Mohandas+Gandhi

**Mohandas Gandhi, or Mahatma as he was called, was the hero of India. He was known for his peaceful solutions to problems. Mahatma was a term reserved for sages. Mahatma means 'Great Soul'. Gandhi objected when people called him a ' saint trying to be a politician'. He considered himself a 'politician trying to be a saint'. He was born on October 2nd, 1869. He died on January 30th, 1948. He was shot by Nathuram Godse, a Hindu extremist. During his childhood, Gandhi was afraid of the dark, snakes, and ghosts. He was a strict vegitarian although he did try meat one time. Gandhi was not perfect though. His father lay dying on his** **bed. In his last moments, Gandhi ran off to** **be with his wife, a girl he married when he was 13.He was born in Porbander, India. He went to law school in London, and had a law office in South Africa. He influenced Martin Luther King Jr., Nelson Mandela and millions of other people. Gandhi himself was influenced by the Advaita Vedanta, the philosophy of India, the understanding that life comes from One Thing. The largest problem he ever helped solve was the race to gain independence for India. He was shot on his way to evening prayer. When Godse approached him, Gandhi put his palms together in the traditional greeting gesture. Godse pulled out a pistol and fired three shots at point-blank range. Gandhi continued to walk forward before he collapsed and died. He was shot in Delhi in the Birla Mandir, a temple in India. It was left to India's prime misister to announce his death. He said, "Friends and comrades, the light has gone out of our lives and there is darkness everywhere. I do not know what to say and how to say it. Our beloved leader, Bapu as we called him, the father of our nation, is no more." On a PBS documentary about India, a long segment of it was dedicated to Gandhi. They spoke to many people who fought with Gandhi. Every single one of them was proud to have fought with him. They all were extremely proud to have been thrown in jail with him. This showed that he earned the respect of many people. Gandhi had four children and thirteen grandchildren. Many of his descendants still live in this world today. He has no relation to Indira Gandhi.**


 * This one is about his first-born child, Harilal.**


 * Quotes by Gandhi (There is a lot)**


 * A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
 * A coward is incapable of exibhiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.
 * A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
 * A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act.
 * A nation's culture resides in the hearts and in the soul of its people.
 * A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed,but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.
 * A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practice perfection,we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
 * A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
 * A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.
 * A vow is a purely religious act which cannot be taken in a fit of passion.It can only be taken with a mind purified and composed and with God as witness.
 * A weak man is just by accident. A strong but non-violent man is unjust by accident.
 * Action expresses priorities.
 * Action is no less neccessary than thought instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
 * All compromise is based on give and take, but there can be no give and take on fundamentals. Any compromise on mere fundamentals is a surrender. For it is all give and no take.
 * All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.
 * Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed. Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well.
 * Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India,history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.
 * An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error bacause nobody sees it.
 * An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
 * An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.
 * An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.
 * Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.
 * Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is the monster that swallows it up.
 * Are creeds such simple things like the clothes which a man can change at will and put on at will? Creeds are such for which people live for ages and ages.
 * As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world- that is the myth of the atomic age- as in being able to remake ourselves.
 * Be the change you want to see in the world.
 * Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his actions but by his intentions. For God alone reads our heart.
 * But for my faith in God, I should have been a raving maniac.
 * Capital as such is not evil; it is its wrong use that is evil. Capital in some form or other will always be needed.
 * Common sense is the realized sense of proportion.
 * Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession.
 * Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.
 * Culture of the mind must be subservient to the heart.
 * Each one has to find peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
 * Each one prays to God according to his own light.
 * Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
 * Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
 * Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
 * Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.
 * Faith...must be enforced by reason...when faith becomes blind it dies.
 * Fear has its use but cowardice has none.
 * Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
 * First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
 * Every ruler is alien that defies public opinion.
 * Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?
 * Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.
 * Gentleness, self-sacrifice, and generosity are the exclusive posession of no one race or religion.
 * Glory lies in the attempt to reach one's goal and not in reaching it.
 * God is, even though the whole world deny him. Truth stands, even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
 * God does try to the uttermost those whom he wishes to bless.
 * God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.
 * Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.
 * Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
 * Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
 * I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
 * I believe in equality for everyone,except reporters and photographers.
 * I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.
 * I believe that a man is the strongest soldier for daring to die unarmed.
 * I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political, or religious. All act and react upon each other.
 * I claim to be a simple individual liable to err like any other fellow mortal. I own, however, that I have humility enough to confess my errors and to retrace my steps.
 * I do all the evil I can before I learn to shun it? Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.
 * I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present.God has given me no control over the moment following.
 * I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul.
 * I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills.All I have done is try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.
 * I have worshipped woman as the living embodiement of the spirit of service and sacrifice.
 * I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
 * **//__Please do not be offended by the following quote.__//** I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.
 * I look only to the qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others.
 * I object to violence because when it appears to be good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.
 * I reject any religious doctrine that does not appeal to reason and is in conflict with morality.
 * I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people.
 * I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
 * I would heartily welcome the union of East and West provided it is not based on brute force.
 * If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.
 * If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.
 * If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
 * If we are to teach real peace in this world, and if we are to carry on a real war against war, we shall have to begin with the children.
 * Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
 * In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
 * In matters of conscience, the law of the majority has no place.
 * In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.
 * Increase of material comforts, it may be generally laid down, does not in any way whatsoever conduce to moral growth.
 * Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty; it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.
 * Interdependence is and ought to be as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency. Man is a social being.
 * Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.


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