Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaOctober 9The wife is not the husband’s bond slave but his companions and his help-mateand an equal partner in all his joys and sorrows as free as the husband tochoose her own path.Auto, p. 25October 10You will guard your wife’s honour and be not her master, but her true friend.You will hold her body and her soul as sacred as I trust she will hold your bodyand your soul. To that end you will have to live a life of prayerful toil, andsimplicity and self-restraint. Let not either of you regard another as the objectof his or her lust.YI, 2 Feb. 1928October 11Just as fundamentally man and woman are one, their problem must be one inessence. The soul in both is the same. The two live the same life, have thesame feelings. Each is a complement of the other. The one cannot live withoutthe other’s active help.H, 24 Feb. 1940October 12But somehow or other man has dominated from ages past, and so woman hasdeveloped an inferiority complex. She has believed in the truth of man’sinterested teaching that she is inferior to him. But seers among men haverecognized her equal status.H, 24 Feb. 1940www.mkgandhi.org Page 77