HOW TO CREATE ANOTHER GANDHI?
We all lament that the world today has no great people like Gandhi. Today while Sara and I were chatting, we found out a way to create another Gandhi. Here's a bit from the transcript.
We started off talking about this article and noticed the pathetic fact that be it the Jamaat in pakistan or Shivsena in India, their way of thinking and their methods are equally retrograde.
Gaurav says:
why dont people protest against these things by other means that will be more effective?
Gaurav says:
like gandhiji. he did not like people wearing british-made clothes. he didnt go around saying "anyone wearing british made clothes will be beaten up". he himself started wearing khadi and exhorted his followers to have bonfires of british made clothes. very soon there used to be daily bonfires of british made clothes as people switched to khadi clothes
Gaurav says:
such was the effect that even today, millions wear khadi.,.....even though all sorts of clothes in india are now made in india
Gaurav says:
forcing something down people's throats by violence actually drives them to defy it
Sara* says:
Exactly..but then who would take over this task ,this age lacks such phenomenal souls...
Gaurav says:
thats what we like to apologetically believe. there was nothing great about that age. and he was not born that way. if u have read his biography, u will realise, he was a very normal regular man. bad habits, lazy, bad temper, liked the rich things in life.........until that day
Gaurav says:
in fact the greatest lesson for me from his life is not his teachings, but his life itself.
Gaurav says:
if mohandas k gandhi could become a mahatma, any man can
Gaurav says:
he was a regular man until thrown off the train that fateful day in 1893 in south africa
Sara* says:
ab train ka koi incident apni zindagi mein ho ga tu meray tumharay andar ka mahatam jagay ga atleast in my case all mahatmaism in me is fast asleep...
(So if we ever get thrown off a train, maybe the mahatma in us will awaken. At least in my case, mahatmaism is fast asleep)
Gaurav says:
heehe, true
Sara* says:
okay that was stupid...
Gaurav says:
we should all get thrown off trains .........but considering the condition of trains in india and pak..........we would be happy for it instead of angry like gandhi was
Sara* says:
Lols..sahee hay...
Gaurav says:
maybe if we got thrown into a train...........yup that's it!! That's how we create mahatmas out of normal people in this day and age. We throw them INTO trains
And there you have it. A simple recipe of how to create mahatmas. :P
We all lament that the world today has no great people like Gandhi. Today while Sara and I were chatting, we found out a way to create another Gandhi. Here's a bit from the transcript.
We started off talking about this article and noticed the pathetic fact that be it the Jamaat in pakistan or Shivsena in India, their way of thinking and their methods are equally retrograde.
Gaurav says:
why dont people protest against these things by other means that will be more effective?
Gaurav says:
like gandhiji. he did not like people wearing british-made clothes. he didnt go around saying "anyone wearing british made clothes will be beaten up". he himself started wearing khadi and exhorted his followers to have bonfires of british made clothes. very soon there used to be daily bonfires of british made clothes as people switched to khadi clothes
Gaurav says:
such was the effect that even today, millions wear khadi.,.....even though all sorts of clothes in india are now made in india
Gaurav says:
forcing something down people's throats by violence actually drives them to defy it
Sara* says:
Exactly..but then who would take over this task ,this age lacks such phenomenal souls...
Gaurav says:
thats what we like to apologetically believe. there was nothing great about that age. and he was not born that way. if u have read his biography, u will realise, he was a very normal regular man. bad habits, lazy, bad temper, liked the rich things in life.........until that day
Gaurav says:
in fact the greatest lesson for me from his life is not his teachings, but his life itself.
Gaurav says:
if mohandas k gandhi could become a mahatma, any man can
Gaurav says:
he was a regular man until thrown off the train that fateful day in 1893 in south africa
Sara* says:
ab train ka koi incident apni zindagi mein ho ga tu meray tumharay andar ka mahatam jagay ga atleast in my case all mahatmaism in me is fast asleep...
(So if we ever get thrown off a train, maybe the mahatma in us will awaken. At least in my case, mahatmaism is fast asleep)
Gaurav says:
heehe, true
Sara* says:
okay that was stupid...
Gaurav says:
we should all get thrown off trains .........but considering the condition of trains in india and pak..........we would be happy for it instead of angry like gandhi was
Sara* says:
Lols..sahee hay...
Gaurav says:
maybe if we got thrown into a train...........yup that's it!! That's how we create mahatmas out of normal people in this day and age. We throw them INTO trains
And there you have it. A simple recipe of how to create mahatmas. :P
