( What is an important lesson of non-violence?
(ii) What is the eternal law of suffering?
(iii) What was the reason for which Mahatma Gandhi fought in South Af
(iv) When did he return to India from South Africa?
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i) Nonviolence consists of a set of values that set the path for a nonviolent life. Courage, compassion, truth, trust, fearlessness, forgiveness, service/selflessness, and self-restraint are all values of a nonviolent life. Mohandas Gandhi believed that nonviolence means you are willing to die but not to kill.
ii)The Law of Suffering was defined by Mahatma Gandhi as the necessity of the nonviolent actor to voluntarily endure suffering as a mechanism for transforming an opponent. The law rests on Gandhi's observation that, “Real suffering bravely borne melts even a heart of stone. Such is the potency of suffering or tapas.
iii) Gandhi, a young Indian lawyer working in South Africa, refuses to comply with racial segregation rules on a South African train and is forcibly ejected at Pietermaritzburg. Born in India and educated in England, Gandhi traveled to South Africa in early 1893 to practice law under a one-year contract.
iv)After over 21 years stay in South Africa, Gandhi returned to India on January 9, 1915 with his wife Kasturba