destiny

your beliefs become your thoughts,
your thoughts become your words,
your words become your actions, 
your actions become your habits,
your habits become your values,
your values become your destiny.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

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Gandhian

Excerpt from the book - Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld

In India today, the term "Gandhian" is ultimately synonymous with social conscience; his example - of courage, persistence, identification with the poorest, striving for selflessness - still has a power to inspire, more so even than his doctrines of nonviolence and techniques of resistance, certainly more than his assorted dogmas and pronouncements on subjects like spinning, diet, and sex. It may not happen often, but the inspiration is still there to be imbibed; and when it is, the results can still be called Gandhian, even though the man himself, that great soul, never liked or accepted the word. 

(It was Joseph Lelyveld in the above paragraph, making his ending remarks about the Great Soul)

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We surely know when the term 'Gandhian' is chanted and when it is not. It is an inspiration for sure but for the actions that still are un-welcomed in 'Gandhian' way.

And perhaps, many are not even aware of what it actually means.

Srik

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pianist

Excerpt from the book - Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld

I can't devote myself entirely to untouchability and say, "Neglect Hindu-Muslim unity or swaraj." All these things run into one another and are interdependent. You will find at one time in my life an emphasis on one thing, at another time on [an]other. But that is just like a pianist, now emphasizing one note and now [an]other. 

(It was Mahatma Gandhi in the above paragraph)

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Loved the above paragraph.

Of course many things are interdependent on many more other things. One has to realize the importance of them and take appropriate step. Just like a pianist. 

Srik

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a sorry affair

Excerpt from the book - Great Soul by Joseph Lelyveld

Those who depend on what he called "truth force" were "strangers to disappointment and defeat," he claimed in his book. Yet here he was, at the end of his days, expressing chronic disappointment and, sometimes, a sense of defeat. He'd had more to do with India's independence than any other individual - in declaring the goal and making it seem attainable, in convincing the nation that it was a nation - but he was not among those who celebrated that day. Instead, he fasted. The celebrations were, he said, "a sorry affair."

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That was Mahatma Gandhi in the above paragraph. 

In a way it is so true that it was not an occasion to celebrate. It was a defeat in his own mind that the real freedom was not achieved. 

Srik

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