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  1. This man was a creep and a pervert no Sikh should respect him or his "philosophy" It was no secret that Mohandas Gandhi had an unusual sex life. He spoke constantly of sex and gave detailed, often provocative, instructions to his followers as to how to they might best observe chastity. And his views were not always popular; "abnormal and unnatural" was how the first Prime Minister of independent India, Jawaharlal Nehru, described Gandhi's advice to newlyweds to stay celibate for the sake of their souls. But was there something more complex than a pious plea for chastity at play in Gandhi's beliefs, preachings and even his unusual personal practices (which included, alongside his famed chastity, sleeping naked next to nubile, naked women to test his restraint)? In the course of researching my new book on Gandhi, going through a hundred volumes of his complete works and many tomes of eye-witness material, details became apparent which add up to a more bizarre sexual history. Much of this material was known during his lifetime, but was distorted or suppressed after his death during the process of elevating Gandhi into the "Father of the Nation" Was the Mahatma, in fact, as the pre-independence prime minister of the Indian state of Travancore called him, "a most dangerous, semi-repressed sex maniac"? Gandhi was born in the Indian state of Gujarat and married at 13 in 1883; his wife Kasturba was 14, not early by the standards of Gujarat at that time. The young couple had a normal sex life, sharing a bed in a separate room in his family home, and Kasturba was soon pregnant. Two years later, as his father lay dying, Gandhi left his bedside to have sex with Kasturba. Meanwhile, his father drew his last breath. The young man compounded his grief with guilt that he had not been present, and represented his subsequent revulsion towards "lustful love" as being related to his father's death. However, Gandhi and Kasturba's last child wasn't born until fifteen years later, in 1900. In fact, Gandhi did not develop his censorious attitude to sex (and certainly not to marital sex) until he was in his thirties, while a volunteer in the ambulance corps, assisting the British Empire in its wars in Southern Africa. On long marches in sparsely populated land in the Boer War and the Zulu uprisings, Gandhi considered how he could best "give service" to humanity and decided it must be by embracing poverty and chastity. At the age of 38, in 1906, he took a vow of brahmacharya, which meant living a spiritual life but is normally referred to as chastity, without which such a life is deemed impossible by Hindus. Gandhi found it easy to embrace poverty. It was chastity that eluded him. So he worked out a series of complex rules which meant he could say he was chaste while still engaging in the most explicit sexual conversation, letters and behaviour. With the zeal of the convert, within a year of his vow, he told readers of his newspaper Indian Opinion: "It is the duty of every thoughtful Indian not to marry. In case he is helpless in regard to marriage, he should abstain from sexual intercourse with his wife." Meanwhile, Gandhi was challenging that abstinence in his own way. He set up ashrams in which he began his first "experiments" with sex; boys and girls were to bathe and sleep together, chastely, but were punished for any sexual talk. Men and women were segregated, and Gandhi's advice was that husbands should not be alone with their wives, and, when they felt passion, should take a cold bath. The rules did not, however, apply to him. Sushila Nayar, the attractive sister of Gandhi's secretary, also his personal physician, attended Gandhi from girlhood. She used to sleep and bathe with Gandhi. When challenged, he explained how he ensured decency was not offended. "While she is bathing I keep my eyes tightly shut," he said, "I do not know ... whether she bathes naked or with her underwear on. I can tell from the sound that she uses soap." The provision of such personal services to Gandhi was a much sought-after sign of his favour and aroused jealousy among the ashram inmates. As he grew older (and following Kasturba's death) he was to have more women around him and would oblige women to sleep with him whom – according to his segregated ashram rules – were forbidden to sleep with their own husbands. Gandhi would have women in his bed, engaging in his "experiments" which seem to have been, from a reading of his letters, an exercise in strip-tease or other non-contact sexual activity. Much explicit material has been destroyed but tantalising remarks in Gandhi's letters remain such as: "Vina's sleeping with me might be called an accident. All that can be said is that she slept close to me." One might assume, then, that getting into the spirit of the Gandhian experiment meant something more than just sleeping close to