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eden postponed

Maybe Shiva knows? Its a struggle with modernity and some of its paradoxes hint at some great truths. Beginning in the 1960’s the hippies began traveling to India, on the quest of a sort of Thomas More utopia: a search … Continue reading

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conversations with dharma: monkey business

Mahatma Gandhi dreamed that one day India would become a Ram-rajya. The Ramayan teaches Indians to perform their dharma. Originally, it was a 50,000 verse epic poem, seen to originate with Valmiki,the Sanskrit poet, around 1000 BCE. The hero, Rama, … Continue reading

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ramayana

The Ramayana. The great Hindu epic. The poetry. The mythology. The moral substance. The splendid, unquestioned prototypes it set in its hero and heroine, Rama and Sita:  the perfect human beings. It is hard to imagine that they could be … Continue reading

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