Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
much to the mental, as both in their turn correspond to the moral. Unless man arrives at this state of corresponding and simultaneous development on all the three planes, he is not able to understand the meaning and importance of his existence or existence in general; or even to grasp the idea of happiness or progress. To that man of high aim whose body, mind and soul act in correspondence, all secrets of nature become revealed to him. He feels within himself, as every where, that universal life wherein there is no distinction, no sense of separateness, but all around, all bliss, unity and peace.
says that if only one side of the human nature is advanced, it is not enough, but if all sides are taken into consideration and simultaneous progress is made on all sides, there is real advancement. For this purpose we
must progress in the physical, mental, moral nature and in the spirituality too. There are so many different natures of the human being, and when we wish to progress on all these different planes we must consider that there are other living beings in this world besides ourselves, who are related to us, and no laws in religion can be established which do not take into consideration the welfare of all these living beings.
This peace is the peace of spiritual bliss (Moksha). The course of nature never ceases, action always compels even the peaceful to act; but to an individual being already lost in the individual self, there is nothing unpleasant to disturb. The peace of spiritual development is indescribably vast. As you go on forgetting yourself materially, just in the same proportion do spiritual peace and spiritual powers flow in towards you. When one consciously suppresses individuality by proper physical, mental, moral and spiritual development he becomes part and parcel of the immutable course of nature and never suffers.
Concern for all the living beings of Universe.
A famous English philosopher says that a country may be very progressive, but if there is no philosophy there, if the people do not think on higher subjects than material and physical welfare, then though its granaries may be full, although there may be hundreds of millions of dollars, pounds or rupees among the people, it is a sign of the beast. He
Practice of Universal Love. If the object is only living the soul life and not materialistic life the occult powers of self may come out, and there is real gain and no loss of anything. Take example of universal love and the result derived from the practice of this is freedom from danger of any kind. A person who practices universal love to the highest extent in all the relations of life has no fear of injury from any source, but we generally do not practice these things and therefore