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Wednesday, September 4, 2019

Thoughts Of Mahatma Gandhi



I am a firm believer in the principle of free and compulsory primary education for India. I also hold that we shall realize this only by teaching the children a useful vocation and utilizing it as a means for cultivating their mental, physical and spiritual faculties. - Mahatma Gandhi



Craft, Art, Health and education should all be integrated into one scheme. Nai Talim is a beautiful blend of all the four and covers the whole education of the individual from the time of conception to the moment of death....Instead of regarding craft & industry as different from education, I will regard the former as the medium for the latter.

It is popularly and correctly described as education through handicrafts.

I hold that, as the largest part of our time is devoted to labour for earning our bread, our children must from their infancy be taught the dignity of such labour. Our children should not be so taught as to despise labour. There is no reason why a peasants son after having gone to school should become useless as he does become, as an agricultural labourer.

Man is neither mere intellect, nor the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone. A proper and harmonious combination of all the three is required for the making of the whole man and constitutes the true economics of education....

I am a firm believer in the principle of free and compulsory primary education for India. I also hold that we shall realize this only by teaching the children a useful vocation and utilizing it as a means for cultivating their mental, physical and spiritual faculties.

What kind of vocations are the fittest for being taught to children in urban schools? There is no hard and fast rule about it.

In my scheme of things the hand will handle tools before it draws or traces the writing.

 True development of the mind commences immediately the apprentice is taught at every step why a particular manipulation of the hand or a tool is required. The problem of the unemployment of students can be solved without difficulty, if they will rank themselves among the common labourers.

You have to train the boys in one occupation or another. Around this special occupation you will train up his mind, his body, his handwriting, his artistic sense, and so on. He will be a master of the craft he learns.
Literary training by itself adds not an inch to one's moral height and that character building is independent of literary training.

https://www.gandhiashramsevagram.org/on-education/buniyadi-shiksha-fundamental-education.php 



Deal with your enemy in such a way that you can become friends.


"You must deal with your enemy so that one day he may be your friend...."  Included in a passage by Shri Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan. Published in The Speaking Tree, Mumbai dated May 14, 2017, page 4.


    Prof Narayana Rao beside the Gandhi Status in Geneva, Switzerland

                                       
"It is health that is real wealth and not
pieces of gold and silver."
- Mahatma Gandhi
(via @quotme)




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A 5 hours. 10 minutes.  Documentary covers almost all events and principles of Gandhi's life and thought are viewed as integrated parts of his truth-intoxicated life depicting permanent and universal values.  



Quotations used in advertisements 2012
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"The shape of the world would indeed be transformed if all of us lived in a spirit of love and amity with one another."

 "India can't prosper if rural India lags behind, and I think rural electrification is the first step towards this."

 "I would make the spinning wheel the foundation on which to build a sound village life and I would make the wheel the centre around which all other activities will revolve."


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If you love peace
"If you love peace, then hate injustice, hate tyranny, hate greed, but hate these things in yourself, not in another."
 
Labor of a man
The divine law, that man must earn his bread by laboring with his own hands, was first stressed by a Russian writer named T.M.Bondaref. Tolstoy advertised it and gave it wide publicity. In my view the same principle has been set forth in the third chapter of the Gita, where we are told, that he who eats without offering sacrifice eats stolen food. Sacrifice here can only mean bread labor.(Gandhi exhorts every body to put in efforts to create useful articles first and then consume what he needs out of it).
 
In  From Yeravda Mandir, Chap IX. Navjivan Publishing House, 1945
 
Leadership
A leader is only first among equals....
Having made our selection we must follow him or the chain is broken and all is loose.
 
Young India, 8.12.1921
 
Discipline and Freedom
The highest form of freedom carries with it the greatest measure of discipline and humility. Freedom that comes from discipline and humility cannot be denied, unbridled license is a sign of vulgarity alike to self and one's neighbors.
 
Young India, 3.6.1926
 
Congress Ministers
If the Congress wants to continue as a people's organization, the Ministers cannot live as sahib log nor use for private work facilities provided by Government for official duties.
 
Harijan, 29.9.1946
 
Caste System of Hindus
Today Brahmanas, and Kshatriyas, Vaishyas and Shudras are mere labels. There is utter confusion of Varna as I understand it and I wish that all the Hindus will voluntarily call themselves Shudras. That is the only way to demonstrate the truth of Brahmanism and to revive Varnadharma in its true state.
 
Harijan, 25.3.1933
 
Children
The real property that  a parent can transmit to all equally is his or her character and educational facilities.... Parents should seek to make their sons and daughters self-reliant, well able to earn an honest livelihood by the sweat of the brow.
 
Young India, 29.10.1931
 
Our Potential Contribution to World's Problems 
 "The difference between what we are doing and what we are capable of doing would solve most of the world's problems "-
 
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Gandhi's Thoughts
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More Thoughts of Mahatma Gandhi
 
Soldier in arms is trained to kill. Even his dreams are about killing
 
Ahimsa is the highest ideal. It is meant for the brave, never for the cowardly
 
The platform of service is as big as the world. It is never overcrowded.
 
Man believes and dies.
 
The morality consists not in following the beaten track, but in finding out the true path for ourselves and in fearless following.
 
If by strength is meant moral power, the woman is immeasurably man's superior
 
It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honored by their humiliation of their fellow beings.
 
