Gandhi Before Gandhi

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

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
The significance of the man and the universe
Virchand Raghavji Gandhi B. A., M. R., A.S.,
of BOMBAY, India, REPRESENTATIVE FROM TO THE WORLD'S PARLIAMENT OF RELIGIONS
Will Deliver a course of Six Lectures on THE SIGNIFICANCE OF MAN
AND THE UNIVERSE
FROM AN
ORIENTAL STANDPOINT IN NEW CENTURY HALL, 509 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK,
(Between 42 and 430 Sts.) On the following dates at 8 p. m.
Thursday, March 10. Message of India to America, What the Orient Has in store
for the Occident
Tuesday, March 15. Factors in Man's Personality. The various efficient principles
in human life, unobserved by the West. Thursday, March 17. Analysis of man's moral Nature. Not yet understood or
studied in the West,
Tuesday, March 22
Psychological Functions of man. Their operation not fully understood under our self-imposed artificial conditions,
Thursday, March 24. Essential Conditions of Man's Spiritual Development
which must be grasped by those who wish to take a conscious part in the advancement of culture and the march
of civilization Tuesday, March 29. Practical methods of Developing the Latent Faculties in
Man.
What is man's placing in the universe? What is his object, and how is he going to accomplish it? Man's present state is the result of all his previous existences and of a long continued evolution. The evolution of the soul from the archaic state to the present is a wonderful panorama. A great philosopher of India has said that the intelligent entity that now lives in the human body has come from this low archaic condition and has accomplished half of its round only. The other half is easy to that man who can conquer ignorance and erroneous ideas of things & beings.