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Часть текста: they call churches. But I think, that these assemblies ought not to be devoted, as they usually are, to public and uniform public prayers, firstly, because the repetition on Sunday in the same words is perfectly useless, as it very soon becomes a mechanical procedure; secondly and chiefly, because in the Gospels this error is plainly pointed out and it is there definitely said (Math. VI), that one should not pray in public places, but in solitude, which is corroborated both by the reason and the experience of every man, who has ever sincerely prayed to God, as the assembly of people only distracts, makes one’s thoughts wander and diverts them. I think that Sunday rest and dedication of this day to spiritual exercise may take place in the most various forms. One may suggest, that men of the same spirit, meeting together on Sunday, should bring to their meeting such religious books or articles which they find in ancient and modern literature and read and discuss them together; one may suggest, that meeting together on Sunday men of the same spirit should arrange dinners for the poor and themselves serve those dinners; one may suggest, that meeting together men of the same spirit should confess their sins to each other and discuss them. In short one can think of a hundred different forms of worship, which should all have for their aim a mutual spiritual help and should not be mechanical, but...

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Часть текста: itself — liable to experience the greatest evils. In such a position are all the European states. The only solution of the social problem for reasonable beings endowed with the capacity of love is the abolition of violence and the organization of society based on mutual love and reasonable principles, voluntarily accepted by all. Such a state can be attained only by the development of true religion. By the words «true religion» I mean the fundamental principles of all religions which are 1) the consciousness of the divine essence of human soul and 2) respect for its manifestation — human life. Your religion is very old and very profound in its metaphysical definition of the relation of man to the spiritual All — the Atman; but I think it was maimed in its moral, i. e. practical application to life; by the existence of caste. This practical application to life, so far as I know, has been made only by Jainism, 1 Buddhism and some of your sects, such as Kabir Panchis 2 in which the fundamental principle is the sacredness of life and consequently the prohibition to take the life of any living being, especially of man. All the evils that you experience — the famine and chat is still more important, the depravement of your people by factory life — will last as long as your people consent to kill their fellowmen and to be soldiers (Sepoys). Parasites feed only on unclean bodies. Your people must try to be morally clean and in so far as they are clean from murder or readiness to do it they will be free from the regime under which they labour now. I quite agree with you thet you ought to be thankful for all that has been done by the English — for...

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Часть текста: I had in reading Mr. Ballou’s 1 treatise and tracts. I cannot agree with your opinion that Mr. Ballou «will not go down to posterity among the immortals...» I think that because he has been one of the first true apostles of the «New Time» — he will be in the future acknowledged as one of the chief benefactors of humanity. If, in his long and seemingly unsuccessful career, Mr. Ballou has experienced moments of depression in thinking that his efforts have been vain; he has only partaken of the fate of his and our Master. Tell him please, that his efforts have not been vain, they give great strength to people, as I can judge from myself. In those tracts I found all the objections that are generally made against «non-resistance» victoriously answered and also the true basis of the doctrine. I will endeavor to translate and propagate as much as I can, the works of Mr. Ballou, and I not only hope, but am convinced, that the time is come, «when the dead hear the voice of the Son of god; and they that hear shall live». The only comments that I wish to make on Mr. Ballou’s explanation of the doctrine, are, firstly, that I cannot agree with the concession that he makes for employing violence against drunkards and insane people, the Master made no concessions, and we can make none. We must try, as Mr. Ballou...

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Часть текста: 2 Янв. Тем хорошо признание Бога любовью, ч[то] общение с Ним только одно: любовь к людям. И общение только, при к[отором] Его чувствуешь. Он отвечает тебе.[243] ———————————————————————————————————— 3 Я. Легко сказать: жить перед Богом, а как трудно и хорошо.[244] ———————————————————————————————————— 9 Я. 4 стадии: 1) животная, 2) что люди, то и я, 3) слава людс[кая], 4) для души.[245] ———————————————————————————————————— Традиция, инерция, как люди, так и мы, гипноз — главные двигатели 1000000/1. Это и в обычаях, и в семье, и в государ[стве], и в религии.[246]...