I have never in my life regarded any one as my servant, but as a brother and sister.
 
The truest test of civilization, culture and dignity is character and not clothing
 
Non-violence does not signify that man must not fight against the enemy , and by enemy is meant the evil which men do, not the human beings themselves (You can transform human beings throughs display of non violent anger [satyagraha] in support of truth and justice.)
 
Fear of disease killed more than disease itself
 
Patriotism is not enough, I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone
 
Take away the idea of perfection, and you take away enthusiasm
 
When you have a good cause, never descend to personalities
 
I must not serve distant neighbors at the expense of the nearest
 
The essence of education lies in drawing out  the very best that is in you
 
Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
 
To believe in something and not to live it, is dishonest

The moment there is suspicion about a person's motives, everything he does becomes tainted

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong

Contributed by  Ramam DSS
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 Mahatma Gandhi in Hind Swaraj or Indian Home Rule

First Edition 1938, Twentieth Reprint, November 2008 (10,000 copies), Navjivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad.
 
"It is a bad habit to say that another man's thoughts are bad and ours only are good and that those holding different views from ours are the enemies of the country"

"The seed in never seen. It works underneath the ground, is itself destroyed,and the tree which rises above the ground is alone seen."
 
"The English have not taken India. We have given it to them. They are not in India because of their strength, but because we keep them."
 
"Humdug there undoubtedly is about all religions. Where there is light, there is also shadow."
 
"India cannot cease to be one nation because people belonging to different religions live in it. The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it. A country is one nation only when such a condition obtains in it."
 
"God set a limit to a man's locomotive ambition in the construction of his body. Man immediately proceeded to discover means of overriding the limit. God gifted man with intellect that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker."
 
On Globalization
 "I am so constructed that I can only serve my immediate neighbours, but in my conceit I pretend to have discovered that I must with my body serve every individual in the Universe. In thus attempting the impossible, man comes into contact with different natures, different religions, and is utterly confounded."
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More
A series of knols on Mahatma Gandhi's thoughts on various issues are being developed by me.
 
There are news items all around that copy right of various parties on books and articles written by Mahatma Gandhi have expired and people can print books written by Gandhi without paying royalty to anybody. Hope this will help in spreading Gandhiji's message to more people if some interested parties can come forward and print books at lower costs. But certainly they can be published on the net and made accesible to large number of people.
 
All knols on Gandhiji's thoughts will be open collaboration knols so that visitors can add relevant thoughts and also write their comments on Gandhian philosophy.
 
 

Directory - List of Knols - Thoughts Of Mahatma Gandhi

 
Mahatma Gandhi on Industrialisation
Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Tradition
Mahatma Gandhi on Wages to Workmen
Mahatma Gandhi on Embracing Poverty Voluntarily
Mahatma Gandhi on Alcohol
Mahatma Gandhi on Wisdom
Mahatma Gandhi on Teachers
Mahatma Gandhi on Villages
Mahatma Gandhi on Business and Ethics
Mahatma Gandhi on Brahmacharya
Mahatma Gandhi on Avatars (Incarnations) of God
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About Gandhian thinking by Krishan Saigal

For Gandhi, human existence was chacterized by two fundamental features. First each individual was uniquely constituted and had a right to live by the truth as he saw it. Second, all men were one; what united them was far more important than what divided them and there were no differences that could not be resolved or lived with in the spirit of charity and goodwill. Since  both unity and difference, harmony and disagreement, were the necessary features of human existence, Gandhi argued that every human association must fully acknowledge and find ways of reconciling them. 
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Web Pages Related to Gandhian Thought

http://www.mkgandhi-sarvodaya.org/
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Mahatma Gandhi - Videos
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Gandhi's Dream for Villages of India


A cow in every house
provided with plentiful green grass
carpenters, tailors
potters and shoppers
business every where
with plenty to share
A doctor to look after
Good leader to administer
A teacher for children to grow
A bank for wealth to flow
Gandhi's dream
For me, it is supreme

by Narayana Rao, Vamsi, Priyanka


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Original Knol Number 909
Coauthors contributed on Knol - D.S.S. Ramam and P.V. Ariel

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More Quotations from Gandhi
• I have nothing to teach the world. Truth and non-violence are as old the hills
• Non-cooperation with evil is a sacred duty
• I do not seek kingdom, I do not seek heaven, I do not seek moksha. I pray that the suffering humanity be relieved from pain
• If untouchability lives, Hinduism perishes, and even India perishes
• Knowledge without character is a power for evil only as seen in the instances of so many talented thieves • English is so beautiful that no other language can stand comparable to it
• The king was wearing enough for both of us – M.K.Gandhi when asked why he did not wear a suit to meet the king
• Our temple is in our hearts. A temple constructed of a few stones has no meaning
• A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks that he becomes • The outward behavior of a man is at once the sign and proof of the inner state
• Action expresses priorities
• Truth and non-violence are my God
• The only real dignified human doctrine is the greatest good of all, and this can only be achieved by utmost self-sacrifice
• Every village has to become a self-sufficient republic
• India can win over conquerors culturally, traditionally, spiritually but never politically
• My writing should be cremated with my body. What I have done will endure, not what I have said and written
• He who wants to please all will please none
• Humility is the key to guide success
• No matter how weak a person is in body, if it is a shame to flee, he will stand his ground and die at his post. This would be non-violence and bravery

Contributed By D.S.S. Ramam

Updated  6 September 2019,  2 October 2017,  14 May 2017, 2 October 2014,  29 August 2014, 2 October 2012
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Monday, October 1, 2018

Remembering Mahatma Gandhi - Remembering Gandhi Thoughts - Mahatma Gandhi - 150th Birth Anniversary Year



Become Productive - Don't waste your talent, time and resources

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Let us make India Great
Let us make India - Param Vaibhav Bharat


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2 October 2018 - Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Appeal and Thought


Come, Let's pledge to take forward their ideals and fulfill their vision for a better nation and a better self.


