[27]October 6, 1921.
[28]All religions are like different roads leading to the same goal. ("Hind Swaraj.") "All religions are founded on the same moral laws. My ethical religion is made up of laws which bind men all over the world." ("Ethical Religion.")
[29]October 6, 1921.
[30]Etymologically, varna, color, class or caste; ashrama, place of discipline; dharma, religion. Society, in other words, stands for "discipline of the castes."
[31]February 25, 1920. In a second line Gandhi adds, "Ruskin and Tolstoi."
[32]"Seek the Kingdom of God and His righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you."
[33]"Young India," February 25, 1920.
[34]He says to Joseph J. Doke in 1908 that God has been incarnate throughout the ages, in different forms, because, as explained in the Gitâ, Krishna says: "When religion falls into decadence and unbelief prevails, I manifest myself. For the protection of all that is good, and the destruction of all that is evil, for the establishment of Dharma, I must be born and reborn, for ever and ever." Christianism is part of Gandhi's theology. Christ is a radiant revelation of God. But not the only revelation. He is not seated on the throne alone.
[35]The "Hind Swaraj" contains a list of about sixty of Tolstoi's works which Gandhi recommends to his followers, among them, "The Kingdom of God Is within You, What Is Art?" and "What Shall We Do?" He tells Joseph Doke that Tolstoi influenced him deeply, but that he does not agree with Tolstoi's political ideals. To a question asked him in 1921 as to his feeling for and opinion of Count Tolstoi, Gandhi replies (in "Young India" of October 25, 1921), "My relation to him was that of a devoted admirer who owes him much in life."
[36]He was particularly fond of Ruskin's "Crown of Wild Olives."