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“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.”

Hermann von Keyserling

Source: The Case for India, Will Durant. Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

“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

Quoted from Gewali, Salil (2013). Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House.

“Benares is holy. Europe, grown superficial, hardly understands such truths anymore….. I feel nearer here than I have ever done to the heart of the world; here I feel everyday as if soon, perhaps even today, I would receive the grace of supreme revelation…The atmosphere of devotion which hangs above the river is improbable in strength; stronger than in any church that I have ever visited. Every would be Christian priest would do well to sacrifice a year of his theological studies in order to spend his time on the Ganges; here he would discover what piety means.”

Hermann von Keyserling

Count Hermann Keyserling, The Huston Smith Reader

“Hinduism has produced the profoundest metaphysics that we know of.”

Hermann von Keyserling

Count Hermann Keyserling, The Huston Smith Reader

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

Hermann von Keyserling

Count Hermann Keyserling, The Huston Smith Reader, p. 122

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