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pains and miseries resulting from such sinful acts.
It will be seen from the above discussion that the ten lectures in the first book have all an optimistic vein and they really serve as beacon. lights to all—even to the most sinful, for they show us as to how a man or a woman, who has gone even to the worst path in life and who is most sinful, can, after suffering for his or her evil deeds during transmigration and after making amends for the same, achieve the real happiness of salvation by taking to the path of religion and monkhood.
The Second Book appears to illustrate, as it were, the most important lesson of religion and monkhood which is briefly alluded to at the end of all the ten lectures in the first book and which, as we have seen, has been pointed out as the only path which is capable of leading even the most sinful to the path of real happiness and bliss. It, thus, serves the purpose of an im. portant appendix to the first book and gives concrete illustrations of persons who took to that most important path of religion and monkhood and enjoyed perfect bliss here as well as in the next world.
Like the first, the second. Book also contains
