Gandhi’s Work, Gandhi’s Message, Andrews, Tagore

Abstract

The letters in this chapter focus on Gandhi’s ideals along with discussions on how an ‘inner voice’ directed his work. That Gandhi was guided first and foremost by God’s will is best expressed in his words when he wrote to Andrews on 7 April 1932: ‘There are many other things I have done and am still doing against my will, because I count my will as nothing before God’s will when I see it clearly before me. I will make myself as certain as it is humanly possible to be, that, the will that appears to me to be God’s is really His, and not the Devil’s. But when I am clear about it, I rejoice in obeying that will, rather than mine, although I have no human companion to endorse it.’