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What does it mean?
Gandhi values moral integrity over religious identity, suggesting that social evils within a faith are worse than the faith itself disappearing.
In plain terms
It is better for Hinduism to end than for caste discrimination to continue.
What can you take from it?
Moral principles matter more than religious labels.

Where it applies

  • debates on religious reform
  • social activism
  • personal conviction

Putting it to work

  • prioritize human rights over tradition
  • critique harmful practices

Questions to consider

  • What matters more: tradition or morality?
  • Can a faith survive its worst elements?

Another view

This ignores the possibility of reforming the religion while ending the practice.

More from Mahatma Gandhi

  1. I worship God as Truth only. I have not yet found Him, but I am seeking after Him

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  2. If love or non-violence be not the law of our being, the whole of my argument falls to pieces.

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  3. I think it would be a good idea!

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