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Gandhi's Experiment of celibacy
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Gandhi's Experiment of celibacy includes Sleeping and Bathing with Nak€d girls (1/n)
"I am Having her (Manu) Sleep close to me. She sleeps Nak€ed but sleeps soundly " : Gandhi (2/n)
In this letter Gandhi mention various girls with whom he was doing his experiment.
"Abha slept with me hardly 3 Nights, Kanchan slept with me only 1 night. Vina sleeping with me is an ACCIDENT, she has no intention of brahmacharya, but wished to enjoy pleasure of SEX" Gajab(3/n)
"I have deliberately included Prabhavati in the experiment. She often used to sleep with me to keep me warm even before I was conscious that I was making an experiment. I used to draw her to me when she lay on floor, shivering, for my sake" :Gandhi (4/n)
"Bapu first asked Manu to sleep with him, they slept with their clothes on,.... Later started sleeping na£ed " : Sushila Nayyar
Source : Mahatma Gandhi and his apostle by Ved Mehta (5/n)
"Later on when people started asking questions on his physical contact with Women - with Manu , with Abha, with me (Sushila Nayyar) - the idea of brahmachary experiment was developed. Don't ask me more about Brahmachary experiment unless u have DIRTY MIND " : Sushila Nayyar (6/n)
"In Noakhali, Gandhi publicly disclosed the fact that he had been taking Nak£ed girls to bed with him for YEARS but had tried to keep the practice secret in order to avoid public controversy " (7/n)
"Orthodox Hindus had always condemned Gandhi for his unorthodox Brahmachary practices, such as his long daily BATHS and MASSAGES , often administered by girls and his daily walk with his hands on shoulder of Girls.. " (8/n)
"It was common knowledge that Sushila often slept next to bapu.He first asked me to sleep next to him when I was 16. I thought he got cold and wanted me to sleep with him to keep him warm. So i did with my clothes on. But two years later.I began sleeping next to him regularly....
...he did ask me to take my clothes off. I usually kept my petticoat and choli on": Abha (9/n)
As Gandhi grew older, the number of women surrounding him in Ashram had increased, particularly after the death of his wife Kasturba, after Gandhi denied her treatment by western medicine. More number of women were obliged to sleep with him to test his control over libido. (10/n)

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