![]() ![]() But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title has deeply pained me. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. "My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry the principle was truth and the cry freedom. ![]() In very good condition with some toning to the spine. He called his delving into many aspects of life an 'experiment', and he succeeded in making a positive difference on so many lives. Frontispiece of the author to both volumes. Before reading this book, I would not have guessed that he had tried to commit suicide as a young man (by taking poisonous seeds), and I was thankful for the frankness with which he expresses his trials and flaws. The average reader will spend 8 hours and 14 minutes reading this book at 250 WPM. Item Number: 24096įirst editions of the Gandhi’s classic autobiography. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth. ![]()
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