have before Alliance Weekly' tional journal publishes York, which deals with thi of aggressive missionary en In behalf of Indian thought. It. states that a Hindu religi association has been founded New York City (the first to formed in the Western hemisphi finder the name of The It, is explained hindu" in the title includes, besides orthodox Hindu: buddhists, Jains, Brahmins and those of any other form of religion that originated from Hinduism, It can, therefore, be seen that its. scope embraces practically all Indian religious thought. The objects of the Hindu Dharma Mandal, it is stated, "shall be to further' the religious' interests and cultivate the spiritual ideals of Hinduism in the West, to bring the beliefs and practices of Hinduism, in its broadest conception, before the Western public, to encourage and promote mutual contact and understanding on a. spiritual ba between India and the West, and to meet, in particular, the spiritual needs of the Hindus residing in the West.
From inquiries I have made understand that the project wil not be hampered for lack of funds, for many a swami, and those I fear who are by no means deserving of the title, has taken $50,000 from month's one Hindu who came to the United States some years ago, and was fortunate in having a much greater knowledge of the histrionic any other' art. He put on a spectacular show, had evidently learned just enough about the practices of mind stimulation to enable him to con-he could sake successful salesmen out of I! of them. He appealed solely to those who wished to become successful salesmen, In San.
Francisco—and what he did here probably applied elsewhere as well manipulated lights which gave Temarkable stage effect, but what he said in his lectures was entirely commonplace. But he nonetheless private classes, where make demonstrations rabble could not possibly under-they could all be able to treble their salaries within a month from the date of enrollment. The result was that many men in the selling game who should not have been there, because they had not the ability to sell, flocked to him in keenest expectation that he was the heaven-sent messenger who would open the door for them to prestige and prosperity. I have heard it said that out of Sam Francisco alone he tock eighty, thousand dollars in fees, Counteracting "Mother India"
However that may be, it is stated privately tha the new sieve in New York in the formation of the association above referred to is the result of a desire on the part of Hindus resident in the United wunteraet the harm that Mother India" has done, Anyone who has read that lume will probably have been pressed with the fact that no on was made of the religions of India, nor of the higher thought that Indian religions in their pure state undoubipdly engender. Injlians of all classes resident in the United States now wish to present to the Western world the other side of the picture, As time goes on, it will be interesting ta see whether The Mindy Dharma Mandal will be able to accomplish what it now triumphantly sets out to doe Women's clubs, generally without waiting to examine his bona fides, welcome any swami or so-called "swami" thay comes to the country, and far outnumber the men who have taken up any line of study and practice of Eastern religions,
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