This Gandhi Mandir is perhaps the one and
only temple, where the father of our nation
is worshiped as a deity. It is situated in a
"Harijan" village known as
Bhatra in Sambalpur. And Bhatra
belongs to the ward no. 1 of Sambalpur
municipality and placed as the gateway to
Sambalpur town, while coming from
Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state. It
is identified as one of the most backward
and undeveloped wards of Sambalpur
municipality, where habitants are from
scheduled castes and scheduled tribes. The
locality is mostly deprived of developmental
works and attention of the local
administration.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, better known as
Mahatma Gandhi, and his vision to make
independent India, a secular nation. India
is not only a country but also a
sub-continent with its multi racial, multi
religious, multi cast with multi lingual
identification and living in harmony. It is
a unique example of Unity in Diversity.
Mahatma Gandhi dreamt this uniqueness comes
true in the independent India.Mahatma
propagated his vision to make it true.
Unfortunately the Indian society used to be
fragmented in the name of casteism and the
worst part of it was untouchability.
He has said, “God never made
man that he may consider another man as an
untouchable”. He strove hard to remove the
stigma of untouchables from Indian society
to cast it as per his vision, as he said,
“My fight against untouchables is a fight
against the impure in humanity.” More over
his success in practicing ahinsa (non-violence) has paved ways for peace in society and
world as well. These experiments virtually made him a
philosopher of new order and justified calling him a Mahatma,
which means a great soul. Such was his greatness that some of
his followers try to project him as a god. As a result of it he
is placed in some temples as a deity, no doubt a rare
phenomenon. Sambalpur, a growing urban centre in Orissa, one of
the most backward states in India, enjoys the privilege to have
such a temple with Mahatma Gandhi as its worshiped deity.
"raghupati raghava rajaram, patitapawana sitaram,
iswara allah tero naam, sabko sanmati de bhagwan"
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Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
was a major political and spiritual leader of India and the Indian independence
movement. He was the pioneer of
Satyagraha