t proceeds again upwards on the other side
of the circle. So it gravitates in the eternity of Parabrahm, passing
from one minor eternity to another. Each of these "human," that is to
say conceivable, eternities consists of 4,320,000,000 years of objective
life and of as many years of subjective life in Parabrahm, altogether
8,640,000,000 years, which are enough, in the eyes of the Vedantins, to
redeem any mortal sin, and also to reap the fruit of any good actions
performed in such a short period as human life. The individuality of the
soul, teaches the Vedanta, is not lost when plunged in Parabrahm, as is
supposed by some of the European Orientalists.

Only the souls of bhutas--when the last spark of repentance and of
tendency to improvement are extinguished in them--will evaporate for
ever. Then their divine spirit, the undying part of them, separates from
the soul and returns to its primitive source; the soul is reduced to
its primordial atoms, and the monad plunges into the darkness of
eternal unconsciousness. This is the only case of total destruction of
personality.

Such is the Vedanta teaching concerning the spiritual man. And this
is why no true Hindu believes in the disembodied souls voluntarily
returning to earth, except in the case of bhutas.

Jubblepore

Leaving Malva and Indore, the quasi-independent country of Holkar, we
found ourselves once more on strictly British territory. We were going
to Jubblepore by railway.

This town is situated in the district of Saugor and Nerbudda; once
it belonged to the Mahrattis, but, in 1817, the English army took
possession of it. We stopped in the town only for a short time, being
anxious to see the celebrated Marble Rocks. As it would have been a pity
to lose a whole day, we hired a boat and started at 2 A.M., which gave
us the double advantage of avoiding the heat, and enjoying a splendid
bit of the river ten miles from the town.

The neighborhood of Jubblepore is charming; and besides, both a
geologist and a mineralogist would find here the richest field for
scientific researches. The geological formation of the rocks offers an
infinite variety of granites; and the long chains of mountains might
keep a hundred of Cuviers busy for life. The limestone caves of
Jubblepore are a true ossuary of antediluvian India; they are full of
skeletons of monstrous animals, now disappeared for ever.

At a considerable distance from the rest of the mountain ridges, a