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It highlights his ideas on simple living and high thinking, ethical economics, and the moral foundations of political decisions. It also addresses misunderstandings about science and technology, arguing for mechanization without obsession and for production by the masses, while stressing democracy, welfare of the unprivileged, and non-violent world cooperation.","|  |  |  |  |  |\n| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |\n|  |  | An Autobiography Or\u003Cbr>The Story of My Experiments With Truth\u003Cbr>By: M . K. Gandhi\u003Cbr>Translated from the Original in Gujarati by\u003Cbr>Mahadev Desai\u003Cbr>General Editor\u003Cbr>Shriman Narayan\u003Cbr>Printed & Published by:\u003Cbr>Navajivan Publishing House\u003Cbr>Ahmedabad 380 014 (INDIA) |  |  |\n|  |  |  |  |  |\n\nFOREWORD  \nThroughout the world, almost all nations will be celebrating from October 2 this year the birth centenary of Mahatma Gandhi who is now universally recognised as the glorious symbol of truth and non-violence. Gandhiji was not only a great national leader who liberated India from foreign domination through a peaceful and bloodless struggle, but also a profound thinker who placed before the world certain eternal principles for the guidance of human relationship and international behaviour. He laid the greatest stress on the purity of the means for the achievement of noble ends. “The means may be likened to a seed, the end to a tree; and there is just the same inviolable connection between the means and the end as there is between the seed and the tree.” 1 The Mahatma never compromised his adherence to this ideal even for the attainment of Swaraj for India. He was convinced beyond any shadow of doubt that this method of righteousness was, “ultimately, the shortest, although it may appear to be long, perhaps too long.” 2  \nTo Gandhiji, civilization, in the real sense of the term, consisted “not in the multiplication, but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants.” 3 He always upheld the sublime aim of “simple living and high thinking”. While he strained every nerve to provide gainful employment to the hungry millions of India through various constructive activities, he underscored the imperative need for raising the ‘standard of life’ of the people, including the ethical and moral aspects. To him mere affluence and accumulation of material wealth was‘a primrose path’ leading to social, economic and cultural disintegration. “True economics,” affirmed Gandhiji, “never militates against the highest ethical standard.” “An economics that inculcates Mammon worship, and enables the strong to amass wealth at the expense of the weak, is a false and dismal science.” 4 At a time when a number of developed countries are faced with this‘tragedy of mere affluence’ it would be worth our while recollecting Mahatma Gandhi’s insistence on higher values for the establishment of a new world order. As a recent editorial in the New Statesman captioned ‘Not By Bread  \nAlone’ stated, “there is evidently a hunger in the world for governments which are activated by moral principles, which take decisions not because they are expedient, but because they are right.” 5  \nThere is an erroneous notion that Gandhiji was against the use of modern science and technology and favoured out-dated technniques for some spiritual or sentimental reasons. “I would price every invention made for the benefit of all,” remarked Gandhiji. “Mechanisation is good when the hands are too few for the work intended to be accomplished. It is an evil when there are more hands than required for the work, as is the case in India.” 6 Gandhiji was, thus, not against machinery as such, but objected to the ‘craze’ for machinery and its ‘indiscriminate multiplication’. In place of ‘mass production’ he advocated a system of ‘production by the masses’. He clearly envisaged that in a developing country like India, with scarce capital and abundant labour, the physical energies of the masses could be converted into a vast constructive force under a democratic frame-work, which Professor Mumford, in a somewhat different context, terms a ‘megamachine’. 7  \nWe have to realize without equivocation that the pursuit of material prosperity alone would land us into a blind alley. 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