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TULSI-PRAJNA ordinary experience, with its lofty insights and immortal aspirations."
Such philosopher started his professional life as a teacher of philosophy in the Madras Presidency College in April 1909, where he worked for the next seven years. During this period he studied the classics of Hinduism, the Upanisads, the Bhagavadgita and the commentaries on the Brahma-Sutra by Shankara, Ramanuja. Madhava, Nimbarka and others, the Dialogues of Buddha as well as the scholastic work of Hinduism, Buddhism and Jainism. Au ong the Western thinkers, the writings of Plato, Plotinus and Kant and those of Bradlley and Bergson influenced him a great deal. His relation with great Indian contemporaries— Tagore and Gandhi, were most friendly for nearly thirty years, and be realised the tremendous significance they had for him.
As such Dr. S. Radhakrishnan admired the great masters of thought, ancient and modern, Eastern and Western but he was not a follower of any accepting his teaching in its entirety, although he did not suggest that he refused to learn from others or that he was not influnced by them. While he was greatly stimulated by the minds of all those whom he had studied, his thought did not comply with any fixed traditional pattern.
Philosophy is produced by broad encounter with reality than by the historical study of such encounter. In such writings Dr. Krishnan's thought is bigbly effective, inner-most and dynamic wbich is a glorious way of Indian Culture.
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