international conference. I belonged to Mahatma Gandhi’s group; I was
Vice-Chancellor of the university started by him, and worked under him for 50
years. Sant Maharaj is doing the same
work which Gandhi Ji asked us to do—establish harmony and unity of man,
Religions are different, but we are all bound together by love. My definition of “love” means
fearlessness—you don’t threaten anybody and you don’t fear anybody. |