Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA code, credited this book for key insights that led him to his revolutionary discovery. The book became instantly famous although it was criticized by some for its emphasis on Indian ideas. Schrödinger’s influential What is Life? (1944) also used Vedic ideas. Or, again, in such words as “I am in the east and the west, I am above and below, I am this entire world.” This, as we know, is what the Brahmins express in that sacred, mystic formula which is yet really so simple and so clear: tat tvam asi, this is you. This life of yours which you are living is not merely a piece of this entire existence,but in a certain sense the whole only this whole is not so constituted that it can be surveyed in one single glance. In 1925, before his revolutionary theory was complete, In an autobiographical essay, he explains that his discovery of quantum mechanics was an attempt to give form to central ideas of Vedanta which, in this indirect sense, has played a role in the birth of the subject. One of the two creators of this theory was Erwin Schrödinger (1887-1961). Perhaps the most remarkable intellectual achievement of the twentieth century was quantum theory, which is at the basis of our understanding of chemistry, biology, and physics and, consequently, it is at the basis of the century’s astonishing technological advances. Many of the greatest writers and scientists of the past 100 years have taken inspiration from these Indic ideas. In the past 300 years, these ideas of universality and a quest for knowledge have transformed European and American society. It is quite conceivable that the religious traditions of West Asia preserve a remembrance of their Indic past.The modern mind was shaped after adoption by the West of the twin beliefs of living in harmony with nature and search for a scientific basis to reality. The Indic element has been seen in the beginnings of Greek art. The father of the famous Queen Kiya of Egypt was the Mitanni king Tushratha (or Dasharatha). We find the Indic people in West Asia in the second millennium BC in the Kassite kingdom of Babylon and the Mitannis of Syria. Indian thought influenced not only China and Southeast Asia, it may also have provided key impulses to Western thought. Even Alexander took Indian yogis back to Greece with him. Indian sages, philosophers and mystics have held out a shining vision that has appealed to the world.
Kings and emperors sought to conquer India for its material wealth the campaign of Alexander, the unceasing attacks of the Turks, the voyage of Columbus, the British empire-these had India as the focus. Indian civilization is this tree of riches and wisdom. There is a legend about a magic tree, kalpataru, that fulfills all wishes.
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