![]() ![]() Or near-saint, there was a very shrewd, able person who could, if he hadĬhosen, have been a brilliant success as a lawyer, an administrator orĪt about the time when the autobiography first appeared I remember reading its opening chapters in the ill-printed pages of some Indian newspaper. The unregenerate part of his life and reminds one that inside the saint, In his favor, all the more because it covers what he would have called But this partialĪutobiography, which ends in the nineteen-twenties, is strong evidence Sort of pilgrimage in which every act was significant. Gandhi's acts and writings in immense detail, for his whole life was a Principles by entering politics, which of their nature are inseparableįrom coercion and fraud? To give a definite answer one would have to study To what extent was Gandhi moved by vanity - by the consciousness of himselfĪs a humble, naked old man, sitting on a praying mat and shaking empiresīy sheer spiritual power - and to what extent did he compromise his own In Gandhi's case the questions one feels inclined to ask are: Tests that have to be applied to them are not, of course, the same inĪll cases. SAINTS should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent, but the Gandhi's belief in God, love, truth andīrotherhood were unshakeable and were practiced by him time and again during Man, the strength of his principles and the extent to which he could go to The British too thought they knew GandhiĪnd could use him for their gain but, few people realized the depth of this ![]() Interested in bestowing sainthood on a man who himself did not believe that he Orwell focuses on some of the Mahatma's virtues which have gone unnoticed by us because we were more (The people of India consider Gandhi to be a saint. ![]()
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