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Therefore it is different from satyagraha in three essentials: Satyagraha is a weapon of the strong it admits of no violence under any circumstance whatsoever and it ever insists upon truth.

Moreover, passive resistance does not necessarily involve complete adherence to truth under every circumstance. I often used вЂњpassive resistanceвЂќ and вЂњsatyagrahaвЂќ as synonymous terms: but as the doctrine of satyagraha developed, the expression вЂњpassive resistanceвЂќ ceases even to be synonymous, as passive resistance has admitted of violence as in the case of the suffragettes and has been universally acknowledged to be a weapon of the weak.

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I have drawn the distinction between passive resistance as understood and practised in the West and satyagraha before I had evolved the doctrine of the latter to its full logical and spiritual extent. Gandhi distinguished between satyagraha and passive resistance in the following letter: So the doctrine came to mean vindication of truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent, but on oneself. For what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. In the application of satyagraha, I discovered in the earliest stages that pursuit of truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on oneвЂ™s opponent but that he must be weaned from error by patience and compassion. I have also called it love-force or soul-force. Its root meaning is holding on to truth, hence truth-force. Non-violence was always an integral part of our struggle.' I therefore adopted the phrase civil resistance. But I found that even civil disobedience failed to convey the full meaning of the struggle. When I saw the title of ThoreauвЂ™s great essay, I began the use of his phrase to explain our struggle to the English readers. As it was incomplete, I had coined the word satyagraha for the Gujarati readers. But the movement was then known as passive resistance. The resistance to authority in South Africa was well advanced before I got the essay of Thoreau on civil disobedience. The statement that I had derived my idea of civil disobedience from the writings of Thoreau is wrong. Rao, Servants of India Society, Gandhi disputed the proposition that his idea of civil disobedience was adapted from the writings of Henry David Thoreau, especially the essay Civil Disobedience published in 1849. I thus began to call the Indian movement Satyagraha, that is to say, the Force which is born of Truth and Love or non-violence, and gave up the use of the phrase вЂњpassive resistanceвЂќ, in connection with it, so much so that even in English writing we often avoided it and used instead the word вЂњsatyagrahaвЂќ itself or some other equivalent English phrase. Truth (satya) implies love, and firmness (agraha) engenders and therefore serves as a synonym for force. This is the doctrine of satyagraha in a nutshell.' ДЇor Gandhi, satyagraha went far beyond mere 'passive resistance' and became strength in practising non-violent methods. And truth being that which is, can never be destroyed. If untruth does not so much as exist, its victory is out of the question. Asatya, meaning untruth, also means nonexistent, and satya or truth also means that which is. This was critical to Gandhi's understanding of and faith in nonviolence: 'The world rests upon the bedrock of satya or truth. In the context of satyagraha, Truth therefore includes a) Truth in speech, as opposed to falsehood, b) what is real, as opposed to nonexistent (asat) and c) good as opposed to evil, or bad. Nothing is or exists in reality except Truth. Satya is derived from the word 'sat', which means 'being'. 'Satyagraha' is a tatpuruб№Јa compound of the Sanskrit words satya (meaning 'truth') and ДЃgraha ('polite insistence', or 'holding firmly to'). Subsequently, to make it clearer, Gandhi changed it to Satyagraha. Maganlal Gandhi, grandson of an uncle of Mahatma Gandhi, came up with the word 'Sadagraha' and won the prize. The terms originated in a competition in the news-sheet Indian Opinion in South Africa in 1906.

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