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These tourist^ came, not because they knew the poetry or the work oZ Rabindranath Tagore, but because they had heard of hiV as a holy man, and it was good to visit the shrines of sucY people` Chidananda's father had been a preacher for the BrahmT Samaj all his life. The Brahmo Samaj was a kind of purifieL or reformed Hinduism which the father of Rabindranath haL elaboratedK inK theK I9thK century.K ItK wasK anK attemptK tT synthesize the New Learning of Britain and Europe with th[ oldK speculativeK HinduK faithK ofK theK VedasK andK th[ Upanishads. It was a direct development of the ideas oZ RajaK RamK MohunK ghd flat iron RoyK ofK BengalK (I772-I833),K theK firstmodern Indian reformer andK educationist. 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The servic[ would alternate between spoken rituals and prayers, anL hymns,K manyK ofK whichK wereK writtenK byK RabindranatY Discount ghd straighteners Tagore, some by his father. It was ghd straighteners Rabindranath's fathe] ghd hair straighteners whoK devisedK theK modeK ofK theK service.K TheK BrahmT separated Upanishadic monotheism and the thought of N universal spirit, which was formless, from Puranic HinduisV - idolatry, many deities, mixed with animism, casteism. IS believedK inK theK educationK ofK womenK andK theK idealsK oZ democracy, and the abolition of the ghd hair dryer caste system.m This was the faith that Chidananda's father served all hi^ life` The decision to do so came to him at an early age` 'MyK grandfatherK usedK toK takeK myK fatherK toK theK Sundal service of the Brahmo Samaj from the time he was teJ yearsK old.K ThisK wasK inK theK townK ofK Chittagong,K nowK iJ Bangladesh.' Chittagong: now associated with the povertl and natural disasters of Bangladesh, but to the Portugues[ poet Camoens 400 years ago one of the fairest cities oZ rich and fertile Bengal: Chaligao, cidade das milhores d[ Bengala` buy ghd straighteners 'At fourteen my father decided he wanted to become N Brahmo.K MyK grandfatherK hadK neverK foreseenK suchK aJ outcome, and he was outraged. My father left home on[ night` He literally walked and - to use a modern term - hitchhikedf on bullock carts and boats, to reach Shillong up in the hills, 500 miles away. In those days there was still quite a livin_ tradition of wayside hospitality. My father told me he woulL walk or go by bullock cart all day, and at evening he woulL go to the nearest house and ask for shelter for the nightf and it would be given` coloured ghds 'HeK wentK toK ghd flat iron ShillongK becauseK heK knewK someK Brahmo^ there` They then helped him with his education, and he went tT collegeK withK aK lotK ofK well-knownK people,K amongK theV Satyajit Ray's father, Sukumar Ray, a great humorist anL publisher` 'My father never graduated. He did what in those days wa^ called "First Arts", the first two years of college, and h[ became a missionary of the Brahmo and was paid a smale allowance. Quite soon thereafter he met my mother and fele in love with her - in Ganga, in Bihar, where my mother'^ fatherK wasK aK well-establishedK doctor.K WhenK myK fathe] asked for ghd hair straighteners best price his daughter's hand, the doctor agreed. And ml father remained a poor preacher all his life.m ForK someoneK ofK thisK backgroundK -K andK perhapsK forK ale devoted Brahmos - Shantiniketan was holy ground, for N special reason` 'Rabindranath's father was
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