by M K Gandhi
M4 sowed the seeds of the attack on me in Natal
M5 little suffering seen from afar seems large
M6 The work was play for the boys.
M7 officials and statesmen
M8 The wilderness is our latrine.
M9 at the Haveli
M1 Loyalty and Nursing
M2 ‘God Save the King’
M3 British national anthem, ‘God Save the King’
M4 I discharged my loyalty thinking of it as a debt.
M5 I perceived some pretence in it. It seemed that tree planting was to be done only to please the Sahibs.
M6 it grew.
M7 ‘God Save the King’
M8 singing of the anthem
M9 relatives
M10 Bombay
M11 severe
M12 brother-in-law
M13 hobby
M14 I describe this inclination as a hobby because I have seen that such qualities are sustained only when they become a source of joy.
M1 speech
M2 even standing room
M3 stood up, took the papers from Deshpande and fulfilled my task
M4 For me it was akin to having bathed in the Ganga.
M5 Judge Cursetji, however, moved the Parsi friend from his resolve. The reason was a Parsi sister.
M6 why would he come to South Africa?
M7 language
M8 I felt that even from his point of view I should cling to it
M1 In Poona
M2 an impartial
M3 He embraced me affectionately and made me one of his own.
M4 had met before
M5 there is the fear of being drowned in
M6 an impartial
M7 parties
M8 A large portion of it was sold
M1 other visitors
M2 I could not even wet my beak there
M3 wanderer
M4 as they left one after another
M5 Englishmen as well
M6 were aware of
M7 could. He asked me to write to him even after I had returned to South Africa and promised to do his best. He
M8 late brother-in-law
M1 family
M2 and hence she must dance to his commands
M3 worn-out skin
M4 does not sink all of a sudden
M5 I can say that I had no fear of the storm or at any rate the least fear
M1 A dinner is always followed by speeches.
M2 heavy losses
M3 plunged them into suffering
M4 I did not even know the passengers of the Naderi.
M5 I described the Western civilization as predominantly violent; the Eastern as non-violent.
M1 ‘Please disembark Gandhi and his family at dusk. The whites are highly enraged against him and his life is in danger. The Port Superintendent Tatum would escort him in the evening.’
M2 regarding Mr. Gandhi
M3 in a clandestine way after dark
M4 and it was quite a crowd
M5 The moment she saw me, she came and stood beside me and opened her parasol though there was no sun then.
M6 I landed from the steamer bravely and when subsequently, faced with real danger, I escaped in disguise?
M7 mere speculation as the examination is incomplete
M8 the assailants, but what do I gain by
M9 ‘My views on the matter are formed. It is certain that I do not wish to bring prosecution on anyone, and I will give that to you in writing just now.’
M1 there was recession in Natal. The Transvaal had better prospects for earning
M2 clarification
M3 whites
M4 Thus the end result was to my benefit. And benefit to me was benefit to the cause.
M5 The whites realized that the Indians had the capacity to fight with determination, and this increased their fear.
M6 The dispute eventually reached England. But the laws were not annulled.
M7 in South Africa
M8 of the establishment and management of many public institutions
M9 no public institution should run
M10 the public is not willing to support
M1 woman
M2 We pulled along somehow. My dealings with the boys were only through Gujarati, and they learnt some Gujarati through this.
M3 Therefore for the most part they stayed with me.
M4 on his own will left South Africa
M5 in the context of the satyagraha
M6 knowledge of letters
M7 knowledge of letters
M8 have any regret
M9 painful results
M10 unconsciousness
M11 At a time which I consider to be my period of stupefaction and indulgence, he was at an age where he would have clear recollections. How is he to believe that it was my period of unconsciousness? Why should he not believe that it was my period of wisdom and the subsequent changes were undesirable and born of delusion? Why should he not believe that at that time I was on the royal road, recognized by the world as such, and for that reason secure, and the subsequent changes are the signs of refined egotism and ignorance?
M12 my boys had acquired degrees of barrister and suchlike
M13 I have carried out, or helped others carry out, different experiments on some other children,
M14 in terms of humanity
M15 Despite raising the boys under my care, had I given up self-respect and not cherished the idea of restraining my desire to give my own what was not available to other Indian children
M1 bodily service
M2 person disabled and suffering from leprosy
M3 I lacked the wherewithal and courage
M4 nursing
M5 to take on this responsibility
M6 It is difficult to get a trained Indian nurse in India, what to speak of South Africa?
