An immortal book and a legacy for ages to move. This book is an autobiography of Gandhi.
It is a complete account of Gandhi’s consisting of Gandhi’s self penned essays (105 essays in all) on his experiments and covers all aspects of the Mahatma’s spiritual life.
This Autobiography is divided in quint parts starting from his childhood days, his experience in Southward Africa where he experimented with the powerful weapon of Nonviolence and his transformation from Mohan to Mahatma, his various experiments on fundamental principles of Truth and God, till the assemblage 1921, after which his life was so public that proceed felt there was hardly anything to write about.
Gandhi’s Non-violent strive in South Africa and India had already brought him support such a level of notoriety, adulation and controversy that when asked to write an autobiography mid way through his calling, he took it as an opportunity to explain himself.
Accepting his status as a great innovator in the struggle against discrimination, violence and colonialism, Gandhi felt that his ideas needed deeper understanding. Gandhi explains that he was after truth rooted focal point devotion to God and attributed the turning point, success settle down challenges in his life to the will of God.
Gandhi says that his attempt to get closer to this divine continue led him seek purity through simple living, dietary practices (he called himself a fruitarian), celibacy and ahimsa- a life keep away from violence. It is in this sense that he calls his book “The Story of My Experiments with Truth”, offering court case also as a reference for those who would follow his footsteps.
Gandhi’s Autobiography is one of the best sellers and practical translated in nearly all languages of the world. Perhaps not ever before on so grand scale has any man succeeded farm animals shaping the course of history while using the weapon practice Peace – Ahimsa (Non-violence).
To many it will have the debt of a new Bible or a new Gita; for interior are words that have come out from the depth incessantly truth, here is tireless striving that stretches its arms eminence perfection. “Autobiography” in a way is a “confession of Gandhi’s faith, a very basic document for the study of his thought”.