Gandhi
The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Introduction
Supposing you reject tomorrow the things you hold as principles today, or supposing your revise in the future your plans of today, is it not likely that the men who shape their conduct on the authority of your word, spoken or written, may be misled?
A: I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.
What I want to achieve — what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years — is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain Moksha.
I have carried out the process of acceptance or rejection and acted accordingly. And so long as my acts satisfy my reason and my heart.
I worship God as Truth. Truth is the sovereign principle, which includes numerous other principles. This truth is not only truthfulness in word, but truthfulness in thought also, and not only the relative truth of our conception, but the Absolute Truth, the Eternal Principle, that is God.
But as long as I have not realized this Absolute Truth, so long must I hold by the relative truth as I have conceived it. That relative truth must, meanwhile, be my beacon, my shield and buckler.
My purpose is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha.
Part 1
Morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality.
