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Gandhi's Teachers: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta
fight between "good" and "evil," in which ultimately good is always victorious.
74. Bhagavat, an epic philosophical and literary classic, is the most complete exposition of the Vedic knowledge. 75. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, p. 28. 76. Ibid., pp. 28-29.
77. Ibid., p. 27.
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78. See: Chapter 5, footnote 43 above. Some other texts read
by Gandhi were: Narnadashankar's Dharman Vichar, Max Muller's India - What Can It Teach Us?, Sir Arnold's The Song Celestial and The Light of Asia, Washington Irving's Life of Mahomed and His Successors, Carlyle's panegyric on the Prophet. and the translation of the Upnishads by the Theosophical Society. Gandhi also read The Sayings of Zarathustra. See: Ibid., pp. 132-133.
79. See: Chapter 2 - The Life of Rajchandra.
80. Government of India, The Collected Works... Vol. 32... op. cit., 1958-84, pp. 11-13.
81. Gandhi, An Autobiography... op. cit., 1927, p. 60-61. 82. Ibid.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid., p.132. 85.
Gandhi's own writings, speeches, and addresses is the
only main source of information on Rajchandra's
influences on him.
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