The Princeton union., 1900-09-27

our Motto: For GOd ana Home ana NatlVe
Our Badge: knot Of white ribbon.
Our Aims: Home protection, prohibition OF
the liquor traffic, equal suffrage, one standard
OF morals, and the bringing about OF better
public sentiment
MRS. EFF1E A: BuRGAN, President,
MRS. JENNIE WOODCOCK, Secretary,
MRS. ADA FARNHAM. Treasurer.
was reminded during the week
that I had promised to write some
of the lectures given by Pundite
Ramabai the cultured woman from
India, to our American woman:
With all the advancement of the
nineteenth century I am surprised
and shocked to find that an
cient philosophers are making
their appearance in the United
States under the guise of christian
names.
1t is the same philosophy that
has been taught among my people
for four thousand years. 1t has
ruined millions of lives and caused
immeasurable suffering and sor-
row. To study Indian philosophy
one must go to India and see its
results and learn to read the
Shasteas in the original.
| am shocked that American
women will adopt such a thing and
! want to witness to it's degrada-
ton.
The difficulty is that American
disciples of Hinduism, or as it is
called here Christian Science, have
never appreciated the good things
God has done for them. They are
not interested in Gods word be
cause they do not study it, ane
! ignorance is at the root of the in
E fatuation.
= The philosophical language i
very deep and grand. You know
it is very grand when you do no
! understand it. If you want
a philosophy that is useful study tn
gospel of John and the first epistl
n of John. I have sounded tn
X X depths of Hindu philosophy an
It found it nothingness. You are t
take the whole universe as nothin
> but falsehood. You are to thin
IS that it does not exist. You d
s not exist. When you realize that
that is philosophy. There wa
% once upon time a great bein
IS called Brahma, and that perso
80 was no person at all, but some
50 thing like air, full of joy an
n n knowledge. Can you think of a
- as being full of JOY and knowledg'
That being had no mind. It di
+ not want to say anything or hay
\ anything near it, and therefore, (
y course, it did not understand an
80 thing. Then there came anoth'
SS being just like himself, and tn
% being was nothing but darkness
60 It was all falsehood. Now th
50 air united with that darkness al
~ assumed personality. 1t becan
- male and female, and as that pc
son has formed all things, Il
18th logical inference is that everythil
!. is falsehood.
When you realize that you ha
E. no personality whatever, you ha
no life, no knowledge, nothin
We then you have attained the highe
;. perfection of what is called ''yog
you are liberated from your boz
and become like him, without a.
N. personality. 1t is just that, ,>no1
5av ing more.
&; You feel that when other peo}
are starving you ought to gi
them something to eat, but out
India they do not feel that. NJ
last do not feel any sympathy /
A'' others. Why should they he
H. the suffering when they clam
. their suffering was not real?
t. Plenty of opportunities are
forded for the study of Hindu pE
ays osophy even if you 60 no fartt
P. than Bombay. The city is very lar
and very hot, but that will ma
,n no difference to philosophers W
mover exnerience heat at all.