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367 said, * Slot through exalted position, not through cheap popularity, but by loyal adherence to the cause of ti’uth and faithful pursuit of the principle of life-giving love will a man attain the end of existence.’

I feel that he was one of those but for whom the Brahma Samaj could not be what it is. He dealt out his heart and parcelled out his spirit to a thousand souls which are re-incarnated, re-duplicated, multiplied selves of him, we find here and elsewhere in the Brahma Samaj. And yet how tolerant, how ax)- preciative of merit, with none of that fanaticism which comes of narrowness of conception ^ind unbalancied mental condition ! I remember, after a discussion of the merits of vegetarianism, over which people were sharply divided, one of the advocates of vegetarianism wanted to score a crowning victory over his -opponents because Pandit Sastri was a vegetarian by prindide ; and he said, “ Is it not by being a vegetarian that you liave attained .this fine spiritual progress ?” Pandit Sastri relied , “ 1 do not know ; with the great exampie of Maharshi on. the other side, it wemid be