Mahatma Gandhi
Mahatma was born 2.October 1869, Porbandar in India. His real name were Mohandas Karamchand Gandi. He came from an Hindu family. His parents were karamchand and Putlibai Gandhi. His father was the Prime Minister of Porbandar and Putlibai. His mother was a very superstitious person, and when Gandhi was going to England, to study barrister, he promised his mother to take hand of the alcohol, meat and promiscuity, when he came back to India.
He got married when he only was 13 years old, with Kasturba. They got four sons, and one daughter. Their daughter died with a unknown reason.
When he came back from England, he had stole some ideas from them, for example their dance, their customs and he could not eat the mutton and cabbage, because his mother was so against it. He were almost like a vegetarian, and soon he joined the ” Vegetarian Society”. Hewas such a vegetarian, and he read the book of it too. It was just because of his mother. He started an assoc for vegetarian. Some of the others vegetarian in the assoc, were a member of “Theosophical Society”, which was a assoc for the Buddhist and Hindu literature. They told him to read the book “Bhagavad Gita”. A Buddhism book.
Mahatma was an politician. He think the politic were the same as the region. He was an superstitious person, who believed in his God. He said that God was the real truth. Gandhi was arrested in a time, because he resist their region so much. He had sex with his siblings child, and he walked around naked, among the public.
Civil right movement in South Africa
The South Africa passed hard into Gandhi. It changed him completely into a new world. He saw the discrimination between the white and the black people.He got claimant in India, and he starts to work and practice in India. He was like father for the people. They remembered him like a man who’s not were violent, and he evil, but a man who fights for his claims. They called him the little big man.
Gandhi was arrested because he resist their region and he had sex with his siblings child.
He died in New Delhi, when he got shut down with a gun, in 30.january 1948. He got shut in his chest, by Nathuram Godse. He was an Hindoo. He appear that Gandhi was a little forbearing for the Muslim’s.
Here is some questions he write down:
- «The world has enough for everybody’sneed, but not for everybody’s greed.»
- «Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.»
- «Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man.»
- «It is the quality of our work which will please God and not the quantity.»
- «Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.»
- «Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.»
- «To believe in something, and not to live it, is dishonest.»
- «If we Indians could only spit in unison, we would form a puddle big enough to drown 3,000,000 Englishmen.»
- «An eye for an eye will only end up making the whole world blind.»
- «Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.»
- «You must be the change you wish to see in the world.»
- «Fear is not a disease of the body; fear kills the soul.»
- «The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.»
- «Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.»
Mahatma is a epithet, and Gandhi got it because the people loved him, he inspired them, he fights for the rights, and he was peoples ideal. He got the name Mahatma from his friend Rabindranath Tagore.
