Gandhi detested the honorific of mahatma (great soul). He continuously asserted he was merely a human striving to move toward truth
. Although he was revered by millions and had immense power to get whatever benefits he wanted for himself, he lived as a pauper, and when offered a political position at India’s independence, he turned it down.
A case in point is that even though Gandhi long denounced the concept of untouchability in Hinduism, he agreed with the original Vedic purposing of caste and thus argued for caste and against marriage outside of caste. However, in his later years he recognized that the caste system, as practised, created inequality and misery and so advocated for marriage outside of caste in order to break it down.
In those years, he assiduously championed communal and religious harmony, women’s rights, education for all, environmentalism, and equality of all humans. A constant reference in so much of Gandhi’s writing during his India years was the declaration that all men are brothers, all men are equal. That is why Martin Luther King Jr. travelled to India and slept in Gandhi’s room, and why he modelled his version of the civil rights movement on Gandhi.
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