re:cause of decline-- not Gandhiji

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advaitin, "gautam madan" <pranavomkaar@r...>

wrote:

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> It'd be a pity if we were to join the ranks of half-thinking

people

> and write down Gandhiji's achievements which to my mind would be

at

> the level of any saint we know. His field was Karma Yoga unlike

the

> saints we normally discuss (whose emphasis is more on

Bhakti/Jnana).

 

 

Namaste, all

 

Since there is a talk about Gandhiji now, I would like to point out

the seven Himalayan achievements of his, each one of which was

firmly founded on his faith in spirituality. Any single one of these

could have earned him the title of a Mahatma.

 

1.He guided and conducted the most gigantic revolution of the

twentieth century for almost a quarter of a century on the basis of

Non-violence.

2.He made the Right Wing agree to changes and reforms and at the

same time made the Left Wing agree that changes and reforms could

happen only step by step.

3.He convinced politicians steeped in Chanakya-like statesmanship

and made them agree to accept True Religious Spirituality as the

only proper guideline for action.

4.He was the one who initiated the thought process that just as

mankind has an ethics and morals of their own nations must also have

an ethics and morals among the comity of nations.

5.It was he who woke up the Indian masses to be aware of the evils

of untouchability, widow ill-treatment, child marriage and drug

addiction and made them rise against them.

6.It was he who made the Indian people rise above their religious

and cultural prejudices and rise as one nation.

7.It was he who shook up the spineless nature of the nation because

of its fear of the police, fear of muscle power and money power,

fear from superstitious traditions, fear of beaurocracy, and fear

from caste and religious prejudice.

 

In view of all this his authentic voice of sincerity demonstrated to

the world that the inner strength of personal religious convictions

could be a great 'force' even to solve political and social

problems.

 

PraNAms to all adavitins

profvk