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
I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.
I recognise no God except the God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.
I know that I can never be alone as God is there with me.
I know of no religion or sect that has done or is doing without a house of God, variously described as a temple, a mosque, a church, a synagogue or agiary.
If we had attained the full vision of Truth, we would no longer be seekers, but become one with God, for Truth is God.
If we could all give our own definitions of God, there would be as many definitions as there are men and women.
If it was wrong to seek God in a stone, how was it right to seek Him in a book called the Gita, the Granth Sahib or the Koran?
If it is possible for the human tongue to give the fullest description of God, I have come to the conclusion that God is Truth.
If I could persuade myself that I could find Him in a Himalayan cave I would proceed there immediately.
If God holds me to be a pure instrument for the spread of nonviolence in place of the awful violence now ruling the earth, He will give me the strength and show me the way.
If God is vast and boundless as the ocean, how can a tiny drop like man imagine what He is?
If God is not a personal being for me like my earthly father, He is infinitely more.
I do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
I claim to know my millions. All the hours of the day I am with them. They are my first care and God that is to be found in the hearts of the dumb millions.