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            Gandhi Believes and Values

                  THEN AND NOW

Mahatma Gandhi was born in India, in a small place called Porbandar. His father, Karamchand Gandhi was the diwan (Prime Minister) of the small Porbandar state. His father was truthful and fare-minded and Gandhi surely did inherit these qualities. His mother was very religious. She was strict with traditions such as not eating meat. She was a kind and a peaceful woman. Gandhi’s parents were role models for him and they helped to formulate his beliefs and personality.

When he got to South Africa he saw discrimination of blacks and Indians in South Africa. He even experienced discrimination personally. He used the method of Satyagraha in South Africa to liberate Indians and blacks, to make them equal with whites.
          Satyagraha means that you should be kind and equal with your neighbor, and solving conflicts non-violently. Gandhi extended this concept of Satyagraha to resolving conflicts within nations and between nations.

He was a great soul who loved even those who fought against his ideals to bring about peace with non-violence.

He believed that we can resolve the greatest of our differences if we dare to have a constructive conversation with our enemy. We should also concentrate on issues such as global warming, earthquakes, and tsunamis that can destroy the world. We shouldn’t spend time solving these conflicts and arguments with violence. Instead we should use the quiet method of negotiating and agreeing on things.

A war always inflicts pain and sorrow on everyone. A world of peace can be achieved if we learn the power of non-violence, as shown by the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Whereas people now a days don’t know how to do that. What we must realize is that things can be achieved without violence, because with violence, no good really comes out of it. When you use violence you might achieve things faster, but you hurt more people and even yourself in the process.

The greatest noble cause is to display our desire to bring about peace in this world by our own sacrifice and not that of those who oppose our views.  We all should apply his ideas and teachings in our every day live and fight for the end of nuclear weapons, war itself, poverty, racism, hunger, environmental destruction, homelessness and violence of any kind.

Mahatma Gandhi believed that we are all children of God. We should not discriminate amongst ourselves based on faith, caste, creed or any other differences. Today, we see modern leader make promises that they never intend to keep and let alone practicing what they preach in their own lives.

Mahatma Gandhi taught us that we can bring harmony to our world by becoming champions of love and peace for all. If we follow Gandhi’s footsteps, and learn his ideas of wanting spiritual happiness rather than just wealth and material things, the world will truly be a better place.

“We need to be the change we wish to see in the world.”

- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi