Mahatma Gandhi

Mahatma Gandhi , gracious be his Name...

Apostle of Ahimsa, non-violence.

Father of a nation, and yet humble and ever so gentle in the heart.

He was first a sage, and uses politics to bring his ideas and practice across to the masses.

To stand up for justice and to non co-operate for unjust.

To sincerely put in all efforts to find a commonground, and to bring peace upon the lands..

Not to harm but to convert his opponents by love and the suffering that is undergone
by himself and his followers.

To live by example.

In his life, there are many instants that touches one's heart...

A mother approached Gandhi and asked him to advise her child not to take sweets.
Gandhi agreed but ask the mother to come back one week later.
The mother came after one week.

Gandhi took the child into his lap, patted him and said, " Little child, please do not take sweets anymore as it is bad for your health..'

After which Gandhi return the child to his mother.

The mother was puzzled and asked, ' If you have only this advise for my son, why is it that you have towait for one week? '

Gandhi replied, 'Because one week before, I myself am still taking sweets.' .....

Gandhi Ji use to hum the Lines of a Gujerati poet,Shamlal Bhatt, when he was a child :

For a bowl of water give a goodly meal;
For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal;
For a single penny pay thou back with gold;
If thy life be rescue, life do not withhold.
Thus the words and actions of the wise regard;
Every little service tenfold they reward.
But the truely noble know all men as one,
And return with gladness good for evil done.

He don't really understand it in his childhood,
but came to know it's profound meaning as he grows up. :) :)


Written in 1998.