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their crude notions of good and evil, they get involved in a large conflict of individual interest, worry and trouble, through enjoying sometimes a few short moments of pleasant life. These verses condemn such persons to the privation of quietude of mind, which lead to spiritual knowledge.
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The reader might have gathered from the foregoing what lesson this little work attempts to inculcate. It is chiefly of the worthlessness of worldly life and the consequent advisability of renouncing it. Here however we should not Jose sight of one fact if we are to properly appreciate Indian Ethics and Philosophy. A charge is frequently brought forward against the Indians, that their philosophy teaches them to look down with scorn upon mundane affairs, and that the baneful result of such teaching is to incapacitate them for playing the right roll, God has assigned to man in the evolution of the world. But to those who have grasped the spirit of
