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Rh to live the simple and hard life and she missed the luxuries of her father's house. Like every young girl, she liked beautiful clothes and jewelry. Gandhiji believed it was wrong for people to have these things when there were so many people in the world who starved. One day he gave away Kasturbai's jewelry, and when Kasturbai found what he had done she wept like a child. Later on, when Gandhiji explained to her why he had done it, she realized that he was right and she herself gave away the rest of her jewelry to the poor and the needy.

Kasturbai was the mother of four sons. She adored her children and wanted them to have the best of everything. She was hurt when she saw that Gandhiji made no difference between them and anybody else's children, but gradually she came to realize what a good and beautiful thing it was to love everybody alike.