One day a little boy visited Mahatma Gandhi.
“Such a great man without a shirt!” he wondered.
Gandhiji’s dress surprised the boy.
Why don’t you wear a shirt, Gandhiji?” the little boy asked.
“Where is the money, son?” Gandhiji asked gently.
“I am very poor. I cannot buy a shirt.”
The boy felt pity.
“My mother sews well,” he said.
“She makes all my clothes. I will ask her to sew a shirt for you.”
“How many shirts can your mother make?” Gandhiji asked.
“Just tell me how many you need”, said the boy.
“She will make as many as you want.”
Gandhiji thought for a moment.
Then he said, “I have a very large family, son.
I have forty crore brothers and sisters.”
“Till every one of them has a shirt, how can I wear one?” Gandhiji asked.
The reply surprised the boy.
Forty crore brothers and sisters!
Gandhiji was right. After all, Gandhiji felt all the people of India were his family members.
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