Max Muller, a rather paid servant than a sincere seeker

[GODSEED]

Aum ShreeVishanave Namah

 

There is a lot discussion about a renowned western person, who has translated various scriptures.

 

Recently I came across a wonderful website, a Krishn-Bhakt devotee has written something like this about him,

 

'Max Müller. A paid employee, who translated the Rigved in a demeaning style.'

 

You may visit encyclopediaofauthentichinduism.org/articles/35_max_muller.htm

for futher info.

 

Hari Aum Tat Sat

 

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"The conception of the world as deduced from the Veda, and chiefly from the Upanishads, is indeed astounding."

 

(source: The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy - By Max Muller (London: Longmans, Green & Co., 1916 p. xiv).

 

"The transcendent temperament acquired, no doubt, a more complete supremacy in the Indian character than anywhere else."

 

In History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature (p 557), Max Muller observed, "In the Rig Veda we shall have before us more real antiquity than in all the inscriptions of Egypt or Ninevah...the Veda is the oldest book in existence.."

 

"Historical records (of the Hindus) extend in some respects so far beyond all records and have been preserved to us in such perfect and legible documents, that we can learn from them lessons which we can learn nowhere else and supply missing links."

 

(source: India - What It Can Teach Us - By Max Muller p. 21).

 

He declared: "None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant, or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lightnings. Stone follows on stone, in regular succession after once the first step has been made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been but One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman."

 

(source: The Six Systems of Indian Philosophy - By Max F. Muller p. 239).

 

Muller says that from Indian literature the Christian world "may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more comprehensive, more universal, in fact more truly humane, a life not for this only, but a transfigured and eternal life."

 

(source: India - What It Can Teach Us - By Max Muller p. 6).

 

In Three Lectures on Vedanta Philosophy published in 1896, Muller writes: "What distinguishes the Vedanta philosophy from all other philosophies is that it is at the same time a religion and a philosophy." (p 11-12).

 

About the love of truth experienced by the sages of the Upanishads, Prof. Max Muller says, " If it seems strange to you that the old Indian Philosophers should have known more about the soul than Greek or medieval or modern philosophers, let us remember that however much the telescopes for observing the stars of heaven have been improved, the observatories of the soul have remained much the same."

 

He went on to say: "It is surely astounding that such a system as the Vedanta should have been slowly elaborated by the indefatigable and intrepid thinkers of India thousands of years ago, a system that even now makes us feel giddy, as in mounting last steps of the swaying spire of a Gothic cathedral. None of our philosophers, not excepting Heraclitus, Plato, Kant or Hegel, has ventured to erect such a spire, never frightened by storms or lighting. Stone follows on stone after regular succession after once the first step has been made, after once it has been clearly seen that in the beginning there can have been One, as there will be but One in the end, whether we call it Atman or Brahman."

 

(source: Three Lectures on the Vedanta Philosophy, London. 1894. p. 7).

 

Prof Max Mueller, an authority on ancient India, says: "I do not deny that the manly vigor, the public spirit and the private virtues of the citizens of European states represent one side of the human destiny." But, surely, he asserts, "there is another side to our nature and possibly another destiny open to man." And he points to India, "Where the climate was mild and the soil fertile." He asks: "Was it not, I say, natural then, that another side of human nature should be developed — not the active, the combative and acquisitive, but the passive, the meditative and reflective?"

 

"If philosophy is meant to be a preparation for a happy death, or Euthanisia, I know of no better preparation for it than the Vedanata philosophy."