This chapter explores an alternative conceptualization of M.K. Gandhi’s ahimsa as ethical action. It pushes against the standard portrayal of Gandhi’s nonviolence from either the lens of moral obligations or consequentialism and instead, attempts to reconstruct ahimsa within Indian intellectual traditions. By reading Gandhi’s various applications and instantiations from the ashram and the political domain, I show how ahimsa was part of forms of life learning that reflected on how to live.