Mahatma Gandhi`s Self-Sufficiency Concept
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root, forward to nature, forward to life. Gandhi’s idea is not an out dated
old clickish idea. It is the idea which is for the future world, not only for the
past world or epoch making idea in history, mind well, not only Gandhi’s
ideas, but ideas of Buddha, ideas of Marx, ideas of Sankracharya, and all the
wise persons. All of them have one thing in common. They bring to the
humanity, the fruit of the past, but at the same time they bring to the
humanity the seeds for the future. If you just dwell on the fruit of the past,
you can not exist any longer, you have to sow the seed of the future, so
Gandhi’s ideas were not only connected with the past but also were
connected with the future. And the future is connected in what exists in the
present and the present is what we see today, this idea of globalization, for
example: Globalization according to Gandhian philosophy should mean the
world or the whole planet as a family. Globalization today has come to
mean the world as a market. Instead of the market, Gandhi wanted to turn
the world into a family. In the market, when you go to a customer or the
customer comes to you, you begin by suspecting each other, by negotiating,
try to even sometimes cheat one another. In the family you build on the
trust of the each other, the whole idea of Gandhi’s philosophy is based on
the trust of one another. Because he thought we all are parts of one
another. We are not separate from each other but we all are parts of each
other. Globalization has created centralization. And, centralization has come
to mean as the so- called development goes further and further higher up;
the rich becomes the richer, and the poor becomes the poorer. In this
globalized world, millions and millions of people half starving; you have had
suicides in your country, we have had suicides in our country. It began with
Latha Reddyji’s State (Andhra Pradesh); it just came cover almost all states
of India, the farmers are not only fasting, they are committing suicide. Why?
That is because of the disparity between different classes. That is because
of the debt on which the society tries to build its economy. And Gandhi’s