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A psychiatrist on the staff of the University of Zurich spent some time visiting the Indian ashrams and gurus. He says he met eight Europeans and Americans who were wearing monkish or nunnish robes and that, with the exception of one of them, to quote his words, "They remained self-willed and intolerant Westerners who had inflated their little egos with the Indian wisdom as a means to power." He also said that their mental structure was too restricted and hard, too narrow and weak to be able to take in the Indian tradition in the proper way--in short, that they needed psychoanalytic treatment before they came in contact with that tradition.

-- Notebooks Category 15: The Orient > Chapter 1 : Meetings of East and West > # 84