VEDANTA LECTURE.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1139, 29 May 1911, Page 9

VEDANTA LECTURE.

Thero was a large audience last night at the Masonic Hall to hear Sister Avnbamia's farewell lecture. The subject was "Who Are Our Friends, Relatives, Favourites, and Affinities Here and HereSifter?" The speaker said in part-.—"Tr> some who have their whole mind and interest set upon the earth, its pleasures and honours, in their homes, their relatives and friends, my speech to-night perhaps seems cruel and heartless, as it Will show that all which we havo called our own is not our own after all. True relationship is only in the soul, and not in matter, because matter constantly changes, and we change with circumstances, and' this tho reason why the home, that we thought was the only place in the past, becomes oft-times a strange place after a few years' experience in the world of progress. There is' nothing last-

ing but the soul, and it is tho soul that is the real self. The bo<ly is not counted in the scheme of evolution, of eternity, as this piano upon which it lives ami was born disintegrates, and the body with it. When wo have evolved sufficiently to seo that the soul is the real self, and not the body, then we shall know to whom we are related by.soul bonds throughout all eternity.-"