The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1880-11-26

transformations, and re.enter the spirit
ual nature of Brahma after being thus
purified of theii transgressions The
HTdoo religion teaches its voiaries TO
propitiate an offended deity with offer.
inga. by prayers, Hastings, as,iutione,
bodily notifications and mutilations,
rich gifts to the priests, and pilgrim-
ages to the sacred river Gauges, or other
holy places. The FakirR are species
of fanatics, who mutiIate themselves
horribly, suprosing thus to please God.
The theology OF the Vedas is the fer.
tile ocune whence issued Zoroastrian-
ism, Buddhism, and Mohammedabism.
Though pure and simple in its inception,
it has become a tissue OF horrible and
corrupt superstitious IN the hands of
the Brahminial priesthood, who ruth
lessly degraded the people in order more
effectuallY TO rule them. 1t was the
BrahmiEs who created the famed castles
of India-themselvcs, greedy aud a.
piring priests, being always high, OF
first caste exclusion from all caste be-
ing the severes: penalty known to their
laws. This system of caste, an iron
desputism, which makes progress inn
possible while 1t exists, is cluug TO by
the Hindoos as il it were an open Sc
same 90 paradise. They humble them
selves TO tlieIr British masters, and sub.
nit to any exactions, hut it the English
Lord, possessed by q brief fit of phllan-
thropy. attempts to disregard the strict
laws of caste, 10 succor Parial, an
oaHcdSt, to abolish the car OF "Jugger-
nant," great is the outcry, maddening
the mutiny. They are ready then TO
revolt, burn, kill. ravages and 6ght to
the death.
According to the account of recent
French traveller, nothing can exceed the
horror of the selt-tortures inflicted by
The Fakirs, when this car of Jugger-
nau;, containing the hideous image OF
the God SIva, makes Its animal prog
ress. TO PROSTATE themselves in order
to be passed over by the sixteen wheels
ot this car Is the commonest form of
torture. Another festival OF monstrous
superstition is tho Nag Punchmi," or
feast of serpente at Bombay. The Him.
docs worship the serpent as they do
silva, the destroyer, and at the season
Of the year when the cohras are most
dangerous, they celebrate ih,s festival,
decking Their nonse< with flowers, pray
ing for deliverance from the bites OF SER
pents, and offering rice aud sugar in The
temples, wlere one of the grand cere-
MONIES is feeding the cobras with but-
faloes' milk, of which they are very
fond. by meane OF 'tSapwallahs," OF
euaxe-chaTmers.
But thongl, India is now stepped in
superstition though British masters crusI,
her pride and humble her dignity in
the dust, though, sunk in apathy, ser-
vile and passive, yet India has past
grandeur, more ancient than any other
laml the sun shines on. Happily for
modern thought all vestiges of her
glorious achievements are not vet OBJ
liberated. She has still her manuscript
-till her ruins, still her Sanskrit tongue
And savsnts say SIT (the SanskriD
is language more copious than the
Latin, more perfect than the Greek,
and more exqni<iteIy refined than either''
also, tha. the SanSKrit is the parents
stock from which came the Greek lau-
gnage as we'll as tie Latin and that
ancient India is the parent OF ciyiliza
tion. Instead OF Egypt being the toun-
tain of learning, Alenes, .er founder.
obtained his lore and laws from the i.,-
+,itutes of Alanon l.: India hence the
.Justinian Code. the Pandectr, the Code
Napoleon. the Common Law OF Eng
y
ian Sage, aud the Prophet Of Mecca,
all drew from this fountain.
An extract from the ancient books
Of someof the preccpts Of Chriena. the
Rlndoo incarnation Of Xiehnn. may
give the reader Fome notion of the
wisdom which persAded tie philosophy
OF the prehistoric era in which the Vedas
were written
"AIenswho have no selfcemmand
are not capable OF fulfilling their duties.
'soleasure and riches should he re-
nounced when not approved By con-
science
"The wrongs we intiict upon our
rleighbors fol ow US like our shadows.
"The knowledge of man is but vanity;
al his best actions are. iliusory when he
knows not 70 ascribe them to God.
Love OF his fellow-creatures should