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mandments of Jehovah which are said to have been imparted to Moses :
(1) "Thou shalt lave no other God before me. (2) "Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven
image, or any likeness of anything. (3) "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord
thy God in vaio. (4) “Six days shalt thou labour, but the seventh
is the sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it
thou shalt not do any work. (5) " Honour thy father and thy mother, (6) “Thou shalt not kill. (7) “Thou shalt not commit adultery. (8) “Thou shalt not steal. (9) "Thou shalt not bear false witness against
thy neighbour, (10) “Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house,
thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man servant, nor his maid servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that
is thy neighbour's." Vedânta is the most famous of all the systems of Hindu metaphysics and pursues the line of thought known as Idealism. The visible perceptible world, all that the senses reveal, everything that the mind knows, is unreal, unsubstantial and imaginary. The senses are deceptive; we often mistake a rope for a serpent ! How, then, can a man in possession of his wits rely
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