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Mahatma Gandhi Thoughts and Quotes. Let us read again, remember and put in practice


I hate privilege and monopoly. Whatever cannot be shared with the masses
is taboo to me. (Harijan, 2-11-1934, p. 303)


I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow-creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility. (Autobiography, p. 371)
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Monday, October 2, 2017

Mahatma Gandhi on Wisdom - Wisdom Quotes

(Remarks of Mahatma Gandhi,  In the course of his address to the concluding session of the Inter-Asian Relations Conference held at Delhi on 2.4.1947.  Mahatma Gandhi, stated  that the wisdom traveled to the West from the East) 
The first of these wise men (from East) was Zoroaster. He belonged to the East. He was followed by Buddha, who belonged to the East-India. Who followed Buddha? Jesus, who came from the East. Before Jesus was Moses who belonged to the Palestine though he was born in Egypt. After Jesus came Mohammad....
The West today is pining for wisdom. It is despairing of a multiplication of the atom bombs, because atom bombs mean utter destruction not merely of the West but of the whole world... 
Harijan, 20.4.1947
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi
Jealousy presupposes the possibility of rivalry
Truth is what the voice within tells you
A 'No' with deepest conviction is better than a 'yes' to avoid trouble

Silence of the sewn up lips is no silence. One may achieve the same result by chopping off one's tongue, but that too would not be silence. He is truly silent who, having the capacity to speak, utters no idle word.

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WISDOM DAY QUOTES


 Psychologists tend to agree that wisdom involves an integration of knowledge, experience, and deep understanding that incorporates tolerance for the uncertainties of life as well as its ups and downs.
https://www.psychologytoday.com/basics/wisdom

Wisdom will never enter the soul of a wrong-doer, nor dwell in a body enslaved to sin;
for the holy spirit of instruction flees deceitfulness, recoils from unintelligent thoughts, is thwarted by the onset of vice.
http://www.catholic.org/bible/book.php?id=27


Updated 4 October 2017, 15 March 2012




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Saturday, September 30, 2017

Mahatma Gandhi on God, Prayers and Avatars (Incarnations) of God

As a Hindu, I believe in Avatars. I believe that in the pursuit of his plan, God sends his special messengers on earth upon whom the effulgence ofthe glory of God especially shines, and who in our Shastras are known as Avatars. 
Young India, 8 Sep 1921.
No one has found Him. But Avatars and prophets have, by means of their tapasya given to mankind a faint glimpse of the Eternal Law
Harijan, 25.4.1940
God has thousand names, or rather He is nameless.
God is not a person. God is an eternal principle
Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization
What does Jesus mean to me? To me, he was one of the greatest teachers humanity has ever had.
Prayer is the only means of bringing about orderliness and peace and repose in our daily life
The Gita is my spiritual diary, it is not for those who have no faith


Mahatma Gandhi : God is Life, Truth, Light, Love and The supreme Good - YouTube Video

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Friday, March 10, 2017

Gandhian Capitalism



If Gandhi were to support a capitalist society, what sort of capitalist society he wanted?

Gandhi advocated reduction in inequalities.
He urged all in the society to take care of basic human needs of it members.
Gandhi wanted abolition of zamindari system without any compensation.
Capitalist method of production involves the possibility of conflict between capital and labour.
Large scale industries lead to concentration of wealth.
Gandhi was against labour supplanting machinery in a labour surplus country like India.

Gandhi was interested in developing cooperation between labour and capital. Capital has to be the servant of labour or not its master.

According to Gandhi, wealth belongs to the society. Rich people are its temporary guardians. They have to distribute it to maximize happiness of the society.

Gandhi had four basic axioms for the development of economic system: truth, nonviolence, anasakti (lack of attachment) and sarvodaya (welfare of all).

Truth can be interpreted as facts, nonviolence can be interpreted to mean cooperation and lack of conflict,  anasakti as interest in other's needs and sarvodaya also as interest in others needs at a wider level (not limited to one's own family or village).

The economic system should be so organised that every individual has an opportunity of getting gainful employment, so that he can buy his own bread and essential means of living. Gandhi did not believe in the poor living on the charity or mercy of others and wanted eradication of poverty which is possible only through everyone getting employment.

