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Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman (1908)

Oman, John Campbell, 1841-1911 · London T.F. Unwin · leaf 66

An illustration from Cults, customs and superstitions of India. Rev. and enl. ed. With illus. from photographs and from drawings by William Campbell Oman, 1908, leaf 66 — thepractical outcome of the system? The question may notbe easy to answer, but this much at least may be saidwithout hesitation, that the best minds have been with-drawn, through yogaism, from the pursuit of practicalobjects, and diowned in a dull lethargic sleep, unprofitablealike to themselves… … YOGIS AND MAHATMAS 29 pattern for imitation, cannot have been otherwise thaninjurious, even though at the same time these asceticsundoubtedly provided the rehgiously-minded with hvingexamples of unworldliness and contempt of riches. Howlong the ascetic, who, disregarding every duty and obliga-tion…

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