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Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

Ahimsa in theory no one knows. It is as indefinable as God.

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Theory, Ahimsa, Knows
Mahatma Gandhi, Anand T. Hingorani, Ganga Anand Hingorani (1985). “The Encyclopaedia of Gandhian Thoughts”

The most distinctive and largest contribution of Hinduism to India's culture is the doctrine of ahimsa.

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India, Doctrine, Culture
Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.221, Tara Publishing

Ahimsa is my God, and Truth is my God.

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Truth Is, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.32, Rajpal & Sons

Ahimsa calls for the strength and courage to suffer without retaliation, to receive blows without returning any.

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Blow, Suffering, Retaliation
Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Merton (1965). “Gandhi on Non-violence”, p.58, New Directions Publishing

The removal of untouchability is one of the highest expressions of ahimsa.

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Expression, Untouchability, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

Ahimsa must express itself through acts of selfless service of the masses.

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Selfless, Mass, Selfless Service
Mahatma Gandhi (1977). “Collected Works”

My ahimsa is my own. I am not able to accept in its entirety the doctrine of non-killing of animals.

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Animal, Doctrine, Able
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

Truth is my religion and ahimsa is the only way of its realization.

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Realization, Way, Truth Is
Mahatma Gandhi (1976). “Collected Works”

In Swaraj, based on ahimsa, people need not know their rights, but it is also necessary for them to know their duties.

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Rights, People, Needs
Mahatma Gandhi (1959). “India of My Dreams”, p.19, Rajpal & Sons

The votary of ahimsa has only one fear, that is, of God.

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Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.77, A&C Black

The richest grace of ahimsa will descend easily upon the owner of hard discipline.

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Discipline, Grace, Owners
Mahatma Gandhi (1949). “Communal Unity”

Love, otherwise ahimsa, sustains this planet of ours.

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Planets, Ahimsa
Mahatma Gandhi, Rudrangshu Mukherjee (1993). “The Penguin Gandhi Reader”, p.102, Penguin Books India

In an atmosphere of ahimsa, one has no scope to put his ahimsa to the test. It can be tested only in the face of himsa.

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Atmosphere, Tests, Faces
Mahatma Gandhi (1960). “Writings and Speeches of Mahatma Gandhi Relating to Bihar, 1917-1947”

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

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Blood, Done, Vivisection
Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.94, A&C Black

The Gita is not an aphoristic work, it is a great religious poem.

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Religious, Gita, Great Religious
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.40, Courier Corporation

Salvation of the Gita is perfect peace.

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Perfect, Gita, Salvation
Mahatma Gandhi (2010). “The Bhagavad Gita According to Gandhi”, p.20, North Atlantic Books

A literal interpretation of the Gita lands one in a sea of contradictions.

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Sea, Land, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi”

The renunciation of the Gita is the acid test of faith.

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Acid, Gita, Tests
Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Ronald Duncan (2005). “Gandhi: Selected Writings”, p.38, Courier Corporation

The sanyasa of the Gita is all work and yet no work.

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Gita
Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

The sanyasa of the Gita will not tolerate complete cessation of activity.

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Gita, Tolerate, Activity
Mahatma Gandhi, K. Swaminathan (1988). “A Gandhi Reader”, Stosius Incorporated/Advent Books Division

The message of the Gita is to be found in the second chapter of the Gita where Lord Krishna speaks of the balanced state of mind, of mental equipoise.

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Mind, Gita, Messages
Mahatma Gandhi (1950). “Hindu Dharma”

The Gita has become for me the key to the scriptures of the world.

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Keys, Gita, World
Mahatma Gandhi (1947). “Gita: The Mother”, Lahore, India : Indian Printing Works

Let the Gita be to you a mine of diamonds, as it has been to me; let it be your constant guide and friend on life's way.

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Way, Gita, Guides
Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Light of India: The Message of the Mahatma”

I still somehow or other fancy that "my philosophy" represents the true meaning of the teaching of the Gita.

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Philosophy, Teaching, Gita
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”

Untouchability, I hold, is a sin, if Bhagavadgita is one of our Divine Books.

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Book, Gita, Sin
Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “Collected Works”