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EDITORIAL PREFACE
LITERARY SECR
-1E writers of this series of volumes on the variant forms of religious life in India arc governed in their work by two impelling motives.
1. They endeavour to work in the sincere and sympathetic irit of science. They desire to understand the perplexingly
thought and life in India and disir value. They recognize the
nderstand and evaluate,
i historical study of the
gnizing this fact thcy do no minon ground among all modern -ý reputc. But they also believe that
the practical side of each system in living Jo pass and the literature, and that, in this chnind direct contact which they have cach had
sous life ought to prove a source of valuable a clear understanding has been gained of the e exerted by the habits of worship, by the cetic, devotional or occult disciplinc, by the on and by the family system, the real impact
the life of the individual and the community „ated; and, without the advantage of extended purse, a trustworthy account of the religious
a community can scarcely be achieved by even pst careful student. 11. They seek to set each form of Indian religion by the side Christianity in such a way that the relationship may stand :- clear. Jesus Christ has become to them the light of all eir secing, and they believe Him destined to be the light of
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