Ro 8 ब्रांङनांद्रांशू बश्द्र स्त्रांशू-ऽब्रिड् । همه *** ه- به "دیمه همه ۹عه = "" = تی۹ = ه = م" = "ده *** ve P****"*ai * =***محمی؟"*ی His position was disputed by a genial and accomplished missionary, the Rev. Dr. Murray Mitchell, and several members of the younger Brahmo body. Dr. Mitchell claimed to include the Tantras among the sacred books of the Hindoos, and adduced from them immoral passages, which the minister of the Adi Samaj, Babu Rajnarain Bose, promptly disowned. “I am not,” he said, "a Tantrist, and therefore decline to enter into a discussion on the merits and demerits of any of the Tantras. The position which I took up in my lecture on the superiority of Hindooism was this, that even the lowest Shastras, the Tantras, not to mention the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Smritis, and the Puarnas, contain monotheistic sentiments of the most exalted description.' The younger Brahmo body maintained that the church represented by Babu Rajnarain Bose had drifted from the teachings of Rajah Ram Mohun Roy, and of his successor, Debendra Nath Tagore, neither of whom confined his search for truth to any one system, and the latter of whom claimed all great and good men as teachers, all "nature as revelation' and "pure reason as minister.' Baboo Jotendra Nath Tagore (a notable Calcutta Zemindar, kinsman and successor of Raja Ram Mohun Roy's disciple, Dwarkanath Tagore) maintained that Hinduism is an illimitable fount of truth, and in confimation of this view produced many beautiful passages from the Shastras. This controversy produced little eflect in India, so
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