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
I am in the world feeling my way to light 'amid the encircling gloom.'
God is Light, not darkness. God is Love, not hate. God is truth, not untruth. God alone is great.
God is the source of Light and Life and yet He is above and beyond all these. God is conscience.
The Gita distinguishes between the powers of light and darkness and demonstrates their incompatibility.
In the midst of darkness, light persists.
The Sermon on the Mount...went straight to my heart. I compared it with the Gita. My young mind tried to unify the teaching of the Gita, the `Light of Asia' and the Sermon on the Mount. That renunciation was the highest form of religion appealed to me greatly.
Harshness is conquered by gentleness, hatred by love, lethargy by zeal and darkness by light.
Every expression of truth has in it the seeds of propagation, even as the sun cannot hide its light.
Passive resistance seeks to rejoin politics and religion and to test all our actions in the light of ethical principles.
The Bhagavadgita is a gospel of non-co-operation between the forces of darkness and those of light.
If light can come out of darkness, then alone can love emerge from hatred.
I know that Buddhism is to Hinduism what Protestantism is to Roman Catholicism, only in a much stronger light, to a much greater degree.
The light of the world will illuminate within you when you fast and purify yourself.
Crime and vice generally require darkness for prowling. They disappear when light plays upon them.