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INTRODUCTION some receiving due homage while others the neglected, and perhaps maltreated.
It is said works and worship are needed for eman.pation. But a Yedantin does not admit it. Works and worship are the stepping atones and no more. They clear the mind of all blemishes, render it steady, and tranquil. There their utility ends. Knowledge alone is the one and only means for the destruction of ignorance which envelopes Self and prevents cognition of his natural felicity. If we remember ignorance and matter represent the same substance, consequently when the material out of which the future body is to grow is destroyed there can be no re-birth and that is emapoipation. It does not mean annihilation as 'sorde erroneously affirm, but entering into eternal life and blissf finess, to be conditionally one with the Supreme Brahma. Subh a condition can no words express, but it is the subjective experience of every theasophist while in his Samadhi.
In this brief ontline of Vedantism, the present writer has sought only to sketch its main features, leaving the reader to collect fuller information from the English translations of the Vedantasara, Panchadasi, Picharsagar etc., etc., they are worth perusing and will amply repay trouble and expence.
SREE RAM.
