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What Makes a Man a

Superman?

One who proves to be courageous enough to face the shock
of unpleasant situations and takes them as challenges will
find that his mind is activated by the experience and this will
certainly unfold his potential.

K Gandhi, a great leader of India, said at a meeting
Min New Delhi on June 28, 1946, that he was
born in India but was made in South Africa. (Gandhi
and South Africa 1914-1948, edited by E S Reddy and
Gopalkrishna Gandhi)
This statement is correct, but it only tells us the
location of a great event, and not its real reason. It
was not the soil of South Africa that gave rise to this
miracle, but rather the workings of nature. And, almost
all the super-achievers were created by the same natural
process.

When the American missionary Dr. John Mott
visited Mahatma Gandhi at his Sevagram Ashram in
central India, he asked him, “What have been the most
creative experiences in your life?” Gandhiji replied,
“Such experiences are in multitudes. But as you put the
question to me, I recall one experience that changed the

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