Chapter 86 Gandhi last words

Before leaving New Delhi, I fulfilled my long-cherished wish to visit the tomb of Mahatma Gandhi. Stop by the majestic India Gate, stop and look up.Because I know that there is an important historical logic between this building and Gandhi's tomb.The India Gate commemorates the 90,000 Indian soldiers who died fighting for Britain during World War I.This statement alone is not enough to cause me to look up to the Gate of India for a long time, because there are too many such memorials to the dead around the world.What touches my heart is such a historical record: Before the 90,000 soldiers died, they thought that if they fought for Britain so desperately, Britain would definitely let us India be independent after the war, and the British officers on the battlefield also vowed, but when the war ended , There is no such thing at all, all died in vain.

This cannot but deeply hurt the hearts of the Indian people. I took a closer look and found that the names of the war dead were engraved on the Gate of India. There were no less than 90,000 engraved names, and only more than 10,000 were engraved as representatives.The whole gate is very similar to the Arc de Triomphe in Paris, with a perennial sacred flame burning in the middle.But the Arc de Triomphe can be entered at will, and anyone can offer some flowers, but the India Gate is not, there are fences and guards.In front of India Gate is a national road leading directly to the presidential palace in the distance.

Gandhi led the national independence movement after the British broke their faith.He returned to the colonial government the medals bestowed on him by the previous British government, and launched a peaceful non-cooperation movement against the British.But the people love violence.Especially between Hinduism and Islam, there is constant violence.Gandhi used a long hunger strike to call for an end to violence and for peace.His attitude is bound to be attacked from all sides. Some extremists tried to kill him several times, and the government wanted to sentence him. He would never resist or take revenge.

He said: If we use cruelty to deal with evil, then cruelty can only bring evil.I am not interested in India's freedom if it wants to be free through brutality. Finally, the people gradually understood him, and the colonists were shocked by his unyielding in weakness. He succeeded, and India also achieved independence.Unexpectedly, he was killed by religious extremists soon after. Gandhi's tomb is located on the banks of the Jumuna River in the northeast of Delhi. It covers an open area, but the real cemetery is not large.There was an old woman selling flowers at the door. There were five or six different kinds of small flowers placed flat on a leaf.I bought four copies and distributed them to several friends who came with me, and then I left my shoes and socks at a doorman. According to the Indian custom, I entered barefoot and held flowers in my hands.

The body of the tomb is black marble, about 16 square meters.There are several white low walls around, leaving the passageway for people to come in and out.Outside the low wall is a grassland, which extends to a distance of 20 meters, and there is a circle of yellowstone high platforms, surrounding the entire cemetery. We put the flowers gently on the marble of the tomb, and then went around the tomb.At the end of the tomb is an ever-burning lamp with a glass cover. On the head of the tomb are several characters carved in stainless steel. I don’t know Hindi, but I have already guessed that it is not Gandhi’s name, but Gandhi’s last words after his assassination: Hi , Rama!

When I asked, it really was. I remember a few days ago when I introduced India’s religious grievances, I wrote that Rama is the great god of Hinduism. Saying hi, Rama is equivalent to saying: Oh, my God! Well, this is the smartest tombstone I've ever seen.The last voice of life is the loudest and most vague. It can be read and interpreted countless times and denied countless times. It is really ingenious to engrave it on the tombstone for future generations to repeat over and over again. Gandhi was a huge contradiction.He thought about the relationship between the religious concept of no killing and no revenge and the struggle for national independence, and his brilliant thinking turned into an act of victory; he also thought about the relationship between modern industrial civilization and ancient folk civilization, and his melancholy thinking became reverse action.The combination of victory and defeat, success and failure, victory prevailed, but immediately paid the price of life for victory.Facing the thugs whom he cared deeply for raising a murder weapon against himself, he could only shout: Oh, my God!Besides, what else could he say?

Such a tombstone is even more meaningful today. If the cemetery is full of people and crowded today, under countless pairs of bare feet, Gandhi hums humorously: Oh, my God! If tomorrow the cemetery is completely empty of people, and the leaves fall and the flowers fade, Gandhi will sigh lonely again: Oh, my God! If India is developed, with heavy traffic, high-rise buildings, and loudspeakers, Gandhi, who has always been vigilant against modern civilization, will definitely shout: Oh, my God! If India is corrupted, with militarism, people living in dire straits, and gods and men alike, Gandhi, who has always loved peace and opposed violence, will cry out in despair: Oh, my God!

Gandhi always believed that the population problem was the number one disaster in India. He said that we are only giving birth to slaves and sick men. Now, when he looks out from the cemetery, he only needs to see a small corner, which is enough to make him scream: Oh my God! After leaving Gandhi's tomb, Gandhi's voice has been echoing in my heart.Well, let it be pronounced in Hindi Hi Rama! December 18, 1999, New Delhi, overnight at Surya Hotel