Canards are being spread by half baked, fanatical and one-sided research scholar about Max Mueller. The younger generation should not be misled by these fanatics. Let them know what is Swami Vivekanandas views about Max Mueller. Here is an extract from The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda. “While our study had proceeded thus for a while, Swamiji raised the topic about Max Müller and continued thus:- Well, do you know, my impression is that it is Sayana who is born again as Max Müeller to revive his own commentary on the Vedas? I have had this notion for long. It became confirmed in my mind, it seems, after I had seen Max Müeller.Even here in this country, you don’t find a scholar so persevering, and so firmly grounded in the Vedas and the Vedanta. Over and above this, what a deep, unfathomable respect for Shri Ramakrishna! Do you know, he believes in his Divine Incarnation! And what great hospitality towards me when I was his guest! Seeing the old man and his lady, it seemed to me that they were living their home-life like another Vasishtha and Arundhati! At the time of parting with me, tears came into the eyes of the old man. Disciple: But, sir, if Sayana himself became Max Müeller, then why was he born as a Mlechchha instead of being born in the sacred land of India? Swamiji: The feeling and the distinction that I am an Aryan and the other is a Mlechchha come from ignorance. But what are Varnâshrama and caste divisions to one who is the commentator of the Vedas, the shining embodiment of knowledge? To him they are wholly meaningless, and he can assume human birth wherever he likes for doing good to mankind. Specially, if he did not choose to be born in a land which excelled both in learning and wealth, where would he secure the large expenses for publishing such stupendous volumes? Didnt you hear that the East India Company paid nine lakhs of rupees in cash to have the Rig-Veda published?” Even this money was not enough. Hundreds of Vedic Pundits had to be employed in this country on monthly stipends. Has anybody seen in this age, here in this country, such profound yearning for knowledge, such prodigious investment of money for the sake of light and learning? Max Müeller himself has written it in his preface, that for twenty-five years he prepared only the manuscripts. Then the printing took another twenty years! It is not possible for an ordinary man to drudge for forty-five years of his life with one publication. Just think of it! Is it an idle fancy of mine to say he is Sayana himself? [The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda; Volume 6; Conversations and Dialogues; Part IX, Pages 495-496 (Direct Link/Click Here)] Following points are proved from this extract: 1) According to Swami Vivekananda, Max Muller is the rebirth of Sayana Acharya. 2) Sayana has taken birth again to revive his commentary on Vedas. 3) No scholar in India was of Mueller’s calibre and Mueller was firmly grounded in knowledge. 4) East India Company paid NINE LAKH (nine hundred thousand) rupees in cash to publish the Rig-Veda. Vivekananda hails Mueller in a letter written to Mrs. Bull on 30th May 1896, as follows: “…Day before yesterday I had a fine visit with Prof. Max Müller. He is a saintly man and looks like a young man in spite of his seventy years, and his face is without a wrinkle. I wish I had half his love for India and Vedanta. At the same time he is a friend of Yoga too and believes in it. Only he has no patience with humbugs” Vivekananda again praises Muller in the following words: “But Paul Deussen — or as he prefers to be called in Sanskrit, Deva-Sena — and the veteran Max Müeller have impressed me as being the truest friends of India and Indian thought.” (The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda; Volume 4; On Dr. Paul Deussen; Page 274)
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