Gandhis Teachers Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta

Author(s): Satish Sharma
Publisher: Gujarat Vidyapith Ahmedabad

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Introduction
guru as a "hero," thereby meaning one worthy of reverence, a God-like. See: Government of India, The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vol. 45. New Delhi: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting and Navajivan Trust, 1958-84, p. 95. Also see: Gandhi, An Autobiography...... op. cit., 1927; Gandhi, M. K., "Foreword," in Shrimad Rajchunura by Mansukhlal
Mehta. Bombay: Revashankar Zaveri, 1935. 7. Jnani is one who is self-realized and knows all through
perfect spiritual knowledge. 8. Government of India, The Collected Works... Vol. 39...op.
cit., 1958-84. p. 76. 9. Government of India, The Collected Works... Vol. 45...op.
cit., 1958-84, p. 95. 10. Occasionally. Gandhi also mentions Henry David Thoreau
as his teacher and guide, but not on the same level as Rajchandra, Leo Tolstoy, or John Ruskin. See: Government of India. The Collected Works... Vol. 45... op.
cit., 1958-84, p. 95. II. In a speech delivered on September 10, 1928 on the birth
anniversary of Leo Tolstoy. See: Government of India,
The Collected Works... Vol. 37... op. cit., 1958-84, p. 261. 12. See: Gandhi, An Autobiograplıy...... op. cit., 1927;
Gandhi, "Foreword"... op. cit., 1935; Government of
India, The Collected Works... Vol. 37...op. cit., 1958-84. 13. Tolstoy, Leo, The Kingdom of God is within you. Lincoln,
Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. 14. Government of India, The Collected Works... Vol. 37... Op.
cit., 1958-84, p. 261. 15. See, for example, Tolstoy, Leo, What Men Live By. White
Plains, New York: Peter Pauper Press, Ondated; Tolstoy, Leo, Where Love Is, There is God Also. Brookings, Oregon: Sandpiper Press, 1987; Tolstoy, Leo, The Law of Violence and The Law of Love. New York: Concord Grove
Press, 1983. 16. Government of India, The Collected Works... Vol. 37... op.
cit., 1958-84, p. 262.