00:00People pit Patel against Gandhi these days and Bose against Gandhi these days. Do we know
00:04the kind of deep respect both Bose and Patel had for Gandhi? Who called Gandhi Mahatma for the
00:11first time? Who was he? Think of his differences with Gandhi. He said freedom attained by spinning
00:17the charkha is not worth it. And he didn't like the kind of nationalism Gandhi was promoting.
00:23He said this nationalism is the very mother of all kinds of mischief. But still Tagore had such
00:29a healthy respect for Gandhi. In the spiritual domain, Ramana Maharshi, he used to say there
00:34are a lot of people that I send to Gandhi's ashram. And there are a lot of people Gandhi
00:38sends to me from his ashram. And we are talking of the stalwart, the top most spiritual figure
00:44of the first half of the last century, Ramana Maharshi. And Ramana Maharshi is displaying
00:49from his top spiritual position such respect for Gandhi. So we have a man in flesh and blood
00:56with all his weaknesses, with all the human frailties. Respect him for the courage that
01:02he showed. Respect him for the transformation that he underwent.
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