Confluence of Opposites

SR No.: 006704
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain
Publication Year: 1921
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 15 MB

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GENERAL SURVEY
founded in the last century in Bengal, one of whose followers and missionaries, a man known by the name of Sheonarain Agnihotri, ultimately set himself up as the founder of an independent faith which he called Den.Samaj. The tenets of Deo-Samaj include belief in a soul that is liable to extinction unless developed to reach a higher life, which can be accomplished by uniting with one who has already reached it in his own person. The founder of Deo-Samaj, it is said, has reached the highest point that can be reached by any soul. He is, therefore, to be adored by his followers as the most reverend, most worshipful, most exalted Divine Teacher and Blessed Lord,
Theosophy, the only other noteworthy creed amongst the newly-founded faiths, was founded by a Russian woman, named H. P. Blavatsky, whose mysterious feats, described by her as due to the agency of certain invi. sible mahatmas or Masters and as pure and simple deception by certain investigators (vide Farquhar's Mo. dern Religious Movements in India), attracted much potice about the close of the last century when it was established. There seems to have been at first much talk about these mysterious mahatmas who were said to be working miracles from behind the scenes, but its work is now that it is under different guidance confined to the piling up as in a florist's shop, of choice speci. mens from different nurseries and hot-houses and to the stringing together of some of them on a somewhat attenuated thread of unsubstantial Esotericism.