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Sharma, Arvind.
Subjects
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Statesmen -- Religious life -- India -- Biography.
Statesmen -- India -- Biography.
Religious leaders -- Biography.
Nationalists -- India -- Biography.
Passive resistance -- India.
Civil disobedience -- India.
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.
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Sharma, Arvind.
Gandhi, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Statesmen -- Religious life -- India -- Biography.
Statesmen -- India -- Biography.
Religious leaders -- Biography.
Nationalists -- India -- Biography.
Passive resistance -- India.
Civil disobedience -- India.
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.
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Gandhi
: a
spiritual
biography
/ Arvind Sharma
by
Sharma, Arvind.
Yale University Press, c2013.
Call #:
954.035 G195s
Subjects
Gandhi
, Mahatma, 1869-1948.
Statesmen -- Religious life -- India --
Biography
.
Statesmen -- India --
Biography
.
Religious leaders --
Biography
.
Nationalists -- India --
Biography
.
Passive resistance -- India.
Civil disobedience -- India.
India -- Politics and government -- 1919-1947.
ISBN:
9780300185966 (hc.)
0300185960 (hc.)
Description:
vii, 252 p. ; 22 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 207-239) and index.
Contents:
Birth and adolescence -- Child marriage -- God enters
Gandhi
's life --
Gandhi
in London --
Gandhi
and Raychand --
Gandhi
's conversion experience -- Out of Africa --
Spiritual
warfare -- Touching the untouchable -- Fighting fire with light -- Mahatma
Gandhi
and Ramana Maharshi --
Spiritual
temptations --
Spiritual
serendipity -- Beefing up vegetarianism -- The sex life of a celibate -- The Bhagavad Gita,
Gandhi
's other mother --
Gandhi
, God, and goodness -- Demythologizing and analyzing
Gandhi
--
Gandhi
's
spiritual
biography
and contemporary history.
Summary:
In his Autobiography,
Gandhi
wrote, "What I want to achieve - what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years - is self-realization, to see God face to face. ...All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about
Gandhi
(1869-1948), nearly all of them have focused on the national, political, social, economic, educational, environmental, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how
Gandhi
led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search of
spiritual
liberation. Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of
Gandhi
's
spiritual
life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of
Gandhi
's life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of
Gandhi
's inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which
Gandhi
was raised, his belief in karma and rebirth, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of history's most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the spirit helped liberate millions.
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