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Honesty and Truthfulness
Mahaatmaa Gandhi is
the best example of the one who practiced honesty and truthfulness. When he
was usefulness non-violence for India's independence purpose, he was
arrested and put in jail. One of the rules of jail was that the prisoners
would receive no newspapers or news of the outside world.
One day a doctor who was friendly with Gandhi Ji came to see him. He
brought some papers with him. In fact among those papers, there was a
newspaper also in which some news about Gandhi's non-violence movement was
published, which the doctor thought Gandhi should know about it. So he kept
the papers on Gandhi's bed and talked to him for a while. When he finished,
he picked up all other papers but left the newspaper on his bed, and came
out of the prison.
When Gandhi saw the newspaper, he refused to read it. He was so honest
that he did not want to break any rule of the prison. So Gandhi turned his
back from the newspaper and sat facing the prison cells corner. He did not
even look at it.
The next morning that doctor came again and said to Gandhi - "I am sorry,
I forgot my newspaper here." Gandhi replied - "Yes, You sentenced me to
spend the whole night in a corner."
[Such was Gandhi's honesty that even if no
one saw him reading the newspaper, he did not want to be dishonest. How many
of us live by such a degree of honesty?]
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