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While Gandhi was in Noakhali, his typist and shorthand secretary, Parasuram, resigned on New Year's day 1947. He was shocked to find Gandhi sleeping naked with Manu. She also bathed and massaged his naked body, finding nothing wrong in doing anything Bapu asked of her. Gandhi insisted that he was never aroused when he slept beside her, or next to Sushila or Abha. He felt only as a Mother to these most intimate disciple-helpers.
I am sorry, Gandhi replied to Parasuram. You are at liberty to leave me today. He woke that morning at 2 A.M. God's grace alone is sustaining me, he confided to his diary. I can see there is some grave defect in me somewhere which is the cause of all this. All around me is utter darkness. He woke Manu, telling her 'to remain alert and wide awake.' Pyarelal, Gandhi's secretary reported that he muttered to himself: 'There must be some serious flaw deep down in me which I am unable to discover. could I have missed my way?'
Rajendra Prasad heard about Parasuram, tactfully suggesting that it would be better for Gandhi to ask his grandnephew Kanu to take Manu's place. It is futile to worry, Bapu replied to his friend. Manu has come of her own accord. She was keen to come only to work under me and I agreed to it and she is working with zest. She is not as capable as Kanu, but where faith and purity exist talent and strength must follow.
Ramdas, Gandhi's son also heard, and was worried about his father. Don't at all worry, Bapu replied. Manu has taken up a lot of work and I have asked her to write about her sharing the bed with me. He still felt himself surrounded by 'darkness,' fearing that might indicate 'a flaw' in his 'method.'
He was scrupulously truthful enough, and passionately introspective enough to ask of his son, Could it be that I am nurturing only weakness in the name of non-violence! Gandhi was testing the 'truth' of his faith in the fire of 'experience.' His had always been a practical philosopher, an activist faith. He appears to have hoped that sleeping naked with Manu, without arousing in himself the slightest sexual desire, might help him to douse raging fires of communal hatred in the ocean of India, and so strengthen his body as to allow him to live to 125 in continued service to the world. By January 19, however; less than a month since she had joined him, Manu showed signs of growing alienation. I shall be happy if I know whether you will accompany me on the walk in the morning or in the evening or at both times. She did not reply. Her withdrawal upset him. So he wrote, I don't know how I can help if you are scared all the time. He felt so troubled about Manu's anxiety and listlessness that he wrote to his old Calcutta comrade Satis Chandra Mukerji, seeking his opinion.
A young girl (19) who is in the place of a granddaughter to me by relation shares the same bed with me, not for any animal satisfaction but for valid moral reasons. She claims to be free from the passion that a girl of her age generally has and I claim to be a practiced brahmachari. Do you see anything bad or unjustifiable in this juxtaposition? Mukerji chose not to answer that question. Manilal Gandhi, however; was shocked when he heard the news. Do not let the fact of Manu sleeping with me perturb you. I believe that it is God who has prompted me to take that step, his Bapu replied. Do not get [Father-in-law] upset and bear with me. I write this because Kishorelal and others have got upset. I see no reason for that. Gandhi asked a Bengali doctor he met to 'suggest any recipe' for helping him live to 125. The doctor only advised him to return to Calcutta 'to recoup his health.'
District Muslim League Secretary Mujibur Rahman urged Gandhi to leave Noakhali, informing him that local Hindu and Muslim leaders could take responsible care of their own people. Some men asked him now if they too should sleep with young girls? What he did was for all to do if they conformed to conditions observed by him, Gandhi replied. If that was not done, those who pretended to imitate his practice were doomed to perdition.
Gandhi believed, as he told Nirmal Bose, that there is an indissoluble connection between private, personal life and public. You cannot overlook private deflections from the right conduct. If you are convinced you should pursue my connection with Manu and if you find a flaw, try to show it to me. Nirmal argued against the practice but failed to convince Gandhi that he did anything inappropriate, since he firmly believed God directed his actions, and approved of his loving (nonsexual) intimacy with Manu. Gandhi then wrote to Vinoba to explain that he slept with Manu in order to test what had been my belief for a long time that that alone is true brahmacharya which requires no hedges.
I am not conscious of myself having fallen. My mind daily sleeps in an innocent manner with millions of women, and Manu also, who is a blood relation to me, sleeps with me as one of these millions. If I do not appear to people exactly as I am within, wouldn't that be a blot on my non-violence? A few days later Manu suggested that they stop sleeping together. Gandhi readily agreed.
