Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi

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  • Why does a person, knowing what is truth, hesitate to utter it? Is he ashamed? Ashamed of whom? Whether high or low, what matters it? The fact is that habit consumes us all. Let us reflect over this and rid ourselves of the bad habit.

    "January 9, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • Unless we are freed from this habit, we cannot tread the path of truth. Indeed, we must sacrifice all at the altar of truth. We wish to appear not as we are but as very much better. How nice it would be for us, if we are lowly, to appear lowlyラbut if we w

    "January 10, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • The more experience I gather, the more I realize that man himself is the cause of his happiness as well as his misery.

    "January 11, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • That being so, why is man happy or miserable?

    "January 12, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • The fact is that man does not like to give any thought to such things; so he persuades himself to believe that he has no time to spare for such reflection.

    "January 13, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • If we wish to live a true life, we must give up our mental laziness and do some basic thinking. Our life will thereby become very simple.

    "January 14, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 426.
  • A seer has called us wayfarers. And it is true. We are here for only a few days. Thereafter we do not die, but only go home. What a beautiful and true thought!

    "January 15, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 427.
  • Hundreds of tons of earth and stone have to be excavated by means of hard labour before even one diamond is discovered. Do we give even a fraction of this labour to the removal of the rubble of untruth and the search for the diamond of Truth?

    "January 16, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 427.
  • Nothing is ever achieved without toil, that is without tapa. How, then, can self-purification be possible without it?

    "January 17, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 427.
  • If all our time belongs to God, how can we afford to waste even a single moment? Likewise, if we belong to God, why should we devote even a part of our being to the pursuit of the vain pleasures of life ?

    "January 18, 1945", CWMG, vol. LXXIX, p. 427.
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