Mahatma Gandhi

The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being

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Mahatma Gandhi has the subtitle The Man Who Became One With the Universal Being. The opening text says the literal translation of Mahatma, the name which the people of India gave to Gandhi, is the great Soul. The text says the word goes back to the Upanishads, where it is used in speaking of the Supreme Being.

The text says the Indians in Africa were helpless, unable to defend themselves, with no leader and no one to guide them, and that Gandhi felt it was his duty to defend them. The text says Gandhi was a lawyer at the time and that his first step was to prove the illegality of the Asiatic Exclusion Act from the point of view of law. A passage in the text says that so long as Hindus willfully regard untouchability as part of their religion, so long Swaraj is impossible of attainment. The text says the fact that moral force is a stronger power than brute force will be proved by an unarmed people.

About the author

Romain Rolland

Romain Rolland (1866-1944) was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist awarded the 1915 Nobel Prize in Literature. A committed pacifist and humanist, he is remembered for the epic novel cycle Jean-Christophe and for his outspoken opposition to the nationalism of the First World War.