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India’s Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru was troubled by spiritual questions. In Rangoon, where he was paying a neighborly call on the Burmese government, a reporter asked Nehru about the contradiction between his Occidental education and his Hindu background, inquired whether he was not suffering from inner conflict. “Yes, I am suffering from inner conflict,” replied the Pandit. “One who doesn’t suffer from inner conflict is a lunatic.”
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