The Effulgence Within

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Saturday, June 22, 2019

The Handkerchief Tragedy

Shakespeare’s Othello, written (1603), is the tragedy of sexual jealousy. The play opens with Iago’s manipulative duplicity at a street in Venice at night. A Venetian army ensign, Iago is bitter that Cassio, his junior be promoted over him to the position of a Lieutenant. Iago complains to Roderigo... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 14, 2019

Shakespeare’s reconciliation of a great tragedy through the manner of dying

Antony and Cleopatra (1606) is one of Shakespeare’s great historical tragic love stories, but the impression left us at the close of the play can scarcely be called purely tragic. This is because the feeling of reconciliation, which mingles with the obviously tragic, is here exceptionally... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, June 12, 2019

Delight in Disorder

A sweet disorder in the dress Kindles in clothes a wantonness; A lawn about the shoulders thrown Into a fine distraction; An erring lace, which here and there Enthrals the crimson stomacher; A cuff neglectful, and thereby Ribands to flow confusedly; A winning wave, deserving note, In the tempestuous... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, June 9, 2019

Dream of a lost lover

Come nights in my desolate dunes My ears begin to hear sweet dulcet tunes On the distant horizon I see a beauty chaste Silhouetted amid the starry haze Dazzling unharried and unhurried She walks daintily her daily lazy rounds Through the recesses Of my imaginary grounds? Lost and absorbed in some... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, June 7, 2019

Explorations into the Concept of THE CREATIVE VOID

The Vedas had propounded aeons (aeon in Gnostistism means a spirit-being emanating from Godhead) ago that all manifestation is derived from an ultimate principle of spiritual consciousness - the one and only existent form of eternity - the Void. In that sense, can Void be taken to be the Creator, or... Sign in to see full entry.

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Saturday, June 1, 2019

The Loveliest maiden in the Entire Olympian Heirarchy

In the days of the old, it so happened that men on earth started paying homage less and less to the temple of Aphrodite; it went increasingly unprayed and its altar uncleaned from neglect. Many a times not even the incense sticks were burned. Venus, the goddess of beauty to the Greeks, as Aphrodite,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Friday, May 31, 2019

Walt Whitman’s double edged elegy - Hymn of Praise to Death

W HEN lilacs last in the door-yard bloom’d, And the great star early droop’d in the western sky in the night, I mourn’d—and yet shall mourn with ever-returning spring. O ever-returning spring! trinity sure to me you bring; Lilac blooming perennial, and drooping star in the west, 5 And thought of him... Sign in to see full entry.

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Wednesday, May 29, 2019

Making our Latent Potential Patent

The inherent resident quarter of all human beings is universal: a body is otherwise a corpse without the spirit as its body-current or the life-giving force. At the outside, the body is one extremity; in between are progresssively, the layers of our diffentiated existence -- the mind (emotions,... Sign in to see full entry.

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Monday, May 27, 2019

The Golden Gate Experience

Last Sunday, we went strolling in the inclement weather, cold, windy and cloudy, along the Golden Gate Bridge, a weather which I so thoroughly savour. Here is a poem I wrote long ago, with certain changes to fit with my imaginings. Hope you all too, enjoy. Walking along the Golden Gate North... Sign in to see full entry.

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Sunday, May 26, 2019

What is it that brings the Kingdom of Heaven within human reach?

I have meditated somewhat on the word 'Repent' and on the Truth of the Christian Faith that it'll reach one to the doors of heaven? Astonishingly, I found also a lot on this one very thought in the Hindu scriptures, not only in its understandable limits but to its beyond. Here is what I could... 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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