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FOUNDED BY MAHATMA GANDHI IN 1936
THE SELECTED WORKS OF MAHATMA GANDHI
Vol-5 : Voice of Truth
VOICE OF TRUTH
from
Selected Works of Mahatma Gandhi
Volume V
Written by : M. K. Gandhi
Table of Contents
PART I : SOME FAMOUS SPEECHES
- Benaras Hindu University Speech
- Statement in the The Great Trial of 1922
- On the Eve of Historic Dandi March
- Speech At The Round Table Conference
- The ‘Quit India’ Speeches
- Speech Before Inter-Asian Relations Conference
- Speech On The Eve Of The Last Fast
PART II : SELECTIONS
- SECTION I : TRUTH, WORLD AND MAN
- SECTION II : MEANS AND ENDS
- 7. Means and Ends
- 8. The Meaning of Non-violence
- 9. The Law of Human Species
- 10. The Power of Non-Violence
- 11. Qualities of Votaries of Non-violence
- 12. Non-Violence and Cowardice
- 13. What is Satyagraha
- 14. Qualifications and Training of a Satyagrahi
- 15. Non-co-operation
- 16, Civil Disobedience
- 17. Fasting in Satyagraha
- 18. Satyagrahi Leader
- 19. Satyagraha in The Face of Riots and Aggression
- SECTION III : COMPARATIVE IDEOLOGIES
- SECTION IV : ONE WORLD
- SECTION V : RELIGION AND CULTURE
- SECTION VI : ART, LITERATURE AND SCIENCE
- SECTION VII : ECONOMIC IDEAS
- 35. Economics and Ethics
- 36. Supremacy of Man : Full Employment
- 37. Plain Living and High Thinking
- 38. Dignity of Labour : Bread Labour
- 39. Swadeshi
- 40. Economic Equality
- 41. Decentralised Economy
- 42. Village Communities
- 43. Self-Sufficiency
- 44. Co-operation
- 45. Trusteeship
- 46. The Evil of Industrialism
- 47. The Place of Machinery
- 48. Khadi and Hand-Spinning
- 49. Village Industries
- SECTION VIII : LABOUR RELATIONS
- SECTION IX : POLITICAL IDEAS
- 55. Politics and Religion
- 56. The State of Enlightened Anarchy
- 57. The Individual is Supreme
- 58. Swaraj
- 59. True Democracy
- 60. Decentralisation
- 61. Village Panchayats
- 62. Parliamentary Democracy
- 63. Franchise and Voters
- 64. The Seat of Real Power
- 65. Legislatures
- 66. Majority and Minority
- 67. A Code of Conduct for Governors and Ministers
- 68. The Popular Ministers
- 69. The Police, Crimes and Jails
- SECTION X : SOCIAL IDEAS
- SECTION XI : BASIC EDUCATION AND STUDENTS
- SECTION XII : UNTO THIS LAST
- Glossary
- Sources
About This Book
Written by : M. K. Gandhi
General Editor : Shriman Narayan
First Edition :10,000 copies, February 1959
I.S.B.N :81-7229-008-X
Published by : Shantilal H. Shah
Navajivan Trust,
Ahemadabad-380014
India
Printed by : N. M. Kothari at Rang Bharati,
Todi Estate,
Sun Mill Compound,
Lower Parel,
Bombay-400013
India
© Navajivan Trust, 1969
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SECTION I : TRUTH, WORLD AND MAN
Chapter-3: God in Nature
I was charmed with the natural scenery about Hrishikesh and the Lakshman Jhula, and bowed my head in reverence to our ancestors for their sense of the beautiful in Nature, and for their foresight in investing beautiful manifestations of Nature with a religious significance.
An Autobiography (1966), p. 296
I may gaze out upon the starry heavens overhead that stretch in an unending expanse of beauty. What conscious Art of man can give me the panoramic scenes that opens out before me, when I look up to the sky above with all its shinning stars.... I personally feel how inadequate these are compared with the eternal symbols of Beauty in Nature.
Young India, 13-11-‘24, p. 377
‘Is there Truth in a sun-set or a crescent moon that shines amid the stars at night?’
Indeed. These beauties are truthful, inasmuch as they make me think of the Creator at the back of them. How also could these be beautiful, but for the Truth that is in the centre of creation? When I admire the wonder of a sunset or the beauty of the moon my soul expands in worship of the Creator. I try to see Him and His mercies in all these creations.
Young India, 13-11-‘24, p. 378
I find in the practice of treeworship a thing instinct with a deep pathos and poetic beauty. It symbolizes true reverence for the entire vegetable kingdom, which with its endless panorama of beautiful shapes and forms, declares to us as it were with a million tongues the greatness and glory of God.
Young India, 26-9-‘29, p. 320