88. A sacred memory

Before Bapu set out on his historic Dandi March, one day, when he was returning to his room from the Red Bungalow, near Sabarmati Ashram, after attending a marriage ceremony there, Premabehn Kantak, out of curiosity and in a lighter vein, asked, "Mahatmaji, seeing the wedding ceremony, did you recall your own?"

Thereupon Bapu, whose marriage had taken place when he was quite young, laughed and said, "Who could ever forget his own wedding ceremony? So I remember quite vividly till this day how, when the priest was conducting the ceremony, whenever Ba and I had an opportunity to press each other's hand, we did it so lovingly and long!"