2022-09-29 02:21:24 by kpgadda
This page has not been fully proofread.
"योऽन्तः प्रविश्य मम वाचमिमां प्रसुप्तां
सञ्जीवयत्यखिलशक्तिधरः स्वधाम्ना ।
अन्यांश्च हस्तचरणश्रवणत्वगादीन्
प्राणान्, नमो भगवते पुरुषाय तुभ्यम् ॥"
श्रीमद्भागवतम् ।
DAVASHIANO AMATO yoonalau
MAAAJEN JA SANSKRIT COLLEGE
वागीं जल
338
PREFACE
The following pages were composed during my con-
nection with the Bolpur Brahmavidyalaya, which extend-
ed over a happy period of seven years, and they were
originally meant for the students there. The boys gave
them a glad reception and expressed their fond anxiety
to see them in print. P
and partly to do a service to the country at large, I
now take leave to present them to the public in the hope
that they will not be denied the generous encourage-
ment they deserve.
a
I have attempted, in the course of the b
**
The following pages were composed during my con-
nection with the Bolpur Brahmavidyalaya, which extend-
ed over a happy period of seven years, and they were
originally meant for the students there. The
as far as possib
them a glad reception and expressed their fond anxiety
to see them in print. Partly to please my former pupils
and partly to do a service to the country at large,
ancient I
now take leave to present them to the pu
that they will not
ment they deserve.
a
to happiness here and hereafter, and I have
no pains to describ
as far as possible, a picture of the as practised in
ancient India, which was rightly believed to be essential
to happiness here and hereafter, and I have spared
no pains to describe, so far as space has permitted, the
true character of an आचार्य dwelling in a peaceful आश्रम
with his family and his students. Liberty has also been
taken to quote simple sentences, embodying the high
ideals of a ब्रह्मचारी or a गृहस्थ and also of human life in
the main, from various ancient works which will, I
believe, diffuse the sacred aroma of antiquity over
whatever I have written in defence of the eternal prin-
ciples of purity and right-mindedness.
The lessons of the book have been given in the
form of dialogues, and the author has made every effort
with as much ease and
Digitised by Ajit Gargeshwari Fto write as idiomatically and with as
form of dialogues, and the author has made every effort
to write as idiomatically and with as much ease and