Bharatiya Chintan ki Parampara me Navin Sambhavanae Part 2

Author(s): Radheshyamdhar Dvivedi
Publisher: Sampurnanand Sanskrut Vishvavidyalaya Varanasi

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GANDHI : FROM "GOD IS TRUTH
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in God. They seem to forget that Gandhi went about in Truth and in 'Experiments with Truth' and that he offered Satyāgrah not only to 'the believers' in God but to the whole of humanity as 'a panacea for all ills' man is subject to. He did not exclude Buddhists, who do not believe even in a permanent 'Soul of man. Nor did he want to deprive the atheists, or radical rationalists, agnostics, sceptics from the use of Satyāgrah, which in its utter simplicity means "adherence to and or insistence on Truth” even at the cost of life. What he required in the followers of Truth was Ahimsā, Non-violence, love, even for the opponent.
We have seen that Gandhi believed in the importance and sacredness of Truth since his boyhood. As he grew, he began to believe in God and understand the importance of the concept of God, in relation to himself as a person and in relation to the world around him. But blind faith in anything was never one of his weaknesses. One who loves truth and seeks truth cannot believe in anything, much less in God, as he becomes constitutionaly habituated to questioning about the truth of things. It is only after such persistent questioning, after applying his mind assiduously to the problem of existence and the roots of being as becoming, and after some experience of the presence of some supreme power behind and beyond the universe of our sense-experience, that he began to assert that God is Truth. It means that this wonderous, beautiful magnificient world is not merely a fantasia or an imaginative peotic creation, but it has an orderliness and some law which regulates everything, from the speck of dust under our feet to the stary heavens and galaxies in the heavens and cosmos. God meets us everywhere, in every thing and all the time
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