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What Quantum Physicists call no matter, Hindus have called it Soma Tattva. The space is not empty, as science used to surmise until some time back, but being intensely sub-atomic, all manifestation, ...
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Published: Jul 30, 2008
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We all know that joy rejuvenates, joy recharges our batteries; joy is the stuff Existence is made of and that we are all a part of existence. Naturally then, we should be joyful. But we are not, why?
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Published: Dec 31, 2007
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Whenever the mind is full of awe and wonder, even though for a momentary period, two things happen simultaneously; egolessness and timelessness. Time ceases to exist.
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Published: Dec 31, 2007
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The Rape of the Lock portrays the fashionable world of the early eighteenth century London, and its title page describes it as a heroic-comical poem. Pope remarks that "the use of pompous language for...
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Published: Nov 26, 2007
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Knowing can be of two types. There is one kind of knowledge that is rote, memorized; the other is a live-knowing, known from your lived experiences. No memory is required here. Then what you know is t...
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Published: Nov 20, 2007
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The Vedic Hindu philosophy, Heisenberg, the father of Quantum Mechanics, acknowledged that it had helped him a lot with his work in Physics. He said that it showed him that "a great deal of new develo...
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Published: Oct 08, 2007
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Felix Randal is a sonnet about a farrier, a blacksmith from Hopkins' parish. It reflects on the farrier Felix Randal's dying, his last illness, the priest's compassion for him and on his former streng...
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Published: Oct 08, 2007
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Buddha has often been called the rebel child of Hinduism, and the Hindus never allowed Buddhism to flourish in India. The seeds of Buddha teachings were taken to China by one of his disciples where it...
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Published: Oct 08, 2007
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We often censure people for refusing to accept an idea or blame his parochial nature to be responsible for his being 'closed' and unreceptive. Especially in matters religious, intolerance levels are o...
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Published: Oct 06, 2007
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Formed from Sanskrit syllables, Mantras are articulate sounds that unite the subconscious, the conscious and the super-conscious. The prime requirement for a mantra to be effective is its proper inton...
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Published: Oct 06, 2007
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Rabindranath Tagore, a Nobel laureate and one of India's greatest of poets, once wrote, "Last night I dreamt that I was the same boy that I had been before my mother died. She sat in a room in a garde...
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Published: Sep 26, 2007
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Dreams are a compensatory means of fetching you in the night what you did not get during the day. In that sense, a dream is like a slave; but in quite another sense it is not, because it does not give...
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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Even the humblest of episodes of everyday life have a bearing on the human condition. It makes us think as well as feel, and this sensibility when the heart is involved, is truly educative.
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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When joy is at its pinnacle, then joy becomes unbearable. The extremes of any feeling, be it of the negative or the positive kind - it may be anger, it may be love - is unbearable.
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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A glorious illustration of how even the most sinful man can become righteous and attain the highest illumination and peace though the grace of the Supreme Spirit is seen in the life of Girish Chandra ...
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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Logic is always bound by discursive thought, and therefore people of logic or syllogism can never believe that there exists the illogical. Not that it is illogical, only you don't have logic yet, to p...
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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Cassandra was the daughter of Priam, King of Troy, and the sister of Paris who, through his act of corrupting the fidelity of Helen, wife of Agamemnon's brother and the king of Sparta, Menelaus, start...
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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A godman's success or failure is determined by his popularity and the adoration of his followers. Each making claims, one taller than the other, to remain in business. The competition is intense becau...
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Published: Sep 24, 2007
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The familiar conventional view of Joan of Arc (1412-1431) pictures her as a romantic heroic soldier- saint done to death by cruelly unjust religious fanatics.
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Published: Sep 18, 2007
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All violent attempts at reform always end by retarding reform. If you say "You are bad", it is differentiation, but when you say, "You are good, but be better", it is homogeneity.
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Published: Sep 18, 2007
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It was during the early 1600s that one Uriel Acosta, a Jewish skeptic, was publicly banned from the society of his fellows for his heresies. As a result of this public disgrace, Acosta committed suici...
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Published: Sep 18, 2007
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It is difficult to translate the Sanskrit word ajnana (ignorance) for a lack of its English equivalent, hence the ambivalence.To the Western way of thinking the word 'ignorance' conveys a state of stu...
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Published: Sep 10, 2007
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St Agnes, a Christian maiden of Roman birth, was martyred at the age of thirteen (304A.D.) for refusing to marry a heathen. She is the patron of virgins. Keats' poem The Eve of St Agnes is based on a ...
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Published: Sep 06, 2007
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Oedipus, a descendant of Venus from his father's side, was born to Laius, the king of Thebes and his queen Jocasta, to be exposed to all the calamities which Juno could inflict upon the posterity of t...
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Published: Sep 06, 2007
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In 1816, deserted by his wife Anabella, separated from his infant daughter Ada, and cold- shouldered by the society that had lionized him, Byron left England for good feeling himself an outcast and ex...
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Published: Sep 05, 2007
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Aeschylus' Agamemnon deals with the middle phase in the gruesome happenings which span three generations.
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Published: Sep 05, 2007
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A mystic is person who seeks by contemplation and self-surrender to obtain either union with or absorption in the Universal Spirit or God. Wordsworth responded to Nature and actually enters the myst...
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Published: Sep 05, 2007
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The real search into the mysteries of life come not so much through faith as from scepticism. When something becomes an experience, you don't require faith to believe it; you simply know.
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Published: Sep 05, 2007
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"What the Thunder Said", which is the final part of The Wasteland, begins with a description of the death of Jesus. After the death of the god, with the consequent loss of personal faith, man must con...
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Published: Sep 04, 2007
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In Aeschylus' Eumenides, soon after the murder of Clytemnestra by her son Orestes he, plagued by the Furies, seeks aid at the temple of Apollo in Delphi.
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Published: Aug 31, 2007
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The primary theme of the Orestia Trilogy by Aeschylus is the curse of a heriditary blood-feud in the royal house of Atreus and its final replacement by public legal process.
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Published: Aug 29, 2007
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A great many lessons are to be learnt in human nature from this Greek Tragedy, and of man's evolvement into the beginnings of religion, more in the nature of its historical development.
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Published: Aug 29, 2007
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In Aeschylus' Cheophoroe, some seven years after the murder of Agamemnon, Orestes along with his friend Pylades enter Argos (Mycenae) disguised as travellers and approach the tomb of Agamemnon....
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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The opposites are a way of coming to a union, called communion. If you divide, you will be divided within. The Sufis say that if you divide existence into good and bad, God and devil, heaven and hell,...
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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The French philosopher René Descartes' search for an oasis of faith through the desert of doubt began with Cogito, ergo sum. I think therefore I am. "My very doubt proves my existence". Otherwise...
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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The Hindus have conceived of four states of the mind: Awake; Dream; Deep sleep; and Turiya. Mind functions through very subtle electric waves. The mechanism has to be understood.
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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Dryden's Mac Flecknoe (written 1678, published 1682) was the result of a literary and personal quarrel between Dryden and Thomas Shadwell, a minor playwright. The poem is full of allusions to literary...
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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In Greek mythology, Proserpine is the daughter of Ceres and the wife of Pluto. She is thus the goddess of Hades (that is, the kingdom of the dead), and her Garden lies on the border of Hades. Swinburn...
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Published: Aug 28, 2007
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In today's world of futile search for that ever-eluding phenomenon called happiness, everyone is up and about, busy doing something. But being always busy doing something can lead one to achieving not...
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Published: Aug 27, 2007
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Prudence is reletavily easily culitivated in a man who is outwardly a rake, but not bad inwardly. But for one nurturing evil, it will almost certainly be impossible for him to change for the better fo...
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Published: Aug 27, 2007
