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with a mere institutional formula. He felt that humanity was passing through the crisis of a whole civilization and it could be cured only by a restoration of the moral vows of truth and non-violence. Gandhi would have emphatically declared that behind the political crisis lay the crisis of moral values. He taught the absolutism of Ahimsa which has as its political goal the cultivation and realization of the unity of mankind and which plies the activization of the sentiments of mutual loving considerations, harmony, peace, moral autonomy and non-constrained trend towards accommodation. He believed in the moral purification of man to be achieved through self-suffering, non-covetousness and a spirit of loyalty to truth. Gandhi thus advocated a Metapolitical approach to the solution of the maladies of modern civilization.
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