VEDANTA.

Dominion, Volume 2, Issue 547, 30 June 1909, Page 9

VEDANTA.

; Sister'Avabamia is tho: liarno of a pleasI, ant-faced, ■ (jttiejrvoiced ■ littlo lady who is at .present, visiting-Wellington for the.Wpose oi iincUlcating the teachings of Vcdanta, and OH, . delivered in .'tho Masonic iih-'j f i CO H • a lecture entitled ''Mind and ' Matter. 1 ' . v The hall waa > half 1 : filled., by people,- ,who. listened .with evident interest to the speaker.,: There,was nothing very new, in what she said. Pcoplo who prouf° & a T inspiration from . the , s oldest religions do :not strive to say anything vory, now,-' but . .the speaker's. very pleasant ; mannor, ' hor expressive, face, and her quaint foreign accent, made it pleasant to listen. to. ■ Tho Yedanta! religion jb said to have; been- first taught 'in the West by a visitor from Mia to Chicago at tho time'of the exhibition. Vedanta holds, said'- Sister Arabamia, that when a soul passes from the body, 1 it retains the physical mentality which it oh earth, until it has grown out ; of thripiano, .and, away from. the vibrations, to' wluoh it, has been; accustomed,, and has learned all the lessons that can bo taught to it .there. Vedanta: believes the people who Gay.'that .they; liavo seen their departed relatives, but,holds that they have really only seen ! the, mind, surrounded with its vibrations, not the advanced mind, whiclr,-will aftc'rwcCrds...be evolved' throhgh experience, but; the external or physical' mind, a. mueli 'lower. '.mind;.'"''.Vedanta believes that . 'every I human being possesses 'the. powor of healing j that every mind in every plane is capable of transmitting its power of energy to anothoj-, ,and it is m this that , healing consists! Vedanta also-holds that each living being,is a part of one great living whole" nntl it. believes that .when this is thoroughly understood, .rto man will -show any unkin'd-noM'to-any other being,'but all will lov'o their . neighbours as themsolves, knowing that tlioir neighbours are themselves, and that all pro.part of a much greater life. Sister Avabamia touched lightly 'on Vedanta's methods of teaching. This afternoon a leeturo will be given by Sister Avabamia on "Woman, her relation to the planets, her susceptibility to the planets, and her conquering of tho planets." ' '' j y -'