KWA WALE WANA HARAKATI WA UKWELI:BIOGRAPHY YA MAHTMA GANDHI HII HAPA! SOMA UJIFUNZE JAMBO1

HERI YA MWAKA MPYA NA MAHTMA GANDHI
Naukaribisha mwaka mpya nikiipitia biography ya maisha ya Ghandi iliyoandikwa na Louis Fischer (The Life of Mahtma Gandhi ). Nipo mwanzoni kabisa na simulizi ni tamu kwelikweli. Mahtma Ghadhi ndio kwanza yupo Afrika ya Kusini kama mwanasheria na mtetezi wa haki za Wahindi. Oooh God, this guy is amazing! Akiwa na umri wa miaka 37 anaamua kuacha kufanya mapenzi (celibacy). Kwa nini nikusimulie? Hebu tusome wote (uk 96);
‘’ To Ghandi, selfless service did not mean the sacrifice of one’s assets; it required the investment of all of one’s being. A dedicated person could not belong to wife or children, for if he did, then they and not the work would be the first consideration. To lead others he had to be immune to all temptations and in command of all his desires.
GANDHI ACCORDINGLY RESOLVED TO GIVE UP SEXUAL INTERCOURSE (Emphasis mine). Twice before, he had tried to be become continent. Kasturbai (his wife) was willing. They begun to sleep in separate beds and he never retired until he was physically exhausted. Both times he succumbed to temptation. This time, however, he took a vow.
On his return from the Zulu uprising, Gandhi went to the farm and told Kasturbai of his pledge to forswear sex, She made no protest…..Gandhi remained celibate from 1906, when he was thirty seven, until his death in 1948.
The Indian word for continence is ‘’Brahmacharya’’, and a celibate man or woman is called a ‘Brahmachari’. Brahmacharya ‘fully and properly understood’, Ghandi wrote in 1924, means search after Brahma or God. Brahmacharya he added, ‘signifies control of all the senses at all times and at all places in thought, word and need.’ It thus includes yet transcends sexual restraint; it embraces restraint in diet, emotions and speech. It rules out hate, anger, violence and untruth…it is desirelessness.
…….Brahmacharya is encountered frequently in India lore and life. But it is unusual for a married man to take the vow at early age at which Gandhi adopted it’’.
Haya tafuta kitabu usome mwenyewe maisha ya muungwana huyu ambaye wapambanaji kama Martin Luther King Jr, Dalai Lama na wengine chungu tele hujinasibisha kuwa wanafunzi wake kifikra..
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Pichani: Gandhi enzi za harakati zake Afrika ya Kusini. Picha ya pili, alipoacha mavazi ya kibwanyenye na kuibukia kwenye shuka.
pengine Kina Jonas Lyakundi Ole Mesaya Mbaraka Zungwemutauiga huu mfano wa kuwa 'ma-celibate'. Mimi umenishinda.
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