{"id":9476,"date":"2023-10-02T03:28:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/mahatma-gandhi-was-a-devotee-of-lord-jagannath-heres-what-researchers-say-n-f-times\/"},"modified":"2023-10-02T03:28:43","modified_gmt":"2023-10-02T03:28:43","slug":"mahatma-gandhi-was-a-devotee-of-lord-jagannath-heres-what-researchers-say-n-f-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/02\/mahatma-gandhi-was-a-devotee-of-lord-jagannath-heres-what-researchers-say-n-f-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahatma Gandhi was a devotee of Lord Jagannath! Here\u2019s what researchers say &#8211; N.F Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Puri:<\/strong> It is often questioned if Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, was an ardent devotee of Lord Jagannath.<\/p>\n<p>While many believe that Gandhi never visited the world famous Jagannath temple here in his entire life, being discontented over the \u2018restriction\u2019 on entry of dalits inside the temple, few researchers have cleared the air.<\/p>\n<p>As per an evidence-based research on Mahatma Gandhi by writer Gouranga Charan\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">Parida, the<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">\u00a0freedom fighter used to give example of Lord Jagannath while preaching on unity, much before he visited the temple. In his book, he mentioned how Gandhi cited the example of \u2018nondiscrimination\u2019 inside Puri Srimandir while <\/span><\/span>addressing<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\"> Indians at a conclave in South Africa and called upon them to discard any kind of <\/span>discrimination (<span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">region, <\/span><span style=\"text-transform: initial;\">caste and class)<\/span>\u00a0and unite as Indians.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><b>Gandhi had also mentioned the same in his newspaper \u2018Indian Opinion\u2019. In an article published in the newspaper on August 29, 1904 with title \u2018The Uses of Adversity\u2019, Gandhi had described the Lord as the epitome of cultural integration.\u00a0\u00a0<\/b><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>During his visit to Puri on March 27, 1921 for a conclave, Gandhi visited Srimandir along with his wife Kasturba and other family members. After paying obeisance, he had signed in the devotees\u2019 register and expressed how he felt immensely blessed to have darshan of the deities.<\/p>\n<p>However, he could not accept the fact that dalits were not allowed to enter the temple during Harijan Padayatra.\u00a0 The Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi- Volume 66, mentions that since Gandhi had expressed his discontentment over the \u2018discrimination\u2019 at Srimandir, a senior servitor of the temple attended a conclave held at Beraboi village in Puri district and told Gandhi Ji that he was misinformed about the temple.<\/p>\n<p>Stating that Harijans (dalits) were also in the service of the Lord inside Srimandir, the servitor had invited Gandhi Ji to visit the temple with dalits. However, the veteran freedom fighter could not get time to visit the temple since it was his last day in Puri. After that, he never visited the state.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n    var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n    if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n    js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n    js.src = \"\n    fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n  }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] Puri: It is often questioned if Mahatma Gandhi, the Father of the Nation, was an ardent devotee of Lord Jagannath. While many believe that Gandhi never visited the world famous Jagannath temple here in his entire life, being discontented over the \u2018restriction\u2019 on entry of dalits inside the temple, few researchers have cleared the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-states"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9476"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9478,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9476\/revisions\/9478"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thenftimes.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}