Bhaskar Banerjee
I have been deeply interested in the mystical philosophy, and explore myself from a variety of angles, to search for answers that have exercised mankind from the beginning of time, and like to share the journey with all my dear readers.
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John Donne as a Religious PoetJohn Donne's anguish at his sinfulness, his feelings of unworthiness of God's grace, his penitential and supplicatory prayer, and his anxious soul doubtfully hoping for grace and salvation - these sum up Donne's attitude as a religious poet.
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The Creedless Science of ReligionThe turbulence, trials and tribulations of life makes a man to desire for freedom. But why is this escape not so easy, or near impossible? Learn more from this discussion.
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Such is the Beauty of the Nature of GodI have held an abiding love for the metaphorical Aristotelian imagery of God, compared to that of a beautiful woman. "God," says Aristotle, "moves the world as a beloved object moves the lover."
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The Difference Between Self Glorification and Self GlorificationAt his baptism, Jesus caught a vision of his mission and of the work that lay ahead. He heard a voice from heaven and knew that this would not be an easy task to perform.
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Horizontal Science and Vertical ReligionScience studies the outer, the expansions. Religion is a study of the depths of ones own mind, the internal. Is there anything common in these two different types of studies?
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The Story of Bhishma: Son of GangaOnce in the days of yore, King Santanu, upon opening his eyes after offering an evening prayer to the sacred river Ganga (the Ganges), found himself to be helplessly blurting forth these words: "You must marry me whoever you may be", -
Poems Are Monuments of the Soul's Magnificence: 'Last Sonnet', by KeatsWritten in 1819, the object of Keats' sonnet "Bright Star" is to be able to imbibe in himself the steadfastness and splendor of the distant North Star that hung alone and bright in the darkness of the night sky. . -
God is a Luxurious Spendthrift- He Does Not Believe in Necessity.We are a serious people, but God is very, very playful. That is exactly why He can create. Man cannot create, he can only manufacture, make prototypes, repeat. You will find His creation beautifully poetic.
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The Story of Bhishma: Son of GangaBhishma, the ruler of Hastinapur, the son of goddess Ganga was the finest archer and master statecraft. Here is the story, which reveals to us, who Bhishma was and sets the pace for a great epic, 'Mahabharata'.
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Divine Knowledge Ends All QuestsESA's gamma ray observatory has caught the centre of our galaxy in a moment of rare quiet and says it is also one of the most dynamic places in our galaxy. How those ancient sages could come to know about it is amazing and inconceivably intriguing..
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What is the Connectedness Between Time and Eternity?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, all creation comes from this Tattwa, matter.
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Joy is Available Only Through Perfect Awareness; Never OtherwiseWe 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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The Windhover: The Image of a Kestrel Sculpted in FlightWhenever 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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The Rape of the Lock: Does Pope Portray Belinda as a Goddess?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 low actions is the perfection of the mock-epic."
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Does the Rain of Benevolence Shower on One and All Alike?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 true, authentic knowledge.
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Critical Estimate of G. M. Hopkins' Poem Felix RandalFelix 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 strength.
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Scientific Religion and Religious ScienceThe 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 developments in quantum physics.
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Directing Life from Flux to FixityBuddha 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 germinated, ...
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Freeing Human Nature from Its Thraldom of ConservatismWe 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 often found to be elevated to the point of fanaticism.
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The Secret Science of Mantras: Words of PowerFormed 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 intonation, ......
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True Repentance is a Defeat to Be RejoicedRabindranath 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 garden house on the bank of the Ganges.
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To Know the Real, One Has to Wake Up from One's DreamsDreams 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 you the real thing, only what is illusory.
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Belief is Not Truth, and Truth is Never a BeliefLogic 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 prove or to disprove.
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The Wretch Who Constantly Harps on Sin Becomes a SinnerA 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 Ghosh, the famous actor-dramatist and a great disciple of Sri Ramakrishna.
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Let Us Break into Pieces!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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Tears of Gratitude Catapults You to a Higher Plane of ExistenceEven 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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The Tragic Fate Met by Cassandra of TroyCassandra 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, started the Trojan War.
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Beware: One Too Many Gurus Are on the ProwlA 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 because one's followers can always be driven away by a more dramatical guru.
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Joan of Arc Asks If She Shall Rise from the Dead and Come Back to LifeThe 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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Differentiation Creates Strife; Homogeneity is GodlyAll 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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The 'Grave' Blessing!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 suicide.
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A Drop Becoming the Ocean, and the Ocean Becoming a DropIt 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 stupor or a "blanking out of the mind". But it is not so.
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The Eve of St. Agnes as a Tale of Romantic LoveSt 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 medieval folklore
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The Calamities Surrounding Oedipus' Life Right from BirthOedipus, 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 the goddess of beauty
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The Autobiographical Element in Byron's Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto IIIIn 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 exile.
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Tracing the Development of the Hereditary Blood-Feud in Aeschylus' AgamemnonAeschylus' Agamemnon deals with the middle phase in the gruesome happenings which span three generations.
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The Mystical Experiences of the Grandeur of the Human HeartA 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 mystic domain.
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Is Reincarnation a Myth?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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Holy Grail - Last Supper's Cup Where Jesus' Blood was Received at Crucifixion"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 confront his own impotence.
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Compassion and Mercy: Consequential to Murder of Clytemnestra by OrestesIn 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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Reviewing Aeschylus' "Orestia" TrilogyThe 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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A Look at "Aeschylus": A Greek TragedyA 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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A Look at Aeschylus' "Cheophoroe"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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Unless You Have Passion, You Cannot Have CompassionThe 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, then this division is bound to create a division in you too
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Descartes Created a Temple of Faith with the Material of DoubtThe 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 who will be the doubter?
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The Four States of the Mind of HinduismThe 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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A Review of Dryden's Mac FlecknoeDryden'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 figures, plays, poems and publishers.
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A Review of the Poem "The Garden of Proserpine"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. Swinburne uses the myth to express a mood.
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It is Easier to Make Good Men Wise Than to Make a Bad Man Good?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 for lack of discernment.