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'நானே பூங்காவனமும் பூவும்' என்று 'மதில்கள்' நாவலில் மையப்பாத்திரத்தின் கூற்றாக ஒரு வாக்கியம் இடம்பெறுகிறது. பஷீரின் படைப்புலகின் அடித்தளம் இதுதான்.
“ஆனால், மனிதன் அறிவது தன் அறிவை மட்டும்தான் என்று எப்போதாவது எண்ணியிருக்கிறாயா? மனிதனின் அறிவு அறியக்கூடுவது என்னும் எல்லைக்குள் அடங்கிவிடுகிறது. அதற்கப்பாலுள்ள எதையும் அவன் அறியமுடியாது. அந்த அறியக்கூடுவது என்பது மானுட மூளையின் இயல்பால் வரையறைசெய்யப்பட்டது. இப்படி சொல்கிறேன், மானுட மூளைக்கு ஓர் அமைப்பும் செயல்முறையும் உள்ளது. அந்த அமைப்புக்கும் செயல்முறைக்கும் ஏற்ப அது பிரபஞ்சத்தை அறிகிறது. அந்த அறிவை பிரபஞ்சம் என புரிந்துகொள்கிறது. அதாவது மூளை தன்னை வெளிப்பொருளில் ஒரு குறிப்பிட்ட வகையில் நிகழ்த்திப்பார்த்துக்கொள்வதுதான் பிரபஞ்சம் என்பது.”
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“One day, the physicist Sir C.V. Raman came up from Bangalore to see Gandhi. Raman’s conceit was legendary. In the summer of 1930, he booked a passage for his wife and himself on a boat leaving for Europe in October, so confident was he of winning the Nobel Prize for physics that year (which he did). Now, meeting an Indian even more celebrated than himself, Raman told him: ‘Mahatmaji, religions cannot unite. Science offers the best opportunity for a complete fellowship. All men of science are brothers.’ ‘What about the converse?’ responded Gandhi. ‘All who are not men of science are not brothers?’ Raman had the last word, noting that ‘all can become men of science’.
Raman had come with a Swiss biologist who wished to have a darshan of the Indian leader. Introducing his colleague, Raman said he had discovered an insect that could live without food and water for as long as twelve years. ‘When you discover the secret at the back of it,’ joked Gandhi to the Swiss scientist, ‘please pass it on to me.”
― Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
Raman had come with a Swiss biologist who wished to have a darshan of the Indian leader. Introducing his colleague, Raman said he had discovered an insect that could live without food and water for as long as twelve years. ‘When you discover the secret at the back of it,’ joked Gandhi to the Swiss scientist, ‘please pass it on to me.”
― Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
“வாழ்க்கையில் எழும் பிரச்சினைகளைத் தீர்ப்பதற்கான திறனையும் சக்தியையும் யார் பெற்றிருக்கிறார்களோ அவர்களே சமுதாயத்தைச் சிறப்படையச் செய்வார்கள். விதிமுறைகளுக்கு அடிபணிவோரால் சமுதாயத்தை வளர்க்க முடியாது. அதோடு ஒட்டி ஒழுகுபவர்கள் அதை அப்படியே இருக்கத்தான் செய்வார்கள்.”
― Gora
― Gora
“நன்னீரால் வளர்ந்த தாவரத்தின் முதல் கோடைக்காலம் அது.”
― விலாஸம்
― விலாஸம்
“Gandhi, claimed Ambedkar, had orally promised him that the Congress would encourage candidates from the Depressed Classes who contested in general seats, but in the absence of constitutional safeguards such promises meant nothing. Ambedkar thus wrote that he could not
'accept the assurances of the Mahatma that he and his Congress will do the needful. I cannot leave so important a question as the protection of my people to conventions and misunderstandings.'
'The Mahatma is not an immortal person....There have been many Mahatmas in India whose sole object was to remove untouchability and to elevate and absorb the Depressed Classes but every one of them have failed in their mission. Mahatmas have come and Mahatmas have gone. But untouchables have remained as untouchables'.”
― Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
'accept the assurances of the Mahatma that he and his Congress will do the needful. I cannot leave so important a question as the protection of my people to conventions and misunderstandings.'
'The Mahatma is not an immortal person....There have been many Mahatmas in India whose sole object was to remove untouchability and to elevate and absorb the Depressed Classes but every one of them have failed in their mission. Mahatmas have come and Mahatmas have gone. But untouchables have remained as untouchables'.”
― Gandhi 1915-1948: The Years That Changed the World
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