In all patters relating to the management of the house and to the conduct of the female members of the family her sinfluence 4s as great as that of the karta in all that concerns the men. [...] The following account of the guru from the pen of a Hindu gentleman * will show the general opinion of these men by the more enlightened of the community :— Akin to the priest is the guru. [...] In the Tantras probably the latest of the religious writings of the Hindus the powers of the guru are set forth with the greatest extravagance. [...] As the Passover preserves amongst the Jews the memory of the deliverance from Egypt and the feasts of the Church the most important events in the life of our Lord so these festivals in the temples and in the houses are immensely powerful as a means of instruction to the ignorant and of stimulating the faith and devotion of others. [...] The gods bestow upon him the dignity of a divine sage of a patriarch or of a spirit of heaven." It is true of the educated classes that the entrance of the light of truth—scientific historic and religious— has revealed some of the errors of their religion but one cannot move amongst the uneducated without being impressed with she fact that it has a firm hold of them.
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