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
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
God created man to work for his food and said that those who ate without work were thieves.
God cannot be realized through intellect.
God alone knows absolute Truth.
God alone is truth, everything else is transitory and illusory.
God alone is immortal, imperishable.
God always saves the world from the consequences of unintended errors of men who live in fear of Him.
God accepts the sacrifice of the pure in heart.
Those who are lacking in bhakti (devotion), lacking in faith, are ill qualified to interpret the scriptures.
Legal imposition avoids the necessity of honour or good faith.
Khaddar is an activity that can absorb all the time of all available men and women and grown-up children, if they have faith.
He who would in his own person test the fact of God's presence can do so by a living faith.
Decency requires that when a programme is approved by the majority, all should carry it out faithfully.
Can a general fight on the strength of soldiers, who, he knows, have no faith in him?