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Ba and Bapu


Compiled By : Mukulbhai Kalarthi

Translated from the original in Gujarati by : Gurdial Mallik

First Published : 1962

Price : Rs. 30/-

ISBN 81-7229-165-5


Printed & Published by : Jitendra T. Desai
Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad - 380 014, India


© Navajivan Trust, 1962

 


 

"I can no more describe my feeling for Hinduism than for my own wife. She moves me as no other woman in the world can....
The feeling of an indissoluble bond is there
."

    Bapu

 

"No one in the whole world has a husband like mine If I am held in high esteem in the world, it is because of my husband."

    Ba 

 


  An Humble Homage (Maganbhai P. Desai)

  An Ideal Married Life (Mukulbhai Kalarthi)

  Ba's Supreme Self-satisfaction

  Ba, An Ideal Helpmate

  Ba : "Have at least some decency"

  Public Service and Gifts

  Ba's unusual capacity to bear suffering

  Ba and Bapu's determination

  Bapu's discrimination and Ba's determination

  "You have grown very old indeed !"

  How Bapu nursed Ba !

  Bapu's Satyagraha in the house !

  Bapu afraid of Ba !

  Ba's simplicity

  Vow of poverty

  Ba's non-attachment

  Ba, the mother of the poor

  Ba : "When we are with him, then that makes all the differences."

  Ba's ever-watchful eye

  The Mendicants - Ba and Bapu

  Ba in Bapu's footsteps

  Ba, a sharer in Bapu's hardships

  Bapu's renunciation

  A severe test of Ba's love for her children

  Ba - The one great attraction of the ashram

  Ba's initiation into the ashram life

  Training of the ashram sisters

  The ghee-fed lamp

  Ba : "Well, you know now, what Bapu is like !"

  Ba : "You! Afraid of me?"

  Ba's wedding-day

  Ba's gift

  Ba : "What nonsense is this?"

  Ba's touching farewell

  Ba's big heart

  Bapu's love for Ba

  Bapu : "Ba's courage is endless."

  Ba : "But why are you so nervous?"

  Bapu : Well, that is just like Ba !"

  Bapu : "For you also, Ba, am I a Mahatma?"

  Bapu : "Ba has simply to be obeyed!"

  "She has even brought about a quarrel between us !"

  The bitter and the sweet

  Ba's considerateness

  Bapu's Khadi Movement and Ba

  Ba's love for Khadi

  Bapu : "But my sons are also yours."

  Ba - Mother of Harijans

  Ba's attitude towards the Brahmans

  Bapu : "Tell the beads of your Grand-ma's name, Kahana !"

  Ba's fondness for games

  Ba : "We shall all go together."

  Ba, the mother of all

  Ba believed in self-help

  Ba ever intent on serving others

  Ba was always devoted to work

  Ba's teaching others by example

  Ba's alertness

  Ba - Every one's mother

  Ba's punctiliousness

  Ba's Sympathetic Nature

  "No good and wise persons in Sevagram except..."

  Ba, an image of non-violent courage

  Self-respecting Ba

  Ba : "Everyday Bapu is up to some mischief !"

  Ba : "Bapu deserves it !"

  Ba's use of English

  Ba leans how to write English at the age of sixty !

  Ba's child-like simplicity

  Ba, innocent as a child !

  Ba, ever curious as a child

  Bapu's mother !

  How Bapu looked upon Ba

  The piteous cry of a mother's heart

  Touching meeting of Ba and Harilalbhai

  Ba's mother-heart

  Ba in the footsteps of Bapu

  Bapu's wish was Ba's wish

  Bapu's insistence on strict observance of rules

  Ba alone could stand Bapu

  Ba : "Bapu's obstinate nature? Well, I know it too well."

  Ba's life-companion

  "Did you see the result?"

  Bapu : "Well, Ba was unique."

  Ba : "I shall go after Bapu has finished taking his food."

  Ba's affectionate care of Bapu till the last

  Bapu : "Ba is always sitting here."

  Bapu : "I know Ba better."

  A holy sight

  A sacred memory

  "If Ba would not eat it, I will."

  Ba's Mahadev

  74-year-old student Ba !

  How could Ba ever bear it !

  The way of the world

  Ba's faith in Bapu

  Bapu's faith in Ba

  Bapu : "Ba, I do not look upon you as a doll of clay."

  Ba : "I want to die in your lap, Bapu."

  Ba : "If I am separated after all these years."

  Ba's premonition

  A little argument

  Ba's observance of fasts and festivals

  Bapu : "I cannot keep Ba away from me."

  Ba's pious wish

  Ba's concern about Bapu's fast

  Savitri-like Ba

  Bapu's service of Ba

  God's name, the only Panacea

  Ba : "Rather rejoice at my going away."

  "When Ba calls me"

  Who was more fortunate?

  Ba- A poor man's wife

  Companion for sixty-two years

  Ba - warp and woof of Bapu's life

  A householder's ordeal

  Such was Ba's nature

  Ba's presence

  A precious relic

 

  Appendix I : Ba and Bapu

  Appendix II : Irreparable loss and separation