While Gandhiji was not opposed to private ownership of industries and business, he advocated social control of business so that the profits generated are equitably distributed so as to prevent concentration of wealth in the hands of a few people, which leads to exploitation.
Mainstream, VOL XLIX, No 41, October 1, 2011
Gandhian Alternative to Economic Development — Relevance for India Today
http://www.mainstreamweekly.net/article3034.html


Gandhian Political Economy: Principles, Practice and Policy

By B. N. Ghosh, 2007
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Google Book Link for Book with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H93FUgKp0LcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


Ekatma Manav Darshan Alternative to Capitalism - Full Lecture and Video - Most of the economic ideas of Mahatma Gandhi were reiterated by Shri Deendayal Upadhyay who promoted Ekatma manav philosophy or darshan. You can understand all the economic ideas of Deendayal by listening to the video or reading text of the lecture given in page above.

Economic Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi
Shanti Swarup Gupta
Concept Publishing Company, 1994 - Economics - 350 pages
https://books.google.co.in/books?id=ozwCB8FrntoC


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Friday, September 4, 2015

Gandhian Socialism



Gandhi said socialism is a popular concept. According to him, it means there should more equality in the society and he is in favour of it. But he is against violence that some people recommend to achieve it.


Gandhiji  said, “Communism of the Russian type, that is communism which is imposed on a people, would be repugnant to India. I believe in non-violent communism…my emphasis on non-violence becomes one of principle. Even if I was assured that we could have independence, by means of violence, I should refuse to have it. It won’t be real independence. I base my faith in God and his justice.”


Gandhian Socialism
Dr. R.C. Gupta
http://www.trivenijournalindia.com/gandhiansocialismoct66.htm

Gandhian Political Economy: Principles, Practice and Policy
By B. N. Ghosh, 2007
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Google Book Link for Book with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H93FUgKp0LcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false



Updated  4 Sep 2015, 2 Sep 2014
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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Gandhian Communism


Some people write that  Gandhi's agrees with all Marx had said except the violent means advocated in the communism movement.

Gandhi was also a Marxist. Gandhi was Mao with smiley face.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kylesmith/2011/07/28/what-were-gandhis-views-on-capitalism/


Charles Petrasch - An Interview With Gandhi
Source: The Labour Monthly, Vol. 14, April 1932, No. 4 pp. 217-224, (3,338 words)
https://www.marxists.org/history/international/comintern/sections/britain/periodicals/labour_monthly/1932/04/x02.htm



Gandhian Political Economy: Principles, Practice and Policy
By B. N. Ghosh, 2007
Ashgate Publishing Limited
Google Book Link for Book with Preview facility
http://books.google.co.in/books?id=H93FUgKp0LcC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false


Updated 3 Sep 2015, 2 Sep 2014
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Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Gandhi's Hinduism - Gandhian Hinduism




                                     Gandhi Statue installed by UNO in their office compound in Geneva, Switzerland


Gandhi quotes Tulasi Das

"Good and bad, all men are the creation of god. The man of god picks up the good and discards the bad like the proverbial swan which is able to drink the milk and leave behind water, when a mixture of water and milk is placed before it."

"The root of religion is embedded in mercy, whereas egotism is rooted in love of the body."

"Mercy should never be abandoned, even though the body perishes."
http://www.gitananda.org/hinduism/mahatma-gandhi-on-hinduism.html


Raghupati Raghava Raja Ram Ishwar Allah Tere Naam
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Allah Tero Naam Ishwar Tero Naam
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Sai Bhajan - Ishwar Allah Tere Naam Sai Tere Naam
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Gandhian Hinduism put into practice the view of Hinduism put forward strongly by Ramakrishna Parama Hamsa and Ramakrishna Mission. The view was put forward by others also before Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. But Ramakrishna had the support of Swami Vivekananda and Mahatma Gandhi, two tall leaders of India in spiritual and political spheres to take the view to a larger populations of Indians. In this view, spirituality is important, search for God - the eternal truth is important but not the way of prayer. All ways of prayer prescribed by religious leaders provide a person spiritual bliss. One has to adhere to them and practice them till they reach their goal. Gandhi provided a living platform where large numbers of people belonging to various religious faiths came together and sang Allah tere naam - Eashwar tere naam. The tradition even today continues in Rama Krishna Maths, Putta Parthi Sai Baba Ashrams and many more. Of course they are not very visible despite being on the front door of the ashrams built by Sai Baba. Gandhian Hinduism or Ramakrishna's Hinduism is in the tradition of Adi Shankaracharya. Adi Shankara integrated all forms of worship into an unified system and advised people to choose their ishta devata. Ramakrishna Paramahamsa and Gandhi did the same thing by expanding the set of religious faiths that Adi Shankara integrated. Hinduism as the old tradition of explaining God and his deeds, has the responsibility to integrate later developments in God related explanations. Hinduism provides scope for Jnana Yoga practice. People can try to understand God through interpretation of scripture and meditation or tapas. Tapas is deep thinking carried on a by a person in a persistent manner till the goal is reached. Many may perish in the process and some may attain an insight. Ordinary find a glow in  the yogis. That glow is rare confidence and calm acquired due to Jnana yoga practice and the ability to give answers to questions of people in a way that pleases them and provides an explanation for the state of affairs in a cogent way that appears logical to them. There are yogis and gurus in every village of India.

Gandhian Hinduism is a topic worth exploring in detail through study of various books and articles and under this topic one will study the teachings and life of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Vivekananda, Shirdi Saibaba, Puttaparti Saibaba and some more yogis.


