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wards the happy, and (4) love towards the criminal or cruel person.
In this world of misery, disease, old age, and death, there is no other protection, refuge or help than the practice of the truth. The continual cycle of births and deaths is not ended and therefore we should make some efforts to free ourselves from it. Right knowledge, belief, and conduct, these three are the sources of happiness. There are twenty-one qualities, the majority of which must be possessed before a person is ready to undertake the higher religious life (1) he must be earnest, (2) he must be of sound mind, (3) he must be pleasing by nature, (4) he must be popular, charitable, well-behaved, and of good moral character, (5) he must not be cruel, (6) he must be cautious and honest, (7) he will live according to some principle, (8) he will be compassionate and sympathetic, (9) he must be just and impartial, (10) he must be grateful, polite, intelligent, and of quick understanding, and (11) he must be self-controlled
TEACHINGS
Knowledge is of five kinds (a) mati-jñāna (knowledge acquired by sense-perceptions), (b) śruta-jñāna (knowledge acquired by reading the scriptures); (c) avadhi-jñāna (knowledge of the distant, non-sensible in time or space possessed
