Padas ] General Introduction 5 CR and all being present in an ideal Saint. The Chapter may well be ended with a review of the various virtues that are to be cultivated and the various vices that are to be avoided, which might be regarded as a distinct contribution of Hindi saints to World-Ethics, a contribution which might well be compared to that made by the great moral philosophers of ancient and modern times, such as Plato and Aristotle, Sidgwick and Green. CHAPTER III The subject-matter of the third chapter is God in relation to the Saints. The problem of God is always an interesting and difficult one, and when we try to find its bearing on mystical literature, it becomes all the more difficult, because mysticism transcends philo- sophy, and cares only for the intuitive apprehension of God. In our present chapter, we shall first speak about the problem of God as it appears in some major Saints of Hindi literature. Here we shall come across the philosophico-mystical argument of Ramanand, the description of God as Niranjana by Kabir, and the conception of Tulsidas that the Niranjana God assumes a Saguna form. After this we shall have two inter- calary views of Tulsidas bearing on the subject, namely, the inscrutability of the reasons for the in- carnation of God, and God as inspring different emotions in different men. We shall next proceed to consider the theistic-pantheistic utterances of Mirabai,
