Here come I to my own againFed, forgiven, and known againClaimed by bone of my bone again,And sib to flesh of my flesh!The fatted calf is dressed for me,But the husks have greater zest for me …I think my pigs will be best for me,So I’m off to the styes afresh. The Prodigal Son. Once […]
Good Luck, she is never a lady,But the cursedest quean alive,Tricksy, wincing, and jady—Kittle to lead or drive.Greet her—she’s hailing a stranger!Meet her—she’s busking to leave!Let her alone for a shrew to the boneAnd the hussy comes plucking your sleeve!Largesse! Largesse, O Fortune!Give or hold at your will.If I’ve no care for Fortune,Fortune must follow […]
Yea, voice of every Soul that clungTo life that strove from rung to rungWhen Devadatta’s rule was young,The warm wind brings Kamakura. Buddha at Kamakura. Behind them an angry farmer brandished a bamboo pole. He was a market-gardener, Arain by caste, growing vegetables and flowers for Umballa city, and well Kim knew the breed. ‘Such […]
And whoso will, from Pride released;Contemning neither creed nor priest,May feel the Soul of all the East.About him at Kamakura. Buddha at Kamakura. They entered the fort-like railway station, black in the end of night; the electrics sizzling over the goods-yard where they handle the heavy Northern grain-traffic. ‘This is the work of devils!’ said […]
O ye who tread the Narrow WayBy Tophet-flare to Judgment Day,Be gentle when ‘the heathen’ prayTo Buddha at Kamakura! Buddha at Kamakura. He sat, in defiance of municipal orders, astride the gun Zam Zammah on her brick platform opposite the old Ajaib-Gher—the Wonder House, as the natives call the Lahore Museum. Who hold Zam-Zammah, that […]
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Swami Satyamayananda (Photo source – https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=3225694) Swami Satyamayanandaji is a young monk of the Ramakrishna Order, and looks after all the Prabuddha Bharata work in Kolkata. He contributes articles to different journals and periodicals from time to time, and also reviews scholarly works. In this absorbing article, he concentrates on latria in the Yoga Sutras […]
Swami Prabhananda The period of eight and a half months that Sri Ramakrishna lived at the Cossipore garden house is popularly considered to be the beginning of the monastic community that later became known as the Ramakrishna Order of monks. What began with a handful of fiery young men gradually became a religious community belongingto […]
There are many crises facing humankind, but one that has dogged us from ancient times is morality and immorality. This crucial question is also mysterious: Where have ideas of morality originated from? Why are humans troubled by them? Are we wrong in restricting morality only to our species? These questions have been the first step […]
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