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Take out this one calculation and function to the fullest of your ability. What has to happen will happen. People may or may not call you Mahatma, it does not matter.
You will live like a Mahatma, you are a Mahatma. Mahatma means you are a great piece of life. You are a great piece of life the moment you take away this one calculation from your mind. Then, wherever you are, you will shine. Download Ambition to Vision. In a way we owe our gratitude to those rude English men who forcibly evicted a brown Indian from the first class compartment of a train in South Africa.
There singular unfair racist act created a Mahatma Gandhi and changed the course of this sub continents history. There are questions and concerns that confront our children today whether we acknowledge it or not. There are words in their vocabulary that I certainly did not have growing up. Being Gandhi is an urgent book, not because the anniversary of years of Gandhi is coming up. But because, more than ever, we need Gandhi today. We need his thoughts, his activism, his principles.
Most of all, we need his courage to stand up for what he believed. Stand up in the face of criticism and worse. We need Gandhi today because we need to relearn that courage of conviction. We need, first of all, to care and then to act. Our compassion needs to be bolstered by action and our action led by compassion.
And, because we cannot time-machine him back, we need to be Gandhi ourselves. We need more than a good skit on Gandhi challenging imperial forces, or posters lining classrooms, which is what most schools are gearing up to do.
Yes, I am saying that we need to bring Gandhi out of the paper-dry walls of veneration, off the high pedestals that we have placed him on, so far out of the reach of young hands and hearts. We need to find the man that has been buried in God-like texts and believe that he exists and must live through his principles and actions. Adolescents need this and they need it today.
Easy access to WhatsApp violence leads to a dangerous apathy. You can see a lynching, an assault, a murder with the tap of a couple of keys. Anyone can, including children. The impact this must be having on young psyches is for psychologists and researches to study.
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