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
Remember that there is always a limit to self-indulgence, but none to self-restraint.
Shraddha means self-confidence and self-confidence means faith in God.
A personal selfish prayer is bad whether made before an image or an unseen God.
What I want to achieve, what I have been striving and pining for these thirty years, is self-realization, that is, to see God face to face.
God demands nothing less than self - surrender as the price for the only real freedom that is worth having.
One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
If hand-spinning is an effective method of making India self-supporting, it must be made part of the franchise.
To one who reads the spirit of the Gita, it teaches the secret of nonviolence, the secret of realizing self through the physical body.
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.
A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.
Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.
Selfishness is blind.
My method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant. I know that method to be infallible.