Brahmo Samaj<\/a> which he founded became one of the significant forces shaping what would become modern Indian thought.<\/p>\nI\u2019ve long felt that contemporary Unitarian Universalism could learn a great deal from a close study of Brahmo Samaj thinkers.<\/p>\n
The Nobel laureat Rabindranath Tagore wrote of him:<\/p>\n
When Rammohun Roy was born in India, the darkness of a moonless night was reigning. Death was roaming in the skies\u2026When Rammohun Roy awoke and spread his sight on Bengali society it was an abode of the spirits\u2026At that time, only the ghost of the living ancient Hindu religion held its sway in the funeral grounds. It had no life, it had no vitality, it only had its strictures and threats\u2026In the days of Rammohun, the tattered foundations of Hindu society, with thousands of holes filled with creatures, progressively growing from generation to generation, was bulging with the impact of age and immobility. Rammohun proceeded fearlessly to free society from the serpent-like bondage \u2026 Today even our youngsters will kick such dead serpents with a smile on the face, we will laugh them off as common field snakes without any poison \u2013 we have forgotten their enormous power, the magnetic attraction of their eyes and the dangerous embrace of their long tails. \u2026When the Bengali students came out of Hindu College, imbibed with the new English education, a certain type of intoxication grew in them\u2026 They took the blood that oozed from the deeply injured heart of the ancient Hindu society and used it as a plaything\u2026 To them nothing was good or sacred in Hindu society, they did not even have that respect for ancient Hindu society that they should pick up its skeletons, scattered hither and thither, cremate them properly and return home with a heavy heart after sprinkling the ashes in the waters of the Ganges\u2026 Considering the conditions of the period, they cannot be blamed that much\u2026But the man who scotched the first flames of revolutionary fire in the present Bengali society, that Rammohun Roy was not intoxicated in that manner. He observed everything, good and bad, patiently. He enlightened the dark Hindu society of those days, but did not light the all-consuming fires of cremation. That was the greatness of Rammohun Roy.<\/span><\/p>\n
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