Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday March 3 1946

As an instance of the latter he mentioned the fitful and inadequate response to the offer under the new khadi plan of the Bombay Kalbadevi Khadi Bhandar to provide instruments of and instruction in spinning and carding and the allied processes to all those who cared. [...] But the removal of the foreign yoke won't necessarily bring freedom to the people in the real sense of the term. [...] In the case of an army he explained to them the discipline consists in learning the use of arms for the purpose of killing the enemy. [...] In the case of non-violence it has to be in the inculcation of the art of dying without killing or retaliation even in the face of the gravest provocations and in selfless service of society. [...] In the beginning the gatherings were art to be noisy which necessitated the omission of the recitation of the Sanskrit shlokas and the other texts from the Quran and the Zend Avesta.