Tag: Hinduism
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The Dry Salvages – T. S. Eliot
(PDF Download) (The Dry Salvages—presumably les trois sauvages—is a small group of rocks,with a beacon, off the N.E. coast of Cape Ann, Massachusetts.Salvages is pronounced to rhyme with assuages.Groaner: a whistling buoy.) I I do not know much about gods; but I think that the riverIs a strong brown god—sullen, untamed and intractable,Patient to some degree,…
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Reason and love
Following on from Informers. Tolstoy tells us (Kingdom of God ~p264) that we are brought from an eternity of nothingness and bequeathed with reason and love. Hinduism’s Krishna says: Without contemplation there cannot be peace – Bhagavad-Gita #66 I take reason and contemplation to be the same. Further I take them to be the opposite…
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