Gandhi Way to Peace

About this book

In this book, I have tried to fulfil the Gandhi words - the right and the wrongs which had been done to the Community. He first proved to the world about the practical success of his own original method, called Satyagraha i.e. Truth Force. Here the evils of the world may be corrected without recourse to the false arbitrary of war. I have also added chapters which complete the picture of his dietetic and fasting experiments together with certain personal idiosyncrasies that go to make up his complex character. The key substance is based on his two books Satyagraha in South Africa and My Experiments with Truth one of the chapter is also based on Hind Swaraj. "I had long entertained the desire," he declares, "to write a history of that South African struggle. Some things' about it I alone could relate. Only the general who conducts the campaign can know the objective of each particular move; and as this was the first attempt to apply the principle of Satyagraha to politics on a large scale, it is necessary that the public should have some idea of its development." "The beauty," he adds, "of this method is that it comes up to oneself; one has not to go out in search for it. A struggle of Righteousness (He uses the Sanskrit word "Dharma-Yudha"), in which there are no secrets to be guarded, no scope for cunning, no place for untruth, comes unsought and a man of religion is ever ready for it. A struggle which has to be previously planned is not a correct struggle. In the latter God Himself plans the campaign and conducts battles. It can be waged only in the name of God. Only when the combatant feels quite helpless, when he has come to the extreme point of weakness and finds utter darkness all around him, only then God comes to the rescue. God helps, when a man feels humbler himself than the very dust under his feet. Only to the weak and helpless is the divine succour vouchsafed."