Open AccessPHILOSOPHY OF GANDHI: VIEWS ON RELIGION AND GOD
Author(s) -
Yugendar Nathi
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
scholarly research journal for humanity science and english language
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2349-9664
pISSN - 2348-3083
DOI - 10.21922/srjhsel.v9i47.7689
Subject(s) - conviction , harmony (color) , philosophy , religious philosophy , nothing , metaphysics , belief in god , ideal (ethics) , epistemology , philosophy of religion , sociology , law , political science , western philosophy , art , visual arts
Religion, according to Gandhi, is more or less, a way of life, and as such is the personal concern of the individual who has to choose his way of life. Gandhi believes that different religions are the different ways of apprehending the Truth. The basic conviction of Gandhi is that there is one reality – that of God, which is nothing else but Truth. His religious ideas are also derived from that conviction. If Truth is God, sincere pursuit of Truth is religion. Religion is ordinarily defined as devotion to some higher power or principle, Gandhi is not against such a description of religion, he only qualifies it further by saying that higher principle being truth, devotion to Truth (or God) is religion. Gandhi believes that true religion has to be practical. Therefore, he says that religion should pervade every aspect of our life. Religion is the belief that there is an ordered moral government of the universe, and this belief must have practical bearings for all aspects of life. According to Gandhi there is no difference between religious ideal and metaphysical or moral ideal, the religious way is also the way of truth – Sathyagraha. This paper discuss about Gandhi’s ideas of God, religion, the way of religion and the religious harmony in the world.