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A few queries written in the Bengalee language,
having again issued from the Mission Press, Sreeram-
j)ore, directed against the Vedant system of religion,
and a missionary gentleman having brought these
queries to the notice of our friend, Rammohun Roy,
I naturally expected that the latter would publish 3.
reply.
Disappointed in my expectation, and much hurt at
the stigma thrown upon the religion which I profess,
following the divine guidance of the Veds and the
dictates of pure reasorl, I deem it incumbent upon me
to defend what I believe to be true, against so unpro-
voked an aggression.
In his prefatory lines, the author says, that from
reading the translation of the Vedant by Rammohun
Roy, he understands that the Veds declare a knowledge
of God to be unattainable by man, and therefore he begs
that Rammohn Roy will cease to impart their doctrines
until he shall acquire a knowledge of the Deity from
some other religious source.
This author, in common with a great number of his
fellow believers, not resting contented with the perversion
and misrepresentation of the purport of his own Bible,
has been zealously endeavouring to misquote the
writings, revered by others as sacred authority, for the
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having again issued from the Mission Press, Sreeram-
j)ore, directed against the Vedant system of religion,
and a missionary gentleman having brought these
queries to the notice of our friend, Rammohun Roy,
I naturally expected that the latter would publish 3.
reply.
Disappointed in my expectation, and much hurt at
the stigma thrown upon the religion which I profess,
following the divine guidance of the Veds and the
dictates of pure reasorl, I deem it incumbent upon me
to defend what I believe to be true, against so unpro-
voked an aggression.
In his prefatory lines, the author says, that from
reading the translation of the Vedant by Rammohun
Roy, he understands that the Veds declare a knowledge
of God to be unattainable by man, and therefore he begs
that Rammohn Roy will cease to impart their doctrines
until he shall acquire a knowledge of the Deity from
some other religious source.
This author, in common with a great number of his
fellow believers, not resting contented with the perversion
and misrepresentation of the purport of his own Bible,
has been zealously endeavouring to misquote the
writings, revered by others as sacred authority, for the
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