ABSTRACT
Chapter 2 shows how chance brought an aspiring, not quite successful lawyer to South Africa; how then over ten years 1893 to 1903, he systematically sought ‘clarity about the nature of societal and personal problems at a personal level’ i.e. what these meant to him as an individual. This was a period of a series of awareness events ‘which made him personally sentient about his personal and social life and living’. ‘A satyarthi is one who is seeking the truth more as a personal code or ethos. Grappling with seemingly personal issues which also seem to have an apparent social bearing, her question is: what is wrong? Although beset with doubts, the query as yet is not as to what is correct or what should be the nature of response to whatever is wrong’.
