The core insight of dharma is deep and menacingly dark. There is a recipe for perfect order in the universe but it is difficult to find, and harder to follow if even understood.
Civilization is rare, needs endless sacrifice, everything is always just one step away from ruin.
“…those princes were no match for Bhima in pugilistic encounters, in speed, or in skill. Bhima used to make a display of his strength by thus tormenting them in childishness — but not from malice.”
In Tiruvaymoli 1.1.4, Nammalvar ecstatically worships Vishnu as the supreme paradigmatic person.
The poem starts with Tamil word 'nām' (we here) and ends with 'avarē' (he there). Everything else is contained in-between.
one of the main reasons 60s-70s dissident radicalism was so influential was that they managed to infuse it with a sense of glamour and adventure (even if just a facade)
not an ounce of that in the current left dissident movements. exact opposite actually (neurotic PTA mom vibes)
Will Durant gives a 6-point "estimation" of Gandhi after carefully observing & critiquing him:
1. First, though leaping far ahead of the moral consciousness of mankind, which is yet tribal arid national, he has helped the international organization of industries and states to…
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