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power extending its mgis «of protection to save the- Bhaktas from the furious and eternal storm of the in- ternecine and mortal war that is always being waged in this world between the Good and the Bad. The masses. find that God, as shown by the poet, may be reached by the highway of Bhakti which is accessible to all, and that the hopeless and uphill roads of philosophy, austeri- ties, &c., are by no means indispensable. And, finally, to their question as to what kind of being is God, the- answer given isnot a conundrum of unverifiable and intangible definitions of the Deity, but the answer readily and intelligibly points at the worship of heroes whose- names antiquity has gilt with golden associations, whose- traditions find an agreeable response in the life of the nation, whose realization before the mind’s eye requires the dullest brain to do no more than simply to see that he- may love his God as he or she would love his or her child, or wife or husband, or father or mother, or friend or protector, and the story of whose lives turns out to- be but an expression of philosophical formulas and truths open to discovery when the illiterate man, who commenced with faith, arrives at a point when. he would know before believing. The successful development of such a system of religion, among the mercantile classes. who were thereby weaned from the bosom of rival faiths, among the Brahmans who were persuaded to give up all but the name of the old Vedic religion in favour
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