Gandhi : a spiritual biography / Arvind Sharma.
Sharma, Arvind, author.
2013
DS481.G3 S47624 2013eb
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Title Gandhi : a spiritual biography / Arvind Sharma.
Author Sharma, Arvind, author.
ISBN 9780300185966
0300185960
9780300187380 (electronic book)
Published New Haven : Yale University Press, [2013]
Copyright ©2013
Language English
Description 1 online resource (263 pages)
Call Number DS481.G3 S47624 2013eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 954.035
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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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.

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