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English Passage
In his ashram one of the boys told him something that he believed, but he later found out that the boy had lied to him. Gandhiji called the school together and solemnly said: “Boys, I am sorry to find out that one of you is a liar. As punishment, I am going to fast today.” That may be passed with a smile, but not if you know the deadly earnestness of Gandhiji and the sheer moral weight of the man. There could not have been a more terrific punishment, for long after an physical pain from physical punishment would have died away there would persist the spiritual pain from the lashings of conscience awakened by the sufferings of the man who loved him. In the light of Gandhiji’s acting thus, it becomes easy for us to step up from the thought that if one man would take on himself suffering to bring a boy back from a lie to the truth, then if there were one divine enough and holy enough, he might take on his soul the very sin of a whole race to bring us back to good and to God.
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(1)- Why did Gandhiji punish himself and how?
Ans- Gandhiji punished himself by keeping fast as there was a liar in his ashram.
(2)- What two qualities of Gandhiji’s character have been brought out in the passage?
Ans- Gandhiji’s deadly earnestness.
(ii)- Gandhiji’s sheer moral weight.
(3)- Which is greater- a physical pain or a spiritual pain? Why?
Ans- A spiritual pain is greater than a physical pain. A physical pain dies away after sometime. A spiritual pain continues from the lashings of one’s conscience.
(4)- Who can bring the whole race back to good and to God? How?
Ans- If there is someone very divine and very holy and he takes on his soul the very sin of a whole race, it can be brought back to good and God.
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