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Remembering Gandhi ji on his birth anniversary

You might like this one from Osho.
It is well known that Sarojini Naidu said that "It costs a lot of money to keep this man in poverty". He was a fraud. No different from the many fake babas and pir fakirs nowadays.

His views on railways, hospitals and machinery:

There he explained that ‘machinery represents a great sin’; that ‘railways have spread the bubonic plague’ and ‘increased the frequency of famines’, accentuating ‘the evil nature of man’; that ‘hospitals are institutions for propagating sin; men take less care of their bodies and immorality increases’; that a peasant needs no ‘knowledge of letters’, which could only make him ‘discontented with his lot’, neither ‘elementary education or higher education’ being ‘required for the main thing’, to ‘make men of us’. All these ruinous innovations were exports of the ‘satanic civilization’ of theWest, whose ‘votaries calmly state that their business is not to teach religion’ –‘some’, incredibly, ‘even consider it a superstitious growth’. But ‘India will never be godless’, and to restore it to its pristine condition, just one effort was required, ‘to drive out Western civilization. All else will follow.

I wish I could get to be in a single room with this ghandi.
 
It is well known that Sarojini Naidu said that "It costs a lot of money to keep this man in poverty". He was a fraud. No different from the many fake babas and pir fakirs nowadays.

His views on railways, hospitals and machinery:

There he explained that ‘machinery represents a great sin’; that ‘railways have spread the bubonic plague’ and ‘increased the frequency of famines’, accentuating ‘the evil nature of man’; that ‘hospitals are institutions for propagating sin; men take less care of their bodies and immorality increases’; that a peasant needs no ‘knowledge of letters’, which could only make him ‘discontented with his lot’, neither ‘elementary education or higher education’ being ‘required for the main thing’, to ‘make men of us’. All these ruinous innovations were exports of the ‘satanic civilization’ of theWest, whose ‘votaries calmly state that their business is not to teach religion’ –‘some’, incredibly, ‘even consider it a superstitious growth’. But ‘India will never be godless’, and to restore it to its pristine condition, just one effort was required, ‘to drive out Western civilization. All else will follow.

I wish I could get to be in a single room with this ghandi.
You know a lot. Where did you acquire so much knowledge from, internet or books?
 
You know a lot. Where did you acquire so much knowledge from, internet or books?
In this age, neither internet not books can be relied upon blindly. My knowledge on ghandi ( I deliberately use that spelling) is based on primary sources. His own letters, his own articles. He was so full of himself, that he used to write a lot.
 
Ghandi had to attend to his ailing father just when he was newly married. While attending to his father, he would think of his wife and all those thoughts newly wed people have ( although ghandi had more than normal). So when his first born died, he wrote in his auto biography. that let this be a warning to people, that they should not have lustful thoughts. Imagine the mental state of a person who found some divine warning in the death of his first infant.

He was mentally unsound.
 
At a personal level, he was perfectly sincere in holding that all religions were equal before the Lord. At a political level, one religion was, inevitably, more equal than the other. Hinduism was indigenous to the subcontinent, and peculiar to it. Islam was neither. Gandhi came from Gujarat, and his knowledge of subcontinental Muslim culture was very limited. A dutiful son of his faith, he declared ‘I yield to none in my reverence for the cow’, and warned his son against marrying a Muslim on grounds that it was ‘contrary to dharma’ and – a telling simile – ‘like putting two swords in one sheath’.

When he wished in Hind Swaraj to explain why India had been one nation long before the arrival of the British, he did not invoke the ecumenicism – alleged or otherwise – of the Emperor Akbar, but ‘those far-seeing ancestors of ours who established Shevetbindu Rameshwar in the South, Juggernaut in the South-East, and Hardwar in the North as places of pilgrimage’: holy sites scarcely magnets of national identity for Muslims. No mosques or monuments of Islam feature as pendants. When he announced in 1919 that ‘India is fitted for the religious supremacy of the world’, the very claim belying any kind of equality, few could doubt which religion he had in mind. The Ramayana, after all, was ‘the greatest devotional work in all literature’.

Presenting Mohandas. The fake secular. The only ones more fake than him are his supporters.

He did lead a crusade against untouchability though, a major failing of Indian civilization; do you you give him credit for that ?
 
Happy anniversary Bapu 🙏🏻

In 2024, some of your philosophies might seem seem or outdated because we are surrounded by hostility but you were indeed a special person who is deservedly respected by the whole world.

Truth alone triumphs
 
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