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right wrist. Frontal lines are not invariably employed, but some make a perpendicular streak with ashes of a burnt offering made to HANUMÁN.
Their moral code is something like that of all Hindu quietists, and enjoins indifference to the world, its pleasures or its pains, implicit devotion to the spiritual guide, clemency and gentleness, rigid adherence to truth, the discharge of all ordinary, social, or religious obligations, and the hope of final absorption into the one spirit which pervades all things.
There is little or no difference therefore in essentials between the Satnámís and some of the Vaishnava unitarians, but they regard themselves as a separate body, and have their own founder JAGJIVAN DÁS. He was a Kshatriya by birth, and continued in the state of Grihastha, or house-holder, through life: he was a native of Oude, and his Samádh, or shrine, is shewn at Katwa, a place between Lucknow and Ajúdhya. He wrote several tracts, as the Jnán Prakás, Mahápralaya, and Prathama Grantha: they are in Hindi couplets; the first is dated in Samvat 1817, or A. D. 1761, the last is in the form of a dialogue between SIVA and PÁRVATI. The following is from the Mahápralaya.
"The pure man lives amidst all, but away from all: his affections are engaged by nothing: what he may know he knows, but he makes no enquiry: he neither goes nor comes, neither learns nor teaches, neither cries nor sighs, but discusses himself with himself. There is neither pleasure nor pain, neither clemency
