Gandhi Movie Reflection

           Gandhi is a movie about the true story of Mohandas Gandhi who was an influential Indian man who practiced nonviolence civil disobedience to gain rights and independence for India and its people.  Throughout the movie, Gandhi’s ideas of Hinduism of the acceptance of religions was shown and affected many of his actions.  Hinduism believes that there is a supreme being which they call Brahman.  Hindus, especially Gandhi, were able to accept other religions because of this belief because they believe the supreme being is present in other religion but t is just called other names and worshiped differently.  In the movie Gandhi tells one of the protestors of the Hindu-Muslim conflict that “I am a Muslim and a Hindu and a Christian and a Jew and so are all of you” which shows how he has accepted the other religions as his own because of his belief that they are able to be apart of his faith because of this Hinduism idea.  Another way Gandhi was able to show this idea was through his extreme opposition to the dividing of India by fasting until the fighting stopped between the Muslim and Hindus.  He believed that Muslim and Hinduism should be able to accept each other and be able to practice their religions at peace because Gandhi was able to accept them both into his faith. 

                Not only have many of Gandhi’s quotes have given new perspectives and insight into many people on ways they should live their lives, but they also shows ways in which Gandhi lived out his life and his faith.  One of these quotes are “an eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind”.   This quote shows Gandi’s idea for nonviolence which is a reflection of Gandhi’s faith.  Gandhi was able to lead a whole revolution against the British rule and win without using an act of violence towards them.  He believed that by fighting would only lead the British to get mad and fight back which would eventually lead to a war which is the equivalence of making the world blind because it does no good when people are dying.  Instead of fighting Gandhi used methods of fasting to oppose violence that was occurring.  This shows the selflessness views of Hinduism that Gandhi chose to carry out as a result of his faith.