We know of Mahatma Gandhi as nearly Divine as a human being could be.
But are there chinks in the Armour?
There have been reports about Gandhi’s ‘Brahmacharya experiments of sleeping with young girls and his having been a Homo Sexual with Kallenbach.
All these one could take with a pinch of salt.
But Gandhi , a Racist?
Though I am unable to verify the veracity of the statement, I am posting this information to enable people to contradict.
Truth must be told, despite about whom.
“Of white Afrikaaners and Indians, he wrote: “We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they do.”
Gandhi lent his support to the Zulu War of 1906, volunteering for military service himself and raising a battalion of stretcher-bearers.
Gandhi complained of Indians being marched off to prison where they were placed alongside Blacks,
“We could understand not being classed with whites, but to be placed on the same level as the Natives seemed too much to put up with.
Kaffirs [Blacks] are as a rule uncivilized—the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live like animals.”[12]“
Gandhi and Mussolini became friendly when they met in December 1931, with Gandhi praising the Duce’s “service to the poor, his opposition to super-
urbanization, his efforts to bring about a coordination between Capital and Labour, his passionate love for his people.”
He also advised the Czechs and Jews to adopt nonviolence toward the Nazis, saying that “a single Jew standing up and refusing to bow to Hitler’s decrees” might be enough “to melt Hitler’s heart.”[13]
“But Gandhi was an unabashedly diehard supporter of India’s Hindu caste system, and would never mix with a lowly group or caste, and Lelyveld in Great Soul lays out Gandhi’s unedited views:
“We were then marched off to a prison intended for Kaffirs [offensive term equivalent to the n-word],” Gandhi complained during one of his campaigns for the rights of Indians settled there. “We could understand not being classed with whites, but to be placed on the same level as the Natives seemed too much to put up with. Kaffirs are as a rule uncivilized — the convicts even more so. They are troublesome, very dirty and live like animals.”
In an open letter to the legislature of South Africa’s Natal province, Gandhi wrote of how “the Indian is being dragged down to the position of the raw Kaffir” — someone, he later stated, “whose occupation is hunting and whose sole ambition is to collect a number of cattle to buy a wife, and then pass his life in indolence and nakedness.”
On white Afrikaners and Indians, he wrote: “We believe as much in the purity of races as we think they do.”
Citations.
[1] Wijesiriwardhana Sunil, Purawasi Manpeth (Published by: FLICT/ First Print 2010) p. 222-223.
[2] John R. McRae, “Oriental Verities on the American Frontier: The 1893 World’s Parliament of Religions and the Thought of Masao Abe,” Buddhist-Christian Studies (University of Hawai’i Press, 1991), pp. 7–26.
[3] K. Paul Johnson, Initiates of Theosophical Masters (State University of New York Press, 1995) p. 97
[4] Guénon, Theosophy.
[5] Kathryn Tidrick, Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006) p. 63
[6] Mitch Horowitz, Occult America: White House Seances, Ouija Circles, Masons, and the Secret Mystic History of Our Nation, (New York: Bantam Books, 2009), p. 189.
[7] Charles Freer Andrews (Hrsg.): Mahatma Gandhi, Mein Leben. Suhrkamp, Frankfurt a.M. 1983.
[8] Kathryn Tidrick, Gandhi: A Political and Spiritual Life, (London: I.B. Tauris, 2006) p. 60-61.
[9] Ibid., p. 63.
[10] Andrew Roberts, “Among the Hagiographers,” Wall Street Journal, (March 26, 2011)
[11] Ibid.
[12] Ibid.
[13] Ibid.
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