Gandhi as a Political Strategist

Abstract

However Gandhi did not begin as a political strategist but rather as one who tried to manifest the workings of spiritual laws. “I do not believe” Gandhi wrote “that the spiritual law works on a field of its own. On the contrary, it expresses itself only through the ordinary activities of life. It thus affects the economic, the social and the political fields.” The workings of spiritual laws have been taught down the ages by masters who experimented with their lives: the Buddha, the Christ, the Jain saints, the unknown author of the Gita — all of whom influenced Gandhi’s understanding. However the specific application of a spiritual law can only be known through meditation, to listening to the inner voice.