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I have not found in Europe or America, poets, thinkers or popular leaders equal, or even comparable, to those of India today.

— Hermann von Keyserling

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Hinduism at its best has spoken the only relevant truth about the way to self-realization in the full sense of the word.

Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of.

The absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad-Gita, “perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world".

“This philosophical nation par excellence” says Count Keyserling, “has more Sanskrit words for philosophical and religious thought than are found in Greek, Latin and German combined.”

India has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of … the absolute superiority of India over the West in philosophy; poetry from the Mahabharata, containing the Bhagavad Gita, perhaps the most beautiful work of the literature of the world.

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