Dear All. Though the extract below is from a political article,the relevant quote is regarding the message of the religous mythos of Indiaand it holds quite good -- The lessons of history are learnt in the solitude of introspection and application. Before M K Gandhi took on the British Empire, he had already experimented with satyagraha in Durban. Gandhi understood the mythos of eternal India; the acceptance of destiny and passivism as a virtue, which he turned into a powerful new weapon called non-violence. ..., the Mahatma was a natural politician who innovated ways to connect with people—he walked for miles to Dandi and Noakhali, he rode second class in trains and went on fast in public to enforce his will. http://expressbuzz.com/biography/The-prince-misses-the-point/274501.html