M7 in the initial period I bathed and cleaned the infants
M8 have an effect on
M9 progeny.
M10 I think it is deep, dark ignorance to believe that sexual gratification is an autonomous act.
M11 with great effort
M1 It is time now to consider brahmacharya. Monogamy as an ideal had a place in my heart
M2 I read this out
M3 prepared tea for him
M4 affection
M5 like a magnet
M6 Husband and wife have a sense of oneness, hence love between them is not surprising.
M7 aggressor
M8 external remedies
M9 was not bondage but a door to freedom
M10 pleasures. What can impede complete renunciation of a thing that is undesirable?
M11 to renounce
M12 appropriateness of giving up that thing
M1 And yet I could clearly see that it was my duty. My intentions were pure. I launched forth thinking that God would give me strength.
M2 The desire for self-control had been intense since 1901 and I did practise it as well.
M3 Now passions became incapable of riding over me.
M4 been a preparation for it
M5 but a source of joy
M6 Brahmacharya was natural and effortless
M7 point out such fruit or grains
M8 in matters of food, drink and seeing etc.
M9 the one practising self-control and the one leading a licentious life, between the life of one who submits to passions and one who renounces them
M10 prays to Rama enthroned in his heart
M11 eat. But one eats only to pay rent to sustain the temple of God in the form of the body
M12 the millions
M13 if the atman exists, even this is attainable
M14 in my pride I had believed
M15 such brahmacharya as I have described
M16 they have faith in God along with confidence in their endeavour
M1 Simplicity
M2 I failed to cultivate any attraction for it
M3 established a household
M4 I
would not allow you to use your skill as a washerman on this scarf
M5 I got an opportunity to rid myself of the
M6 found it extremely difficult to cut the hair at the back. They were not even in any case
M1 shall
M2 act according to
M3 read that account
M4 also
M5 With the help of Dr. Booth and accompanied by him
M6 also had the opportunity
M7 We were only too eager for this risk
M1 The desolate state of any aspect of the social body has pinched me.
M2 municipal officers
M3 threat to his life
M4 considers reform? If not retrogression, why would society not remain indifferent to it?
M5 taught me a number of things one after another
M6 the opportunities for service
M1 I could have certainly done some service sitting in South Africa
M2 the gifts and the scenes at the meeting this time overwhelmed me
M3 spent a sleepless night like a man whose sense had taken his leave
M4 remain unaffected by them
M5 One cannot return
M6 Kasturba
M7 personal
M1 Dinshawji and Chimanlal Setalvad of that time
M2 pitying
M3 as soon as the train stopped at the next station, I hurried out and ran into my compartment
M4 not among the three, or the thirteen or even counted among the fifty-six
M5 I had a fairly good experience of what Akha Bhagat calls ‘superfluous limb’. Many practised untouchability.
M6 defecating
M1 You are an old servant of
M2 I did not feel prejudiced against anyone
M1 unnerved
M2 was oppressed by the thought
M3 the speed of today’s aeroplanes
M4 scene
M5 suffering
M1 Prominent Indian leaders often stayed at this club
M2 take from you Congress-related work
M3 at
M4 anguish
M5 was told by someone
M1 by the cleanliness of my attire of that period
M2 language
M3 When you will be known to as many people as I am,
M1 found
M2 There was a river of blood facing us.
M3 oppressed
M4 idealism
M1 as much
M2 giving a sermon
M3 Bengal
M4 During that month I also swam across to Brahmadesh. I visited the foongis there.
M5 brass
M1 The third-class compartments were practically as dirty, and the closet arrangements as bad, then as they are today.
M2 seemed to be
M3 never found the regulation limit observed
M4 spitting at the place where one is seated, throwing left-overs on the floor,
M5 gentlemen
M6 ritualistic
M7 ritual worship
M8 outer as well as inner
M9 I seethed within.
M10 became
M11 like myself
M12 washed off his hands
M13 sought darshan of
M1 created
M2 That was also my wish. But I lacked self-confidence that I would get professional work.
M3 I hesitated to take the risk of this case.
M4 ‘In case of a loss, it will be our loss, isn’t it?
M5 This
M6 Some vakil friends had wired me
M7 let you stay here
M8 But even the lowliest of the low will not give me work there.
