Gandhi A Spiritual Biography

In his Autobiography, Gandhi wrote, "What I want to achieve-what I have been striving and pining to achieve these thirty years-is self-realization, to see God face to face. . . . All that I do by way of speaking and writing, and all my ventures in the political field, are directed to this same...

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Main Author Sharma, Arvind
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published New Haven Yale University Press 2013
Edition1
Subjects
1869-1948
Biography
Gandhi
India
Mahatma
Nationalists
Religious leaders
Religious life
Spiritual biography
Statesmen
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ISBN9780300185966
0300185960

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Table of Contents:
  • Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part one -- 1. Birth and Adolescence -- 2. Child Marriage -- 3. God Enters Gandhi's Life -- 4. Gandhi in London -- 5. Gandhi and Raychand -- 6. Gandhi's Conversion Experience -- 7. Out of Africa -- 8. Spiritual Warfare -- 9. Touching the Untouchable -- 10. Fighting Fire with Light -- Part two -- 11. Mahatma Gandhi and Ramana Maharshi -- 12. Spiritual Temptations -- 13. Spiritual Serendipity -- 14. Beefing Up Vegetarianism -- 15. The Sex Life of a Celibate -- 16. The Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi's Other Mother -- 17. Gandhi, God, and Goodness -- 18. Demythologizing and Analyzing Gandhi -- 19. Gandhi's Spiritual Biography and Contemporary History -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z