Mohan Das karamchand Gandhi was a staunch practitioner of "Justice" and "Non-violence". He advocated others also to do so. He wore the traditional Indian dhoti and shawl, woven with yarn he had hand spun on a spinning wheel. He was a vegan , and also did fasting as means of both self-purification and social protest.
2000 years ago, a gallilean suffered the most brutal death in the history of mankind. The high priests spitted and slapped upon his face. They stripped his clothes and *** him. They tied ,scourged him mercilessly,crowned him with thorns and then crucified him on a cross. Even hours before that galillean died, he was no longer bleeding blood but only water from his wounds. Many believe that he resurrected two days after. Now he has most number of followers than anyother and are named as "Christians".
Gandhi had been reading the Bible, since young, to keep a promise he had made to a friend. He found the Old Testament extremely difficult . He disliked the Book of Numbers. But the New Testament produced a different impression, especially the "Sermon on the Mount" which went straight to his heart. The verses about not resisting evil but offering the other cheek and giving the cloak to one who asked for one's coat delighted him beyond measure. They reminded him about something he had learned in his childhood about returning with gladness good for evil done.
2000 years ago, a gallilean suffered the most brutal death in the history of mankind. The high priests spitted and slapped upon his face. They stripped his clothes and *** him. They tied ,scourged him mercilessly,crowned him with thorns and then crucified him on a cross. Even hours before that galillean died, he was no longer bleeding blood but only water from his wounds. Many believe that he resurrected two days after. Now he has most number of followers than anyother and are named as "Christians".
Gandhi had been reading the Bible, since young, to keep a promise he had made to a friend. He found the Old Testament extremely difficult . He disliked the Book of Numbers. But the New Testament produced a different impression, especially the "Sermon on the Mount" which went straight to his heart. The verses about not resisting evil but offering the other cheek and giving the cloak to one who asked for one's coat delighted him beyond measure. They reminded him about something he had learned in his childhood about returning with gladness good for evil done.
Gandhi told “I did once seriously think of embracing the Christian faith, the gentle figure of Christ, so patient, so kind, so loving, so full of forgiveness that he taught his followers not to retaliate when abused or struck, but to turn the other cheek”. He thought it was a beautiful example of the perfect man. But, he could accept Jesus as a martyr and a divine teacher, but certainly not as the most perfect man ever born.
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