Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence movement in British-ruled India. Employing nonviolent civil disobedience, Gandhi led India to independence and inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. The honorific Mahatma—applied to him first in 1914 in South Africa,—is now used worldwide. He is also called Bapuin India. In common parlance in India he is often called Gandhiji. He is unofficially called the Father of the Nation...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionCivil Rights Leader
Date of Birth2 October 1869
CityPortbandar, India
CountryIndia
Unless the charkha adds to your ahimsa and makes you stronger every day, your Gandhism is of little avail.
The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.
Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.
A soldier fights with an irresistible strength when he has blown up his bridges and burnt his boats. Even so, it is with a soldier of ahimsa.
If the lambs of the world had been willingly led, they would have long ago saved themselves from the butcher's knife.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.