And the Thunder Said DA
And the Thunder Said DA

Author: Ashok Kara

Publisher: iUniverse

Published: 2008-10

Total Pages: 430

ISBN-13: 0595489346

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Prajapati, the Creator, had three kinds of offspring: gods, men, and demons. They lived with Prajapati as brahmacharins (celibate students) practicing austerities. At the end of their term, the gods requested him saying: "Please instruct us, Sir." Prajapati uttered the syllable Da and he asked: "Have you understood?" The gods replied: "Yes. You have said to us, control yourselves (Damyata)." Prajapati responded: "Yes, you have understood." Then men spoke to him: "Please instruct us, Sir." Prajapati uttered the syllable Da and he asked: "Have you understood?" The men replied: "We have. You have said give (Datta)." Prajapati responded: "Yes, you have understood." Then the demons spoke to him: "Please instruct us, Sir." Prajapati uttered the syllable Da and he asked: "Have you understood?" The demons replied: "Yes. You have said to us, be compassionate (Dayadhvam)." Prajapati responded: "Yes, you have understood." That very thing is repeated by the celestial voice in the form the thunder that speaks to us: "Da, Da, Da" which means, "control yourselves," "give," "be merciful." In other words, writes Kara, the instruction to comprehending the ultimate mystery begins from an ethical injunction. He who is self-controlled, charitable, and merciful is given proximity to the gods. Ethics takes precedence over epistemology and ontology.

Four Quartets
Four Quartets

Author: T. S. Eliot

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 2014-03-10

Total Pages: 65

ISBN-13: 0547539703

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The last major verse written by Nobel laureate T. S. Eliot, considered by Eliot himself to be his finest work Four Quartets is a rich composition that expands the spiritual vision introduced in “The Waste Land.” Here, in four linked poems (“Burnt Norton,” “East Coker,” “The Dry Salvages,” and “Little Gidding”), spiritual, philosophical, and personal themes emerge through symbolic allusions and literary and religious references from both Eastern and Western thought. It is the culminating achievement by a man considered the greatest poet of the twentieth century and one of the seminal figures in the evolution of modernism.

T.S. Eliot
T.S. Eliot

Author: Nick Selby

Publisher: Columbia University Press

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 9780231124249

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Selby (American studies, U. of Wales, Swansea) considers the critical history of T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land . Selby contends that the poem is a crucial document that marks and produces a change in sensibility from unity of thought to a modern even postmodern apprehension of the plurality of exper

Shorter Views
Shorter Views

Author: Samuel R. Delany

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 2012-01-01

Total Pages: 479

ISBN-13: 0819571970

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In Shorter Views, Hugo and Nebula award-winning author Samuel R. Delany brings his remarkable intellectual powers to bear on a wide range of topics. Whether he is exploring the deeply felt issues of identity, race, and sexuality, untangling the intricacies of literary theory, or the writing process itself, Delany is one of the most lucid and insightful writers of our time. These essays cluster around topics related to queer theory on the one hand, and on the other, questions concerning the paraliterary genres: science fiction, pornography, comics, and more. Readers new to Delany's work will find this collection of shorter pieces an especially good introduction, while those already familiar with his writing will appreciate having these essays between two covers for the first time.

The Treasure of la Malinche
The Treasure of la Malinche

Author: Jeffry Hepple

Publisher: Jeffry S. Hepple

Published: 2009-03-09

Total Pages: 637

ISBN-13: 1452400385

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The ordinary life of college professor Margaret de Vega is forever changed when she discovers the six hundred year old memoirs of La Malinche containing the secret to finding the lost treasure of Montezuma. With the aid of retired Special Forces Colonel R.A. Lincoln, Doctor de Vega undertakes her treasure hunt along a rapidly deteriorating United States ' Mexican border.

What the Thunder Said
What the Thunder Said

Author: John Conrad

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2009-06-01

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1770706119

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By every principle of war, every shred of military logic, logistics support to Canada’s Task Force Orion in Afghanistan should have collapsed in July 2006. There are few countries that offer a greater challenge to logistics than Afghanistan, and yet Canadian soldiers lived through an enormous test on this deadly international stage - a monumental accomplishment. Canadian combat operations were widespread across southern Afghanistan in 2006, and logistics soldiers worked in quiet desperation to keep the battle group moving. Only now is it appreciated how precarious the logistics operations of Task Force Orion in Kandahar really were. What the Thunder Said is an honest, raw recollection of incidents and impressions of Canadian warfighting from a logistics perspective. It offers solid insight into the history of military logistics in Canada and explores in some detail the dramatic erosion of a once-proud corner of the army from the perspective of a battalion commander.

Mayan Civilization and Hindu Nagas Asuras, Rishis and Gandharvas
Mayan Civilization and Hindu Nagas Asuras, Rishis and Gandharvas

Author: London Swaminathan

Publisher: Pustaka Digital Media

Published: 2022-10-06

Total Pages: 128

ISBN-13:

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This book has two parts; in the first part we explore the possibility of Hindu Nagas migrating to South America and Central America and establishing Mayan, Aztec, Olmec, Inca and other civilizations. In the second part we read all about Rishis (seers), Asuras, Rakshasas (demons), Gandharvas, Apsaras and Kinnaras. There are lot of names of non-Divine names in the rig Veda and the Atharvana Veda. We have no satisfactory explanations for those words. I have collected as many names as possible and tried to give a Dictionary of Demons. It is only a beginning.

Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up
Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up

Author: A. Booth

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2015-05-06

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 1137482842

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A guidebook to the allusions of T.S. Eliot's notorious poem, The Waste Land , Reading The Waste Land from the Bottom Up utilizes the footnotes as a starting point, opening up the poem in unexpected ways. Organized according to Eliot's line numbers and designed for both scholars and students, chapters are free-standing and can be read in any order.