ACME OF PURITY.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 214, 10 September 1931, Page 7

ACME OF PURITY.

GANDHI'S HINDU COMPANIOIif.

•: /. ■■■■■' BOMBAY, September 4. ! Pandit Madan Mohan. Malaviya, wli o is accompanying Gandhi to London anijd is an extremely orthodox Hindu, is cross - ing the seas for the first time in his lif/i, and will' take with him. half, a dozan brass vessels filled with water from thii holy River Ganges. . j The holy water be. sprinkled oil everything ; the Pandit is likely to usa An advance consignment is already 051 its way to London for sprinkling all ova r Arya Bhuvan, London, where the Pandit will stay.- The Ganges water will, be liberally used in this purifying process, particularly in his living apartments, and in the kitchen, where his food will be prepared by a Brahmin cook he in taking wij/h him from India. 1 The orthodox cook is an absolutev necessity . for the . Pandit from th<; moment; he boards the steamer, because he would not touch any food cooked bj anybody else aboard; ' When the Pandit was sent to gaojl during the civil disobedience movement last year, he wag given a cook of hii own choice for preparing his food inside the gaol. . On release from £'aol, the Pandit wenl: through an elaborate ceremonial oiS purification, with the aid of Brahmin! priests. He will, of course, go through this ceremonial' again when he returns- 1 from London. • ' '!