MAJOR MACDONALD, 



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He who has cut off his lusts, and quenched their fire, who 

 has bound his loins, crushed his anger, and given up every 

 desire— this is the only true hermit (Yogi.) 



Mr, Brown remarks that in some passages the doctrine of 

 transmigration is very strongly inculcated, but he doubts 

 whether these verses were written by Yemana, who has, 

 he observes, elsewhere pointed out the absurdity of this 

 belief. If there are any passages of this latter tendency, 

 they have certainly not been printed, and as far as can be 

 judged from the following and other similar verses, it 

 would certainly appear that Yemana believed in the doc- 

 trine of metempsychosis. 



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If a sinner in his former birth performed no virtue, all 

 his longing for wealth is like seeking to reap when you have 

 forgotten to sow. 



The wealth of him who is virtuous and retains a con- 

 sciousness of his former births shall flow continually like a 

 well spring. To how many soever he gives, he shall still 

 remain wealthy. 



Yemana has no respect for the Yedas. 



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