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Post Prayer Speech 1947-10-16
By Mahatma Gandhi BROTHERS AND SISTERS, I have been forgetting to talk about Mysore. You must be aware of what has happened there. Sir Ramaswamy Mudaliar is the Dewan of Mysore. Mysore has joined the Indian Union. The people of that State are well educated. They have...
Post Prayer Speech 1947-06-05
By Mahatma Gandhi Announcing the death of the Buddhist scholar Shri Kosambi, Gandhiji said: Perhaps you have not heard his name, and so cannot feel grieved. Even otherwise we should not grieve over anyone’s death. But it is human nature to grieve over the death of...
Post Prayer Speech 1947-06-04
By Mahatma Gandhi BROTHERS AND SISTERS, You know that I am coming straight after meeting the Viceroy. Not that I had gone to get anything out of him. Nor had he called me in order to give me anything. Actually the talk between us was not even finished. But I excused...
Post Prayer Speech 1948-01-02
By Mahatma Gandhi BROTHERS AND SISTERS, Tomorrow we may have to hold the prayer meeting at the Wavell Canteen, where many refugees are living. I have been there once and I was asked then to hold the prayer meeting there, but I could not stay on. Today someone from the...
Post Prayer Speech 1947-05-31
By Mahatma Gandhi Post Prayer Meeting Speech by Mahatma Gandhi As Gandhiji came on the platform he asked the people to be quiet, telling them that during the prayer one’s eyes should be closed and one’s ears open. That man¹ wearing a hat like an Englishman is...
Post Prayer Speech 1947-08-24
By Mahatma Gandhi In thanking the Corporation for the address, Gandhiji said he could not help recalling the late Dr. P. C. Ray under whose roof he had lived for one month in 1901. When he was with the late Deshbandhu, he used to see him with a few friends engaged in...
Mahatma, Episode 6: Trusteeship
A Film By Indian Public Televsion Gandhiji’s theory of Trusteeship, or social ownership, was the most definitive doctrine of his political economy. It was his alternative to the capitalist order, which leads to inequality, deprivation and violence, as well as to state...
Mahatma, Episode 5: Co-operation
A Film By India Public Television Co-operation is essential for the practice of nonviolence and harmony. Even during the "Noncooperation" movement, Gandhiji would cooperate with the authorities in the conduct of their duties. H is various satyagraha movements became...
Mahatma, Episode 4: Discipline
A Film By India Public Televison Discipline in thought, word and deed, was a basic tenet of Gandhiji’s teaching and of his own life. H is concept of freedom itself meant Swaraj, or ’self-rule", as he considered that "man is a self-governing being". Discipline was an...