re:cause of decline-- t Gandhiji- the Mahatma!

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advaitin, "V. Krishnamurthy" <profvk>

wrote:

thank you professorji !

 

yes! indeed! gandhiji was an apostle of peace!

 

you write ..

 

".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. "

 

yes! indeed! he called "untouchables" - Hari-jans ( children of lord

hari) ! he also women freedom fighters in his movement - sarojini

naidu, amrit kaur, dr.sushila nsayar etc...

 

He even met with Narayana guru, the saint of kerala - and praised him

for the wonderful work Narayana guru for the upliftment of ezhavas

(low castes in kerala ) ! i believe he also met shri ramana (not

sure) ... tagore and he became close friends though very different in

their approach to life!

 

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Mine is not a religion of the prison house. It has room for the least

among God's creations. But it is a proof against insolence, pride of

race, religion and colour. - Mahatma Gandhi

 

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Gandhi was probably the first person in history to lift the love

ethic of Jesus above mere interaction between individuals to a

powerful and effective social force on a large scale. The

intellectual and moral satisfaction that I failed to gain from the

utilitarianism of Bentham and Mill, the revolutionary methods of Marx

and Lenin, the social contract theory of Hobbes, the 'back to nature'

optimism of Rousseau, and the superman philosophy of Nietzsche, I

found in the non-violent resistance pholosophy of Gandhi - Martin

Luther King, Jr.

 

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Generations to come, it may be, will scarce believe that such a one

as this ever in flesh and blood walked upon this earth ...... Albert

Einstein

 

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"...If I have to be reborn, I should be born as an untouchable so

that I may share their sorrows, sufferings and the affronts levelled

at them, in order that I may endeavour to free myself and them from

that miserable condition." -gandhiji

 

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In the evolution of civilization, if it is to survive, all men cannot

fail eventually to adopt Gandhi's belief that the process of mass

application of force to resolve contentious issues is fundamentally

not only wrong but contains within itself the germs of self-

destruction.

- General Douglas MacArthur, supreme Allied military commander in

Japan

 

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Gandhi had demonstrated that a powerful human following can be

assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political

maneuvers and trickeries but through the cogent example of a morally

superior conduct of life. - Albert Einstein

 

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no o country but India and no religion but Hinduism could have given

birth to a Gandhi.

- Editorial, The Times of London

 

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The power and creative suffering must be evident to any one of my

age; for the generations into which I happen to have been born, has

not only been Hitler's generation in the West and Stalin's in Russia;

it has also been Gandhi's India; and it can already be forecast with

some confidence that Gandhi's effect on human history is going to be

greater and, more lasting than either Hitler's or Stalin's - Toynbee

 

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The great Goethe and Indian humanist saint Gandhi have made the

deepest impress on my life and philosophy. Both achieve inner

fulfilment through the order of love-principle.

- Albert Schweitzer

 

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BREATHE IN lOVE , BREATHE OUT LOVE!