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INTRODUCTION.
In introducing the present work to his readers, the translator needs hardly reyuire any excuse to justify it. For & work of such deservedly high repute in the field of spiritual literature especially to the beginner, it has peculiar merits of its own. All metaphysical disquisitions and subtle arguments which can only reach the comprehension of the more advanced student have been purposely abstained from. The main feature of its recommendation is its simplicity, and the cogency of arguments used to convince the truth of that grand doctrine which is the land-mark of all Vedantic treatises, no matter whether written in the learned Sanskrit or the popular Vernaculars. One-ness of the individual Self, with the Parabrahma is the subject with which the work is mainly concerned, and in demonstrating it to a geoinetrical certainty, frequent reference has been made to the stock arguments of the Vedantin, not forgetting to clear the objections which are possible. To those unaccustomed to such deep thinking and close reasoning as well as fairness to an opponent, especially in the domain of theology, where bold assertion and dogmatic impudence stand for argument, it will be the means of awakening their spiritual instinct so that other works more exhaustive and learned shall be greedily sougho after, till the stock of information is full and the mind satiated and tranquilized finally comes to rest on Self, to taste his natural condition of everlasting intelligence and bliss.
