The Gandhi Memorial
This memorial was an intense experience. The memorial contains the room he was living in before he died, and the rooms still have his remaining possessions in the room, including his glasses, cane, silverware, and bed. He was such a simple person, and one of his quotes states, "Simplicity is the art of the universe".
It's very haunting to go throughout the memorial and be so close to so many of his possessions and wander through galleries of artwork and lists of his quotes.. his death becomes the most depressing experience. It is hard to fathom that anyone would kill a person that aimed so highly for peace. Yet I was amazed to discover he actually saluted his murderer, and I realized that Gandhi held no contempt for his murderer, or for anyone. He believed that God would take his life away at the right time, and he believed that it would happen in the way God had planned.
This is the ultimate example of a true character; to be able to forgive the person that murders you, and even salute them. The only way a person can reach such levels of forgiveness is by looking beyond the material and physical world to realize that there is an infinite intelligence behind everybody and everything. Everything happens in a much more elaborate and gracious way than we understand, if only we had faith.
Gandhi's impact on the world was a miracle, his actions would have still been nothing short of a miracle if they were performed by millions of men instead of just one.
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