Gandhi Ji's Fundaas

Gandhi Ji's Truth

Gandhi Ji's truth had two faces, the absolute and the relative. Man, as long as he was in the flesh, had only fleeting intimations of absolute truth. He had to deal with relative truth in his daily existence. Gandhi Ji liked to employ a parable to illustrate the difference between his two truths. Put your left hand in a bowl of ice-cold water, then in a bowl of luke warm water, he would say. The luke warm water feels hot. Then put the right hand in a bowl of hot water and into the same bowl of luke warm water. Now the luke warm water feels cold; yet its temperature is constant. The absolute truth is waters constant temperature, he would observe, but the relative truth perceived by the human hands varied.

Gandhi Ji on Sex

Gandhi Ji had some different views on sex. According to him the act of sex should be performed solely for the purpose of re-production and not for enjoyment. He advocated that the sex diffuses human energy which should be conserved and utilized in proper direction. He himself took the vow of Brahmcharya at the age of 37. And he followed sexual continence afterwords through out his life.