Calling women a central and driving force for the country, Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi said in the Lok Sabha that he had been taught a powerful lesson by his grandmother, the late ex-PM Indira Gandhi, when he was a child.
He recalled how his grandmother had taken him out to a dark garden and left him there for a few minutes to teach him that he was not scared of the darkness or the dogs, but of his own imagination and what he was thinking.
She told him, 'You should not be scared of the darkness; the truth most often is in the darkness. If you do not have the courage to face fears, to go into darkness, you will not be able to understand truth.'
This lesson, Rahul Gandhi said, was a political lesson he thought of years later, but fundamentally a religious lesson: 'Satyam Shivam Sundaram', which represents the concept that ultimate truth is divine, and inherently beautiful.
