Ghandhi had many good values like non-violence, acceptance, and peace. Since he was a Hindu, he had mostly Hindu values too, and his idea of Hinduism was probably based off his values. I think that the way Hinduism allows you to accept many other religions and the way karma shows that if you do good, good will come back to you influenced Ghandi to make him think of non-violence. In the movie, there was a scene where Ghandi told the group of people that he was a Hindu, Muslim, Jew, and a Christian, which shows that Ghandi appreciated all of the different kinds of religions, and that he knows that there can be peace between all different types of cultures and people. In his little village, he tried to create equality between the different castes so there wouldn't be so much separation and differences with the people there.
Non-violence was what Ghandi showed that he mostly wanted that to spread throughout India. "An eye for an eye only makes the whole world blind." This quote shows that Ghandi knew that revenge wasn't the best way to go against the British, and if they fought back violently, it would just go into a cycle of trying to get even with each other, which would end very badly. Ghandi lived this out by telling lots and lots of people not to fight back with violence, and that non-violence was the best way to go because it would make the British realize what they were actually doing to the Indians.
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