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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Mahadevan, GANDHI
His Relevance for our times (Gandhi Peace Foundation, New Delhi), p. 325 in soft copy available at www.mkgandhi.org
DGTM, D. G. Tendulkar, Vol. 5 (Govt. of India, Publication Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, 1961), p.254. 172 See chapter 4, pp.4.33-4.35.
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K. N. Tiwari, World Religion and Gandhi (Classical Publishing Company, New Delhi, 1988), p.112.
174 CWMG, Vol.71, Harijan, 24-2-1940; See M. K. Gandhi, op.cit,
pp.208-9.
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CWMG, Vol.71, Ibid; See M. K. Gandhi, op.cit, p.207.
Siddha Sena Divakara, Sanmatī Tarka Prakaraṇa, last verse.
My. Ex., M. K. Gandhi, op. cit., pp.465-66.
Ibid, p.466.
Stephen N Hay, Ethical Politics: Gandhi's Meaning for our Time (Berkeley California: Center for South and Southeast Asia Studies, Institute of International Studies, University of California, Reprint no.359), p.36_"The above statements towards the end of his life by Gandhi is a clear I have given in another article, Jain influences of Gandhi's early thought, the evidence and reasoning which brought me to the conviction that Gandhi's religious and ethical striving was directed at Jain goals and followed that Jain disciplines, although infused and surrounded with the aura of Vaishnava emotional worship. I mention this here because the Jain path to salvation, like Gandhi's, relies so greatly on the restraint of the passions and appetites, and even aims at their reduction to zero, the ideal Jain death being self-starvation, through which one avoid even the Himsa or violence committed by destroying the life in vegetable and grain foods. Gandhi's genius is shown in the way he transmuted this orthodox teaching (which his friend and spiritual adviser Raychand Mehta actually carried to completion), into a career of self-denying social and political action making himself a living self-sacrifice for the good of mankind, even with his death at the hands of a Muslim- hating fellow Hindu."
Please see chapter IV, Dr. Pranjivan Mehta for details and reference of the book published.
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