The Yoga-Vasistha-Maharamayana of Valmiki

In this age of the cultivation of universal learning and its investigation into the deep recesses of the dead languages of antiquity when the literati of both continents are so sedulously employed in exploring the rich and alniostr inexhaustible mines of the ancient litrature of this country it has given an impetus to the philanthropy of our wise and benign Government to the institution of a sea [...] And when the restoration of the long lost works of its venerable sages and withers through the instrumentality of the greatest bihflonianiac savants and linguists in the several Presdencies has led the literary Asiatic Societies of the East and West to the publication of the rarest and most valuable Sanskrit. [...] Vasishtha known as the wisest of sages like Solomon the wisest of men and Aurelius the wisest of emperors puts forth in the first part and it the mouth of Rama the great question of the vanity of the world which is shown synthetically to a great length from the state of all living existences the instinct inclinations and passions of men the nature of their aims and objects with some disc [...] This is considered on all hands as the only means of one's ultimate liberation from the general doom of birth and death and the miseries of this world and the surest way towards the final absorption of one's-self in the Supreme —the highest state of perfection and the Summum bonum of the Hindu. [...] These Meanings of &man—the self and eqo form the basis of the knowledge of the Divine soul both of the Hindu as of any other people who from the consciousness of their own selves rise to that of the Supreme.