Passages for Meditation

Mahatma Gandhi

In the Midst of Darkness

I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates. That informing power or spirit is God. And since nothing else that I see merely through the senses can or will persist, He alone is.
 
And is this power benevolent or malevolent? I see it as purely benevolent. For I can see that in the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists. Hence I gather that God is Life, Truth, Light. He is Love. He is the Supreme Good.

From an article Mahatma Gandhi wrote for his weekly paper Young India in the 1920s. Gandhi read this passage for Columbia Gramophone Company while he was in England working for India’s independence in 1931 – the only time his voice was preserved in a studio recording. A fuller version may be found in My Religion (Ahmedabad, India: Navajivan, 1955).