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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1869 Excerpt:..." I am the Life." The subsequent aphorisms show that Indra was then speaking of himself as the supreme soul. Life is God. These aphorisms merely give the first quarter of the first lecture, of which Mr. Colebrooke's summary is as follows:--"The omnipotent, omniscient, sentient cause of the universe, is (anandamaya) essentially happy. Me is the brilliant golden person, seen within (antar) the solar orb and the human eye. He is the etherial element (iikdsa), from which all things proceed and to which all return. He is the breath (prdna) in which all beings merge, into which they all rise. He is the light (jyotis) which shines in heaven, and in all places high and low, everywhere throughout the world, and within the human person. He is the breath (prdna) and intelligent self, immortal, undeeaying, and happy, with which Indra (in a dialogue with Pratardana) identifies himself."1 The most popular elementary treatise on the Vedanta is the Vedanta-Sara, or essence of the Vedanta, by Sadananda, to which is appended a commentary by Ramakrishna Tirtha, edited at Calcutta, 1829. Another commentary, by Nrisinhasaraswati, bears the date, Calcutta, 1849. Ramakrishna Tirtha's work is entitled "Rejoicer of the Mind of the Learned." The Vedanta-S&ra, as a matter of course, deals with the same topics as the VedantaSutras, but in the following order: 1, the competent person (adhikdrin); 2, the object-matter (vishaya); 3, the relation (mambandha); and 4, the purpose (prayojana). The competent person is one " who has attained to a rough notion of the sense of the whole Veda; who, by renouncing, in this or a former life, things desirable or things forbidden, and by observance of the constant and of the occasional ceremonies, of penances, an...