Gandhi And Jainism

SR No.: 007798
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Shugan C Jain
Publisher: International School for Jain Studies
Publication Year: 2017
Total Pages: 339
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 120 MB

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British government fighting loosing battles on the European front at that stage was in no mood to discuss any of the terms. It was the fundamental issue of war ideology that Gandhi was separated from the British, as Gandhi disapproved of all war- aggressive and defensive. He was also becoming fully convinced of the complete lack of sincerity of all British offers of freedom to India.
Ibid, pp.243-50
Ibid, pp. 250-275
Appendix I Jainism Page 5: Nirjara (Dissociation/annihilation of bonded karmas) is affected by observing twelve types of Tapa (austerities) along with stoppage.
My.Ex. 1, page 339
My.Ex. 1, page 389
My.Ex. 1, page 384
My.Ex. 1, page 394
M. K. Gandhi, Ashram Observance in Action (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publication House, in soft copy), pp.5-8 Hand-weaving was the principal industry with some carpentry as accessory to it. No servants were engaged; therefore cooking, sanitation, fetching water, everything was attended to by the Ashramites. Truth and other observances were obligatory on them all. Distinctions of caste were not observed. Untouchability had not only no place in the Ashram, but its eradication from Hindu society was one of our principal objectives. Emancipation of women from some customary bonds was insisted upon from the first. Therefore women in the Ashram enjoy full freedom. Then again it was an Ashram rule that persons following a particular faith should have the same feeling for followers of other faiths as for their coreligionists....
My.Ex.1, page 391
http://www.mkgandhi.org/arrestsofmahatma.htm
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of Fasts undertaken by Mahat
ma Gandhi
Review of the book "The Mahatma and the Doctor- The untold story of Dr. Pranjivan Mehta' by Prof. S. R. Mehrotra of HP University Dr. Pranjivan Mehta (TOI Ahmedabad Feb 24th 2014)
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