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 do not accept the orthodox teaching that Jesus was or is God incarnate in the accepted sense or that he was or is the only Son of God.
The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.
I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.
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.
I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.
The scriptures of Christians, Mussalmans and Hindus are all replete with the teaching of ahimsa.
Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers.
My experience teaches me that truth can never be propagated by doing violence.
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.
I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
Jesus, to me, is a great world teacher among others.
The essence of true religious teaching is that one should serve and befriend all.
The nonviolence I teach is active nonviolence of the strongest. But the weakest can partake in it without becoming weaker.
My religion teaches me to love all equally.