Marriage among Hindus is no simple matter. It was purely a question of their own convenience and economy. In doing so there was no thought of our welfare, much less our wishes. The elders decided to marry my second brother, who was two or three years my senior, a cousin, possibly a year older, and me, all at the same time. It will be remembered that we were three brothers. In the present chapter I am talking about my marriage, of which I have the clearest recollection. But I do not recollect having been informed about it. I have a faint recollection, however, that the third betrothal took place in my seventh year. I was told that two girls chosen for me had died in turn, and therefore I infer that I was betrothed three times.

It appears that I was betrothed thrice, though without my knowledge. It is an agreement purely between the parents, and the children have no concern with it. The death of the boy entails no widowhood on the girl. Betrothal is a preliminary promise on the part of the parents of the boy and the girl to join them in marriage, and it is not inviolable. For in Kathiawad there are two distinct rites - betrothal and marriage. I can see no moral argument in support of such a preposterously early marriage. As I see the youngsters of the same age about me who are under my care, and think of my own marriage, I am inclined to pity myself and to congratulate them on having escaped my lot. It is my painful duty to have to record here my marriage at the age of thirteen. And I cannot do otherwise, if I claim to be a worshipper of Truth. Much as I wish that I had not to write this chapter, I know that I shall have to swallow many such bitter draughts in the course of this narrative. 30 being subsidized by the Navajivan Trust, Ahmedabad. The paper back edition of the book costs Rs. I live and move and have my being in pursuit of this goal.' The introduction reads, 'What I want to achieve - what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face, to attain Moksha. In the last chapter he writes, 'My life from this point onward has been so public that there is hardly anything about it that people do not know.' The book is in five parts, beginning with his birth, up until the year 1921. The original was in Gujarati, and was later translated into English and other Indian languages.

Most importantly, the author should have experienced all these. Mahatma Gandhi's autobiography Sathiya Sodhani is one book which guides you as to what is right and wrong.

Mk gandhi autobiography