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the house, and there were his father and mother. He washed them and fed them and did all he could to please them, and then came and took a seat before the Sannyasin and said, “Now, sir, you are come here to see me; what can I do for you?" Then this great Sannyasin asked him a few questions about the soul and about God, and the butcher gave him a lecture which forms even to-day a very celebrated work in India-the "Vyadha-Gita." It contains one of the highest flights in the Vedanta, the highest flight of metaphysics. You have heard of the Bhagavad. Gita, Krishna's sermon. When you have finished reading that, you should read the Vyadha-Gita; it contains the concentrated essence of the Vedanta philosophy. When the butcher finished his teaching, the Sannyasin felt astonished. He said, “Why are you in that body? With such knowledge as yours why are you in a butcher's body, and doing such filthy, ugly. work ?” “My son," : replied the Chandala " no duty is ugly, no • Skúty is impure. My birth, circumstances and
