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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the knotty problem of existence is cleared, all doubts are resolved and all the impediments in the way of knowing and realising the reality are removed, making way for the illumination, enlightenment, or Sambodhi as Buddha Bhagwan put it. This shows how meticulous Gandhi was about the value of truth; God himself had to pass through the test of Truth.
Gandhi won his God through the criteria of Truth, by the evidence of all the tools of knowledge. But how can one expect all people to be so patient, so rational and painstaking. It is so easier to believe in God as matter of routine or straight away deny the existence of God. Candhi came across many person denying God. He was not necessary for them, nor inevitable. One can do without Him. Some went to the extent of preaching that belief in God was harmful, it came in the way of human effort to change for the better. Many turned fatalists in the name of God. Many others cursed God; if at all He was there. why this imperfect and miserable world ? Some people declared that God was dead by the twentieth century, if at all he was there before. Some high intellectuals said science can explain everything and can solve all problems, why owe allegence to an unknown and unseen God who seems to be absent-minded anyway, in many matters. Nikita Kruschev, the Russian dictator who visited India in 1955, told me when he came to Bihar, that he had sent a lady astronant in the heveans to find out if God was there'. There was Gora, the archatheist of Vijayawada who believed in Truth and Nonviolence but not in God. The problem which faced Gandhi was, how to include every honest human being, even a denyer of God, in a solid phalanx of men and women to
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