Which Gandhi himself acknowledged repeatedly.

Also? Gandhi drank his own urine, his "poverty" was made possible through the generous financial contributions of wealthy suckers, and he slept with naked teenaged girls.

Why he's not running a Hollywood studio right now, I couldn't tell you.

PS: Thoreau wasn't all that either. He only lived in the words for two years -- where, far from being a "hermit", he entertained plenty of visitors -- and he only spent one night in jail. 

But we never get to hear the frickin' end of it.