ABSTRACT
Rabindranath Tagore said that Mahatma K. Gandhi was a "practical genius." Gandhi's shift is all the more important because in the second half of the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century the views as to who people are were dominated by a deterministic natural science, behaviorist psychology, and Marxist sociology. In the Indian tradition, moksha refers to the state of being empty of oneself but full of God. This is what Gandhi aspired toward. Gandhi's speech is clearly tailored for a Christian audience. God is not a person, yet Gandhi still treats God as a morally benevolent being. The Bible says that the truth shall make us free, and Gandhi took that message seriously. He first identified God with Truth, but then realized that the relation should be reversed. Gandhi frequently said that nonviolence, love, and truth go together, hand in hand.
