CHAPTER XI.

TRADITIONS OF THE ANCIENT WISDOM-RELIGION.

Difficulty of giving any concise account of Indian teaching-- Personal _rapprochement_ to the Guru, but alienation from the formalities of his doctrine--Mediæval theories of Astronomy and Geology--Philosophy of the Siddhantic system--The five elements, five forms of sensation, etc.-- The twenty-six _tatwas_, and the Self which stands apart from them all--Evolution and Involution--The five shells which enclose the soul--Death and Birth--Crudities of Astrology, Physiology, etc.--Double signification of many doctrines--Resemblance of modern Guru to a Vedic Sage--His criticisms of the English and of English rule-- Importance to the West of the Indian traditions 183–203

_INDIA._