Gandhi presented a picture of village India. In this structure composed of innumerable villages, there will be ever widening, never ascending, circles. Life will not be a pyramid with the apex sustained by the bottom. But, it will be an oceanic circle, whose centre will be the individual, always ready to perish for the village, the latter ready to perish for the circle of the villages, till at last the whole becomes one life composed of individuals, never aggresive in their arrogance, but ever humble, sharing the majesty of the oceanic circle of which they are integrated units. Therefore, the outermost circumference will not wield power to crush the inner cirle, but will give strength to all within and will derive its own strength from it.
Wisdom is no monopoly of one continent or one race.
I want the cultures of all land to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any. I refuse to live in other people's house as an interloper, a beggar or a slave. Gandhi used the term broadly for moral upliftment of all. The more we indulge our passions the more unbridled they become.