“That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditatin…” — Satish Kumar

This gives us more time to attend the inner need.

I grew with it, and I used to go to see the monks, who had no possessions, even more extreme than my mother.

Monks will have three begging bowls for their food: one for water, one for liquid food, one for dry food.

So, at the age of nine, I became a monk, and from then on I was there practicing that kind of nonviolence.