The Indian Messenger Online

By Maulavi Wahed Husain Continued from last issue… Taking his stand on the doctrines of the Vedanta philosophy, Rammohun Roy sounded the clarion note of the Divine Unity and invited his countrymen to the pure worship of the Supreme Being discarding the rites of idol worship. In its rejection of idolatry, his movement was revolt in the Hindu society, and he led it boldly with all the resources at his command. This religious revolt was akin to the similar revolts Read More …

By S. Bagchi Man’s search after the unknown starts even from his creation, whether he has been created out of void or evolved from something already existed, is for the people of science to decipher. We, the common men, are hardly concerned with that. We see him struggling for his existence and he is astounded with certain happenings which appear before him. He is deeply in thought as to the cause of these phenomena, and he fails to locate, and Read More …

[In His own words] One day Haladhari, the cousin of Sri Ramakrishna, remarked to him, “Can one get spiritual elevation by worshipping a Tamasika form ? Why do you bestow so much attention on the worship of Kali?” Sri Ramakrishna did not answer him then: but he was pained at the disrespect shown to his favourite Deity. He at once went to the Kali temple and asked the Divine Mother with tearful eyes, “Mother, Haladhari is a scholar, versed in Read More …

By Maulavi Wahed Husain In what sense did Raja Rammohun Roy use the words? ‘Unity’ and ‘Monotheism’? Did he use them in the sense in which Sankara used them, or in the sense in which Ramanuja explained them, or in the sense they are used in the Quran? Let us try to ascertain his views on the subject. According to Sankara the Supreme Being is the Absolute. His metaphysical arguments reduce the Divine entity into a mere abstraction. As pointed Read More …