The plan was to explode the bomb during the speech, causing pandemonium, which would give two other gang members, Digambar Bagde and Shankar Kishtaiyya, an opportunity to shoot Gandhi, and escape in the ensuing chaos. The bomb exploded prematurely, before the conference was underway, and Madanla Pahwa was captured, while the others, including Godse, managed to escape.
Pahwa admitted the plot under interrogation, but Delhi police were unable to confirm the participation and whereabouts of Godse, although they did try to ascertain his whereabouts through the Bombay police. After the failed attempt at Birla House, Nathuram Godse and another of the seven, Narayan Apte, returned to Pune, via Bombay, where they purchased a Beretta automatic pistol, before returning once more to Delhi. On 30th January , whilst Gandhi was on his way to a prayer meeting at Birla House in Delhi, Nathuram Godse managed to get close enough to him in the crowd to be able to shoot him three times in the chest, at point-blank range.
Sweets were distributed publicly, as at a festival. The rest of the world was horrified by the death of a man nominated five times for the Nobel Peace Prize. Godse, who had made no attempt to flee following the shooting, and his co-conspirator, Narayan Apte, were both imprisoned until their trial on 8th November The supposed architect of the plot, a Hindu extremist named Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, was acquitted due to lack of evidence.
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He would reject any religious doctrine, which was in conflict with morality. According to Gandhi religion and morality are inseparably bound up with each other. To Gandhi, "There is no religion higher than truth and Righteouness. The emphasis on morality, by Gandhi helped his ideas to acquire a universalistic outlook. Gandhi's religion was a federation of different religious creeds, theological schools and sectarian faiths that have survived in India from ancient times.
People belonging to different religions would go to him for his advice and blessings on different matters. All through his life Gandhi devoted much time and energy for the promotion of Hindu Muslim unity and also fasted for his cause on many occasions. In the wake of the partition of the country, hundreds and thousands of Hindus and Muslims were killed in Punjab, Bengal and Bihar. Gandhi threw himself into a struggle to heal the breach between the two communities. Gandhi wanted communal harmony and peace not only between the Hindus and the Muslims but between all sections of the people who believe India to be their home, no matter to what faith they may belong.
Gandhi had the good fortune to have as his colleague's people belonging to different religions. Two important examples are those C. Andrews and Maulana Abul Kalam Azad. This tradition still continues in India in most of the public meetings and prayers. Gandhi also maintained that a reverential study of the different religious tradition is necessary. He felt that it is the duty of every cultured man and woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. To respect other religion, a study of their scriptures, is a sacred duty according to Gandhi.
To understand the point of view of another faith requires tolerance, sympathy, broad mindedness, humility and willingness to recognize Truth wherever it is to be found. If we posses these qualities we can appreciate other's faith, traditions, customs, culture and way of life. The prophets and seers of different religions have brought to mankind the consciousness of the unity underlying the whole universe and a deep sense of brotherhood of man. Gandhi therefore felt a need of the comparative study of religions to pave the way for unity and brotherhood amongst the followers of different religions.
Mahatma Gandhi was a Sanatani Hindu. His love for Hinduism was not blind love. Gandhi spoke about the lofty ideals preached by Hinduism. Hinduism, according to him is the most tolerant and liberal religion. He was deeply impressed by the ethical and spiritual outlook of Hinduism. Gandhi said, "The chief value of Hinduism lies in holding the actual belief that all life is one i. For example he was very much against the caste system that was prevalent in Hinduism. To quote Gandhi, "My religion is Hinduism I can no more describe my feelings for Hinduism than for my wife Even so I feel about Hinduism with all its fault and limitations I know that the vice that is going on today in all the Hindu shrines My zeal never takes me to the rejection of any of the essential things in Hinduism.
Whether he is a theist or an atheist, he is a Hindu. Whether he believes in one absolute or many Gods, he is a Hindu. Whether he believes in Vedas or not, he remains a Hindu. Gandhi was therefore liberal enough to take idol worship as a part of human nature, though he did not believe in idol worship as such. Gandhi, was, however, deadly against untouchability, the greatest plague of the Hindu society according to Gandhi, which is the duty of every true Hindu or combat.
Gandhi was also against animal sacrifice though prescribed in the Vedas as it went against his concept of non-violence. Instead he advocated the sacrifice of animality in us in the form of lust, greed, anger, hatred, ill-will etc.
I believe in the Krsna of my imagination as a perfect incarnation, spotless in every sense of the word, the inspirer of the Gita, and the inspirer of the lives of millions of human beings. But if it is proved to me Like Swami Vivekananda and Rabindranath Tagore, Gandhi's religion was not confined to Temples, Churches, books, rituals and other outer forms.
Thus Gandhi's concept of religion was not bound by any formalities. His God may be a personal God to those who needs his personal presence. He may be a law to those who concentrate their minds on the orderliness of the universe. He may be an embodied being to those who need his touch.
No, there is only one omnipresent God. He is named variously, and we remember him by the name which is most familiar to us. Gandhi also advocated his views on Islam, another great world religion. Islam is a religion of strict monotheism and rigorous ethical discipline.
In response, Gandhi called for a day of national fasting, meetings, and suspension of work on 6 April , as an act of satyagraha literally, truth-force or love-force , a form of nonviolent resistance. He suspended the campaign of nonviolent resistance a few days later because protestors had responded violently to the police. Within the next few years, Gandhi reshaped the existing Indian National Congress into a mass movement promoting Indian self-rule through a boycott of British goods and institutions, and leading to the arrests of thousands of satyagrahis.
In March , Gandhi was arrested and served two years in prison for sedition. Gandhi resumed leadership of the Indian National Congress Party in late In the spring of , Gandhi and 80 volunteers began a mile march to the sea, where they produced salt from seawater to defy the British Salt Laws, which ensured that the British colonial government recovered a tax from the sale of salt. Over 60, Indians eventually subjected themselves to imprisonment by making salt.
Gandhi revived the satyagraha movement and was soon imprisoned by the British government. The fast elicited public attention and resulted in a historic resolution making the practice of discrimination against untouchables illegal. In August , Britain transferred governing power to a partitioned India, creating the two independent states of India and Pakistan. On 30 January , Gandhi was assassinated while entering a prayer meeting in Delhi.
Gandhi and his philosophy were of special interest to the progressive African American community. King met with the Gandhi family, as well as with Indian activists and officials, including Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru , during the five-week trip. Introduction, in Papers
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