... man. He seemed to have been the son of a petty raja, ruling over a small community on the southern border of the district now known as Nepal. The pleasures of the world soon palled upon him, and abandoning his home he retired to the forest, where as a hermit, he spent several years in austere self-discipline, studying the way of salvation as taught in the Upanishads. Even this did not ... bring peace to his mind. He gave up the rigorous fasts and mortifications ... Society of Friends (Quakers) George Fox of England began preaching against organized churches in the seventeenth century. H...

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