The Effulgence Within

By anib - About Me - E-mail this page - Add to My Favorites - Add to Blog List - See other blogs in Religion & Spirituality

Thursday, December 14, 2017

LULLABY

Wystan Hugh Auden's "Lullaby” opens with a picture of the poet watching his beloved sleeping peacefully on his “faithless” arm, one he himself cannot trust ( some critics have interpreted the scene to be a post-coital one, with which I do not agree ); while she, on the contrary, sleeps absolutely... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 12:25 AM | add or view comments (8) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Sunday, December 10, 2017

The Connectedness of Time and Eternity

Nothingness - what modern physicists call no-matter - is the essential stuff the universe is made of, exactly as the Vedas had propounded thousands of years ago that all manifestation is derived from an ultimate principle of spiritual consciousness - the one and only existent form of eternity - the... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 9:18 PM | add or view comments (11) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Thursday, December 7, 2017

The Natue, Origin and End of Poetry

The British philosopher and economist, John Stuart Mill wrote this essay ' Thoughts on Poetry and its Varieties' in 1832, when he was twenty-six. A man of sharp intellect, it is a careful analysis of his views on the different kinds of poetry he read during his time. (An off-course information - the... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 9:15 PM | add or view comments (3) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Love at First Sight

The last few days I have been reading a selection of works by the 1996 Polish Nobel poet laureate, Wislawa Szymborska (1923 - 2012). What I found striking in her writings is the air of casual simplicity even with which she makes us think on things profound, without the use of word felicity common to... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 9:34 PM | add or view comments (10) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Monday, November 27, 2017

The Liberating Power of Wine both in its Divine and Demonic aspects

Dionysus, the Greek god of vegetation and of wine, is the son of Zeus and the Theban princess Semele, daughter of the goddess Harmonia and Cadmus, the former King and founder of Thebes, and sister of Agave. Dionysus is thus the first cousin of Pentheus, who is the son of Agave and is the present... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 3:05 AM | add or view comments (7) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Saturday, November 25, 2017

RP raises a fine query and has made me think

She says, "Higgins had put so much "effort'' into transforming Eliza, but in the end is possessive in a sense and unappreciative of her. One normally should be pleased with and for Eliza, but he will never see her as an equal, or even as his better. She'll always be the cabbage leaf that HE... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 12:15 AM | add or view comments (13) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Friday, November 24, 2017

Eliza's transformation from a squashed cabbage leaf into a duchess

In Shaw's Pygmalion when Eliza first appears as a flower-girl she does not cut a romantic figure. Between eighteen and twenty, she wears a dusty sailor hat, her mousy coloured hair badly needs washing, her shoddy black coat and coarse, brown skirt have long been exposed to the soot of London, her... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 4:20 AM | add or view comments (9) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Thursday, November 23, 2017

Significance of the title of Shaw's play, Pygmalion.

Although the background of Shaw's Pygmalion is phonetics, its basic theme is human relations. Pygmalion, in Classical Greek mythology, was a legendary King of Cyprus and a fine sculptor, who could never find any good in women and resolved to live out his life unmarried. Once he, having fashioned an... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 4:47 AM | add or view comments (6) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Wednesday, November 22, 2017

Someone once asked me, where in the body is the soul?

And I answered nowhere and everywhere, just as God exists nowhere and everywhere. It is recorded in the Genesis that God created all that is in six days and on the Seventh, He rested. This I find somewhat difficult to believe, because then there is no possibility for evolution! and it is... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 4:33 AM | add or view comments (6) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

Friday, November 17, 2017

Here there's No Praise for the Rising Sun

John Donne's " The Sunne Rising " (published 1633), is one of his classic poems on love's charm, set in the speaker's bedroom. Here, he, in a rhetorical manner, apostrophises, that is, addresses, the sun. Both he and his lover lay in bed presumably after a night of warm romantic passion, oblivious... Sign in to see full entry.

posted by anib at 2:43 AM | add or view comments (6) | leave calling card | link to this | view only this entry

About this Blog

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?

Recent Entries
People
Blogs

Headlines (What is this?)