M1 kind
M2 the child
M3 and the like
M4 unlettered intellect
M5 It would be enough for God that I gave
M6 make a gift of life
M7 In His name and with faith in Him, do not give up your path.
M8 Won’t you perspire a little more?
M9 a great deal
M1 seemed
M2 doze off
M3 thought it desirable to leave the
M4 I wanted those among them who desired to be independent to be encouraged to do so.
M5 carefully built nest
M6 if one could have a glimpse of it, if one could have faith in it, only then would life be meaningful. The quest for this is the highest vocation.
M1 take
M2 only nominal
M3 Was Mr. Chamberlain’s response wrong?
M4 Mr. Chamberlain was to stay for only a few weeks. South Africa is not a small province. It is a country, a continent. Africa consists of many sub-continents.
M5 net
M1 but here I smelled the decay of dirt and corruption like in India
M2 black- and yellow-skinned
M3 its intrigues and other rottenness
M4 for in Asia people had no power, there was only power over people
M5 Sahib.
M6 embittered
M1 Swallowed the Bitter Draught
M2 hardships
M3 I liked this
M4 We cannot tolerate that we would live like dogs here.
M5 a good locality
M1 community’s
M2 Hitherto there was in me a desire to accumulate wealth, service to others was mixed with self-interest.
M3 not given into any of
M4 with God as witness
M1 the Bible
M2 That book became for me a spiritual reference.
M3 I turned to Gitaji for difficulties in mode of conduct and other such conundrums
M4 in India
M1 grew
M2 We are guided by our confidence in you.
M3 As a result your public work would suffer.
M1 take me back
M2 It cured me of my constipation.
M3 associates, and I can scarcely remember it failing on someone
M4 at every moment
M5 I should not prolong the description of my present condition. Hence, we turn towards the period of 1904–05.
M1 body and the mind
M2 the choice with regard to diet—both its acceptance and rejection—is as essential as the choice—both its acceptance and rejection—of thought and speech
M3 I should not only not advise them to follow it but actively dissuade them from doing so
M4 any vaidya, doctor, hakim or anybody else
M1 dismissing the matter altogether
M2 the tyranny of the officers was so much that they could not find too many to spy for them
M3 used
M4 to help
M5 White classes
M6 This matter
M1 Atonement
M2 but the clerk born in a Panchama family
M3 to remove his chamber-pot
M4 this
M5 But I was a loving as also a cruel husband.
M6 quarrel
M7 I had forgotten God. Not a drop of compassion remained in me.
M8 The Ganga and the Jamuna flowed from her eyes
M9 You have no shame, but I do. Have some sense of decency at least.
M10 Feel some shame
M11 If someone were to see us, neither of us would look good.
M12 Kasturbai can, if she wishes, scold me today.
M13 From the year 1900 onwards
M14 has
M15 sought fulfilment in her life
M1 the dweller within
M2 I do not know with any certainty whether all my actions may be considered as those of the dweller within.
M3 inspired by the dweller within
M4 describing my faith in God in pure form
M5 in submission to the prompting of the invisible dweller within
M6 about that sacred recollection
M7 Autobiography of My Experiments with Truth
M8 dweller
M9 I began to have
M10 mode of life and food
M1 clerks. I cannot say whether they shoul
d be called clerks or sons.
M2 no Indian
M3 typewriting person, man or woman, who would not object to working under a ‘black’ man. In South Africa stenographers and typists are mostly women. This agent
M4 at one time even
M5 She feared no one.
M6 I am not fully acquainted with her mind at present
M7 When all of us were in prison, when hardly any responsible man was outside,
M8 lakhs
M9 he was fond of giving marks to each one’s character
M1 community
M2 writings
M3 terms
M1 Scavengers’ Quarters
M2 The Indians who lived there were not well-educated, ideal Indians knowledgeable about the rules of municipal sanitation and hygiene, and, therefore, could not do without the help or the supervision of the municipality. If those Indians who went there had been the kind who could make merry in the forest and transform dust into wealth, theirs would have been a different history. We do not know anywhere large numbers of people of this type prospecting in foreign lands.
M3 free
M4 three kinds of sorrows
M5 Who would either call me or regard me a ‘Sahib’?
M1 according to
M1 items necessary for the patients
M2 others
M1 faults regarding
M2 enforce its will
M3 There was heaps of money at my place.
M1 constructive
M2 us
M3 not all have good ideals in equal measure