Gandhi & Applied Spirituality

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Foreword: His Holiness The Dalai Lama

Frontispiece: Mr. Barack Obama, President of The United States of America

Gandhi and Applied Spirituality is more than just another book on Gandhi. It deals with the spiritual foundations of Gandhian philosophy and practices and their relevance to today’s world troubled by terror and violence. It discusses the scientific base for the so-called spiritual and dispels the false but widely prevalent notion that science and spirituality are mutually opposing endeavours. Sarvodaya, altruism, is the sine qua non of spirituality. Dr. Rao argues that science and spirituality are two parallel streams in pursuit of knowledge and that the secular and sacred are two distinct but complementary dimensions of human condition. Gandhi’s thought and action show that there is more to humans than reason and emotion and that we are spiritual beings as well. A recognition of this calls for a reconstruction in philosophy that would leave room for trans-rational forms of knowing and nonphysical causation in human relations.