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Hinduism of today and Mahatma Gandhi

 

Gandhiji had done a deep study of Hinduism. He was guided by Shrimad Raichand bhai. By his suggestion he read a lot of books. At last he had a strong idea about Hinduism. When a follower asked some questions on Hinduism. Then he wrote an article on it. Which published in Young India on 8.4.1926.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay, and subject to the laws of Nature. One and

indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on May 5, 2012 at 4:36am — No Comments

ETHICAL RELIGION

Gandhiji have done experiment his whole life. Darwin was a great Englishman of the last century who made great scientific discoveries. His memory and his power of observation were amazing. He has written some books which deserve to be read and pondered. With a mass of evidence and arguments, he has shown how man came into being; how he has evolved from a particular kind of monkey. After a large number of experiments and much sifting of evidence, he realized that there was not much difference…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on April 1, 2012 at 2:55am — No Comments

Utilization of Available Power

Power is a very necessary means of life. These days we cannot imagine our comfortless in life without it so it is very necessary to best use of power. Mahatma Gandhi spoke at Poona on 1 March 1946 that I regard the existence of power wheels for the grinding of corn in thousands of villages as the limit of our helplessness. I suppose India does not produce all the engines or grinding machines. I fondly hope that the number of wheels and engines does not run into thousands even for the…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 20, 2012 at 5:39am — No Comments

Most popular speech of Mahatma Gandhi

Gandhiji delivered his most popular speech on the occasion of Banaras Hindu University inauguration programme at 6 February 1916. In this speech you can find the actual mind set up of Mahatma Gandhi. You know how much he brave? I have merely removed some of the verbiage which in cold print would make the speech bad reading: Friends, I wish to tender my humble apology for the long delay that took place before I was able to reach this place. And you will readily accept the apology when I tell…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 19, 2012 at 5:22am — No Comments

Religion and peace

Religion and peace are inter related. We can get true peace through religion. But you know religion must be in true sense. No human being or religious institution is perfect in this imperfect world. Religious institutions are an answer to the challenge of the age and the particular circumstances prevailing at the time. Today we worship Christ but the Christ in the flesh we crucified.

In theory, a perfect religion is possible. But mankind has not known any so far just as no man…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 13, 2012 at 11:13pm — No Comments

Food habits

 

There are various castes and creeds in India. The very common belief among the foreigner that all Indians are born vegetarians. This is true only in part. Indian people are divided into three main divisions- Hindus, Muslims, and the Parsis. The Hindus are again divided into four main castes-Brahmins, Kshatriyas, Vaisyas, and Sudras; there is theory only Brahmins and Vaisyas are pure vegetarians. But in practice almost all the Indians are vegetarians. Some are so…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 12, 2012 at 11:34pm — 1 Comment

Swadeshi is need of today

 

India is second populated country in the world. So It have a big problem of employment. It is the duty of government fo give work of every hand. But it it is not duty of government only; It is duty of every Indians to search job nearer place to his native place. It will happen only by swadeshi concept given by Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi wrote an article in 1924. That will be very precious for us.

The real reform that India needs is swadeshi in its true sense. The immediate…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 9, 2012 at 9:42pm — No Comments

SELF-SUPPORTING EDUCATION

 

We are progressing very fast in all field of our life. We want to have calculations of every moment. In Indian education system we have a lot of time for spending. We can utilize of it by learning of usable things which will be means of our livelihood. The education system given by Mahatma Gandhi to world that was a such type education.

In his meeting he always addressed which narrated the story of how it educated the children under its charge, and it’s very laudable…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 8, 2012 at 9:01pm — No Comments

Rowlett Act & Satyagraha

 

Mahatma Gandhi opposed all those activity which was not fare for Indains. Rowlett Act was one of them. It was the first Satyagraha which spread all over India in the guidance of Mahatma Gandhi. Mahatma Gandhi wrote an article in the name of Satyagraha for knew about Satyagraha. Which was totally done by followed satya and ahimsa?

It was in order to combat the Rowlett Act which had raised a storm of unprecedented opposition inside the Council Chamber from the Indian…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 8, 2012 at 3:48am — No Comments

Food Habits In India in last 19th centuary



 

Mohan Das Karma Chand Gandhi went England for study of law. He wrote a article on the demand of vegetarian society. This article showed the food habit of Indian in 19th century second half. It is beneficial for students who want to know about concerning subject.

