VEDANTA LECTURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1127, 15 May 1911, Page 9

VEDANTA LECTURE.

c> A lecture was given last night at tho Masonic Hall, Boulcott Street, by Sister Avabamia, who is on her farewell visit to this city, prior to leaving for India, on the subject of original Vcdnjita. Sho saiti that it was impossible to karn what Vedanta was from books, as it was the oldest and most extensive belief in scope as well as in liberality. It was with Vedanta as with the sacred Scriptures called the Vodas. It had been taught from man to man for thousands of years before thero was a word written upon tho subject, and it was only very recently that literature bearing upon its teaching had been given to us. One of India's greatest philosophers, Sri Saukavacharya, travelled from and to the four corners of India teaching it and establishing centres 1200 years nso, anil, at that time, thero were few, if any books at all to be found on Vedanta. The literature which we have now was, at the very best, a feeble representation of this wonderful teaching, ami this was the reason why we know nothiivg of its commandments and promises. Meekness am! .■•elf-abnegation were the key to the- vast storehouso of knowledge in Vedaiita.- The audience was large, and interest was manifested throughout.