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As a child Gandhi had to live through a hard and provincial life. From these circumstances Gandhi learned to live an attached life with the world and its nature. ... ’ After going though several years of schooling, Gandhi became a lawyer and opened a firm in South Africa. ... Gandhi came with new philosophies and values and which he intended to create a liberated India.
The non-violence movement is a method that Gandhi believed in and an effective approach that he used to gain independence from Great Britain. His strategy for the non-violence movement, also known as Satayagraha (satya – truth/love & agarha – (firmness/force), was greatly influenced by the Bhagavad-Gita and John Ruskin’s volume of social criticism, Unto This Last (1860). Gandhi gained from the Bhagavad-Gita that a nonviolent activist had to be ready to die for a cause and to fight bravely. ...
The Bhagavad-Gita was an important story that Gandhi used to strengthen his followers when they were weak, to bring in more people to believe in him, to carry in more courage to attack stronger, to wipe away “people’s tears,” and to encourage people to protect one another.
Approximate Word count = 769
Approximate Pages = 3.1
(250 words per page double spaced)
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