Gandhi Was One of the Greatest Men to Ever Live Essay -- Indian, Revol

I am going to provide to answer an interesting question as to who is the greatest man in the world today. In seeking an answer to this inquiry, I predict that large number would first instinctively go back to the days of the great wars in history, and go over the names of the men who held positions of vast responsibility and function in that astonishing conflicts, people who succeed in front of their tax and, thus, were considered heroes. However, I turn away from the storm of wars, and from the men who rode that storm to power and place and I look further for that man who impresses me as the greatest man who lived in the world. A man, who people can surely accost the greatest, should be a universal man a man who combines in perfect balance the supreme qualities of an idealist and a realist, a idealist and a doer. The man who satisfies those qualities, I believe is Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, the Indian leader, of the great radical movement against British rule in India. He is better cognise as Mahatma, called by his own countrymen first, meaning the Saint. Gandhi was born on second October, 1869 in India, of a rich, clever and cultivated family. He was reared as the sons of such families are always reared, possessed of everything that money could buy (Gandhi A Biography). On September 29, 1888 he went to England to study law at University College London. He took his degree in regular course, returned to India, but failed to become a prospering lawyer in Bombay and Rajkot. At the same time, he already plunge that religion was coming to have a dominant place inwardly his life. Even before his journey to England, he had taken the vow to bring to an end from wine, flesh, and sexual intercourse, and on his return to India, his asceticism in... ...crowds of people were gathering in order to hear his words. He seems to be was a person whom the Indians precept in him, perfect and universal man. He had a simple, altruistically and genuine personality. In his political duties he was a firm realist, consistently running(a) towards a goal of liberation while on the other hand, he was an idealist, living ever in the pure happiness of the spirit. Works CitedGandhi A Biography. Kamats Potpourri. 4 Jan. 2011. Navajivan Trust. 13 Feb. 2011. . Holmes, John Haynes. Mahatma Gandhi an American Portrait. Harvard Square Library. 2006. Harvard University. 12 Feb. 2011. . Moncur, Michael. Mahatma Ghandi Quotations. The Quotations Page. 1994. 12 Feb. 2011. .