SARVODAYA
Every once in a while I post this- as a reminder to me, what this is all about:
SARVODAYA is a word Gandhi created and the inspiration comes from John Ruskin's tract on poitical-economy titled Unto This Last.
Sarvodaya means:
1. That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all.
2. That a lawyer's work has the same value as the barber's inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work.
3. That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living.
So ultimately, I long for the connection of Sarovdaya -that we really are all equal-not just that we are equal, but that the good of me resides in the health and goodness of you- we are interdependent in the best sense- with Satyagraha- nonviolent resistence.
Satyagraha : Gandhi's definition of Satyagraha relied on three basic tenets: satya or truth, implying openness, honesty, and fairness; ahimsa, meaning physical and mental non-violence; and tapasya, literally penance, in this context self-sacrifice.
SARVODAYA is a word Gandhi created and the inspiration comes from John Ruskin's tract on poitical-economy titled Unto This Last.
Sarvodaya means:
1. That the good of the individual is contained in the good of all.
2. That a lawyer's work has the same value as the barber's inasmuch as all have the same right of earning their livelihood from their work.
3. That a life of labour, i.e., the life of the tiller of the soil and the handicraftsman is the life worth living.
So ultimately, I long for the connection of Sarovdaya -that we really are all equal-not just that we are equal, but that the good of me resides in the health and goodness of you- we are interdependent in the best sense- with Satyagraha- nonviolent resistence.
Satyagraha : Gandhi's definition of Satyagraha relied on three basic tenets: satya or truth, implying openness, honesty, and fairness; ahimsa, meaning physical and mental non-violence; and tapasya, literally penance, in this context self-sacrifice.