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198 sovereign if it is not the Hindus? Is it the Mussulman that will return to power ? " Tears flowed down the cheeks of Satyananda. Looking up to the image of the Motherland above, he folded his hands and, in a voice choked with grief, said : " Alas Mother, with all my devotion, I have failed to save thee. Again will you fall into the hands of infidels. Mother, forgive thy child for its failings. Alas ! why did I not fall in the battle-field to-day ? " Satyananda." said the physician, " Grieve not. In your delusion, you have won your victories with the proceeds of robbery. A vice never leads to good conse- quences and you may never expect to save your country by a sinful procedure. And, really, what will happen now will be for the best. There is no hope of a revival of the True Faith if the English be not our rulers. Listen to me and I shall explain the position to you as great men have understood it. The True Faith does not consist in the worship of 330 million deities ; that is only a base religion of the masses. Under its influ- ence the True Faith, which Mlecchas call Hinduism, has disappeared. The true Hinduism is based on knowledge and not on action. This knowledge is of two kinds, subjective and objective. The subjective know- ledge is the essential part of the True Faith, but till you have objective knowledge the subjective knowledge can never grow. Till you know the gross matter you cannot know the subtle spirit. It is very long now since objective knowledge has disappeared from our