Mahatma Gandhi's Mantric Collage (Cultivating Inner Peace) - a podcast by podcasts@pariyatti.org

Chapter 12 - Mahatma Gandhi's Mantric Collage
fromCultivating Inner Peaceby Paul R. Fleischman, M.D.

India's great political and religious leader, Mahatma Gandhi, intended his monumental public life to be merely an extension of his inner cultivation of peace. Foremost among Gandhi’s peaceful qualities were his reverence for world spiritual literature, his awareness that words transmit feelings as well as ideas, his steady immersion in peaceful language, and his use of linguistic vibrations to transform his followers.

On your own path, peace means listening and speaking as if your words and actions were playing one instrument in the orchestra of the universe. What you say, read, listen to, will influence how your molecules and nervous system dance, and what messages you will conduct and broadcast. Whitman’s poetry may spring you free of foreshortened time; and Gandhi’sdhunsmight, if you could reconstruct them, prepare you for noble social action. The words that you absorb will be important contributors to the peace that you will transmit, intentionally or not.

Dr. Paul Fleischman
Massachusetts, USA
2020
22 minutes

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