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INTRODUCTION
kuvii learned and rational public debates and took great pains to impress upon discontented Hindu youth that N's alleged divine revelations were nothing but ill-conreived reports or propagandistic gossips, that conversion would in no way mend their spiritual or material affairs, that Hinduism was in reality an all-embracing and progressive religion and that in respect of its present weaknesses etc. recourse should be had to reform rather than to abdication. Govinda Rao Gore, N's own younger brother, too, proved more than a match to him in this respect to the end of his life. He had sincerely promised to Ń that he would become a Christian as soon as it was solidly proved to him that the Christian views of men's freedom of will and action, God's knowledge of the future, etc. were not inconsistent with each otherFor over twenty years N strained his every nerve to demonstrate to him the tenability of the Christian views, but failed as Govinda Rao controverted logically N's all arguments and refused to employ blind faith only in favour of Christianity. In subsequent years N appears to be busy with the conversions mostly of backward or depressed classes. In Visnu Šāstri Chiplunkar's Nibandhamālā? we find allusions to N's hárangues at Poona in late years attracting practically no audience while the simultaneous preachings there of Dayānanda Sarasvati attracted thousands.
1. N himself had pointed out these inconsistencies in the Christian Philosophy at several places in the Sastratattvavinirnaya !
2. Vide P. 348 of 1917 edition (Essay on Vaktgloa). Shree Sudharmaswami Gyanbhandar-Umara, Surat
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