When Gandhi was thrown out of the First class compartment in South Africa only did he realise that what the upper class Brahmin's have been doing to Low class men in India for ages. He himself a Brahmin never was in the receiving end and he never had to experience before that time such humiliation from a fellow human being based on his birth alone.
As it is said, before we point out others dirt clean you own house first. So first Gandhi's first Struggle was to free Indian upper class people's mind from the clutches of class system and untouchability.
For him free India was not an issue as long as people mind set has not changed. He was never ready to accept freedom because the people very not ready yet as they themselves have been practicing slavery.
In my strongest opinion India was not ready to receive freedom in Gandhi's terms. But it happened due to many reasons but not definitely good ones.
So what was Gandhi and what he wanted. The people who followed him called him "Bapu", means father. He was guiding people for a righteous life. Today he would have been called as a Guru or more aptly SathGuru. Only he thing he practiced was to live by the truth. There is a Gross mis-conception of understanding what is truth here.
On every moment of his life he lived truly to that moment only. This will not be always good for the people around him. If we have experienced to live close by Guru's you will understand that. As it happened around Gandhi what he spoke and did not make everyone happy. But he did not live to make others happy he only lived truly. He only talked to people souls and he believed all souls are essentially good and so the British soul too.
As was a long time tradition noble people and politicians go to holy men for advice even on state matters, people went to him for advice. He advised on political matters too but only truly to him. But others have misunderstood because he did not know any other way of talking. He was not a scheming politician.
He was a SathGuru practicing truth only. One of the most misunderstood figures in India History is Gandhi. I hope time will rectify that. He had hoped for bigger things for India and Indian People may be to humanity itself, than just getting India free from British. Gandhi freedom struggle continues in us as we have not achieved what he had hoped for.
As it is said, before we point out others dirt clean you own house first. So first Gandhi's first Struggle was to free Indian upper class people's mind from the clutches of class system and untouchability.
For him free India was not an issue as long as people mind set has not changed. He was never ready to accept freedom because the people very not ready yet as they themselves have been practicing slavery.
In my strongest opinion India was not ready to receive freedom in Gandhi's terms. But it happened due to many reasons but not definitely good ones.
So what was Gandhi and what he wanted. The people who followed him called him "Bapu", means father. He was guiding people for a righteous life. Today he would have been called as a Guru or more aptly SathGuru. Only he thing he practiced was to live by the truth. There is a Gross mis-conception of understanding what is truth here.
On every moment of his life he lived truly to that moment only. This will not be always good for the people around him. If we have experienced to live close by Guru's you will understand that. As it happened around Gandhi what he spoke and did not make everyone happy. But he did not live to make others happy he only lived truly. He only talked to people souls and he believed all souls are essentially good and so the British soul too.
As was a long time tradition noble people and politicians go to holy men for advice even on state matters, people went to him for advice. He advised on political matters too but only truly to him. But others have misunderstood because he did not know any other way of talking. He was not a scheming politician.
He was a SathGuru practicing truth only. One of the most misunderstood figures in India History is Gandhi. I hope time will rectify that. He had hoped for bigger things for India and Indian People may be to humanity itself, than just getting India free from British. Gandhi freedom struggle continues in us as we have not achieved what he had hoped for.
If you have not yet come across this nice Q&A with Gandhi in magazine Swarajya, you may go through it - gives his views on various things for India...
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