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 So long as India is not able to do this much Civil Disobedience will be futile, Swaraj cannot be attained, and Khilafat and the Punjab wrongs are impossible to be righted. If this conviction is driven home to you , keep on turning out yarn and using khaddar. Be expert spinners.

Bande Mataram from Mohandas.

��TRUTH OF THE SPINNING WHEEL,

��[The following letter was addressed by Mr. Gandhi to a devot- ed friend ]

Sabarmati Jail, 17th March 1922.

My Dear Child,

Well, I hope you were all happy over the news of my arrest. It has given me great joy, because it came just when I had purified myself by the Bardoh penance and was merely concentrating upon no experiment, but the proud work of khaddar manufacture, i.e. hand- spinning. I' would like you to see the truth of the spinning wheel- It and it alone is the visible outward expression of the inner feeling for humanity. If we feel for the starving masses of India, we must introduce the spinning-wheel into their homes. We must, therefore, become experts and in order to make them realise the necessity of it we must spin daily as a sacrement. If you have understood the secret of the spinning-wheel, if you realise what is a symbol of love of mankind, you will engage in no other outward activity. If many people do not follow you, you have more leisure for spinning, carding or weaving.

With love to you all. Bapu.

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