Friday, October 10, 2008
The Union of Love (Cupid) and Psyche (Love’s soul) in Shadowy Thought
Psyche was not a goddess of primitive Greek myth, but was a creation of Apuleius in second century A.D. The ode begins by directly addressing Psyche. Keats is inspired by the dear remembrance of his vision of Cupid and Psyche, couched in embrace in a green recess. Their readiness to outnumber past...
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Wednesday, October 8, 2008
Unbearable Hopelessness, and the Strength that Comes from It...
Hardy’s The Voice is a touching recollection of the memories of his first wife Emma who died in 1912 after thirty-eight years of married life. The poet here commemorates their love and his loss. A tender wistfulness pervades the poem. The poem recalls Hardy’s feelings about his dead wife, the woman...
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Monday, October 6, 2008
Choose Your Wolf ... (A Repost).
Have you ever stopped to wonder as to why despite our knowing and understanding perfectly well the virtue of altruism, rarely are we able to bring it into practice. We do something and something else happens; and find ourselves in such hopeless situations where we curse ourselves for a result that...
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Sunday, October 5, 2008
Nishkama Karma: Is Non-Action in Desirelessness Integral to Life? … How?
Upon reading the title, many may be left wondering about the central idea as to what kind of action can proceed from non-desire? All actions stem from desire. Without any incentive or motive, the very idea of work is rendered meaningless. But the deeper meaning is to be unearthed and understood....
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
Is Love A Bondage or Freedom?
Ego lives by getting and forgetting; Love lives by giving and forgiving; Love is expansion; Self is contraction; Self is lovelessness; Love is selflessness. Those who fall in love don’t have any love and that’s why they fall in love. And because they don’t have any love they cannot give. And one...
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Friday, October 3, 2008
Children of a Benificent God or the Stepchildren of Indifferent Nature?
(The Bible says death will be swallowed up in sweet victory...implying there is nothing charming about the process and the finality of it. Death is a sleep; Life is about living...death is not life...that is a contradiction). 'Swallowed up', somehow doesn't appear right. The word 'Culmination' for...
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Undeniable Evidences about Connectedness: How Can We Ignore?
The civilization that we know of today is not necessarily the most developed. How? Let me explain. The history of mankind, if I correctly remember, is as old as nearly 5 million years, that of Earth, about 5 billion. In the intervening period thousands and thousands of civilizations came, attained...
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Wednesday, October 1, 2008
The ‘Grave’ Blessing
It was during the early 1600s that one Uriel Acosta, a Jewish skeptic, was publicly banned from the society of his fellows for his heresies. As a result of this public disgrace, Acosta committed suicide. This scene made a profound impression upon a child, who stood at the grave of Acosta and...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Let there Grow a Divine Dissatisfaction in You:How can God not be Revealed?
Today, I'm in New Delhi at All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for my eye problem check-up, and another surgery on 11 Oct. Things seems to have got too complicated with many an ifs and buts. So, excuse me dear readers that I'm not being able to read or comment. Tomorrow I'll write the...
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Sunday, September 28, 2008
A Center Without Circumference is Gyana (Knowledge); so also is God.
Gyana is never sense-knowledge. We cannot know Brahman, but we are Brahman, the whole of It, not a piece. Just think, “Can the unextended be ever divided?” The apparent variety is but the reflection seen in time and space, as we see the sun reflected in a million dew-drops, though we know that the...
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