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10. Being the Change: A Hero’s Journey and Legacy

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Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US

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Abstract

Holistic leaders lead from their authentic selves and touch the authentic selves of others. They set in motion certain key processes that continue to fructify long after they have passed on. It is their steadfastness and selflessness that bring enduring benevolence and leaves their footprints on the sand of time. Judged by his abiding influence on the future generations, Gandhi emerges as one of the most remarkable leaders of all time. Gandhi’s legendary legacy became the harbinger of freedom to many countries in Southeast Asia and the rest of the world.

We all need heroes who can awaken us to the best in people and who can inspire us to be what we know we can be. Given the current leadership crisis, there is a greater need for the role models that embody and illustrate value-based, holistic leadership. This chapter explores the hero’s journey and enduring legacy of Mahatma Gandhi, the quintessential holistic leader. His life and leadership embody the synergistic energy fashioned by the coming together of the self, spirit and service—the three foundational dimensions of holistic leadership.

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Vorheriges Kapitel Find Your Fulfillment: Winning Habits of Highly Fulfilled Leaders

Nächstes Kapitel Epilogue: From Position-Power to Self-Power—Integrating the Lessons of Holistic Leadership

As quoted in The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes, Vol. 96, p. 303. Retrieved: March 12, 2016: http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm.

Cited in Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi: The Man, His People, and Empire (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2008), xii.

See Contribution to “Gandhi: His Life and Work”, July 1944, AEA, arch. no. 28-608. Also see Yogesh Chadha, Gandhi: A Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), 1.

Martin Luther King, Jr., Stride Toward Freedom (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1958), 97.

The fourteenth Dalai Lama—Acceptance Speech. Nobelprize.org. Nobel Media AB 2014. Retrieved: March 12, 2016: http://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/peace/laureates/1989/lama-acceptance.html.

Louis Fischer, Ed., The Essential Gandhi (New York: Vintage Books, 2002), 1.

Mohandas K. Gandhi, Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth (New York: Dover Publications, 1983), viii (Emphasis added).

Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, 13.

Ibid., 2.

Ibid., 28.

Ibid., 4.

Ibid., 29.

Śrīrāmacaritamānasa, Sundarkānd, doha 40.8, author’s translation. Literally, Rāmacaritamānasa means “the lake of life and deeds of Lord Rama”.

Fischer, The Essential Gandhi, 16.

Jad Adams, Gandhi: The True Man Behind Modern India (New York: Pegasus, 2012), 33.

Fischer, The Essential Gandhi, 16.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 27.

Ibid.

Bhikhu Parekh, Gandhi (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 2.

Krishna Kripalani, Gandhi: A Life (New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 2013, reprint edition), 18.

See: Arvind Sharma, Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 54–56. Sharma devotes a whole chapter to the theme of Gandhi’s conversion experience. For its details in Gandhi’s own words, see Gandhi, Autobiography, 92–98.

Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), 41.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 97.

Ibid., 96–97.

Ibid., 113.

Cited in Fischer, The Essential Gandhi, xx.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 100.

Ibid., 100.

Ibid., 135.

Fischer, The Essential Gandhi, 38.

M. K. Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa (Ahmedabad, Gujarat: Navajivan Publishing House, 2008, reprint), 308.

M. K. Gandhi, Satyagraha in South Africa, 306.

Timothy Conway, Mahatma Gandhi, Life and Teachings. Retrieved March 11, 2016: http://www.enlightened-spirituality.org/Mahatma_Gandhi.html.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 50.

Ibid., 53.

See: Bella Jaisinghani, “Centenary celebrations to retrace Bapu’s arrival in India from SA”, Times of India, January 9, 2015, Retrieved February 16, 2016: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Centenarycelebrations-to-retrace-Bapus-arrival-in-India-from-SA/articleshow/45816953.cms.

Fischer, The Essential Gandhi, 227.

Ibid.

“Saint Gandhi”: Time Man of the Year 1930. Retrieved February 21, 2016: https://sites.google.com/site/mahatmagandhionthenet/time-manof-the-year-1030.

Hazel Whitman, “Toward an Understanding of Gandhi”, review of The Life of Mahatma Gandhi, by Louis Fischer, Commentary Magazine. Retrieved October 20, 2016: http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article/the-life-of-mahatma-gandhi-by-louis-fischer/.

Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1969), 14.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 176.

Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi: The Man, His People, and Empire (Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2008), xi.

See: G. D. Khosla, Stern Reckoning: A Survey of the Events Leading Up To and Following the Partition of India (Delhi/Bombay/Calcutta/Madras: Oxford University Press, 1989), 114–244.

Krishna Kripalani, Gandhi: A Life (New Delhi: National Book Trust, India, 2013, reprint edition), 190.

Kripalani, Gandhi: A Life, 196.

E. Stanley Jones, Gandhi: Portrayal of a Friend (Nashville: Abingdon, 1993), 11.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 189.

Lelyveld, Great Soul, 27.

Raymond B. Blakney, trans., The Way of Life Lao Tzu: A New Translation (New York: Mentor Books, 1960), 81.

Louis Fischer, ed., The Essential Gandhi (New York: Vintage Books, 2002), 30.

Pyarelal Nayyar, Mahatma Gandhi: The Last Phase (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1956), Vol. 2, p. 766.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 189.

Payne, The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, 14.

E. Stanley Jones, Gandhi: Portrayal of a Friend (Nashville: Abingdon, 1993), 8.

Opinion cited, Whitman, “Toward an Understanding of Gandhi.”

Victor Frankl, The Doctor and the Soul: From Psychotherapy to Logotherapy, Revised and Expanded (New York: Vintage, 1986, 3rd edition), 67–68.

Dean Keith Simonton, Greatness: Who Makes History and Why (New York: Guilford Press, 1994), 153.

