1930 diary says Mahatma Gandhi saw Ram's story as 'metaphor'

The Hindustan Times | September 27, 2007 | Copyright

New Delhi, Sept. 27 -- Mahatma Gandhi considered the story of Lord Krishna and Lord Ram a "metaphor", reveals a 1930 diary of a Congress activist that a lifelong communist happened to pick up from a street vendor here.

The Mahatma had asked those who marched with him during the historic Dandi march to maintain a diary, and C.K. Nair, a diehard Congressman, did just that.

At a daily meeting, when someone asked Gandhi why fighters like Maharana Pratap, Shivaji and Guru Gobind Singh were worshipped as great men, he replied: "Even Ram and Krishna did the same. But I do not believe in the actual ...

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