DAY 128 - GANDHI - THE GREAT SOUL

Day 128

Mohandas Karamshand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869, in Porbandar, India.   He came from a relatively comfortable family.  At the age of 14, he married Kasturba, a girl the same age. They had four children.  

In 1888, Gandhi left India to go study Law in London.  He returned to India in 1891 to practise.  In 1893, he took on a one-year contract in South Africa.  That experience will be a turning point in Gandhi’s life. 

As soon as he arrived there, he was confronted with discrimination.  The British Empire controlled South Africa at the time and when he attempted to claim his rights as a British subject, he realised that the treatment he received was based on his skin colour.

Gandhi lived in South Africa for 21 years.   He slowly developed an action based on the principles of courage, nonviolence and truth. 

He returned to India in 1915 and, following his principles, he slowly lead Indian people to independence from Great Britain.  Gandhi went to prison many times for his convictions.  His only weapons were civil disobedience and starvation. 

The Indian people called him ‘Mahatma’, which means Great Soul.  Gandhi’s vision of happiness was quite simple, he believed that authenticity and living by your convictions was the true path to having a blissful life.  He undeniably did that, showing relentless courage, determination and love in his pacific struggle for justice, freedom and theTruth.


"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent.  Conquer him with love."


"Always aim at complete harmony of thought and word and deed.  Always aim at purifying your thoughts and everything will be well."


"One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds."


Mahatma Gandhi