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Original Thinker.
Dr. T. R. V. Murti
Sayaji Rao Gaekwad Professor of Indian Civilization and Culture, Banaras Hindu University.
I feel greatly honoured in associating myself in paying my respectful felicitations on the Revered Pandit Sukhlalji's completion of seventy five years of age. Panditji has dominated the world of Indian philosophy and religion for the last forty years and more by his deep scholarship and noble Personality. His philosophical writings on various topics and the scores of his learned and critical introductions and notes to philosophical classics will stand as abiding monument to his peculiar genius and scholarship.
I came into contact with the Revered Panditji nearly twenty years ago when he was actively teaching in the Benares Hindu, University as the incumbent of the Jain chair of Logic and Metaphysics in the Sanskrit Mahāvidyālaya. I have been privileged to enjoy his valued friendship all these years. Numerous were the occasions when we have had lively philosophical discussions on the roadsides or in his study; most of these just occurred without pre-arrangement, or set purpose. And seldom have I come back from these discussions without receiving new light or striking interpretations even on subjects which I thought I understood quite well. Of course, Panditji's scholarship of Indian thought is surprisingly comprehensive and deep; and his memory is phenomenal. I should however like to record what has specially impressed me in his personality. Pandit Sukhlalji is an original thinker, a restless one. He would look at a theory now from this, now from that angle; he would often-times revise and reverse his own previous conclusions on the subject. The open-mindedness of his spirit, his sensitivity to all aspects of a problem and his
