Cairo, the 12th March, 2010


Mahatma Ghandi - my personal hero



I've encountered many fascinating historical characters during my treap to India.


This is a country of specially gifted minds and spirits.


From all of them, no one has had a bigger effect on me than Mahatma (Great Soul) Ghandi, a lawyer educated in England who decided to fight all kinds of injustice after being kicked out from a train in South Africa due to his colour ( apartheid had been a long subject in this zone) who transcended his own social condition and lived for the sake of justice, freedom and dignity of India and freedom of thought.

He was not a theory person. He held example of everything he defended and acted like he wished everybody would, treating others with the respect and equality sense he wished to be treated.

He also fought and gave his life (enduring jail several times and ending up being killed by a fellow hindu who was against his support to muslims) for equality of treatment between religions.
He was the first one to acknowledge the need of a pacific co-existence between all religions of India and the elimination of UNTOUCHABILITY, the term that refers to the lower chaste that is supposed to be composed by those who deal with dirt and human feces. These ones were called and considered Untouchables and said to be impure.


Ghandi opposed, for the first time in India's history, to the Untouchability.
He was a revolutionary who defended non-violence as a principle and way of fighting. How do you fight with no violence?! That was the question that made the english and the world laugh at Ghandi at the time.
Presenting the TRUTH to the opponent and dealing with him like the human fellow and brother he is were the weapons Ghandi used to fight.
He had total faith in the human nature and in our hability to listen to our hearts and minds and decide, by them, what is fair and what is not.

Let's put it this way:
I may be the eternal run away bride but, if Ghandi was alive, I would marry him!:)
His character, what he said and did brings me to tears and totally to the ground in complete humility. I DO recognize the TRUTH.

MY LIFE IS MY MESSAGE.
Mahatma Ghandi