Ghandi was first and foremost, in his religious views, open and embracing of all creeds. He was personally a Hindu, but he believed in the ideas of Jesus, Buddha and respected all religions as having a degree of the universal truths common to humanity.
In his actions, which changed the world, his basic belief was non-violence. This was the platform Ghandi used in all his social and political movements. Absolute non-violence. Jesus, of course, asserted this tenant, but remarkably few Christians today follow that teaching.
Even more so than non-violence, Ghandi could be seen to follow the philosophy of Henry David Thoreau, in his essay, "Civil Disobedience." Thoreau's essay of non-acceptance of the law of the land in which one resides struck a central core within Ghandi, and he used the Thoreau's societal lesson as a template for all the sweeping changes he carried out, throughout India and the world.
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