MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH - HOW IT INFLUENCED ME ?

                                                                    A STORY

Of

My Experiments with Truth

 

Author – Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi

Publisher – Navajivan Publishing House

The influence of the ‘A Story of My experiments with Truth’ in my life .

 

 

It is hard to believe that a person who was an advocate became the ‘Father of the Nation’. The book gives a clear view how Bapuji led his life of truth and wisdom . He did not support one party or religion , he stood with those who told truth . This made me think and read more about this extraordinary person .

 

I from the bottom of my heart loved the book . He himself has told in this book that as he finished his first page of this autobiography , he had to pause the work because the riots were broken out at Bombay . This shows his dedication to the nation . He went to Bombay leaving his own work . Following , he was 

imprisoned at  Yeravda .

Once , Bapuji was really affected with a conversation with his friend who asked him whether this decision of writing an autobiography was right? . He pointed out that no person in the East has wrote an autobiography . He added that it was the passion of the West to write autobiography . He asked Gandhi whether he would regret for the decision in the future.

          This made Bapuji a little exhausted. But he never went back . His strong decision made this a great success. Now this book has been read by millions and trillions o people around the world . His character of taking strong decisions made me inspired and which made me take good decisions and to be strong.

      He writes that he had never thought of writing an autobiography but he has seen this book only as his life journey o truth .

         He , in this book wanted to narrate his experience with truth at various aspects of  his life .

Gandhi never was fond of his title as ‘Mahatma’ because it always gave him a pain in his heart .

       His character of being simple , kind- hearted and self depended influenced me lot . Because these are the three components of life in my view . The people with these qualities are found less. These all qualities are hard to find in a person .

                   Now a days the people never think of the problems others face . They always think of their happiness and never think from other’s point of view . For such a society , this book is very useful . Bapuji had dreamt of a new India with western and Indian with same importance . He wanted Indians to practise their respective culture , as India has a wide variety of culture and diversities , and also know about the new technologies and inventions that is being made throughout the global economy .

         Gandhi worked as an newspaper editor in Johennesberg for the newspaper ‘Indian Opinion’ . While he was working there , he was strongly influenced by the book titiled ‘Unto the Last’ by John Ruskin .

       Bapuji followed the value points from that book . He always applied these three facts in his life . They are as follows :

1.                       A good of the individual is contained in the good of all .

2.                       A lawyer’s work has the same value as a barber’s , in so much as they all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work .

3.                       A life of labour , i.e , manual labour is a life worth living .

          Gandhi in 1894 , helped and found the Natal Indian Congress.

            He returned to India from South Africa in 1915 . He travelled Calcutta , Benares , Agra , Jaipur , Palanpur and Rajkot and studied the conditions of the places . He lead three massive satyagrahas at Champaran , Kheda and Chauri – Chaura .

         He dedicated his whole life to India and its countrymen . He decided to go on a diet . He wanted to live a life of the poorest .

      

 

         In my view , Bapuji’s way of living was the appropriate way to live . Because the caring and dedication he gave to other’s problems was very influencial . I liked the following points from this book that Gandhiji applied in his life :

    1. Truthful character

2.Self – realization

3.Self – depended

4.Strong decision making

5.Simple way of living

7.Dedication to  work

8. Caring and love for others .

9. No inequality among any caste , religion or gender .

         I hope that this book would make all the readers a will to be self – depended and be self -motivated  always . This book helped me to take a number of decisions .