Day 363

I will not go underground. I will not go into shelter. I will come out in the open and let the pilot see I have not a trace of ill will against him.… The longing in our hearts – that he will not come to harm – would reach up to him and his eyes would be opened. If those thousands who were done to death in Hiroshima, if they had died with that prayerful action. . .their sacrifice would not have gone in vain. 

-Gandhi, Pyarelal, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase, Vol. 2 

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Transcript

One cannot but think of the song – I think it may have been Bob Dylan who said, “Let me die in my footsteps before I go under the ground.” It also illustrates the incredible faith that Gandhi had in what I called a little while ago, “Non-local consciousness.” That if you have love in your heart, it's part of a universal matrix of forces and registers in other human beings, even if they're at a great distance.

And incidentally, recently, modern science has been proving that this is possible. But let's not over scientize this and let us recognize the incredible love and the incredible courage which Gandhi is here illustrating, even in the most dire of circumstances.