Ghandi

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could not see it (Fischer Essential 123). It was this unseen power that makes itself felt and yet defies all proof, because it is so unlike all that can be perceived through human senses (Fischer Essential 125). It is above all the senses. But it is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent. Gandhi dimly perceive that while everything around him was ever changing, ever-dying, there is underlying all that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves, and re-creates (Fischer Gandhi 33). That informing Power or Spirit is God. Gandhi saw this power as purely benevolent (Fischer Gandhi 67). God is life, truth, and light. He is love. He is the supreme good.
For Gandhi, Hinduism was all sufficing. “I can no more describe my feelings for Hinduism than for my own wife. She moves me as no other woman in the world can. Not that she has no faults; I dare say she has many more than I see myself.”(Attenborough 89) Gandhi felt that there was an indescribable bond in Hinduism. Hinduism was not an exclusive religion. In it there was room for the worship of all the prophets in the world. It is not a missionary religion in the ordinary sense of the term. Hinduism tells every one to worship God according to his faith or Dharma and so it shares a bond with all the religions. The most distinctive and the largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture was the doctrine of ahimsa. It has given a definite bias to the history of the country for the last three thousand years and over and it has not ceased to be a living force in the lives of India's millions even today (Payne 46). It is a growing doctrine; its message is still being delivered.
Its teaching has so far permeated people that an armed revolution has almost become an impossibility in India not because they as a race are physically weak, but because the tradition of ahimsa has struck deep root among the people (Nair 134...