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scholars. We never thought that scholars would harm a rcligion that is kind to all. But ah! In this naughty world virtue is often in misery. Gentlemen, before winding up this part of my
lecture, let me once more return to Ancient Tullia nuce morc,
*** ancient India. Let nie once more assure you that in ancient times in this noble country there were not only those who said, "For Tatua," * whoever desires paradise should sacrifice." Bilt there were also many sects which attached no importance whatever tu thein, or rather who denounced them wholesale. It is a pity that all such sects have not coine down to us, that inost of them have become extinct for ever. But still there are a few whose philosophy has reached us, and. I think, these sects are quite sufficient for our purposes, to prove that in India in ancient tincs Vedic sacrifices and slaughter of living creatures in Yajna were not the only means of heaven and salvation ; but that people resorted also to the contrary mcans for the very purposes, that. while one scci asserted that thcy could cross over the ocean of thc world by Himsa, others urged that Ahimsa was the only way to Nirvana.
Let us first look to the philosophy of the ancient
Yogis. Toga Darshana.
This has bcen systematised
for us by the Rishi Patanjali in the Yoga-Sutras. We also possess Yoga Shastra by the Jain Acharya, Hema Chandra, the celebrated autior of the Hema Chandra Kosha, but as the Yoga
