He admits to stealing and drinking excessively – all actions from which he now aspires to redeem himself. Gandhi recalls eating meat, a practice he later renounced, and relates that he had a rather hedonistic lifestyle in general. The beginning of the autobiography traces Gandhi’s childhood and young adult life in Rajkot and Porbandar. Gandhi expresses ambivalence about the usefulness of the typical autobiography, a Western literary invention. He also claims that the book is moral and spiritual in nature, mostly straying from politics.
In the book’s introduction, Gandhi disclaims that the opinions and ideas expressed in his autobiography are subject to change and that its purpose is not to relay a static picture of himself, but to show how personal truths evolve over time. The book has been recognized as one of the most important spiritual works of the twentieth century. The autobiography seeks to explain the experiential roots of Gandhi’s activist vocation. Gandhi was compelled to write the autobiography by his close friend, Swami Anand, who would become his literary manager. Published in a weekly journal, Navjivan, between 19, it covers the span of time between Gandhi’s early childhood through roughly 1921.
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.The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the autobiography of Indian activist Mohandas K. Yet Gandhi writes: "Often the title has deeply pained me.
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 Mahatma myths. "My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry the principle was truth and the cry freedom. In very good condition with some toning to the spine. Frontispiece of the author to both volumes. Item Number: 24096įirst editions of the Gandhi’s classic autobiography.
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