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1. ETHICS OF GANDHIJI

2. Mahatma Gandhi
• Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was an Indian lawyer, anti-
colonial nationalist, and political ethicist who employed
nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for
India's independence from British rule and it turn
inspired movements for civil rights and freedom across the
world.​
• Mahatma Gandhi is widely recognized as one of the twentieth
century's greatest political and spiritual leaders.
• Honored in India as the father of nation, he pioneered and
practiced the principle of Satyagraha resistance to tyranny
through mass nonviolent civil disobedience.​
• There was Gandhi's famous line:​
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow ;
learn as if you were to live forever"​
• Mahatma Gandhi is a great ethical values philosopher. We will
see some ethics suggested by them.​

3. Introduction of Gandhian Ethics
• Ethical teachings are the central philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi.
• Mahatma Gandhi is a universally accepted as an exemplary model of ethical
and moral life, with a rare blending of personal and public life, the principles
and practices, the immediate and the eternal. He considered life to be an
integrated whole, growing from truth to truth every day in moral and spiritual
status. He believed in a single standard of conduct founded on dharma of truth
and nonviolence.
• He successfully led nonviolent struggles against racial discrimination, colonial
rule, economic and social exploitation and moral degradation. So long as these
manifestations of violence remain, Gandhi will remain relevant. Gandhi was a
good man in a world where few resist the corroding influence of power, wealth
and vanity.
• His power arose through the people whom he gave a sense of self-respect,
purpose and moral strength.

4. • Gandhi in his time wielded more power over the minds of people than any
other individual but it was not the power of weapons, or terror or violence; it
was the power of his convictions, his pursuit of truth and nonviolence,
fearlessness, love and justice, working through incessant service and sacrifice
for fellow human beings. His power came from empowering the weak, to lead
the masses in the fight against injustice, exploitation, violence and
discrimination.
• Satyagraha elevated the struggle for survival to the highest moral-spiritual
levels and ordinary, emaciated people turned heroes.
"Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not
much to recommended it . Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts"
-Mahatma Gandhi

5. Ethics of Gandhiji
We listed out some of major ethics of Mahatma Gandhi
• Non-Violence
• Truth
• Non-Possessiveness
• Non-stealing
• Character
• Life Moral Teachings

6. Non-Violence
• Mahatma Gandhi says that Non-violence means to keep oneself completely
away from such action which may hurt others physically or mentally.
• Violence is a behavior involving physical force intending to hurting, damaging
or killing.
• Nonviolence is to bear distresses by oneself to make others happy. Non-
violence is the most effective means to fight against discrimination and
falsehood. Nonviolence is not the outward strength. Non-violence is the
internal power. Nonviolence promotes vegetarianism and reverence for all life.
• Non-violence prevents murder, war, capital punishment in the world. Non-
violence avoids abortion, mercy killing, suicide and infanticide in human
society. Non-violence creates freedom from physical and psychological
violence, exploitation, injustice, inequality and discrimination. Non-violence
develops love, co-operation, forgiving, help, and kindness in humanity. Non-
violence is fundamental to the discovery of truth.

7. • Mahatma Gandhi tells that the non-violence of my
conception is a more active and more real fighting
against wickedness than retaliation whose very
nature is to increase wickedness. Non-violence is
one of the major moral qualities of human being.
Non-violence is a power force than violence
because it is linked with the bravery of mind.
• Non-violence is a powerful weapon of the strong.
Mahatma Gandhi used non-violence not only for
the purification of his soul, but to purify the conduct
of the human society. He practiced non-violence in
mass action and devised means to fight out
injustice.

8. Truth
• Truth is the law of our being. Truth is God
• Truth and non-violence are as old as the hills. Truth is a virtue. Truth is in fact
self-revealing, but that we have become blind on account of ignorance.
• Truth is God and non-violence is God’s love. Truth is the ultimate goal of
human life and non-violence is the means to achieve ultimate goal. Without
violence it is not possible to seek and find truth. Non-violence and truth are so
intertwined that it is practically impossible to disintegrate and separate them.
They are like the two sides of the same coin. Mahatma Gandhi expresses that
the first step in non-violence is that we cultivate in our daily life, as between
ourselves, truthfulness, humility, tolerance, loving, and kindness.
• Mahatma Gandhi explicitly mentions the six deadly enemies which cause
prejudice, malice and ill-will to arise, on account of which the person is unable
to see or feel the truth.
• These deadly enemies are desire, anger, greed, attachment, pride, and
jealousy.

9. Truth is God
• Gandhiji says that god is love and truth. God is ethics
and morality; God is fearlessness.
• Gandhiji believed that nothing is or exists in reality
except
Truth. That is why Truth is perhaps the most important
name of God.
• Therefore, in order to practice truth one must constantly
endeavor to oneself from these evils, one must
cultivate moral Purity and courage and must not allow
these enemies to cloud His vision.

