February 2012 Blog Posts (17)

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…

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…

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…

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…

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. …

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…

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…

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…

Prayer was scheduled to start at 5 pm. The discussion between Gandhiji and Patel continued beyond 5 pm. In view of the importance and seriousness of the talk, none of us dared to disturb them. The girls gestured to Sardar’s daughter Maniben and the talk ended at 5.10 pm. After that, Gandhi went to the toilet and immediately proceeded to the prayer ground, which was…

Prayer was scheduled to start at 5 pm. The discussion between Gandhiji and Patel continued beyond 5 pm. In view of the importance and seriousness of the talk, none of us dared to disturb them. The girls gestured to Sardar’s daughter Maniben and the talk ended at 5.10 pm. After that, Gandhi went to the toilet and immediately proceeded to the prayer ground, which was…

My idea of village Swaraj is that it is a complete republic, independent of its neighbours for its own vita wants and yet interdependent for many others in which dependence is necessary. Thus, every village's first concern will be to grow its own food crops, and cotton for its cloth. It should have a reserve for its cattle, recreation and playground for adults and children. Then, if there is more land available, it will grow useful money crops, thus…

Gandhiji’s Message To The ‘Aryan Path-Special Hind Swaraj Number’ Of September, 1938

“I Welcome your advertising the principles in defence of which Hind Swaraj was written. The English edition is a translation of the original which was in Gujarati. I might change the language here and there, if I had to rewrite the booklet. But after…

 Civilization

"Formerly, men were made slaves under physical compulsion. Now they are enslaved by temptation of money and of the luxuries that money can buy. There are now diseases of which people never dreamt before, and an army of doctors is engaged in finding out their cures, and so hospitals have increased. This is a test of…

"I will give you a talisman. Whenever you are in doubt, or when the self becomes too much with you, apply the following test. Recall the face of the poorest and the weakest man [woman] whom you may have seen, and ask yourself, if the step you contemplate is going to be of any use to him [her]. Will he [she] gain anything by it? Will it restore him [her] to a control over his [her] own life and destiny? In…

: "True religion is not a narrow dogma. It is not external observance. It is faith in God and living in the presence of God. It means faith in a future life, in truth and Ahimsa…. Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion."

Mahatma Gandhi discovered satyagraha word in South Africa. He had done a great satyagrah in satyagraha. After success of Satyagraha of South Africa. All facilities were given to Indian who lived there. When he return India in 1915. He used satyagraha & non-co-operation with British for the independent.

While in Bombay, I began, on the one hand, my study of Indian law and on other, my experiments in dietetics in which Virchand Gandhi, a friend join me. My brother, for his part, was trying his best to ger me brief.