The Effulgence Within

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Thursday, September 16, 2010

Bereaved

My younger brother, a handsome cousin, and a hero to me, is today no more. Incidentally, we had studied together for a year during our preparatory course for admission into the premier Engineering Institutes across India, and had come very close to each other A brilliant IIT Engineering graduate,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, August 23, 2010

An aroma perfumed like the faded-rose leaves

Charles lamb’s prose style, as seen in his essays, is elaborate with affectation, borrowed yet absolutely individual and idiosyncratic, mannered but never mannerised. Indeed, what seems artificial in Lamb’s style is actually natural to him. Lamb belonged in spirit to the seventeenth century, and the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, August 22, 2010

The Quiet Zeal Beneath a Mask of Jocularity

Expostulation and Reply”, which is one of the doctrinal poems in Lyrical Ballads, takes the form of a debate between William, who is Wordsworth himself, and his “good friend” Matthew, who is Hazlitt. The first three stanzas contain Matthew’s remonstrance; the last four stanzas contain William’s... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, August 20, 2010

Hello there

Hello, all of you out there. It has been a very taxing assignment - the last two weeks; I had to be working almost seventeen hours a day. But I am very thankful that what I would have otherwise learnt in six months, I have hopefully caught on during this period. If, I can increase my efficiency... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Here's sharing some good news

E ven as I sat dreaming of what the future holds For me from onward of Arlington Heights Delightful news broke my reverie It was a call from from Salvage Direct Pennsylvania, informing I have been selected For my internship in a project which’ll hone My skills I leant at Illinois University As I... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, July 22, 2010

Self-Realization: The End of all Yoga

Doubts destroy all sincerity or commitment of efforts and half-baked faith too, do not serve any real purpose in the long run. Thus Arjuna’s question is very valid when he asks Krishna: O Lord, what happens if an aspirant were to die having started Yoga practices with the sincerest of efforts but... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, July 20, 2010

Does a Practitioner Lose both this Life and the Other?

Arjuna is warrior trained in martial arts, and although one of the finest educated man of his time, he is not a yogi, who is trained in the perfect control of his mind. The experiences of yogis, the brahmagyanis (knowers of Truth), he does not know. Upon hearing the words of the divine teacher, he... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, July 19, 2010

Cessation of Karma

When though sincere, uninterrupted without boredom, and single-pointed pursuance of yoga practises a neophyte arrives, that is, realizes, the (higher) Self in his erstwhile (lower) self, then the difference between the lower and the higher no longer exists; the all becomes One and the one becomes... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, July 18, 2010

The Biblical and the Non-Biblical in Waiting for Godot

Since I got busy with a project, I did not find time to write or read. So, a little more from one of my earlier posts. Religion appears to be the motive force behind Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Indeed, much of its dialogue, spectacle and images reflect traditional Christian values. The play... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, July 17, 2010

Waiting for Godot

An interesting story retold... Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot is the story of two tramps, Vladimir and Estragon who meet at a country roadside spot, waiting for Godot, an enigmatic being, but he never arrives. His non-arrival provides the only fact about him in the whole pay. Many attempts have... Sign in to see full entry.

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Embarking on a journey in spiritual quest is fraught with the dangers of doubt, tension and anxiety, disbeliefs, misgivings, and a whole lot of uncertainties. Still, it is that one most integral aspect of life that humankind can rarely ignore or do without. Scientific minds are at loggerheads with what constitute religious truths; likewise, there are close-minded believers that give no credence to scientific facts. What I intend and invite you to discuss here is an intelligent amalgamation of the two seemingly diabolically opposite understandings: whether there exists an interrelationship that can help man to evolve and bloom like the perennial lily?

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