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 The Story of My Experiment With Truth

– M K Gandhi

Name –Bhatt  Dhara Janakkumar

Roll No -06  MA-1

Year-2010-11

Submitted To–DevarshiSir

The Story of My Experiment With truth

Preface:-

        Mahatma Gandhi’s famous autobiography ‘The Story of Experiment With Truth  , is one of the imperishable  classics of our time .In unfold the various stages of development of a shy Kathiawar  boy into one of the greatest men .It originally appeared in Gujarat in Navajivan and in `young India. It was first issued in book form in 1925.

        Mahatma Gandhi was a unique phenomenon in entire human history. He was considered as one of the gentlest and the sweetest sons of Adam .He belonged to that race of great men who are great at many things and whose greatness behold large areas of human experience .He identified himself with the lowest of the law, but even the tallest of nation stood up to serve him, and greatness was an unusual greatness.

Gandhiji‘s view on Truth and Non –Violence:-   

        Mahatma Gandhi‘s famous autobiography ‘’the story of my experiment with truth is one of the imperishable classics of our time.

 Truth:-

        Truth was Gandhiji’s  pole star .He  is life and his ideas are always studies in relation to the religion of Truth from his early childhood he loved ,truth became his sole object and ultimately ,he became the apostle of Truth  .Ahimsa and peace .In others words ,he perfected the art of  Ahimsa.

                According to Gandhiji Ahimsa and Truth are correlated and can never be disentangled and separated. He belived that Ahimsa is the means and Truth is the end Ahimsa is means for the attainment of Truth .We should firmly observe it in our daily life. He writes,

“Ahimsa is not the goal Truth is the goal but we have no means of realizing Truth in human relationship except though the practice of Ahimsa, A steadfast pursuit of Ahimsa is inevitably bound to truth not to violence that is why I swear by Ahimsa; Truth came naturally to me Ahimsa .I acquired and after a struggle.”

                Ahimsa is love infinite we should love the evil doer but should fight the poison of evil in his heart. “Hate the sin not the sinner “

               

                Without the observance of Ahimsa in thought, word and dead Truth cannot be realized.

                     

“This Ahimsa is the basic of the search for truth I am realizing everyday that the search is vain unless it is founded on Ahimsa as the basic”

Non –violence:-

                Non –violence does not encourage passivity. It is an active force of the highest order; Ahimsa does not mean resignation from all real fighting against wickedness.

                Non violence cannot be preached .It has to be practiced According to Gandhiji non violence is not a negative and honorable method of meeting violence injustice, repression and cruelty .It is brings about harmony, peace and amity.

                Mahatma Gandhi was a practiced idealist who practiced Ahimsa in his own life.  He had first object lesson in Ahimsa when he made a written confession to his father about his habit of his staling wept and forgave him Recalling this incident Gandhiji writes ;

“This war for me ,object lesson in Ahimsa Then I Could read nothing more father’s love ,economic and non violence agitate and inquiry in champ ran was bold experiment with Truth and Ahimsa.”

Gandhiji’s view on religion :-

                Gandhiji was a man of religion and a humanist, more than a nationalist and patriot .Although he was a devout Hindu he stood for religious homogeneity and practiced and proved this truth in his life religion, he did not mean the customary religion.

                Although Gandhiji remained essentially a Hindu .He also studies the scriptures of other religious .He found divinity not only in Ramayana Bhagavat Gita or Vedas but also scriptures of the religious of the world.

                He said

“Every religion is as precious to me as my own Hinduism .No thought of me as conversion is permissible to me all we must help a Hindu to become a better Hindu”

                Musaiman to become a better musalman and a Christian to become a better Christian.

                According to Mahatma Gandhi prayer is the soul and essence of religion .He believed that prayer order and peace in our day to day activities. It there is no discipline in one’s life he is ultimately shattered. Prayer is an unfailing means of cleansing the heart of passions. 

Gandhiji‘s views on Education:-

                Gandhiji ‘aim of education is complete development of physical spiritual education. He saw education. He saw education as an instrument of fulfilling the social purpose and did not approve the western system of education is the western system of education is the creation of ‘education middle class’.

