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will become real. It will become so knit with habit and emotion that our interests in it will be those which characterise belief, Those to whom God' and Duty' are now mere names can make them much more than that, if they make a little sacrifice to them every day."
The last sentence in the passage leans towards bhakti, and furnishes sound argument in favour of 'idolatry' within the limits laid down by us elsewhere. Right Faith being acquired, it should be re-inforced by Right Knowledge, to be derived from study and meditation in conjunction with the reading of sâstras (scriptures). Right Knowledge means knowledge which leads to and is indispensable for the attainment of moksha ; it is the knowledge of subjects (tattvas) which have the most immediate bearing on the attainment of the object in view. The tattvas are seven in number, and naturally arise in a scientific treatment of the subject. The aim is to obtain freedom from the mancipation of sin, which must consist of real bonds if it can hold us down in captivity. How to break these bonds ?--then, is the real proble.n, which is logically resolvable into the fol. lowing seven points, namely,
(1) the nature of that which is to be freed-whether it is such as can be freed from its bonds ?
(2) the nature of the substance of which the chains of bondage are forged;
(3) how does the second substance approach the first ?
(4) how are the bonds forged, also what kind of bonds are they which are to be destroyed ?
(5) in what way can we stop the forging of fresh bonds ?
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