Essays Lectures on Religion of Hindu Vol 01

SR No.: 007688
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: H H Wilson
Publisher: Trubner and Company London
Publication Year: 1861
Total Pages: 480
Language: English
Classification: Interfaith & Hinduism
File Size: 28 MB

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OF THE HINDUS.
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forehead with sectarial distinctions, nor wear chaplets, or rosaries, or jewels.
8. Never eat nor drink intoxicating substances, nor chew pán, nor smell perfumes, nor smoke tobacco, nor chew nor smell opium, hold not up your hands, bow not down your head in the presence of idols or of men.
9. Take no life away, nor offer personal violence, nor give dammatory evidence, nor seize any thing by force.
10. Let a man wed one wife, and a woman one husband, let not a man eat of a woman's leavings, but a woman may of a man's, as may be the custom. Let the woman be obedient to the man.
11. Assume not the garb of a mendicant, nor solicit alms, nor accept gifts. Have no dread of necromancy, neither have recourse to it. Know before you confide. The meetings of the Pious are the only places of pilgrimage, but understand who are the Pious before you so salute them.
12. Let not a Sádh be superstitious as to days, or to lunations, or to months, or the cries or appearances of birds or animals; let him seek only the will of the Lord.
These injunctions are repeated in a variety of forms, but the purport is the same, and they comprise the essence of the Sádh doctrine which is evidently derived from the unitarianism of KABIR, NÁNAK, and similar writers, with a slight graft from the principles of Christianity. In their notions of the constitution of the universe, in the real, although temporary existence of inferior deities and their incarnations, and in the ultimate object of all devotion, liberation from life on earth, or Mukti, the Sádhs do not differ from other Hindus.
The Sadhs have no temples, but assemble at stated periods in houses, or courts adjoining set apart for
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