What was music to Gandhi ji ears was also the core of his spirituality, write

 

Can a song be personified?                                 If it can be  then Raghupati Raghav Raja Ram brings M K Gandhi to mind. Perhaps This one song contain the germ that describes Gandhi as a Phenomenon and Brings to the fore his dream of building India as a welfare state, likening it to the Mythical rama rajya. The summation of Gandhi as an apostle of peace, tolerance, Simplicity and oneness perhaps had its Basic In the Ramdhuns that would mesmerise him As a child and sow the seeds of Transcendental yearning that could only be Satisfied by divine intervention.                         The soul stirring Ramdhuns paved the way For his interest in Psalm singing as young Lad in South Africa. He discovered the same Spirit of surrender to the divine in chritian Congregation singing and maybe this Strengthened his conviction in the equality That he professed and pratised throughout His life. Historian lakshmi Subramanian, Who has researched Gandhi's connect with Music, prefers to call Gandhi's style of Nation building. A sonic nationalism, in her book, Singing Gandhi's India . You connect be a Vaishnav by just verbally propagating the Vishnu cult, you need to serve humanity Identify with its pain and alleviate suffering If you have to be a receptacle of the divine,    This summation of Vaishnava janato..            Soul stirred him. Paving the way to dream    Of a casteless India at a time when it was Thought to be next to impossible. Untouchability is a crime against man and God, was a landmark coin age that was born Out of this conviction as was the term Harijan, whom he embraced with the same Love that he had for the divine he venerated   After returning to India from south africa Gandhi was drawn to the genre of Bhajan That was popularied by V D paluskar at that Time and to the bhajan of meera bai. The Rhetoric of total surrender in these Devotional songs inpired his version of Spirituality, where realisation stemmed From the fact that you are less than a speck In this universe of time and space. A part of The divine whole, waiting to be united with the creator.........