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About The Book: Raja Rammohun Roy’s The Precepts of Jesus: The Guide to Peace and Happiness (1820) distills the moral teachings of Christ into a concise, verse-by-verse compilation drawn from the four Gospels. Omitting miracles and doctrinal debates, Roy emphasizes Jesus’s core principles—love, compassion, forgiveness, humility, and nonviolence—as universal ethical guides. By presenting Christian ethics in clear, poetic English, he sought to bridge Eastern and Western spiritual traditions, making the message accessible to Hindu and Muslim audiences. This work reflects Roy’s commitment to interfaith harmony and rational religion, illustrating his belief that Jesus’s universal precepts could foster individual virtue and social well-being. About The Author: Raja Ram Mohan Roy (1772–1833) was a pioneering Indian reformer, scholar, and founder of the Brahmo Sabha (1828), whose writings and journalism catalyzed the Bengal Renaissance. His early works—Vedanta Grantha (1815) and A Conference between the Advocate for, and an Opponent of Practice of Burning Widows Alive (1818)—championed rational religion and condemned sati. In A Defence of Hindu Theism (1820) and The Universal Religion (1829), he sought interfaith harmony, while The Precepts of Jesus (1820) highlighted Christian ethics. His Bengali Grammar (1826) standardized the language, and History of Indian Philosophy (1829) traced native thought. Through newspapers Mirat-ul-Akhbar and Sambad Kaumudi, he promoted social reform, education, and civil rights. The Title 'The Precepts of Jesus: The Guide to Peace and Happiness, Extracted from the Books of the New Testament Ascribed to the Four Evangelists written/authored/edited by Rajah Rammohun Roy', published in the year 1823. The ISBN 9789371693929 is assigned to the Hardcover version of this title. This book has total of pp. 679 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is Religion. Size of the book