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rending sonorous voice that he would raise them from the Abyss of ignorance and illusion. He exhorted to them in delightful tones that they should follow the Gospel Truth which he deli. vered for their General Uplist "All human beings are alike; Brâhmins or Shudras cannot be discriminated, no distinction can be drawn. All human beings are sinful and uplift can be sought only in Right Deeds. All class distinction is a chimerax. The Prince and the Pauper are all alike in the eye of religion. Dharma alone abides. All a-nityatva (falsity of notions) should be annulled and Truth alone should be sought and followed.
When the human society is passing through the Tribulation of Disequilibrium Heaven looks sympathetically and showers drops of coolness to pacify the heat, and when Individual, social, or political life is about to enter the jaws of Death due to the Venomous potion of Iniquity, some Great Men appear on the Horizon providentially and they kindly administer infollible doses to the people. Babu Bankimchandra's remarks on the critical situation of those days regarding Varnas. Ashramas, creeds, and society at large are worthy of record.
With the non-uplift of the three Non-Brahmanical sects, the authority of the Brahmanicalsect got a greater ground in the perilous class-disequilibrium. Their mental capacities having been blunted and deterred they turned all the more to strictness Weakness of mind. Weakness of mind fosters fear. is but a creation of fear. It is nothing other than the belief that this worldly existence is full of mighty but maleficent deities or gods. All classes in general, were incapacitated mentally and therefore much harassed. Brahmins were also bewidered so their mastership went on increasing. Iniquity grew more intense. Brähmins spread a splendid network of Sacred Books and they began to entangle the other three classes. flies got entangled. They had no strength left to fly any more still the web was inexhaustible. Learned men were too many to help the work of snaring.
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