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
Seek ye first the Charkha and its concomitants and everything else will be added unto you.
The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity.
The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.
The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.
Charkha is an instrument of service.
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.