Gandhi : The Greatest Leaders Of All Time

Mahatma Gandhi: Gandhi was born in Porbandar, India in 1869 and died in 1948. He was western educated, specifically trained in England. Although he was a nationalist, he was anti-modern because he was skeptical to industrialism. He believed in the ideal of satyagraha, the non-tolerance of evil, but also the understanding that violence is not the answer to that evil. He also believed in non-violence. He did not cooperate with anything British, specifically trading with the British, British schooling or products, and even paying taxes to the British. He served as a civil rights activist after being thrown off a train when refusing to move from his seat in first class. He became the leading member of Congress Party in the 1930’s and shortly after participated in the March to Sea for salt during the British imposed salt tax. Every single aspect of Gandhi’s life was peaceful, if the people around him decided to disobey and use violence as a means of getting what they wanted, Gandhi would take it upon himself to fast. He was eventually assassinated by a Hindus

Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India, which in that time was part of British Empire. Gandhi was unfortunately killed by a fanatic in 1948. His father and mother were Karamchand Gandhi, a chief minister and Putlibai Gandhi, a deeply religious woman who fasted regularly. Gandhi studied law and advocated for the civil rights of Indians. Gandhi became a leader of India’s Independence movement.

The essential of Gandhi is anthology of his life. It is separated into two parts. One as Gandhi the man and the other as the Mahatma meaning Great Soul. I was very much well interested in the readings of The Essential Gandhi. What I was most interested in was that he spoke with so much determination and compassion. His firm belief in nonviolence was presented very strongly. “I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. Gandhi believed strongly in non-violent civil disobedience, so he states that violence provides only temporary relief or satisfaction, but the pain it causes people and societies is much greater. There is so much violence in the world today and some believe you have to fight violence with violence but Gandhi was very successful with his method of not acting upon violence in such of as in a hatred way. He solely helped India become independent with his method of nonviolence. Before I read this story I knew very little details of him, but the main thing that always puzzled me, what gave Gandhi the courage to make such a difference in the world?

Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar India to a Hindu father and Jainist mother. His very religious mother was a practitioner of Vaishnavism (worship of the Hindu god Vishnu). Influenced by his mother's beliefs Gandhi was governed by self-discipline and nonviolence. He soon got married and sailed off to study law. When Gandhi returned he was in shock of what had happened to India, in just 1 year. Gandhi's beliefs never changed and he still strongly believed in self-discipline and nonviolence. He wanted to make a change in India’s cultures. And that’s exactly what he did, he made the change he saw in the world. Gandhi used many tactics to get India's independence, such as Civil disobedience, embracing the enemy, and acceptance of jail time.

Gandhi becomes interested in his own dietary issues as a child when he is convinced that eating meat would eliminate his weaknesses by one of his friends. During his childhood, his family was greatly against meat-eating because of their following for the Hindu religion called Vaishnava (Diets and Dieting: A Cultural Encyclopedia, 113). He enjoyed his new way of eating for a year, but realizes that lying to his parents is far worse than nourishing himself with meat (Gandhi An Autobiography, 30). In the future, he never consumed meat because he respected his parents, religion and vegeterianism. Later on in life, he visits the Kali temple and disagrees with the killing of animals during a sacrifice. This belief does relate to his opposition of not consuming meat since Gandhi claims, “To my mind the life of a lamb is no less precious than that of a human being” (247). He never harms or injures animals after this experience and continues to believe in such a vow as ahimsa. His understanding of

Mohandas Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869 in Porbandar, India. He spent most of his childhood going to school and growing up in different parts of India, moving to Rajkot when he was only seven years old. He was the youngest member of his family, growing up with 3 older siblings. When Gandhi was growing up he took his religion of Hinduism very seriously.

Born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandor, Kathiawar, India, Mahatmas Karmachord Gandhi was the son of Karmchand Gandhi, chief minister, and Putlibai, who was deeply religious lived in part of the British Empire (Biography.com Editors). With early marriages common, Mahatmas married at age 1 (Housel, Debra. Pp. 73-75). Mahatmas married Kasturba Makanji, the merchant’s daughter. As a result of the marriage, the teenagers rebelled by smoking, eating meat, and stealing money from household servants. Althrough Mahatmas had a rebellious attitude, Mahatmas was a shy, remarkable student, who was so timid that he slept with the lights on even as a teenager. In 1885, Mahatmas’s father passed as well as his first young child. With an interest in becoming a doctor, Mahatmas’s family steered him to enter the legal profession just as his father wanted him to be a government minister. In 1891, Mahatmas’s mother passed. With grief, Mahatmas struggled in being a lawyer (Biography.com Editors). Mahatmas’s mother was very religious and a devoted practioner of Vaishnavism, self-discipline, and nonviolence (History.com Staff). As a result of this, Mahatmas grew up worshipping the Hindu God, Vishnu, and followed Jainism, an ancient Indian religion that stressed nonviolence, fasting, meditation, and vegetarianism. In 888, Mahatmas moved to London and struggled with the transition to the Western Culture. Mahatmas

