"In August 1942, Gandhi and his wife, Kasturba, among others, were imprisoned by the British in Aga Khan Palace, near Poona. Kasturba had poor circulation and sheﾒd weathered several heart attacks. While detained in the palace, she developed bronchial pneumonia. One of her four sons, Devadas, wanted her to take penicillin. Gandhi refused. He was okay with her receiving traditional remedies, such as water from the Ganges, but he refused her any medicines, including this newfangled antibiotic, saying that the Almighty would have to heal her.
ﾓThe Life and Death of Mahatma Gandhiﾔ quotes him on February 19, 1944; ﾓIf God wills it, He will pull her through.ﾔ ﾓGandhi: A Lifeﾔ adds this wisdom from the Mahatma: ﾓYou cannot cure your mother now, no matter what wonder drugs you may muster. She is in Godﾒs hands now.ﾔ Three days later, Devadas was still pushing for the penicillin, but Gandhi shot back: ﾓWhy donﾒt you trust God?ﾔ Kasturba died that day.
The next night, Gandhi cried out: ﾓBut how God tested my faith!ﾔ He told one of Kasturbaﾒs doctors that the antibiotic wouldnﾒt have saved her and that allowing her to have it ﾓwould have meant the bankruptcy of my faith.ﾔ (Emphasis mine.)
But Gandhiﾒs faith wasnﾒt much of an obstacle a short time later when it was his [EDIT: butt] on the line. A mere six weeks after Kasturba died, Gandhi was flattened by malaria. He stuck to an all-liquid diet as his doctors tried to convince him to take quinine. But Gandhi completely refused and died of the disease, right? No, actually, after three weeks of deterioration, he took the diabolical drug and quickly recovered. The stuff about trusting Godﾒs will and testing faith only applied when his wifeﾒs life hung in the balance. When he needed a drug to stave off the Grim Reaper, down the hatch it went."
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