Gandhi did not follow the traditional Indian formula: his ashram was based not on religion but on universal humanistic thought. How had this come about? Joseph Lelyveld believes that "if there is a single seminal experience in his intellectual development," it was reading Tolstoy's The Kingdom Of God Is Within You. The Hindu revolutionary Sri Aurobindo went so far as to say, "Gandhi is a European - truly a Russian Christian in an Indian body."
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