THE WAYS TO FOLLOW GANDHI

Follow, [ Ahimsa ] Nonviolence 

Ahimsa is not merely a negative state of harmlessness , but it is positive state of love , of doing good even to the evil-doer. ''

Ahimsa is a weapon of matchless potency. It is the summum bonum of life. It is an attribute of the brave. It does not come within the reach of coward. 
He who perishes sword in hand is no doubt brave; but he who faces death without raising his little finger and without flinching, is braver.  
 Follow [ Satya ] Truth
Truth has no form. Therefore everyone one will form such an idea or image of Truth as appeals to him, and there will be as many images of Truth as there are men. These will be true as long as they last.
Truth should be Truth in thought, Truth in speech, and Truth in action. To the man who has realised this Truth in its fulness , nothing else remains to be known, because all knowledge is necessarily included in it. What is not included in it, is not truth and so not true knowledge.   
Follow [ Asteya ] Non-stealing
Non-stealing does not mean merely not to steal. To keep or take anything  which one does not earn is also stealing. And of course, stealing is fraught with violence.- We are not always aware of our real needs, and most of us improperly multiply our wants and thus , unconsciously, make thieves of ourselves. One who follows the observance of Non-stealing will bring about a progressive reduction of his own wants. Much of the distressing poverty in this world has risen out of the breaches of the principle of Non-stealing.-  
Follow [ Brahmacharya ] Self Discipline
Brahamchraya means control of all the organs of sense. He who attempts to control only one organ, and allows all the others free play is bound to find his effort futile . To hear suggestive stories with the ears, to see suggestive sights with the eyes, to taste stimulating food with the tongue, to touch exciting things with the hands, and at the same time to expect to control the only remaining organ, is like putting one's hands in the fire and expecting to escape being hurt.  
Follow Aparigraha (Non-possession)Non possession means that we should not hoard anything that we do not need today.
The less you possess, the less you want , the better you are. And better for what ? Not for your enjoyment of this life but for enjoyment of personal service to your fellow beings ; service to which you dedicate yourself ,body, soul and mind. - When you dispossess yourself of everything you have, you really possess all the treasures of the world. In other words , you really get all that is in reality necessary for you., everything . If the food is necessary, food will come to you.-  Follow [Sharirshrama ] Bread Labour Earn thy bread by the sweat of the brow- says Bible . Bread labour means that everyone is expected to perform sufficient body-labour in order to entitle him to his living. It is not ,therefore, necessary to earn one's living by bread labour ,taking living' in its broader sense. But everyone must perform some useful body-labour.
The economics of Bread labour are the living way of life . It means that every man has to labour with his body for his food and clothing. If I can convince the people of the value and necessity of bread-labour, there never will be any want of bread and cloth. - The idea is that every healthy individual must labour enough for his food and his intellectual faculties must be exercised not in order to obtain a living or amass a fortune, but only in the service of mankind. If this principle is observed everywhere, all men would be equal, none would starve and world would be saved from a sin.-  
Follow [Aswada] Control of the PalateUnless we are satisfied with foods that are necessary for the proper maintenance of our physical health, and unless we are prepare to rid ourselves of stimulating heating and exciting condiments that we mixed with food. We will certainly not be able to control the over-abundant, unnecessary, and exciting stimulation that we may have. If we do not do that, the result naturally is that we abuse ourselves, and become less than animals and brutes. - The diet should be healthy and well-balanced. The body was never meant to be treated as a refuse-bin. Food is meant to sustain the body.  
Follow [Sarvatra Bhayavarjana] FearlessnessFearlessness should connote absence of all kinds of fear - fear of death, fear of bodily injury, fear of hunger, fear of insults, fear of public disapprobation, fear of ghosts and evil spirits, fear of anyone's anger. Freedom from all these and other such fears constitute fearlessness. Fearlessness does not mean arrogance and aggressiveness. That in itself is a sign of fear. Fearlessness presupposes calmness and peace of mind. For that it is necessary to have a living faith in God.
Follow [ Sarva Dharma Samantva] Equality of the religionsReligions have been interwoven . One sees a special quality in every one of them . But no one religion is higher than another. All are complimentary to one another .Since this is my belief, the speciality of any one religion cannot run counter to another, cannot be at variance with universally accepted principles. For I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world. I believe that they are all God-given, and I believe that they were necessary for the people to whom these religions were revealed. And I believe that, if only we could all of us read the scriptures of the different faiths from the standpoint of the followers of those faiths we should find that they were at bottom all one and were all helpful to one another.Just as men have different names and faces, these religions also are different. But just as men are all human in spite of their different names and forms, just as leaves of a tree though different as leaves are the same as the leaves of the same tree , all religions though different are the same. We must treat all religions as equals.  
Follow [ Swadeshi ] Use Locally Made GoodsSwadeshi is that sprit in us which requires us to serve our immediate neighbours before others , and to use things produced in our neighbourhood in preference to those more remote. So doing, we cannot serve humanity to the best of our capacity, we cannot serve humanity by neglecting our neigbours.
It is sinful to buy and use articles made by sweated labour. It is sinful to eat American wheat &and let my neighbour, the grain dealer starve for want of custom. Similarly, it is sinful for to wear the latest finery of Regent Street when I know that if I had but worn the things woven by the neighbouring spinners and weavers, that would have clothed me, and fed and clothed them.
My definition of Swadeshi is well known . I must not serve my distant neighbour at the expense of the nearest. It is never vindictive or punitive. It is in no sense narrow , for I buy from every part of the world what is needed for my growth. I refuse to buy from anybody anything, however nice or beautiful, if it interferes with my growth or  injures those whom Nature has made my first care. Swadeshi is that spirit in us which restricts us to the use and service of our immediate surroundings to the exclusion of the more remote& I should use only things that are produced by my immediate neighbours and serve those industries by making them efficient and complete where they might be found wanting. It is suggested that such Swadeshi , if reduced  to practice, will lead to the millennium.   
Follow [Sparshbhavna] Untouchability / Recial - discrimination  Untouchability means pollution by the touch of certain persons in reason of their birth in a particular state or family. It is an excrescence. In the guise of religion, it is always in the way, and erupts religion.
Removal of untouchability means love for, and service of, the whole world and thus merges into Ahimsa. Removal of untouchability spells the breaking down of barriers between man and man and between the various orders of Being. I consider untouchability to be a heinous crime against humanity. It is not a sign of self-restraint, but an arrogant assumption of superiority.

