The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Gandhi's Autobiography (Full Audiobook)
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"I was a boy, and my hands would not stop shaking." So begins this complete, original audiobook of Gandhi's autobiography — told in the first person, in his own humble, confessional voice. Not a lecture about a great man, but his own account of a timid child who stole and lied, ate meat in secret, sailed to London, was thrown off a train in South Africa one freezing night, and slowly turned his whole life into a series of experiments with truth.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth — a full audiobook, as Gandhi tells it himself.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Chapter 1 — Roots of a Timid Boy
08:55 Chapter 2 — The Confessions
17:59 Chapter 3 — Remaking Himself in London
27:31 Chapter 4 — The Night That Changed Everything
36:08 Chapter 5 — The Laboratory of the Self
45:44 Chapter 6 — Bringing It Home
Inside, in his own words:
→ A shy boy in Porbandar, a devout mother, and a child marriage he reflects on honestly
→ The secret meat-eating, the small thefts, and the written confession that taught him the power of truth
→ London: the three vows to his mother, the awkward 'English gentleman,' and choosing simplicity
→ First reading the Gita and the Sermon on the Mount
→ The night thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg that changed everything
→ The birth of satyagraha — truth-force — and ahimsa as active courage, not passivity
→ The experiments in living: diet and fasting, simple labor, Phoenix Settlement and Tolstoy Farm, self-control
→ 'Truth is God,' the inner voice, fearlessness, and service
→ Coming home to India and the first satyagrahas — Champaran, Kheda, Ahmedabad
Honest note: this is Gandhi's own account, written in the nineteen twenties — as much a record of his failures as his growth. Some of his personal experiments, in diet, nature cure, and strict celibacy, were his own demanding path, which he said others need not copy. The autobiography closes around nineteen twenty-one.
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The Story of My Experiments with Truth: Gandhi's Autobiography (Full Audiobook)
Just Books Podcast
2 views
"I was a boy, and my hands would not stop shaking." So begins this complete, original audiobook of Gandhi's autobiography — told in the first person, in his own humble, confessional voice. Not a lecture about a great man, but his own account of a timid child who stole and lied, ate meat in secret, sailed to London, was thrown off a train in South Africa one freezing night, and slowly turned his whole life into a series of experiments with truth.
The Story of My Experiments with Truth — a full audiobook, as Gandhi tells it himself.
CHAPTERS
00:00 Chapter 1 — Roots of a Timid Boy
08:55 Chapter 2 — The Confessions
17:59 Chapter 3 — Remaking Himself in London
27:31 Chapter 4 — The Night That Changed Everything
36:08 Chapter 5 — The Laboratory of the Self
45:44 Chapter 6 — Bringing It Home
Inside, in his own words:
→ A shy boy in Porbandar, a devout mother, and a child marriage he reflects on honestly
→ The secret meat-eating, the small thefts, and the written confession that taught him the power of truth
→ London: the three vows to his mother, the awkward 'English gentleman,' and choosing simplicity
→ First reading the Gita and the Sermon on the Mount
→ The night thrown off the train at Pietermaritzburg that changed everything
→ The birth of satyagraha — truth-force — and ahimsa as active courage, not passivity
→ The experiments in living: diet and fasting, simple labor, Phoenix Settlement and Tolstoy Farm, self-control
→ 'Truth is God,' the inner voice, fearlessness, and service
→ Coming home to India and the first satyagrahas — Champaran, Kheda, Ahmedabad
Honest note: this is Gandhi's own account, written in the nineteen twenties — as much a record of his failures as his growth. Some of his personal experiments, in diet, nature cure, and strict celibacy, were his own demanding path, which he said others need not copy. The autobiography closes around nineteen twenty-one.
Subscribe for one full audiobook like this every week.
Comment: what is one experiment with truth you could begin in your own life?
#gandhi #myexperimentswithtruth #autobiography #truth #selfimprovement #audiobook