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the ordinary run of humanity. His real conversion, thus, dates from
the day of Swamiji's death, after which we saw him ever fired with
an extraordinary enthusiasm for
"Dharma",
his whole nature
permeated with the grand elevating truths of the Vedic Religion,
restless for the promotion of the mission of Swami Dayananda
Saraswati. His body, mind and wealth were all at the service of the
Arya Dharma and his only occupation was the discovery and
elucidation of the Vedic truths. The lectures that he delivered on
various subjects connected with the Arya Dharma produced a
profound influence upon the people, and the appearance of his
Vedic
Magazine
caused a great stir in the religious world. That cursed
disease — consumption — carried him off in his youth and thus cut
short his very useful career. It is much to be regretted that we
could not have more than three issues of his
magazine.1
The purifying
and ennobling truths that are stored up in these publications will
ever remain a source of admiration to the learned and religious
minded men.
These magazines and other works of Panditji have, since his
death, been in such a scattered condition as to be hardly within the
reach of every man. Their aggregate high price, (Rs. 4 nearly), too,
was a bar in the way of their extensive circulation. Besides, some
of them are out of print. To remove these defects, I, as one of his
old friends and admirers and as one who had a close connection
with him for several years actuated principally by the motive of
(1) giving a wide currency to the "Vedic Siddhants", and (2) keeping
always afresh in the minds of the people, the fair name of one who
was once an ornament of the Arya Samaj, and whose name is still a
source of pride to this country; have got all his works reprinted in
one compact and a handy volume. Its price has been fixed so low
as to make it accessible to all classes of people.
The present volume contains (1) all the subjects treated of in
Panditji's Vedic Magazine, (2)
all
his works published separately in
pamphlet form, (3) most of his learned, instructive and interesting
articles in the
Arya Patrika,
and (4) two of his
unpublished
papers,
one of which is a lecture on religion, delivered during his early life
when he was yet hardly out of his teens, and the other, a note on
Revelation, written at my own request, on an
Urdu
pamphlet of
mine entitled the
Maslah-i-Ilham
(the Doctrine of Revelation).2 The
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