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life of Mahatma Gandhi. He was born in a community of the Vedic religion and was closely connected with Jainism, being brought up in the environment of Jaina culture besides various other ties of relationship. But he per haps never performed Yajnas or sacrifices after the sanction of the Vedas. He was never heard to have worshipped in any Vaishnava or Jaina temple. Yet leaving aside the bigots of every religion to whom the outer form alone is primary, people of many religions have claimed this great man as the follower of their respective religions,because he followed in his everyday life the fundamental code, i.e., the inner aspect which is common in all religic.ns. He was said to be a staunch follower of the Gita, though by a close study of his actions, we find that he discarded the Dushta Daman''siddhanta of the Gita. He respected the Vedas of the Hindus, the Gamas of the Jains the Pitakes, of the Buddhists, the Kuran of the Muslims and the Bible of the Christians for their common, ethical and moral teachings,
Ic is common knowledge that he observed his prayers in the open field, in the company of the people of all castes and cieeds. The
