Gandhis Thoughts on Hind Swaraj




Some of the thoughts Shared with me by TANA from Unbound Organisation on Gandhis thoughts in line with Hind Swaraj

“For me, it is enough to know the means. Means and end are convertible terms in my philosophy of life. “ Young India, 26-12-’24, p. 424

“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.” Hind Swaraj, (1962), p. 71

“They say ‘means are after all means’. I would say ‘means are after all everything’. As the means so the end…There is no wall of separation between means and end. Indeed the Creator has given us control (and that too very limited) over means, none over the end. Realization of the goal is in exact proportion to that of the means. This is a proposition that admits of no exception. Young India, 17-7-’24, p. 236

“The clearest possible definition of the goal and its appreciation would fail to take us there, if we do not know and utilize the means of achieving it. I have, therefore, concerned myself principally with the conservation of the means and their progressive use. I know if we can take care of them, attainment of the goal is assured…This method may appear to be long, perhaps too long, but I’m convinced that it is the shortest. Selections from Gandhi, (1957), pp. 36-37


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My thoughts for discussion


The means to achieve the ends were far simpler and manageable during those times when Gandhi lived.His pereceptions reflect his age when industrialisation was just now rising its global outlook and in its shadows were visible the seeds of today that Gandhi sensed and must have articulated .

The perception of means and the ends were far easier to understand to what we have today to deal with.Therefore the basic essence of Gandhis thoughts and discovery remains the corridors in which we have to rethink on our basic understanding of the ENDs and MEANs in the contemporary context as it appears very fragmented and in parts that is completely driven by the individual dream of greed or corporation with mutiple versions but all leads to the same place of GREED in excess of the collaterals.

Gandhi must have truely seen this in its present form as a visionary and expressed himself in distain to mass production approach.

The means should be very clear and in collective consciousness(GOAL) that will be in harmony of the collective ends and not trample on anything to distort the landscape of social justice.

It must work within the framework of the well defined GOAL and should be directly proportionate to the GOAL in subsistance and self reliance.

Thereby there will be no wall between the goal and the means as the goal will be the soul of the means in progressiveness.Once the soul has left the means then the means becomes an instrument of self destruction, consumating anything and everything in its path as the space of self expression implodes and so does the community.Interpolating the world into a ghetto of individuals activism breeding in socio-environmental terrorism

The need to reflect and redefine the understanding of the very foundation of the current ENDs is the surest way to take the first step to bring a Social Change today

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