Remembering Gandhi ....

*Salute*

that one for Gandhi!

As inspiring as they come...

In the war-ridden materialistic world of today
we all remember such a rare humanbeing.

Here are some of his words.

To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.

There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.

There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

Nonviolence is the first article of my faith. It is also the last article of my creed

Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment.

Confession of errors is like a broom which sweeps away the dirt and leaves the surface brighter and clearer. I feel stronger for confession

A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble

"Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes".

Mahatma Gandhi
Indian political and spiritual leader (1869 - 1948)

Miller
Plese peruse this thread
http://www.able2know.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=104496

OK

Calling Gandhi as a political leader is an insult to
Bush
Binladen
Berlusconi
Blair
Busharaf.
He had adviced all the prominent people to dissolve the Congress party and engage in social service..
He was not a political person nor a religious fleader lke Dalai Lama

And who knew he played cricket?

What the...?

But did he play, POKER?

Gandhi: A Man for All Seasons
What we still need to learn from the example of Gandhi.
by Bill McKibben

"And so weÂ’ve built ever-bigger houses and driven ever-bigger cars and taken ever-longer vacations and eaten ever-more and ever-finer food. And by every measure we can find, it hasnÂ’t made us any happier. Rather the reverse. AmericansÂ’ satisfaction with their lives peaked in 1956, and our ever-rising standard of living has done nothing to slow our steady decline in happiness.

We need scientists and policy-makers and engineers to help us out of the trouble in which we find ourselves-global warming is the biggest mistake humans have ever made, and it will require many kinds of minds to fix it.

But Gandhi was our scientist of the human spirit, our engineer of political courage. The other advice from the 20th century seems stale now: central planning, endless economic expansion. WeÂ’ve hardly started to explore the possibilities that spring from GandhiÂ’s example. We better get going."
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2007/12/29/6049/

This guy with the name GANDHI is one of the decent two-legged HUAMBEING who had shaped the decent citizens.

He was not honoured during his life time nor got any medals of merit.

He gave the world 'civil disobediance' (a peaceful resistance) as a means of obtaining universal human sufferage from foreign oppression. However, it must be said that Britain was honorable and did not try to make things worse before leaving.