Mussolini is purely a worldly type. Garlic! He tries to snatch here and there. Hitler is a beast, but also a man. Mussolini is simply a bear. Gandhi is impractical, but a very good man. He thinks [about] what is right, tries to act up to it, admits his weaknesses. The world will never be non-violent. It will be more than non-violence. And more than non-violence is love.
Non-violence means eternal resistance to the longing to retaliate. Love needs no efforts. It is different from resistance to longing. Love demands self-control and spontaneous happiness for the Beloved. This effort is necessary for love, but it is not dry. Non-violence is not the self-control that is needed in love. It is a continuous resistance to the longing to retaliate. One is effort for transformation, the other is an effort for repression. But Gandhi is much above Hitler and Mussolini. He is a great man. Wherever he feels his weakness, he admits it.
The next day, 8 July, Baba stated to the women:
Kill to defend without hate. France will hate England. Of what use is democracy if it cannot help? So neither it nor totalitarianism will remain. Both will go. To get Turkey in a mess before we leave Ranchi, there is only one solution. Tomorrow we go to the [Jonah] Falls, the day after to the circus, and then we get buried [in seclusion] in this house until we go!
Tomorrow, seeing the Falls will make Turkey fall, and seeing the elephant ride the cycle [in the circus] will make Turkey ride wild horses!
As promised, Baba took the women to see the Jonah Falls, 23 miles away, on the 9th. The next evening, Baba took the women and the mandali to Karlekar's Circus. But they could not enjoy the performance, as it was raining and the canvas tent was torn and leaking. During their two-week stay in Ranchi, these were the women's only two outings and they were confined to their quarters for the rest of the stay in Ranchi.
On the evening of 7 July, Baba had sent Kaka to Calcutta to bring masts to him. With much difficulty Kaka managed to bring Karim Baba to Ranchi on the 9th. The mast had not left his seat in Calcutta for over ten years. Only by Baba's inner help did the mast agree to accompany Kaka (who later said he was repeating Baba's name inwardly).
Baba remarked, "The work accomplished by Kaka in bringing this mast here is more than the work which will be accomplished by the 240 persons who have pledged to abide by the restrictions given them by me for one year."