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Часть текста: 1898 г. Марта 11. Москва. My dear friend, I duly received your letter and magazine, both of which afforded me great pleasure. The first number is very good and I liked all the articles in it. It is quite true, as you say it in your article «The Social Need » 1 , and Herron 2 in his, that a Christian life is quite impossible in the present unchristian organization of society. The contradictions between his surroundings and his convictions are very painful for a man who is sincere in his сhristian faith, and therefore the organization of communities seems to such a man the only means of delivering himself from these contradictions. But this is an illusion. Every community is a small island in the mist of an ocean of unchristian conditions of life, so that the christian relations exist only between members of the colony but outside that must remain unchristian, otherwise the colony would not exist for a moment. And therefore to live in community cannot save a christian from the contradiction between his conscience and his life. I do not mean to say that I do not approve of communities such as your commonwealth, or that I do not think them to be a good thing. On the contrary, I approve of them with all my heart and am very interested in your commonwealth and wish it the greatest success. I think that every man who can free himself from the conditions of wordly life without breaking the ties of love — love the main principle in the name of which he seeks new forms of life — I think such a...

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Часть текста: from the path to which I beckon thee, for I have placed thee in broad smooth paths which are strewn with flowers. I have put a light before thee, which thou can’st follow and thus run without stumbling. Krishna P. 212. I received your letter and the two issues of the magazine. Both were intensely interesting to me; indeed, the oppression of a majority by the minority of a people and the corruption which flows from it, is a phenomenon which has always occupied my mind and at present is entirely occupying my attention. I will endeavour to convey to you what I think, both in a particular and a general way, about those causes from which those dreadful calamities have arisen and do arise, of which you write in your letter and which are also mentioned in the two numbers of the Hindoo magazine you sent me. The causes, owing to which this astonishing spectacle arises, of the majority of the labouring classes submitting to a mere handful of idlers whom it permits to dispose not only of its labour but also of its very life, are always and everywhere the same; whether the oppressors and the oppressed belong to the same, or, as is the case in India and in other countries, where the dominant class belongs to an entirely different nation from those oppressed. It appears especially strange of India, for here we have a people of 200 millions of individuals, highly endowed with spiritual and physical powers, in absolute subjection to a small clique, composed of persons utterly alien in thought and aspiration and altogether inferior to those whom they enslave. These causes, as one can easily see from your letter, from the articles in...

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Часть текста: г. Июня 30. Я. П. Dear friend and brother, The condition of the « Spirit Wrestlers» especially of those which have received the permission to emigrate is very bad. The government augments its pressure upon them. The governor of the Caucasus Golitzine has told them that if they remain true to their faith they will be kept in the same position i. e. be starved to death, and that if they give in, they will be restorted to their former welfare. Many, — nearly 200 of them could not hold out and did recant from their faith, saying that they know it si wrong but they could not longer wittness the sufferings of their families. But those which remain true are in a desperate condition. They are nearly 3000, but they have in all no more than 70 000 roubles, which is not half enough for their emigration, especially because they must pay 10 r. per head for their passeports. Our friend from the christian Commonwealth has sent to me a proposition to settle them in Texas. 1 I forwarded this letter to the English Committee for the emigration of the Douchoborys, and this proposition pleased very much to the Douchoborys themselves. Now what I ask of you is that you should inform us i. e. the commitee in England (adress Kenworthy...

