Mohandas K. Gandhi, known to the world as The Mahatma, or the "Great Soul", brought a great gift to the modern world. That gift was the light of Non-Violence, of Service to the Community and of Social Justice. His life served as an example and this light became a torch which illuminated our world and which saved us from our own inhumanity to each other.…
Mohandas Gandhi said “strength doesn’t come from physical capicity. it comes from an indominatble will”. Gandhi’s ideas are as meaningful today as they were during his long and inspiring life. He inspired millions of people through achieving the independance of India, and became a legacy of greatness. He has been playing an unforgettable role. Gandhi should not be considered an opponent of imperialism. To begin, throughout his life, Gahndhi believed in the principals of truth, non-violence and peace. He guided the citizens of india to struggle for freedom, not with weapons, but with following the principal of non-violence. Secondly, Gandhi himself was a product of globalization. He thought that Globslization was not visious but to believe that…
Mohandas K. Gandhi is one of the most significant people of the 20th century. His Impact on Hinduism, India, South Africa, and indeed the world is timeless and people still look to his teachings for inspiration and guidance.…
Mahatma Gandhi was an Indian hero who inspired a country to revolve and free themselves of oppression. He is the type of person who no one else could ever become, but if there was someone who I would like to model myself after, it is him. He changed the course of history with his new ideas, and he freed what would become billions of people. Without Gandhi, I would not be alive today. I want to inspire at least some small amount of people to change their way of thinking and free themselves of an abominable situation. He was truly a tremendous person and he is definitely a person one should aspire to be.…
Mahatma Gandhi was a wise man and taught multiple lessons to his people about the workings of nonviolence. He called it Satyagraha which translates to “Soul-force” or “Love-force”. Gandhi is renowned not only as the “Father of India” but also as the originator of the modern nonviolence or passive movement (444). During his lifetime (1869-1948) he performed countless acts of nonviolence to help end the struggle for Indian independence from Britain which happened from 1915 to 1947. Gandhi’s writings inspired American civil rights leaders such as Martin Luther King Jr.; South Africa’s Nelson Mandela; Czechoslovakia’s Václav Havel, leader of that country’s “Velvet Revolution”; and countless workers for peace and justice around the world (444). His teachings on nonviolence were greatly used in the Civil Rights Movement in the 1950s and 1960s.…
When looking into different worldviews, it is hard to pinpoint our own actual worldview. We have to look through so many different icons and it is still hard to pinpoint their actual worldview. It seems that many worldviews have such similar aspects. Notably, Mahatma Gandhi had a Buddhist worldview. He views Buddhism as cleansed Hinduism. His view on many subjects were very clear and he became a role model for mostly everyone that came in contact with him. He fought for India is known for his constant non-violent struggle against the British rule in India. Throughout this essay, we will discuss Mahatma Gandhi's take on a few subjects which include family, sexuality, and social issues and from there we will discuss whether or not I feel he is a good role model for myself.…
Although Mahatma Gandhi did not make as great of a change, he improved our world. In the second paragraph of “Eulogy for Mahatma Gandhi”, it states, “Yet ultimately things happened which no doubt made him suffer tremendously, though his tender face never lost its smile and he never spoke a harsh word to anyone.” This tells us that he wanted to shape us into better people without using violence or lesser words, even if people…
“Mahatma Gandhi.” Calliope. 21st ed. January 2011. MAS Ultra - School Edition. Web. 24 Oct. 2011. .…
There have been many individuals throughout history that have left an indelible impact on their people and the world, but few could rival the difference that Mohandas Gandhi made. Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the British Common Wealth of India. He spent his youth witnessing the injustices that the English purveyed on the Indian people; something that eventually helped him to decide to become a barrister. Shortly after passing the bar, Gandhi was offered a case in South Africa that would require him to live in that country for about 1 year and he readily accepted. Once arriving in South Africa, he almost immediately experienced the prejudice that Indians living there had been enduring. The turning point for him came when he purchased a first class train ticket but was asked to move to the 3rd class coach, simply because he was Indian. When he quietly refused, he was physically thrown from the train. It was at that point that he decided to stay in South Africa to fight discrimination and what had been planned as a 1 year stay turned into 20 years. During that time he created, taught and practiced the concept of satyagraha, a non-violent way of protesting against injustices. (Rosenberg, n.d.) Gandhi believed that freedom could not be taken but must be given willingly and that this concept helped both the oppressor and the oppressed recognize the humanity in each other. The idea of satyagraha would be used by many great civil rights leaders as a way to advance their causes. Because of this, it remains Gahndhi’s greatest contribution to political change.…
