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
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
The path of bhakti, karma and love as expounded in the Gita leaves no room for the despising of man by man.
According to the letter of the Gita, it is possible to say that warfare is consistent with renunciation of fruit.
Time is wealth, and the Gita says the Great Annihilator annihilates those who waste time.
The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.