Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Ghandi
The meaning of Brahmacharya student who vishes to acquire knowledge
must lead continence of life
Thus it appears that during the Vedis period of Hindu civilization, the life of
man was divided into four stages, Brahmacharya, Grhastha, Vanaprastha,
and Sanyasa and Hindu religion and philosophy is concerned with the
explanation of man nature and its final goal.
Although married and a father, vowed to abstain from sexual relations in
1906s . In the 1940s, in his mid-seventies, he brought his grandniece
Manubehn to sleep naked in his bed as part of a spiritual experiment in
which Gandhi could test himself as a brahmachari or celibacy. Several other
young women also sometimes shared his bed as part of his experiments.
Most of the girls, but some were younger.
Mahatma Gandhi behaviour was widely discussed and criticised by family
members and leading politicians, including Nehru. His half naked costume
had long been the topic of ridicule in Britain and America. Some members of
his staff resigned, including two editors of his newspaper who left after
refusing to print parts of Gandhi's sermons dealing with his sleeping
arrangements. But Gandhi said that if he would not let Manu sleep with him,
it would be a sign of weakness.
In 1947 Gandhi discussed his experiment with friends most disagreed and
the experiment ceased. Religious studies scholar Veena Howard argues that
Gandhi of his celibacy and his authority as a Mahatma to reinterpretation
religious norms and confront unjust social and religious conventions
relegating women to lower status.
Mahatma Ghandi educational policies reflected Nai Talim basic education for
all, a spiritual principle which states that knowledge and work are not
separate.
It was a reaction against the British educational system and colonialism in
general, which had the negative effect of making Indian children alienated
for manual work, the development of a new elite class, and the increasing
problems of industrialisation and urbanisation.
The three pillars of Mahatma Ghandi pedagogy were its focus on the lifelong
character of education, its social character and its form as a holistic process.
For him, education is the moral development of the person, a process that is
by definition lifelong.
-THE END-