him. It can't, one imagines, can have helped with the "involuntary discharges" which Gandhi complained of experiencing more frequently since his return to India. He had an almost magical belief in the power of semen: "One who conserves his vital fluid acquires unfailing power," he said. Meanwhile, it seemed that challenging times required greater efforts of spiritual fortitude, and for that, more attractive women were required: Sushila, who in 1947 was 33, was now due to be supplanted in the bed of the 77-year-old Gandhi by a woman almost half her age. While in Bengal to see what comfort he could offer in times of inter-communal violence in the run-up to independence, Gandhi called for his 18-year-old grandniece Manu to join him – and sleep with him. "We both may be killed by the Muslims," he told her, "and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked." Such behaviour was no part of the accepted practice of bramacharya. He, by now, described his reinvented concept of a brahmachari as: "One who never has any lustful intention, who, by constant attendance upon God, has become proof against conscious or unconscious emissions, who is capable of lying naked with naked women, however beautiful, without being in any manner whatsoever sexually excited ... who is making daily and steady progress towards God and whose every act is done in pursuance of that end and no other." That is, he could do whatever he wished, so long as there was no apparent "lustful intention". He had effectively redefined the concept of chastity to fit his personal practices. Thus far, his reasoning was spiritual, but in the maelstrom that was India approaching independence he took it upon himself to see his sex experiments as having national importance: "I hold that true service of the country demands this observance," he stated. But while he was becoming bolder in his self-righteousness, Gandhi's behaviour was widely discussed and criticised by family members and leading politicians. Some members of his staff resigned, including two editors of his newspaper who left after refusing to print parts of Gandhi's sermons dealing with his sleeping arrangements. But Gandhi found a way of regarding the objections as a further reason tocontinue. "If I don't let Manu sleep with me, though I regard it as essential that she should," he announced, "wouldn't that be a sign of weakness in me?" Eighteen-year-old Abha, the wife of Gandhi's grandnephew Kanu Gandhi, rejoined Gandhi's entourage in the run-up to independence in 1947 and by the end of August he was sleeping with both Manu and Abha at the same time. When he was assassinated in January 1948, it was with Manu and Abha by his side. Despite her having been his constant companion in his last years, family members, tellingly, removed Manu from the scene. Gandhi had written to his son: "I have asked her to write about her sharing the bed with me," but the protectors of his image were eager to eliminate this element of the great leader's life. Devdas, Gandhi's son, accompanied Manu to Delhi station where he took the opportunity of instructing her to keep quiet. Questioned in the 1970s, Sushila revealingly placed the elevation of this lifestyle to a brahmacharya experiment was a response to criticism of this behaviour. "Later on, when people started asking questions about his physical contact with women – with Manu, with Abha, with me – the idea of brahmacharya experiments was developed ... in the early days, there was no question of calling this a brahmacharya experiment." It seems that Gandhi lived as he wished, and only when challenged did he turn his own preferences into a cosmic system of rewards and benefits. Like many great men, Gandhi made up the rules as he went along. While it was commonly discussed as damaging his reputation when he was alive, Gandhi's sexual behaviour was ignored for a long time after his death. It is only now that we can piece together information for a rounded picture of Gandhi's excessive self-belief in the power of his own sexuality. Tragically for him, he was already being sidelined by the politicians at the time of independence. The preservation of his vital fluid did not keep India intact, and it was the power-brokers of the Congress Party who negotiated the terms of India's freedom. ................................................................................................. The hidden side of Gandhi: 10 startling revelations on the sex life of ‘Father of the Nation’ admin June 13, 2016 8:27 pm Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, popularly known as Mahatma Gandhi, is one of the most revered personalities in modern India, with his lessons on non-violence still relevant in modern days. Gandhi’s life has acted as a role model to many present day leaders across the world, including the incumbent President of United States of America Barack Obama. Today, he is hailed as the ‘Father of the Nation’ in a country of 1.25 billion plus people. His birth date, October 02, is celebrated as Gandhi Jayanti and is a national holiday. Liquor shops remain shut across the nation on the day, as Gandhi was against consumption of liquor. His homeland, Gujarat, is a ‘dry state’, with complete ban on liquor sale and consumption. His smiling spectacled face image is printed on every currency note India’s central banker prints. Hundreds of roads, schools, colleges, buildings, government schemes etc are named after him by different state and central governments. While Gandhi’s public life remains an inspiration for many, his personal life remains a subject of living room gossip. Not much is known about Gandhi’s personal life, except a few hints on his experiments with sex and sleeping with naked women. However, a book titled ‘Gandhi: Naked Ambition’, published in the year 2012, carries some startling revelations about the personal life of Father of the Nation. The book quotes the pre-independence Prime Minister of the Indian state of Travancore as having called him “a most dangerous, semi-repressed sex maniac”. The book said that it was a known fact that Gandhi had an unusual sex life, and revealed that “much of this (Gandhi’s sex life) material was known during his lifetime, but was distorted or suppressed after his death during the process of elevating Gandhi into the “Father of the Nation”” Here are some excerpts from the book which detail Gandhi’s experiment with sex and women: 1. In 1885, as his father lay dying, Gandhi left his bedside to have sex with Kasturba. Meanwhile, his father drew his last breath. Though, later he felt guilty that he had not been present and displayed revulsion towards “lustful love”. 2. Gandhi set up ashrams in which he began his first “experiments” with sex. Boys and girls were to bathe and sleep together, chastely, but were punished for any sexual talk. Moreover, he segregated the men and women. Gandhi further advised that husbands should not be alone with their wives, and, when they felt passion, should take a cold bath. 3. Sushila Nayar, the attractive sister of Gandhi’s secretary, used to sleep and bathe with Gandhi since girlhood. When challenged, he explained how he ensured decency was not offended. “While she is bathing I keep my eyes tightly shut,” he said, “I do not know … whether she bathes naked or with her underwear on. I can tell from the sound that she uses soap.” 4. Following Kasturba’s death, Mahatma used to have more women around him. He used to oblige women to sleep with him whom – according to his segregated ashram rules – were forbidden to sleep with their own husbands. 5. Much explicit material has been destroyed but tantalising remarks in Gandhi’s letters remain, such as: “Vina’s sleeping with me might be called an accident. All that can be said is that she slept close to me.” 6. Gandhi complained of experiencing “involuntary discharges” more frequently since his return to India. He had an almost magical belief in the power of semen: “One who conserves his vital fluid acquires unfailing power,” he said. 7. In 1947, Sushila (33) was replaced by Gandhi’s 18-year-old grand niece Manu in the bed of the 77-year-old Gandhi. “We both may be killed by the Muslims,” he told her, “and must put our purity to the ultimate test, so that we know that we are offering the purest of sacrifices, and we should now both start sleeping naked.” 8. Gandhi described his reinvented concept of a brahmachari as: “One who never has any lustful intention, who, by constant attendance upon God, has become proof against conscious or unconscious emissions, who is capable of lying naked with naked women, however beautiful, without being in any manner whatsoever sexually excited … who is making daily and steady progress towards God and whose every act is done in pursuance of that end and no other.” 9. Eighteen-year-old Abha, the wife of Gandhi’s grand nephew Kanu Gandhi, rejoined Gandhi’s entourage in freedom struggle in 1947. By the end of August, he was sleeping with both Manu and Abha at the same time. 10. Despite her having been his constant companion in his last years, family members, tellingly, removed Manu from the scene. Gandhi had written to his son: “I have asked her to write about her sharing the bed with me,” but the protectors of his image were eager to eliminate this element of the great leader’s life. Concluding the entire discourse on Gandhi’s personal life the author opined, “It seems that Gandhi lived as he wished, and only when challenged did he turn his own preferences into a cosmic system of rewards and benefits. Like many great men, Gandhi made up the rules as he went along.”
  2. yh osho was head of a cult and other weird stuff but he makes a good point in this video, gandhi basically played the poor man to convince majority of indians to follow him. gandhis image was well crafted by his team.
