E-Book - Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi – His Life & TimesMahatma Gandhi is the symbol of the unity between personal morality andpublic action. When conscience dwells at home but not in the workshop, office,classroom and market-place, the road is wide open to corruption and crueltyand to dictatorship.Gandhi enriched politics with ethics. He faced each morning's issues in the lightof eternal and universal values. He always distilled a permanent element out ofthe ephemeral. Gandhi thus broke through the framework of usual assumptionswhich cramp a man's action. He discovered a new dimension of action.Unconfined by considerations of personal success or comfort, he split the socialatom and found a new source of energy. It gave him weapons of attack againstwhich there was often no defence. His greatness lay in doing what everybodycould do but doesn't.'Perhaps he will not succeed,' Tagore wrote of the living Gandhi. 'Perhaps hewill fail as the Buddha failed and as Christ failed to wean men from theiriniquities, but he will always be remembered as one who made his life a lessonfor all ages to come.'www.mkgandhi.org Page 431