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Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi. Reformer or Traditionalist?. Gandhi. Shrewd politician, interested in Indian independence, and creating Indian identity. Pious Hindu, keen to maintain traditional and spiritual values, yet at the same time recognising severe difficulties. Non-Indian Influences. Leo Tolstoy.

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Mahatma Gandhi

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  1. MahatmaGandhi Reformer or Traditionalist?

  2. Gandhi. • Shrewd politician, interested in Indian independence, and creating Indian identity. • Pious Hindu, keen to maintain traditional and spiritual values, yet at the same time recognising severe difficulties.

  3. Non-Indian Influences. Leo Tolstoy. Christian campaigner who emphasised the importance of the teaching of agaph in Christianity. Influenced satyagraha.

  4. agaph But loveyourenemies, do good to them, and lend to them without expecting to get anything back. Then your reward will be great, and you will be sons of the Most High, because he is kind to the ungrateful and wicked. Christian teaching of “Divine Love”; that Christians should put everyone else first, trying to love everyone as God does; without favour or judgement.

  5. Henry David Thoreau American environmentalist & political thinker. Author of “On civil disobedience”. Influenced Gandhi’s non-cooperation. In wildness is the preservation of the world; so seek the wolf in thyself

  6. Indian Influences. Bhagavad Gita Krishna’s dialogue with Arjuna on the battlefield. Gandhi interprets his advice as allegory; the struggle against the ego is what is important. Don’t put yourself first!

  7. Indian Influences The Jain religion developed the idea of ahimsa; absolute non-violence to all things. Exemplified by Digambara (skyclad) monks who wear masks & carry brooms so as not to harm creatures.

  8. Satyagraha • Although a key point of Gandhi’s teaching, this is influenced by other Indian thinkers. Sikhs say that “God’s name is truth” (Sat nam), which is reminiscent of Gandhi’s statement that “God is truth, Truth is God”. • Basic idea is that Truth has an inherent force, if you are on the side of truth then you cannot lose!

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