More on the G man :)

-For a Hindu, karma is the hand dealt to him at birth from the celestrial pack of cards- his fixed destiny. Dharma is his religious and moral duty to play the hand in the best possible way- his free will. The point of the card game is salvation- to free the atman from the bondage of the body or matter, through a cycle of death and reincarnation, and to reunite it with God...... The essential teaching is that one should do one's duty irrespective of reward or punishment, pleasure or pain, gain or loss, victory or defeat, life or death, that the highest action is that which has the least regard for results or consequences, and that any action is better than no action.

-Gandhi began extolling the Buddha's love of all creatures, compared with Christ's love of man only.


Prob Gandhi's biggest idea was that of non-violence in all situations possiblly best explained by this account: Suddenly at a word of command, scores of native policemen rushed upon the advancing marchers and rained blows on their heads with their steel-shod lathis. Not one of the marchers even raised an arm to fend off the blows. They went down like ten-pins. From where I stood I heard the sickening whack of the clubs on unprotected skulls. The waiting crowd of marchers groaned and sucked in their breath in sympathetic pain at every blow....They marched steadily, with heads up. There was no fight, no struggle, the marchers simply walked forward till struck down.