![]() ![]() But he was also obsessed with his own celibacy. ![]() Afterward, Martin Luther King told All India Radio that he'd decided to adopt Gandhi's method of civil disobedience as his own. So curators hauled in two cots, and the American civil rights leader and his wife, Coretta Scott King, spent the night next to Gandhi's vacant mattress. I am going to stay here, because I am getting vibrations of Gandhi,' " recalls curator Usha Thakkar. But he said, 'I am not going anywhere else. In an austere top-floor room where Gandhi's mattress and shoes still lay, King said he could feel "vibrations" of the Mahatma, or great soul. The house, called Mani Bhavan, where the Indian leader taught followers to spin their own fabric and where he launched satyagraha - his movement for truth and nonviolent resistance - had been converted into a museum. It was 1959, 11 years after Gandhi's death. visited the villa in Mumbai, India, where Mohandas Gandhi stayed in the 1920s, he had a special request: He wanted to spend the night in Gandhi's bedroom. Indian spiritual and political leader Mohandas Gandhi circa 1935. ![]()
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