The Essential Gandhi

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780307816207

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The Essential Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

Mohandas K. Gandhi, called Mahatma (“great soul”), was the father of modern India, but his influence has spread well beyond the subcontinent and is as important today as it was in the first part of the twentieth century and during this nation’s own civil rights movement. Taken from Gandhi’s writings throughout his life, The Essential Gandhi introduces us to his thoughts on politics, spirituality, poverty, suffering, love, non-violence, civil disobedience, and his own life. The pieces collected here, with explanatory head notes by Gandhi biographer Louis Fischer, offer the clearest, most thorough portrait of one of the greatest spiritual leaders the world has known. “Gandhi was inevitable. If humanity is to progress, Gandhi is inescapable. . . . We may ignore him at our own risk.” –Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. With a new Preface drawn from the writings of Eknath Easwaran In the annals of spirituality certain books stand out both for their historical importance and for their continued relevance. The Vintage Spiritual Classics series offers the greatest of these works in authoritative new editions, with specially commissioned essays by noted contemporary commentators. Filled with eloquence and fresh insight, encouragement and solace, Vintage Spiritual Classics are incomparable resources for all readers who seek a more substantive understanding of mankind's relation to the divine.

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2008-04-17
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780192807205

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The Essential Writings by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

This new selection of Gandhi's writings taken from his books, articles, letters and interviews sets out his views on religion, politics, society, non-violence and civil disobedience. Judith M. Brown's excellent introduction and notes examines his philosophy and the political context in which he wrote.

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : India
ISBN : UCSC:32106008751965

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The Essential Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

Gandhi's thoughts on such topics as civil disobedience, non-violence, liberty, socialism and communism, and how to enjoy jail.

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : New York : Random House
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Statesmen
ISBN : UOM:39015002305947

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The Essential Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

Excerpts from the writings of Gandhi, arranged in chronological sequence, with commentary by the editor, trace Gandhi's development from early boyhood to the final moment of his assassination.

Author : M. K. Gandhi
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486121901

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Non-Violent Resistance by M. K. Gandhi Pdf

DIVFine explanation of civil disobedience shows how great pacifist used non-violent philosophy to lead India to independence. Self-discipline, fasting, social boycotts, strikes, other techniques. /div

Author : Eknath Easwaran
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458778901

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Gandhi the Man by Eknath Easwaran Pdf

Gandhi the Man tells how Gandhi remade himself from a shy, tongue-tied, average little man to a Mahatma whose life can serve as an inspiration for our own transformation....

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : New Age Books
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : India
ISBN : 817822223X

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Mohandas Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

Presents Essential Writings Of Mahatma Gandhi Under 8 Different Sections-Autobiographical Writings-The Search For God-Pursuit Of Truths Stead Fast Resistance And Epilogue.

Author : Richard L. Johnson
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0739111434

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Gandhi's Experiments with Truth by Richard L. Johnson Pdf

This comprehensive Gandhi reader provides an essential new reference for scholars and students of his life and thought. It is the only text available that presents Gandhi's own writings, including excerpts from three of his books--An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Satyagraha in South Africa, Hind Swaraj (Indian Home Rule)-a major pamphlet, Constructive Programme: Its Meaning and Place, and many journal articles and letters along with a biographical sketch of his life in historical context and recent essays by highly regarded scholars. The writers of these essays--hailing from the United States, Canada, Great Britain and India, with academic credentials in several different disciplines--examine his nonviolent campaigns, his development of programs to unify India, and his impact on the world in the second half of the twentieth century and the beginning of the twenty-first. Gandhi's Experiments with Truth provides an unparalleled range of scholarly material and perspectives on this enduring philosopher, peace activist, and spiritual guide.

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000020656058

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The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

A balanced selection of Gandhi's writings, taken from his letters, articles, and books, representing the complete cross-section of his thought.

