My Learning of/from Mahatma: Father Of Nation

Since Childhood, I have been listening about The Great Gandhi: Father of Nation. Like every other children who think always high of his father and never think or imagine any flaw in character and acts of father, I gave Gandhi a place near to God and not ready to listen and always ready to argue with anyone who had to say low about Gandhi.I can recall number of incidence when I feel like defending and did so on number of topics like Gandhi Vs. His dream of Complete Swaraj or Gandhi Vs.his act of not defending Bhagat Singh, Gandhi Vs.his indifference with Subhash Chandra Bose,Gandhi Vs.his favoritism towards Nehru,  Gandhi Vs.his attitude or method to get independence and most particularly Gandhi Vs.attaining divided freedom and consequential loss to nation etc.

Slowly with time and  being able to differentiate facts and perception and able to access  Books and information about him etc. my approach of defending Gandhi or rather being irritated while listening low about him, got diluted. Now I feel more liberated or in other words persistent with any talk about Gandhi. Now, I can answer or argue or laugh or ignore, any loose talk about Gandhi. The change in my approach is because now I understood that no body could defend Gandhi because he never defended himself ... because being defensive make other feel right of what they do. He always believed in carrying his work by his own or at least try to do by himself and trying to find happiness of all by way of truth. This approach has helped me in my own experience of my life till date.

Now, as growing youth of Nation , I understand or able to understand that our elders may have flaws or have done mistakes, which could not be defended or defense may not be right approach  but the best way...show our love or  to admire their statute is to follow the right path shown by them.

Now with help of  Gandhi's perspective of life ..I understood that we have to answer or respond to challenges put before us by people or  life...but  by our own method with believe in us rather than just copying other's method without any logic. 

I need not say why Gandhi was great , but I only want to say that he never projected his greatness or never hid his flaws or mistakes....and as far as him as  father of Nation is concerned .. irrespective of  flaws or mistakes of him , if any (Even Father is 'God like' not 'God' but 'human being' , so may have some flaws)....he still is Father of Nation and he gave people of India a daring to think about freedom and personal strength to act for the same.