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
There is only one God for us all, whether we find him through the Koran, the Zend-Avesta, The Tolmud, or the Gita.
What the Sermon describes in a graphic manner, the Bhagavadgita reduces to a scientific formula.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
A devotee of Rama may be said to be the same as the steadfast one (sthitaprajnya) of the Gita.
The Krishna of the Gita is perfection and right knowledge personified, but the picture is imaginary.
The lives of Zoroaster, Jesus and Mohammed, as I have understood them, have illumined many a passage in the Gita.
In order that knowledge may not run riot, the author of the Gita has insisted on devotion accompanying it and has given it the first place.
Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.
In the characteristics of the perfected man of the Gita, I do not see any to correspond to physical warfare.
My life has been full of external tragedies and if they have not left any visible effect on me, I owe it to the teaching of the Bhagavadgita.
Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.
I find a solace a in the Bhagavadgita and Upanishads that I miss even in the Sermon on the Mount.
The Gita is not only my Bible and my Koran, it is more than that, it is my mother.
My Gita tells me that evil can never result from a good action.