,,In India we find during every period when her civilization bloomed an intense joy in life and nature, a pleasure in the act of living, the development of art and music and literature and song and dancing and painting and the theatre, and even a highly sophisti-cated inquiry into sex relations. It is inconceivable that a culture or view of life based on other-worldliness or world-worthlessness could have produced all these manifesta-tions of vigorous and varied life. Indeed, it should be obvious that any culture that was basically other-wordly could not have carried on for thousands of years."