A powerful and emotional letter written by Mahatma Gandhi in 1926, in which he discusses the existence of Jesus Christ, is up for grabs in the US for $50,000.
The letter dated April 6, 1926 written by Gandhi from his Sabarmati Ashram in India.
Typed in faint ink and with a bold, unaffected signature, the letter was part of a private collection for the past several decades and is now being sold by the Pennsylvania-based Raab Collection.
“Jesus was one of the great teachers of mankind,” Gandhi wrote in the letter to Christian religious elder in the United States, Milton Newberry Frantz.
Nathan Raab, principal at the Raab Collection, described the letter as the embodiment of Gandhi’s vision for a world of religions at peace. “His belief in Jesus as a teacher of mankind shows his efforts to find commonality with his fellow man,” he said.
“It a powerful, emotional letter,” he said.