Shrimad Rajchandra And Mahatma Gandhi

SR No.: 034032
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Kumarpal Desai
Publisher: Raj Saubhag Satsang Mandal
Publication Year: 2017
Total Pages: 107
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 19 MB

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164 From My Experiments with Truth I had expressed the results of my inner deliberations to my Christian friends when opportunities arose. They were not able to respond satisfactorily. Just as I did not accept Christianity either as a perfect or as a superior religion, neither was I then convinced of Hinduism being such. Hindu defects were pressingly visible to me. If untouchability could be a part of Hinduism, it could but be a rotten part or an outgrowth. I could not understand the reason for a multitude of sects and castes. What was the meaning of saying that the Vedas were the only inspired Word of God? If they were inspired, why not also the Bible and the Koran? As Christian friends were influencing me to convert, so were Muslim friends. Abdulla Sheth had kept on tempting me to study Islam, and of course he would keep talking about its mysteries. I expressed my difficulties in a letter to Raichandbhai. I also exchanged correspondence with other religious scholars in India. Raichandbhai's response gave me some mental peace. He asked me first to be patient and then to study Hinduism in depth. One of his sentences was to this effect: 'taking a nonpartisan view, I am convinced that no other religion has the subtle and profound thought of Hinduism, its vision of the soul, or its charity.' He had sent me a set of books including Panchikaran, Maniratnamala, Mumukshu Prakaran of Yogavasishtha, Haribhadra Suri's Shaddarshana Sammuchay and others. My Christian friends had really awakened a strong desire within to know more about the various religions and there was no way I could suppress that desire. Every moment I could spare was used in reading about the religions I purchased Sale's translation of the Koran and began