Memoirs of fifties Akividu or Akiveedu (ఆకివీడు), and neighbouring villages. Educational, geographical, historical, literary, philosophical, religious and social postings included. Copyright Raju (PD). (bondadaa@gmail.com)
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
Sunday, February 22, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Saturday, January 03, 2009
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New Year's Greetings
నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు
2009
Wish you all Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Saturday, November 29, 2008
Friday, November 14, 2008
Sunday, November 09, 2008
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Jealousy is the bane of our race
Hold on with faith and strength. Be true, be honest, be pure, and don't quarrel among yourselves. Jealousy is the bane of our race.
Letter to Alasinga Perumal. From New York: December 20, 1895. Complete Works, 5.99.
Letter to Alasinga Perumal. From New York: December 20, 1895. Complete Works, 5.99.
Saturday, October 18, 2008
Lesser to a higher truth
In all religions we travel from a lesser to a higher truth, never from error to truth. There is Oneness behind all creation, but minds are various. "That which exists is one, sages call it variously." What I mean is that one progresses from a smaller to a greater truth. The worst religions are only bad readings of the truth. One gets to understand bit by bit. Even devil-worship is but a perverted reading of the ever-true and immutable Brahman. Other phases have more or less truth in them. No form of religion possesses it entirely.
Interview. London, 1896. Complete Works, 5: 202.
Friday, October 03, 2008
Saturday, September 27, 2008
Fencing The State Borders ...
Maharashtra For Maharashtrians
.... at the risk of sounding sentimental, I would go with the repeatedly mouthed but rarely acted on statements of two of the otherwise vastly different leaders of modern India, Gandhi and Tagore.
Gandhi:
"I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."
Tagore:
"…Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
…Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake".
Alaka M. Basu
.... at the risk of sounding sentimental, I would go with the repeatedly mouthed but rarely acted on statements of two of the otherwise vastly different leaders of modern India, Gandhi and Tagore.
Gandhi:
"I do not want my house to be walled in on sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the cultures of all the lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible."
Tagore:
"…Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
…Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake".
Alaka M. Basu
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