In India one does not choose and adopt a philosophical system; one is born into it and grows up in it. This may sometimes prove a disadvantage, for it is not easy for the leopard to change its spots. If Dr. Ramachandran’s earlier work on The Concept of Vyavaharika in Advaita Vedanta was a model of lucidity and precision, of sustained and restrained enthusiasm, there was nothing surprising in it. What is surprising, however, is that his exposition of the teachings of a ‘rival school’ is marked by the same qualities and by a studied fairness amounting to special pleading for its special features.
October 1976, volume 1, No 4