His senses utterly bewildered and saying that he will not fight, Arjuna falls silent. This is almost a catatonic unconscious-like state as in drunken stupor; it is the rebellion of unchastened emotions. No amount of coaxing or counselling can elicit any response - positive or negative. But for the... Sign in to see full entry.
Oh how I wish to enjoy Enjoyments to their most utmost Devoid of which, how do I enter The promised lands that beckons me yonder? I have traversed through Hades Where to hope against hope, forever fades. Then traced I and tasted many a worldly woes The greatest teacher that preaches as time tickles... Sign in to see full entry.
Today, a break from the Bhagavad Gita. Thomas Gray (1716 - 1771), in his The Progress of Poesy, has given a sweepiing account of the history of the history of poetry and of its divine influence on the life of man. It begins with an Invocation to the Aeolian lyre, that is, the lyre of the Ancient... Sign in to see full entry.
Addendum to Ch I: It is the fight of Dharma against Adharma, righteousness against unrighteousness. On the side of the Dharma are Pandavas, the five sons of Pandu – Yudhisthira, Bhima, Arjuna, Nakula and Sahadeva. Those assembled against desiring to unlawfully usurp the kingdom are the Kauravas,... Sign in to see full entry.
All of Arjuna’s chivalry vanishes into thin air as when he requests Krishna to place his chariot in the middle of the battlefield, so that he could observe as to whom all dared fight with as skillful and brave a warrior as himself. Krishna the lord, could detect the slight stench of the ego in his... Sign in to see full entry.
No sooner did the grand old sire of the Kuru dynasty, Bhishma, saw Duryodhana's somewat pallid countenance, than he roared the blood-chilling roar of a lion and blew his conchshell announcing the start of the battle, and bringing cheer unto Duryohana. 'For, as when the raging fevers boil the blood,... Sign in to see full entry.
It is Day Ten on the battlefield. Bhishma, the unconquerable grand old one-man-army felled by Arjuna, using Shikhandi as a shield against whom he could not use his weaponry, lay in the battlefield on a bed of arrows, yet alive but removed from action. Sanjaya, Dhritarashtra’s charioteer comes back... Sign in to see full entry.
Now begins the second part, a sequel, as to how another chain of events in the divine design led to the battle of Kurukshetra. We saw Amba, a woman in her earlier birth, now a man by the name of Shikhandi, a transvestite who, Arjuna used as a shield to fell the unconquerable grandsire of the... Sign in to see full entry.
Bhagavad-Gita, which appears in the form of eighteen chapters in the world’s greatest epic, the Mahabharata, essentially means the song of the divine, sung in the battlefield of Kurukshetra some five thousand three hundred years ago. Another peculiarity, it is the only scripture of its kind... Sign in to see full entry.
Of the five Lucy poems composed by Wordsworth four were printed in Lyrical Ballads of 1800. These four poems, all in the lyrical vein, are sober meditations on the death or apprehension of death of a girl who was the object of a deep and tender love. The love is not impassioned but meditated in... Sign in to see full entry.