As I talked about earlier in this paper Gandhi was immersed in his culture and in his family traditions. They played a huge part in the journey of his life and in even planning significant parts of his journey like his marriage, career path and moral development. His life experiences also played a big role in how he developed his moral reasoning such as when he encountered prejudice on the train and as a result

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, Kathiawar, India. Gandhi’s father was the chief minister in different parts of India and his mother was very devoted to religion. Gandhi followed in both of his parents footsteps by devoting himself to religion and later pursuing an education and career in the law field. Also, at the age of thirteen he had an arranged marriage to a girl named Kasturba Makanji. After his marriage, Gandhi rebelled against his mother and stopped practicing Jainism and worshipping the Hindu God Vishnu. Jainism is an ancient religion in India that is based on morals and it stresses non-violence, fasting, meditation and vegetarianism (Mahatma Gandhi).

Mahatma Gandhi was a political leader who brought peace to India, he had a peaceful method of non-violence, although many people think his death was just because he was gaining too much power and followers, but that is not a reason for him to have been killed and all he believed in was peace. Gandhi was a man who thought “live like there's no tomorrow” this was actually one of his famous quotes.Many people think that he had too much power and that’s why he was killed. All he really did was free India from the british using peaceful method it's not like he used an army to fight the british. His words are what got everyone behind him. I personally think it was unjust because all he wanted to do is end racial discrimination and be free from the british and that wasn't because he wanted for himself this was for everyone.

Mohandas Gandhi was like anybody who was eighteen, he did not have a set path on where his life should go. It wasn’t until his trip to London that Gandhi discovered himself. Gandhi despised college and was very miserable, he did not have an immense interest in

Since he was young, Mahatma Gandhi was influenced heavily by his religious affiliation to Vaishnavism. His mother was completely immersed in religion and would often alternate between time at home and time at the temple. Most of his life he had spent in the practice of worshiping Vishnu, a rigorous moral religion whose main principles promoted nonviolence and universal eternity. These roots are the main ideas Gandhi adapted into not only his life, but within the movement. This was further propelled through his experiences in England as a vegetarian, he met several idealists who rejected the capitalist and industrial society and preached the cult of a simple life and the importance of moral superiority, as opposed to sustaining materialistic items. These values were essential to contributing to Gandhi’s personality and political views (Encyclopedia Britannica, 2017).

Mahatma Gandhi Mohandas Gandhi, known as Mahatma Gandhi. Also known as Mahatma the great soul, was the "father of modern India". He originally came from Western India, a city called Porbandar. He was born on 2nd October 1869. Gandhi was on of the youngest of the three sons of Karamchand Gandhi, who was a Prime Minister successively in Porbandar, Rajkot and Vankaner States.

In South Africa, he involved himself in an attempt to end discrimination against the minority Indians residing there. During this course, he developed “satyagarha”, which translates into “soul force”, or an approach of non-violence resistance, against the British governments in South Africa. In the years following the World War I, Gandhi became a leading figure in India for his struggle to achieve independent from the mighty British rule. His willingness to tolerate the punishments and the prison confinement earned him the title of “ Mahatama”, a “great soul” in India in 1914. (Mohandas Gandhi, 2015)

But I think Kasturba’s death hit him in the hardest”, in her essay ‘Reminiscences of Kasturba Gandhi’. She further writes, “The vacuum created by her death was painful not only for him but also for all of us the inmates of the Ashram and even to the casual visitors who used to find solace in meeting her when they could not see Bapu.” It is a fact that Kasturba had been Bapu’s constant companion; it was as if she were the frame to the picture called Mahatma. She complimented Bapu at every step of their life together. With Ba’s death Bapu lost his companion, one true believer in him who had the power to touch the hearts’ of people that Bapu could only imagine. It is also true that while Bapu was experimenting with facts, Ba was experiencing them. She withstood all of Bapu’s experiments, his bitter confrontations, and his self-denial. But she accepted it on her own terms; she did not change her opinion until she was convinced that the change was for the