Satyagraha
I'm reading William L. Shirer's biography "Gandhi - a Memoir".
Explaining why he was on the train to Delhi, Shirer said "It would be best to see Gandhi first, to try to grasp the nature of his genius [...], to get from the master himself an understanding of his unique contribution to the revolutionary politics of the twentieth century, Satyagraha, a word he had coined from his native Gujarati and which, I suspected, meant much more, at least in the Hindu consciousness, than civil disobedience, passive resistance, non-cooperation, and non-violence, though it encompassed all of these."
Any Gujarati-speaking Hindus reading this? I'd like to know more.
Explaining why he was on the train to Delhi, Shirer said "It would be best to see Gandhi first, to try to grasp the nature of his genius [...], to get from the master himself an understanding of his unique contribution to the revolutionary politics of the twentieth century, Satyagraha, a word he had coined from his native Gujarati and which, I suspected, meant much more, at least in the Hindu consciousness, than civil disobedience, passive resistance, non-cooperation, and non-violence, though it encompassed all of these."
Any Gujarati-speaking Hindus reading this? I'd like to know more.
posted by The Editor at
2:16 AM
3 Comments:
Wouldn't it be better to go to the horse's mouth? Gandhi himself explains it quite well in English:
http://tinyurl.com/Gandhi-Autobiography
For a nutshell description the Wikipedia article on 'Satyagraha' is quite acceptable. It even quotes Encyclopaedia Britannica, so it must be authoritative.
Thanks for that Andrew. Perhaps I should be satisfied with Gandhi's own explanation, but I would also like to chew the fat with a Gujarati speaking Hindu. Just to stroke my ego, mind... ;-)
And for Anonymous, who said, amongst a few insults, "SUPPORT OUR TROOPS", I have this suggestion:
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