5. Easwaran opens the chapter entitled Mother and Child by asking the question of how such a personal evolution could have come about, and how the evolution of a single person could effect what?

Short Essay Questions

1. How does Easwaran closes this chapter?

2. On what was Gandhi focused? What do the people who gravitated to Gandhi reveal about him?

3. What is meant by detachment?

4. How do most people see life?

5. How does Gandhi respond when he is asked the secret of life?

6. How does detachment help Gandhi?

7. What did Gandhi often do in the evening?

8. What would happen that reveals how Gandhi was revered?

9. What does a union with the Lord of Love do?

10. How is a mantra important?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

Gandhi established ashrams.

Part 1) What is an ashram? Why does he establish them?

Part 2) How does he benefit from them? How do others benefit from them?

Part 3) How could an ashram be created in our own culture today? How would it benefit our society?

Essay Topic 2

A train trip departing from Maritzburg, South Africa was transformative for Gandhi.

Part 1) How was it transformative? Why was he transformed in this way?

Part 2) When did he act upon this transformation? Why did he act upon it at this point?

Part 3) How might you have reacted to this experience? Why?

Essay Topic 3

The Salt Satyagraha of 1930 was significant.

Part 1) What was this? Why is it significant?

Part 2) Why does this take place? Do you believe this satyagraha was necessary? Why or why not? How effective was it? Why?

Part 3) to what other satyagrahas does this lead? How does it affect the lives of those in India, as well as around the world?

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