Harijan Poona — Saturday January 21 1939

I note that on the same date a notification was published in the State Gazette to the effect that “ an emergency has arisen which makes it necessary to provide against instigation to illegal refusal to the pament of certain liabilities.” Seeing that the order against my entry was passed the same day it is reasonable to assume that in the opinion of the authorities I would be connected with the [...] The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind of mental equipoise. [...] I was not called upon to adjudge the merits of the action of the ruler and the Political Agent on the one hand and the people's action on the other. [...] But they have not been mentioned for the purpose of drawing the wrath of the people upon the doers but for the sole purpose of showing the people the way of dealing with them non-violently. [...] Kagawa had to fight the slums the immorlity the poverty of the workman and the peasant..