uncomfortable truth about Gandhi

 The teenage boy who was guarding his father's bed missed his wife very much.

I was so sweet that I wanted to go back to my room and sleep with my wife.

I wonder if it's been ten minutes since I left my father's leg-biting hand and came back to the room.

I heard a knock and someone said,

"My father is dead".

Let's talk about one more thing.

A naked old man in his 70s also slept with his naked niece in her 20s to study "what are the original instincts?"

Of course, nothing happened.

It was just a little experiment.

It was to find out the physical reaction of her granddaughter lying side by side with her body.

The boy who shed tears in front of his father's body and the old man who devoted himself to the experiment next to his granddaughter were the same person.

No one would have noticed that he was the famous Mahatma Gandhi.

Few people are as complex and contradictory as Gandhi.

As many people adore him as a saint, there are many critics.

Let's put aside for a moment his life, achievements, and influence in his struggle for independence in India, and look at the aspect of Gandhi, who is anti-interested.

The first story I saw above is the incident that Gandhi experienced in front of his father's death when he was 18 years old.It's okay to call it an incident, because Gandhi blamed himself for not being able to keep his father's deathbed while trying to sleep with his wife, which had a significant impact on his life.As he confessed, she married at the age of 13, and was a young husband who was quite obsessed with "the job."

The aftermath is the second story.

As a result of his obsession with sex, Gandhi, who lived with "regret" for his entire life, decided to "total abstinence" at a young age without consulting his wife.

In the first few years, 'freedom from sex' was not easy, but 'complete retirement' was soon achieved.

More than 30 years later, Gandhi, who reached his 70s, confessed that his body and mind still play separately.

It was the experiment that I slept with my niece and granddaughter.

I have nothing to say if you ask me why I'm experimenting with it.

It's just an honest man looking for truth.

Gandhi's life has been a long journey to find truth, as the title of his autobiography, "The Story of My Experiment on Truth," tells us.

But because of this sex-related experiment, many people left Gandhi.

Nehru, who followed Gandhi like his son for life, did not hide his displeasure with this issue alone.

Gandhi's vegetarianism is well known to the world.

He has been interested in vegetarianism since he studied in England.

Gandhi, who we remember missing, is the result of extreme vegetarianism.

He didn't even drink milk.

"People with strong libido have strong appetite". Gandhi said.

In his autobiography, there is a line between sex and eating.

There are many stories about what to eat and what not to eat.

Because food is closely linked to sex.

Unlike Korean men, who especially reveal healthy foods, Gandhi searched for foods that help abstinence.

He gave up any food that hindered his abstinence.

Sugar, milk, and onions were kicked out of Gandhi's table.

It was also essential to check the body's reactions after eating.

The best abstinence foods he recommended were walnuts and almonds.

Gandhi was so obsessed with the proposition of sex and food because he wanted to use the spiritual energy gained from asceticism for the independence movement.

His vegetarian diet is also linked to the non-violent theory of not killing animals and is included in his movement, Satyagraha.

India is Gandhi's country.

Gandhi is still revered as a saint (Mahatma) and an Indian spiritual leader (Guru) and father (Bapu).

Wherever you go to any city in India, you can see a statue of Gandhi, and wherever you wander, you will find a street or building named after Gandhi.

Of course, Gandhi was not a great Mahatma from the beginning.

Gandhi, a rookie lawyer who returned from studying in England, made his debut in the first trial with a sudden freeze.

One day in South Africa, where he offered him a job, he was kicked out of the train for being a colored man, where he changed his course of life and made a name for himself as a leader of the popular movement.

Gandhi returned to his country, and although he had been at the forefront of the Indian national movement since 1920,

During his long career, he was criticized as a person who sometimes developed anachronistic political philosophy, so he was criticized as a contradictory person with many faces.

His way of fighting was strange and strange.

Nonviolent and non-cooperative methods were unknown weapons that Britain could not afford.

It was Ido Gandhi who incorporated religion into politics, claiming that "politics separated from religion are like corpses in tombs."

Gandhi was a pacifist who insisted on non-violence, but he did not spare any cooperation in suppressing the Zulu rebellion in the Boer War in South Africa.

He also recruited troops for Britain, which is fighting World War I. He encouraged them to go out and fight for England. 

It was a tactic to gain autonomy as a reward after sending young Indian men to the imperialist war in the name of "If the empire declines, the wishes we have kept will also decline."

