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Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World QUOTES

Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World QUOTES

1 " Undivided singleness of mind” is what the Gita means by yoga. It is the complete opposite of the incessant civil warfare among intellect, senses, emotions, and instincts which is our usual state of mind. Yoga is the complete reintegration of all these fragments on every level of the personality. It is the process of becoming whole. "

― Eknath Easwaran , Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

2 " violence only makes a situation worse. It cannot help but provoke a violent response. Strictly speaking, satyagraha is not “nonviolence.” It is a means, a method. The word we translate as “nonviolence” is a Sanskrit word central in Buddhism as well: ahimsa, the complete absence of violence in word and even thought as well as action. This sounds negative, just as “nonviolence” sounds passive. But like the English word “flawless,” ahimsa denotes perfection. Ahimsa is unconditional love; satyagraha is love in action. Gandhi’s message "

― Eknath Easwaran , Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

3 " Very few of us see life as it really is. Most of us see things only as we are, looking at others through our own likes and dislikes, prejudices and prepossessions, desires, interests, and fears. It is this separatist outlook that fragments life for us – person against person, community against community, nation against nation. In order to see life as it is, one undivided whole, we have to shed all attachment to personal profit, power, pleasure, or prestige. Otherwise we cannot help looking at life through our individual conditioning, and we will see the world not as it is, but as conditioned by our desires. "

― Eknath Easwaran , Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World

4 " One man cannot do right in one department of life whilst he is occupied in doing wrong in any other department. Life is one indivisible whole. "

― Eknath Easwaran , Gandhi the Man: How One Man Changed Himself to Change the World