In plain words
and monotheistic worshippers exist in this country. At no time whatsoever does any harm come to them.
Standing on the very steps of Brahmin temples of worship, reviling and denouncing God, materialists delivered their teachings — that the notion of God is merely an illusion, and that the deities, the Vedas, theistic Dharma, and their precepts were nothing but blind superstitions fabricated by the Brahmins for their own self-interest. They propagated this throughout the whole country as they went about. Yet no one ever posed any hindrance to such people. Hindus honoured even the Buddhist religion, which came rejecting Hindu traditions altogether. The case of the Jains, who used to ridicule the very notion of God, was just the same. 'How can there be a single god at all? That must be merely a foolish notion' — so they used to say. Endless such instances could be cited. Indeed, no one in Bharat even knew that religious violence of this kind existed, until the Muslims came sweeping in with mighty tumult. It was only when foreigners came and inflicted such violence upon them that Bharatiyas became familiar with the very idea. How much Bharatiyas helped in building Christian churches, and how much readiness they showed in cooperating with Christians, remains quite clearly visible even to this day, and will remain so. Bloodshed has simply never occurred.
To preserve all of this, and to rightly understand the Bharatiyas' own river of paramartha, the power of inquiry and strength of intellect are essential. Among the religions that set out on a mission through the world, Buddhism was the first. It penetrated into every country of that era that had a reputation for being uncivilized. In China, missionaries were persecuted, and by the decrees of certain emperors, many thousands