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ATMA-SIDDHI
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Motive of the Book
The motive of the book is given in verse 3. Love is the most Universal religion. Sacrifice and self-forgetfulness are its features. Ready straight-forwardness is its never-failing sign. Compassion, Daya, Ahimsa are merely the religious paraphrase of this divinest power in the human breast. This is the fire which burnt Moses into a prophet; this, the thrill which surged up in the pure heart of Christ and welled forth from him as Faith, Hope, Love and Charity; this, the voice which sent Mahomed into founding Mahomedanism; this, the motive power which made Buddha bless the world with his wheel, and Mahavira make all Humanity for ever grateful for giving in the most lucid, scientific, unmisunderstandable doctrine of right belief, right knowledge and right conduct. The same spark scintillated in Rajchandra and impelled him to call to right faith and pure life, a nation and a world which wallowed, and beast-like almost gloried, in a doubtful, perverse, ignorant loose, wrong belief, and shameless, unrestrained, vowless, foolish un-souled, material,
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