The cause of Gandhi's death

Biography of Mohandas K. Gandhi Mohandas.K.Gandhi, to many people, was the most influential figure of

the century. His teachings brought so much happiness, that people

began to call him "Bapu", meaning father. He was born into a

moderately wealthy family, 1869, in which his father and forefathers

worked as lawyers. His father "Had no knowledge save that acquired

from his job" says Mahatma himself. Since he was a child born in

Gujrat where he studied the religion of "Jainism", he believed that

all of the religions e.g. Christianity, Judaism, Hinduism and Buddhism

are connected in some way and they all also have ethics of

non-violence and peace. He made friendly bonds with many people of

different cultures, although these acquaintances were mostly scowled

at by the people of their own religion. A very good example is the

priest that supported Gandhi, who had his local Christian community

walk out on his teachings on a Sunday mass, while he was explaining

the reasons in believing in Gandhi's ideas and beliefs.

One of the very great features of Mohandas was that he never used

violence as a method of protest. He urged all of the inhabitants of

India, followers and non-followers, to apply his rules of Satyagraha

and Ahimsa. These rules were only carried out strictly by a special

priest or a guru, but Mahatma, being neither, still followed these

principles religiously.

Another of Gandhi's qualities was his idea of everybody being treated

as equals. The "harijans", which were often lepers and other humans

with limb deficiency, were called the "children of God" by Mohandas.

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actions. Even though the Indian government refused to give the

Pakistani government more assets, he managed somehow to maintain

peace. The British made no attempt to fix this, even though over a

million Indians were used to the World War.

Gandhi often went on hunger strikes if his people failed to obey his

strict rules of non-violence. Many Hindu's mourned for him, and

stopped their violent acts at once. This was the cause of his death,

because as long as Mohandas was around Pakistan and India were not

able to go to war with each other. Mohandas died by a gun shot in his

lung, he was killed by a Hindu extremist but he, and his teachings,

are very much remembered to this present day. personally one of my

favourite quote's of Gandhi was, "An eye for an eye? It will only make

the whole world go blind.."