After
Dandi march, while Gandhiji and his crew were camped at the village of
Karadi, near Dandi, a group of villagers, in procession, singing and
carrying gifts circled the camp and
approached his hut. It emerged that their village well had been dry for
several years and the women had to go to nearby villages to fetch
drinking water. The day that the march had passed through the village
the well filled with water. Now the grateful villagers had come to
worship Gandhi for his miracle.
Gandhi was not amused. He chided the
villagers for their "foolish and unbecoming" idea, and added that, "I
have no more influence with God than you have." He sent them home,
telling them that rather than wasting their time speculating about his
divinity they should put their energy into the fight for freedom.
The utter generosity of the poor humbles us. They give rice to every mendicant even when their rice is getting over. That is what they are defined by.
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