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Rāmamohana Rāẏa; Ghose, Jogendra Chunder [Hrsg.]
The English works of Raja Rammohun Roy (Band 1) — 1901

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THE BELIEVERS OF THE ONLY TRUE GOD.

The greater part of Brahmins, as well as of other
sects of Hindoos, are quite incapable of justifying that
idolatry which they continue to practise. When ques-
tioned on the subject, in place of adducing reasonable
arguments in support of their conduct, they conceive
.t fully sufficient to quote their ancestors as positive
authorities ! And some of them are become very ill-
disposed towards me, because I have forsaken idolatry
for the worship of the true and eternal God ! In order,
therefore, to vindicate my own faith and that of our
early forefathers, I have been endeavouring, for some
time past, to convince my countrymen of the true
meaning of our sacred books ; and to prove, that my
aberration deserves not the opprobrium which some
unreflecting persons have been so ready to throw
upon me.

The whole body of the Hindoo Theology, Law, and
and Literature, is contained in the Veds, which are
affirmed to be coeval with the creation ! These works
are extremely voluminous, and being written in the
most elevated and metaphorical style are, as may be
well supposed, in many passages seemingly confused
 
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