ing statement made by Gandhi, with regard to a hunger strike can be seen the connection between the ideal of happiness, and the reality of the unrelenting hunger and sickness Gandhi must have been feeling at the time he made it.
             In a written statement, he warned that India would not be served if its politicians misled him with the idea of saving his life: "They should know that I never feel so happy as when I am fasting for the spirit. This fast has brought me higher hitherto. No one need disturb this happy state unless he can honestly claim that in his journey he has turned deliberately from Satan to God" (Russell 86).
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