My Experiments with Truth: An Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi

by Mahatma Gandhi

Truth is not only truthfulness in word, but truthfulness in thought also, and not only the relative Truth of our conception, but the Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God. There are innumerable definitions of God, because His manifestations are innumerable. They overwhelm me with wonder and awe and for a moment stun me. But I worship God as Truth only.

which I will relate later. Nishkulanand sings: “Renunciation of objects, without the renunciation of desires, is short-lived, however hard you may try.”

clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

facts are three-fourths of the law.

Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served. But all other pleasures and possessions pale into nothingness before service which is rendered in a spirit of joy.

My experience has shown me that we win justice quickest by rendering justice to the other party.

The importance of vows grew upon me more clearly than ever before. I realised that a vow, far from closing the door to real freedom, opened it. Up to this time I had not met with success because the will had been lacking, because I had had no faith in myself, no faith in the grace of God, and therefore, my mind had been tossed on the boisterous sea of doubt. I realised that in refusing to take a vow man was drawn into temptation,

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