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
God cannot be realized through the intellect. Intellect can lead one to a certain extent and no further. It is a matter of faith and experience derived from that faith.
I believe in God, not as a theory but as a fact more real than life itself.
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
Robust faith in oneself and brave trust of the opponent, so called or real, is the best safeguard.
The foundation of service and your real training lie in spinning khaddar.
The Charkha is the symbol of nonviolence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based.
The object of the Gita appears to me to be that of showing the most excellent way to attain self-realization.
Self-realization is the object of the Gita, as it is of all scriptures.
Khadi has been conceived as the foundation and the image of ahimsa. A real khadi-wearer will not utter an untruth. A real khadi-wearer will harbour no violence, no deceit, no impurity.
A votary of ahimsa cannot subscribe to the utilitarian formula (of the greatest good of the greatest number). He will strive for the greatest good of all and die in the attempt to realize that ideal.
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.
The greater the realization of truth and ahimsa, the greater the illumination.
Dharma is one and one only. Ahimsa means moksha, and moksha is the realization of Truth.
Friendship that insists upon agreement on all matters is not worth the name. Friendship to be real must ever sustain the weight of honest differences, however sharp they be.