                This class was segregated from the hard realities of life and has an question to all forms of manual work .Gandhiji placed main emphasis upon manual education than upon literary theoretical education because he knew that man has to earn his bread by the exercise of his hands. He believed in ‘Do and learn’. Natural training is far greater as it is responsive and there four, the quickest and cheapest in the world.

                According to Gandhji, the supreme aim of education is to make men who can see clearly and imagine vividly, thinks soundly and will nobly plan quickly and act faithfully for their country’s service. This ideal of education aims at the perfect development of intellectual faculties but intellectual faculties, but intellectual knowledge without moral and spiritual development cannot give sound result.

                Just as physics training is imparted thought physical exercise, intellectual exercise, even so the training of the spiritual is possible only through the exercise of the spirit.

                Gandhiji’s arrival on the Indian political scene was not only a displacement of   the one leader a revolution in the ways of the ways of life and thoughts of the Indians .Gandhji was not only the politician, he was the liberator, the Messiah.

                He himself forged the weapons of Satyagraha and civil disobedience hartal and bonfire of foreign cloth. He felt that fear makes the slave not the prison or poverty or physical debility and when fear will leave the people they will become automatically free potentially free when he launched the non cooperating move men, he clashed with many, including Robindranath Tagore himself, but he was unrepentant and adamant

                Gandhiji stood aloof from politics but with Dandy march and the inauguration of salt Satayagra leadership again two or three years later ,he again without from active politics ,but the second world war compelled to lunch the “Quit India” movement in 1942 ,which was his third and last of his major campaigns in India Gandhi came into politics  not because he intended to but his devotion to truth drew him into the field of politics .He wanted  peace and non violence and war of the belief that the use of violence should be given up once and for all and disputes and problem should be resolved through the view of peace full negotiations .

Gandhiji view about on untouchability and women:-   

               

                Gandhiji fought for the human rights of untouchable and non –violently and vehemently. He aimed at establishing a classless egalitarian society in which all citizens would contribution their mite to social and nation well being.

                Gandhiji believed in the fundamental equality of all persons. He labored all though his life for the welfare of Harijan. He condemned Hinduism for the induction of the untochability.

He hoped that harijans should be granted religion, economic, social and educational equality.

                Gandhiji admitted Harijans in his Sabarmati Ashram and granted to them equality of status. By his effort the resolution about the removal of untouchability was passed by all Indian congress committee as its Nagpur session.        

                She is the mother and makes of man .He regarded women as ‘an incarnation to tolerance’ and also as ‘the incarnation of Ahimsa’ which means infinite capacity for suffering.

“He objects to treat women as the object of man’s lust .He admitted that the practice of dowry, the bounds of caste in marriage and forced widowhood are social crimes perpetrated on women in India. He advised women to resort to civil rebellion against all undesirable and unworthy restrains”

Gandhiji views on Satyagraha:-

             

                Satyagraha combines Satya and infinite spiritual power. Gandhiji felt that the English word ‘passive resistance’ was too narrowly constructed to explain the real nature of the Indian movement.          

                Satyagraha is the technique of overcoming evil with good. It is absolutely a non violent weapon, but at the same time a very powerful weapon, with this weapon. Gandhiji could win political freedom.

“The aim of Satyagraha movement is not to capture power but to control and guide power effectively. A satyagrahi never intends to embarrass the wrong doer”.

              According to Gandhiji a Satyagraha is like a coin, on whose face you read love and on the reverse you read truth. The greatest achievement and lasting contribution of Mahatma Gandhi consists in giving the shape of action to the ideal of Satyagraha.

                The champran Satyagraha movement was bold and successful experiment with Truth and Ahimsa Ahimsa and it resulted Satyagrah.

                Gandhiji developed chiefly three types of Satyagrah:

Non cooperation

                Gandhiji first of all presented a resolution for non corporation in the joint conference of Hindu and musalman .Non cooperation implies that no person or group has power over a Satyagrahi unless he grants it. He is entitled to non cooperate even with government in case of a betrayal.

