“…He also met with one Swami Jogut Sangooly, a "real live Brahmin, brought up a priest to Kreeshna," in 1858, according to his daughter (Prince, 1974, p. 258). Henry David Thoreau (1849Thoreau ( /2008 In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavat Geeta,… in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial…. I lay down the book and go to my well for water, and lo!…”