Posts by arungandhi
Grandfather Gandhi Publication Day!
Originally Posted: Happy Publication Day! Thank you all, for working together, to help create this special publication gift of Grandfather Gandhi. May we all Live as Light. Love, Arun Happy Publication Day!! Through the team effort of all, but mostly the illustration and animation of the brilliant Evan Turk, we have a gorgeous book trailer! On Vimeo On YouTube Arun and Bethany, it has been a long journey to this day. Thanks for bringing us all on that journey one by one. Many Thanks & Read Well, Kirsten Cappy Curious City: Where Kids & Books Meet 8A Merrill Street Portland, ME 04101 kirsten(at)curiouscity(dot)net http://www.curiouscity.net ...
Read MoreBe The Change!
I remember the Catholic Archbishop, Dennis Hurley, as a very loving and mild-mannered person in a severely prejudiced South Africa. He was very close to my parents — he loved the discussions with my father and the cuisine that my mother served when he came to visit the Phoenix Ashram. He was much younger than my dad, Manilal, but genuinely interested in learning about Grandfather as a person and his philosophy of nonviolence. I was too young then and too immature to participate in the discussions but remember catching snippets that added to my own education and understanding of the philosophy of nonviolence. The Archbishop was not the only Christian leader who...
Read MoreFind Your Own Inner Strength!
Find Your Own Inner Strength! Not all my life lessons came directly from my Grandfather Gandhi. There were some that came through my parents, Manilal and Sushila Gandhi. Manilal was the second of grandfather’s four sons and the only one who devoted his life wholly to promoting and practicing his father’s philosophy of nonviolence in his personal and public life. When I left Grandfather Gandhi in 1947 to return with my parents to South Africa, grandfather’s parting words were that I must always endeavor to become a better human being. My parents built on this slender advice to show me how this should be done as a daily practice. Every morning upon...
Read MoreGrandfather’s Pursuit of Truth
GRANDFATHER GANDHI’S PURSUIT OF TRUTH `Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that most people during Grandfather Gandhi’s lifetime and after tend to follow his philosophy of nonviolence dogmatically and/or literally. To broaden people’s perspective he began to describe his philosophy as Satyagraha, or a Pursuit of Truth,instead of nonviolence. He believed life must be a constant and sincere pursuit of Truth. In simple terms, we must always strive to become better by being truthful to ourselves and the world. Two simple episodes made me aware of how much Truth meant to Grandfather. The first was when my parents, my younger sister Ela, who was five years...
Read MoreGrandfather Gandhi’s Life Style
Grandfather Gandhi’s Life Style People often wonder why Grandfather Gandhi was mostly half-naked as the British Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, once described him. He chose this garb because he found that a large number of people in India were so poor that they could not afford to wear any more clothes than was necessary to hide their nakedness. Grandfather was emotionally devastated to see their plight and decided that if he was going to be their leader he should not wear any more clothes than them. When he became frugal in his attire he, naturally, adopted poverty in life as well. He established ashrams, which is an Indian term for a community living...
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