Complex sentence: This Jain ideal of profoundly influenced Mahatma Gandhi; through his friendship with the Jain scholar Shrimad Rajchandra, it formed a basis of his satyagraha (truth struggle) against colonial rule and caused him to rethink many aspects of contemporary Hindu practices.
Split into simpler sentences: This Jain ideal of profoundly influenced Mahatma Gandhi; through his friendship with the Jain scholar Shrimad Rajchandra. It formed a basis of his satyagraha (truth struggle) against colonial rule and caused him to rethink many aspects of contemporary Hindu practices.