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THE SEEKER'S DIARY
MAKING OF MAHATMA
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When a very patient Sonal ben (the editor for this upmanship, inferiority complex, anger,
issue) was giving me tips to base my article of 'the purposelessness, fear - he had all of them. He did e last few moments of Gandhi', I went back into time not have any answers or magic wand before. At every
and started really thinking about how and what must step when he experienced something, had adequate have been the state of heart / mind during the split reactions and then through an emotion of anger, of second of his shocking death. Then started going fear, he transformed his weakness into strengths. backwards to his last days, to his earlier life, to his Visualise an inconspicuous man, fearful but self beginning and thinking of him for an hour filled me respecting man in the first class compartment of a with a very strong emotion of awe and surprise. Awe train in Durban in South Africa being thrown out by a because of the 'Mahatma' he could become, and white mansurprise because of the man that he was, like the Now see him aakul vyakool (
B u lgur) full of not rest of us, any of us.
so charitable thoughts humiliated and vengeful all Then Sonal ben tried to make it easier for me and night in that cold weather - thinking of ways to resaid 'you can write about how the young generation, establish his bruised self respect. s your generation thinks of him.' or anything that you When he was thrown out from that first class wish to write about.' The past two weeks has been
compartment, he did not touch his luggage which was is just this - chewing on my thoughts of this man called
thrown out with him, and did not go in the waiting Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi.'
room. What was he thinking on that cold, dark and Z ē Before I write a few consolidated thoughts on him, I lonely platform at that moment ? He saw the three
would like to explain the universal law of when one options. (1) To leave South Africa for ever (2) To stay really wants something, the universe conspires to in South Africa and obey unjust rules and (3) To stay make it happen. So all around me there have been in South Africa and fight injustice. random conversations on him, came across and read
He selected the third option and rest is the history. the deep influence Param Kripadu Dev had on him S and just last year Pujyashri Rakesh Bhai Jhaveri had
So What really happend that night? taken two incredible lectures to make us aware of
This elusive thing called 'Purpose' and 'Clarity of in the little things about him that were so human and Purpose' entered his life and that was his first how he transformed them into strengths.
extraordinary moment. But limited to only within him. My thoughts below are largely influenced by my master
AND Yet imagine any of us who finds a passionate
purpose, be it personal or universal. For him at that 3 and through him, I pen down my thoughts.
moment, it was 'I want to fight against this injustice.' The first and foremost thing that simply blows my mind
That is all, HE did not know how or what he would do about Gandhi ji is his Ordinariness.' Here was a man
but he was clear about his purpose. Somewhere that who did not have visions, or jaati smaran gyan la
night or the nights following that he must have also š 24BL Sul-t) or some miraculous revelation. He could
felt his own limitations and within that thinking he have been an awkward wise uncle, a stubborn
decided at that time to simply stick to the Truth and y y demanding parent, quirky neighbour, analytical
fight his way through only sticking by Truth in a non difficult husband, all things ordinary. And within the
violent matter. folds of this ordinary life, he step by step created this extraordinariness where the whole country stopped
We dont know whether it was the passion of purpose to listen. He did it slowly, steadily, through learning,
or the planets were right those days, but he spoke through asking, through deliberating, through making
and people listened. mistakes, step by step. Incidents that must have
That push must have made his resolve stronger and happened in every one's life - of humiliation, one his method sharper and clearer - that of 'Satyagraha.'
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