Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malaaccount, but try to overcome those defects. Looking at all to religions with anequal eye, we would not only not hesitate, but would think it our duty, toblend into our faith every acceptable feature of other faiths.Ibid.April 9Even as a tree has a single trunk but many branches and leaves, so there is onetrue and perfect religion but it becomes many, as it passes through the humanmedium.YM, Chap. XApril 10I came to the conclusion long ago, after prayerful search and study anddiscussion with as many people as I could meet, that all religions were true andalso that all had some error in them, and that whilst I hold by my own, I shouldhold others as dear as Hinduism, from which it logically follows that we shouldhold all as dear as our nearest kith and kin and that we should make nodistinction between them.YI, 19 Jan. 1928April 11The one religion is beyond all speech. Imperfect met put it into such languageas they can command, and their words are interpreted by other men equallyimperfect. Whose interpretation is to be held to be the right one? Everybody isright from his own standpoint, but it is not impossible that everybody is wrong.Hence the necessity of tolerance, which does not mean indifference to one'sown faith, but a more intelligent and purer love for it.YM. Chap. Xwww.mkgandhi.org Page 29