LEADER 03391nam 2200505 450 001 9910821480503321 005 20230803015320.0 010 $a0-300-18738-6 024 7 $a10.12987/9780300187380 035 $a(CKB)3710000000828793 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4603457 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4603457 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11247412 035 $a(OCoLC)889943239 035 $a(DE-B1597)589505 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780300187380 035 $a(OCoLC)1257324553 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000828793 100 $a20130221h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aGandhi $ea spiritual biography /$fArvind Sharma 210 1$aNew Haven :$cYale University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (263 pages) 311 $a0-300-18596-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aBirth and adolescence -- Child marriage -- God enters Gandhi's life -- Gandhi in London -- Gandhi and Raychand -- Gandhi's conversion experience -- Out of Africa -- Spiritual warfare -- Touching the untouchable -- Fighting fire with light -- Mahatma Gandhi and Ramana Maharshi -- Spiritual temptations -- Spiritual serendipity -- Beefing up vegetarianism -- The sex life of a celibate -- The Bhagavad Gita, Gandhi's other mother -- Gandhi, God, and goodness -- Demythologizing and analyzing Gandhi -- Gandhi's spiritual biography and contemporary history. 330 $aIn 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 end." While hundreds of biographies and histories have been written about Gandhi (1869-1948), nearly all of them have focused on the national, political, social, economic, educational, environmental, or familial dimensions of his life. Very few, in recounting how Gandhi led his country to political freedom, have viewed his struggle primarily as a search of spiritual liberation. Shifting the focus to the understudied subject of Gandhi's spiritual life, Arvind Sharma retells the story of Gandhi's life through this lens. Illuminating unsuspected dimensions of Gandhi's inner world and uncovering their surprising connections with his outward actions, Sharma explores the eclectic religious atmosphere in which Gandhi was raised, his belief in karma and rebirth, his conviction that morality and religion are synonymous, his attitudes toward tyranny and freedom, and, perhaps most important, the mysterious source of his power to establish new norms of human conduct. This book enlarges our understanding of one of history's most profoundly influential figures, a man whose trust in the power of the spirit helped liberate millions. 606 $aStatesmen$xReligious life$zIndia$vBiography 606 $aReligious leaders$vBiography 615 0$aStatesmen$xReligious life 615 0$aReligious leaders 676 $a954.035 700 $aSharma$b Arvind$0562116 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821480503321 996 $aGandhi$94092998 997 $aUNINA