Week 5: M.K. Gandhi's MY EXPERIMENTS WITH TRUTH (post 5)

This is Gandhi's autobiography where he had talked about life and his experiements with truth during his lifetime. Gandhi even talked about how when he would hear about someone wanting to commit suicide it wouldn't have an effect on him. He even said, "Ever since I have been grown up, I have never desired to smoke and have always re-garded the habit of smoking as barbarous, dirty and harmful. I have never understood why there is such a rage for smoking throughout the world." Based on this, I feel that personally I can relate to Gandhi in this sense of his belief towards smoking. He even stated how if he was crammed in a room with people smoking that he would become choked.

Gandhi said that he had felt that way ever since he had been grown up. Many people don't feel that way growing up especially how much peer pressure has an effect amongst people these days. Gandhi was a great man and was very respectful especially in his non-violence acts and beliefs in his life with his Ahisma non-violence lifestyle. This type of lifestyle and way of thinking is what we need to implement into today's society which is filled with violence and negative acts. He even admitted to stealing, " I stole a bit of gold out of my meat-eating brother's armlet." He later wasn't able to bear what was done, so here solved this by vowing never to steal ever again, and he made sure that he confessed this duty to his father in a note that h wrote to him even in the note, Gandhi asked his father to punish him, but for his father not to punish himself for Gandhi's doings. The image of his father reading the letter and crying is still vivid in his mind.