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३० कध्र; * छॉन i o ༈ཌཇ། = "حه . ب ج . 7 هـ - مستعصعليه مت سٹیلتھ ه- وجهة 2 T0 BABoo sHIB CHUNDER DEB. SECRETARY 70 THE Sadಟ್ಟWA Brahmo Sawaja. SIR, ... I have received your Asst. Secretary' letter of the 16th instant, forwarding to me an extract from the proceedings of the Committee of your Samaj dated the 19th May, last. The resolution contained in the extract has given me much satisfaction but I am led to think that we should not content ourselves with merely recording a resolution that wé of should adopt a national mode of propagation but should try to reduce it to practice in every possible from. We should adopt a national form of divine worship, a national theistic text-book and a national ritual as far as all this could be-done consistently with the dictates of conscience. We should renounce marked foreign customs and manners that we might have without much thought or reflection but innocently, adopted from Europeans but which are repugnant to the general feeling of the nation and by renoun cing which we do not act against Brah- & 1moism. * 崇 輸 * We should conduct our reformatory move ments in a national way so as to suit the tastes and ideas of the nation without com | promising our Brahmo principles. The Sudharaw. Brahmo Samaj would therefore do well to adopt the form of worship, the Theistic Text Book (Brahmo Dharma Grantha), the ritual, in short, the whole system of the Adi Brahmo Samaj as described by me in the pamphlets presented to your Committee, The system in question contains nothing against the principles of Brahmoism but has overy thing in its favor to recommend it for your acceptance, especially the signal advantage which it possesses of being able to attract the regard of the General Hindu Community compared to which Englisheducated nations are but drops in the ocean, I think you ought to decide soon whether d | | propagation, for if you do not adopt it at once, the Arya Samajes bid fair to , the Brahmo Samajes as has been the case ment. at Monghyr and elsewhere. The Arya Sa- {" o majes should not be. allowed to do ao as tahmo Pharma has a groiter, claim to the | 15th June, 1878. ". . . . . . . . . .” I * ، 4 g ' ' , , ', * : g ,、 o * : * *I A ; , , r?
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veneration and love of the ജം b கி. Sára Dharma according to their own admission. 密 t, It is observed, that in the jes in the Notrh West, there are very few Hindusthanee members. The majority are Bengalees. In the Samajes of Bengal, the majority of members are English-educated natives. From this it is evident that the Brahmo movement is a superficial one, and has not penetrated into the very depths of Hindu Society. What is the cause of this ? The cause is wè do not know how to move Hindu Society. Hindu Society must be moved in a Hindu way. Wedyasagar's first widow-marriage. pamphlet was a small tract of only sixteen puges but the effect of these sixteen pages was tremendous. Hindu Society, which all along seemed a vast stagnant lake, เnow began to upheave itself and show signs of the most tempestuous commotion, Similar was the effect also of Ram Mohun Roy's Prefaces to the Upanishads. The subject of the new religion was agitated “at every Tole, at every Dulan, at every Chandi-mandap” to quote the words of Kissory Ehand Mittra. Things have not much changed since then.” | 11 f * ! The ocean of Hindu Society remains the same as before, English educated nå. . tives being but as a drop in the ocean, although they may fancy that whole India has been anglicized, and is basking in the sunshine of Western knowledge and refineBrahmoism has much deviated from the course of reformatory action pursued by | Ram Mohun Roy, the members of the Tattwa bodhini Sabha, headed by the venerable, Debendra Nath Tagore, and sprevious Hindu reformers. . . . . . We should now restore it to its legitimate channel under the full conviction that such a course only has a chance of succeeding in India. * * * * In conclusion, I beg to request you will be pleased to ventilate this most important question at the next meeting of your Com " (, 敏 * t | you should adopt a strictly Hindu mode of } mittee in connection with my pamphlets and kindly inform me of the result. o ' . I remain, * Sir, [Your fnost obedt, servant Ras Nagus Bosn, .
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