沈む・" 'ታ » » च_ == ഇ- -- - - - - - = m - - - - with equal ardour as one of the best made meetins for the spiritually-minded and the religiously disposcil. A (; It]:At AMIBITION OF 11 IS LIFE. To sec the principles of Brahmoism—asaith --ബ- - == -l which he has proached and to the ligh stand ard of which he has lived — disseminated aimong his countrymen in India has been a great ambition of his life. He has devoted a large portion of his wealth to cari y out . Is Ilis "I"],... 13rahmo Somaj in the Empire to the erection most noi,le intention. is scarcely a of whose louiJling the Mlakarshi lias mot ]il)erally contributed. To him to propagi, Le B1.1hmoisni is to glori!'y the ei urnal ‘1}ı alınma”, and he has ever consid red the use of his wealth thus to glorify his (;, d as it resi 'und h , ]iest u 1 1 Tiz;itiom. Fi- w things ar- ku.)\\ m to arouse his entlu-ias in so much as schon: for the dissoulination of the religion of which The high and lofty ideal of Brahmoism has prevented he is the best liv ing illustration. it from becoming so popular a faith as Ibebendra Nath Tag te wislied in l en le:uv 'n red to mako is, but he in: y low-sully ind joyously to Ilf (or tlio A lode oľ his l}, }, , , el with tjiv : ) - surance that a religion wl ich coull claiuto have produced a noble and holy charac' or like hijais. If, cannot but, through the lossings of the Supreme and Mercisul Ordainer of all things, be gradually acceloted by mankind as they progress in knowled 3° and spirituality. | || 1: TII E FATII ER OF THE BRAHIMO ( ') I l' It t ']I. That Ram Mohun Ray laid the sounda tions of the 13rahmo Somaj is true, but it is J)elocudra Nath Tagore who communicatcd Maharshi l )ebendra Nath Tagore is unquestionably the Father life and vigou into it. of the modern Brahuno ('hurch. The cardimal principles of 13ralinoism as they now stand are not exactly those of Ram Mohun Ray’s but of Debendra math Tagore’s. If Ram Mohun IRoy tlho l).cbcudra Nath Tago, e is the the Brahmoism of the day. W:US grand-father, satlier of India may not know it, l'urope may not yet have heard of it, but it is neverthcless a fact that the position of Debendra Nath Tagore in the Brahmo Somajis much higher than that once occupied by the late Keshub Chunder Sen. It was \ó(የ
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possibly because Keshub was conscious of this undeniable fact that he latterly gave a new name to his faith, and proclaimed him. self as the founder of the Religion of the New J)ispell-ation. The Maharshi was the spiritt,al father of Keshub ("hunder Sen, as has been unore than once publicly ackt owledged by the littor, & ad the world could have scarcely heard of Koshub as a missionary of Brahmono I)ebendra Nath Aloism in its essential ism, h;wl ‘livre been T. - Men |
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l't'. ol 'l':.gi r, 's :l;...l mot Kwoshuly ('lı ıuıııler Sen's, as is root 'y supposed by many in India and Europe. It is as the Father of Mouern Is indi: Theism, no less than as a great and that Mah:, '<li 1), bendra Nath Tagora's name will extraordinary religious character, he handel down to postwrity, and immortalized ili ! ii w hist · ry · f ! ! ! e min·t···· ıı tb ee11 tu1 y. II is Lovi, or NATtt I. * ' That Debendra N:11 h Tager ('s mind is cast in the 1,1 mill of that of the Rishis of old is evidencel mot only by his love for a con life, but by his al tachinent lor a life amidst the a mi templative and medita tive also plitulos of Nature, ( 'ommunion with Natur: a nel Nature's G d llas bren his element, and in it hill he chiv fly i ved, moved and grown it:t , a un 1 | ue a ul gi eat - } | . . ]1:1, beautiful a nel sublini. religious wlıaı;i ti r. and in th: : l lint: l.tya-, nu i sing his son! ( : 00 and of Il is Nature. The Mia harshi has, since the dawn of tho' shown a disi nelination spont y ( : Լ ի՞:Հ y rs rvgi1 · ıı » oľ 1 ii, TM in the lov - of love! v material g:+rlb of dlvino ligI in lis soul, fr, quently t t ) general and in Calcutta in resil, in “it it's in T]1 demands par: | cu l:ur. din and noise of the eity am : the of the too busy social life which one in his position must be compelled to liv, in it, would not be quite agreeable to him. Lven when required to live in the plains, under the allvice of the physician, or under the pressure of some other uccessity, he had selected some place where Nature reveals herself a little So at times in 1874, 1879 and I SS k l saw him residing in some villages close to this city more freely than she could in a city. and in houses commanding a beautiful proslf the Maharshi livos in the close of his life in thro pect of the broad-breasted Ganges. metropolis, away from the inspiring influences
