“I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives.”

Young India (4 December 1924)
1920s
Context: I do not believe as the friend seems to do that an individual may gain spiritually and those who surround him suffer. I believe in advaita [nonduality], I believe in the essential unity of man and for that matter of all that lives. Therefore I believe that if one man gains spiritually, the whole world gains with him and if one man falls, the whole world falls to that extent.

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pre-eminent leader of Indian nationalism during British-rul… 1869–1948

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