What God may have enabled me to do is but a repayment of debt, and he who repays a debt deserves no praise.
In satyagraha, a courted imprisonment carries its own praise.
The only praise I would like and treasure is the promotion of the activities to which my life is dedicated.
The path of self-purification is hard and steep. One has to become absolutely passion-free in thought, speech and action to rise above the opposing currents of love and hatred, attachment and repulsion. I know that I have not in me as yet that triple purity in spite of constant ceaseless striving for it. That is why the world's praise fails to move me, indeed it very often stings me. To conquer the subtle passions seems to me to be harder far than the physical conquest of the world by the force of arms.
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