I am sorry, Gandhi replied to Parasuram. You are at liberty to leave me today. He woke that morning at 2 A.M. God's grace alone is sustaining me, he confided to his diary. I can see there is some grave defect in me somewhere which is the cause of all this. All around me is utter darkness. He woke Manu, telling her 'to remain alert and wide awake.' Pyarelal, Gandhi's secretary reported that he muttered to himself: 'There must be some serious flaw deep down in me which I am unable to discover. could I have missed my way?'
Rajendra Prasad heard about Parasuram, tactfully suggesting that it would be better for Gandhi to ask his grandnephew Kanu to take Manu's place. It is futile to worry, Bapu replied to his friend. Manu has come of her own accord. She was keen to come only to work under me and I agreed to it and she is working with zest. She is not as capable as Kanu, but where faith and purity exist talent and strength must follow.
Ramdas, Gandhi's son also heard, and was worried about his father. Don't at all worry, Bapu replied. Manu has taken up a lot of work and I have asked her to write about her sharing the bed with me. He still felt himself surrounded by 'darkness,' fearing that might indicate 'a flaw' in his 'method.'
He was scrupulously truthful enough, and passionately introspective enough to ask of his son, Could it be that I am nurturing only weakness in the name of non-violence! Gandhi was testing the 'truth' of his faith in the fire of 'experience.' His had always been a practical philosopher, an activist faith. He appears to have hoped that sleeping naked with Manu, without arousing in himself the slightest sexual desire, might help him to douse raging fires of communal hatred in the ocean of India, and so strengthen his body as to allow him to live to 125 in continued service to the world. By January 19, however; less than a month since she had joined him, Manu showed signs of growing alienation. I shall be happy if I know whether you will accompany me on the walk in the morning or in the evening or at both times. She did not reply. Her withdrawal upset him. So he wrote, I don't know how I can help if you are scared all the time. He felt so troubled about Manu's anxiety and listlessness that he wrote to his old Calcutta comrade Satis Chandra Mukerji, seeking his opinion.
A young girl (19) who is in the place of a granddaughter to me by relation shares the same bed with me, not for any animal satisfaction but for valid moral reasons. She claims to be free from the passion that a girl of her age generally has and I claim to be a practiced brahmachari. Do you see anything bad or unjustifiable in this juxtaposition? Mukerji chose not to answer that question. Manilal Gandhi, however; was shocked when he heard the news. Do not let the fact of Manu sleeping with me perturb you. I believe that it is God who has prompted me to take that step, his Bapu replied. Do not get [Father-in-law] upset and bear with me. I write this because Kishorelal and others have got upset. I see no reason for that. Gandhi asked a Bengali doctor he met to 'suggest any recipe' for helping him live to 125. The doctor only advised him to return to Calcutta 'to recoup his health.'
District Muslim League Secretary Mujibur Rahman urged Gandhi to leave Noakhali, informing him that local Hindu and Muslim leaders could take responsible care of their own people. Some men asked him now if they too should sleep with young girls? What he did was for all to do if they conformed to conditions observed by him, Gandhi replied. If that was not done, those who pretended to imitate his practice were doomed to perdition.
Gandhi believed, as he told Nirmal Bose, that there is an indissoluble connection between private, personal life and public. You cannot overlook private deflections from the right conduct. If you are convinced you should pursue my connection with Manu and if you find a flaw, try to show it to me. Nirmal argued against the practice but failed to convince Gandhi that he did anything inappropriate, since he firmly believed God directed his actions, and approved of his loving (nonsexual) intimacy with Manu. Gandhi then wrote to Vinoba to explain that he slept with Manu in order to test what had been my belief for a long time that that alone is true brahmacharya which requires no hedges.
I am not conscious of myself having fallen. My mind daily sleeps in an innocent manner with millions of women, and Manu also, who is a blood relation to me, sleeps with me as one of these millions. If I do not appear to people exactly as I am within, wouldn't that be a blot on my non-violence? A few days later Manu suggested that they stop sleeping together. Gandhi readily agreed.
This was a real disaster scenario had this been published. I wish that a national symbolic person like Gandhi is not expected to do such things, but after-all he is a human and wished to live more than 100 years. Nathuram Godse might be the tip of an iceberg which metamorphically was something similar to sleeping naked with someone.
Edited by truefusion, 24 October 2009 - 08:58 AM.
I suppose you are right though, but I really think that you should do something like that at least once in your life. Rejoice your primal heritage and the feeling of naked-ness!!! Haha, just joking. But I mean, if you absolutely love the feeling of the sheets and blankets on your naked skin, like face, arms, legs, and whatever, imagine if you have completely have a total of 100% access to the sheets and blankets. The feeling would be cool, smooth and just very nice over all.
Which is highly unlikely, but still... 
