Mahatma Gandhi || Acharya Prashant

Full Video: How to know what one must do? || Acharya Prashant (2019)

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00:00I am reminded of the time when Mahatma Gandhi returned from South Africa to India.

00:05So finally when he left South Africa for good and landed in India, Gopal Krishna Gokhale

00:10told him, no public life for you for at least one year.

00:14Yes, you have been an outstanding leader in South Africa and you had victories and you

00:20have the capability to mobilize people and rally them behind you.

00:24But no public life in India for you for at least one year.

00:28Just abstain.

00:29Observe, watch, travel, no.

00:33Gandhiji considered Gokhale his teacher and he followed the advice.

00:37He just kept studying.

00:39Then came the Champaran movement.

00:41It's not that he had consciously selected to be in Champaran.

00:46That too was a kind of an accident.

00:47But then when you are prepared, then very solemn accidents happen with you.