"Ishwar ki avdharna k sandarbh mein gandhiwadi drishtikon"

Gandhi considered God to be truth and truth to be God in spite of the variety of names that God has both in Hinduism and Islam. The Sanskrit word for truth is 'Sat' or that which exists. According to the Hindu philosophy, God alone exist and nothing else and the same is found in the quran. Love or Ahimsa is the only means to find 'Truth as God' and since 'means' and 'ends' are terms mutually substitutable, Gandhi says, 'God is love'. Truth is the inner voice and each one of has our own inner voice which tells us the truth. However, that makes truth to be subjective and hence there will be numerous truths on any one given aspect of life. To find the universal truth, according to Gandhi, the seeker must take five vows: the vow of Satya (truth), Brahmacharya (purity or celibacy), Ahimsa (non-violence), poverty and (Aparigraha) non-possession. Truth cannot be discovered in the absence of these vows. Gandhi believed that truth cannot be found by one and all. Only the disciplined and the one who is abundantly humble may find the truth. For Gandhi, God is beyond reasoning and since reasoning is an individual affair there will be several reasons and un-reasons for the existence and otherwise of God. God is a matter of faith and not reason and without faith one may not understand the idea of God