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Lets take some time out of our busy schedules and look at the world around An initiative by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal – Gandhi Book Centre – Gandhi Research Foundation India ranks a low 134 among 187 countries in terms of the human development index, which assesses long-term progress in health, education and income indicators Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names 25% in of developing Indian population is still 1.4 billion people countries liveilliterate on $1.25 a day or less India ranks at 95 out of 178 in Corruption Perceptions Index (rank 1 being the most clean 37% of the total Indian people falls below the international poverty line of US$ 1.5 a day country) In India Murder increased byevery 231% 4 seconds in the world 1 child dies Kidnapping increased 356%people are living with HIV/AIDS 35by million Robbery increased by 120% Riots by increased 176% Comparing the reported crimes in year 1953 to crimes in 2006 1.7 trillion dollars spent in 2011 on military, a 50 per cent increase since 2001 Two-thirds of the world's hungry live in just 7 countries :Bangladesh, China, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia and Pakistan In this one of the darkest hours of human history there is STILL a ray of HOPE Gandhian philosophy touches vast areas of human life God /Truth / Religion Health & Education Environment Economy Politics Philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi has inspired many people around the globe - Nelson Mandela Dalai Lama Martin Luther King Aung San Suu Kyi Politics • Gandhi considered politics as an instrument for the uplift of mankind in social, economic, moral and spiritual spheres • By Dharmic politics, Gandhi meant that it should be devoid of corrupting influences and sectarianism • Politics bereft of religion is a death trap which kills the soul. By spiritualization of politics, Gandhi meant something larger than our day to day life but not excluding world of day to day experiences. A community of persons on the process of self-realization be able to resist the corrupting influences of existing interests • Gandhian equality - (a) impartiality (b) equal share to all (c) equal share to equals (d) proportional equality (e) unequal shares corresponding to relevant differences Economy Truth and Non-Violence are the foundation stones of Gandhian Economics thoughts. According to Gandhiji, work is not only an economic activity, it’s necessary for spiritual growth. Bapu wanted that India should have its own economic policy. It should not follow any foreign countries policy. Bapu’s economic thouthts were based on Below six points: • Swadeshi • Mechanization • Industrialization • Trusteeship • Villagism • Decentralization Environment • Gandhi was a deep ecologist in the sense that he did not value nature because it was useful to man but because it was the creation of God and hence must remain as pristine as possible. Everything that exists in the universe is part of a common omnipresent and omnipotent Parmatma and hence has the right of its own. • Gandhi therefore called for the limitations of wants so that man’s stress on nature would be least possible. • We have to rethink the ecology by exploring the totality of all interrelations between human societies with everything in its environment. The deep ecological philosophy reviews the organization and operation of earth first. • There is enough for the needy, but not for the greedy Health & Education • An education which does not teach us to discriminate between good and bad, to assimilate the one and eschew the other, is a misnomer. • Education should be so revolutionized as to answer the wants of the poorest villager, instead of answering those of an imperial exploiter. • Literacy in itself is no education. • Literacy education should follow the education of the hand—the one gift that visibly distinguishes man from beast. • What is really needed to make democracy function is not knowledge of facts, but right education. • By education I mean an all-round drawing out of the best in the child and man—body, mind and spirit. God/ Truth/ Religion • To Gandhi God is Truth and Love • The nearest approach to Truth is through love • Gandhi endeavoured to see God through service of humanity, for he knew that God is neither in heaven, nor down below, but in every one • He believed in the fundamental Truth of all great religions of the world. But .. You may say Gandhi was a great man. Only he or other great people could practice his philosophy. Not a common man like me! We believe Gandhian philosophy, thoughts and values are much like physics… Anyone can practice them Anywhere Anytime And they would give same results –Sarvodaya: WELFARE OF ALL Success stories A hard core criminal, Laxman Gole, imprisoned in Thane Central Jail, after reading an Autobiography of Mahatma Gandhi, has not only confessed to the crimes he committed, but also written apology letters to the people whom he had harassed and threatened before and now he is propagating Gandhi philosophy among prisoners. Jennifer Aniston has been inspired by the Autobiography and found new hope in life at a time when there was turmoil in her life after her divorce with her husband Brad Pitt. 82 inmates of Thane Central Jail have appeared for Gandhi Peace Exam on Gandhism organised by Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal and Gandhi Study Centre, Birla College, Kalyan. If they can do it why can’t we ? • Visit us for more information at :http://www.mkgandhi.org/ • Bombay Sarvodaya Mandal / Gandhi Book Centre 299, Tardeo Road, Nana Chowk, Bombay 400007 India Tel:91-22-2387 2061 Fax:91-22-2284 6870 Email: [email protected] • Gandhi Research Foundation Jain Agri Park, Jain Hills, Shirsoli Road, Jalgaon, 425 001 MH India Tel. +91-257-2260 011 www.gandhifoundation.net References • • • • • • • • • http://www.globalissues.org/issue/66/arms-control http://databank.worldbank.org/ http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/india_statistics.html http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/India/Indiaranks-134-in-human-development-index/Article1764014.aspx http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crime_in_India#Crime_over_t ime http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty_in_India http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson_Mandela http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aung_San_Suu_Kyi