Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaH, 29 June 1935August 9'Earn thy bread by the sweat of thy brow,' says the Bible. Sacrifices may be ofmany kinds. One of them may well be bread labour. If all laboured for theirbread and no more, then there would be enough food and enough leisure forall.Ibid.August 10Then there would be no cry of over population, no disease, and no such miseryas we see around. Such labour will be the highest form of sacrifice. Men will nodoubt do many other things, either through their bodies or through their minds,but all this will be labour of love, for the common good. There will then be norich and no poor, none high and none low, no touchable and no untouchable.Ibid.August 11Even if, without fulfilling the whole law of sacrifice, that is, the law of ourbeing, we perform physical labour enough for our daily bread, we should goalong way towards the ideal. If we did so, our wants would be minimized, ourfood would be simple. We should then eat to l live, not live to eat. Let anyonewho doubts the accuracy of this proposition try to sweat for his bread; he willderive the greatest relish from the productions of his labour, improve his healthand discover that many things he took were superfluities.H, 29 June 1935www.mkgandhi.org Page 60