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Gandhi’s Ram is not in the Ram mandir - The Hindu

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‘It is important to record Gandhi’s Rama, Rama-nama and Rama-rajya in today’s context’ | Photo Credit: PTI Gandhiji breathed his last in 1948 with ‘Hey Ram’ on his lips. Lord Ram was an influence on Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi since his childhood. As the Mahatma noted in his autobiography, that being of the Vaishnava faith since birth, visiting the temples of Rama and Krishna was his habit. But the temples did not instil faith in the boy Gandhi. He noted, “But what I failed to get there, I obtained from my nurse, an old servant…Rambha, that was her name, suggested as a remedy for this fear, the repetition of Rama-nama (the name, Rama).” It became an infallible remedy for him for the rest of his life. However, the Rama-nama which he refers to is no longer the idol to be found in a temple, nor a recitation as a ritual. Instead, it was something deep within the heart. Gandhi brought religion into politics. But his religion had its roots in spirituality. Gandhian scholar Raghavan Iyer notes

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