Key to Interpret the Veda (Classic Reprint)

If these high and salutary teachings were lost on the succeeding generations of Brahmins who, being tinged with Budhism, described penances lasting for thousands of years; if imposing the duty of feeding their own selves on the princes of the times, just as Budhist monks did, they exacted from them grants of land, with this difference, that while the latter did something in their own way for the masses by calling them into their all-embracing fold and working, without forgetting or neglecting their temporal wants, for their spiritual good, the former did absolutely nothing for them, and with no idea of enlarging the fold ever entering into their head, they steered on in the right opposite direction of making it narrower and narrower, till they found a safe haven and landed in the close caste-system as presented by aH indu of to-day to his nearer and further brethern of kindred and different or distinct races and religions; if they have thus fallen down from the very high position, their enviable heritage, it was surely no fault of their immediate ancestors who, not shrinking from their imperative duty, boldly ran and won AB mhmin ,im the race. For this consoling and ennobling debtedness to the communion, which is the means of the generalE nglish °°nqu°st awakening of the feeling of a, national unity, with the departed spirits ofthe Sanskrit East, aB rahmin, especially a liberalised one, can not but bless the higher English education which has thrown open to him the vast, aye, the boundless field explored and opened for the [irst time in the history of the world by the labours of Max Muller and his brother Orientalists. Asking pardon of the reader for the digression evoked by the occasion, the writer now begs attention to the second class of hymns with verses non-interdependent. The second class ot hymns has been taken by the people as forming so many unit
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