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80 well to employ and handle for acquiring accurate knowledge.
The agreement between the Hindu Scriptures and the Holy Bible on this point might be shown by a single quotation from the 'Yoga Vasistha':
“Through right enquiry, the object of enquiry can be found like the essence in milk. One who has equality of vision through the enjoyment of the final beatitude will wear it as his foremost ornament; will never degrade himself from that state ; will be able to digest all things taken in-like sugar-candy by a swan, whether such things are polluted or mixed with poison or are injurious to health or adulterated. Whether they swallow virulent poison* or counter-poison or milk or sugarcane-juice or food, they will preserve a perfect equanimity of mind. Whether one plants his dagger deep in their head or preserves it, they will regard them neither as friends nor as foes. Since persons of equal vision will look upon all equally, their hearts will be filled with bliss."
Perhaps the class of miracles ascribed to Jesus and other saviours which one finds most difficult to believe is that of which the case of the daughter of Jairus forms a typical instance. The question, however, is not whether any one can perform them to-day, and thus put their occurrence beyond the possibility of doubt and dispute, but whether the revival of the dead is an event which is altogether beyond the range of possibility ? It would be harsh logic, indeed, to say that, because the secret is not known to us, therefore, it does not exist in nature at all; for it might be only waiting to be discovered by us, as it was discovered by the ancients. It might be that the conditions for the successful performance of the miracle are so rigid, that the secret, although known to and practised by
* Oj. Mark. XVI. 18.
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