Excerpt from Trying to Be Saved by Their Own MeritThat we could get so great a salvation without pay ing any price for it ourselves seemed strange to him. He said that this salvation was very cheap, and there fore he did not care to have it. His proud nature resented the idea of receiving life freely from God.The man wanted to feel that he had done some thing to earn his salvation, and to be sure that he merited the blessings which he got. All the Hindus, high and low, rich and poor, learned and ignorant, equally share this idea. They despise to get any bles-t sing from their gods without paying the due price They would earn everything pertaining to the next world by honest toil. That is why they are intent upon earning merit at all costs.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.