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Часть текста: most striking and profound sentences of the Vedic religion. If you, or some your contributors, can and will help me in this matter by corresponding with me on the subject, I will be very thankful. With full esteem your friend, Leo Tolstoy. P. S. With the same mail I send you some of my books, which will, I hope, be of interest to you. 21 окт./3 ноябр. 1909. Милостивый государь, Очень благодарю вас за «Vedic Magazine», который вы были так добры мне прислать. Я всегда читаю его с большим интересом. В последнем полученном мною номере, том III, № 4, я очень оценил статью Пандит Прабу Дут Шастри М. А. Б. Т. «Платон и Шанкарачариа». Вы сделали бы мне большую любезность, если бы согласились помочь в одной недавно начатой мною работе, которая, надеюсь, может представить для вас некоторый интерес. Я начал составлять серию книг с изложением всех больших мировых религий, 1 сущность которых во всех религиях всегда одна и та же. Вполне естественно, что религия Вед, как одна из самых древних и глубоких, должна занять в этой серии первое место. Я хочу сделать выбор наиболее ярких и глубоких изречений из религии Вед. Если вы или кто-нибудь из ваших сотрудников сможете мне в этом помочь, переписываясь со мною на эту тему, я буду очень благодарен. С полным уважением ваш друг Лев Толстой. P. S. С этой же почтой посылаю вам несколько моих книг, в надежде, что они вас заинтересуют. Примечания Печатается по машинописной копии. Опубликовано в переводе на немецкий язык в книге «Tolstoi und der Orient», стр. 68—69. Рама Дева — профессор, редактор...

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Часть текста: 180. Джону Беллоузу (John Bellows). 1901 г. Ноября 24/декабря 7 . Гаспра. Dear friend, I received your letter and meant to answer it but the last two months I have been so weak that I could not do it. So you must excuse me for my long silence. I read your letter twice and considered the matter as well as I could and could not arrive at a definite solution of the question. You may be right but I think not for every person which will read the book. It can have a bad influence over persons who will read not the whole book and not take in the sense of it. It might also have quite the opposite influence so as it was intented to. All what I can say in my defense is that when I read a book the chief interest for me is the Weltanschau[u]ng des Authors, what he likes and what he hates. And I hope that the reader, which will read my book with the same view will find out what the author likes or dislikes and will be influenced with the sentiment of the author. And I can say that when I wrote the book I abhorred with all my heart the lust and to express this abhorrence was one of the chief aims of the book. If I have failed in it I am very sorry and I am pleading guilty if I was so inconsiderate in the scene of which you write, that I could have produced such a bad impression on your mind. I think that we will be judged by our conscience and by God — not for the results of our...

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Часть текста: бог - это "добро" или, что мама нынче говорила: "Сила природы и бог - это одно и то же". Но зачем же называть это богом, молиться ему, верить, что он может услыхать молитву, когда это "добро" или "природа"? Говорят, что эгоистом быть дурно. Но как же не быть эгоистом? По-моему, все надо делать для себя, не для тела, а для своей души: делать добро другим для себя же, для своей души. Нынче Урусов говорит, что никогда себя не надо лишать: хочешь носить атласные платья, так и носи, и только тогда делай добро, когда хочется. Я этого никак понять не могу: по-моему, тогда это не будет добро, когда не трудно это сделать. Гораздо больше заслуги, если, например, я не поеду на бал, куда мне до смерти хочется, а отдам деньги, на которые я сшила бы себе платье. Спрошу у папа: я во многом ему верю и соглашаюсь. Нынче первый день теплый после последних холодов. Тети Танина гувернантка Sophie купалась. Она - первая, только Илюша в Москве еще купался. Он только вчера ночью приехал, я его дождалась. Мы с ним очень нежно поцеловались, кажется, в первый раз в жизни. Дядя Саша по делам в Москве и тетю Таню туда выписал. Папа и Сережа тоже там. Папа сегодня ночью приедет. Я его дождусь. Теперь 10 часов вечера. Наверху сидят: мама, тетя Лиза и Урусов. Мама мне ужасно стала не нравиться: все жалуется, что она такая несчастная. Теперь папа приезжает и, кроме неприятного, я ничего от его приезда не ожидаю. Пойдут разговоры об доме 1 . Мама не хочет покупать арнаутовского дома; при папа она говорит, что ей все...

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