  3. Interesting lol got a feeling bjp is behind this but they gonna blame the muslims. It was actually an rss man that assassinated gandhi in the first place. My guess is a bjp person did it to stir things up https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7534583/Thieves-steal-Gandhis-ashes-scrawl-traitor-Indian-memorial-150th-birthday.html
  4. You thought morning assemblies at school were bad when you were a kid ? Think again. Spare a thought for kids in Punjab. They've just been instructed by direct order that they MUST start each morning session in school by singing a Hindu Hymm in Gujarati in order to pay respects to Gandhi. The best quote from the below news article comes from Vijay Sampla, the Union Minister of State for Social Justice and Empowerment. He says : " the bhajan is in Hindi not Gujarati. Well, It is in Hindi according to me. But even if it is in Gujarati, there is no issue. Students can learn it,” he said. ? https://indianexpress.com/article/india/punjab-students-told-to-sing-vaishnava-jana-to-bhajan-in-gujarati-5546122/
  5. truth about giani zail from starting and Indira gandhi from 9.26, but it's worth listening further to know about the involvement of Pakistan, America, Russia, Britain with India on Sant Ji Sant Longowal's letter to Indira Gandhi's s " secratary Dhawam, "Dhawan saab, Bhindrawala bas ch nahi aa reha, hun oh kaarwayi karni zaroori a, jo Badal saab tuhanu keh gaye c", next sentance by longowal "jadon fauj ethe enter hoi, lagda bai bhindrawala bhaj jayega, te ode saathi vi bhaj jaange"
  6. ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕਾ ਖਾਲਸਾ, ਵਾਹਿਗੁਰੂ ਜੀ ਕੀ ਫਤਿਹ New Gandhi statue unveiled in London's Parliament Square The British prime minister, David Cameron, and India’s finance minister, Arun Jaitley, were joined on Saturday by Gandhi’s grandson, the former governor of West Bengal, Shri Gopalkrishna Gandhi, and Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan for the inauguration ceremony. http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/14/new-gandhi-statue-unveiled-in-londons-parliament-square During Sikh New Year's day, David Cameron participated in insulting Sikhs by hosting Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan, who is alleged to have incited racial hatred and genocide against Sikhs, for the inauguration ceremony. A leading German historian said Mahatma Gandhi was "one of the greatest friends of Nazi Germany" because the Indian activist and the Third Reich shared a shared a common enemy in Britain. Gandhi's quote on the Children Of Israel "the Jews should have offered themselves to the butcher's knife. They should have thrown themselves into the sea from cliffs." Gandhi insisted on referring to Sikhs as "hindus" and said "I read your Granth Sahib. But I do not do so to please you. Nor shall I seek your permission to do so. But the Guru has not said anywhere that you must grow your beards, carry kirpans (swords) and so on". Gandhi attacked Gurmukhi. In a letter to a friend, Amrit Kaur, he wrote, "I wish you would persuade enlightened Sikhs to take the Devnagri script in the place of the Gurmukhi". The UK government aided India in planning Sikh genocide during 1984.
  7. By giving Sonia a summons in the US for her role in the Sikh Genocide , SFJ have managed to get international coverage of the Genocide. Well don to them. Sonia Gandhi: US court issues summons to Sonia over anti-Sikh riots as she ... Daily Mail - ‎6 hours ago‎ A federal court in New York has issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for shielding and protecting the leaders of her party who were allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots in India in 1984. The summons was issued by the US Eastern District ... 1984 anti-Sikh riots: US court issues summons to Sonia Gandhi Times of India - ‎5 hours ago‎ JALANDHAR/WASHINGTON: Respectful of her privacy, the media may have given Sonia Gandhi a wide berth on her private trip to the US for medical treatment, but a Sikh group wants to serve court summons on the Congress president for shielding party ... Sikh Group files Case Against Sonia Gandhi Wall Street Journal - ‎13 hours ago‎ A U.S. federal court on Wednesday issued a summons to Sonia Gandhi, the president of the ruling-Congress party, for allegedly protecting members of her party whom the group says were involved in anti-Sikh riots in Delhi in 1984. Ms. Gandhi is currently in ... 1984 anti-Sikh riots: US court summons Sonia Gandhi Zee News - ‎1 hour ago‎ New York: On a complaint by a Sikh group, a US federal court has issued summons against Congress party president Sonia Gandhi for shielding party officials allegedly involved in inciting attacks on Sikhs in November 1984, an attorney said. In a class action ... Pro-Khalistan group files lawsuit against Sonia in US The Hindu - ‎7 hours ago‎ A day after she landed in the U.S. for a medical check up, a federal court in New York issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for “shielding and protecting” leaders and workers of her party who were allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. November 1984 Sikh Genocide – Sonia Gandhi summoned by US Court SikhSiyasat.Net - ‎15 hours ago‎ New York, United States (September 03, 2013): A US Federal Court has issued summons against Sonia Gandhi, President of Indian National Congress the ruling political party of India, for shielding and protecting the leaders, officials, members and workers of ... US court issues summons to Congress President Sonia Gandhi NDTV - ‎16 hours ago‎ New York: A federal court in New York has issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for allegedly shielding and protecting the leaders of her party who are accused of being involved in the anti-Sikh riots in India in 1984. The court had been ... Amarinder Singh condemns complaint against Sonia Gandhi in US Economic Times - ‎10 hours ago‎ ... Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today condemned the move of a rights group and two victims of 1984 riots to approach a US court accusing Congress chief Sonia Gandhi of "shielding and protecting" party members allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots. US court summons Sonia Gandhi in 1984 anti-Sikh riots case indiatvnews.com - ‎17 hours ago‎ New York: A US US federal court has issued summons to Congress party president Sonia Gandhi after a Sikh group filed a complaint alleging that she was protecting Congress leaders involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots in Delhi. According to SFJ attorney ... 1984 riots: US court summons Sonia for 'shielding' party leaders IBNLive - ‎37 minutes ago‎ A federal court in New York has issued summons to Congress President Sonia Gandhi for 'shielding and protecting' party leaders allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The Sikhs For Justice group had filed a lawsuit on Tuesday seeking compensatory ... US court summons Sonia Calcutta Telegraph - ‎6 hours ago‎ 4 (PTI): A US court has issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for “shielding and protecting” party leaders allegedly involved in the 1984 anti-Sikh riots. The US Eastern District Court of New York issued the summons on a complaint by Sikhs ... US court summons to Sonia Gandhi Nagaland Post - ‎9 hours ago‎ A federal court in New York issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for allegedly “shielding and protecting” leaders of her party accused of being involved in the anti-Sikh riots in India in 1984. The court had been petitioned by a rights group ... Sonia gets US court summons The New Indian Express - ‎2 hours ago‎ A US Federal Court has issued summons on Congress president Sonia Gandhi “for shielding and protecting leaders, officials, members and workers of her party who had organised, committed, aided, abetted and incited genocidal attacks on Sikhs during ... Notice to Rahul Gandhi for 'defamatory' remarks Times of India - ‎5 hours ago‎ CHANDIGARH: A local court here issued summons to Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi for hurting the sentiments of people from Bihar and Uttar Pradesh in a speech he delivered two years ago. The petition was filed by a city-based lawyer, accusing ... US court issues summons to Indian ruling coalition President Sonia Gandhi GizmoCrave - ‎14 hours ago‎ 4, 2013, that a U.S court has issued a summons to Indian ruling coalition President Sonia Gandhi petitioned by the rights group named Sikhs For Justice. U.S. court issues summons to Indian ruling coalition President Sonia Gandhi. US court issues summons ... Online sentiment: Modi most mentioned, Rahul hit by 'dynasty' Firstpost (blog) - ‎14 hours ago‎ While India's netizens might account for only 10-12 percent of the total population of the country, the fact is that this section has been very vocal online about airing opinions on key political candidates such as Narendra Modi, Rahul Gandhi, Sonia Gandhi and ... US-Court issues summons against Indias ruling Coalition Chief Kuwait News Agency - ‎14 hours ago‎ NEW DELHI, Sept 4 (KUNA) -- A US-Court has issued a summons against Sonia Gandhi who heads the ruling coalition in India, loca lNDTV news channel reported Wednesday. Gandhi, who is also president of the ruling Indian National Congress, was ... 1984 Sikh massacre: US court summons Sonia NitiCentral - ‎22 hours ago‎ 1984 Sikh massacre: US court summons Sonia. A federal court in New York has issued summons to Congress president Sonia Gandhi for ”shielding and protecting” the leaders of her party who were allegedly involved in the anti-Sikh riots in India in 1984. Modi most mentioned online, claims survey Mizo News - ‎15 hours ago‎ ... out of the top 20 for the first time since January 2013, the survey showed. Cinema Cover Ads! In other instances, speculation around Telagana contributed to the highest mentions under law, order and internal affairs for Congress chief Sonia Gandhi. Chandigarh court issues summons to Rahul Gandhi over 'beggar' remark Newstrack India - ‎20 hours ago‎ Chandigarh, Sept.4 (ANI): A judicial magistrate in Chandigarh has summoned Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi to present himself in court in connection with a 21-month-old case, wherein he has been accused of allegedly hurting the religious ... Sonia Gandhi US Summons Avoidable-Indian Overseas Congress Watch List News (press release) - ‎6 hours ago‎ Sikhs for Justice class action suit on Mrs. Sonia Gandhi, President of All India Congress Comm., on September 3, 2013 in the district court of Eastern District of New York, for the 1984 violence by the alleged Kamal Nath, Jagdisg Tytler, Sajjan Kumar and ...
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