Mahatma Gandhi

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A GREAT SOUL The man who would one day become known as the Mahatma or great soul and be compared to Buddha and Jesus Christ did not begin life in a very promising promising way A fearful child and a mediocre student he suffered from extreme shyness and depression Raised in a vegetarian vegetarian family he ate meat in secret and once stole a statue from a temple Yet Mohandas Gandhi would eventually transform himself himself into a formidable spiritual and political leader His devotion devotion to truth and his capacity for self-sacrifice earned him the respect of his opponents and helped gain India its independence independence from British rule As early as 1919 the British scholar Gilbert Murray warned those in power they should be very careful how they deal with a man who cares nothing for riches nothing for comfort or praise or promotion but is simply determined to do what he believes to be right 4