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were selfless, or were those feelings based on an expectation in the conjugal relationship that also included lust and carnal desire. Gandhi's conclusion was that probably the latter was true. Then what should be his relationship with his wife and how that relationship could be made more pure and selfless, he considered. My.Ex., op. cit., pp.192-3. See Appndix I for details on Jain view on Aparigraha. Dr. Kamala Jain, The Concept of Panchashila in Indian Thought, (Varanasi: Parshwanath Vidyapeeth, 1983), p.231. Uttarādhyayana, 9.48. "If there were numberless mountains of gold and silver as big as mount Kailash, they would not satisfy any avaricious man; for avarice is boundless like the sky." GTR, Satish Sharma, op. cit., p.83. My.Ex., M. K. Gandhi, op. cit., p.244. Dr. Surjit Kaur jolly, Reading Gandhi (Concept Publishing House,
New Delhi, 2006), p.136. 129 Please see chapter 4, p.4.17-4.18. 130 Narayan Desai, My Gandhi, op.cit, p.80.
YM, M. K. Gandhi, op.cit, p.22. YI, M. K. Gandhi, 13.08.1925, cited in M. K. Gandhi, India of My Dreams (Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad, in soft copy), p.53. "My Ahimsa would not tolerate the idea of giving a free meal to a healthy person who has not worked for it in some honest way. It has degraded the nation and it has encouraged laziness, idleness, hypocrisy and even crime. Such misplaced charity adds nothing to the wealth of the country, whether material or spiritual, and gives a false sense of earning merit by the donor. How nice and wise it would be if the donor were to open institutions where they would give meals under healthy, clean surroundings to men and women who would work for them. I personally think that the spinning wheel or any of the process that cotton has to go through will be an ideal occupation. But if they will not have that, they may choose
any other work; only the rule should be "No labour, no meal." 133
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