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వాకా-Y--- -- - - IIIS INTEREST IN CURRENT EVENTS. Though devotional exerciscs have been latterly his chief occupation, he has never been indifferent to matters of ordinary importance. I have noticed him taking warm interest in the current events. It was, and believe, still is his habit daily to go through a number of newspapers, both JBengali and English, and make very wise and shrewd observations on the important events of the day to any friends who might be present at the tilne. П 18 FAVoнгтК RELIGIOUS Books. Are the Sanskrit Upanishads and the Tersian religious poems of llafiz. It was the accidental perusal of a sloko of one of the Upanishads that converted 1), bendra Nath Tagore from Mammon to God, and raised [t is no wonder then that he should regard the his mind’s eye from the world to Heaven. l* pamishals w ith tl1e veueratiom wliicli a disIt is all eunobling intellectual and spiritual treat to ciple would feel for his spiritual guide. listem t o llio Malvarslii ret:iting slokas from the Upanishals. It appears as if he becomes all spirit then, and even if you be one among tli e least impressiouable, you caumot but, bu mightily moved by the soul-quickening sire of his divine enthusiasm. His Heaven-gravitating soul seeins saturated, as it were, with the di vine inspiration of the noble religious truths that find xpression in those incolnparable records of the religious experiences of Next Upanishalls, it is the poems of the Persian the lish is of old—the Upanisli:uls. ! () poet Hamiz that 1).cbendila Nath Tagore prizes breatlled a than this 1’, rsian tuost. There, perhaps, never more devout lover of God bard, and the God-intoxicated soul of the լtւtriarch of the IBrallina. Somaj has found a counter-part in him. I do not think there is another Hindu living who has so thoroughly appreciated the thoughts and sentiments of tlafiz and who could be found better able to give the spiritual interpretations of his gazals. FAvo RITı: Au I'ıı its ()'I’ls EIR TH AN |&l, l, 1s. It I. S. 13ooks other than religious which the Maharshi has ever cared to study related, I believe, to the history, antiquity, literature, and philsophy of ancient India and to general European inelaphysics. Of the foruler class, তত্ত্ববোধিনী পত্রিকা o १२ कछ, ७ ४ांश I have, from time to time, noticed on his table the works of such orientalists as Max Muller, ('olcbrooke, H. II. Wilson :vnd Monier Williams, and of metaphysics, he is known best C'ousin, Immanuel Kant, Fichte and others. to lave studied the works of Victor REAIDING ANTI-TIH EISTI“ A UTIIoits. There is a certain class of religious men who would think it an aboutination to read books or publications that treat of a theology antagonistic to their own. Iłut Debendia Nath Tagore is much above the low plane Ilis God sounded on an immovable basis—a basis too of such illiberalism. fait li in is strong and deep to be shaken by the perusal . of the works of insidols, II, os more clearly the eterial truth of his transcendental Theism, as le compares tlie strong 1 casonableness of its doctrines will the utter untonalle ness and the tott wril.g weakness of a theistical or sceptical log unas. I have sect hini lwerus ing ה almost with the devotion of a disciplv i lerbert Spencer's l'i I', U l’rinciples, lu ! tlı • it 2 11t 'sticism of the English phil, op! or has only to the tlı, clearly the over-lasting character of the found reven let| |Bral in o leader | | | | | | | } ation on which the Iorithmic faith is basel. It is, berhaps, to se how werk is the basis of the religious syston is opposed to Theism. that Maharshi 1).clyendra Nath Tag: 're hits sometimes been known to read auti-Tleistic works. IIIs Gi:EATEST T'II Eo Lot :I \ I. Wol, R. 1}ral то 1)luarner /ł tkhyt ll. or the хроsition of Brahmosin is the greatest theological work of the Maharshi. They contaiu his sermons delivered soul time to time in the course of a long career, epitoulizing in a style as pure as it is elevatel, the priceless spiritThe 134khyun is a store-house of religious truths ual experiences of his God-devoted life, which can never fail to be valued beyond all price by all who aim at living the life of the spirit. It is, in fact, the Upanishad of the Nineteenth Century, and with the I}rogress of the Indian nation in spirituality, this uuique production must assume a high place in the Indian religious literasure. It is a n:ounment of the Maharshi raised by himselfs and we can confidently look forward to a time when Brahmos and non Brahmos will come to regard it with cqual vcneratiom aud prize it