A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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More central and even more controversial was Gandhi\’s cult of celibacy. At 13, he dutifully married and came quickly to lust for his wife Kasturba. At 16 he left his dying father\’s side to make love to her. His father died that night, and Gandhi could never forgive himself the \”double shame.\” He neglected and even humiliated Kasturba most of his life and only after her death realized she was \”the warp and woof of my life.\” At 36, convinced that sex was the basis of all impulses that must be mastered if man was to reach Truth, he renounced it. An aspirant to a godly life must observe the Hindu practice of Brahmacharya, or celibacy, as a means of self-control and a way to devote all energy to public service. Gandhi spent years testing his self-discipline by sleeping beside young women. He evidently cared little about any psychological damage to the women involved. He also expected his four sons to be as self-denying as he was. #time Man of the Century
David Given Schwarm 
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