Ghandi was an Indian man who truly followed all the teachings of Hinduism. He was a man who fought for the independence of India and he tried to gain this in a completely nonviolent way and he sacrificed so much of his own health by fasting and he also sacrificed all of his belongings and clothing to show that he could just rely on Indian clothing and still survive. Ghandi shows that non-violence is important in Hinduism when he is fasting during the riots and he would not stop until all the fighting had stopped. Surprisingly the riots had stopped.In the movie when Ghandi is at his ashram and there are protesters shouting 'death to Jinnah' he tells them that he is not only Hindu but Christian, Jewish and Muslim as well. This was a practice of Hinduism that said to accept all other religions.
A quote that Ghandi made that i noticed showed very well how Ghandi lived out his faith is 'A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks; he becomes". I believe that this quote tells us perfectly why Ghandi did what he did. Ghandi believed and thought that by his fasting, by his non-violence and by his speeches that he could become the person to free India from the rule of the British and to unite both Hindus and Muslims. This was displayed throughout the whole movie because Ghandi never lost faith in himself or anybody else but just kept on believing and eventually he became the 'product of his thoughts'
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