] Be the change YOU wish to see -Mahatma Gandhi / adi, jill

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, "adi_shakthi16"

<adi_shakthi16> wrote:

>

> yosy writes

>

> (ps. with all due respect, ghandi was a skillful politician. in no

> way comparing to beloved ramana...)

>

> jill responds

>

> ( This comment shows neither respect nor understanding of the life

> and

> work of Mahatma Gandhi.)

>

> Jill- you are absolutely right.

>

> Gandhiji was OUTWARDLY a politician but was deeply religious at

> heart. AND THERE ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO APPEAR RELIGIOUS OUTWARDLY but

> are so political ! smiles!

>

 

lol

> someone wrote about Gandhiji sleeping with two young Girls on

either

> side to prove ....

>

> This appears in Gndhiji's autobiography 'An experiment with Truth"

>

> AND By Brahmacharya, Gandhiji meant not merely celibacy but a

> virtuous path which can be observed even in married life by having

> absolute control on all senses and over thought too; for, he

believed

> that "the vitality that is responsible for the creation of life is

> continuously and even unconsciously dissipated by evil, or even by

> rambling, disorderly, unwanted thoughts" and that "perfectly

> controlled thought is itself a power of the highest potency and can

> become self-acting" (Harijan, July 23, 1938).

>

 

ok...

 

> and SHRI RAMANA on Gandhi-ji

>

> To a devotee's question Sri Bhagavan replied: "Gandhiji has

> surrendered himself to the Divine and works accordingly with no

self

> interest. He does not concern himself with the results but accepts

> them as they turn up. That must be the attitude of national workers.

>

> "Devotee: Will the work be crowned with success?

>

> "Bhagavan: The question arises because the questioner has not

> surrendered himself."

>

>

> "If one surrenders completely, there will be no one left to ask

> questions or to be considered. Either the thoughts are eliminated

by

> holding on to the root thought "I", or one surrenders

unconditionally

> to the Higher Power. These are the only two ways to Realization."

>

>

> and Gandhiji lived and breathed the teachings of Srimad Bhagwat

> gita.A karmayogi and a bhakti yogi par excellance.

 

 

thank you adiji for the above clarification. lol this proves that

indeed "true virtue fears not critique"

 

_()_

yosy

 

ps. my appology again to anyone who felt hurt by my remarks, which

were in no way intended to be derisive... and obviously related only

to the 'external' aspects of ghandiji and his activities.

 

yosy