For those who collaborate with divisive forces in this country and claim that 
they are supporting the issue of anti-corruption, perhaps the quote below by 
Mahatma Gandhi from 'Hind Swaraj' may help throw some light.

"Your belief that there is no connection between the means and the end is a 
great mistake. Through that mistake even men who have been considered religious 
have committed grievous crimes. Your reasoning is the same as saying that we 
can get a rose through planting a noxious weed. If I want to cross the ocean, I 
can do so only by means of a vessel; if I were to use a cart for that purpose, 
both the cart and I would soon find the bottom. "As is the God, so is the 
votary", is a maxim worth considering. Its meaning has been distorted and men 
have gone astray. The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and 
there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as 
there is between the seed and the tree. I am not likely to obtain the result 
flowing from the worship of God by laying myself prostrate before Satan. If, 
therefore, anyone were to say : "I want to worship God; it does not matter that 
I do so by means of Satan," it would be set down as ignorant folly. We reap 
exactly as we sow."



-Soter D.

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