Gandhi on Religion
http://www.mkgandhi.org/religionmk.htm


Mahatma Gandhi on Hinduism

I had practiced Hinduism from early childhood. My nurse had taught me to invoke Rama when I feared evil spirits.

My instinct is wholly Hindu

My Hinduism teaches me to respect all religions.

The common factor of all religions is non-violence.
http://www.gitananda.org/hinduism/mahatma-gandhi-on-hinduism.html


Hinduism: Gandhian Perspective
M.V. Nadkarni
A Word by Nadkarni about his book
http://mvnadkarni.com/hinduism-a-gandhian-perspective.html

Gandhi's Hinduism and Savarkar's Hindutva
Economic Political Weekly
Vol - XLIV No. 29, July 18, 2009 | Rudolf C Heredia
Abstract: http://www.epw.in/special-articles/gandhis-hinduism-and-savarkars-hindutva.html

Mahatma Gandhi's Ideas on Religion and Their Effect on Non-Violence Advocated by Him
http://www.colorado.edu/ReligiousStudies/chernus/4800/NonviolenceBook/Gandhi.htm


Shri Rama Krishana Paramahamsa - 18 Feb 1836 - 16 August 1886
Shirdi Saibaba - 1838 - 15 October 1918
Puttaparthi Satya Sai Baba


Shri Rama Krishana Paramahamsa - 18 Feb 1836 - 16 August 1886

Temple for all religious faiths at RK Math, Hyderabad
http://www.rkmath.org/temple




Modern Day Articles

Review of documentary Sanskriti - S. Krishna Swamy Hindi 2000
http://www.thehindu.com/thehindu/2000/09/03/stories/13030618.htm

Sri Kaleshwar Ashram, Penukonda
https://www.kaleshwar.org/en/index

An interesting article critical but traces many who made Hinduism more broad based and accepted the Islam and Christian faiths as natural extensions of Hindu faith of multiple ways of serving God.
http://sookta-sumana.blogspot.in/2012/04/frankensteins-of-hinduism-part-iii.html


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Thursday, October 2, 2014

Mahatma Gandhi - Top Viewed YouTube Videos





Raghupati Raghav Rajaram - Gandhi's favorite bhajan
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Thursday, September 5, 2013

Essay Writing Competition - Teachers' Day - Gandhiji's Birthday - 2010




5 September
Teacher's Day - Birthday of Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
                                              
2nd October




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About The Knol Writing Competition

Announced in Year 2010

An essay writing (knol writing) event is being organized on the occasion of Teachers' Day and Gandhiji's birth day. The main themes are "The Role of Teaching and Teachers in the Learning Process" and "Gandhian Thought." 
Some Suggested Topics
(Any other relevant topic appropriate to the theme can be selected by authors)

The Role of Teaching and Teachers in the Learning Process

1. Definition of Learning and Teaching.
2. Innovations in Teaching based on Research on Learning and Teaching.
3. Role of My Teachers in My Learning and Development.
4. Role of Research in Teaching in Higher Education Institutes and Resources and Constraints.
5. Effective Teaching Method: The Current Paradigm and Suggestions for New Paradigms.
6. Indian and Greek Philosophy: Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan's Interpretation.
7. Blog and Online Article Writing by Teachers to Support Classroom Teaching.
8. Tuition Classes and Institutes: Utility and Unwanted and Unintended Consequences.

Gandhian Thought

1. Gandhian Thought on Economic systems
2. Gandhian Thought on Political Systems.
3. Gandhi on Education.
4. Use of Gandhian Thought by Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King.
5. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan on Gandhiji.
6. Gandhian Thought: "Earn like a capitalist, but spend like a socialist."
7. Gandhian Thought in the Present Era.
8. Gandhian Thought and MP's Salaries in India (Sunday Times of 22 August 2010 carried a front page articles on MP's salaries around the world. It said each MP gets a compensation of Rs. 57 lakhs in India. In terms of purchasing power parity an MP is drawing 104 times per capita income).
9. "Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man whom you may have seen, and ask yourself if the step you are contemplating is going to be of use to him. Will he gain anything by it?" (Gandhiji's suggestion to politicians in power)

Rules

1. The competition is open to Indian Residents only.
2. The entries are to be written after 14th August.
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Thoughts Of Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi on Alcohol
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Hind Swaraj - Independence for India - M.K. Gandhi
Brute Force or Violent Struggle and Passive Resistance - Gandhiji's Comparsion
What is Civilization? Mahatma Gandhi's Explanation in Hind Swaraj
Action Plan for Indians by Gandhiji 1908-09 - In the Book Hind Swaraj
What is swaraj? - Mahatma Gandhi's Explanation in Hind Swaraj
What is true civilization? Mahatma Gandhi's Answer
How can India become free? - Mahatma Gandhi's Way


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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi - Events - Videos

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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi on Yajna

Mahatma Gandhi on Yajna

Mahatma Gandhi on Yajna

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Yajna is duty to be performed,or service to be rendered, all twenty-four hours of the day.
 
 
 
Every single act of one who would lead a life of purity should be in the nature of yajna.
 
Yajna having come to us with our birth, we are debtors all our lives, and thus for ever bound to serve the universe.
 
 
 
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Gandhiji gave a very nice interpretation of yajna that is in line with the vedic statements.
 
Sun is doing yajna all the time. The interpretation that yajna is the essential duty that is to be performed all twenty-four hours of the days is appropriate.
 
