ABSTRACT
Mohandas K. Gandhi was an honest thinker, just as he was an astonishingly honest person. Gandhi's profound insight was to identify God with Truth rather than with Goodness. Gandhi had little to say about Beauty. He thought of beauty as a byproduct of a life in Truth and Goodness. Gandhi was also a passionate person. As his autobiographical writings and his correspondence reveal, he had to struggle with his volcanic passions—sexual passion being perhaps the strongest of all—throughout his life. Years later, in 1919–20, Gandhi was likely in love with Saraladevi Chaudhurani. Three years Gandhi's junior, this niece of Rabindranath Tagore grew up in the poet's house in Calcutta. Tagore argues that good human life involves harmony and balance. The only art that concerned Gandhi was the art of living. The harshness of the living conditions had to be conducive to that art, and to that art only.
