Gandhi Before Gandhi

Author(s): Bipin Doshi, Priti Shah
Publisher: Jain Academy Educational Research Center Promotion Trust Mumbai

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GANDHI BEFORE GANDHI
Our rites and ceremonies have philosophical and scientific reasons
Bait offered for the purpose of catching the Hindu fish into the...
Our rites and ceremonies may appear to you a mere superstitions but modern science is now beginning to understand that they are all based on scientific principles. The reason why a monk of my
community would not touch money is based on the laws of
polarity; the reason why a layman sits in a peculiar posture before a monk or a teacher is based on the physiological laws of the negative and positive conditions of the body. The reason why a religious teacher when delivering a discourse points his fingers in particular way is based on the laws of human magnetism. The reason why a Hindu before taking his meal washes his hands and feet is based on the laws of electricity. Instead of propagating the knowledge on philosophical and scientific reasons, our so-called superstitious acts, are condemned without any understanding,
Do you wish to convert three hundred million people of my country, to a faith which depends for its very existence on vicarious atonement and fall faith which depends for its very ex of man, the principles which are against, not only Hindu reason but human reason. But my missionary friends say that they are educating the people of India. I ask them-with what object. It is only a bait offered for the purpose of catching the Hindu fish into the Christian net. The missionschools are Christian schools established with the avowed object of converting the Hindus to Christianity. The education is given there from a Christian or rather from a theological standpoint. Educate a child in the Christian religion and the child will profess that religion. That is no sign of
Christian success. The education given either in these schools or Government English schools has, instead of developing our youths, suppressed their intellectual
progress and wrested them violently into un natural directions.
This is the result of the Christian educational policy. And how is that