Would you say that any one sacred book is superior to all others in the world? ... I say the New Testament, after that, I should place the Koran, which in its moral teachings, is hardly more than a later edition of the New Testament. Then would follow according to my opinion the Old Testament, the Southern Buddhist Tripitaka, the Tao-te-king of Laotze, the Kings of Confucius, the Veda and the Avesta.
German-born British philologist, orientalist and indologist (1823–1900)
Friedrich Max Müller (6 December 1823 – 28 October 1900), more commonly known as Max Müller (or Mueller), was a German philologist and Orientalist, who was a major pioneer of the discipline of comparative religion.
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Rt. Hon. Friedrich Max Muller
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F. Max Müller
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Professor Friedrich Max-Muller
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F. M. M.
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Friedrich Maximilian Müller
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All one's ideas of Adam and Eve, and the Paradise, and the tower of Babel, and Shem, Ham, and Japhet, with Homer and Aeneas and Virgil too, seemed to be whirling round and round, till at last one picked up the fragments and tried to build a new world, and to live with a new historical consciousness.
How can a missionary in such circumstances meet the surprise and questions of his pupils, unless he may point to that seed (Referring to the seed planted by Jesus and his Apostles) and tell them what Christianity was meant to be? unless he may show that, like all other religions, Christianity too, has had its history; that the Christianity of the nineteenth century is not the Christianity of the middle ages, and that the Christianity of the middle ages was not that of the early Councils; that the Christianity of the early Councils was not that of the Apostles, and that what has been said by Christ, that alone was well said?
शकुन्तला के निवेदन को सुनने से इनकार किया तो वह किस सर्वोच्च शक्ति से क्या निवेदन करती है? आत्मा की आवाज। वह राजा से कहती है — ‘यदि तुम सोचते हो कि मैं अकेली हूँ, तो तुम अपने हृदय के उस बुद्धिमान व्यक्ति को नहीं जानते। वह तुम्हारे दुष्कर्मों को जानता है — तुम उसके सामने पाप करते हो। पाप करने वाला व्यक्ति समझता है कि उसके बारे में कोई नहीं जानता। इसे ईश्वर जानता है और भीतर का वृद्ध व्यक्ति जानता है।
It was the celebrated Friedrich Max Muller who gave the last two testimonies in a 1882 lecture in defence of the “Character of the Hindus,” and he observed: It is surely extremely strange that whenever, either in Greek, or in Chinese, or in Persian, or in Arab writings, we meet with any attempts at describing the distinguishing features in the national character of the Indians, regard for truth and justice should always be mentioned first.
नियम यह है कि तर्क को, विरोध के साथ, यानी तथाकथित पूर्वपक्ष अर्थात विरोध में जो भी कहा जा सकता है उसके साथ कहा जाना चाहिए। हर आपत्ति का स्वागत है, यदि वह एकदम तुच्छ और मूर्खतापूर्ण नहीं है। इसके बाद ही पक्ष की बात अर्थात उत्तरपक्ष कहा जाना चाहिए और उसमें इन आपत्तियों के खिलाफ और मूल मत के समर्थन में जो कुछ कहा जा सकता है, कहा जाना चाहिए। जब यह प्रक्रिया पूरी की जाती है तभी वह मत सिद्धान्त बनता है या स्थापित होता है।
हे गंगा, यमुना, सरस्वती, शुतुद्रि, परुष्णी मेरी स्तुति स्वीकार करो। हे मरुद्वरीधा अस्किनी के साथ और हे अर्गिकीया सुशोमा के साथ, मेरी स्तुति सुनो। तुम त्रिस्तमा, ससर्तु, कुभा, गोमती, मेहत्नू तथा क्रमु आदि अपने दाएँ बहने वाली नदियों को साथ कर अपनी यात्रा पर निकल रही हो। यह सिन्धु अपनी जगमग शानदार जलप्रवाहों को इस विशाल भू भाग में इतनी तीव्रता से प्रवाहित होती चलती है, जैसे कोई सुन्दर घोड़ी जा रही हो।
If I were to look over the whole world to find out the country most richly endowed with all the wealth, power, and beauty that nature can bestow — in some parts a very paradise on earth — I should point to India. If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most full developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions of some of them which well deserve the attention even of those who have studied Plato and Kant — I should point to India. And if I were to ask myself from what literature we, here in Europe, we who have been nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of one Semitic race, the Jewish, 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 human, a life, not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life — again I should point to India.