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[ v ] I read with pleasure the paper on 'Life' by Pandit Krishna Pada Bhattacharyn Vidyaratna. Professor Vidyaratna is not only a great Sanskrit scholar but he has taken considerable pains to acquaint himself with the modern views about the origin of life. What strikes me most in the paper is the almost unanimous opinion of the old Risis of India and modern scientists about Sun as the originator of all living beings on the earth. “Without Sun there could be no life in the world", says the modern scientist. And so the Professor has repeatedly mentioned that the finite solar energy with its own productionselectricity etc., is life. The Brahmin in his daily prayer pays almost the same homage to the Sun-God. The Sun is probably the source of all energy in the world. It is the Sun who creates protons and electrons which again create the different forms of matter and gases which this world is made of. The Professor also deals with the phenomena of consciousness according to light induced in his mind by the study of Upanishads. From the writing of the Professor it seems to me that the Brahman out of His supreme consciousness created the souls; and then the phenomena of consciousness created the world its energy and matter. The way in which, according to modern scientists, matter has merged into energy indicates that in near future science will prove that the world is full of an all-pervadding supreme consciousness. Tlie Brahman which created the world its energy and matter. This is, in my opinion, an excellent original contribution to