Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-Malawas a glorious thing to give up life after life in planting a flag in the uttermostextremities of the earth, how much more glorious would it be to give not onelife, surrender not a million lives but a billion lives in search of the potent andimperishable truth?YI, 8 Dec. 1927September 9A time is coming when those, who are in the mad rush today of multiplyingtheir wants vainly thinking that they add to the real substance, real knowledgeof the world, will retrace their steps and say: ‘What have we done?’Ibid.September 10Civilization have come and gone, and in spite of all our vaunted progress I amtempted to ask again and again, ‘To what purpose?’ Wallace, a contemporaryof Darwin, has said the same thing. Fifty years of brilliant inventions anddiscoveries, he has said, has not added one inch to the moral height ofmankind. So said a dreamer and visionary if you will, Tolstoy. So said Jesus, andBuddha, and Mohammed, whose religion is being denied and falsified in my owncountry today.YI, 8 Dec. 1927September 11By all means drink deep of the fountains that are given to you in the Sermon onthe Mount, but then you will have to take to sackcloth and ashes. The teachingof the Sermon was meant for each and every one of us. You cannot serve bothGod and Mammon. God the Compassionate and the Merciful, Toleranceincarnate, allows Mammon to have his nine days’ wonder. But I say to you: flyfrom that self-destroying but destructive show of Mammon.Ibid.www.mkgandhi.org Page 69