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 MAHATMA GANDHI (1860-1948)

Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in the coastal city of Porbandar,

located in the far northwest of India, in the Gujarat region. Such a region was then a mosaic of tiny

principalities, whose rulers had absolute power over the lives of their subjects. His father,

Karamchand Gandhi, was the prime minister of Porbandar and belonged to the Banya caste,

merchants of proverbial cunning and skill in trade. His mother, called Putlibai, came from the sect of

the Pranamis, who mixed Hinduism with the teachings of the Koran.

Gandhi's mother was a deeply religious and austere woman who divided her time between the

temple and caring for her family, in addition to practicing frequent fasts. In the spiritual formation of

Mohandas, who felt boundless love for his parents, in addition to the adoration of the goddess

Vishnu that the family professed, a series of cultures and amalgamated creeds concurred: the

Hindu, the Muslim and the Jain. The latter had a special influence on his philosophy: the Jains

practiced non-violence not only with animals and human beings, but even with plants, microbes,

water, fire and wind.

A typical example of belated genius, Gandhi was a quiet, withdrawn, and academically

unremarkable adolescent who passed through the schools of Rajkot inconspicuous. At the age of

thirteen, following Hindu custom, he was married to a girl his own age named Kasturbai, to whom

he had been engaged since the age of six without knowing it. The young husband fell passionately
in love with the girl, and to make love to her he left his dying father's bed the very night he died. The

event left an indelible feeling of guilt in Gandhi, who would later declare himself against child

marriage and in favor of sexual continence.

Although he was the architect of the independence of India (1947), Mahatma Gandhi is rarely

evoked for that achievement. In the first place, because the most inspiring thing about him does not

lie so much in that end as in the means, that is, in his almost three decades of perseverance in

peaceful activism based on non-violence and the strength of convictions. And secondly, because its

goals were always much broader, encompassing the abolition of castes, social justice, the

transformation of economic structures and harmony between religions, designs that converged on

the ideal of a profound ethical renewal and spiritual of the human being.