Passage 24

In English

was greatly surprised at the peaceful attitude of . He thought that the suffering of having lost all her children had driven her to insanity, for, otherwise he was not able to understand how a true mother could show such forbearance when the person who had killed all her children was standing before her. He said, “If you do not kill , I will kill him with my fists.” was a great woman with exemplary character. If only the women of today take her as an example and follow her qualities of forbearance and calmness, our country will improve very much. When , the strong person, was preparing to kill with his fists, would it be possible for a weakling like to go and stop ? It was only the purity of her thought that was her strength. She had no physical strength. Then she tells , “It is not right for you to kill a person who is afraid, who comes to you asking for shelter, a person who is asleep, or a person who is drunk and has forgotten himself. It is not right to kill such helpless people.” was such a great woman that in order to protect right conduct, she would even oppose her husbands. She was not a woman who would bring disrepute, by any of her acts, either to her husbands, or to her father, or to her sons. She did not want anyone to get hurt by her acts.