Can you tell me the teaching of Mahatma Gandhi?

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How much time do you have? He became disgusted with the discrimination he encountered and decided to protest it peacefully - nonviolent protest. Martin Luther King Jr based his racial equality protests after Ghandi.

There are thousands of books about Gandhi%26#039;s life. Read one. 30% 3 Votes

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• Non voilent non co-operation,love for all and uplift harijan. 10% 1 Vote
• Teachings of Mahatma Gandhi can be divided into three:
  1) Non Violence.
  2) Truth.
  3) Religion.
  
  Non Violence : Gandhi promotes non-violence, or Ahimsa as a way of life that is generally the best course.Ahimsa is the greatest force, and any one no matter how physically strong or weak can wield it. It involves giving up the lure of life, and suffering if need be, to protect ideals or anything really. Suffering takes the place of violence, when there is no resistance to force offered, it ruins the effectiveness of that force.
  
  Truth : Gandhi believed in perfect Truth that was beyond what imperfect humans could perceive.Gandhi saw Truth as God. Religion, and the search for God were his ways of searching for Truth.
  
  Reliogion : %26quot;Religion is one tree with many branches. As branches, you may say religions are many, but as tree, religion is only one. %26quot;
  
  As the quote above states, Gandhi viewed all religions as one. All great religions, he said, were getting at the same thing. Religions teach values, and promote good behavior as well as search for Truth. What matters is not which religion you choose, but that you try to be the best member of that faith you can be. 10% 1 Vote
• in three words.... non-violence and satyagraha 20% 2 Votes
• GIVE TO THE WORLD THE BEST YOU HAVE and THE BEST WILL COME BACK TO YOU.. 0% 0 Votes
• Truth
  
  Gandhi dedicated his life to the wider purpose of discovering truth, or Satya. He tried to achieve this by learning from his own mistakes and conducting experiments on himself. He called his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth.
  
  Gandhi stated that the most important battle to fight was overcoming his own demons, fears, and insecurities. Gandhi summarized his beliefs first when he said %26quot;God is Truth%26quot;. He would later change this statement to %26quot;Truth is God%26quot;. Thus, Satya (Truth) in Gandhi%26#039;s philosophy is %26quot;God%26quot;.
  
  Nonviolence
  
  The concept of nonviolence (ahimsa) and nonresistance has a long history in Indian religious thought and has had many revivals in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain, Jewish and Christian contexts. Gandhi explains his philosophy and way of life in his autobiography The Story of My Experiments with Truth. He was quoted as saying:
  
  %26quot;When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always.%26quot;
  
  %26quot;What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans, and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty and democracy?%26quot;
  
  %26quot;An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.%26quot;
  
  %26quot;There are many causes that I am prepared to die for but no causes that I am prepared to kill for.%26quot;
  
  In applying these principles, Gandhi did not balk from taking them to their most logical extremes. In 1940, when invasion of the British Isles by Nazi Germany looked imminent, Gandhi offered the following advice to the British people.
  
  %26quot;I would like you to lay down the arms you have as being useless for saving you or humanity. You will invite Herr Hitler and Signor Mussolini to take what they want of the countries you call your possessions.... If these gentlemen choose to occupy your homes, you will vacate them. If they do not give you free passage out, you will allow yourselves, man, woman, and child, to be slaughtered, but you will refuse to owe allegiance to them.%26quot;
  
  However, Gandhi was aware that this level of nonviolence required incredible faith and courage, which he realized not everyone possessed. He therefore advised that everyone need not keep to nonviolence, especially if it were used as a cover for cowardice:
  
  %26quot;Gandhi guarded against attracting to his satyagraha movement those who feared to take up arms or felt themselves incapable of resistance. %26#039;I do believe,%26#039; he wrote, %26#039;that where there is only a choice between cowardice and violence, I would advise violence.%26#039;%26quot;
  
  %26quot;At every meeting I repeated the warning that unless they felt that in non-violence they had come into possession of a force infinitely superior to the one they had and in the use of which they were adept, they should have nothing to do with non-violence and resume the arms they possessed before. It must never be said of the Khudai Khidmatgars that once so brave, they had become or been made cowards under Badshah Khan%26#039;s influence. Their bravery consisted not in being good marksmen but in defying death and being ever ready to bare their breasts to the bullets.%26quot;
  
  Vegetarianism
  
  As a young child, Gandhi experimented with meat-eating. This was due partially to his inherent curiosity as well as his rather persuasive peer and friend Sheikh Mehtab. The idea of vegetarianism is deeply ingrained in Hindu and Jain traditions in India, and, in his native land of Gujarat, most Hindus were vegetarian and so are all Jains. The Gandhi family was no exception. Before leaving for his studies in London, Gandhi made a promise to his mother, Putlibai and his uncle, Becharji Swami that he would abstain from eating meat, taking alcohol, and engaging in promiscuity. He held fast to his promise and gained more than a diet: he gained a basis for his life-long philosophies. As Gandhi grew into adulthood, he became a strict vegetarian. He wrote the book The Moral Basis of Vegetarianism and several articles on the subject, some of which were published in the London Vegetarian Society%26#039;s publication, The Vegetarian .