"'Indian inclusiveness operates at a level deeper than the polarities of good and evil. It has never shown comparable insistence on the need for a choice between opposites of right and wrong, as did the Zoroastrians, the Jews, the Christians.' .... 'In Indian ethics, good and evil are always relative, and a precise definition of intrinsically good or bad deeds is avoided.'"
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Lannoy 1971: 96, 227 quoted from Malhotra, R., & Infinity Foundation (Princeton, N.J.). (2018). Being different: An Indian challenge to western universalism.
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