"The thought of the Upanishads is bold and free, and their general conclusion is that mystical experience is the pathway to reality."
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Quoted in Salil Gewali Great Minds on India. New Delhi: Penguin Random House (2013).
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C. E. M. Joad
Cyril Edwin Mitchinson Joad (12 August 1891 – 9 April 1953) was an English philosopher and broadcasting personality. During the 1940s, he was a participant in The Brains Trust, a BBC Radio discussion programme. He popularised philosophy and became a celebrity, before his downfall in a scandal over an unpaid train fare in 1948.
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