We are debtors all our lives. We have to serve the universe. Hindus believe in debt to their parents, gurus and God. They have to do service to repay that debt.
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Sunday, April 1, 2012

What is Civilization? Mahatma Gandhi's Explanation in Hind Swaraj

 
 
VI. Civilization

READER: Now you will have to explain what you mean by civilization.
EDITOR: It is not a question of what I mean. Several English writers refuse to call that
civilization which passes under that name. Many books have been written upon that subject.
Societies have been formed to cure the nation of the evils of civilization. A great English writer
has written a work called Civilization: Its Cause and Cure. Therein he has called it a disease.

READER: Why do we not know this generally?
EDITOR: The answer is very simple. We rarely find people arguing against themselves.
Those who are intoxicated by modern civilization are not likely to write against it. Their care
will be to find out facts and arguments in support of it and this they do unconsciously, believing it
to be true. A man whilst he is dreaming, believes in his dream; he is undeceived only when he is
awakened from his sleep. A man labouring under the bane of civilization is like a dreaming man.
What we usually read are the works of defenders of modern civilization, which undoubtedly
claims among its votaries very brilliant and even some very good men. Their writings hypnotize
us. And so, one by one, we are drawn into the vortex.

READER: This seems to be very plausible. Now will you tell me something of what you
have read and thought of this civilization?
EDITOR: Let us first consider what state of things is described by the word “civilization”.
Its true test lies in the fact that people living in it make bodily welfare the object of life. We
will take some examples. The people of Europe today live in better-built houses than they did
a hundred years ago. This is considered an emblem of civilization, and this is also a matter to
promote bodily happiness. Formerly, they wore skins, and used spears as their weapons. Now,
they wear long trousers, and, for embelishing their bodies, they wear a variety of clothing, and,
instead of spears, they carry with them revolvers containing five or more chambers. If people of
a certain country, who have hitherto not been in the habit of wearing much clothing, boots, etc.,
adopt European clothing, they are supposed to have become civilized out of savagery. Formerly,
in Europe, people ploughed their lands mainly by manual labour. Now, one man can plough a
vast tract by means of steam engines and can thus amass great wealth. This is called a sign of
civilization. Formerly, only a few men wrote valuable books. Now, anybody writes and prints
anything he likes and poisons people’s minds. Formerly, men travelled in waggons. Now, they
fly through the air in trains at the rate of four hundred and more miles per day. This is considered
the height of civilization. It has been stated that, as men progress, they shall be able to travel
in airship and reach any part of the world in a few hours. Men will not need the use of their
hands and feet. They will press a button, and they will have their clothing by their side. They
will press another button, and they will have their newspaper. A third, and a motor-car will be in
waiting for them. They will have a variety of delicately dished up food. Everything will be done
by machinery. Formerly, when people wanted to fight with one another, they measured between
them their bodily strength; now it is possible to take away thousands of lives by one man working
behind a gun from a hill. This is civilization. Formerly, men worked in the open air only as much
as they liked. Now thousands of workmen meet together and for the sake of maintenance work
in factories or mines. Their condition is worse than that of beasts. They are obliged to work,
at the risk of their lives, at most dangerous occupations, for the sake of millionaires. Formerly,
men were made slaves under physical compulsion. Now they are enslaved by temptation of
money and of the luxuries that money can buy. There are now diseases of which people never
dreamt before, and an army of doctors is engaged in finding out their cures, and so hospitals
have increased. This is a test of civilization. Formerly, special messengers were required and
much expense was incurred in order to send letters; today, anyone can abuse his fellow by means
of a letter for one penny. True, at the same cost, one can send one’s thanks also. Formerly,
people had two or three meals consisting of home-made bread and vegetables; now, they require
something to eat every two hours so that they have hardly leisure for anything else. What more
need I say? All this you can ascertain from several authoritative books. There are all true tests
of civilization. And if anyone speaks to the contrary, know that he is ignorant. This civilization
takes note neither of morality nor of religion. Its votaries calmly state that their business is not
to teach religion. Some even consider it to be a superstitious growth. Others put on the cloak
of religion, and prate about morality. But, after twenty years’ experience, I have come to the
conclusion that immorality is often taught in the name of morality. Even a child can understand
that in all I have described above there can be no inducement to morality. Civilization seeks to
increase bodily comforts, and it fails miserably even in doing so.

This civilization is irreligion, and it has taken such a hold on the people in Europe who are in
it appear to be half mad. They lack real physical strength or courage. They keep up their energy
by intoxication. They can hardly be happy in solitude. Women, who should be the queens of
households, wander in the streets or they slave away in factories. For the sake of a pittance, half a
million women in England alone are labouring under trying circumstances in factories or similar
institutions. This awful fact is one of the causes of the daily growing suffragette movement.
This civilization is such that one has only to be patient and it will be self-destroyed. According
to the teaching of Mahommed this would be considered a Satanic Civilization. Hinduism
calls it the Black Age. I cannot give you an adequate conception of it. It is eating into the vitals
of the English nation. It must be shunned. Parliaments are really emblems of slavery. If you will
sufficiently think over this, you will entertain the same opinion and cease to blame the English.
They rather deserve our sympathy. They are a shrewd nation and I therefore believe that they
will cast off the evil. They are enterprising and industrious and their mode of thought is not
inherently immoral. Neither are they bad at heart. I therefore respect them. Civilization is not an
incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted
by it.
 
