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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday April 14 1946

1946

The wish to be so educated as to be qualified for the highest post is to be appreciated and encouraged the wish to be appointed to such a post on the basis of belonging to a caste or a class is essentially to be deprecated and discouraged. [...] " I have been praying to God to give me the right word " he remarked to one of his companions in describing the night's vigil " so that it will induce those to whom it is addressed to act with the courage and wisdom 'which the occasion demands." During the week he accepted an invitation to attend a silent prayer service of the Friends and paid a visit to the I. N. A. camp and hospital. [...] 5. The destruction of the ghee industry will not only adversely affect the welfare of the cultvators but it will have a very deleterious effect on the cattle industry upon which the prosperity of the whole nation directly depends. [...] The answer is that prayer is the first and the last lesson in learning the noble and brave art of sacrificing self in the various walks of life culmnating in the defence of one's nation's liberty and honour. [...] A typical illustration of this was afforded in 1930 at the time of the Dandi March when in the absence of the Sardar he set the whole of Gujarat from one end to the other ablaze with Satyagraha.
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Harijan Ahmedabad—Sunday April 14 1946
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