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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

My Experiments with Truth

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  • Zulfir Sadathas quoted2 years ago
    Manusmriti at any rate did not then teach me ahimsa. I have told the story of my meat-eating. Manusmriti seemed to support it. I also felt that it was quite moral to kill serpents, bugs and the like.
  • Zulfir Sadathas quoted2 years ago
    But the fact that I had learnt to be tolerant to other religions did not mean that I had any living faith in God. I happened, about this time, to come across Manusmriti which was amongst my father’s collection. The story of the creation and similar things in it did not impress me very much, but on the contrary made me incline somewhat towards atheism.
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    The face of truth is hidden behind the golden veil of maya, says the Upanishad.
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    Hate the sin and not the sinner’
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    brahmacharya lies the protection of the body, the mind and the soul
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    advised that it was far better to remain unlettered and break stones for the sake of liberty than to go in for a literary education in the chains of slaves will probably be able now to trace my advice to its source.
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    Finally, this is better, that one do His own task as he may, even though he fail, Than take tasks not his own, though they seem good. To die performing duty is no ill; But who seeks other roads shall wander
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    Service which is rendered without joy helps neither the servant nor the served.
  • shahid07ansarihas quoted7 years ago
    Howsoever you may repair it, a rift is a rift.
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