Mahatma Gandhi and his impact on Mauritius
Pahlad Ramsurrun

Gandhi in his speeches and writings showed that it had a very positive connotation and a meaning, which cannot be easily plumbed. To the very end of his life, he refused to accede to all requests from his friends and well-wishers to write a detailed dissertation on the subject. He said that posterity should write about it culling from his life and works (he, however, warned that no one would succeed!). This ahimsa or love-force (as he described it) is not restricted to human beings, animals and other living physical beings but it extends, above all, to Truth which is God (as Gandhi liked to phrase it). His Experiments with Truth (title of his autobiography) was nothing but the story of this-his great Love (ahimsa). As an inveterate experimenter, he sought to express this love in many ways for God and his fellowmen. He did not stop at any boundary. Even his brahmacarya experiments were part of this search to test the very boundaries of his ahimsa (love-force).