Ibid., 153–155.

Purānas (Sanskrit: “of ancient times”) denote sacred lore of Hinduism that depict various myths about various Hindu deities. According to the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary, Purānas represent “a class of Hindu sacred writings chiefly from AD 300 to AD 750 comprising popular myths and legends and other traditional lore”. Retrieved February, 12, 2016, http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/purana.

Cited in Kripalani, Gandhi: A Life, 9.

M. K. Gandhi, Introduction, in John Strohmeier, Ed., The Bhagavad Gītā According to Gandhi (Berkeley, CA: Berkeley Hills Books, 2000), 17–18.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 77.

Satish Sharma, Gandhi’s Teachers: Rajchandra Ravjibhai Mehta (Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidyapith, 2005), 4.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 76.

Gandhi, Autobiography, 77.

Cited in Sudarshan Iyengar, Foreword in Satish Sharma, Gandhi’s Teachers: Leo Tolstoy (Ahmedabad: Gujarat Vidyapith University, 2009), vi.

Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1948), 30.

See: Arvind Sharma, Gandhi: A Spiritual Biography (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2013), 54–56.

J. M. Upadhyaya, Ed., Gandhi as a Student (New Delhi: Publications Division, 1965), 3.

Louis Fischer, The Life of Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1950), 369, 379.

Durant is reported to have said this during his visit to India.

Gandhi, Autobiography, viii. It is generally believed that the honorific title “Mahatma” was first applied to Gandhi by Tagore. “‘Great Soul in peasant’s garb’, the poet wrote,” says Louis Fischer, “and the crown sat forever on the politician-saint’s head”. Louis Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (New York: A Mentor Book, 1982), 50.

Young India, January 20, 1927, 21.

Mark Shepard, Mahatma Gandhi and His Myths (Los Angeles, CA: Shepard Publications, 2002), 6.

Yogesh Chadha, Gandhi: A Life (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1997), vii.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 176.

Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi (New York: Konecky & Konecky, 1969), 14.

Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World, 176.

Rajmohan Gandhi, Gandhi: The Man, His People, and Empire, xi.

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes, Vol. 96, p. 303. Retrieved: October 27, 2014, http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm.

Louis Fischer, Gandhi: His Life and Message for the World (New York: A Mentor Book, 1982), 143.

E. Stanley Jones, Gandhi: Portrayal of a Friend (Nashville: Abingdon, 1993), 5.

Harijan, October 3, 1936, as quoted in R. K. Prabhu and U. R. Rao, Eds., The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1996), 24.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, “A Psalm of Life,” The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kindle Edition, Amazon Digital Services. Retrieved February 11, 2016: http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Poems-Henry-Wadsworth-Longfellow-ebook/dp/B0084761KO/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1410108836&sr=1-1&keywords=Poems+Of+Henry+Wadsworth+Longfellow.

Cited in D. G. Tendulkar, Mahatma: Life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (New Delhi: The Publications Division, Government of India, 1961), Vol. 1, p. 8. E-book edition. Retrieved January 10, 2016: http://www.mkgandhi.org/imp_bks_mahatma.html.

Ibid.

Cited in Christina Hoff Sommers, “Teaching the Virtues: A Blueprint for Moral Education”, Chicago Tribune Magazine, September 12, 1993, 16.

James O’Toole, “Notes Toward a Definition of Values-Based Leadership”, The Journal of Values-Based Leadership, 1(1), Article 10 (2008): 4.

Ibid., 6–7.

See: Rob Asghar, “The ‘Dean’ of Leadership Gurus Passes At 89,” Forbes (August 1, 2014), accessed February 10, 2016, http://www.forbes.com/sites/robasghar/2014/08/01/the-dean-of-leadership-gurus-passesat-89/.

Warren Bennis, On Becoming a Leader (New York: Basic Books, 2009, Fourth Edition), xxxvii.

Young India (August 11, 1920, as quoted in Joan V. Bondurant, Conquest of Violence: The Gandhian Philosophy of Conflict (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1958/1988), 28.

Cited in Raghavan Iyer, The Essential Writings of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Oxford University Press/Oxford India Paperbacks, 2012), 236.

Young India (December 31, 1931), 427, as quoted in Nirmal Kumar Bose, Selections from Gandhi: Encyclopedia of Gandhi’s Thoughts (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 1950), 7.

“Guru: Warren Bennis”, The Economist, July 25, 2008, Online extra. Retrieved: January 30, 2016, http://www.economist.com/node/11773801.

John B. Severance, Gandhi: Great Soul (New York: Clarion Books, 1997, Reprint edition), 100.

Quoted in Eknath Easwaran, The Compassionate Universe: The Power of the Individual to Heal the Environment (California: Nilgiri Press, 1989), 20.

100

The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (Electronic Book), New Delhi, Publications Division Government of India, 1999, 98 volumes, Vol. 48, p. 63. Emphasis added. Retrieved January 20, 2016: http://www.gandhiserve.org/e/cwmg/cwmg.htm.

101

Cited in Narayan Desai, My Gandhi (Ahmedabad: Navajivan Publishing House, 2011), 189.

102

Robert Payne, The Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhi, 16.

103

M. K. Gandhi, Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi (New Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information & Broadcasting, Government of India, 1994), Vol. 13, 241.

104

As cited in Jacqueline H. Bridgeman, Ed., Aldous Huxley: Huxley and God, Essays (New York: HarperSanFrancisco, 1992), 4.

Titel: Being the Change: A Hero’s Journey and Legacy
verfasst von: Satinder Dhiman
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Buch: Holistic Leadership
Print ISBN: 978-1-137-55570-0

Electronic ISBN: 978-1-137-55571-7

Copyright-Jahr: 2017
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55571-7_10

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