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My Experiments with Truth

By: Mohandas K. Gandhi
Narrated by: Surjan Singh
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth is the compelling autobiography of Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi, who inspired millions with the sheer strength of his personal actions and steadfast upholding of the twin principles of truth and non-violence in the face of the most adverse circumstances. Starting from his birth, this autobiography traces the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man who went on to become a Mahatma. Divided into five sections, the listener is moved by the stark honesty with which Gandhi has written his autobiography

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Gandhi had an incredible life. So this book gives much insight into his thinking as well as the political and social lives of South Africa and India. The narrator speaks very clearly.

Gandhi's openness and honesty

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I have to say that I am rather shocked at how disappointed I am with this book. I have always considered Ghandi a giant among men--one of the truly great to have come along through some of the most brutal times of the late 19th and early 20th Century. His philosophy of non-violent, passive resistance (i.e., "ahimsa") set the mark for other great people to follow. Clearly, his role in helping India to secure its separation and eventual freedom and independence from the British Empire was nothing short of heroic on the grandest of scales--but this work gives readers very little insight into this historic effort. It's not even covered until perhaps the last 10% of the work, and even then one gets the impression that by his own account his role in India's separation from the yoke of colonialism comes across as almost serendipitous. So much of the book is instead centered around Ghandi's struggle with personal denial/self-control--in the Hindu religion "Brahmachanya" (the concept of personal self-control or the lack of engagement in excess). In Ghandi's case, his exercise of Brahmachanya included celibacy (even though he was a married man), vegetarianism in the extreme (e.g., refusing to partake of not only meat, but milk and eggs), and extreme asceticism involving the renouncement of essentially all earthly pleasures because...what? They reduced "human purity" and supposedly would limit one's karmic progression to the "next" and higher level of existence in reincarnation? I'll never, ever get this about religion. It's really not that different (nor distant) to the Christian "flagellants" of the Middle Ages who believed that punishing the flesh gave promise to a "higher reward" in the next life. I can't help but wonder if Ghandi would have found any relevance (or even enlightenment) if he would have read Thomas Paine's "The Age of Reason." At a minimum, he might have had more fun. Anyway, if you expect some kind of enlightenment of you own by reading this book, take a pass.

WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT...

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