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INTRODUCTORY personal interest for the good of humanity as a whole. A man whose conception of life is high realizes the value of this lesson in its entirety. He realizes that life is given to him that he may do something that will endure; and nothing endures so much as a good deed done for the public good. He lives that others may live. He regards himself as one to whom life has been given that he may serve others and make them happy. He realizes that he is born, not for himself solely, but for others--not only for his family, but also for his country. And, realizing this his real duty in life, he discharges it with courage and self-reliance, serving humanity, without expecting others to do that service for himself. Such a career, indeed, becomes a vast subject of reflection. Such is the career of Vijaya Dharma Sūri, whose life and work it is the object of these pages to describe.
