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A SCHOLAR AND A PREACHER
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the sublimest philosophy expresses itself in the simplest language'; and, if one wants the best illustration to prove it, he has simply to go for it to the Achārya. Bewitching and marvellous and simple, it is at once the language of the child and the philosopher in one.
HIS DISCIPLES AND THEIR DISCIPLESHIP Vijaya Dharma Sūri has surrounded himself with a number of intelligent, zealous and devout disciples. These disciples have imbibed and absorbed from their spiritual teacher and preceptor his broad and generous ideas, his charitable and benevolent views, his liberal and helpful thoughts and sentiments, his pure and noble enthusiasm, energy and earnestness. They are assisting the Guru in his noble and beneficent work of helping and uplifting humanity. These disciples are known for their learning, their piety, and their chastity; and their discipleship is shown not in external appearance, but in internal truth and renunciation, not in the outer garb that is worn, but in the inner life, in the knowledge, the purity and the devotion which alone, in fact, open the gateway of Initiation.
