Gandhi’s idea of hinduism was an accepting, all encompassing religion that at its core were all the traditional values that we consider quite important. These values included the idea of self sacrifice, moral higher ground, non-violence or Ahmisa, tolerance, and the power of the atman or true inner self. The aforementioned belief in an accepting, tolerant religion can be seen in the movie through his speech when a mob is chanting for the death of a muslim leader. In his speech to the mob, he addresses them by saying that his old guru used to preach to him not just from the vedas but also the Bible and Qu’ran. Another of Gandhi’s beliefs that was exemplified in the movie was that of the Ahmisa. When he was protesting the pass laws, Gandhi was struck down, yet he, in his Ahmisa, sacrificed his well being and burned his papers.
In his teachings, Gandhi once preached that “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.” Every time something bad happened, such as when he was beaten, protesting the pass laws, he never retaliated in anger. He always just took it. A prime example of his this teaching can be seen through tone of the final sketches in the movie when a man comes and confesses to killing a child out of anger and vengeance. Furthermore, whenever he an injustice was done to him, he instead of changing this injustice by taking from others, but from taking from himself, or sacrificing himself.
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