Today I found Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in a drawer. I zoomed into his smile and could not help but smile as well.
A lot of us have him listed as our hero, Facebook profiles are filled with Gandhi admirers, but most of us never really had a good look at him... Not at his skinny frame, but beyond...
Did you know he had a set of false teeth, which he carried in a fold of his loin cloth? He put them in his mouth only when he wanted to eat. After his meal, he took them out, washed them and put them back in his loin cloth again.
I bet you had no idea that he spoke English with an Irish accent, for one of his first teachers was an Irishman. :)
Mahatma Gandhi inspired millions of people world over to take the path of non-violence and civil disobedience. 5 world leaders who got Noble Peace prize viz. Martin Luther King Jr. (USA), Dalai Lama (Tibet), Aung San Suu Kyi (Myanmar), Nelson Mandela (S. Africa) and Adolfo Perez Esquivel (Argentina) have acknowledged the fact that they were influenced by the philosophy of Gandhi. Yet, Gandhi; the man who inspired these Nobel Peace Prize winners, never got a Noble Prize!
There are lots and lots of pages on the internet dedicated to this amazing spirit, lots and lots of pages featuring his words. I am only going to quote one little thing...
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I know a couple of people struggling to balance this particular ‘’anything’’ with the rest of their life. Humans should re-evaluate what ‘’selfish’’ really means I think. Might surprise ourselves.
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