Premanand Maharaj Ji
If I stay silent while someone harasses me, will they ever stop?
Eknath Swami's patience changed the harasser
If you do not retaliate, the other person will not simply keep going unchecked. He will correct himself, as the man who spat on Eknath Swami a hundred times did.
A man's house stood above the lane where Eknath Swami was walking. Each time he returned from bathing, the man spat on him; he went to bathe again and was spat on again, a hundred times, and he said nothing.