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study of the subject under trained teachers are
unwilling to break through the traditions of the
land and impart their knowledge to foreigners
or even to Indians who are unwilling to observe
the forms of obeisance to the Guru laid down
and in vogue among learners hitherto. Hence,
all sorts of errors prevail and pass current as
established truth from mouth to mouth. The
remedy seems to us to be to maintain the
traditions of Pandit learning at any cost, so
that the truth may not be lost to India, and
through India to the world. The day that India
fails to produce Pandits of the old thorough-
going type will be the day on which India will
lose the crown of spirituality she has long borne
and cease to be the holy land of our race. The
centre of political and material supremacy has
shifted from age to age, but throughout the ages
India has successfully and resolutely maintain-
ed a self-determined continuity of tradition and
development in regard to her knowledge of the
soul, its nature and destiny; and this is what
makes the Western publicist, politician, and
philosopher entertain the hope that some day-
to use the words of a recent writer in the
study of the subject under trained teachers are
unwilling to break through the traditions of the
land and impart their knowledge to foreigners
or even to Indians who are unwilling to observe
the forms of obeisance to the Guru laid down
and in vogue among learners hitherto. Hence,
all sorts of errors prevail and pass current as
established truth from mouth to mouth. The
remedy seems to us to be to maintain the
traditions of Pandit learning at any cost, so
that the truth may not be lost to India, and
through India to the world. The day that India
fails to produce Pandits of the old thorough-
going type will be the day on which India will
lose the crown of spirituality she has long borne
and cease to be the holy land of our race. The
centre of political and material supremacy has
shifted from age to age, but throughout the ages
India has successfully and resolutely maintain-
ed a self-determined continuity of tradition and
development in regard to her knowledge of the
soul, its nature and destiny; and this is what
makes the Western publicist, politician, and
philosopher entertain the hope that some day-
to use the words of a recent writer in the