Today is Gandhi Jayanti !!

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Dear friends 2nd October is Mahatma Gandhi's birthday. Gandhi

played an important role in India and is loved by millions.

 

He might have done some faux-pas, to harm hinduism, but his

contribution to hinduism can not be forgotten. When Muslims asked

him if he respected Islam, why he does not convert to Islam.

 

Gandhiji replied- It is due to the great teachings of Hinduism that

I am able to appreciate the beauty of other religions.

 

He did many mistakes in life...like we all do but he is the only

person who publicly accepted his mistakes and told about his sins to

all...without hiding anything. That makes him Mahatama

 

I am personally against his political moves... but as a hindu and as

a spiritual person I have high regards for Gandhiji...and wish to

pay my respects to him on Gandhi Jayanti.

 

He certainly had a very high degree of spiritual energies to affect

the history of India.

 

AUM

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, " Aum " <beirut_ka_baba wrote:

>

> Gandhiji replied- It is due to the great teachings of Hinduism that

> I am able to appreciate the beauty of other religions.

>

>

Dear Aum

 

Thankyou, I had no idea it was his birthday today - do people

celebrate this, do they have any celebrations? We seem to have all

these meaningless days off & celebrations in the west - bank

holidays, bonfire night etc - & yet no-one mentions a special day

like this. Our schools are too busy teaching our children about 'The

hungry caterpillar' or 'chicken Licken & the sky falling down', to

mention Ghandi.

 

Oh dear - sounds rather negative, but this has been my experience.

 

With love

 

Farah

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, " Aum " <beirut_ka_baba wro

> He certainly had a very high degree of spiritual energies to affect

> the history of India.

>

>HEY! I love Gandhi so I can't not write anything about him. Even great

saints equate him to the greatest of saints. No matter what people say

about him his sacrifice was great and so were his principles. I am all

respect for him. I think he was no less than a karma yogi after all not

all people die with name of Ram on there lips. His contribution was to

humanity and not to any religion in particular.

 

>His autobiography is filled with praises of Rama nama from how he

would use Ram nama in his childhood to caste away his fears of ghosts

and how Ram always saved himself from situations that could lead to his

downfall.

I believe in his practice of morals. He would read and observe and pick

a little from here and there and follow with unflinching faith and love

the principles. Thats why they say that purity and faith come from

heart and not from anywhere outside.And so He led a kind of ordinary

life in which there was discipline and purity WHICH TOOK HIM

PLACES.This is true learning and goodness. Its unfortunate that in

todays world people learn so much , they think themselves to be

spiritual but they fail to follow the basic and smallest principles

such as not coveting, not being deceptive , not being selfish or

malicious etc.. They never follow principles but talk a lot about

them.They say that they are bhaktas and they talk about God, they place

numerous pictures of God on thier office table and lie and even swear

in the name of the same God when there weaknesses are caught.

 

The heart should be pure and actions right otherwise no matter how much

one thinks he has become spiritual in reality he isnt spiritual because

being a human is foremost necessity to be spiritual.

 

" together Love , faith and hope never fail but the greatest of them is

forever love " - Bible

 

Love Rama. Follow his ways and principles

Shri Ram