"from whom all proceed, to whom all must return, "whom we invoke to direct our understandings aright "in our progress toward his holy seat. "What the sun and light are to this visible world, "that are the Supreme good and truth to the intel"lectual and invisible universe; and, as our corporeal 66 eyes have a distinct perception of objects enlightened "by the sun, thus our souls acquire certain knowledge, 66 by meditating on the light of truth, which emanates "from the Being of beings: that is the light by which “alone our minds can be directed in the path to bea❝titude." A DEFENCE OF HINDOO THEISM, IN REPLY TO THE ATTACK OF AN ADVOCATE FOR IDOLATRY AT MADRAS. CALCUTTA : 1827. PREFACE THE following sheets contain some remarks in reply to a publication which appeared in the "Madras Courier" of November last, under the signature of Sankara Sastri, in answer to my abridgment of the Vedant and my Preface to the translation of the Ishopanishad, as well as to my Introduction to the Cenopanishad. The length to which the arguments of the controvertist extended having precluded their appearance in the Calcutta prints, I have taken the liberty of reprinting them along with my own observations on them, in order that the discussion may be brought fully before the public, to whose decision the merits of the question must now be left. |