Gandhi Autobiography

'Well, that's for me to negotiate,' said I. 'Then it is possible that we may get through the work,' West replied. I woke up the ...

not be. They would have been more expensive and would have meant more time, and everyone was eager to settle down as soon as pos ...

Chapter 99 WHOM GOD PROTECTS I had now given up all hope of returning to India in the near future. I had promised my wife that I ...

wedding was out of the question, not even a special dress was thought necessary. They needed no religious rites to seal the bond ...

doing personally all the physical labour increased. I therefore began to bring my children also under that discipline. Instead o ...

contended, with all the vigour and love at his conmand, that, if children were to learn a universal language like English from t ...

imposed on his people, and had assagaied a sergeant who had gone to collect the tax. At any rate my heart was with the Zulus, an ...

But there was much else to set one thinking. It was a sparsely populated part of the country. Few and far between in hills and d ...

experiences for us, but they have given us no infallible and universal prescription. For perfection or freedom from error comes ...

Chapter 104 MORE EXPERIMENTS IN DIETETICS I was anxious to observe brahmacharya in thought, word and deed, and equally anxious t ...

We are not ashamed to sacrifice a multitude of other lives in decorating the perishable body and trying to prolong it existence ...

'You are welcome to your philosophy. I tell you that, so long as you keep your wife under my treatment, I must have the option t ...

religious texts, and Kasturbai's faith was unshakable. To her the scriptural texts were a sealed book, but the traditional relig ...

for all restraint, whatever prompts it, is wholesome for men. You will therefore leave me alone. It will be a test for me, and a ...

When I came to know him I was startled at his love of luxury and extravagance. But at our very first meeting, he asked searching ...

At that time I did not understand, nor did I believe in, the efficacy of fasting. But seeing that the friend I have mentioned wa ...

restraint. The famous verse from the second chapter of the Bhagavadgita is worth noting in this connection: 'For a man who is fa ...

some time to gardening. The children had the lion's share of this work, which included digging pits, felling timber and lifting ...

I had undertaken to teach Tamil and Urdu. The little Tamil I knew was acquired during voyages and in jail. I had not got beyond ...

that, to my mind, was part of the intellectual training. Long before I undertook the education of the youngsters of the Tolstoy ...