Satyagrahi Research Paper

Rules for the Satyagrahi69

Gandhi prescribed strict commandments for the guidance of the satyagrahi:
• A satyagrahi, i.e., a civil resister, will harbor no anger.
• He will suffer the anger of the opponent.
• In so doing, he will put up with assaults from the opponent, never retaliate; but he will not submit out of fear of punishment or the like to any order given in anger.

GANDHI’S TECHNIQUE OF MASS MOBALIZATION

• When any person in authority seeks to arrest a civil resister, he will voluntarily submit to the arrest and he will not resist the attachment or removal of his own property, if any, when it is sought to be confiscated.
• If a civil resister has any property in his possession as a trustee, he will refuse to surrender it, even

Being a Hindu he will be generous towards Mussalmans and others, and will sacrifice himself in the attempt to save non-Hindus from a Hindu attack. And if an attack is from the other side, he will not participate in any retaliation but will give his life in protecting Hindus. If there is a procession of satyagrahis, they will do nothing that would wound the religious susceptibilities of any community, and they will not take part in any other processions that are likely to wound such susceptibilities.
To sum up, when the enemy is in difficulty it is the duty of the satyagrahi to do what is morally necessary, though he must avoid what may not be morally indefensible but is calculated to vex and embarrass the opponent.70
To the satyagrahi, far more important than external conditions are internal conditions. In Gandhi 's words, external difficulties need never frighten a satyagrahi. On the contrary, he flourishes on external difficulties and faces them with vigor.71 As for satisfactory internal conditions, the satyagrahi group should be well-disciplined.
Gandhi wrote in 1939, ‘The first indispensable condition precedent to any civil resistance is that there should be surety against any outbreak of