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Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c5.69

Sketch of the Religious Sects of the Hindus c5.69

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c5.69

In the present impure age, the bud of wisdom being blighted by iniquity, men are inadequate to the apprehension of pure unity; they will be apt, therefore, again to follow the dictates of their own fancies, and it is necessary for the preservation of the world, and the maintenance of civil and religious distinctions, to acknowledge those modifications of the divine spirit which are the work of the SUPREME. These reflexions having occurred to SANKARA, he addressed his disciples, &c.