It represents him in this same posture.
Dear me! It is a strange world.

Particularly the Indian division of it.
This pupil, Mina Bahadur Rana, is not a commonplace person, but a man of distinguished capacities and attainments, and, apparently, he had a fine worldly career in front of him.

He was serving the Nepal Government in a high capacity at the Court of the Viceroy of India, twenty years ago.

He was an able man, educated, a thinker, a man of property.

But the longing to devote himself to a religious life came upon him, and he resigned his place, turned his back upon the vanities and comforts of the world, and went away into the solitudes to live in a hut and study the sacred writings and meditate upon virtue and holiness and seek to attain them.
This sort of religion resembles ours.