The Indian Review March 1910 A Monthly Periodical Devoted to the Discussion of all Topics of Interest

The Telugu the Tamil the Malayalam and the.Canarese may from the view of the phillogist be non-Sanskritic dialects ; the inflexions may not follow strictly the inflexional rules of the Aryan languages but the greater part of the vocabulary is essentially Sanskritic and so are the alphaiets. [...] It is more the customs of the people than their religion which does it ; but there can be no doubt that these customs have received the sanction of the accepted religion of the land and are upheld by the teachers of that religion and followed by the orthodox classes of the community. [...] Would it nut comparatively speaking be easier to make the Brehmar.s the Vaidyas and the Kaynathas to take the three superior castes of Bengal to forget their differences than to induce the members of any of these castes to admit the Namasudras not to mention the Nayadia or Ulladans of Southern India or the Bhils and Chamarm of Northern India to any kind of equality with them. [...] Thus Sri Ramakristma Mission is distinct from all the other religions missions of the past and the present as it only has discovered the heamony the common basis and the necessity of all the various religions whereas each of the other religious missions of the world asserts its own infallibility perfection and supremacy over all the rest. [...] Bearing this in mind and serving the various manifestations of the one Supreme Being in the forms of all men and women of the world by bringing before them the Gospel of Sri Ramkrishna that tells all in sweet simple unequvocal and all solacing language about the divine blissful and eternal nature of every soul and the non-existence of the bugbears of sin death eternal hell-fire etc.