Just a few quotes:

Arthur Schopenhauer: "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life -- it will be the solace of my death."

Henry David Thoeau: "What extracts from the Vedas I have read fall on me like the light of a higher and purer luminary, which describes a loftier course through purer stratum. It rises on me like the full moon after the stars have come out, wading through some far stratum in the sky."

Ralph Waldo Emerson: " I owed a magnificent day to the Bhagavad-Gita. It was as if an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the same questions which exercise us." The famous poem "Brahma" is an example of his Vedanta ecstasy.

Rudyard Kipling to Fundamental Christian Missionaries : "Now it is not good for the Christian's health to hustle the Hindu brown for the Christian riles and the Hindu smiles and weareth the Christian down ; and the end of the fight is a tombstone while with the name of the late deceased and the epitaph drear , " A fool lies here who tried to hustle the east".

• at least I'm fast - 6th backstreet boy - October 15, 1999 - 18:08 UTC
• Re: alas it isn't so - %%% - October 15, 1999 - 18:10 UTC
  • No, it's the three stooges you uncultured pervert! - tenacious - October 16, 1999 - 01:13 UTC