Contact With Mahatma Gandhi
English language| Joshi, although a Brahmin priest by training, spent his life going against tradition. In 1932, at the age of 29, he was jailed by the British for his role in the freedom movement. However while in prison, he quickly gained a reputation as a Hindu dharma scholar. Under the tutelage of Vinobha Bhave, he learned English when Vinoba-ji came to Wai to study under Kewalananda Saraswati. It was during one of those internments that Mahatma Gandhi, troubled by respectable Brahmin priests shying away from officiating at the intercaste marriage of his son Devdas, a Bania, or merchant class boy, to Lakshmi, the daughter of C. Rajagopalachari, a Brahmin and the second Governor General of independent India approached the young shastri, with his thorough knowledge of the shastras, whether such a marriage was against Hindu dharma. It took fortitude for Joshi to not only render a contrary opinion, but to perform the wedding ceremony,.
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