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Selections from Hindi Literature. Book IV. Saints

1924

About the time when the earliest ot of these saints flourished the Hindu religion had become too highly organised to satisfy the cravings of the ordinary Hindu; The high philosophy of the Upanishads has always been beyond the grasp of the ordinary mind and as all our religious observances had a back-ground in that philosophy the natural consequence was that religion in the true sense of the term [...] To the sky belong the sun and the moon ; to the mid-air Indra the lord of the atmosphere and to the earth the Atni Fire. [...] Ho aimed at the elevation of depressed classes and therefore as a first step admitted in his discipleship the rhamar Raidas the Mohammadan julaha Kabir the barber Sena and the butcher Sadhna the lowest of the low in the scale of the Hindu society and all these are now worshipped as the greatest saints all over the country thus proving the truth of the adage wal vow qIN uo gni I His other disc [...] As the sea swells at the sight of the full moon " runs the description Of Mahipathi " so did the hearts of the audience swell with devotion at the words and songs of the Deccan saint." As the preacher and audience were thus immersed in one stream of devotion and music the priests and Brahmans of the temple appeared smeaed all over with ashes. beads round their necks holy water in hand and [...]. According to all ancient Sikh records " says Macauliffe "the founder of the Sikh religion was born in the early morning of the third day of the light half of the month of Bal8dk May) in the year 1469; but for convenience's sake his anniversary is now observed by the Sikhs on the occsion of the mull moon in the month of Kara (OctobeNovember)." Ilis father Kalu was an accountant in the vi
literature fiction
Pages
390
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.142424
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-vii Lala Ram view
1. Swami Ramanand
i-vi unknown view
2. Kabir
i-vii unknown view
Article
1-85 unknown view
Sri Raidas
86-107 unknown view
4.—Namdev
108-143 unknown view
5—Mirabai
144-163 unknown view
6. Guru Nanak
164-185 unknown view
6. Guru Arjan
186-200 unknown view
8. Guru Teg Bahadur
201-217 unknown view
9. Guru Govind Singh
218-239 unknown view
10. Swami Dadu Dayal
240-255 unknown view
11. Sundar Das
256-277 unknown view
12. Malukdas
278-288 unknown view
13. Ananya
289-294 unknown view
14. Charandas
295-309 unknown view
15. Sahjo Bai
310-321 unknown view
16. Jagjivandas
322-333 unknown view
17. Paltudas
334-345 unknown view
18. Deva-Tirtha Kashthajivha Swami
346-360 unknown view
19. Yugulananyasharana
361-370 unknown view

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