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Like the sun during an eclipse, the light of many world-illumining individuals is covered by criticism, ridicule and even hostility. Ingratitude is the order of the day. Let us cry ditto to the words of the immortal Russian novelist Dostoevsky, who wrote in his Notes from the Underground: > I believe the best definition of man is the ungrateful biped.

From:Sri Chinmoy,Philosopher-thinkers: The power-towers of the mind and Poet-seers: the fragrance-hours of the heart in the West, Agni Press, 1998
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