The Effulgence Within

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Tuesday, May 27, 2025

A Divine Song of Universality … (A Repeat)

With wondrous eyes I see the dance Of life and death going on unceasingly Without a pause, for there are no full stops or commas In the cosmic cycle of Nature; it is always a continuous “IS” A yellowed leaf falls, detached from a tree, silently Without leaving a tear or a scar behind; it happily... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, May 20, 2025

The Felicity and Perfection of Thomas Gray’s “Elegy”

The greatness of Thomas Gray’s Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard has never been doubted. The poem is a chain of melancholy musings on the obscure lot of the humble village folk who lie buried at Stoke Poges in Buckinghamshire. It reveals much of Gray’s mental attitudes, moods and beliefs. In the... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, May 15, 2025

Examining rather than Resolving Life’s Instability and Decay

Composed sometime between 1806 and 1809, The Excursion is a part of Wordsworth's epic/poem The Recluse. At the time Wordsworth himself was greatly disenchanted by the ongoing French Revolution with its attendant atrocities and oppression. This long poem was first published in 1814. The Solitary... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 12, 2025

The Capacity for Re-echoing the Sublimities of Nature.

In There Was a Boy, Wordsworth addresses not the boy who is now dead but the cliffs and islands of Lake Windermere that have outlasted him. The scene is widened to take the stars rising in the east and setting. It is in the context of the vast spaces of the universe and the inexorable movement of... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, May 3, 2025

Ludicrous Heroism of a Renaissance Scholar

, A company of a grammarian's pupils are bearing their master's coffin for burial at the summit of a mountain. One of them tells his story and dilates on the praises of the departed scholar. They cannot fittingly bury their master on the plain with the common folk. He shall rest on a peak whose... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, April 28, 2025

Meditation: The Science of Age-old Practice for New Age Practitioners

Just 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... Sign in to see full entry.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025

Soul’s Inner Calling vs Religious Fanaticism

The familiar conventional view of Joan of Arc (1412 – 1431) pictures her as a romantic heroic soldier done to death by cruelly unjust religious fanatics Shaw’s Joan is still a simple unlettered country lass in her teens, a virgin soldier-saint, still the called-of-God, still the martyred-by-men.... Sign in to see full entry.

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Thursday, March 27, 2025

A Cold Systematic Torture of an Innocent Girl-Wife

“ That’s my last Duchess painted on the wall, Looking as if she were alive. I call That piece a wonder, now: Frà Pandolf’s hands Worked busily a day, and there she stands”. (The Duke is as if saying to a listener that the painted picture on the wall of his wife who under suspicious circumstances... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, March 9, 2025

When Time is Shortened in Life and Lengthened in Suffering

It is the austere language of a diffident man, Hardy, marked with stoical fortitude, patient and uncomplaining, that his poem, “I Look into My Glass”, has an indelibly immediate appeal on the readers’ mind, in his teaching man to face up to Time unflinchingly. Time, with its power, brings... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, February 10, 2025

Sunlit Bath. (A Repeat)

Woken up by a thunder steep as I was in a slumber deep Felt as if someone shouting, Wake up, look … a guest is waiting! Dead in the night groggy I was, went back to my treasured cause Morning, upon opening the door, saw no one waiting out there; sore I wondered, “A friendly guest?” but who! Then... 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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