Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaSeptember 5If I preach against the modern artificial life of a sensual enjoyment, and askmen and women to go back to the simple life epitomized in the Charkha, I doso because I know that without an intelligent return to simplicity, there is noescape from our descent to a state lower than brutality.YI, 21 July 1921September 6Don’t be dazzled by the splendour that comes to you from the west. Do not bethrown off your feet by this passing show. The Enlightened One has told you innever to be forgotten words that this little span of life is but a passing shadow,a fleeting thing, and if you realize the nothingness of all that appears beforeyou eyes, the nothingness of this material case that we see before us everchanging, then indeed there are treasures for you up above and there is peacefor you down here, peace which pass the all understanding, and happiness towhich we are utter strangers. It requires an amazing faith, a divine faith andsurrender of all that we see before us.YI, 8 Dec. 1927September 7What did Buddha do, and Christ do, and also Mohammed? Theirs were lives ofself-sacrifice and renunciation. Buddha renounced every worldly happinessbecause he wanted to share with the whole world, his happiness which was tobe had by man who sacrificed and suffered in search for Truth.Ibid.September 8If it was a good thing to scale the heights of Mt.Ever est. sacrificing preciouslives in order to be able to get there and make some slight observations, if itwww.mkgandhi.org Page 68