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 Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
In the midst of darkness, light persists.
A nonviolent struggle necessarily involves construction on a small scale. It cannot therefore lead to tamas or darkness or inertia.
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.
We labor under the fatal delusion that no disease can be cured without medicine. This has been responsible for more mischief to mankind than any other evil. ...Disease increases in proportion to the increase to the number of doctors in a place.
In the midst of death life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.
Violence will prevail over violence, only when someone can prove to me that darkness can be dispelled by darkness
The devotee of truth is often obliged to grope in the dark.
Even a single lamp dispels the deepest darkness.
There is a power now slumbering within us, which is awakened would do to evil what light does to darkness.
... in the midst of death life persists ...
My faith is brightest in the midst of impenetrable darkness.
While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.