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1. In October of 1919 , Mohan Das fell in love. He was then fifty and the woman was forty-seven. 😉She happened to be the niece of Rabindranath Tagore - Saraladebi 🤓

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2. Year 1919 was life-changing year for Mohan Das 🤔In March 1919, British passed the draconian Rowlatt Act & In April, General Dwyer’s men opened fire on crowds protesting against the Act in Amritsar’s Jallianwala Bagh, resulting in a horrific massacre.

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3. Though Mohan Das had met Saraladebi earlier, it was not until Lover Boy stayed in her home in Lahore while her husband, a prominent freedom fighter from Punjab, was in jail 🤔( Smart )
They came So close that it almost broke Lover boy’s marriage to Kasturba 🤐

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4. Saraladebi was a beautiful & highly intelligent lady , Gifted, well-informed, dynamic and self driven😀. She was young when Gandhi first saw her, in 1901, conducting an orchestra as it played a piece she had composed for the Congress party convention 🤓

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5. Saraladebi was the daughter of Janakinath Ghosal and Swarnakumari, Tagore’s elder sister 😌

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6. Mohan Das and Saraladebi met again in 1919 in Lahore, and they soon became one of the most talked-about couples in Congress circles because of their closeness, even in public😉

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7. For a year from October 1919, the relationship really blosso­med. Mohan Das could not stop quoting her in his public speeches, his writings in Young India and other journals, almost on a daily basis.🤣

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8. Saraladebi travelled with Mohan Das all over India and they wrote to each other frequently when they were apart 🤔

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9. In May 1920, Mohan Das wrote to her: “..you will continue to haunt me in my sleep. No wonder Panditji (her husband Pandit Rambhuj Dutt Chaudhary) calls you the greatest shakti. You may cast that spell over him. You are performing the same trick over me.”🤓

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9. Saraladebi once wrote approx.twelve letters to Mohan Das over a period of six days.Replying to one of her letters on August 23, 1920, Gandhi wrote: “..you are mine in the purest sense. You ask for a reward of your great surrender, well, it is its own reward.”😷

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10. Mohan Das arrived in Lahore on October 24, 1919, and accepted Saraladebi’s offer to be her guest. The intimacy between Saraladebi and Gandhi reached a stage where he began to refer to her as his ‘spiritual wife’. 🤐

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11.Shri Rajmohan ji ,grandson Of Mohan Das & biographer-Wrote - “Gandhi had not only overcome his caution regarding exclusive relationship but even thought of a ‘spiritual marriage’, whatever that may have meant”, with Saraladebi”🤓
Spiritual marriage 🤔?? #END

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Picture of Saraladebi ji ( Via Google Baba ) 😀

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“You are mine in the purest sense. You ask for a reward of your great surrender, well, it is its own reward.”

—Mohan Das in a letter to Saraladebi Chowdhurani
😌
Try noticing 3 strong words in this Short Extract -
“ Mine “ “Surrender “ “Reward “ 😎

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Shortly after arrival in Lahore, Mohan Das wrote-Anasuyabehn -a friend of Saraladebi: “Sar­ala’s company is very endearing.”
This was Mohan’s first trip to Lahore. He had come with C.F. Andrews & others 🤔! Who was C.F.Andrews 🙄? Refer-

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Eminent lawyer&political activist C. Rajagopalachari,the first governor-general of independent India, was so disturbed that he wrote a strong letter to Mohan Das -describing difference between Saraladebi and Kasturba “as a kerosene oil lamp and the morning sun”😌

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Mohandas once said - he missed her when they were not together🤔!!

Once When she came to Sabarmati Ashram they had their meals, (contrary to ashram rules) in a separate room sitting on mattress bed rather than in the main dining area.🤓!

Wow 😲

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Mohan Das & Saraladebi travelled to Benares, Ahmedabad, Bombay, Bareilly, Jhelum, Sinhgarh, Hyderabad (Sind), Jhansi, Calcutta and many more cities and Stayed together🤓

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How & Why this love story ended on a bitter note -
In next Thread 😌!! 🙏🏽

Problem started when Saraladebi asked Mr. Mohan Das to arrange for her son Deepak’s marriage to Indira , - Daughter Of Nehru 🤔Mohan Das even wrote to Jawaharlal Nehru sug­gesting the alliance, but the proposal was politely declined by Nehru 🤓

Great writer George Orwell, in his 1949 essay - “Reflections on Gandhi “‘- had said that "saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent". 😌