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 spinning wheel is the auspicious symbol of sharir yajna, body labour.
All my experiments in Ahimsa have taught me that nonviolence in practice means common labour with the body.
A genuine fast cleanses the body, mind and soul. It crucifies the flesh and to that extent sets the soul free.
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.
The human body is meant solely for service, never for indulgence.
The whole world is like the human body with its various members. Pain in one member is felt in the whole body.
Whilst the Bihar calamity damages the body, the calamity brought about by untouchability corrodes the very soul.
A satyagrahi is dead to his body even before the enemy attempts to kill him.
Religion is the tie that binds one to one's Creator, and whilst the body perishes, as it has to, religion persists even after death.
Nonviolence is a quality not of the body but of the soul.
India is one vast prison with high walls of suppression clothing her mind and her body.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.
God is the hardest taskmaster I have known on this earth, and he tries you through and through. And when you find that your faith is failing or your body is failing you, and you are sinking, he comes to your assistance somehow or other and proves to you that you must not lose your faith and that he is always at your beck and call, but on his terms, not on your terms. So I have found. I cannot really recall a single instance when, at the eleventh hour, he has forsaken me.