Mahatma Gandhi and Sarla Devi Sarla Devi was the neice of Rabrindranath Tagore. When Sarla Devi’s husband, Chaudhary Ram Bhuj Dutt was in the jail, Gandhi was staying in his house with Sarla Devi as the host. In his letters to Ram Bhuj Dutt, Gandhi mentioned, “Saraladevi’s company is very endearing. She looks after me very well.” Gandhi stood to lose everything, at 50, he had fallen passionately in love with Sarla Devi. He considered their relationship a spiritual marriage. In his other letters to her, he wrote passionately, “You will continue to haunt me in my sleep.” The relationship has been expressed in numerous letters, like the one dated Aug 23,1920: “You are mine in the purest sense. You ask for a reward of your great surrender, well, it is its own reward.”
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