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[Mohandas Gandhi's address at Kingsley Hall Delivered 17 October 1931, in London, England] [Audio played over somber and foreboding instrumental and static] I do dimly perceive that whilst everything around me is ever-changing, ever-dying, there is, underlying all that change A living power that is changeless, that holds all together; That creates, dissolves, and recreates That informing power of spirit is God And since nothing else that I see Merely through the senses, can or will persist He alone is And if this power is benevolent or malevolent I see it as purely benevolent. For, I can see that In the midst of death, life persists In the midst of untruth, truth persists In the midst of darkness, light persists Hence I gather that God is life, truth, light He is love. He is the supreme good But, he is no God who merely satisfies the intellect, if he ever does God to be God must rule the heart and transform it He must express himself in every smallest act of his [?] This can only be done through a definite realization More real than the fives senses can ever prove use Sense perceptions can be, and often are, false and deceptive However real they may appear to us Where there is realization outside the sense, it is [?] It is proved not by extreme extraneous evidence But in the transformed conduct and character Of those who have felt the real presence of God within [Fades into static, unintelligible]