Charan, Shiva [VerfasserIn]: Life of Gautama Buddha (Lucknow, 1902)

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goodness, and to further goodness, (c) The
fourfold road to saintship leads through
volition, exertion, preparation and investiga-
tion. (d) The five moral powers are “faith,
energy5 thought, contemplation and wisdom.”
(e) And, the seven kinds of wisdom are
energy, thought, contemplation, investigation,
rest, happiness, and pleace. (/) The
Eghtfold Path has already been described. *
One chief objection to the religion of
Buddha runs after this fashion. “ It is much
better that a respectable young man should
toil and till, and marry and raise up a healthy
family, than abandon his young wife like
Buddha and sit idly under a tree.”
In answer to this, I shall quote Mr.
Arthur Lillie’s remark, even at the risk of
being considered impolite. “ This is true ;
but if the Indian philosophers had not reason-
ed and reflected in solitude, there would
probably still be nothing to tell and the res-
pectable young man would have to share his
wife with the rest of the village or, perhaps,