The Effulgence Within - Blogithttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/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? hourly12000-01-01T12:00+00:00Ozymandias — The Short-lived Nature of Absolute Powerhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/981538Shelly’s Ozymandias (1817), is a commentary in sonnet, on the eventual short-lived nature of absolute power. Shelley, the Utopian, believed that tyrants, monarchs, dictators, no matter how powerful, do come to meet their nemesis on the day of their reckoning, and the language runs perfectly in...A Delightful Literary Quarrel full of Satire par-excellencehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/981448Dryden's Mac Flecknoe (written 1678, published 1682) was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The poem is full of allusions to literary figures, plays, poems and publishers. Mac Flecknoeis a mock-heroic satire. This is literary a...Tranquil is the Music of Languagehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/981423"The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more." ( The Solitary Reaper ) In the course of one of his walking tours, Wordsworth once saw a Scottish Highland girl reaping and singing all alone in a field. Her song, which had a melancholy ring, filled the entire valley, and the poet...Comedy lies in the artifice of Wit-Combathttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/981330Much Ado About Nothing is the nearest approach to the Comedy of Errors as practised by William Congreve, where sentiment or passion is conveyed either by indifference or downright contradiction. The hero and the heroine of Much Ado, Benedick and Beatrice, by their very bickerings, assume a social...Love Lives In Many Formshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/980457In As You Like It, love lives in many forms – in Orlando and Rosalind, Celia and Oliver, Silvius and Phoebe, Touchstone and Audrey. In the play, the lovers love one another at first sight. Dead shepherd, now I find thy saw of might Who ever lov’d that lov’d not at first sight It is the cry of...The Birth of a New Religion - Christianity (A repeat on Christmas Day)http://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/980172Christmas theme is the subject matter of T.S. Eliot's allegorical poem “The Journey of the Magi”. It starts with one of the three Magus' narrating to us the story long after the event has happened; the Magi symbolizing the three wise men of the east who come to Bethlehem to witness the birth of...Imbibe Yoga for Exercise and Mental Peacehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/980048Just as medicines are necessary to repair bodily ailments, so is 'meditation' medicinal for the mind to keep it perfectly healthy, peaceful and in a state of equanimous tranquil. The mind must be emptied of all toxins. Unlike the western concept that 'an empty mind is a devil's workshop', the...The World of Silence is always Alivehttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/979953In this short poem I like For You To Be Stil l, Pablo Neruda addresses his beloved who is now gone very far, not physically near, yet very dear and unforgettable in his feelings and in memory. He yearns that he be able somehow to establish some communication with her, but that he is unable to, as...Pablo Neruda’s Conveyance of the Mystical through Ah Vastness of the Pineshttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/979818The true poetic genius of Pablo Neruda found expression in the conveyance of the mystical through his use of bold metaphors. In “ Ah Vastness of Pines ”, approaching a pine grove, the fading light of the evening sun along with the distant sounding of the Church bells and a babbling brook nearby,...Do We Live in the Real or the Quasi-realhttp://www.blogit.com/Blogs/Blog.aspx/ABanerjeeSpeaks/979803(This part is in continuation of the first part) Next to clouds even a stone seems like a brother, someone you can trust, while they are just distant, flighty cousins. Let people exist if they want, and then die, one after another: clouds simply don’t care what they’re up to down there. And so...