Ramanama

Ramanama

RAMANAMA

Written by :
M. K. Gandhi

Table of Contents

  1. A Good Seed Sown
  2. The Staff of Life
  3. Our Only Help
  4. Ramanama and National Service
  5. Seek His Help
  6. Beauty of Repetition
  7. Spiritual Practices
  8. A Sure Aid
  9. Rediculing Ramanama
  10. Ramanama and Charms
  11. My Rama
  12. Who is Rama?
  13. Rama - The Son of Dasharath
  14. Who and Where is God?
  15. Ramanama and Nature Cure
  16. Nature Cure Treatment
  17. Ramanama - The Infallible Remedy
  18. Ramanama in Nature Cure
  19. Sovereign Remedy
  20. Ayurveda and Nature Cure
  21. At Uruli Kanchan
  22. Nature Cure in Kanchangaon
  23. Nature Cure For The Poor
  24. Nature Cure and Modern Treatment
  25. Learning From Europe
  26. Laws of Nature
  27. Faith Cure v. Ramanama
  28. Confusion About Ramanama
  29. A Hard Case
  30. Towards Realization
  31. From After-Prayer Discourse
  32. A Thought For The Day
  33. Two Letters
  34. Question Box
  35. Addendum
  36. Non-English Words with Meanings

About This Book

Written by :M. K. Gandhi
First Edition : 5,000 copies, June 1949
Total : 54,000 copies
I.S.B.N :81-7229-095-0
Printed and Published by : Jitendra T. Desai,
Navajivan Mudranalaya,
Ahmedabad - 380 014,
India.
© Navajivan Trust, 1949

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Chapter-7 : Spiritual Practices

To a question by a Missionary friend whether he followed any spiritual practices, Gandhiji said:
"I am a stranger to yogic practices. The practice I follow is a practice I learnt in my childhood from my nurse. I was afraid of ghosts. She used to say to me: 'There are no ghosts, but if you are afraid, repeat Ramanama.' What I learnt in my childhood has become a huge thing in my mental firmament. It is a sun that has brightened my darkest hour. A Christian may find the same solace from the repetition of the name of Jesus, and a Muslim from the name of Allah.1 All these things have the same implications and they produce identical results under identical circums­tances. Only the repetition must not be a lip expression, but part of your very being."

Hairijan, 5-12-1936

1. The Allah of Islam is the same as the God of Christians and Ishwara of Hindus. Even as there are numerous names of God in Hinduism, there are many names of God in Islam. The names do not indicate individuality but attributes; and little man has tried in his humble way to describe mighty God by giving Him attributes, though He is above all attributes, Indescribable, Immeasurable.

- Harijan, 12-8-1938