Author : Arvind Sharma
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780300187380

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Gandhi by Arvind Sharma Pdf

DIV In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, “What I want to achieve—what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years—is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end.” While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869–1948), nearly all of them have focused on the political, social, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search for spiritual liberation. Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi’s spiritual life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of Gandhi’s life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhi’s inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in reincarnation, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of history’s most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the soul helped liberate millions. /div

Author : John Hick,Lamont Hempel,Joanne Clarke Dillman,John D Maguire,Conrad Edick Wright
Publisher : Springer
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1989-11-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349203543

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Gandhi's Significance For Today by John Hick,Lamont Hempel,Joanne Clarke Dillman,John D Maguire,Conrad Edick Wright Pdf

Author : Louis Fischer
Publisher : Pickle Partners Publishing
Page : 89 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781786254924

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A Week With Gandhi by Louis Fischer Pdf

“Louis Fischer, famous international reporter, was permitted a week in the guest house near Gandhi’s headquarters, and daily interviews with the great Indian leader. He kept virtually a stenographic report of his conversations, livened with personal comments, swift pen pictures of Gandhi and his followers, as he encountered them that week last June. One follows the workings of Gandhi’s mind, which -- as Fischer says -- is the reason for misapprehension only too often, for Gandhi thinks and speaks simultaneously, and sometimes subsequent statements seem to contradict previous ones, while actually he has simply shared his process of reasoning to a point with his hearers. The most striking evidence of this during Fischer’s stay was his expansion of his basic position to indicate that he had, reluctantly, reached a point of accepting the inevitability of India continuing to be a military base for United Nations. He supplemented other much quoted statements, too; for instance, that dealing with him negotiations with Japan, once India was free -- which he said he would like to think possible but realised would not be possible. He and Nehru agree in feeling that religious differences will be merged, once freedom is granted, that Pakistan is only a bargaining card with England, and so on. Exciting reading, as yet another facet of this tragic, complex problem. Fits into pattern with Mitchell and Raman.”-Kirkus Reviews

Author : T. N. Khoshoo
Publisher : The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI)
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9788185419107

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Mahatma Gandhi by T. N. Khoshoo Pdf

In 'Mahatma Gandhi: an apostle of applied human ecology', Dr T N Khoshoo, a well-known environmental scientist, presents a selection of Mahatma Gandhi's views on the environment, elaborates on them to show that they are as relevant today as they were before, and reinterprets them by adding his extensive commentary on many of the topics. The book highlights the essential truth, clearly perceived by Mahatma Gandhi, that the human being must be the focus of all attempts to analyse and address environmental issues and emphasizes the need for a creative synthesis between the rural development under a local government and industrial development at the macro level.

Author : Louis Fischer
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-11-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781101665909

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Gandhi by Louis Fischer Pdf

This is the extraordinary story of how one man's indomitable spirit inspired a nation to triumph over tyranny. This is the story of Mahatma Gandhi, a man who owned nothing-and gained everything.

Author : Mahatma Gandhi
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781583944417

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The Way to God by Mahatma Gandhi Pdf

Short, easy-to-read essays revealing Gandhi’s most important teachings on love, meditation, service, and prayer—with profound wisdom and inspiration for readers of every faith. Mahatma Gandhi became famous as the leader of the Indian independence movement, but he called himself “a man of God disguised as a politician.” The Way to God demonstrates his enduring significance as a spiritual leader whose ideas offer insight and solace to seekers of every practice and persuasion. Collecting many of his most significant writings, the book explores the deep religious roots of Gandhi’s worldly accomplishments and reveals—in his own words—his intellectual, moral, and spiritual approaches to the divine. First published in India in 1971, the book is based on Gandhi’s lifetime experiments with truth and reveals the heart of his teachings. Gandhi’s aphoristic power, his ability to sum up complex ideas in a few authoritative strokes, shines through these pages. Individual chapters cover such topics as moral discipline, spiritual practice, spiritual experience, and much more. Gandhi’s guiding principles of selflessness, humility, service, active yet nonviolent resistance, and vegetarianism make his writings as timely today as when these writings first appeared. A foreword by Gandhi’s grandson Arun and an introduction by Michael Nagler add useful context.