WAY TO LEARN GANDHI

All that can fall within the compass of human understanding, being either, first, the nature of things, as they are in themselves, their relations, and their manner of operation: or, secondly, that which man himself ought to do, as a rational and voluntary agent, for the attainment of any end, especially happiness: or, thirdly, the ways and means whereby the knowledge of both the one and the other of these is attained and communicated; I think science may be divided properly into these three sorts.—Locke, 
The use of words to mean something very different from what they appear on the surface to mean.=irony .
The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its destruction leads to silence, must be revisited: but with irony, not innocently. I think of the postmodern attitude as that of a man who loves a very cultivated woman and knows he cannot say to her, "I love you madly" because he knows that she knows (and that she knows that he knows) that these words have already been written by Barbara Cartland. Still, there is a solution. He can say, "As Barbara Cartland would put it, I love you madly." - Umberto Eco To know ,learn and understand Gandhi is rather difficult task because he is so simple in his nature , thought and way of action that mostly people fail to understand as their approach is academic ,philosophical and complicated .This seems a little ironical and that can be taken as this .....if one wish to enjoy experience of swimming ,he can not do it with a walk on earth . to say - he will have to go down in water .....as there are prerequisites to go simple , the simplest in your thought and mind to understand Gandhi . This needs a kind of purification and transformation from complicated to simple . Jean-Jacques Rousseau ( 1712 – 1778 ) says that we were born simple but this world made us complicated and this complication in our walk of life has taken the form of our nature ..............now to learn Gandhi we need to Relearn ,what we lost in the bad company of society ............Gandhi is simple but we have gone complicated ....we have to purify our hearts and minds and make it clear like water cleaned of it's impurities . Tulasidas in Ramcharit Manas quotes Lord Ram saying - (" nirmal -man -jan so mohi pawa " ) = the only man with a mind free from impurities can go divine and have Me (God)...........Sublimation is the prerequisite to understand Gandhian way (not and never say Gandhian philosophy as he had no philosophy but a life -way -in -action )
Gandhi is a Syntheses , do not try to analyze him . Analyses is the way of science not of life . If we analyze a flower - by dissection we can know it's chemical properties but we loose it's beauty ,colour and scent . This is ,what with Gandhi - he is the syntheses of world religion , culture ,thought , great-men -virtues , way of thinking and living on a screen -base enriched by Indian heritage -found in Vedanta , Bhagwat Gita and Ramcharit Manas . All thoughts he aspires for , are gathered and assimilated with extraordinary tempering from the best ancient brain -men ,the best books and the best culture . He has no thought or philosophy of his own ( he did never claim ,as any thing ' ism ' behind him ) But two things are his own and superb contribution to this world ...1- the great and good syntheses of world thoughts and declared that essence is the same -that it is truth that wins ; that we all men are one origin ; that non-violence is the best way to survive this world and source of happiness ; that love and fellow -feeling is the best way to lead the best life ....2 - And all this thought he strove to bring in action and made his own life as an experiment and succeeded ......he practiced the teachings of Jesus with Christians and taught them lovingly what it was and What did Jesus Really mean of . As a bonus he got India free ,showing the world ,the way of love and non-violence as super weapon .
Some like to find in him great management skill /talent .........they are mistaken ...they are inducting managerial attributes into his thought and actions but they need deduction - service not management , service -before self is his way of life . If you try to induct into him political system and political methods ,you will come with a deduction from Ram -Rajya and social justice ,trusteeship and self -discipline in individual life ......now , Gandhi is not a person but a thought and knowledge .......of world's best syntheses in all walk of life and behaviour . Therefore any kind of induction into him as a sure -failure ....yes ! you can deduct many things and thoughts from him ..........One more example - we of these days and our scholars and scientist are looking for resolving Environmental issues but if you visit Gandhi ..pat comes the solution .....follow non-violence (Ahimsaa) and non-hoarding or wealth -negation (Asangrah or Aparigrah) , the basic roots from where environmental issues have grown up and resulted to demonic -threat to modern world .
" Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise—even in their own field. '' - Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), Russian-born U.S. author.
"My life is an * indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind." M.K.Gandhi .
* consisting of one whole whose parts cannot be divided or treated individually .
All humanity is one undivided and indivisible family, and each one of us is responsible for the misdeeds of all the others. I cannot detach myself from the wickedest soul..... M.K.Gandhi.
So , i would like to say  , to conclude - that it is difficult to  learn and understand Gandhi and this difficulty lies in going SOME-ONE EASY and EASIER  to know well of him and also to learn Gandhi as ONE, THE INDIVISIBLE -WORLD - EVOLUTE of THOUGHT and HUMAN LIFE ON EARTH as a whole .