Unknown Things about Mahatma Gandhi
                                                                                                            Mahatma Gandhi who was born on 2nd October 1869 is a world figure but some of his and thoughts and actions are very controversial.  However his name is being highly exploited for political and social reasons.   He is remembered generally on his Birthday or Death Anniversary in order to get Political Mileage.
                                                                   He had a strange way to manage himself  which were considered as unpractical fads.  On the eve of Indian independence he told Congress Ministers not to take salary more then 500/- per month and to stay in very small house. However it was ignored.
                                                                   He was dead against partition of the Country.  He advised top congress leaders to hand over the Prime Ministership India to Mohamedali Jinnah in order to avoid partition of the India. He knew the miseries and consequences of partition but congress leaders were not ready to hear him. Therefore he never took part in the celebration of Indian Independence and went to Noakhali, Bengal which was disturbed badly with Communal Riots.
                                                                   Gandhi was always sympathetic to the weaknesses of the people as he was well aware of his own  drawbacks  Therefore he recruited all short of people to strengthen the independence struggle. He knew very well that some his followers  were not agreeable to his ideology or thinking. He selected Pandit Nehru as prime minister but show that Sardar Patel also included in cabinet to balance the situation prevailing then.
                                                                    Gandhiji was very humble and once he said that 'He is a common man but some people have made him 'Mahatma' out of it'. He believed that if once conscious is clear he should not worry about  public criticism. However he also believed that' if one realize his his mistake any time then he should not hesitate to accept it. Once one of his followers draw his attention to the fact that some of his Ashram Residents are  behaving loosely pointing out his style of walking i.e. Putting his two hands on the shoulders of two young girls. He ignored it telling that ' He does not care as his conscious is clear.' However thereafter he started observing  the movements of Ashram's people and he wrote publicly in the 'Harijan' that the comment of said follower had truth in it. Therefore he was Mahatma in real sense.
                                                                  He did experiments on him self on many controversial subjects but he never hide it from public. His rebellion son Hiralal use to bow down to his mother in public meeting of Gandhi and use to declare that 'He has become Mahatma at the cost of his mother.' Gandhiji was very sorry for his son. He said ' I  gave culture to whole country but fail to give my own son'
                                                                 However he was a mass leader because he represented common man of India by thought, action and practice.  Such man born one in thousands of year.
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