Mahatma Gandhi (Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi)

Gandhi was for many years the biggest source of inspiration in my life. I learned about him when I was 18, by seeing the movie “Gandhi”. For years after that I kept reading about him and kept seeing the movie over and over again. I am convinced that I have some kind of past life connection with Gandhi. It is the only explanation I could find for the strong connection that I found with him. Perhaps I lived in India in “his time”?
It was like coming home. I adored his principles, his opinions on non-violence, truth, simplicity and equal rights for all.

I used to run a community about Gandhi on the Internet and loved to answer the questions that members would ask me. Often when answering these questions about why or how Gandhi did or meant things, I would find myself in this amazing flow of writing. My fingers would race the keyboard and sometimes surprise even me with the answers.
Perhaps I was somewhat channeling with Gandhi, because one day after writing one of these letters I signed at the end with my name. Then I read the letter again to see how the content felt while reading. When I reached to the part where I had signed my name, my heart skipped a beat and I got goose bumps all over… I had signed the letter not with my name but with “Gandhi”.

I engrained as much as possible of his teachings into my own life. Sometimes this was difficult because of the different time in which I was living. Also Netherland is a very different culture from India. I missed having a teacher who was alive, from “my time” and could fill in some blanks that I was not able to fill.

One day when I was feeling close to hopeless about how to proceed, how to move further on the path that Gandhi was showing me I begged to Gandhi:” Gandhi, Gandhi, Gandhi, you taught meso much, I have come so far, but now I don’t know how to go further, where to go, what to do. Please help me, give me a sign, give me a clue, please, help me”. It came from the bottom of my heart and “someone” must have heard me, because next day one of the members of my Gandhi-community wrote me a casual letter saying that she had enjoyed watching a tv-show where there was an interview with a “follower of Gandhi”. The name of this “follower of Gandhi” was Mansukh Patel.
With that one of the biggest spiritual turn-arounds of my life had started.

Elisa (Follow me on Twitter: Elisa_507)

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