Research Paper on:
Mohandas K. Ghandi's Religious Philosophy

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Julie A. Rodgers - November 2001 -- properly! Mine is not a religion of the prison house. It  has room for the least among Gods creations. But it is a proof against insolence, pride of race, religion and colour. - Gandhi Introduction "Born in an illustrious  and distinguished family, Gandhiji" was to become one of the worlds most powerful religious and spiritual and political figures (Anonymous Beginnings in South Africa Back in India, 2001; Lifestory.htm). As  a young man he was rebellious, eating meat, cheating on tests, and essentially involving himself in lustful endeavors. In fact, he never quite forgave himself for missing his fathers funeral  as he blamed it on his young lust for his wife, Kasturba, whom he married at the age of 13 (Anonymous Beginnings in South Africa Back in India, 2001).  He was trained in law and at the same time was a man who studied all religions and forms of thought. Through such studies he developed an almost universal view  of religion. He was also the one to truly incorporate the idea of nonviolence in an approach to injustice: "The message was truth and freedom through non-violence. Non violence is  the most beautiful gift mankind has received since the existing of civilized evolution" (Anonymous Beginnings in South Africa Back in India, 2001; Lifestory.htm). He was not necessarily a man  who followed one religion specifically, but rather followed a religious philosophy or concept known as Sanatan Dharma, the universal religion. He worked for nonviolence, acceptance of all people, prayer as  a tool of religion and personal enlightenment, and combined them all in an attempt to bring these religious philosophies to the political system of the world. In the following paper