Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with TruthCourier Corporation, 18 abr 2012 - 480 páginas "My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on Mahatma myths. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field." Clearly, Gandhi never renounced the world; he was neither pacifist nor cult guru. Who was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself — in his own words, his own "confessions," his autobiography. Gandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion and his Autobiography inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. His simply narrated account of boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and growing desire for purity and reform has the force of a man extreme in all things. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and ahimsa (non-violence) and the state of celibacy (brahmacharya, self-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of Satyagraha in South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords. Gandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. His story, the path to his vision of Satyagraha and human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration. |
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A SACRIFICE TO VEGETARIANISM | |
EXPERIMENTS IN EARTH AND WATER TREATMENT | |
A WARNING | |
A TUSSLE WITH POWER | |
A SACRED RECOLLECTION AND PENANCE | |
INTIMATE EUROPEAN CONTACTS | |
EUROPEAN CONTACTS Contd | |
INDIAN OPINION | |
EXPERIMENTS IN DIETETICS | |
SHYNESS MY SHIELD | |
THE CANKER OF UNTRUTH | |
ACQUAINTANCE WITH RELIGIONS | |
XXI | |
NARAYAN HEMCHANDRA | |
THE GREAT EXHIBITION | |
CALLEDBUT THEN? | |
MY HELPLESSNESS | |
PART II | |
RAYCHANDBHAI | |
HOW I BEGAN LIFE | |
THE FIRST CASE | |
THE FIRST SHOCK | |
PREPARING FOR SOUTH AFRICA | |
ARRIVAL IN NATAL | |
SOME EXPERIENCES | |
ON THE WAY TO PRETORIA | |
MORE HARDSHIPS | |
FIRST DAY IN PRETORIA | |
CHRISTIAN CONTACTS | |
SEEKING TOUCH WITH INDIANS | |
WHAT IT IS TO BE A COOLIE | |
PREPARATION FOR THE CASE | |
RELIGIOUS FERMENT | |
MAN PROPOSES GOD DISPOSES | |
SETTLED IN NATAL | |
COLOUR | |
NATAL INDIAN CONGRESS | |
BALASUNDARAM | |
THE 3 | |
COMPARATIVE STUDY OF RELIGIONS | |
AS A HOUSEHOLDER | |
HOMEWARD | |
IN INDIA | |
TWO PASSIONS | |
THE BOMBAY MEETING | |
POONA AND MADRAS | |
RETURN SOON | |
PART III | |
RUMBLINGS OF THE STORM | |
THE STORM | |
THE TEST | |
THE CALM AFTER THE STORM | |
EDUCATION OF CHILDREN | |
SPIRIT OF SERVICE | |
BRAHMACHARYAI | |
BRAHMACHARYAII | |
SIMPLE LIFE | |
THE BOER | |
SANITARY REFORM AND FAMINE RELIEF | |
RETURN TO INDIA | |
IN INDIA AGAIN | |
CLERK AND BEARER | |
IN THE CONGRESS | |
LORD CURZONS DARBAR | |
A MONTH WITH GOKHALE1 | |
A MONTH WITH GOKHALEII | |
A MONTH WITH GOKHALEIII | |
IN BENARES | |
SETTLED IN BOMBAY? | |
FAITH ON ITS TRIAL | |
TO SOUTH AFRICA AGAIN | |
PART IV | |
LOVES LABOURS LOST? | |
AUTOCRATS FROM ASIA | |
POCKETED THE INSULT | |
QUICKENED SPIRIT OF SACRIFICE | |
RESULT OF INTROSPECTION | |
COOLIE LOCATIONS OR GHETTOES? | |
THE BLACK PLAGUEI | |
THE BLACK PLAGUEII | |
LOCATION IN FLAMES | |
THE MAGIC SPELL OF A BOOK | |
THE PHŒNIX SETTLEMENT XX THE FIRST NIGHT | |
POLAK TAKES THE PLUNGE | |
WHOM GOD PROTECTS | |
A PEEP INTO THE HOUSEHOLD | |
THE ZULU REBELLION | |
HEART SEARCHINGS | |
THE BIRTH OF SATYAGRAHA | |
MORE EXPERIMENTS IN DIETETICS | |
KASTURBAIS COURAGE | |
DOMESTIC SATYAGRAHA | |
TOWARDS SELFRESTRAINT | |
FASTING | |
AS SCHOOLMASTER | |
LITERARY TRAINING | |
TRAINING OF THE SPIRIT | |
TARES AMONG THE WHEAT | |
FASTING AS PENANCE | |
TO MEET GOKHALE | |
MY PART IN THE | |
A SPIRITUAL DILEMMA | |
MINIATURE SATYAGRAHA | |
GOKHALES CHARITY | |
TREATMENT OF PLEURISY | |
HOMEWARD | |
SOME REMINISCENCES OF THE | |
SHARP PRACTICE? XLVI CLIENTS TURNED COWORKERS XLVII HOW A CLIENT WAS SAVED | |
PART V | |
THE FIRST EXPERIENCE | |
WITH GOKHALE IN POONA | |
WAS IT A THREAT? | |
SHANTINIKETAN | |
WOES OF THIRD CLASS PASSENGERS | |
WOOING | |
KUMBHA MELA | |
LAKSHMAN JHULA | |
FOUNDING OF THE ASHRAM | |
ON THE ANVIL | |
ABOLITION OF INDENTURED EMIGRATION | |
THE STAIN OF INDIGO | |
THE GENTLE BIHARI | |
FACE TO FACE WITH AHIMSA | |
CASE WITHDRAWN | |
METHODS OF WORK | |
COMPANIONS | |
PENETRATING THE VILLAGES | |
WHEN A GOVERNOR IS GOOD | |
IN TOUCH WITH LABOUR | |
A PEEP INTO THE ASHRAM | |
THE FAST | |
THE KHEDA SATYAGRAHA | |
THE ONION THIEF | |
END OF KHEDA SATYAGRAHA | |
PASSION FOR UNITY | |
RECRUITING CAMPAIGN | |
NEAR DEATHS DOOR | |
THE ROWLATT BILLS AND MY DILEMMA | |
THAT WONDERFUL SPECTACLE | |
THAT MEMORABLE WEEKI | |
THAT MEMORABLE WEEKII | |
A HIMALAYAN MISCALCULATION | |
NAVAJIVAN AND YOUNG INDIA | |
IN THE PUNJAB | |
THE KHILAFAT AGAINST COW PROTECTION? | |
THE AMRITSAR CONGRESS | |
CONGRESS INITIATION | |
THE BIRTH OF KHADI | |
FOUND AT LAST | |
AN INSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE | |
ITS RISING TIDE | |
AT NAGPUR | |
FAREWELL | |
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