ABSTRACT
Rabindranath Tagore approved of the ferociousness with which Mohandas K. Gandhi exposed the untruths promoted in the name of people "progressive" civilization. But Gandhi also probably helped Tagore free himself of an illusion to which he was prone for a long time. The greatness of Gandhi, for which Tagore named him "Mahatma," was that his great soul never lost track of either of the worlds. From a long history of spirituality in India, Gandhi knew that living in the sacred also contains a danger. The danger is to disregard the profane and materialistic aspect of world. Gandhi reversed the approach of the bishop of Verdun: it is precisely in the times when we are threatened by Adolf Hitlers and Stalins of this world that people must insist on the Truth and adhere to the highest ideals of humanity. The truth of life must harmonize with the Truth of the world.
