Reflections https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org Sat, 27 Apr 2024 03:12:35 +0530 Joomla! - Open Source Content Management en-gb A Retort Courteous-I am seventy now, Mahatmaji https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NzA= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NzA= I am seventy now, Mahatmaji
During his visit to the Sabarmati Ashram in January 1930 the Poet Rabindranath Tagore remarked to Gandhiji: “I am seventy now, Mahatmaji, and so am co...
]]> Mr A. M. Kumaraswamy-The all India Christian Conference Leaders https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Njg= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Njg= The all India Christian Conference Leaders
“The all India Christian Conference Leaders or an Associated Body once met in the Ashram at Sabarmati for their committees discussions. We lived the s...
]]> Gandhi the Swimmer-Gandhiji was intensely popular with children https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Njc= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Njc= Gandhiji was intensely popular with children
Gandhiji was intensely popular with children. They flocked to him and made friends with him most readily. In England also boys sang “he is a jolly goo...
]]> Shri Krishnadas-“Seven months with Gandhiji https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjQ= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjQ= “Seven months with Gandhiji
Sri Krishnadas in his “Seven months with Gandhiji “describes a visit of on Englishman and a Bombay photographer.“The breakfast over, Mahatmaji was goi...
]]> Shri Prabhudas Gandhi-Gandhiji- The Drill Master https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjM= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjM= Gandhiji- The Drill Master
Gandhiji- The "Drill Master"Once Gandhiji visited Ahmedabad to meet the members of the Satyagraha  Ashram at Sabarmati, whom the had  not seen for a p...
]]> Dr. E. Stanley Jones-You are my Ma Bap-my mother-father https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjE= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NjE= You are my Ma Bap-my mother-father
“The Indian often says to you when he comes with a request: ‘You are my Ma Bap-my mother-father’. Gandhiji was the mother-father to a whole sub-contin...
]]> Shri G. Ramachandran-Shri G. Ramachandran is a distinguished graduate of the Visva Bharathi https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NTk= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NTk= Shri G. Ramachandran is a distinguished graduate of the Visva Bharathi
(Shri G. Ramachandran is a distinguished graduate of the Visva Bharathi (International University founded by the great poet Rabindranath Tagore at Sha...
]]> Miss Angus and Miss Hindsley-surprise arrival https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NTA= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NTA= surprise arrival
The following interesting account tells us of a ‘surprise arrival’ Gandhiji once gave at satyagraha ashram in February 1925 to Misses Angus and Hindsl...
]]> Shri S. Somasundaram-I was one of the Secretaries of the Reception Committee elected at a public meeting https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDk= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDk= I was one of the Secretaries of the Reception Committee elected at a public meeting
I was one of the Secretaries of the Reception Committee elected at a public meeting in Colombo in connection with his visit to Ceylon in November 1927...
]]> Dr H.M. Desai-When Gandhiji established his ashram at Ahmedabad on the banks of the Sabarmati https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDg= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDg= When Gandhiji established his ashram at Ahmedabad on the banks of the Sabarmati
When Gandhiji established his ashram at Ahmedabad on the banks of the Sabarmati, I was appointed his and the ashramites’ medical adviser. Of course, a...
]]> Dr. Sushila Nayyar-The little children of the Sabarmati Ashram https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDc= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDc= The little children of the Sabarmati Ashram
The little children of the Sabarmati Ashram used to address him questions every week which he would answer. His extremely laconic replies sometimes ex...
]]> Miss Muriel Lester-Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his Ashram or village community at Sabarmati. https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDU= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDU= Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi in his Ashram or village community at Sabarmati.
Founded, in co-operation with her sister Miss Doris Lester, Kingsley Hall, named in memory of their brother, for the service of the poorer people of t...
]]> Mr. Richard B. Gregg-American friend and co-worker of Gandhiji. https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDE= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=NDE= American friend and co-worker of Gandhiji.
American friend and co-worker of Gandhiji. Works include: ‘Economics of Khaddar’, ‘The Power for Non-Violence’, ‘A Compass of Civilization’, ‘Which wa...
]]> Shri Ramkrishna Bajaj-Shri Ramkrishna Bajaj is the younger son of Shri Jamnalal Bajaj https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Mzg= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Mzg= Shri Ramkrishna Bajaj is the younger son of Shri Jamnalal Bajaj
My parents lived for a time in the Ashram at Sabarmati when I was about five years of age. The only memory I have of those days is that Bapuji walked ...
]]> SHRI MUKUL DEY-Early one afternoon in 1928, when the celebrated Bengali artist, Mukul Dey https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MzU= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MzU= Early one afternoon in 1928, when the celebrated Bengali artist, Mukul Dey
Early one afternoon in 1928, when the celebrated Bengali artist, Mukul Dey , was staying at the Sabarmati ashram, where he did some of his brilliant s...
]]> Mr H.S.L. Polak-My own recollections of Gandhiji https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MzI= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MzI= My own recollections of Gandhiji
My own recollections of Gandhiji, as I was a child, I am afraid I can remember nothing of the South African period, but am enclosing a short note of a...
]]> Mahadev Desai in ‘Harijan’ (8.6.1935)-At Sabarmati in 1935 https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Mjk= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=Mjk= At Sabarmati in 1935
In 1935 on his way back to Wardha, Gandhiji went to Sabarmati to visit Gaffer Khan in the jail. He had not been to Sabarmati since the day he had marc...
]]> Puratan Buch-When Gandhiji went cycling at sixty! https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MjY= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MjY= When Gandhiji went cycling at sixty!
The incident when Gandhiji, to keep up an appointment rode a cycle at the age of sixty and that too without having had any practice before, is related...
]]> Vinobaji-My Father and Master https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MjM= https://www.gandhiashramsabarmati.org/en/the-mahatma/reflections.html?view=reflections&id=MjM= My Father and Master
I knew of nothing which is of greater profit than reading the Gita, re-reading it and reciting it by heart, so as to let its meaning sink in … And yet...
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