On the profound Relevance of Hinduism.........................................................
... Indian wisdom is flowing back to Europe and will bring
about a fundamental transformation in our knowledge and
thinking.
Arthur Schopenhauer.
Devoid of intellectual discernment are those Europeans
who want to convert and civilise the Hindus.
... to begin with we see that Europe [can only] reproduce
what in India, under the people of thinkers, had already
accomplished several thousand years ago as a
commandment of thinking.
Friedrich Nietzsche
Our purpose will surely be served when the Indian world-
view becomes known. It will make us aware that we, with
our entire religious and philosophical thought, are caught in
a colossal one-sidedness, and that there can be found yet a
quite different way of grasping things than the one which
Hegel has construed as the only possible and rational way.
Paul Deussen
Brahman ... is not conceptual knowledge of Being, though
wisdom about Being (SAT-VIDYA), or about Brahman as
Being, is part of it. Brahman is SAT (Being), the ground of
all that is, including my own being which is of the nature of