Gandhi became famous by fighting for the civil rights of Muslims and Hindu Indians in South Africa using new techniques of non violent civil disobedience that he developed during his return to India in 1915. Gandhi led Indians in protesting the national salt tax with a Dandi Salt March in 1930 and demanding the British to quit India. Gandhi was a brave man. For his actions he was imprisoned. Gandhi had one major goal which was to advocate others not to give up in what you believed in. He wanted other people to follow his ways of non-violence. What really inspired me of Gandhi was he never backed down from a battle, but he wouldn’t use weapons. He would defeat people with his words and sayings. He inspired me to be my own person and fight for what I believe in. I would love to preach his ideas to the people that do not know who he is. Gandhi is a man I want to meet because he was a quiet man. He never interfered in a problem unless he was spoken to about it or if he was involved. He always preached the idea of brotherhood, which is something I respect the most. He taught me as long as you stick together as one, at the end of the day everything will go the way you want to.…
[2] Stephen M. (1991), Why Gandhi is Relevant in Modern India: A Western Gandhian 's Personal Discovery. Gandhi Peace Foundation.…
He is a father of our nation played a key portrayal in winning freedom for India introduced the conception of Ahimsa and Nonviolence. Mahatma Gandhi popularly famed as Theologiser of Dry played a stellar enactment in Bharat's immunity endeavor. Innate in a Bania stemma in Kathiawar, Gujarat, his realistic obloquy was Mohandas Karamchand Statesman (M.K. Statesman). The claim Mahatma came to be associated with his epithet overmuch afterwards. Before Gandhiji's traveler on the Indian governmental situation, freedom effort was controlled only to the elite. Mahatma Gandhi's important attempt lay in the fact that he bridged the gulf between the intelligentsia and the masses and widened the conception of Swaraj to permit nearly every vista of party and moralistic reconstruction.…
“Whenever I despair, I remember that the way of truth and love has always won. There may be tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they may seem invincible, but in the end, they always fail. Think of it: always.” – Mohandas Gandhi. Aroused by the massacre of Amritsar in 1919, Gandhi put all his life’s effort into breaking free from the clutches of Great Britain. As the principal figure used his influential philosophy of non-violent confrontation, he inspired political activists with many persuasions throughout the whole world. Not only was Mohandas Gandhi a glorious diplomat, but also his effort to achieve liberty and equality for all people were greatly acknowledged. Gandhi’s alternative method of leadership gained him the love of a nation and eventually enabled him to lead the independence movement in India. Gandhi’s early life did not foreshadow his eventual role in reshaping India, and the world. He was born into a prosperous family on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, a seaside town between Bombay and Karachi (the region of Gujarat, a state today tragically torn by Hindu-Muslim conflict) (Deats, Jegen 17). His mother practiced Jainism, a Hindu-based religion which ideas of nonviolence and vegetarianism. Mohandas Gandhi has claimed that his mother was his biggest influence, whose life consisted of numerous fasts and vows. As a boy, Gandhi had his share of petty vices. He began to smoke when he was twelve, sometimes stealing money from the house to pay for cigarettes. He also started to eat meat—in secret of course, because all his family was strict vegetarians and eating meat was a regarded as a sin (Byrne pg. 11). Gandhi felt great regret for going behind his families back, and he vowed to himself that he would never touch meat or sin again. His eldest brother and a family friend suggested that Mohandas should go to England to study and become a barrister. Mohandas was thrilled. It was…
Gandhi’s grandson, Mahatma Gandhi, was an amazing speaker and cleared about the conflict between war and peace not only with our surrounding but also within ourselves. Mahatma believes that Gandhi’s theory is no longer being used in our modern times, that being positive attitude, love, and respect. On the other hand our modern times is just a display of negativity. He also believes that we should be a better person than yesterday; which we are far from trying to be today, as well as being civilized.…
One of the greatest men in the history of India is unarguably Mahatma Gandhi . He sacrificed his own life for the sake of his country. The respect that he earned for himself despite leading a simple lifestyle is much appreciable. Mahatma Gandhi played a vital role in the freedom struggle of India. His non violent ways and peaceful methods were the foundation for gaining independence from the British. Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October at Porbandar located in Gujarat His full name was Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi He went off to South Africa after marriage and worked as barrister there for twenty years. Once while he was traveling in a train, he was thrown out of the first class compartment despite having a ticket. This made him swear that he would do his best to erase apartheid from the face of his world. He went back to India only to find that his own country was being ruled by the British and his fellow citizens were being treated harshly by British.…