Faith & Spirit Quote by Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhi frames prayer as a kind of daily audit: not a ritual that proves loyalty, but a practice that must show results. The line is structured like a challenge disguised as counsel. "Let everyone try and find" sounds gentle, almost permissive, yet it smuggles in a strict standard: if prayer isn’t adding "something new" to your life, you’re doing it wrong. Gandhi’s leadership style lives in that tension. He rarely flatters the listener; he recruits them.

The key phrase is "adds something new" - a rebuke to inherited, mechanical religiosity. Gandhi was surrounded by religion as identity, as social armor, as communal boundary. He insists on religion as inner experiment, measurable by change in conduct: more patience, less vanity, a steadier courage under pressure. Prayer is not a withdrawal from politics but a technology for self-rule, and self-rule was the premise of swaraj. If you cannot govern your impulses, how will you govern a nation without reproducing the same violence in different uniforms?

"Something with which nothing can be compared" tilts the sentence into the absolute. Gandhi knows the language of competitive modernity - profit, status, conquest - and refuses its scoreboard. The incomparable "something" is meant to outrank the lures of empire and the compensations of resentment. In the context of mass agitation, imprisonment, and sectarian strain, he’s also issuing a quiet warning: movements collapse when their interior discipline fails. Daily prayer, for Gandhi, is not piety. It’s infrastructure.