History of Bengali Language and Literature c9.s3.78

c9.s3.78

all parts of the world are bound to be superstitious, but in Hinduism the gross forms of worship are always in touch with the superior light of pure faith and thus without disturbing the faith of the illiterate, Hinduism makes its vast religious system a homogeneous whole in which the lowest represents merely a step in the ladder that reaches the highest. This catholic trait in the character of Chaitanya Deva is deliberately omitted or ignored by many of his subsequent biographers, who wanted to represent him as the leader and upholder of their own party,—the god of a special class of men and not the prophet for all that he was undoubtedly.