Civil Disobedience

                A specific law is selected to be broken openly by group of Satyagrahis who afterwards surrender themselves and cheerfully accept the full legal personalities for their actions Gandhiji first applied this technique by disobeying the order to leave champ ran.

Fasting and Penance

                Mahatma Gandhi believed in the technique of easting for various purposes, first for health, secondly for penance and thirdly for non violence and Satayagraha Fasting produced a salutary effect upon the erring people who never repeated their unbecoming behavior in future.

                To Gandhi sharpened his spiritual and moral power. The first public fast which he under took was in south .Africa in connection with suffering of the indentured who had joined the Satayagraha struggle in South Africa.

                Mahatma Gandhi believed in Satyagrah as a powerful means of national liberation and well being and as an instrument for establishing a non violence society and also for maintaining it here is analysis of the some chapter.

Part 5

1)  The first experiment

                The phoenix party reached India before his arrival .He had no ashram like that of the phoenix for them. He cabled of them to meet Andrews and do as he advised. The phoenix party was first put in Gurukul kangri, where Swami Shradhanandji treated them as his own children after sometimes they were shifted to Shantiniketan Ashram where Tagore and his people showered love on them.    

2)  In Touch With Labor

                Since Gandhiji had to Ahmadabad to look the condition of labor, his plan of doing constructive work was upset .The laborers in Ahmadabad refused to recognize the principle of arbitration. He advised the laborers to go on strike. He explained to them the conditions of a successful strike;

“Never to resort to violence”

“Never to molest blacklegs”

“Never to depend upon aim” and

“To remain firm, no matter how long this strike continued and to earn bread, during the strike, by any other honest labor.”

             

                The leaders of the strike understood and accepted the conditions. He also entreated the mill owners to do justice to labors, but they refuses to accept the interference of the third party.

3)   Near Death’s door

                During the recruiting campaign of groundnut butter and lemons, at that time he had a slight attack of dysentery. Within an hour the dysentery appeared in acute form.

                He refused aid .He was completely exhausted and suffered from delirious fever Vallabhai brought the news that Germany had completely defeated and the commissioner had informed that recruiting was no longer necessary. It gave him a very great.

                He tried hydropath which gave some relief .He felt that he was at death’s door. He had lost all hope of his survival. Dr Talvalker came with sit Kalka who was known “Ice doctor”. Gandhiji allowed himself to put under kelkar’s ice treatment. It improved his health and enables him to take interest in public activity.

4)   The birth of khadi

                In 1908 Gandhiji described handloom or spinning wheel as the panacea for the growing pauperism of India in Hindu Swaraj .but even in 1915 .he had not actually seen a spinning wheel. A weaving expert was employed to teach them to weave before they could work looms.

                Their main object was to be able to clothe themselves entirely in clothe manufactured by their own hands. In the beginning they had to face many difficulties. They could get neither a spinning wheel nor a spinner to teach them how them to spin.

                In 1917 Gandhiji came to know Gangebehn Mahmud she lightened his burden by a promise to prosecute on a promise to prosecute an earnest search for the spinning wheel.

             

Farewell:-

                From this point onwards Gandhiji’s life hardly anything about it that the people did not know Gandhiji frankly and honestly described his experiment with truth he writes,

“To describe truth as it has appeared to me and the exact manner in which I have arrived at it has been my ceaseless effort. The exercise has given me ineffable mental peace, because it has been my fond hope that it might bring faith in Truth and Ahimsa to wavers.”

            

                He said that “those who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not knew what religion means”.

                Gandhiji attached great improvement to self purification.

                In bidding farewell to the reader Gandhiji asked him to join with him a prayer to God of truth that

        

“He may great the born Ahimsa is mind, word and deed.”

Conclusion:-

                Mahatma Gandhi‘s greatness was not sudden. He was unique phenomenon. His greatness was an unusual greatness which beholds large areas of human experience. His infinite love for Truth and Ahimsa made him an apostle of truth and non violence. His high ideals elevated him unrivalled greatness lies not in these ideals in these sublime ideas in his daily life observing his uniqueness, it can be said that a man like Gandhiji will not occur in thousand years.