Monday, July 14, 2008
What is the Connectedness between Time and Eternity?
Moon’s asking me to comment on ‘ emptiness of mind’, to a beautifully profound poem of NiteTide’s Defiance (Re-Post) has been the inspiration for this entry.Thank you NiteTide, and thank you Moon. Nothingness - what Modern physicists call no-matter - is the essential stuff the universe is made of,...
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Sunday, July 13, 2008
How Commences the Fantastic Episode of the Greatest Epic, Mahabharata?
A Tale of Exquisite Beauty in Profundity Once in the days of yore, King Santanu, upon opening his eyes after offering an evening prayer to the sacred river Ganga (the Ganges), found himself to be helplessly blurting forth these words: “You must marry me whoever you may be”, his senses hijacked by...
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Saturday, July 12, 2008
Intelligence and Man.
Just as fire is hot, air is invisible, and water flows downwards, so is life intelligent. Intelligence is intrinsic to life. Intelligence is not, as we generally think, an achievement, or an acquirement over the years; you are born intelligent. Trees are intelligent in their own way; they have...
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Friday, July 11, 2008
Poetry is Indeed the Monument of the Soul’s Magnificence
Byzantium (that is, Constantinople or Istambul) was the capital of Eastern Roman Empire, an empire of Hellenic Christian culture which lasted from the third century A.D. to the fifteenth. Yeats knew of the Byzantine civilization mainly through reading. In the poem Sailing to Byzantium, Byzantium...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008
Devyani, of the Mahabharata; an Exquisite tale in Learnedness
One warm afternoon, pleasantly tired with sporting in the woods, the daughters of the demon king Vrishaparva, and Devyani, the daughter of guru Shukracharya of the world of the demons )he world of the demons (Daitya Loka), went to bathe in the cool waters of a sylvan pool. A strong wind blew their...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
The Evocative Power of Evil, the Mysterious and the Erotic ...
Coleridge’s Christabel, Part I is a romantic tale in a medieval setting, with beautiful damsels, faithful love, religious piety, feudal aristocracy, enchantment and mystery as its principal motifs. The tale builds up, by the device of subtle suggestions, an eerie atmosphere – with its ingredients of...
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Tuesday, July 8, 2008
How to Make Eternity Descend Within?
One very interesting description I have come across of the concept of infinity is, that even if a monster number with, say, a zillion zeroes after it, is exactly as far away from infinity as the puny number 1. Another way to comprehend this is to consider the conceptual opposite of infinity – the...
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Because God is Not, therefore He is The All. Have You Ever Heard It So?
Due to their mystical nature and intense philosophical bent that does away with all rituals and completely embrace the principle of One Brahman and the inner Self (Atman), the Upanishads have a universal feel that has led to their explication in numerous manners, giving birth to the three schools of...
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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Divine Knowledge Ends All Quests, and if it Doesn’t it’s not Divine
Today, I bring you one proof of divine knowledge. Let us have a brief look at the modern scientific explorations of the universe, and how close they are with the ancient Vedic astrological studies and of their conception of the Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva principles. The galactic center of the...
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Saturday, July 5, 2008
The Story of Osborne’s Jimmy - the “Suffering Hero” …
Tomorrow being Sunday, I'll find time to converse with each one of you whom I've been lax in reading, commenting, or replying. Thank you all for putting up with me. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (published 1956) marks the real breakthrough of the “new drama” in England in the post-World War II...
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