Mahatma Gandhi
Key Learnings
In reality there are as many religions as there are individuals.... Religions are different roads converging to the same point. What does it matter that we take different roads, so long as we reach the same goal. Wherein is the cause for quarreling?
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”.
Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.
It is not true that we shall necessarily progress if our political conditions undergo a change, irrespective of the manner in which it is brought about. If the means employed are impure, the change will not be in the direction of progress but very likely in the opposite.
The only training in Swaraj we need is the ability to defend ourselves against the whole world and to live our natural life in perfect freedom, even though it may be full of defects. Good government is no substitute for self-government.
There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supersedes all other courts.
Any action that is dictated by fear or by coercion of any kind ceases to be moral.No action which is not voluntary can be called moral.
If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.
Always believe in your dreams, because if you don't, you'll still have hope.
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit after truth and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we are fatigued. As soon as the fatigue is over, Hinduism will burst forth upon the world with a brilliance perhaps never known before.
Real Swaraj will come, not by the acquisition of authority by a few, but by the acquisition of the capacity by all to resist authority when it is abused. In other words, Swaraj is to be attained by educating the masses to a sense of their capacity to regulate and control authority.
What the divine author of the Mahabharata said of his great creation is equally true of Hinduism. Whatever of substance is contained in any other religion is always to be found in Hinduism, and what is not contained in it is insubstantial or unnecessary.
Seven social sins: politics without principles, wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, and worship without sacrifice.
Quotes - Gyan
“Be the change that you want to see in the world.”“A man is but a product of his thoughts. What he thinks he becomes.”
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
“Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.”
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