Religious Thought and Life in India: An Account of the Religions of the Indian Peoples, Based on a Life's Study of Their Literature and on Personal Investigations in Their Own Country, Part 1

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J. Murray, 1885 - Brahmanism - 520 pages

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Page 478 - There is but one living and true God, everlasting, without body, parts, or passions; of infinite power, wisdom, and goodness; the Maker, and Preserver of all things both visible and invisible. And in unity of this Godhead there be three Persons, of one substance, power, and eternity; the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost.
Page 19 - The embodied spirit has a thousand heads, A thousand eyes, a thousand feet, around On every side enveloping the earth, Yet filling space no larger than a span. He is himself this very universe ; He is whatever is, has been, and shall be ; He is the lord of immortality.
Page 485 - God, who has equally subjected all living creatures, without distinction of caste, rank, or wealth, to change, disappointment, pain and death, and has equally admitted all to be partakers of the bountiful mercies which he has lavished over nature, and is also so well fitted to regulate the conduct of the human race in the discharge of their various duties to God, to themselves, and to society, that I cannot but hope the best effects from its promulgation in the present form.
Page 391 - A wife is half the man, his truest friend; A loving wife is a perpetual spring Of virtue, pleasure, wealth; a faithful wife Is his best aid in seeking heavenly bliss; A sweetly-speaking wife is a companion In solitude, a father in advice, A mother in all seasons of distress, A rest in passing through life's wilderness.
Page 24 - The Life and Death of John of Barneveld, Advocate of Holland : with a View of the Primary Causes and Movements of " The Thirty Years
Page 518 - You cannot deny that your hearts have been touched, conquered and subjugated by a superior power. That power need I tell you - is Christ. It is Christ who rules British India, and not the British Government. England lias sent out a tremendous moral force in the life and character of that mighty prophet, to conquer and hold this vast empire.
Page 18 - Behold the rays of dawn, like heralds, lead on high The sun, that men may see the great all-knowing god. The stars slink off like thieves, in company with Night, Before the all-seeing eye, whose beams reveal his presence, Gleaming like brilliant flames, to nation after nation.
Page 234 - The blood is boiling in the scalded veins of that boy. The brain is boiling and bubbling in his head. The marrow is boiling in his bones. . . . The fifth dungeon is the red-hot oven.
Page 519 - Keshub Chunder Sen, a servant of God, called to be an Apostle of the Church of the New Dispensation which is in the holy city of Calcutta, the metropolis of Aryavarta, To all the great nations in the world and to the chief religious sects in the East and the West, To the followers of Moses, of Jesus, of Buddha, of Confucius, of Zoroaster, of Mahomet, of...
Page 116 - He is then to be revealed in the sky, seated on a white horse, with a drawn sword blazing like a comet...

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