Book Title: Gandhi Before Gandhi
Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai
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ANOHBEFORE GANDHI
The whole
force of Hindu religion is directed to the great truth in every religion, to evolve a God out of man. They have not seen the father, but they have seen the son. And he that hath seen son hath seen the father. This, brethren, is a short sketch of the ideas of the Hindus. The Hindu might have failed, to carry out all his plans. But, if there is ever to be a universal religion it must be one which will hold no limitation in place or time; which will be infinite, like the God it will preach; whose sun will shine upon the followers of Krishna or Christ, saints or sinners, alike; which will not be a Brahmin or Buddhist, Christian or Mohammedan, but the sum total of all of these, and still have infinite space for development, which in its catholicity will embrace in its infinite arms and find a place for every human being, from the lowest groveling man, from the brute, to the highest man. It will be a religion which will have no place for persecution or intolerance in its polity, which will recognize a divinity in every man or woman, And whose whole scope, whose whole force, will be centered in aiding humanity to realize its divine nature.
Shri Gandhi said, " It is an astonishing fact that foreigners have been constantly attacking India and in the face of all this aggression the soul of India has stood vital and watchful. Her conduct and religions are safe and the whole world looks at India with a steady gaze." He asked "Cultural distinctions, agriculture, art, artistic skill, literature, good conduct, means of knowledge, science, hospitality, feminism, love, respect - all these are found in India in quite a different form. If that culture was purchasable, England would have purchased it. But it has not happened, it cannot happen." VRG defended Hinduism at the Parliament from unjust criticism by elaborating its principles.
Virchand Gandhi
Both were great orators, scholars and patriots who collectively defended the glory of Indian religions, culture and civilization.
Swami Vivekananda
