Speech on significance of Mahatama Gandhi.
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Mahatma Gandhi is the "Father
of Our Nation". The life history of Bapuji has a lot of meaning and
significance to us. In the childhood he was an average student like many
others. He lied for a selfish purpose. He was one among many children. He
was a normal lawyer working for his family until the infamous incident in
South Africa turned his life, India's future and the whole world into an
unprecedented ideology.
The name of Gandhiji stands for
purity, truth, ethics, justice, secularity, cleanliness, self-reliability
, peace, equality, courage, patience and humanity. Gandhiji's vision about
education is very good and applicable to today's India. His vision was to
create activity based learning among kids and children. He wished for an all
round character development of discipline, conduct, ethics along with education
that is useful to the society. That will ensure students to be true citizens of
the society.
The name Mahatma stands for equality
of religions and secularity, peaceful coexistence of all people of India. Mahatma
stands for killing of internal enemy inside the person, rather than killing of
the person. His name is taken all over the world for the non-violence (ahimsa),
satya, non-cooperation concepts for protesting against atrocities. Mahatma
is as great as Jesus Christ and perhaps even more as Mahatma could
liberate his people from slavery.
Mahatma Gandhi's views on cleanliness
(swachhta) are important. It's his wish that is turned into a national campaign
by the Prime Minister to educate poor people of health and hygiene. A basic need
such as toilets weren't within the capabilities and thoughts of the
people. Truly, that name has changed the lifestyle of the bottom of
the society, which became human from inhuman.
The name of Mahatma is still alive
even after 60 years of his death proves his relevance to today's India and the
world. He was the champion of harijans (untouchables). The world learnt the
words ahimsa, and satya and studies in schools about them, it's him there. The presence of his photo on the currency notes tells us not to cheat and stand for good.
In India the government machinery was
treating people badly and not taking care of people's needs. Gandhiji's reply
on this is an eye-opener for the service Industry. "The customer is not
dependent on us (organization). We are dependent on the customer. The
customer is not an interference for our job. The customer is our job."
Customer satisfaction and quality are the top principles that any commercial
company uses now. Gandhiji said this to all government employees interacting
with people, to change their indifferent and arrogant attitude towards the
public.
Till the middle of 20th century the
world was always suffering from invasions and lusts for power of kings
and leaders. The ideals of Mahatma Gandhi were followed in South
Africa and other countries resulting in its independence. A transformation
took place in the 20th century in the minds of leaders. Being voted the man of
the century as he has affected billions of people and changed the course
of destiny of the planet.
Gandhiji's important lesson to thoughtless advisors is "practice before you preach." If you want to advise or guide someone, know about it yourself, so you could give a practical advice. His words put a stop to careless talkers who say anything.
Finally, I end the speech saying that we need not fight for
independence now. We may not
dedicate ourselves completely to uplift the poor and downtrodden. While we
achieve our life goals, we try to do what we can to honor his gifts to us. This
we do by inculcating the humility, nobility and his values, while working
for ourselves and for our family.