Reflection #3 Ghandi's Life Portrayed in the Movie

Ghandi

    Gandhi is a famous man that managed to get independence for his country, India, through non-violence. He sacrificed so much of his life for the sake of others and for the sake of what is good. Gandhi's religious faith was Hinduism. Hinduism accepts all religions as true, so you can be a Hindu and a Christian. Hindus believe there are more than one God or animism. That there is a spirit in all living things.Gandhi took the religion Hinduism and really made it alive in his work. The movie we watched showed a little bit of that. He feels that all religions should be accepted and that there should be no prejudice between them. In the movie, when the protesters are saying, though this isn't an exact quote, "Death to Jinnah!" Jinnah was one of Gandhi's closest friends, and he was the Muslim leader who later split the country to create Pakistan. Though Gandhi tried to stop it, he couldn't, and he called this a great failure in his life. Anyway, Gandhi tells the protesters that he is all religions, that he is Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Jew, and so on. Gandhi also believed that Hinduism did not allow killing, which it did not. When Hindus and Muslims were rioting against each other in the streets, Gandhi would not eat until they stopped. He ended up fasting right until the rioters vowed not to kill each other. Part of what Gandhi believed was that all religions should be accepted and that killing is wrong.

    The quote I chose for the second paragraph which I thought truly described Gandhi's faith was "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind."  Gandhi preached non violence throughout is whole life. He always felt that violence would do nothing but cause pain. Gandhi felt that by non cooperation did people notice. When he was in South Africa, burning the papers that said you were legally allowed to be there that belonged to other Indian people he kept on burning. He didn't stop, not even when he was being beaten over and over. He did not try to protect himself, nor did he stop himself. He just went on. When the people were rioting out on the streets, he felt this would only show the British the incompetence of the Indian people. Therefore he fasted himself so that people would stop. He did not harm another, just himself. When Ghandi said "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." I think he meant that people who use violence do not see all sides of the story. Do not see why somebody would do this or how could they do it. They are only blinded by their own fury and ignorance, and that true peace could not be founded on that until the people suffer enough to make them see whats wrong. When there is no violence though, one eye can see, and one eye can make all the difference to see and show what is happening. From them peace can be established at a different manner, but it is peace nonetheless.