Jesus and Gandhi By Karansank
Source: Various Sources In view of the Merry Christmas, Gandhi’s thoughts on Jesus would be relevant. Lord Irwin asked Gandhi what he thought would solve the problems between Great Britain and India. Gandhi picked up a Bible and opened it to the fifth chapter of Matthew and said: "When your country and mine shall get together on the teachings laid down by Christ in this Sermon on the Mount , we shall have solved the problems not only of our countries but those of the whole world." “Enter through the narrow gate,” Jesus says at the end of the Sermon on the Mount. “For the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.” (Mt. 7:13-14). Gandhi summed it up this way: “There is no hope for the aching world except through the narrow and straight path of nonviolence.” “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter...