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Sunday, October 23, 2011

Down the Mine (A repost)

George Orwell’s “ Down the Mine ” records his observations on the horrid world of coal-miners and the arduous work of the miners as it existed in the early 1930’s, and the condition is today no different in the many underdeveloped countries. Western civilization, says Orwell, is founded on coal and... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, October 22, 2011

Be Thou Me O Ecstasy

The starry night's twinkling towers And the daylight's dancing hours The birds and trees and the skies and flowers The heavenly rains of sweet monsoon showers O Ecstasy, you sovereign almighty Empress Pure, and in the image of perfect gladness Without the tinge of any gloomy sadness Nature's... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, October 20, 2011

The Transporting Power of Poetic Imagination

shobana said, "perhaps you should write more on these". So here is another on the 'effect of the solitary on poetic imagination.'. J ohn Keats has been regarded as one the greatest of Romantic poets of the English Literature. Sadly, his works were not really appreciated during his time in the early... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 17, 2011

Forever fled from childhood lands

Shobana asked me to write on the effect of the impulses of the ' solitary ' in poets other than Wordsworth. As a child Dylan Thomas was a loner with hordes of imagination coming to life in aloneness.. Fern Hill, written in 1945 is the farm of Ann Jones, the poet Dylan Thomas’ aunt. It was the place... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Solitude: The Image of the Soul of the World

Pre-eminently a poet of solitude, Wordsworth’s innate gift of brilliant poetic language came especially alive when he was in the “company of all things fascinatingly solitary”. Wordsworth used to consider “lonely as a cloud” and seek the “souls of lonely places”, the “sleep that is among the lonely... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

The part played by the Solitary in Wordsworth’s The Excursion

Composed sometime between 1806 and 1809, The Excursion is a part of Wordsworth's 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.

Saturday, October 8, 2011

Realize Release, Realize Freedom

In the last verse we find an astonishing strength in an otherwise seemingly ‘convoluted’ conception. Although taught thousands and thousands of years ago, the idea would perhaps not have struck to us modern thinkers in this fashion. Anyone single-mindedly pursuing one’s inner calling with utter... Sign in to see full entry.

Wednesday, October 5, 2011

Evils' Transmigrating to Godliness

Those people that kill the Self, upon giving up their mortal bodies go to the worlds of devils enveloped in blinding darkness, says verse 3 of the Isa Upanishad. The founder of the international society for Krishna consciousness (ISKCON), Swami Prabhupada in his commentary says: “Intelligent human... Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, October 3, 2011

The Secret of Reaching the Final Repose

In the previously ongoing dialogue between Lord Krishna and Arjuna we learn that each, according to one’s psyche and through the push and pull of one’s acquired and not innate, temperament, go to different destinations all of which again, being temporal, they are obliged to return to the mortal... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, September 30, 2011

A Lost Lover's Dream

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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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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