Chapter Notes

1

`Abdu'l-Bahá, quoted in Bahá'í World Faith: Selected Writings of Bahá'u'lláh and `Abdu'l-Bahá (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1971), 411-412.

2

The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings. Ed. Homer A. Jack (New York: Grove Press, 1994), 304

3

The Light of Divine Guidance: The Messages from the Guardian of the Bahá'í Faith to the Bahá'ís of Germany and Austria (Hofheim-Langenhain: Bahá'í-Verlag, 1982), 71

4

The Gandhi Reader: A Sourcebook of His Life and Writings, 306

5

The Gospel of Selfless Action or The Gita According to Gandhi. Ed. Mahadev Desai (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1984), 262.

6

Kitáb-i-Íqán (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1989), 255.

7

Kitáb-i-Íqán, 33-43.

8

The Gospel of Selfless Action or The Gita According to Gandhi, 264.

9

The Gospel of Selfless Action or The Gita According to Gandhi, 127-128.

10

Kitáb-i-Íqán, 49-158.

11

The Upanishads contain the highest form of philosophical introspection in Hinduism and and are seen as perennial sources of spiritual knowledge. The Upanishads more clearly set forth the prime Vedic doctrines like Self-realization, yoga and meditation, karma and reincarnation, which were hidden or kept veiled under the symbols of the older religion. The older Upanishads are usually affixed to a particular Veda, but the more recent ones are not. It is believed by many people that the Upanishads became prevalent some centuries before the time of Krishna and Buddha. The Kaushitaki is an early Upanishad that is considered to be among the more important.

12

Bahá'u'lláh, quoted in J. E. Esslemont, Bahá'u'lláh and the New Era, 5th rev. ed. (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, 1987), 102.

13

M. K. Gandhi, Young India, 24 November 1927.

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