Vada in Theory and Practice: Studies in Debates, Dialogues and Discussions in Indian Intellectual Discourses c6.s6.t4.3

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In fact, *Samudrasaṅgama* is a condensation of ideas Dara had developed after prolonged discussions with *maulavīs*, *pīrs*, *faqīrs*, scholars like Paṇḍitarāja Jagannātha, saints like Bābā Lāldās Bairāgī and others. He calls the philosophy thus developed by him as Satyaikātmatāvāda (true monism). He refers to the scholars of Hinduism as *paripūrṇa vaidikas*. There are records of seven dialogues between him and the saint Bābā Lāldās whom he has described as *caitanyasvarūpa-jñānamūrti* in his *Samudrasaṅgama*. These dialogues with Bābā Lāldās were recorded by Ray Jadhav Das and Chandrabhan Brahman, who was a scholar of Persian and Sanskrit. He helped in rendering these texts into Persian. Translation of fifty-two Upaniṣads in his *Sirr-e-Akbar* was aimed at building the bridges between diverse philosophical traditions and creating an understanding of the Asian spirit and philosophy. At the same time, he must have had a political angle as the heir apparent — he wanted to translate his vision of Asian culture as well, by the way of inculcating his ideas in the socio-political system.