Gandhi nearly perished with disgust and mortification.[1] He was engaged at the age of eight and married at the age of twelve.[2] At nineteen he was sent to England to complete his studies at the University of London and at the law school. Before his leaving India, his mother made him take the three vows of Jaïn, which prescribe abstention from wine, meat, and sexual intercourse.
He arrived in London in September, 1888, and after the first few months of uncertainty and deception, during
- ↑ Long afterward he told Joseph Doke of the anguish he had suffered after eating meat. He was unable to sleep; he felt like a murderer.
- ↑ He is not in favor of child marriages, however, and made a campaign against them, on the ground that they weaken the race. In exceptional cases, however, he says that such unions, sealed before the individual’s character is molded, may build up be tween husband and wife an exceptionally beautiful relationship of sympathy and harmony. Gandhi’s own wife is an admirable example of this. Mrs. Gandhi shared all her husband’s trials and adversities with unfailing steadfastness of purpose and indomitable courage.
