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
Do not believe in telling people of one's faith, especially with a view to conversion. Faith must be lived, and when it is, it becomes self-propagating
Yajna is duty to be performed, or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.
The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.
To shirk taking of vows betrays indecision and want of resolution.
It goes without saying that moderation and sobriety are of the very essence of vow-taking.
The taking of vows that are not feasible or that are beyond one's capacity would betray thoughtlessness and want of balance.
A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition.
Tolerance obviously does not disturb the distinction between right and wrong, or good and evil.
Tolerance gives us spiritual insight, which is as far from fanaticism as the north pole is from the south.
Even swadeshi, like any other good thing, can be ridden to death if it is made a fetish.
If the people resolve and carry out this programme of boycott and Swadeshi, they would not have to wait for Swaraj even for a year.
I refuse to buy from anybody anything however nice or beautiful if it interferes with my growth or injures those whom Nature has made my first care.