"If you hold dear the memory of Swami Shraddhanandji, you would help in purging the atmosphere of mutual hatred and calumny, you would help in boycotting papers which foment hatred and spread misrepresentation. I am sure that India would lose nothing if 90 per cent of the papers were to cease today. ... Now you will, perhaps, understand why I have called Abdul Rashid a brother, and I repeat it, I do not even regard him as guilty of Swamiji's murder. Guilty, indeed, are all those who excited feelings of hatred against one another. For us Hindus, the Gita enjoins on us the lesson of equality; we are to cherish the same feelings towards a learned Brahmin as towards a Chandala, a dog, a cow or an elephant."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Mahatma Gandhi, Congress session in Guwahati, 1926. In Collected Works, Volume 32, pp. 461-62.
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Swami_Shraddhanand
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Swami Shraddhanand
Swami Shraddhanand (22 February 1856 – 23 December 1926), also known as Mahatma Munshi Ram Vij, was an Indian education advocate and an Arya Samaj missionary who propagated the teachings of Dayananda Saraswati. This included the establishment of educational institutions, like the Gurukul Kangri University, and played a key role on the Sangathan (consolidation) and the Shuddhi (re-conversion), a Hindu reform movement in the 1920s.
33 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Swami Shraddhanand →
Related Quotes
"But when the Muhammedan invaders ... conquered the disorganised Hindu hosts, and Hindu young women began to become a …"
"While Muhammadans multiply like anything, the numbers of the Hindus are dwindling periodicalÂlÂy."
"When Muhammad Quasim came to the temple whose tower had been thrown down, he found 700 beautiful females under the pr…"
"Shams-ud-din Altamash reduced the Hindu fort of Bhilsa, in 1231, A. D., and destroyed a magnificent temple dedicated …"
"The Aryan social polity was based upon instructions laid down in the Vedas ; and the Divine knowledge of the Vedas wa…"
"The original resolution condemned the Moplas wholesale for the killing of Hindus and burning of Hindu homes and the f…"
"There was another prominent fact to which I drew the attention of Mahatma Gandhi. Both of us went together one night …"
"The question naturally arises—What is the first step to be taken in our advance towards Hindu Sangathan ? In my tour …"
"If a beginning, on lines proposed by me in all humility and love, is made with faith, I hope that all the necessary r…"
"On the 13th February 1923, I was called to Jead the movement for the reclamation of Malkana Rajputs by their several …"