009 We need not bother as long as there was harmony

Mr. 'Broteem' commented at AllVoices.com as under:--

Mahatma Gandhi was all for truth and he was brilliant and unbelievably desperate in making confession of several episodes of his life. It is entirely myopic to look into sex and its diversities with self-imposed moral restrictions. Heaven should not fall down if Mahatma Gandhi had element of homosexuality in his nature. He has courageously confessed about his tremendous sexual impulse. What is the wrong in it? It is none of his demerits if he has lived for a little period of his life as a bisexual person. Little of his greatness as an individual and as father of the nation called India is tarnished if it is found that his sexual orientation was bisexual.

Context
Joseph Leylyveld's book: Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and his struggle with India - proscription by Government of India.

My feelings and observations:
We have in Indian languages a phrase called 'trikaran`a s`uddhi'. This phrase on translation approximately means: Harmony among the three -- thought, speech and actions.

We need not really bother, if Mahatma Gandhi acted with the trikaran`a s`uddhi.

Mahatma Gandhi wrote a book titled 'Self-restraint v. Self-indulgence' which stressed on celibacy.

Gandhiji laid great emphasis on self-restraint. Bisexuality, does it go with self-restraint or self-indulgence?

The problem with books and speeches, is some gullible persons take them for their literal value. Sometimes they may even emulate /imitate Great People, without thinking of the pros and cons. It is like a small boy viewing a magician driving a bike blindfold, trying to do it himself.

Gandhi and Vivekananda have one character. They often went into a preaching mood while speaking and writing letters. Preachers have a greater responsibility to exemplify a model behavior, than private citizens.

Won't it be better for us to be private citizens with our idio-syncratic strengths and weaknesses, than go into a preaching mood-mode with a loudspeaker in hand?

Hagiographers (writers of biographies) will help us immensely, if they, as far as possible, report conversations- speeches and -writings verbatim, without adding much salt and chilly powder to them.