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
That parrot's non-co-operation with the cage, with its master, will live for ever because it looks upon renunciation, non-co-operation, as a joy.
He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.
Renunciation made for the sake of service is an ineffable joy of which none can deprive anyone, because that nectar springs from within and sustains life.
Renunciation which is natural does not herald its coming by the blowing of trumpets. It comes in imperceptibly without letting anyone notice it.
Renunciation means absence of hankering after fruit.
Renunciation is everyone's prerogative.
My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions. In this lies the secret of Ramarajya.
Even the dog is described by the poet to have received justice under Ramarajya.
Execution of the constructive programme in its entirety means more than Swaraj. It means Ram Raj, Khudai Sultanat or the Divine Kingdom.
I have described Swaraj as Ramarajya and Ramarajya is an impossibility unless we have thousands of Sitas.
Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.
There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.
Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.
Faith is a kind of sixth sense which works in cases which are without the purview of reason.