From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction while I held a contrary belief. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. Gandhi, through his lucid and simple style of writing, honest opinions and candid narrations, takes us to the man who was mahatma in his thoughts and actions.“My difficulties lay deeper. Gandhi hides nothing from his readers, he wants his experiences and experiments to reach out to people so that their life becomes worth living. Unlike most autobiographies or biographies, Gandhis autobiography speaks about his fears, regrets, failures, struggles and all that went through his mind while initiating and going through the experiments he conducted, in his and his immediate familys lives. It was later translated by mahadev desai in English, which too was published in installments in his other journal young india.

The original manuscript was written in weekly installments in Gujarati by Gandhi and was published weekly in his journal navjivan from 1925 to 1929. An autobiography of Gandhi, the book starts with his birth and ends with his experiences till 1921. One of the influence rs of the millennium, the half naked Indian man who shook the mightiest empire of the modern world, has a story to tell-his story.

We still see his style being imitated in the political circles-that is Mohandas karamchand Gandhi. Teachings people swear by and entertained to in films. A face we see all around us-everyday, even if we do not visit government offices.

Mahatma gandhi autobiography in english