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During the last decade much has been said and written on abstruso psychological subject, and the learned translator has therefore chosen perhaps the very best opportunity of presenting in English garb such a great work to the enlightoned public. The work camprises 404 pages, and indeed embodies a mass of instruction wlwm cannot otherwise be had unloss a large number of original won. difficult to understand, and requiring the life-time of an indiyidual, are gone through. Such a work ought to be read by one and all of the thicking portion of Aryavartha, and the translator deserves all possible encouragement at the hands of the Indian public. 'The work opens with a fine portrait and preface of the translator's followed by an admirable introduction which we surmise is from the loarned and very able pen of Dr. N. Dhole-Mr. Siunett's Reviewer. The English version throughout the work is simply commendable, and the publisher Babu Heera Lal Dhole deserves much credit for his excelleut printing and the general got up of the book. The " Vicharsagar" advocates nondualistic or pantheistic philosophy as taught by the Upanishads. In the elegant and very modest preface to the work the translator truly observes :
“No philosophy can be taken up like a romance, or a book of trarel; it requires deep thinking, and constant reading, with patience and tranquility of mind. The times we live in are extremely auspicious for works like the preseut. Thanks to the late Swamy Dayanand Saraswati and other allumini, there is an increasing activity noticeable everywhere for a study of our Shastras and what they teach. The impulse to this novel movement received no mean help from the Theosophical Societiging The noble and self-sacrificing career of fadame Blavatsky and Colouel. Olcott for regenerating our ancient literature and faith, deserves the highest encomium everywhere. Had it not been fd their example and cooperation it would have taken several lengthened periods before the revival of things as they are, could have been accomplishod.”
ON THD ROAD TO SELF KNOWLEDGE being the text of ATMA BODA, PARAMARTHASARA, AND HASTAMALAK, translated from the original Sanskrit into English by Babu Amritalal Basu. Price 13 annns only.
This work is admirably suited for beginners. Srimat Şankaracharya has fully and elaborately expounded his doctrine of nonduality in this book.
