Sermon On Mohandas Karamchand: Gandhi By Martin L. King Jr.

Palm Sunday Sermon on Mohandas Karamchand. Gandhi by Martin L. King Jr.
In the Sermon on Mohandas Karamchand, there were several points of interfaith dialogue such as humility, hospitality, empathy and commitment. According to what Jesus said, "I have other sheep that is not of this fold." Gandhi was the other sheep of the modern world who was not a member of the Christian church, but his love and understanding goodwill in his heart led to achieving for his people the liberation of exploitation, humiliation, and oppression from the British Empire, more important their independence. Humility is one aspect of interfaith dialogue that apparent in the sermon that teaches us a humble recognition of the limited and the growth within one's tradition.
For instance, Gandhi was a man that when made a mistake, he used to confessed publicly and never kept anything privately because he achieved in his life self-discipline and always remained his people "I don't want a religion around me because I'm too human. I'm too fallible. Never think that I'm infallible." Before starting an interfaith dialogue with another individual is important to recognize that nobody is perfect. What Gandhi just reminded us that we need to be humble if we wanted to have common grounds of understanding of each other differences.
Hospitality is apparent in the Sermon on Gandhi.
The article describes that when he first started to form his peaceful protest forces in South Africa he read the Bible, the Sermon on the Mount, works of the American poet Thoreau and much more for the interconnectedness between religions and the genuine understanding of the other. With this in mind, he said to his people "Now, it's possible to resist evil; this is your first responsibility; never adjust to evil, resist it. But if you can resist it without resorting to violence or hate, you can stand up against it and still love the individuals that carry on the evil system that you are resisting." In this case, hospitality can facilities an interfaith dialogue because is the hospitality toward integrating the actual truth in another religion in one's tradition. Another point of interfaith dialogue that is notably in the Sermon on Gandhi was empathy when he said to his people "Now, you have selected me, and you're asked me to free you from the political domination and the economic exploitation inflicted upon you by Britain. And here you are trampling over and exploiting seventy million of your brothers." Gandhi realized that even with his people independence from Britain Empire the caste system was unfair for those people who were the outcasts or untouchables because they were humiliated by the upper classes. For this reason, Gandhi remained against it and what we can learn from this is that empathy in an interfaith dialogue is that requires a self-referential to understand one another across religious
traditions.
Of course, commitment is the principal aspect of interreligious dialogue because is a personal exploration of the teaching of different religious traditions for spiritual enrichment. As described in the Sermon, Gandhi refused to eat until the leaders of the caste system ended the untouchability. He put his life in danger for his people to see the untouchables and the Brahmin coexisting together and praising God together without untouchability. Indeed, the Sermon on Gandhi teaches us that through love and without using violence everything is possible and permit us to coexist peacefully with others.