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is more comprehensive and perfect than that? which is imparted in niodern schools and colleges. It is the knowledge of the nature of substances and forces of nature which re-estabblish it therein.
All other kinds of knowledge may be necessary for the men of the world, but they are useless to the soul seeking perfection, i. e., immortality and bliss.
There are seven essential objects of knowledge, called Tattvas. These are : 11) The living or conscious substance i. e., the soul; (2) the non-living i. e., the unconscious substance; (3) Ashrava, i.e., inflow of the matter into the soul; (4) Bandha, i. e., bondage; (5) Samvara, or the checking of the inflow of the matter; (6) Nirjara, the removal of matter from the soul; and (7) Moksha-Nirvana i. e., freedom. We shall take each of these seven Tattwas separately, and shall deal with them briefly.
(1) The soul is the living substance, and is pure consciousness in essence; it is not the product of matter in any sense It is by nature all-knowing and blissful, and is endowed with untiring, inexhaustible energy. All substances
