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From his childhood, Mahatma Gandhi treated truth and love as supreme values. Later in his life, he along with the other freedom fighters, accomplished the enormous task of compelling the British rulers to leave our country without war or violence but through peaceful ways called satyagraha Satyagraha is a Sanskrit word which when literally translated means 'obstinate truth'. As an eminent and much respected political leader in India, he had many loyal followers whom he taught to resort not to war and violence, but peaceful protests. The Quit India Movement and the Salt March against the rule of the British Empire are examples of such protests.
Gandhi had a positive attitude and was always on the lookout for peaceful means to resolve conflicts. To achieve resolution and establish peace simultaneously, Gandhi propounded his philosophy of peace. The most
fundamental principle of his philosophy was 'ahimsa' or non-violence which is the law of love. life and creation as opposed to violence or himsathe cause of hatred, death and destruction, According to Gandhi, the universal human value of non-violence ought to be cultivated not merely at the personal level, but at the social, national and international levels, too, if we wish to avoid personal, social, national and international conflicts. It is a very powerful means to avoid conflict, since it springs from the realisation of the equality of all human beings. It is an ideology of good will towards all human beings.
A. Answer these questions.
1. What did Gandhi treat as supreme values? because 2. How did he fight the British rule in India?
3. On what principle was Gandhi's philosophy based?
4. What realisation does this philosophy spring from?
B. Find words in the passage that mean the same as:
1. most important
2. a person's way of being
3. involving everyone
4 to prevent something
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Answer:
globalization. New economic policy of globalization moves on to make the world a global village. New challenges and problems have emerged before youth. The belief that all emergent problems - ecological, social, economical, political and moral-could be resolved by discoveries and technological innovations persists, filatures in the past notwithstanding. What is happening today is in line with what Gandhi almost predicted in Hind Swaraj as he prepared its manuscript in 1908.Gandhi put forward four main goals before youth for humanity, so as to move towards its destiny. These are Swaraj, Non-violence, Swadeshi and Sarvodaya. These are the main pillars of the thesis he has propounded in the Hind Swaraj. In this paper an attempt is made to focus on Sarvodaya as one of the pillars to bring Hind Swaraj. Objectives of this research paper are to know Gandhian philosophy of Sarvodaya for changing attitude of youth & aware youth for their rights & duties. Primary & secondary resources are used for this paper.