66 A PILGRIMAGE FOR PEACE
tions, your mode of working, even your thoughts and
aspirations must necessarily be different from theirs. A
soldier in arms is trained to kill. Even his dreams are
about killing. He dreams of fighting, of winning fame
and advancement on the battlefield by the prowess of his
arms. He has reduced killing to an art. When he is not
engaged in fighting he occupies himself with eating, drink-
ing, swearing and making merry in the way he knows. A
satyagrahi, a Khudai Khidmatgar, on the other hand,
would always long for opportunity for silent service. All
his time would be given to labour of love. If he dreams,
it will not be about killing but about laying down his life
to serve others. He has reduced dying innocently and for
his fellow-men to an art."
" But what shall be the training that will fit you out
for this sort of work ? " he next asked, and replied that it
must be training in various branches of constructive work.
With one lakh Khudai Khidmatgars trained in the
science of constructive non-violence, he told them, trans-
border raids should become a thing of the past. "You
should consider it a matter of utter shame if a single theft
or dacoity takes place in your midst. Even the thieves
and trans-border raiders are human beings. They com-
mit crime not for the love of the thing itself but because
they are driven to it largely by necessity and want. They
know no better. The only method of dealing with them
that has been adopted so far has been that of force. They
are given no quarter and they give none. Dr. Khan Saheb
feels helpless against them because the Government has.
no other way of dealing with them. But you can make a
non-violent approach to the problem, and I am sure you
will succeed where the Government has failed. You can
teach them to live honestly like yourselves by providing
them with cottage occupations. You can go in their midst,
serve them in their homes and explain to them things in
a loving and sympathetic manner, and you will find that
they are not unamenable to the argument of love. There
are two ways open to you today, the way of brute force
that has already been tried and found wanting, and the