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The Gita according to Gandhi -Mahadev Desai

VIII. CONCLUSION If I lose the edge, He must sharpen me; if He puts me aside and takes another, it is His own good will;" because Pasteur's life was a pure flame of passionate service of humanity, even as the late M. Curie's was. “What would you say,” someone might ask, "of Hitler who declares that by fighting against the Jews I am doing: the Lord's work'?" Let us Remember that he also makes no secret of the fact that he is prompted by nothing better than an implacable hatred of the Jews. Anyway, it is not for me to judge. History will judge him and many, others in their proper time. That detachment is the only thing that can put life into action, is recognized by all. Even Asquith eulogizing Llyod George's devoted co-operation congratulated him on his "devotion, your (his) unselfishness, your (his) powers of resource, what is after all the best of all things, your (his) self-forgetfulness. These are the rare things that make the drudgery and squalor of politics, with its constant revelation of the large part played by petty and personal motives, endurable and gives to its drabness a lightening streak of nobility."