Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-07-01
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THE RELIGIONS OF INDIA


time, ages ago, India had but one relig
ion, called Brahminism All were gov
erned bv it. But now we have four dit
ferent religions, cycling one another wit
suspicion and contempt; namely, Brah
minism, Buddhism, Christianity ant
Mohammedanism Under Brahminisn
are many different schools of philosophy
which are divided into differen
beliefs and doctrines. The Brahmin
recognize three elements pervadin!
this universe-the creative, preserving
and destructive For the instruction o
the ignorant, the erudite personifieC
them. They are now designated deities
Their names are
BRAHMA, THE CREATOR, vISHNU, THE PRE-
SERVER, AND SILVA, THE DESTROYER.
As there is one universe with three diff
ferent operative elements, SO there is
or the other As we find nothing in the
Creator to revere him for, We have left
him out of our public religious services
No one worships the creator. We have,
| therefore, two principal sects among the
Brahmins of India, the followers OF
Vishnu, the Preserver, and SILVA, the
Destroyer. No one will respect parents
if they will abandon their children as
soon as they are born. 1t is the kindness
and care bestowed upon them by their
parents that commands respect. The
creative force is therefore unworthy of
attention. in India The followers of
Vishnu and SILVA, the Preserver and De-
stroyer, are dissenting, but requisite for
universal growth; some need preserva-
ton while others are afraid of destruc-
ton. When we amass wealth We imme-
diately secure an iron safe in which to
preserve it. When we squander away
our fortune in dissipation and vices we
are in danger of facing starvation and
ultimate destruction, we court favors so
that the Brahmin religion, with all its
divisions and subdivisions is a scientific
philosophy. Its fundamental principle is
''Do NO HARM TO OTHERS"
In other words, negative virtue or moral
ity. The ignorant classes of people are,
however, enjoined to practice positive
morality in conjunction with a negative
one. | am obliged to divide mankind
into two classes, the ignorant and the
erudite. The ignorant require tangible
religion and heaven of celestial bliss
and happiness; the erudite do not want
such a heaven as the ignorant crave
for. They think that the heaven of
the Ignorant will be no better than their
earthly habitations. If we are not salts
fed with what We have in this world, so
We will not feel contented hereafter. ANY |
thing formed must decay. Fall and rise |
go hand in hand. The created is pre-
served and ultimately destroyed, so that
the heavens above will soon wear out.
Ihey, therefore, try to attain that stage
Of life where no heaven and no hell can
exist, where no happiness or misery is
experienced, and where desire to rise and
ear to fall torrents no human souls.
They, however, do not condemn the idea
If heaven. 1t is Indispensable necessary
or the satisfaction of the ignorant. If
We were to despise the theory, chaos will
elgn and the ignorant will come to an
md prematurely. l was talking to a
Presbyterian minister the other dav. I
ould not help laughing at his ignorance
When he advanced and advocated the
ut OF celestial empire which God has re-
erved for the enjoyment of his worthy
Ons.
UR RELIGION is PURE AND WHITE, LIKE
SNOW.
is not to my knowledge that its found
RS or propagators have ever been perse-
lted or put to death. The holy and the
ions always commanded nniuorsal 70 ,
)ect and reverence. They never sat on :
colt and were arrested. They never 9
ere tried and crucified. They !
ad no reason to hide themselves. :
hev were holy and religious,
I'd no one dared pull their
ngle hair. Buddhism sprang out of :;
rahminism. 1t was partly temporal G
nd partly spiritual religion. 1t did it's .
oble work, but the religions of Jesus =,
hrist and Mohammed are stained with =
God. Wherever they went they carried :,
ith them blood and the sword Look at :.
cir blood-thirsty gods and their bloody y y
lvation. A decent man will have his y
art broken if anybody called him a =, y
but, as the children of prosti- " "
ties feel no shame in soliciting passers- E
to come to their houses; so there are - -,
tristan missionaries who go to India to -
opagate their religion. Debased and ~
PRAYED, do not understand how they -,
ntinue to believe in outrageous and re- n n
gnant to common sense beliefs. n
is BETTER THAN CHRIS al
TIANITY pi
its tendencies of future aspects. 1t ct
Il not satisfy the rational of the nine u
nth century. They will soon be swept Ill
ay. do not agree with the Mormons sc
It God will destroy ninety-nine per 70 70
1t. OF the population and preserve one IN
cent.-that is, the Mormons. Moth III
IS more absurd than this statement. 81
has, however, frightened many a stupid Iol
and entangled her in polygamy. los
len l say Christianity and Moham- Ca
danism will be swept away, do not gu
an, thereby, that the Christians and WI
hammedans will be destroyed. No: ne
at all. They will turn their faces against ma
ir religions. The religions will no a.
ger swagger them; they will be de- at
ed and despised. l shall never be a STU
'istian, Mohammedan or Mormon, if STA
asked to believe in absurd stories VIII
ut birth and death and resurrection. era
I'll always respect the spirit of their my
hing. Before l finish, should like VIC wa
npress upon your mind what | would FRI
Stitute ma
.N1npn nr,,c,oN thr
here are no divine religions on earth. t;oo
= on5 anu uoglllas are man lnven- low
one eternal, unerring spirit, they ma
ld not have been Numerically OPP sba
a to one another. What is truth to Tbr
Is falsehood to another. We all know cor,
and yet we 60 to form others con- in =
ons according to our own. Had we
med our labors to our own individual PHI
ress and development, and tolerated
rs in the formation of their own. But
e and tranquility, concord and har- ours
y would have reigned on earth. pain
gion means social moral code more ture
SIS enacted for the guidance of the is til
amt by those who were far-seeing to S
it has always been abused by the take
utor and executed. This state of foe.
IS appears to me inevitable. It must not .