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 Events - Gandhi Ashram Reconstruction Trust (GART) 3 Nov 2005


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SMT. SHEILA DIKSHIT
Chief Minister
Delhi

Gandhi ji at his time gave importance to everything be it a music, khadi, importance to handicrafts, importance was also given to a weaver. All these small things he had done and said during his time was neither expensive nor it is required to give some economic theory or political science.

There are very minute things which I think if we accept them we could become idols for everybody else and I even think or I don’t remember that Gandhiji proposed any such thought or any theory which his common man has found hard to understand. He was the one who stood against the British rule and started the salt movement. Salt as everybody knows has its own importance in everybody’s life. He started this movement and said we would generate our own salt but would not eat yours. This gave a very big message to everybody. It even moved everybody who was not a part of that movement. It left behind the nuclear weapons, or airplane full of nuclear bomb with this very simple idea.

Same way he also said I spin the spinning wheel because I get internal peace and I also get time for introspection and it works a balm for my nervous system. He always had such a simple thinking but high thoughts.

We should propound theories for humanity for this individual theory, his thinking, his way of living should be kept in mind. Today when we face anything hard we remember Gandhiji a lot so that we should lead a simple life, we should remain neat and clean but should have high thoughts, clothes should be neat and clean no matter how much inexpensive they are. I also think that if we walk on the simple path as told by him there would be no hatred for anybody, and the ambitions, aspirations which are born though this simplicity goes on the way of simplicity and goes on the way of less expenditure rather than creating a competition where we are always in this opportunity that I have one car and the other is having two and the other one thinks that if he has got 2 cars I should have 4 in spite of the fact that he can travel only in one. Likewise one can wear only one pair of earrings in both of the ears.

We should always think noble things and this comes though simplicity but not with the number of bungalows we have or cars we have not even with the number of trips we have made abroad and of the most important things we should remember about Gandhiji is that the most in him was his simplicity. Today if we think that he might be not as much big as he was if he had all the luxuries then we all know that when he was in London and someone asked him “Mr. Gandhiji you are wearing such a small loin cloth around your and you have to make a presence in front of Britain’s King so aren’t you feeling some interiority because you are in such small cloth with which your body is not even fully covered” so he answered it very simply that he is the King and he has worn clothes for us.

So these small-small things as far we study Gandhiji his simplicity comes in front of us. Not only his simplicity but also simplicity in his thoughts, in his expressions his way of living and if possible we could mould all these things in our life. I think we would become greater in the eyes of our own consciousness. And if we are great in the eyes of our consciousness and of course we are able to make our own place in its eyes.

Through all these words I want to thank Nirmala Ji for giving me this little opportunity in such less time to present my views Gandhiji. But Gandhiji thoughts are undebatable but keeping in mind the fact that I was given such a less time so I presented all my views which I think were important and I thank all of you for that.