Los Angeles herald., 1910-07-03
To TEACH HINDUS
PRACTICAL WORK
Baba Premanand Bharati, Who
Founded KriShna Home,
Returns from India
PLANS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL
Brahmin Says His People Resent
Interference by Missionaries
with Their Religion
PLANS INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL

Baba Premanand Bharati, Hindu
monk, preacher, philosopher, author
and Journalist, well known in Los An
geles few years ago as a teacher
and founder of the Krishna home on
West Sixteenth street, returned to TINS
city yesterday from Calcutta, India,
after an absence of two years. With
well laid plans and the backing OF
MANY of the most influential nabobs
of India, the baba is here to found
a temple and to instruct Americans IN
Hindu philosophy and religion with
the object of sending them to India TO
teach
The school which the Hindu teacher
proposes to found will differ from the
ordinary school which prepares teach
ers and missionaries for foreign work
in that its students will be taught to
teach and advance the Hindus in the
trades, arts and sciences without dls-
turbing their religion. The school Will
be located somewhere in Los Angeles,
although the exact site has not been
selected vet, and work will be COM
menced on it soon. The plan of in
struction, while it is his own, has been
enthusiastically seized upon by the
more enlightened Hindus as the only
means of bringing India from the orl-
entail into occidental conditions and as
a result he has not only their moral
support, but also their financial back
ing.
Baba Bharati first came to America
to attend the peace congress held in
Boston. He was such striking figure
at that gathering and his theories and
doctrines created such a sensation that
he decided to remain. Coming to Los
Angeles he founded the krishna home
,11 Nd hATs
years ago he decided to return to his
native country and spend the rest of
his life working among his own people,
but he has come to the conclusion that
he can be of greater benefit in this
country than at home.
Before leaving for America on March
10 a farewell reception was rendered
him by the Hindu population of Mad
ras, at which a number of prominent
Indian potentates were present. The
baba expresses himself as being glad
to be back in Los Angeles and eX-
pressed his appreciation and approval
of the progress the city has made
since he was here.
In speaking of his school and mission
in America the baba said last even
ingg:
st have returned with an ambition
two, in fact. One is to send young men
thoroughly schooled in the history, the
life, the language and customs of the
Hindus to India to teach them and to
bring to them the methods of the
civilized world. The other is to send
women teachers to India to educate
the Hindu women along national lines
without disturbing their religion. Those
are my ambitions. and I hope to full
fill them with my school.
"The present manner of trying to
uplift India and the Hindu race is
wrong. The missionaries go there with
the avowed intention of converting the
natives to Christianity, and as a result
the doors of ninety per cent of the
Indian homes are closed to the mis-
sionary. The manner in which those
who are aiding me and I will proceed
is different. We intend to educate and
train along the more practical lines
and not by disturbing their religion.
1t is the only way. Student teachers
from our school will find all India
waiting to welcome them. There will
he no doors closed to them and they
will be able to reach all the people,
not a few.
"Since I left Los Angeles I have
travelled all over India lecturing. and
others who believe as I do have Gre
ated such an impression on the Hindu
population that hereafter Americans
will be welcomed as the most beloved
of foreigners when they go to India
such a feeling is what we have been
striving for and is one which will
make itself felt both in America and
India"
The Baba is a very earnest worker
and has many local friends. Although
a devout Christian himself, he believes
that the salvation Of India lies not In
converting the Hindus, but in teaching
them the more practical things Of life.
He is of the highest caste-a Brahmin:
He was at one time editor-in-chief of
the Lahore Tribune and a cOntempor-
arv of Rudyard Kipling. He is the
author of several books, among the
most noteworthy being "Krishna." He
is STOPPING at the Wilhelm apartments
in Grand avenue at present.