I said, "It is not what I said but it is who said it that makes a difference".
When we were in Cuba, this is what I said to the rebels. I told them, "All that you want is prosperity for your people and it is not going to come to you through violence. For 50 years you have been exercising violence. You bombed the railway stations, the water sources, telephone towers and you just got more misery. If you work with non-violence as your principle, the whole world is with you".
First they said, "No, this is not possible because it will be hypocritical to adopt the Gandhian non-violent principle". It took them three days to understand, digest and look from this angle and on the last day they announced on their own that they will adopt non-violence as the means to achieve their ends. *50 years of war came to an end !*
The South American newspapers and media asked me, "What did you say to them that they agreed to be non-violent? They didn’t agree to the Americans, to the Norwegians and the other people who tried".
I said, "It is not what I said but it is who said it that makes a difference".
- Gurudev Sri Sri ..