Gandhi and his promise

I have solemnly promised to my mother not to touch meat, and therefore I cannot think of taking it.

Gandhi and morality.

But one thing took deep root in me-the conviction that morality is the basis of things, and that truth is the substance of all morality. Truth became my sole objective. It began to grow in magnitude every day, and my definition of it also has been ever widening.

Gandhi and Religion.

From my sixth or seventh year up to my sixteenth I was at school, being taught all sorts of things except religion. I may say that I failed to get from the teachers what they could have given me without any effort on their part. And yet I kept on picking up things here and there from my surroundings. The term 'religion' I am using in its broadest sense, meaning thereby self-realization or knowledge of self.

Gandhi and a clean confession.

A clean confession, combined with a promise never to commit the sin again, when offered before one who has the right to receive it, is the purest type of repentance.

Gandhi and True friendship,

A reformer can not afford to have close intimacy with him whom he seeks to reform.True friendship is an identity of souls rarely to be found in the world. Only like natures can friendship be altogether worthy and enduring. Friends react on one another. Hence in friendship there is a little scope for reform.

Gandhi and early marriage.

If I claim to be a wor-shipper of truth. It is my painful duty to have to record here my marriage at the age of thirteen.As I see youngsters of the same age about me who are under my care, and think of my own marriage. I am inclined to pity myself and to congratulate them on having escaped my lot. I can no moral argument in support of such a preposterously early marriage.

Gandhi and His childhood

I must have been about seven when my father left Porbandar for Rajkot to become a member of the Rajasthanik Court. There I was put into a primary school, and I can well recollect those days, including the names and other particulars of the teachers who taught me. As at Porbandar, so here, there is hardly anything to note about my studies. I could have been only a mediocre student. From this school I went to the suburban school and thence to the high school, having already reached my twelfth year. I do not remember having ever told a lie,during this short period, either to my teachers or to my schoolmates.