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 there are many careful and capable administrators at the present day. How can I, therefore, feel competent to give advice to such persons? On the other hand there are some holders of estates who are ruining, or have already ruined, themselves. They are guided by bad principles which have so strong a hold upon them, that no one oil earth can hope to reform them. This book, therefore, is not intended for such persons either.

I will here give an instance to show how hard it is to convince certain persons of the fact that there are errors in the belief in which they have been brought up, and in which their natures are, as it were, steeped. While I was writing these lectures, I had a desire to see how some of them would be received, and so I translated those on Truth and Sri Krishna into Telugu and circulated the Translations amongst a few people. My lecture on Sri