Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #3- Gandhi: Hindu and Activist

Modern Religious Experience: Reflection #3- Gandhi: Hindu and Activist: "In class, your small groups went over movie questions about the content in Gandhi. You should know who each of the main characters are and t..."

Ghandi's life was illustrated the best of modern Hinduism. Even though he was educated in England and he was not a Brahmin or a Kshatryia, he still was a systematic religious thinker. He influenced the whole country through the practice of Ahimsa, the non-harming of living beings. His development of philiosophy and practice of non-violent resistance were Gandhi's ideas of Hinduism. For example, when he opposed the idea of new Pass Law, he got beaten up by the English police officers. However, he did not fight back and just stayed calm because of his belief and faith of Hinduism. Instead, he did some actions that indirectly affect the colonists' economy, such as burning the clothes that were made by English people, buying only indian products,and etc. Futhermore, Ghandi was trying to stop the british monoploy by producing own salt, non-violently of course. However, their factories got banished by the English people again. Ghandi resisted the dominace of English people by letting indian workers to enter the factories that were blocked by soldiers. Ghandi's actions of "protest" were always done by non-violence.

Throughout these famous quotes of Mohandas Ghandi, one that seemed the most relevent to him and his faith was "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind". What Ghandi was trying to teach was that if you try to revenge every time your enemy hurts you, then you will be ended up bad. That was why Ghandi always preferred non-violence because he knew people in India would end up really bad, or even worse. For example, in the movie when Ghandi saw the chaos between Muslim and Hindu, he tried to stop it by fisting. Once again, he never used violence for whatever action he was taking.