Mohandas K Gandhi

My first acquaintance with the Gita began in 1888-89 with the verse translation by Sir Edwin Arnold known as the Song Celestial. On reading it, I felt a keen desire to read a Gujarati translation. And I read as many translations as I could lay hold of. But all such reading can give me no passport for presenting my own translation. Then again my knowledge of Sanskrit is limited, my knowledge of Gujarati too is in no way scholarly. How could I then...

Four or five years ago, at the insistence of some of my nearest co-workers, I agreed to write my autobiography. I made the start, but scarcely had I turned over the first sheet when riots broke out in Bombay and the work remained at a standstill....it is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my numerous experiments with truth, and as my life consists of nothing but those experiments, it is true that the...

Mohandas K. Gandhi, mejor conocido como Mahatma (Magnánimo) Gandhi, fue un líder de paz que inspiró al mundo. En su filosofía hay un propósito claro: incentivar a la humanidad a confiar en sí misma, convenciéndonos de que somos capaces de generar cambios positivos en la sociedad y lograr un mayor desarrollo moral. Gandhi es uno de esos hombres que quedarán marcados para siempre en la historia de la humanidad. Tanto por la sencillez de su corazón...

This anthology of Gandhi's writings offers a revealing look at his life and philosophy, focusing on subjects of enduring interest - rather than day-to-day political matters - and the development of the philosophy of Satyagraha - defense of and by the truth. This collection also features significant excerpts from the Mahatma's speeches, correspondence, and diaries.

The great Mahatma Gandhi, an ambitious attorney turned simple orthodox Hindu holy man single-handedly invented the philosophy of nonviolent noncooperation which successfully dislodged the British empire from their long held, tyrannical, imperial rule over India. In this in depth, inspirational audiobook presented by well known author, actor, narrator Jagannatha Dasa, the important, and still timely thoughts of this iconic social reformer on the subject...

"My purpose," Mahatma Gandhi writes of this book, "is to describe experiments in the science of Satyagraha, not to say how good I am." Satyagraha, Gandhi's nonviolent protest movement (satya = true, agraha = firmness), came to stand, like its creator, as a moral principle and a rallying cry; the principle was truth and the cry freedom. The life of Gandhi has given fire and fiber to freedom fighters and to the untouchables of the world: hagiographers...