Analysis Of Gandhi's 'Birth And Adolescence'

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Does being patient and devoted to something you love will eventually pay off? Is it good practice for life? Arvind Sharma has expressed his views about this through considered one of the great inspirational figures Mahatma Gandhi. Gandhi is the Father of the Nation India and is given a title “Mahatma” which means great soul. Gandhi was a religious extremist in his youth and became spiritual later in life. He was a perfect example in the world for “great things come out of patience”. Devotion to God hit Gandhi very early in life which made him have two different faces. One was good, devoted, and a Leader face; and the other hidden was lust and smoker. Getting too much religious can lead you into bad stuff. In “Birth and Adolescence” chapter …show more content…

Gandhi’s next destination was to change get India its Independence. He followed same spiritual way as he did in Africa; non-violence, patience, and do no harm to the opponent. Gandhi refused everything that British government enforced in India. Gandhi was a good influencer, he forced people follow his spiritual ways of protesting. There were other leaders such Aurobindo Ghose, Subash Chandra Bose, etc. who took violence in hands in order to bring peace and achieve what they wanted. They weren’t considered a good leader because they weren’t following true roots of religion and be …show more content…

Sarojini Naidu mentioned wouldn’t let us rest for moment in peace. This stupidity of getting independence spiritually pushed India 100 years back. India got Independence before 1947 but Gandhi declined it as it was brought by violence and immoral ways; accepted India’s Independence in 1947 because it brought by his own spiritual and moral way. It is a common conception that Gandhi’s views and ways made British give India independence but technically, British was recovering from post war scenes which led to a major economic fall and unemployment. British government had no money and means to maintain India and made a decision to leave India to support their country first. As of today, India ranks top for owning its heritage and that’s it! Arvind Sharma wrote this book considering Gandhi as a god. Arvind Sharma is a religious extremist himself, which led to a perfect match to Gandhi’s views. Sharma completely ignored the side facts of Gandhi and focused more on how Gandhi became a nice person by being spiritual. Chapters “Spiritual Serendipity”, “The Sex Life of a Celibate”, and “Gandhi, God, and Goodness” are utter crap about Gandhi. Main belief of Hindu religion is to respect women. Gandhi slept naked with is great-grand daughter, the wife of his great-grand son and used other adult women as guinea pigs to control his sexual tensions

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