At that time, as many as 90,000 Indian conscripts died in the war.

It is difficult to avoid pointing out that Gandhi was a person who opposed the basics of modernity and had scratches on his non-violent philosophy. 

In fact, the standard for non-violent philosophy is ambiguous. 

In July 1909, India's hot-blooded young man, Dingra, attempted to kill British imperialist Cousin Wyle, when Gandhi's manner was truly bizarre.

Gandhi criticized "India's Ahn Jung-geun" Dingri as a blind patriot. 

It was three months before Ahn Jung-geun shot Ito Hirobumi.

Crucially, Gandhi was the last person to oppose land reform. That is why the caste system remains in India so far, and land reform has been delayed. In this context, there are many communists who are dissatisfied with the situation in modern India.

Nevertheless, Gandhi was great.

Mahatma is a Beomeo nickname that means about the size of a Mahahorn, and in December 1922, it was called Mahatma Gandhi after receiving a poem praised as Mahatma by Indian literary man R. Tagore. It is often translated as a great soul. 

It is said that he did not like this honor, and an acquaintance close to Neruna called him "Bapu," meaning his stepfather.

Gandhi advised the Jews to campaign against Hitler without resistance.

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This is a glimpse of the unrealistic nature of Gandhi's theory.

His image, such as the Messiah, became an obstacle to the development of democracy, and his past regressive argument toward a spinning wheel "village republic" was also criticized as an obstacle to industrial development.

"I believe the caste system is the law of life. 

Also, it's better not to blame your caste. That's the true sign of humility."

In fact, Gandhi was indifferent to the abolition of old bad customs such as the abolition of the caste system, which is India's class system, and was said to have been more favorable to the wealthy and upper classes than the common people. 

Unlike another Indian independence hero, Bimrao Ramji Ambedkar, who showed great interest in the abolition of the caste system and policies toward the common people, he consistently maintained an attitude that "with love and compassion" toward the caste abolition issue. It advocates the caste system to the end and treats the oppressed class despised within the caste system as an object rather than a subject. 

In addition, a system was attempted to deny the workers' right to labor disputes itself.

Gandhi was a star created by the Indian public.

Millions of people who had never seen him and who had no idea what he was were fighting in Gandhi's name.

The image of a leader in the distance was interpreted as a child's acceptance to the hearts of the public, and tens of thousands of people participated in the movement under Gandhi's command.

Gandhi's ability to mobilize the public indefinitely

The same power was exerted in controlling them.

Whenever the potential violence of the public crosses the line,

Gandhi's "non-violence" card appeared.

Leftists also called Gandhi the "Mascot of Burjoa," calling him the "Jona of the Indian Revolution," which blocked the possibility of a violent revolution.

Gandhi was a problematic and controversial figure, but "Bourgeois politician" Gandhi was a great figure. His greatness can be found in bringing the Indian people together for the first time. The majority of the National Assembly, which took power after independence, was stained with corruption, but Gandhi maintained his integrity until the end. Gandhi criticized the corruption of the National Assembly and called for the dissolution of the National Assembly as a political party and the entry of volunteer groups into the public. 

However, the National Assembly abandoned Gandhi, "like eating a hound after the hunt." However, Gandhi, who had lost almost his political influence on the National Assembly, devoted himself to preventing religious conflict, a problem in India, and eventually died in the hands of the Hindu far right. 

Gandhi is the pinnacle of the greatness of the Indian spirit, and at the same time, he is also the person who shows the contradiction of the Indian spirit. This is the case only from the standpoint of advocacy on the caste system. Personally, he reached a state of high enlightenment and was personally respectable, but lacked a critical mind for structural contradictions. This is also because Gandhi was more of a religious saint than a revolutionary great man. 

On August 15, 1947, India gained independence from Britain, but there was a national division between Muslims and Muslims to Pakistan and Hindus to India. At that time, tens of thousands of people were slaughtered in religious conflict, and Gandhi worked to reconcile and reconcile Muslims and Hindus. However, his appearance seemed to favor Muslims to extreme conservative Hindus, and eventually, on January 30, 1948, in New Delhi, 

at an open prayer meeting 

anti-Muslim Hindu extremism in attendance 

Naturam Godse of Rashtriya Sewak, an armed group, was shot and killed.

Gandhi was a great Mahatma, but at the same time he had many human weaknesses.

Mahatma's birth might not have been possible without India's tradition of worshiping leaders.