Mahatma Gandhi spread a few minutes every day for nearly two years to write down 'A Thought for the Day'-initially to console a bereaved Ashramite, the compiler of this volume.

This valuable collection of his'Thoughts' is being published for the fifth time in its entirely in this volume.

"This incidents described and the sentiments expressed by Bapu in Bapi-ke-Ashirvad will surely succeed in mitigating the mental anguish of the ordinary mortals."