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
Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.
Temples are like spiritual hospitals, and the sinful, who are spiritually diseased, have the first right to be ministered to by them.
Spiritual instruments suffer in their potency when their use is taught through non-spiritual messages which are self-propagating.
A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.
The force of love is the same as the force of the soul or truth.
Anything which is a hindrance to the fight of the soul is a delusion and a snare, even like the body which often does hinder you in the path of salvation.
Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.
Spiritual force is like any other force at the service of man.
The force of the spirit is ever progressive and endless. Its full expression makes it unconquerable in the world.
The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.
Great causes cannot be served by intellectual equipment alone, they call for spiritual effort of soul-force.
History supplied numerous instances to prove that brute force is as nothing before soul-force.
The use of soul-force for turning stones into bread would have been considered, as it is still considered, as black magic.