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After spending two years of a six-year sentence in prison for
sedition between 1922 and 1924, India independence campaigner Gandhi steered
clear of active politics for a few years, concentrating instead on social and
human rights issues, such as those of the untouchables. His seven social sins
list is a blueprint for what he perceived was wrong with life in India at the
time. It was first published in written form in young India, the
English-language magazine that he published in order to gain a wider audience
for his spoken teaching and philosophy. Each of the sins suggests an ideal
opposite based on permanent natural principles rather than transient social or
cultural values, such as politics with principles and science with humanity.
‘’Politics without principles
Wealth without work
Pleasure without conscience
Knowledge without character
Commerce without morality
Science without humanity
Worship without sacrifice’’
8-8-2021.
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