10. Non-Possessiveness
• Non-possessiveness refers to renunciation of possessions by thought, words
and deeds. One’s possession should be restricted to the level of contentment.
The tendency of limitless possession is a cause of evil. Thus, one must develop
a feeling of contentment with what one has. However, he also agrees that an
absolute non-possession is impossible. Thus, the principle of non-possession
should be followed to the best of our capability.
• The principle of non-possession has been borrowed from Jainism. This
principle is also the source of the idea of- ‘live and let live’. Also, an urge to
possess, more and more, is the source of different vices, like- violence, greed,
hatred, stealing, and exploitation. Thus, by adhering to the principle of non-
possession, we actually lay the foundation of many moral values in our
character. Only a person, endowed with this principle, can carry out satyagraha
and sacrifice.
• All this leads to a simplification of one’s life. Such a person has the least to
worry about. Gandhian idea of non-possession is seen as a major contribution
to the debates of contemporary economic thought. In the present society,
man’s unlimited desire is the cause of all troubles. For Gandhi, ethics cannot
be separated from economics. Economics, without an ethical base, becomes
an instrument of exploitation.

11. Non-Stealing
• Another element of Truthfulness is Non-Stealing. It implies not to take by
thought, action and word anything to which one is not entitled. Thus, non-
stealing, for Gandhi, is a broad concept. Gandhi’s ideas, in this regard, are
influenced by Jainism. Stealing is not compatible with the virtue of love.
• Non-stealing is not taken by thought, word and action anything to which one
is not entitled
• Non-stealing is a good moral quality.

12. Character
• Gandhi idealizes a moral and ethical character. Character comes from within.
character is the key to success.
• One’s character must be clear, truthful and self-controlled. Gandhi believed
that the true test of a civilization and culture is the degree to which these are
able to inculcate moral-ethical values in the character of an individual.
• It is a moral character that guides the human beings towards progress. A weak
character breaks in the wake of adverse situations; but a strong and stable
character faces every adversity with courage. Also, a good character radiates
itself to the society, bringing goodness all around. Thus, a noble character
alone can make an impact on the masses.

13. • One’s language reflects one’s character, as it is more reflected in one’s
thought that one’s deeds. Literary training fails to bring about a good
impact, unless it is supplemented with a good character. Character building
is an independent process from literary training.
• Character must be above suspicion and truthful and self control.
“If Wealth is lost, nothing is lost; If Health is lost, something is lost; but If
Character is lost, everything is lost”.
-Mahatma Gandhi

14. Life Moral Teachings
• Truth is the highest of all values. It can only be realized through a moral path.
• A lack of moral base pushes an individual towards the wrong path, and
subsequently, brings suffering and degradation.
• Gandhi believed in the concept of Karma. Thus, we cannot demand something
from the society, unless we contribute some good to it. The moral course of
actions are not limited to the sages and leaders. But it is to be followed by
every individual. Gandhi attacked the groups that preach a moral propaganda
without applying it to themselves.
• Gandhi believed in the performance of one’s moral duties to the society. These
duties are- satya, ahimsa, brahmacharya, asteya (non-stealing)
and aparigraha (non-possession).
• Religion for Gandhi, is the trust in the moral organization of the universe.
While different religion might choose different roads for their followers, the
end of every religion is the same. The same principles of morality form the
foundation of different religions.

15. Major Principles Of Gandhian
Ethics
• Ends and Means
• Satyagraha
• Trusteeship
• Concept of seven sins
• Sarvodaya and Swaraj
• Dignity of Labor

16. • Ends and Means
Gandhi always emphasised on pure means and ends. Improper means cannot be
adopted to achieve proper ends. As a wrong path cannot take you to right
destination.
• Satyagraha
Gandhi ji called his overall method of nonviolent action Satyagraha. It means the
exercise of the purest soul-force against all injustice, oppression and exploitation.
It is a method of securing rights by personal suffering and not inflicting injury on
others.
The origin of Satyagraha can be found in the Upanishads, and in the teachings of
Buddha, Mahavira and a number of other other greats including Tolstoy and Ruskin.
• Trusteeship
Healthy people should acts Trustees of trust that looked after the welfare of the
people.

17. Concept of seven
sins
Gandhi warned people of seven sins
which has potential to destroy the life.
• Wealth Without Work
• Pleasure Without Conscience
• Knowledge without Character
• Commerce Without Morality
• Science Without Humanity
• Religion Without Sacrifice
• Politics Without Principle

18. • Sarvodaya
Sarvodaya is a term meaning ‘Universal Uplift’ or ‘Progress of All’. The term was
first coined by Gandhi ji as the title of his translation of John Ruskin’s tract on
political economy, “Unto This Last”.
• Swaraj
Although the word swaraj means self-rule, Gandhi ji gave it the content of an
integral revolution that encompasses all spheres of life.
For Gandhi ji, swaraj of people meant the sum total of the swaraj (self-rule) of
individuals and so he clarified that for him swaraj meant freedom for the
meanest of his countrymen. And in its fullest sense, swaraj is much more than
freedom from all restraints, it is self-rule, self-restraint and could be equated
with moksha or salvation.
Dignity of Labor
Gandhi tried to established equality among all by making bread labor
compulsory to all.