 
Chapter Six of HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE by M.K.Gandhi, 1909
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What is true civilization? Mahatma Gandhi's Answer

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves. The Gujarati equivalent for civilization means “good conduct”.
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XIII. What is true civilization?


READER: You have denounced railways, lawyers and doctors. I can see that you will discard
all machinery. What, then, is civilization?

EDITOR: The answer to that question is not difficult. I believe that the civilization India
evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors,
Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has
becomeWesternized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at
the foundation. The people of Europe learn their lessons from the writings of the men of Greece
or Rome, which exist no longer in their former glory. In trying to learn from them, the Europeans
imagine that they will avoid the mistakes of Greece and Rome. Such is their pitiable condition.
In the midst of all this India remains immovable and that is her glory. It is a charge against India
that her people are so uncivilized, ignorant and stolid, that it is not possible to induce them to
adopt any changes. It is a charge really against our merit. What we have tested and found true
on the anvil of experience, we dare not change. Many thrust their advice upon India, and she
remains steady. This is her beauty: it is the sheet-anchor of our hope.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of
duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery
over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves. The Gujarati equivalent for
civilization means “good conduct”.

If this definition be correct, then India, as so many writers have shown, has nothing to learn
from anybody else, and this is as it should be. We notice that the mind is a restless bird; the
more it gets the more it wants, and still remains unsatisfied. The more we indulge our passions
the more unbridled they become. Our ancestors, therefore set a limit to our indulgences. They
saw that happiness was largely a mental condition. A man is not necessarily happy because he is
rich, or unhappy because he is poor. The rich are often seen to be unhappy, the poor to be happy.
Millions will always remain poor. Observing all this, our ancestors dissuaded us from luxuries
and pleasures. We have managed with the same kind of plough as existed thousands of years
ago. We have retained the same kind of cottages that we had in former times and our indigenous
education remains the same as before. We have had no system of life-corroding competition.
Each followed his own occupation or trade and charged a regulation wage. It was not that we did
not know how to invent machinery, but our forefathers knew that, if we set our hearts after such
things, we would become slaves and lose our moral fibre. They, therefore, after due deliberation
decided that we should only do what we could with our hands and feet. They saw that our real
happiness and health consisted in a proper use of our hands and feet. They further reasoned that
large cities were a snare and a useless encumbrance and that people would not be happy in them,
that there would be gangs of thieves and robbers, prostitution and vice flourishing in them and
that poor men would be robbed by rich men. They were, therefore, satisfied with small villages.
They saw that kings and their swords were inferior to the sword of ethics, and they, therefore, and
the sovereigns of the earth to be inferior to the Rishis and the Fakirs. A nation with a constitution
like this is fitter to teach others than to learn from. This nation had courts, lawyers and doctors,
but they were all within bounds. Everybody knew that these professions were not particularly
superior; moreover, these vakils and vaids did not rob people; they were considered people’s
dependants, not their masters. Justice was tolerably fair. The ordinary rule was to avoid courts.
There were no touts to lure people into them. This evil, too, was noticeable only in and around
capitals. The common people lived independently and followed their agricultural occupation.
They enjoyed true Home Rule.
 
And where this cursed modern civilization has not reached, India remains as it was before.
The inhabitants of that part of India will very properly laugh at your newfangled notions. The
English do not rule over them, nor will you ever rule over them. Those in whose name we speak
we do not know, nor do they know us. I would certainly advise you and those like you who love
the motherland to go into the interior that has yet been not polluted by the railways and to live
there for six months; you might then be patriotic and speak of Home Rule.
Now you see what I consider to be real civilization. Those who want to change conditions
such as I have described are enemies of the country and are sinners.

READER: It would be all right if India were exactly as you have described it, but it is
also India where there are hundreds of child widows, where two year old babies are married,
where twelve year old girls are mothers and housewives, where women practise polyandry, where
the practice of Niyoga obtains, where, in the name of religion, girls dedicate themselves to
prostitution, and in the name of religion sheep and goats are killed. Do you consider these also
symbols of the civilization that you have described?

EDITOR: You make a mistake. The defects that you have shown are defects. Nobody mistakes
them for ancient civilization. They remain in spite of it. Attempts have always been made
and will be made to remove them. We may utilize the new spirit that is born in us for purging
ourselves of these evils. But what I have described to you as emblems of modern civilization
are accepted as such by its votaries. The Indian civilization, as described by me, has been so
described by its votaries. In no part of the world, and under no civilization, have all men attained
perfection. The tendency of the Indian civilization is to elevate the moral being, that of theWestern
civilization is to propagate immorality. The latter is godless, the former is based on a belief
in God. So understanding and so believing, it behoves every lover of India to cling to the old
Indian civilization even as a child clings to the mother’s breast.
 
