The term «satyagraha» based on the particular reading Bhagavadgity that Gandhi began to study with nearly two decades of age (in the English translation of E. Arnolda). Gandhi devoted to this product of many years of reflection (which is reflected in a small book Anasakti yoga, and then in the collection of essays Gita-Mata), and which attracted him the possibility of harnessing the «philosophy of action» for the problems of political struggle. In accordance with the central concept of karma-yoga Bhagavadgity, which should strive only to the action as the realization dolzhenstvovaniya, but not to his «fruit» and to be free from attachments (in the terminology Gandhi «anasakti Yoga» – «Yoga neprivyazannosti »), showing equal treatment success and failure, Gandhi, and built his own« the philosophy of action ». To meet the criterion of truth, the action must be «disinterested» – performed not for selfish interests, but for the sake of the implementation of human purpose in this world, a model for what should be the behavior of the saint, who is working not for themselves but for God. «Satyagraha» same «experience with the truth», as well as to the impact of that amount to his disinterestedness. Truth and justice, not only can not be in contradiction with each other, but are one and the same. The criterion of truth is, apart from lack of interest, altruism, adherence to the interests of «other», and «other» (in the specific historical context – the interests of India and its people). Truth for Gandhi – not simply a moral virtue, but the divine power, the reality of space, which is invincible and irresistible.