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INTRODUCTION
scriptures, notwithstanding the difference in their treatments, unanimously aim at enhancing men's addiction to God. It cannot be that salvation is attainable only by the mode prescribed in the Bible; in fact, God is equally concerned with the weal of all countries and nations, whether Christian or non-Christian. The Christians are at liberty to place their faith on their own scriptures but they have no business to condemn the Hindu scriptures which can be understood truly only when the original sense and spirit behind them are grasped. It is in the fitness of things that scriptures dealing with God who is Himself undefinable should be of a very serious character and consequently unintelligible to ordinary persons. In fact, they become quite intelligible and marked with logical sequence when they are perused by enlightened persons with faith and in the light of their original sense and spirit. On the other hand, the Christian scriptures relating to God are evidently not divine as they are quite easy to grasp and reveal the raw intellect of their obviously human authors.
The author then alludes again to the deficiencies in Christian Metaphysics and Theology and defends the Hindu customs of idol-worship and utterance of God's name. Further on, however, he says that it may be that God originally published His own Philosophy in its entirety and true form in India which was full of enlightened people and later on imparted in the Christian and Islamic countries only such part-true forms of His worship as could be picked up by their less intelligent inhabitants. Finally he appeals to the an
Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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