Charkha (Spinning Wheel) » Charkha is an instrument of service.T-2-253 » The Charkha in the hands of a poor widow brings a paltry price to her, in the hands of Jawaharlal; it is an instrument of India’s freedom.T-6-32 » The Charkha is an outward symbol of truth and nonviolence.T-5-265 » The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India’s myriads.

The Charkha supplemented the agriculture of the villagers and gave it dignity. It was the friend and solace of the widow. It kept the villagers from idleness. For the Charkha included all the anterior and posterior industries-ginning, carding, warping, sizing, dyeing and waving. These in their turn kept the village carpenter and the blacksmith ...

The Charkha is the symbol of sacrifice, and sacrifice is essential for the establishment of the image of the deity. T-2-277. An ideal sanctified by the sacrifices of such master-spirits as Lenin cannot go in vain; the noble example of their renunciation will be emblazoned for ever and quicken and purify the idea as time passes. T-2-333

The Charkha is the symbol of non-violence on which all life, if it is to be real life, must be based. (H, 27-4-1947, p. 122) Some will recall through the wheel the name of that Prince of Peace, Ashoka, the founder of an empire, who ultimately gave up the pomp and circumstance of power to become the undisputed Emperor of the hearts of men and ...

Mahatma Gandhi ingenously deployed the charkha or spinning wheel as an important tool for political emancipation, by using it as a metaphor of 'ancient work ethics' and as a symbol of economic and social reaction to the British Rule. ... The peti charkha was a portable spinning wheel that folded into a contraption the size of a brief case, and ...