Influences and Opinions
Some of his early influences were Aldous Huxley and George Bernard Shaw.
In his later life, Ram Swarup used to meditate for many hours. Swarup was influenced by Sri Aurobindo, whom he held to be the greatest exponent of the Vedic vision in our times.
Sita Ram Goel described Swarup as a person who "had no use for any conventional morality or code of manners and could see clearly how they were mostly used to put the other fellow in the wrong."
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