Munshiram (Swami Shraddhanand) youth was full of ups and downs. His father Shri. Nanakchand was gifted police inspector post as rewards of his service to Britishers in 1857 revolt against freedom fighters. The police job was honoring but family was engaged in constant moves between Benaras, Mirzapur, Banda, Mathura and Bareilly. This disturbed the studies of Munshiram and instead of pursuing good in studies he landed up in company of rich friends who engaged him in cruel clenches of lust, alcohol, bhang, pan, meat eating, gambling etc. the young mind was easily influenced by his environment “when in Rome, do as the Romans do”, was his motto. At last he passed mukhtari exams and started his law practice to become a well known lawyer. This was a period when the son of a pious father landed up in atheism. Munshiram used to visit every night to a temple. One day the police prevented him and other devotees from entering the temple. A noble lady was doing her prayer, and nobody was allowed inside until she finished. Munshiram was terribly upset, started thinking seriously about temple and idol worship. He was assailed by grave doubts. At this stage he met a catholic priest. Under his influence he started going to church, and decided to prepare himself for baptism. This plan however came to an abrupt end. One day he went to visit The Father, but he was not in his room. Munshiram, on looking inside, saw to his horror another father in what seemed to him a compromising situation with a nun. After this his feet’s never turned to the church in his life. (AUTO P-34-35) When his father nanakchand was posted in Banaras a girl died at home of a Muslim lawyer, as there was a suspicion of murder, the remains of the girl was held by the police for a post mortem examination. Another Muslim lawyer trained at Aligarh College and with help of Sir Syed Ahmed khan’s influence managed to have the investigation stopped. Case was transferred to Allahabad and his father was duly acquitted. This lead to his father’s transfer to Ballia. This experience leads Munshiram to turn away from Islam. (AUTO P-21) Munshiram joined his father for a while in Mathura. Here he had a close experience of corrupt Hinduism. He saw the disgusting gluttony of the chaube Brahmins to whom his devout father donated a feast, and during a visit to the temples of gosains, he witnessed the attempted rape of a young female devotee by one of these sensuous pontiffs of the Krishna cult (AUTO P-43) As the atheism grew in him as his life drowned in alcohol. His lot of time was wasted in friends circle, reading novels, playing chess neglecting his studies.