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Karen Armstrong: "Prestasi Alexander bukanlah penaklukan India, tetapi...

"Prestasi Alexander bukanlah penaklukan India, tetapi prestasi untuk benar-benar sampai di sana dan dua tahun di India lebih merupakan ekspedisi geografis daripada kampanye militer. .... pasukan Yunani telah mencapai apa yang mereka anggap sebagai ujung bumi. Mereka mengadu diri dengan yang paling berani seperti para yogi yang berjuang menembus batas-batas jiwa manusia. Di mana mistikus telah menaklukkan ruang interior, Alexander menjelajahi jangkauan terjauh dari dunia fisik. .... seperti banyak orang bijak aksial, dia terus-menerus 'mengejan lagi'."

--- Karen Armstrong

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Alexander's achievement was not the conquest of India, but the feat of actually getting there and his two years in India were more of a geographical expedition than a military campaign. .... a Greek army had reached what they regarded as the end of the earth. They had pitted themselves against the ultimate as bravely as the yogins had struggled to break through the limits of the human psyche. Where mystics had conquered interior space, Alexander explored the farthest reaches of the physical world. .... like many of the axial sages, he was constantly 'straining after more'.