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- As the chief navigator of the Indian independence movement, while fighting social, religious, and political injustice through satyagraha (based on truth and nonviolence), Gandhi faced many dark moments and crises of faith. During such moments, he turned to the Gita for strength, solace, and moral-spiritual guidance.
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Gandhi said, "After 40 years of unremitting endeavor fully to enforce the teaching of the Gita in my own life, I have in all humility felt that perfect renunciation is impossible without perfect observance of satya and ahimsa in every shape and form" (Gita My Mother, 11). Why did he say that "genuine detachment is possible only through complete ...
- Ahimsa: Its theory and practice in Gandhism - Mahatma Gandhi
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- Ahimsa: Its theory and practice in Gandhism - Mahatma Gandhi
- Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhism, an amalgam of Gandhi's views and practices, revolves around ahimsa, the non-violence. Gandhi had no weapon but nonviolence. (XXV-423) He successfully implemented the rule of non-violence in the struggle for independence.
Oct 25, 2016 · In the Bhagavad Gita, ahimsa is listed as the first and most important virtue. As a peacekeeping spiritual and political activist, the path of non-violence was at the heart of Gandhi's teachings. Ahimsa is an unconditional love for one's self, for others, and for all living beings on the planet.
Nov 30, 2020 · Gandhi, the Mahatma (‘Great Soul’), of course applied the numen of the Gita to his agitation against British imperial rule, and employed it in the wider construction of a modern Indian nationalism.
Jul 20, 2023 · A closer reading of Gandhi’s interpretation of philosophical arguments in the Gita, Yoga Vasistha, and the Ishopanishad could perhaps explain why and how ahimsa was transformed (in Gandhi’s conception of it) and came to signify much more than it did in traditional Jain, Buddhist, and Hindu accounts.
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After 1915, Gandhi consistently argued that the principle of ahiṃsā was the very foundation of “Indian” or “Hindu” culture and therefore his all-India satyāgraha campaign against the British Raj must be firmly rooted in it.
Gandhi Through The Eyes of The Gita. By Marie Beuzeville Byles. Gandhi will be remembered in history because of his satyagraha campaigns and his use of the weapons of truth, love and nonviolence to win self-government for India.
