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J. T. F. Jordens’s book on this man’s religion emphasizes his letters to a jeweler who wrote “six steps” to liberation. This man’s disciple Lanza del Vasto founded the Community of the Ark to implement his [emphasize] 20th-century version of “bread labor.” This man condemned “seven deadly sins of intolerance” in Ethical Religion and claimed that the atheist Charles Bradlaugh (“BRAD-law”) feared God to explain inverting the maxim “God is truth” to “truth is God.” This man’s followers took 11 vows, like fearlessness. This self-proclaimed sanātanī (“suh-NAH-tuh-nee”) encapsulated his faith in the first verse (-5[1])of the Īshopanishad (“EE-sho-PUN-ih-shud”) and led prayer meetings with the egalitarian mantra “sarva dharma sambhava (-5[2])(“SUM-buh-vuh”).” The (-5[1])Christian anarchism of The Kingdom of God Is Within You inspired this man’s (10[2])ashram (10[1])Tolstoy Farm. (10[15])For 10 points, what (10[1])activist extended (10[1])ahiṃsā (10[1])in his concept of satyāgraha ■END■ (10[3])

ANSWER: Mahātmā Gandhi [or Mohandas Gandhi; or Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi; accept Gandhism; accept Gandhi’s Religion: A Homespun Shawl] (The jeweler was the Jain monk Raychand, who wrote Atma Siddhi. “Sarva dharma sambhava” affirms equal respect for all religions.)
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