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, I should point to India.

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has mostly deeply pondered over 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 asked myself from what literature, we here in Europe, we who have nurtured almost exclusively on the thoughts of Greeks and Romans, and of Semitic Race, the Jewish, may draw that corrective which is most wanted in order to make our inner life more perfect, more universal, in fact, more truly than, a life not for this life only, but a transfigured and eternal life, again I should point to India.

                           From Dr. Max Mueller’s letter to Queen Victoria