His spiritual teacher was the Jain philosopher/poet Shrimad Rajchandra. Assuming leadership of the Indian National Congress in 1921, Gandhi led nationwide campaigns for easing poverty, expanding women's rights, building religious and ethnic amity, ending untouchability, increasing economic self-reliance, and above all for achieving Swaraj-the independence of India from British domination. He became a leader of Muslims protesting the declining status of the Caliphate. basing politics on religion) he reached out widely to all religious groups. A lifelong opponent of "communalism" (i.e. Returning to India in 1915, he set about organizing peasants to protest excessive land-taxes. Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslim and Hindu Indians in South Africa, using new techniques of non-violent civil disobedience that he developed. The son of a senior government official, Gandhi was born and raised in a Hindu Bania community in coastal Gujarat, and trained in law in London. Employing non-violent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for non-violence, civil rights and freedom across the world. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, commonly known as Mahatma Gandhi, was the preeminent leader of Indian nationalism in British-ruled India. It is in this sense that he calls his book "The Story of My Experiments with Truth", offering it also as a reference for those who would follow in his footsteps. His attempts to get closer to this divine power led him to seek purity through simple living, celibacy, and ahimsa a life without violence. He says that he was after truth rooted in devotion to God and attributed the turning points, successes, and challenges in his life to the will of God. He believed that the truth alone is the God. For him truth is the sovereign principle, which includes numerous other principles.The truth is not only truthfulness in word, but also truthfulness in thought also.
He went through deep self-introspection, searched within himself through and through, and examined and analyzed every psychological aspect of the situation. In addition to his experiments in the social and political field, he narrates about his spiritual experiments.
"I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth.as my life consists of nothing but those experiments."
His early boyhood life, legal studies, purification and ultimate salvation of his homeland is carefully recounted in this inspiring and critical work of insurmountable importance. Personal account of the life of the man who freed India from colonization through the Satyagraha (nonviolent protest)movement.
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