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[7] “stom the tide of materialism and supplant it with the noble and high aspirations which non-duality teaches," and it “will suppress bad karma and incite the good of our fellow-creatures:" The work is dedicated “by permission to Sir Charles Aitchison, K.C.S.I.,
I.E., L.L.D., Lieutenant-Governor of the Punjab and its Dependencies, for high Christian morality, thorough conscientiousness, never-ceasing anxiety for the welfare of the people he rules over, and his appreciation of our ancient learning and philosophy, and in grateful remembrance of a life-long service under Government, by his most obedient and dutiful servant Sree Ram, Tahsildar of Delhi (retired) now Pleader of the Delhi Courts."
The Tribune of Lahore thus speaks of the work :
Lala Sri Ram, one of the most respectable members of the Delhi bar has recently brought out a translation of the “ Vichar Sagar"-a treatise on the Philosophy of the Vedanta. Its author was Pundit Nischal Das, a native of the village of Kehrowli in the District of Rohtak. He belonged to the Dadupanthi sect. He lived within the memory of man and thero aro men still alivo at Delhi who bear some recollections of the sage. Though a learned Sanskrit scholar, Pundit Nischal Das departed from the rule generally observed in his days, and wrote his work in Hindi to bring his subject within the comprehension of the uninitiated, or as he said “I speak in vermecular for them who are dull in intellect." The treatise is au original compendium of the Vedanta philosophy designed to impart to those not read in Sanskrit an accurate and comprehensive insight into that system of enquiry and belief. It gives unquestionable evidence of the author's learning and of his mastery of the subject he deals with, and shews that he took much pains to elucidate doctrines which are not often plain oven to the erudite and thoughtful. The book is held in much esteem among the Pundits of the neighbourhood, and Lala Sri Ram has done a marked service in giving it to the world in an English garb. He has been induced mainly by philanthropic motives to publish his Euglish rendering of the work. He regards with much satisfaction the revival of our ancient learning for which he thanks Madamo Blavatsky, Col. Olcott, Swami Dayanund and others, and observes" If the present work would tend to increase the national spirituality and if it would be the means of inviting the active sympathics of our young men and old, and stimulate them to study our ancient
