Tusar N. Mohapatra Says: December 29th, 2006 at 7:28 am There might be "countless writers who have said much the same thing" but is there another person in the whole of human history, who has,
- written a monumental epic like Savitri
- created a synthetic metaphysics like The Life Divine
- written history to create a new historiography
- formulated a new hermeneutics
- speculated on philology
- translated and gave new interpretations to the Veda, Upanishads, and the Gita
- challenged the Buddhists and Shankara to give Integral non-dualism
- wrote on ethics, aesthetics, and literary criticism
- wrote poems, plays, and short stories
- devised a new theory of education
- did fiery journalism against foreign rulers
- led freedom struggle and went to jail
- forsook material comforts and family life
- offered spiritual guidance to hundreds of his disciples
- meticulously recorded his spiritual experiences
- spent 24 years within his room
- fought Hitler with his spiritual force
and countless other aspects?
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