Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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A GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
to a higher plane, from which it controls and intelligently guides its action, and this force within acts upon external conditions.
LECTURE
ON INDIA Ancient Literature of India.
Early Life of the Hindus.
Position of Women
in India
"A great opportunity for learning to grasp this law is now afforded by the presence in Boston, of the Oriental mystic, Mr.Gandhi of the University of Bombay. He was the most important delegate from India to the Parliament of Religions. His great learning, his marvelous store of spiritual truth, renders every possibility of receiving his teaching, one that cannot be made too widely known, and whose significance and infinite value cannot be too profoundly recognized."
Marriage Status
Customs
of the A Millions
of the Indian People.
India.
The Boston Transcript says:
VIRCHAND R. GANDHI, B. A..of Bombay
Honorary secretary to the Jain Association of India
Miss Lilian Whiting, the well-known writer of Boston, says:
"The personality of one who expounds a strange and inflexible doctrine must necessarily be interesting, and those who have attended the lectures and classes of Mr. Gandhi in various cities, find him satisfying every requirement that is likely to be there in one who is to teach. While gentle in manner and courteous in expressing his opinion, he is perfectly sincere in stating his beliefs and in making fearless criticisms. At the close of each lecture or lesson he willingly answers any questions. He is an earnest and serious speaker, carving deep into the philosophies of India, of which he is one of the most able exponents that has ever visited America."
"We have, as Prof. Dolbear points out, grasped a new and transforming idea, and we are learning to exercise a new law-the law of concentration. Under this law, all things may be brought. We are beginning to discern and establish the truths of the law. We have hardly-yet learned the rudiments even of its use, but to accept the potent truth of its existence is a great step
igher life. This law of concentration comprehends the most intense form of spiritual activity. It is bringing to bear all the divine power that one is capable of receiving on conditions which are as essential to this power as clay to the touch of the artist. It is the ascension of the soul
Dr. William T. Harris, U.S. Commissioner of Education, in a letter to Prof. Nicholas Murray Butler, of Columbian University, says:
"I take pleasure in introducing to you my friend, Mr. Virchand R Gandhi, the honorary Secretary of the Jain Association of India. Familiar as you