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The Vedanta also says that not only can this be realized in the

depths of forests or caves, but by men in all possible conditions of

life. We have seen that the people who discovered these truths were

neither living in caves nor forests, nor following the ordinary

vocations of life, but men who, we have every reason to believe, led

the busiest of lives, men who had to command armies, to sit on

thrones, and look to the welfare of millions-and all these, in the

days of absolute monarchy, and not as in these days when a king is to

a great extent a mere figurehead. Yet they could find time to think

out all these thoughts, to realize them, and to teach them to

humanity.