My life is my message-M.K Gandhi: Collected By Simanchala Bisoyi
2nd October is the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi a historical day of the India, Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869, and His childhood name was Mohandas karamchand Gandhi. By virtue of divine quality, by way of his constructive and creative activities he is well known as the ‘’mahtma’’means a ‘’great soul’ an honorific, which is firstly applied to him by world poet Rabindranath Tagore,
In our India, we Indian observing this day as the ‘’Gandhi Jayanti’’, and worldwide this day marked as the ‘’international day of non-violence’’ From his childhood, regularly he was reading the Bhagabat Gita, Gita made him a completely man with all the good quality of a statesman.
Later he become a mass leader of the people of India, by the strength of religion, justice, truth, tolerance and fearless which was hope fully help to led him discovered non-violence, a power of weapon against injustice and tyranny, when he was in the London, he came across two theosophist brothers who introduced him to sir Edwin Arnolds translation in English verse of the Gita- the song celestial priceless worth, he was deeply impressed “The book struck me as one of priceless worth.
This opinion of the Gita has ever since been growing on me, with the result that I regard it today as the supreme book for knowledge of Truth. It has afforded me invaluable help in my moments of gloom. and he also highly influenced by the Leo Tolstoy after read the the ”kingdom of God is within you.
His lesson on nonviolence, When he was stayed in South Africa, He faced lot of inhumane, mental and physically torture, He was thrown off a train after refusing to move from first-class to a third class coach, while holding a valid first-class ticket, even he was beaten by a driver for refusing to move to make a room for a European passenger, even a white barber refused to cut the hair of Mahatma Gandhi, because he was the black, and the magistrate of a Durban court ordered Gandhi to remove his turban, which was strongly opposed by Gandhi for to do.
These injustice, inhumane and discriminations in the south Africa were the turning point of the Gandhi’s life and awakened him to social injustice to Indian in south Africa. He fought for right to vote for Indian in South Africa and become success,.
He founded Natal national congress in the year 1894 and when Transvaal government promulgated a new act compelling registration of the colony’s Indian population, in this context Mahatma Gandhi raised the voice against anti Indian law in south Africa and united the Indian to protest and not to obey the prescribed law by the government and organized a mass protest meeting on this law at Johannesburg on 11th September of 1906.Mahatma Gandhi applied his first ‘’satyagraha’’means [truth force] or non-violence,
But south African government become aggressive and attacked on the peacefully protester of the ‘’satyagraha’’ thousands of Indians were jailed and shot for strike, At least, after 7 years of struggle on satyagraha, south African government become bend and came to compromise to rollback the law with Gandhi.
Satyagraha become mature and success, He become popular mass leader of the Indians in South Africa.Mahatma Gandhi came back to India in the year 1915and saw the miserable condition of the Indians with untold horrible situation of the poverty and Illiteracy, inhumane brutality of the Britishers in India.
He Had good contact with Gopal Krishna Gokhale, Gopal Krishna Gokhale was an admirable leader and master politician, great political thinker and moderator of reform of India, Gokhle was the mentor of the Gandhi.
Mahatma Gandhi elected as the president of Indian national congress in the year 1921, from 1921 to 1947, He had taken measure and remarkable steps to replace British rule from India and he had applied his experienced satyagrah non-violence in civil disobedience movement1922, Dandi salt march in the year1930 and Quit India Movement 1942.
Historical and remarkable speech of mahatma Gandhi has said” I am convinced that the time has come for the British and the Indians to be reconciled to complete Separation from each other. Complete and immediate orderly withdrawal of the British from India [...] will at once put the Allied cause on a completely moral basis.
I ask every Briton to support me in my appeal to the British at this hour to retire from every Asiatic and African possession. ... I ask for a bloodless end of an unnatural domination and for a new era. Leave India to God and if that be too much, leave her to anarchy, necessity for withdrawal lies in its being immediate. All these great movement were based on the non-violence and he also called his followers for go towards to village to spread messages of the independence ,where the soul of the India is alive in the heart of the rural India.
He was a great communicator and realized to become the journalist to fight for the right of the Indians and he needed mouthpiece , He was closed associated with mass media, He was started ‘’Indian opinion’’ in the year 1903 in south Africa .In the year 1919,Mahatma Gandhi Published ‘’young India’’ a weekly English magazine and ‘’Navjivan’’ through these news papers he spread value of the satyagrah and good citizenship, in the year 1930 he started ‘’Harijan’’, ’’Harijan Bandhu’’ and ‘’Harijan sevak’’, Gandhi, as a journalist through his creative writing he educated people about sanitation, self discipline and satyagrah It had gave voice to voiceless, Gandhi looked upon journalism as a means to serve the people.
He said in his autobiography - The sole aim of journalism should be service. The newspaper is a great power, but just as an unchained torrent of water submerges whole countryside and devastates crops, even so an uncontrolled pen serves but to destroy. If the control is from without, it proves more poisonous than want of control.
It can be profitable only when exercised from within. If this line of reasoning is correct, how many journals of the world would stand the test? But who would stop those that are useless? and who should be the judge? The useful and the useless must, like good and evil. go on together, and man must make his choice.
In the year 1947, India got independence after long struggle of political and social. On this occasion mahatma Gandhi Paid his best tribute to the various freedom fighters, who had sacrificed their lives for the purpose of attaining freedom from the bond of British rule. Mahatma Gandhi become very popular for his evolution of humanity and nonviolence philosophy and it created history of the mankind, as the worshiper of nonviolence; His influences were deeply influenced to the some of the prominent leaders of the world in the field of the civil and human right.
Not only the Gandhi values are more acceptable in India but also its relevance is more popular in western countries, Gandhi’s non-violence and satyagraha was highly influenced to the some great statesman like Martin Luther king alias ‘’Gandhi of America’’, Nelson Mandela alias ‘’Gandhi of south Africa’’ and Danilo Dolce who was the fitting against poverty and corruption in Italy. Who was well known as ‘’Gandhi of Sicily’’.
In this connection, Barrack obama president of U.S.A made a remark’’ Recently, mass revolution which was took place in Tunisia and Egypt it become possible due to apply of the path of the Gandhi. A famous book named ‘’power of non-violence’’ written by Richard Gray, this book is well known as the ‘’Bible of non-violence’’The Noble Committee says that it always gives them pain when they look into past and found that Gandhi was never nominated for the Noble Prize. In fact every award and price is low in comparable to his stature.