India is a vast peninsula populated by two hundred and eighty-five million souls. It is as large as Europe less Russia. In such a country, the customs and manners in…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 5, 2012 at 12:55am — No Comments

Possibilities of reform in jail

 

Mahatma Gandhi spent his valuable time in Jail. He thought on it regularly, How can it reformed in us. Gandhi wrote on his experiane. Show the way reform. It has been my invariable experience that good evokes good, evil—evil; and that therefore, if the evil does not receive the corresponding response, it ceases to act, dies of want of nutrition. Evil can only live upon itself. Sages of old, knowing this law, instead of returning evil for evil, deliberately returned good for evil and…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 4, 2012 at 7:21pm — No Comments

Mahatma Gadndhi's ethics of fasting

Jail was like for Mahatma Gandhi. He had read a lot of books in jail. He wrote his maximum books in jail. He wrote maximum articles for his periodicals. He had done maximum experience on diet in the jail. He made many experiments on the fasts also. Then he found its ethicks. So I think, there are great contributions of jail to make him Mahatma. He wrote that my cell was situated in a triangular block containing eleven tells. They were also part of the separate division, but the block…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on March 3, 2012 at 8:08pm — No Comments

Power Of Satyagraha





Mahatma Gandhi Envetioned new weapons for fighing with those people or empire, who were not perform their duty well. That is Satyagraha.Before it People used passive resistance word for it. It was discovered in a incident. After discovery of it , Mahatma Gandhi wrote a article on it dated 22 Feb. 1908 in Indian Openion.

There appears to have been a good deal of misunderstanding following the Transvaal Indians' failure to comprehend the secret…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 29, 2012 at 7:33pm — No Comments

Power Of Satyagraha





Mahatma Gandhi Envetioned new weapons for fighing with those people or empire, who were not perform their duty well. That is Satyagraha.Before it People used passive resistance word for it. It was discovered in a incident. After discovery of it , Mahatma Gandhi wrote a article on it dated 22 Feb. 1908 in Indian Openion.

There appears to have been a good deal of misunderstanding following the Transvaal Indians' failure to comprehend the secret…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 29, 2012 at 7:32pm — No Comments

PRIMARY EDUCATION

Village education today has broadly come to mean primary education. the cities which today flourish on the ruins of villages should so change that they serve the villages. Whether or not the cities change, It must convert to this viewpoint as many as possible of the young men and women there. Hence it is necessary that primary education should be considered from various points of view. I wish to dwell on only one idea in this article. From many years of reflection and quite a few…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 28, 2012 at 7:53pm — No Comments

Gandhi & Women

Mahatma Gandhi was very careful about the permotion of Indian women. He knew it very well that without co-operation of women, men cannot participate & did satyagraha for the freedom of India. They were not perform and spread of my constructive work among societies.

You are sorry, I know, that the great patriot, Bharatbhushan Pandit Malaviyaji, who treats me as an elder brother, is not here today, but I am more sorry than you are. This ceremony should have been performed by him. We…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 27, 2012 at 7:29pm — No Comments

Gandhi on Students

Education is a need to grow for student for any Nation.Character cannot be built with mortar and stone. It cannot be built by hands other than your own. The Principal and the professor cannot give you character from the pages of the books. Character building comes from their very lives and really speaking, it must come within yourselves. …

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 24, 2012 at 7:05pm — No Comments

Gandhini speech at Ras, During Salt Movment

March 19, 1930

Today we have entered the taluka in which Sardar Vallabhbhai was and sentenced to prison and in which he had carded on such a struggle in 1924 that the Government had finally to admit its justice that should not have required a struggle. It is as sentenced to prison as a reward for having served…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 24, 2012 at 6:41am — No Comments

Khadi & It's Importent





Khadi was key for Mahatma Gandhi to open the door of freedom of India. But some people is not thinking like so. Khadi is a controversial subject. Many people think that in advocating Khadi, I am sailing against a headwind and am sure to sink the ship of Swaraj and that I am taking the country to the dark ages. I do not propose to argue the case for Khadi in this brief survey. I have argued it sufficiently elsewhere. Here I want to show what every Congressman, and…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 23, 2012 at 7:00pm — No Comments

Message to American Citizens by Mahatma Gandhi

My platform is India. My goal is to attain self-government for India. The means adopted to attain the end are Nonviolence and Truth. Therefore, Indian self-government not only means no menace to the world, but will be of the greatest benefit to humanity if she attains her end through those means and those means alone. The spinning-wheel is the external symbol of internal reform, and its universal re-adoption in India…

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Added by Prof. Dr. Yogendra Yadav on February 22, 2012 at 8:52pm — No Comments

Notes

How to Learn Nonviolent Resistance As King Did

Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Feb 14, 2012 at 11:48am. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Feb 14, 2012.

Two Types of Demands?

Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 9, 2012 at 10:16pm. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 11, 2012.

Why gender matters for building peace

Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Dec 5, 2011 at 6:51am. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Jan 9, 2012.

Gene Sharp & the History of Nonviolent Action

Created by Shara Lili Esbenshade Oct 10, 2011 at 5:30pm. Last updated by Shara Lili Esbenshade Dec 31, 2011.

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