 
Chapter 13 in HIND SWARAJ OR INDIAN HOME RULE by M.K. Gandhi, 1909
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Thursday, March 22, 2012

Hind Swaraj - Independence for India - M.K. Gandhi

 Mahatma Gandhi on Independence for India - 1908 Publication
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About the Book

Gandhi wrote this book in 1908. The concluding paragraph is " I have endeavoured to explain it (Swaraj) as I understand it (Swaraj), and my conscience testifies that my life henceforth is dedicated to its attainment."
Gandhiji explained his concept of swaraj and also methods of how to attain it in this book. He used and tried to use methods he had delineated in this book and brought independence to India. This book is considered as an essential means to understanding the philosophy as well as practical work of Gandhiji. I plan to write a summary of this book in this knol. Initially some important statements from the book will be given and later  the summary will be attempted.

Important Thoughts

"It is a bad habit to say that another man's thoughts are bad and ours only are good and that those holding different views from ours are the enemies of the country"

"The seed in never seen. It works underneath the ground, is itself destroyed,and the tree which rises above the ground is alone seen."
"The English have not taken India. We have given it to them. They are not in India because of their strength, but because we keep them."
"Humdug there undoubtedly is about all religions. Where there is light, there is also shadow."
"India cannot cease to be one nation because people belonging to different religions live in it. The introduction of foreigners does not necessarily destroy the nation, they merge in it. A country is one nation only when such a condition obtains in it."
"God set a limit to a man's locomotive ambition in the construction of his body. Man immediately proceeded to discover means of overriding the limit. God gifted man with intellect that he might know his Maker. Man abused it so that he might forget his Maker."
On Globalization
"I am so constructed that I can only serve my immediate neighbours, but in my conceit I pretend to have discovered that I must with my body serve every individual in the Universe. In thus attempting the impossible, man comes into contact with different natures, different religions, and is utterly confounded."
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Books Recommended by Gandhi to Understand The Ideas of Hind Swaraj

Blount: A New Crusade
Carpenter: Civilization, Its Cause and Cure

Mazzini: Duties of Man

Maine: Village Communities
Plato: Defence and Death of Socrates (May be chapter)

Ruskin: A Joy for Ever
Ruskin: Unto This Last 

Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau: Life without Principle

Tolstoy: The Kingdom of God Is within You
Tolstoy: What is Art?
Tolstoy: The Slavery of Our Times
Tolstoy: The First Step
Tolstoy: How Shall We Escape

Thoreau: On the Duty of Civil Disobedience
Thoreau: Life without Principle

Books of Tolstoy for online reading
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Some Chapters from Hind Swaraj

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Pukar, an NGO in Mumbai organized a three day seminar on Hind Swaraj during 18th to 20th December, 2009 at Queens Mansion, Fort, Mumbai.
For details visit
I attended one session of the seminar on 20th December
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Thursday, March 15, 2012

Mahatma Gandhi on Brahmacharya

The full and proper meaning of Brahmacharya is search of Brahma. Brahma pervades everything and can, therefore, be searched by diving into and realizing the inner self. This realization is impossible without complete control of the senses. Brahmacharya thus means control in thought, word, and in all places.
 
Young India, 5.6.1924
 
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Comment
 
I personally feel brahmacharya must mean education. Every individual of the society has to go through the ashram of education (brahmacharya). Giving a meaning of a person not married created a lot of confusion. Once a person enters married life he cannot devote his full attention to education. During brahmacharya, one devotes full attention to education. In the ancient days, brahmachary has no responsibility towards  his family. He used to go alms and bring and give it to his teacher for running the ashram. Till he completed his education he has no responsibility of his family.
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Mahatma Gandhi on Teachers

An acharya is one who behaves himself and thus sets us an example of good behaviour.
 
The Diary of Mahadev Desai
 
I belong to the old school which believed in reverence for teachers.
 
To the students
 
I have always felt that the true text book for the pupil is his teacher
 
Wit and wisdom of Mahatma Gandhi, p.223
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Mahatma Gandhi on Embracing Poverty Voluntarily

Jesus, Muhammed, Buddha, Nanak, Kabir, chaitanya, Shankara, Dayanand, and  Ramakrishna were men who exercised an immense influence over and moulded the character of thousands of men. The world is richer for their having lived in it. And they were all men who deliberately embraced poverty as their lot.

 (Speeches and Writings of Mahatma Gandhi, G.A. Natesan, Madras, 1933, p.353)  

Civilization in the real sense of the term consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary reduction of wants, which promotes real happiness and contentment and increases the capacity for service. One can reduce one’s wants by perseverance, and the reduction of wants make for happiness-a healthy body and a peaceful mind.

 From Yeravada Mandir, 1945
 
 
 
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Mahatma Gandhi on Wages to Workmen

A satisfactory solution of the condition of labour must include the following:

 

(1) The hours of labour must leave the workmen some hours of leisure;

(2) They must get facilities for their own education;

(3) Provision must be made for an adequate supply of milk, clothing nad necessary education for their children;

(4) There should be sanitary dwellings for th workmen;

(5) They should be in a position to save enough to maintain themselves during their old age.

 Young India, 11.3 1920.
 
 
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Mahatma Gandhi on Indian Tradition


Let us study our Eastern institutions in that spirit of scientific enquiry and we shall evolve a truer socialism and a truer communism than the world has yet dreamed of. It is surely wrong to presume that Western socialism or communism is the last work on the question of mass poverty.
 Anand Bazar Patrika, 3.8.1934.
 If you do not know Ramayana and Mahabharata, then you have no right to claim yourself to be an Indian
Thoughts Of Mahatma Gandhi
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