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FORWORD.
 
By
 
Kavi Samrat Viswanadha Satyanarayana, M. A.
 
The story of this world is an eternal warfare between
the forces of gods and demons, in another words, between
theism and atheism. It is the history of two currents ever
flowing parellel since the beginning of time. They run parallel
but often collide. Sometimes his current and sometimes that.
runs in spate and covers up the water of the other Neither seems
to tolerate this inundation. Each struggles hard to free itself
from superimposition. The current of theism seems to resent
more the inroad of the other. The other stream, though spas-
modically, assumes large dimensions, it is by nature a smaller
stream but its inundations are more devastating. Once in a
decade or two the sacred river of theism comes in spate. But
small streams yearly inundate. The parallel is complete.
 
At present, the phase of a theism has assumed uncontro-
llable proportions. The advocates of theism are now in small
number and struggle hard to put their antagonists in check.
 
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This book is an attempt to correct the incorrect and pla-
titudinal way of thinking. This ancient land of India, subjec-
ted for two centuries to a tyranny, culturally foreign and fun-
damentally alien has suffered much from the imposition of
atheistic ideas, in the theistic mould. As the king, so the
people Pecause of the dual nature of the foreign civilisation,
and for people who wanted to fight it out, it has become a ques-
tion slipping through the fingers and visible at the sametime.
The target is ever oscillating, surpassing the patience of the
concentration of even a good shot. A through unbeliever can
be directly attacked and be brought to conviction, but not the
semi-believer. He believes and yet does not believe, his mind
being partially covered with ignorance and unargumentative-
ness. He refuses to be convinced. He does not completely
decry your religion. He is rather a time-server, wishes to
retain things that suit him and does away with inconvenient
and irksome things. The shafts of theism are always aimed at
this target but not at the other,