Gandhi's brahmacharya experiments — An ode to the truth.

Thu, 02 Dec 2021 09:24:58 +0000

Brahmacharya - popularly but wrongly, described by its partial meaning of sexual abstinence - was inseparably interlinked with Gandhi's pursuit to truth and non-violence. The main goal of Gandhi was to gain moksha that is self - realisation as he said in the preface of his autobiography. His self-searching attitude had led him to believe that a seeker must pursue truth and non-violence and brahmacharya simultaneously - the truth as the ultimate and inviolable goal, non-violence as the path to reach the goal and brahmacharya as a way of making oneself fit to travel along the path.