Impact of Gandhism in Europe

Gandhi's moral sense had various aspects that are strange to most modern European. Matters of diet had an importance to him which is a little puzzling. In the midst of events of most enormous important, it would occur to him that he ought not to eat salt of pulse, and he would feel about this with the same earnestness that he felt about the fate of India. For example he took a vow against milk, but when he was very ill, the doctor said he would die unless he took milk. His wife pointed out to him that the word he had used in his vow applied only to the milk of the cow or the buffalo, and did not include the mink of the goat. It was therefore permissible for him to drink goat's milk. He was aware that his death would be a loss of India, and this ground he allowed himself to accept his wife's argument, although it appeared to him somewhat sophistical.


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