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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telegrams from Transvaal to come immediately to address the Ordinance published in Transvaal Government Gazette of 22nd August 1906. He went there and studied deeply the problems and mentality of Indians. He therefore mobilized deep support from Indians by explaining all the minute details and asked them to take a pledge / Oath' successfully to oppose and even die for the Law and the functioning of the department. He thus got quickly redressed the need of registration by women.
By now (1906) the political struggle had shifted to the Transvaal. He made Johannesburg his headquarter. Finally, in order to work more effectively for his persecuted Indian compatriots in Africa, Gandhi decided to become one of them. Even though he had a lucrative clientele in Johannesburg, he gave it up to espouse poverty and live the life of his fellow Indians and to share their trials. He ennobled them thereby, for he taught them the doctrine of nonviolent resistance or Satyagraha, a movement which he launched in the historical meeting in Johannesburg on 11th September 1906 and referred even today as Nine Eleven of Nonviolence.
His acquaintance, Mr. Kallenbach, a rich German architect got influenced by him and left his expensive lifestyle to live with him at a fraction of the earlier budget. Both Kallenbach and Gandhi also read Tolstoy's books, particularly The Kingdom of God is Within You which influenced their thinking tremendously. Mr. Kallenbach donated 1000 acre land near Johannesburg to Gandhi to set up Tolstoy Farm on similar lines as Phoenix Settlement and experiment his philosophy of simple living and social work.
Events here were shaping up fast so that spiritual purification became a primary concern to Gandhi. Tolstoy Farm was set up
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