Mohan-Mala - Mahatma Gandhi

Mohan-MalaDecember 27My patriotism is not an exclusive thing. It is all-embracing and I should rejectthat patriotism which sought to mount upon the distress of the exploitation ofother nationalities. The conception of my patriotism is nothing if it is notalways, in every case, without exception, consistent with the broadest good ofhumanity at large.YI, 4 April 1929December 28I do not believe that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surroundhim suffer. I believe in advita, I believe in the essential unity of man and forthat matter, of all that lives. Therefore, I believe that if one man gainsspiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls the whole worldfalls to that extent.YI, 4 Dec. 1924December 29Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All menare equal in God’s eyes. There are, of course, differences of race and statusand the like, but the higher the status of man, the greater is his responsibility.ER, p. 57December 30Just as the cult of patriotism teaches us today that the individual has to die forthe family, the family has to die for the village the village for the district, thedistrict for the province, and the province for the country, and so a country hasto be free in order that it may die, if necessary, for the benefit of the world.GIV, p. 170www.mkgandhi.org Page 97