The Story of My Experiments with Truth
Mahatma Gandhi's Autobiography with a Foreword by the Gandhi Research Foundation
Ranked #1 in Gandhi, Ranked #6 in Pakistan History — see more rankings.
...Identification with everything that lives is impossible without self-purification; without self-purification, the observance of the law of Ahimsa must remain an empty dream; God can never be realised by one who is not pure of heart. Self-purification, therefore, must remain purification in all walks of life. And purification being... more
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentAccording to the president’s Facebook page and a 2008 interview with the New York Times, this title is among his most influential forever favorites. (Source)
Tim Cook CEO/AppleI have two books going right now: One is the Bobby Kennedy book [“Bobby Kennedy: The Making of a Liberal Icon,” by Larry Tye] that just came out. The other is quite an old book. It’s a Gandhi book [“Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth”] that I got interested in because we went to the Gandhi museum when we were in India recently. I tend to like nonfiction and particularly reading about people and how they lived and how they fought, and what motivated them and their philosophy and so forth. (Source)
Cory Booker A profound read. (Source)
Kevin Kelly [This book] curiously led me to Jesus. [The author]'s stance of radical honesty prompted me to attempt the same. It started my spiritual awakening. (Source)
Rankings by Category
The Story of My Experiments with Truth is ranked in the following categories:
- #38 in Autobiography
- #72 in Biography
- #8 in Hinduism
- #17 in Indian
- #40 in Indian Author
- #50 in Pakistan
- #30 in South Africa