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
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.
Devotion required by the Gita is no soft-hearted effusiveness.
The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.
The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.
The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.
A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.
Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.
The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
The Gita is not for those who have no faith.
By ahimsa we will be able to save the cow and also win the friendship of the English.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.