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Gandhiji & his secretary Mahadev Desai

Gandhiji & his secretary Mahadev Desai
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“I did not feel at all sea-sick recalled Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi of his voyage in 1888 from Bombay to England, where he was to study law.. . . Arriving in London, it was his quest to find vegetarian foo that he fell in with group of Theosophists, who invited him to the Blavatsky Lodge and introduced him to the formidable Madame and Mr. Besant. The Gujarati student read Besant’s ‘Why I Became a Theosophist,’ attended her lectures, and applied for membership. As Gandhi later recounted in his autobiography,m it was after reading Blavatsky’s ‘Key to Theosophy’ that he called “my meager knowledge of my own religion” and unable to read Sanskrit, Gandhi recalled that it was two Theosophist friends who compelled ho=im to read the Bhavavad Gita, in Edwin Arnold’s translation. Set on the eve of the final apocalyptic battle that ushered in the dark present age, the Gita would become Gandhi’s lifelong scripture and the inspiration for his ethics of sacrifice.

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