I read your impressive editorial and article on Shri Manubhai and Shrimati Champaben and was amazed by their adoration of Mahatma Gandhi!
In 1915 when Gandhiji came from South Africa to India, he inspired hope and confidence in all leaders and people because of his experience in South Africa! He decided to see first hand the conditions in India. He saw a poor woman having bath in a pond, after bath he saw her wearing the same old torn saree! He said to himself, 'Is my Mother India so poor, then I will wear only a loin cloth until all the poor have enough clothes. He took this Bhisma Oath and fought for India Independence and died for it wearing only a loin cloth and cheap pair of chapals!
When sin and evil increased all over the world, Lord Krishna promised God/some saints has to come to reestablish dharma over evil! In Treta Yug, Ram killed Ravan, in Dwapar Yug, Arjun was advised by Krishna to kill Duryodhan and Kauvas. In Kali Yug, God chose a simple man from some unknown corner of Gujarat like Gandhi with Tenets of Sanatan Dharma, which gave him courage and a resolute mind to fight non-cooperation India’s Independence struggle with Satya and Ahimsa against British Colonialism of greed, insults and atrocity, thus destroying it from India and later from all over the world! Despite this Gandhi was humble, loved all people including the British!
Even Britain revered him for his Greatness! Richard Attenborough made movie 'Gandhi' , and PM Wilson allowed his Statue in Tavistock Square and PM Cameron in Parliament Square, without which Parliament Square is like a Crown without a Kohinoor Diamond! His statues are now all over the World!
Einstein once said about Gandhi, 'In future people will find it hard to believe that such a great man ever walked on the face of the earth'!
Upendra Kapadia
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