Answer: In the early 1990s, I read the Bhagavad Gita and some works by Shankara, some were available in Chinese but most in English.

答：在上个世纪90年代早期，我在阅读《薄迦梵歌》和商羯罗的著作的时候就开始了，那时候这方面的中文书籍不是很多，大多数是英文著作。

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Surely, Sir, the very assertion is a theory invented by an imaginative mind - whether it be Shankara or the modern scholarly theologian.

显然，先生，这个断言本身正是一个富于想象力的头脑发明出的理论——不管这个头脑是商羯罗还是现代的学院派神学家。

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