Curiosities and facts, about the interesting life of Mahatma Gandhi

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Hello Stemians, here I share some Curiosities and facts, about the interesting life of Mahatma Gandhi that you did not know, I hope you like it. Mahatma Gandhi was born on October 2, 1869 in Porbandar (present state of Gujarat). He was an Indian Hindu lawyer, thinker and politician. He received from Rabindranath Tagore the honorary name of Mahatma. From 1918 he belonged openly to the front of the Indian nationalist movement. He established novel methods of social struggle such as the hunger strike, and in his programs he rejected the armed struggle and carried out a preaching of the Ahimsa (nonviolence) as a means to resist British rule.

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His mother, named Putlibai, came from the sect of the pranamis, who mixed Hinduism with the teachings of the Koran

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Mahatma Gandhi married at 13 with Kasturba Makanji. She was 14 years old at that time.

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Mahatma Gandhi studied law at University College London. He tried to establish himself as a lawyer in Bombay, but he did not have much success.

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On January 30, 1948 the pacifist and independence leader of India, Mahatma Gandhi, is assassinated by Nathuram Godse, Hindu extremist

SOME OF THE MOST INSPIRED PHRASES OF MAHATMA GANDHI:

• Where there is love there is life.
• Live as if you were to die tomorrow, learn as if you were to live forever.
• A small body of spirit determined by an unwavering faith in its mission, can alter the course of history.
• The weak can never forget. Forgetting is an attribute of the strong.
• Jesus is ideal and wonderful, but you Christians are not like him.
• First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight against you, then they win.
• Happiness is when what you think, say and do is in harmony.
• A man is nothing but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.
• No one can harm me without my permission.
• The spiritual relationship is more precious than the physical one. The physical relationship without the spiritual one is
  a body without a soul.

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