LXVI. Sanctitas via intelligentiæ: Holiness the road to knowledge. Mahabharata v. 1382. The man who every sin forsakes, Whose breast with love of goodness glows, He Nature's primal essence knows, And all the changing forms she takes. LXVII. The extinction of Sin leads to Knowledge. As sinful passion's fires grow cold, Until, at length, when free from stain, LXVIII. final beatitude; and the self-evidencing power of the doctrine regarding it. Mahābhārata iii. 13982; xii. 8959, ff.; 11380, ff.; 11692, ff. xiv. 1455, ff. Let men all worldly longings quell, And thus as seasons onward roll, The saint, with meagre fare content, Now see in this most wholesome lore LXIX. A guide through the gloom. Mahabharata xii. 12064. The night approaches now: hold fast * Compare, though of a different character, the phenomenon described by Professor Reuss, Histoire des Israelites, p. 295, note 3, as quoted in the Appendix. [Although in subsequent verses (8967 f.), systems founded on reasoning, and ignorance of the Vedas, are condemned, we seem to have in the passage before us a recognition of the self-evidencing power of certain doctrines, independently of any revealed authority. In the pieces preceding, pp. 11-13, entitled "An Indian Free-thinker's fate," and "The Indian Rationalist in ancient times," strict orthodoxy is required.] D LXX. Janaka's saying: The Blessedness of dispassion. Mahābhārata xii. 529, 6641, 9917, 9919; (also 7981). "As having nothing, and yet possessing all things." How vast my wealth, what joy I taste, A purer, sweeter bliss he knows LXXI. Whither knowledge leads. Satapatha Brahmana x. 5, 4. 16. By knowledge mortals thither soar LXXII. Death is not the extinction of the good. Mahābhārata xii. 12121. Let no one deem the wise are dead, LXXIII. The Watchtower of Wisdom.* Mahabharata xii. 530 (= xii. 5623). As men who climb a hill behold LXXIV. The Endian Martha and Mary. (Illustrative of the Vedantic doctrine of absorption Brihad Aranyaka Upanishad ii. 4, 1, ff; and iv. 5, 1, ff. Two wives, as Indian rules allowed, Called pious Yajnavalkya lord. * This passage has some resemblance to Lucretius, ii. 10 f. Sed nil dulcius est, bene quam munita tenere edita doctrinâ sapientum templa serena, despicere unde queas alios passimque videre errare atque viam palantis quærere vitæ, etc. "But nothing is more welcome than to hold the lofty and serene positions well fortified by the learning of the wise, from which you may look down upon others and see them wandering all abroad and going astray in their search for the path of life," etc.-MUNRO. They dwelt in peace and good accord, With varying powers and tastes endowed. Maitreyi studied, grave and wise, Now Yajnavalkya longed to gain He thus addressed his elder bride : She asked him then, that thoughtful wife: "If earth, with boundless treasures filled, Were mine, should then my fears be stilled, That Yama soon will claim my life?" * He said: "Hadst thou such treasures won, "What profits wealth," Maitreyī cried, "If I must die and leave it soon? Immortal life, that envied boon, To gain, if thou canst guide me, guide." *The Indian Pluto. |