Encyclopedia of India–China Cultural Contacts v1.c7.s9.t7.9

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years ago that we were given gradually to know that we had a very good elder brother on the earth." In a similarly lyrical vein, he went on to say: "India has taught us to embrace the idea of absolute freedom, that fundamental freedom of mind, which enables us to shake off all fetters of past traditions and habits as well as the present customs of a particular age. India also taught us the idea of absolute love, that pure love towards all human beings which eliminates all obsessions of jealousy, anger, impatience and disgust, which expresses itself in deep pity and sympathy for the foolish, the wicked and the sinful, that absolute love, which recognised inseparability between all beings." Elaborating what China had learned from India in various spheres of art and culture, literature, science and medicine, and religion and philosophy, Liang concluded that "Indian thought has been entirely assimilated into our own world of experience and has become an inalienable part of our consciousness."