Guest guest Posted August 23, 2000 Report Share Posted August 23, 2000 The king said that these things had been hitherto known only among kings; the priests never knew them. He, however proceeded to teach him what he desired to know. In various Upanishads we find that this Vedanta philosophy is not the outcome of meditation in the forests only, but that the very best parts of it were thought out and expressed by brains which were busiest in the everyday affairs of life. We cannot conceive any man busier than an absolute monarch, a man who is ruling over millions of people, and yet, some of these rulers were deep thinkers. -- ---------------- Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men & things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one corner of the earth all one's lifetime. Mark Twain-Innocents Abroad-1869 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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