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( 43 ) scholars. We never thought that scholars would harm a religion that is kind to all. But ah! In this naughty world virtue is often in misery. Gentlemen, before winding up this part of my
lecture, let me once more return to Ancient India once more.
ancient India. Let me once more assure you that in ancient times in this noble country there were not only those who said, "auth FTATUIA," "whoever desires paradise should sacrifice.” But there were also many sects which attached no importance whatever to them, or rather who denounced them wholesale. It is a pity that all such sects have not come down to us, that most of them have become extinct for ever. But still there are a few whose philosophy has reached us, and, I think, these sects are quite sufficient for our purposes, to prove that in India in ancient times Vedic sacrifices and slaughter of living creatures in Yajna were not the only means of heaven and salvation ; but that people resorted also to the contrary means for the very purposes, that while one sect asserted that they could cross over the ocean of the world by Himsa, others urged that Ahimsa was the only way to Nirvana. Let us first look to the philosophy of the ancient
Yogis. This has been systematised Yoga Darshana.
use for us by the Rishi Patanjali in the Yoga-Sutras. We also possess Yoga Shastra by the Jain Acharya, Hema Chandra, the celebrated author of the Hema Chandra Kosha, but as the Yoga
