1. Unacceptable circumstances in life or a crisis/opportunity for growth toward improvement: Gandhi, also known as Mahatma Gandhi, was born in Porbandar in the on October 2, 1869, and educated in law at University College, London. In 1891, Gandhi returned to India and attempted to start a law practice in Bombay, with little success. Two years later an Indian firm with interests in South Africa retained him as legal adviser. Arriving in South Africa, Gandhi found himself treated as a member of an inferior race. He was appalled at the widespread denial of civil liberties and political rights to Indian immigrants to South Africa. He then began to fight and struggle for the rights for Indians.

Gandhi remained in South Africa for 20 years, suffering imprisonment many times. In 1896, after being attacked and beaten by white South Africans, Gandhi began to teach a policy of passive resistance to, and no cooperation with, the South African authorities (Bedekar, 1975). Gandhi was inspired to do this because of the Russian writer Leo Tolstoy, whose influence on Gandhi was very great. Gandhi also used the teachings of Christ and to the 19th-century American writer Henry David Thoreau, espe

Gandhi became the international symbol of a free India. He lived a spiritual and ascetic life of prayer, fasting, and meditation. His union with his wife became, as he himself stated, that of brother and sister. Refusing earthly possessions, he wore the loincloth and shawl of the lowliest Indian and subsisted on vegetables, fruit juices, and goat's milk (Bedekar, 1975). Indians revered him as a saint and began to call him Mahatma, which means in Sanskrit "great soul" a title reserved for the greatest wise. Gandhi's advocacy of nonviolence, known as ahimsa, which means in Sanskrit "noninjury", was the expression of a way of life implicit in the Hindu religion. By the Indian practice of nonviolence, Britain too would eventually consider violence useless and would leave India (Bedekar, 1975).

cially to Thoreau's famous essay "Civil Disobedience" (Bedekar, 1975). Gandhi considered the terms passive resistance and civil disobedience inadequate for his purposes, and coined another term, Satyagraha, which means in Sanskrit, "truth and firmness" (Bedekar, 1975). After the war he returned to his campaign for Indian rights. In 1914 the government of the Union of South Africa made important concessions to Gandhi's demands. His work in South Africa was finished, he returned to India.

5. "Return" journey: sharing "vision", "new life" and wisdom gained: Gandhi reached his goal of Indian independence in 1947, but India was separated into two countries, India and Pakistan. Many out rest of Muslim and Indian rioting broke out and Gandhi went back to fasting

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