It is 3rd of October and I am late for posting
this.
Yesterday was 2nd of October, the birth
anniversary of our beloved Bapu, Late Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. I didn’t do
anything this day to celebrate his birth anniversary but when the house
cleaning was in progress, I came across a book names ‘Satya na Prayogo’. It is
a Gujarati book or Auto-biography written by him and I immediately went in the
past and remembered how fondly I used to read this book. I have never really
completed it. That doesn’t mean I did not find interesting because I have read
this book for about five times in my life.
This book can give you an idea of thought process of this
man. This book taught me to be humble in my behaviour, to be ashamed of the
ill-will towards others and I feel deep down inside a lot of the features of my
personality or my character have been developed after reading this book. I am
not saying that I am a true follower of his ideals and his belief, what I am
saying is that this book has had a huge influence on me.
This piece of literature is not actually about
literature, it is not about teaching his ideals, it is about the account of his
life, in his own words, and there could not have been any other better judge of
his life than he himself. It is about the story of a young man growing up,
slowly moving towards the legend that he would become. He speaks of the lies
that he spoke, he tells us about the theft that he committed, he speaks of the
first time that he ate non-veg without the knowledge of his parents, he speaks
of the sexual desires that he had and he leaves no truth covered. He bares it
all.
And even then, it is not only about these incidents. When
you read the book, you will come to know about the simplicity of his mind and
the manner of thinking.
I don’t have much to say any more but I recommend
everyone to at least try to read his book one, you will be for some treat and
true awakening. The book in English is ‘My Experiments with Truth’.
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