“One should not think of embracing another religion before one has fully understood his own.”
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The idea reflects Gandhi's documented view on studying one's own faith first, but the candidate wording is ungrammatical/corrupted and no primary source matches it verbatim.
Likely origin: Paraphrase of a genuine Gandhi sentiment (understand one's own religion before embracing another); candidate text is grammatically broken ('had fully understand').
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Switching traditions to escape something you never really examined tends to carry the same restlessness into the new one. Knowing your own roots first — their questions, their depth, their unresolved parts — means any later change is a considered choice rather than a flight from unfamiliar discomfort.
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- Someone bored at work hops to a new field before ever learning what their current craft could offer.
- A reader dismisses a philosophy they've never actually studied in favor of a trendier one.
- A person raised in one tradition explores it honestly before deciding whether another fits better.