Life and religion of the Hindoos. : $b With a sketch of my life and experience.Gangooly, Joguth Chunder
Religion
Life and religion of the Hindoos. : $b With a sketch of my life and experience.
Gangooly, Joguth Chunder
Hindus; India -- Social life and customs
knows the magnitude of the delight I enjoyed in standing by the side
of the low castes! While in the street I would walk close to them, and
thereby get an opportunity to touch them. Of course the grown-up low
castes would not come in close contact with me, fearing it would be
a dangerous thing for them. So I used to hide my sacred or priestly
badge under my clothes, which, if kept in its proper place would have
testified of my caste, and to speak kind words to the despised sons of
humanity.
After reading the life of Christ carefully, I came to the following
conclusions:--That our Creator is one God, who is not only the highest,
greatest, and most powerful of all, but at the same time a Father,--a
loving Father, with a heart more tender than that of any earthly
friends. Indeed, I love to dwell upon this latter conception of God
always. In hours of joy or in hours of sorrow I seem to forget that he
is a Lord, and I lean against his bosom with filial confidence. I had
to _fear_ the gods of my fathers, but when I sat at the feet of
the Divine Wisdom which presented to me one God, a Father, I wished to
_love_ him.
Secondly, that man is my brother, no matter whatever be his caste,
creed, color, or country, because the same Father has given us life; we
are alike the recipients of his blessing, and have equal claims upon
his unbounded love. I learned that the best and truest way to love God
is to love man; for what kind of love is that, if I bear it toward a
father, and hate his children whom he dearly loves?
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