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dated July 10, 1956: President's appeal

The President, Dr. Rajendra Prasad, said in Hyderabad on July 8 that it was with a sense of regret and in a spirit of honesty that he would admit the picture of the society they were building in India to-day was quite different from what Gandhiji had conceived. Therefore, he attached the highest value to any constructive work being done on Gandhian lines, with the hope that some day light might dawn and they would return to the path shown by the Mahatma and establish the society of his conception. The President, who was inaugurating the Gandhi Bhavan building, designed to become a centre of work in conformity with Gandhiji's teachings, said it was a matter of regret that Gandhiji could not complete his mission of establishing his ideal society during his life-time. If he had done that, as he had achieved swaraj without the use of the sword, which was considered impracticable in the beginning, people would have accepted such a society. The dream of Gandhiji was to usher in a society in which everyone was happy and content and man realised his limitations. In that society man would be a human being and would not try to become either God or Satan. Gandhiji's work for India and the world was itself a living monument to his memory. Yet it was a happy thought to have a building in his memory to house various organisations working according to his teachings.

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