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If only the Church had the sense to allow so many different and seemingly contradictory approaches to God, how much saner its history would have been!

— Robert Charles Zaehner also Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S (2008)

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He also observed that all traditional poems and meditations and philosophical texts of Hinduism are "different-shaped peaks in one vast, grand, interconnected mountain chain, like the Himalayas."

It was the sublime ancient tolerance of Hinduism that he often stressed, that was the true proof of the wisdom and mature dignity of the Hindu tradition.

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