While still in high school at the age of 13, in an arranged marriage, Gandhi marries a woman named Kasturbai, who stands by him his whole life. He is educated in the local schools until he finishes high school. The story begins with Gandhi's childhood in the Porbandar and Rajkot. The book is basically about how Gandhi arrives at the principles he holds and how they come about from his search for and belief in truth. Gandhi says that at this point, his life has become so public that there is no need for him to write about it. Gandhi traces Gandhi's life from his birth in Porbandar until the end of 1920, after his policy of non-cooperation with government is passed by the All-India Congress Committee. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth by Mohandas K. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. But I know I still have before me a difficult path to traverse. The experiences and experiments have sustained meĪnd given me great joy. The knowledge of them has made me feel humiliated though not defeated.

Ever since my return to India, I have had experiences of the dormant passions lying hidden within me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me far harder than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms. That is why the world's praise fails to move me indeed it very often stings me. I know that I have not in me as yet the triple purity, in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. To attain perfect purity, one has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. But the path to self-purification is hard and steep. And purification being highly infectious, purification of oneself necessarily leads to the purification of one's surroundings. Self-purification, therefore, must mean purification in all walks of life. Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification without selfpurification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. I simply want to tell the story of mynumerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an autobiography. It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography.

Story of my experiments with truth