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Above all, a votary of truth mustĮxercise the greatest caution. I now realize that a public worker should not make statements of Madanjit'sĮstimate without caring to examine it, and told Mr. I have, however, an impression that this discovery led Mr. But he never so much as uttered one word of complaint. In fact, he had a right toĪrraign me for having described the concern as profitable without West might have left when he discovered that there was no I shall try to put things right as best I can. There are heavyĪrrears to be recovered, but one cannot make head or tail of them.Ĭonsiderable overhauling will have to be done. To yield the profit that you had thought probable. Indian Opinion was getting more and more expensive every day. Some of the changes that he had made in his life were as prompt as Translating into practice anything that appealed to his intellect. We seemed to hold closely similar views on the essential The same evening we got to knowĮach other. 'I am sub-editor of the The Critic,' he said 'When I read your letter to the press about the plague, Iįelt a strong desire to see you. I invited him to come to my table, which he did. One evening a young man diningĪt a table a little way off sent me his card expressing a desire to Some of the newĬontacts with Europeans became so close that they added considerably Increased my business and my responsibility.

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I live and move and have my being in pursuit of this goal.' The introduction reads, 'What I want to achieve - what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain Moksha. In the last chapter he writes, 'My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know.' The book is in five parts, beginning with his birth, up until the year 1921. The original was in Gujarati, and was later translated into English and other Indian languages. Most importantly, the author should have experienced all these. Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography Sathiya Sodhani is one book which guides you as to what is right and wrong.

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