Author: Dayananda Sarasvati

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2016-10-03

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9781333821609

Excerpt from An English Translation of the Satyarth Prakash, Literally, Expose of Right Sense of Vedic Religion of Maharshi Swami Dayanand Saraswati, "the Luther of India" Being a Guide to Vedic Hermeneutics Christian missiodaries, whose learned works were included in the curriculum of mission and state schools, exposed the Weaknesses of the popular Hindu faith, and set theirs own in brilliant colours before the amazed and gaping Hindu youths, wh03e ignorance of their ancestral faith gave them no option but to embrace the Christian religion either secretly or openly. Their sordid priests sometimes joined the Christian church from worldly considerations and then betrayed the. Hidden uglinesses of of the scriptwes of their own manufacture. Except those whose object was to make money and liventhe life of the senses as is manifest in the agri cultural and commercial people, all the thinking portion of the Hindu community was inclined to the simple and apparently rational teachings of the missionaries. Had this state continued longer, the catastrophe of conversion to Christianity Would have been tremendous and appalling. But it was not so fated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.