The Effulgence Within

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Friday, April 22, 2022

Truth being Widespread and Pervasive, often makes it Insidious

The very first Sutra (sutra means "thread" that weaves a fabric) of Patanjali's Yoga aphorisms says it all. What I am paraphrasing here - will need to be rolled over a few times in the mind to get the sense. The spinning of the mind which we consider to be right knowledge is constituted of what we... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, April 16, 2022

Permanence of Art and Thought as against the Transience of mere Animal Life

The poem Sailing to Byzantium, was one of William Butler Yeats’ masterpieces he wrote in 1927. Byzantium (that is, Constantinople or Istanbul) was the capital of Eastern Roman Empire, an empire of Hellenic Christian culture which lasted from the third century A.D. to the fifteenth. An Old City of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, April 14, 2022

The Greatness of Wordsworth’s The Prelude

The Prelude is the greatest long poem in the English language after Paradise Lost. Its comparison with the great seventeenth-century epic is in some respects a happy one since Milton was (after Coleridge) Wordsworth's greatest idol. The Prelude, despite its epic proportions (he wrote it... Sign in to see full entry.

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The One Mantra of being Happy

A very ugly girl was sitting at a beach, when the waves washed a bottle at her feet. She opened it - and out blew a huge genie in a billow of smoke. "I have been a prisoner in this bottle for three thousand years." cried the genie, "and now you have freed me. As a reward, I will fulfill any wish you... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 19, 2022

The Three Stages which helped Shape Wordsworth’s Mind and Character

Wordsworth believed that it was to Nature that he owed most in the formation of his mind and character. The Prelude is actually his autobiography in verse, and Books I and II deals with Nature as nurse, guide and guardian to Wordsworth in his early years. Wordsworth points to three stages in their... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, March 12, 2022

So lonely ’twas that God Himself scarce seem’d there to be

The Ancient Mariner is the story of a real-life sea voyage pervaded by a supernatural atmosphere. A couple, on way to attending a wedding, is suddenly stopped by an old mariner, and catching hold of the guest's hands, starts telling his mysterious sea voyage story. The stranger is naturally,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 28, 2022

A Satyr against Mankind and Reason

John Wilmot, (1647 – 1680), the second Earl of Rochester England, Viscount in Ireland, was an English poet and courtier of King Charles II’s Restoration court, he was infamous in his time for his life and works, was the cynosure of the libertine wits of Restoration England. The Restoration reacted... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, February 6, 2022

Coleridge’s Ballad Style “Her lips were red, Her looks were freee” ….

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was as white as leprosy … We see in the above lines of “ The Ancient Mariner” the medieval influence of the supernatural at work in the skeletal ship - the dicing demons on the deck evoking a fearful nightmare of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, January 10, 2022

Swift’s Battle of the Books

It was almst around the end of the eighteenth century that there arose in France a heated debate over the question as to whether the writers of the modern age of science and reason were superior to the mythcal and superstitious limited world of the Ancient Greek and Roman writers. Those who favoured... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, January 4, 2022

Buddha’s Thought could never be Taught, Only Caught

Buddha, his childhood name was Gautama, was born in 536 BC. His father, the king of Kapilavastu, India (now known as Nepal) wished to learn the future of the boy, and an assemblage of seven great astrologers of the age sat to discuss mutually and make a correct foretelling. Six of them raised their... 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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