Abstract

Sat, or truth, is one of the dominant motifs in Margaret Chatterjee’s book, Gandhi’s Religious Thought. For Gandhi, satyagraha, or the search for truth, was one of the driving forces in his life. But the satyagrahi, or the seeker of truth, cannot do this in a vacuum. A series of vows to such virtues as non-violence and fearlessness provide a matrix akin to existential commitment, and guides the marga or path towards this goal.