Mahatma Gandhi and "Lead, Kindly Light"

Srimati Karuna, Director of the Gandhi Memorial Center in Washington, DC, offers reflections on messages from the life of Mahatma Gandhi. Each week new thoughts from his writings and speeches will be presented. For more information: www.gandhimemorialcenter.org

Reflection by Srimati Karuna, Readings from Mahatma Gandhi by Steve Bauer, “Lead Kindly, Light” sung by Steve Bauer with an arrangement for bells by the Golden Lotus Temple Bell Choir that was directed by Jeffrey H. Bauer; and Music of “Vaishnavajanato” arranged by Dr. Samia Mahbub Ahmad (vocal) and Jeffrey H. Bauer (piano), with Debu Nayak (tabla), Pam Broene (flute), Anthony Hyatt (violin) and Tony Ventouris (guitar). Cover art by Caroline Livaditis.

For more reading: “Gandhi and ‘Lead, Kindly Light’” by Willam Emilsen; “Young India” by M.K. Gandhi, October 10, 1928; “An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth” by M.K. Gandhi; “Book of Prayers” by M.K. Gandhi and edited by John Strohmeier.