Modern Hinduism : Being An Account of the Religion And Life of the Hindus in Northern India
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of a new sect, became exalted to divinity, and is now wor- .shipped with as great veneration as Krishna, whose devoted servant he professed to be. So earnest was the devotion of some of Keshiib Chunder Sen's followers a few years ago, ■ that they addressed him in terms differing but little from those employed in the worship of God; and there can be little doubt that, but for fear of public opinion, that same tendency would have led his followers to place him amongst the gods. Even now, no one i...s allowed to sit upon the platform in the mandir (church) where he sat to teach, as though he were still the minister or teacher, present in spirit though absent in body. The addition of another in- carnation is a comparatively easy matter with the Hindu. But the clumsiest of all is certainly that of Buddha, men- tioned above, where the deity is said to have come down to 4sarth simply to lead devout men into error, because of the immense merit they gained through their earnest devotion. 4. The belief in Maya.
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