GL Khajuria
Today, the people of the world realize the mettlesome of Gandhi Ji’s power of peace and non-violence. He says our Rishis who discovered the laws of non-violence amidst violence were greater geniuses than Newton. They were themselves greater warriors than Wellington, having themselves known the use of arms. They realized their uselessness and taught a weary world that its salvation lay not through violence but through non-violence. Non-violence in its dynamic condition means conscious suffering. It does not mean meek submission conscious suffering will of the evil doer, but it means putting of one’s whole soul against the will of the Tyrant working under this law of our being. It is possible for a single individual to defy the whole might of an unjust empire to save his honour, his religion, his souls and lay the foundation for that empire that for that empire’s fall or his generation.
India never intended to wage war against any nation. India is a peace loving country and the way she can promote peace is to offer successful resistance to her exploitation by peaceful means that is to say she has achieved independence by peaceful means. If she could do this, it is the largest contribution that any single nation has ever made toward world peace.
Gandhi Ji further emphasizes that India is not a nation of coward is proved by bravery and daring of her martial races whether Hindu, Muslim, Sikh or Gorkha. His point is that the spirit of fighting is inherent part to play in the evolution of the world. Time alone can show what is to be her destiny.
As we well know that the father of nation, Mahatma Gandhi was born on 2nd October 1869 at Porbander in Gujrat. His full name was Mohandas Karam Chand Gandhi. His father Karamchand Uttamchand Gandhi who served as Dewan (Prime Minister). Gandhi Ji was the most prominent person ever born in the entire universe and that is why he is called as the Rashtra Pita. He was having multifaceted personality as a politician, statesman, social reformer, a freedom fighter and a above all a man of higher visionary. Albert Einstein has as thus very rightly said that future generation would wonder if ever such a man has walked on the Earth.
He was a great philosopher and prolific writer and has to his credit most of the commendable and unforgettable books. His autobiography my experiments with truth is exceptionally beyond all dimensions memorable testament where his truthfulness are the cornerstone of his multidimensional thinking and personality in an open and candid manner.
Mahatma Gandhi was an international personality and that is why this day of 2nd October is dedicated to him as the day of International day of peace and non-violence celebrated globally.
Mahatma Gandhi never had in his vision that there should be no partition and India and Pakistan should coexist peacefully and amicably with unity and consolidation which never came to his dreams.
Unfortunately after the independence, the country was bifurcated into India and Pakistan enfeebled by a six days fast ha had kept to persuade Hindu and Muslims to desist from further bloodshed, Mahatma Gandhi was on way to for evening prayers at the compound of the Birla House In New Delhi. It was around 5 on that cold evening of January 30th,1948 that Nathuram Godse appeared on the seen and he touched the feet of Mahatma reverently and thence fired four shots at him point blank. Gandhi ji felt to the ground, Aha-ram were the last words echoed by the Mahatma. A holocastic scenario pervaded over Indian horizon and left us all wailing and saddest day as well remembered as the martyrs day.
His aim shall be remembered throughout the world so long as the sun shines, moon soothes and the stars continue glittering in the cosmos. Conclusively, therefore, let us solemnly pledge to imbibe the life and the teachings of Mahatma in the years ahead. It would be the most befitting tribute to the extraordinary man ever to be born on the planet earth. Jai Hind Jai Bharat.
(The Author is Deputy Conservator of Forests).
