Gandhi is a Miracle to the Indian People

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The Miracle of Gandhi

What are miracles? Miracles are certain events, which cannot be explained and are scientifically possible. Miracles are great and small. Small miracles occur everyday. An unprepared student passing a test is a miracle for the student. A driver surviving a horrible car crash is a miracle. A doctor saving another victim from death is another miracle. There are great miracles, miracles that cannot be explained. Some unexplainable miracles are faith healers, power of prayer and sacred shrines where people are miraculously cured. And then there is the small Indian man, who frees an entire country. Gandhi, almost single-handedly, won the independence of India from Britain. His accomplishment is not like other miracles, where someone is saved from death, but he, himself, was a miracle to the Indian people who he freed.

Gandhi's Life

In order to better understand the miracle of Gandhi, one must learn about the man and how he became the great figure the world loves and reveres. Monhandas Gandhi was born on October 2nd, 1869. He grew up in a family of six children. He was brought up as a Hindu and his father was the chief minister of his hometown of Rajkat.1 And he was raised in the tradition of nonviolence, "vegetarianism, lots of spiritual fasting, and a great tolerance of other cultures."2 He was not an excellent student in school but he did attend college in England. While in college, Gandhi studied law and the Latin language. The study of Latin had helped him with speaking English. He read many books that were not required of him to read, to further his understanding of the law. He read the Roman Law in Latin, ...

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...He showed how one single man can alter history, a nation and a frame of mind. Martin Luther King, Jr. is a great example of another non-violent leader who followed in Gandhi's path. Gandhi was a miracle for his people and for the future of the world.

Endnotes

1. Sufyani, Amir. "Gandhi's Early Life and Schooling."

http://norfacadpvt.k12.va.us/project/gandhi/gandhi.htm (15 Oct. 1999)

2. Sufyani, et al.

3. Nanda, B. R. "Mahatma Gandhi - A Biography." http://www.web.mahatma.org.in/ (15 Oct.

1999)

4. Nanda, et al.

5. Nanda, et al.

6. Nicholson, Michael. Mahatma Gandhi. Milwaukee: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 1988, pp.

18-21

7. Nicholson, et al, p. 25

8. Richards, Glyn. The Philosophy of Gandhi. Hungry: Curzon Press, 1982, p.48

9. Nicholson, et al, p. 67

10. Nicholson, et al, p. 53

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