Gandhi Autobiography

difference between their life and that of Europeans. They know no scruples regarding food. Cigars are never out of their mouths. ...

Chapter 12 OUTCASTE With my mother's permission and blessings, I set off exultantly for Bombay, leaving my wife with a baby of a ...

The order had no effect on me, and I took my leave of the Sheth. But I wondered how my brother would take it. Fortunately he rem ...

when we were in the Red Sea: 'It is all very well so far but you will have to revise your decision in the Bay of Biscay. And it ...

I was very uneasy even in the new rooms. I would continually think of my home and country. My mother's love always hunted me. At ...

One day the friend began to read to me Bentham's Theory of Utility. I was at my wits' end. The language was too difficult for me ...

Chapter 15 PLAYING THE ENGLISH GENTLEMAN My faith in vegetarianism grew on me from day to day. Salt's book whetted my appetite f ...

been a luxury permitted on the days when the family barber gave me a shave. Here I wasted ten minutes every day before a huge mi ...

succeeded in exercising strict economy in their disbursement, and instead of outstanding debts have had invariably a surplus bal ...

With my preparation for another trial, I made an effort to simplify my life still further. I felt that my way of living did not ...

The economic consideration was of course constantly before me. There was in those days a body of opinion which regarded tea and ...

strenuous experiments which will be narrated later. The seed, however, for all of them was sown in England. A convert's enthusia ...

my pocket. So far as I recollect, I did not find myself equal even to reading it, and the President had it read by someone else. ...

is so much waste of time. My shyness has been in reality my shield and buckler. It has allowed me to grow. It has helped me in m ...

'Let me help you,' she said. 'I shall explain the card to you and show you what you may eat.' I gratefully availed myself of her ...

Chapter 20 ACQUAINTANCE WITH RELIGIONS Towards the end of my second year in England I came across two Theosophists, brothers, an ...

This reading whetted my appetite for studying the lives of other religious teachers. A friend recommended Carlyle's Heroes and H ...

It was in England that I first discovered the futility of mere religious knowledge. How I was saved on previous occasions is mor ...

Chapter 22 NARAYAN HEMCHANDRA Just about this time Narayan Hemchandra came to England. I had heard of him as a writer. We met at ...

'What do I need money for? I am not a fashionable fellow like you. The minimum amount of food and the minimum amount of clothing ...