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Re: Erwin Schroedinger and Hinduism
In article <4dnfue$q6c@babbage.ece.uc.edu>,
Sankar Jayanarayanan <kartik@eng.auburn.edu> wrote:
>late 1920s or early 1930s ). Schroedinger ALWAYS considered himself a Hindu.
I don't think so but I'll have to check. His recent biography has been
on my list of books to read for a while now.
Nevertheless, Schroedinger (and a host of other German/Austrian
intellectuals of the time) was influenced by Vedanta (he learnt about
it mostly from the writings of Schoepenhauer) and even devoted a couple
of chapters in his book "Meine Weltansicht" to its exposition. He
also went on to extend the Upanishadic ideas and formulate his own
independent version of the "truth".
As an aside, other than the demonstration of the universality of Vedantic
ideas, I don't attach much importance to merely the fact that some Westerner
(however accomplished or well-known) gave them his or her stamp of
approval.
Rajan Parrikar
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email: parrikar@spot.colorado.edu
