Inner Truth: The Progression of Satygraha

My experience has taught me that a law of progression applies to every righteous struggle. But in the case of satyagraha (Truth Force) the law amounts to an axiom. As a satyagraha struggle progresses onward, many another element helps to swell its current and there is a constant growth in the results to which it leads. This is really inevitable, and is bound up with the first principles of satyagraha. For in satyagraha the minimum is also the maximum, and as it is the irreducible minimum, there is no question of retreat, and the only movement possible is an advance. In other struggles, even when they are righteous, the demand is first pitched a little higher so as to admit of future reduction, and hence the law of progression does not apply to all of them without exception. 

The author (1869-- 1948), was the apostle of non-violence and truth during the 20th century.

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