{"product_id":"mohandas-k-gandhi-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth","title":"Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWho was Gandhi? In the midst of resurging interest in the man who freed India, inspired the American Civil Rights Movement, and is revered, respected, and misunderstood all over the world, the time is proper to listen to Gandhi himself — in his own words, his own \"confessions,\" his\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandhi made scrupulous truth-telling a religion, and his \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eAutobiography\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e inevitably reminds one of other saints who have suffered and burned for their lapses. He gives a simply narrated account of his boyhood in Gujarat, marriage at age 13, legal studies in England, and a growing desire for purity and reform. He details his gradual conversion to vegetarianism and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eahimsa\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(non-violence) and the state of celibacy (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003ebrahmacharya,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eself-restraint) that became one of his more arduous spiritual trials.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGandhi was a fascinating, complex man, a brilliant leader and guide, a seeker of truth who died for his beliefs but had no use for martyrdom or sainthood. In the political realm he outlines the beginning of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSatyagraha\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ein South Africa and India, with accounts of the first Indian fasts and protests, his initial errors and misgivings, his jailings, and continued cordial dealings with the British overlords.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMahatma Gandhi writes of this book: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMy purpose is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eSatyagraha,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eGandhi's nonviolent protest movement (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003esatya\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e= true,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eagraha\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e= firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers and patriots have capitalized on \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eMahatma\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003emyths. Yet Gandhi writes: \"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eOften the title [Mahatma, Great Soul] has deeply pained me. . . . But I should certainly like to narrate my experiments in the spiritual field which are known only to myself, and from which I have derived such power as I possess for working in the political field\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis story, the path to his vision of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eSatyagraha\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand human dignity, is a critical work of the twentieth century, and timeless in its courage and inspiration.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51687542882620,"sku":"9780486245935","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0273\/2005\/files\/51lbFRQiSlL._SL1000.jpg?v=1758125357","url":"https:\/\/frugalbookstore.net\/products\/mohandas-k-gandhi-autobiography-the-story-of-my-experiments-with-truth","provider":"Frugal Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}