By Banji Ojewale
It wasn’t fulfilling for Mahatma Gandhi, a Hindu and father of modern India, to read the Bible and be challenged by Jesus Christ’s Sermon on the Mount.
The Lord’s lofty teachings touched him, as he believed they
seemed to surpass his own faith’s call on man to a lifetime of exalted moral
values. But Gandhi held that merely mouthing these principles was disingenuous,
if it ended in the mind.
The outworking of the precepts of religion by its votaries must confer on it drive, dignity and distinction. He wrote in his autobiography, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, “…morality is the basis of things and that truth is the substance of all morality…A virtue achieves its potential only in its application and it ceases to have any use if it serves no purpose in daily life.”
