Sannyasa Dharma

Author(s): Champat Rai Jain
Publisher: Champat Rai Jain

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tachment), such as vows, penances confession of sins, fasting and the like, must all be impressed into service so as to be able to completely overcome the lower nature and to bring about a permanent separation between the body and the soul.
Such, briefly, is the explanation of the sannyāsi's dharma which is described in these pages, I have not thought it worth while to enter into a philosophical or scientific explanation of the subject here, considering that I have already dealt with this aspect of it in my earlier works, ' The Key of Knowledge and · The Practical Path' and also in the Householder's Dbarma' to some extent. The reader may also be referred to the 'Glimpses of a Hidden Science in Original Christian Teachings,' and to the eighth lecture in myConfiuence of Opposites' where he will find some relevant matter discussed in this connection, from the point of view of comparative religion, which has been further dealt with in the accompanying 'Note'. In the Appendix are given certain extracts from the Hindu Sāstra, Manu Smriti, which cannot fail to interest the student of comparative religion,
Hygeia House,
LONDON. June 1st, 1926.
CHAMPAT RAI JAIN,
Vidyā Vāridhi,
Barrister-at-Law.