Gandhi's Doctrine of “the limitation of wants”

Gandhi’s idea of limitation of human wants within certain limits. Some amount of material goods is necessary for the good life, as the Greek philosophers called it. The possession of material goods beyond that, instead of working for the freedom and the happiness of the individual, works for his enslavement and often, for his unhappiness. It is, therefore, necessary that one should limit one’s wants and not increase them indefinitely. About this multiplication of wants as a mark of progress, Gandhi’s reply to a questioner was: “If by advance you mean everyone having plenty to eat and drink and to clothe himself with, enough to keep his mind trained and educated I should be satisfied. But I would not like to pack more stuffs into my belly than I can digest and more things than I can usefully use.” While discussing the possibility of world peace, Gandhi said: “This again seems impossible without great nations ceasing to believe in soul destroying competition and to multiply wants and increasing their material possessions.” Once he said that his attempt was to see beauty in voluntary simplicity, poverty and slowness, “Multiplicity of wants has no fascination for me”.

If Gandhi was against the artificial multiplication of wants, he was also against the enforced grinding poverty of the masses in India and elsewhere. It was not only materially harmful but was also morally degrading. About this, he says: “No one has ever suggested that grinding pauperism can lead to anything else than moral degradation. Every human being has the right to live and therefore to find the wherewithal to feed himself and where necessary to clothe and house himself. But for this simple ________ ___ _______ _____ __________ ____ ________.
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