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What he said 100+ years ago still rings true today. His ideas, vision has no parallel and has mix of everything with love as a binding force. He criticized British parliament to behaving like prostitutes. Nothing much has changed in England and now, India is also following it.
"The tendency of Indian civilization is to elevate the moral being, that of Western civilization is to propagate immorality." India can't be ruled by an iron hand. We let Britishers rule us because of our selfishness and greed. He criticizes machinery, modern civilization which creates inequality and make monsters out of human beings who are isolated, scared, defeated. Gandhi pointed out in the first part of the book that he does not consider people of England to be cruel or immoral in general but the politics been played out in their name by their politicians is cruel, gruesome, beyond any moral compensation.

Some of the ideas will surely seem outdated like discarding railways, lawyers, doctors but he is talking of their origination and why they exist. Like for railways, he says that evil has wings, truth walks at the pace of snail which is true. We have distanced ourselves from truth which is ever present in front of us by luring ourselves into luxuries and indulgences which are basically the traits of last man of Nietzsche. For doctors, he says that we should allow the disease to take its course so that our body learns to cure itself. For lawyers, he says, lawyers rather than settling the issues by speaking to our human nature, tend to spread division or inflame our passions so that their shop keeps running. All these he is talking at an ideological level, kind of like a metaphor that what should an ideal home rule will be where we do not have so many deadly diseases, so many disputes which basically means so much hostility towards each other.

Brute force vs Soul-force(love): "History is a record of the wars of the world. A nation which has no history, that is, no wars, is a happy nation." All the rulers who ruled over India or anywhere else in the world be it Hindu rulers or Muslim rulers fought wars and any war was an interruption to the existing soul-force. Soul-force is what still runs the society because if we, humans were really those savages as wars clearly indicate, we would have not survived until now. What is gained through fear, lasts only while the fear lasts. It is a bubble which will sooner or later bursts.

India nation: It is India where many religions - Hinduism, Islam, Buddhism, Jainism found their footing and spread from east to west, south to north. Indian civilization is far superior than western civilization because it survived so many brutal shocks over time which others like Greek, Roman empires couldn't. It even survived Britishers after they have literally sucked blood out of us. Britishers wanted to divide Hindus and Muslims because if they unite, they will fight their common enemy, that is, Britishers. They saw fault lines and exploited them to distract us from our real enemy which the today regime is using brilliantly. We have a British rule through Indian rule. India was one nation before Britishers from east to west, south to north and remained one after them. There is an attack on this idea of India - 'Unity in diversity' today by the government of India itself which want to impose one doctrine over whole country. We, who feel pride to call ourselves Indian, for whom Gandhi and other national leaders fought and die to give us Independence, Constitution have a moral duty to abide by their vision. Can you pray in one room of your house if another room is on fire?

Swaraj - Real Home Rule is self rule or self control.