Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas :


Measuring myself by that standard I must exclaim with Surdas :
Where is there a wretch
So wicked and loathsome as I ?
I have forsaken my Maker,
So faithless have I been.

For it is an unbroken torture to me that I am still so far from Him, who, as I fully know, governs every breath of my life, and whose offspring I am. I know that it is the evil passions within that keep me so far from Him, and yet I cannot get away from them.

The Story of My Experiments with Truth

M. K. Gandhi

The Ashram, Sabarmati, Ahmedabad.

26th November, 1925



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