Love, the Cohesive Force - Gandhiji

Scientists tell us that without the presence of the cohesive force amongst the atoms that comprise this globe of ours, it would crumble to pieces and we cease to exist; and even as there is cohesive force in blind matter, so must there be in all things animate and the name for that cohesive force among animate beings is LOVE. We notice it between father and son, between brother and sister, friend and friend. But we have to learn to use that force amongst all that lives, and in the use of it consists our knowledge of God. Where there is love, there is life; hatred leads to destruction.

- Young India, May 5, 1920

Courtesy: ‘Truth is God’ by M.K.Gandhi; Published by Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad-380014, Gujarat