Thoughts on the film Memoria

The film Memoria is highly unusual and intriguing, prompting me to reflect on how to make sense of what is actually happening in the film. Rather giving any kind of comprehensive review or summary, however, I am just sharing here some of the workings of my own mind in response to the film.

गुरु लक्ष्मीङ्कर की कहानी

तिब्बत और भारत के सांस्कृतिक और ऐतिहासिक सम्बन्ध कई प्रकार के हैं | अतीत में, बहुत सी भारतीय साहित्यिक और आध्यात्मिक शास्त्रों को तिब्बत भेजा गया था, और उनके तिब्बती भाषा अनुवाद भी किया गया था | इनमें से बौद्ध ग्रन्थ हैं, जैसे के नागार्जुन, शान्तरक्षित, और कमलशील के लेखन | साथ ही व्याकरण के शास्त्र हैं, जो तिब्बती भाषाविज्ञान का विकास को प्रेरित किया | इसके अलावा, काव्य हैं, जैसे के कालिदास की उत्कृष्ट खण्डकाव्य ‘मेघदूत’ |

Creation in the Rig Veda (again)

again from the tenth book. Though a different verse, the immensity of the boulder does give an impression of something elementary, mysterious and primordial that perhaps matches the idea of creation that starts with ‘night’ and basic elements such as ‘water’.

On stealing from the gods

wisdom, forbidden knowledge, and access to divinity itself. Divine trickery may be involved. And the theft may be followed by divine anger and punishment. This article will briefly review and compare three such myths, that of the eating from the ‘tree of knowledge’ in the Garden of Eden, the Greek myth of the theft of fire on behalf of humanity, and a similar Vedic myth about the stealing of fire.

Emotions and our sense of time

time. The deepest parts of our personalities are structured in terms of our sense of time, such as our memories from the past, our hopes and dreams for the future, and our awareness of our own mortality.

The Ring in Indo-European literature

One criticism sometimes made against JRR Tolkien is that he somehow imitated the ring-based plot of Richard Wagner’s opera cycle ‘The Ring of the Nibelung’ in his own master work ‘The Lord of the Rings’. Prof. Tolkien expressly disclaimed any similarity between his own work and that of Wagner, once comparing his Lord of the Rings with Wagner’s Ring Cycle by saying, “Both rings were round, but there the resemblance ceases.”

ਰਾਜਸਥਾਨ ਅਤੇ ਭਾਰਤੀ ਚਿੱਤਰਕਾਰੀ

ਰਾਜਸਥਾਨ ਚਿੱਤਰਕਾਰੀ ਦੀਆਂ ਪਰੰਪਰਾਵਾਂ ਭਾਰਤ ਅਤੇ ਪੂਰੀ ਦੁਨੀਆ ਵਿੱਚ ਬਹੁਤ ਪ੍ਰਸਿੱਧ ਅਤੇ ਪ੍ਰਭਾਵਸ਼ਾਲੀ ਹਨ | ਰਾਜਸਥਾਨ ਪੇਂਟਿੰਗ ਵਿੱਚ ਵੱਖ-ਵੱਖ ਵਿਸ਼ੇ ਹੈ , ਜਿਵੇਂ ਕਿ ਹਿੰਦੂ ਦੇਵੀ ਦੇਵਤੇ, ਪ੍ਰੇਮੀਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼, ਦਰਬਾਰ ਵਿੱਚ ਰਾਜੇ, ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਦੇ ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼, ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਪੁਰਾਣ ਦੀਆਂ ਦ੍ਰਿਸ਼, ਅਤੇ ਕਈ ਹੋਰ |

ਮਿੱਤਰ ਅਤੇ ਮਿਤ੍ਰੇਅਮ

ਆਦਿਤਿਆ ਤਾਂ ਸੱਤ ਅੱਠ ਕੁ ਦੇਵਤੇ ਹਨ, ਜਿਨ੍ਹਾਂ ਤੋਂ ਐਥੇ ਤਿੰਨ ਲਿਖੇ ਗਏ ਹਨ, ਅਰਥਾਤ, ਮਿੱਤਰ, ਵਰਣ ‘ਤੇ ਅਰਯਮਨ | ਮਿੱਤਰ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਦਾ ਮੁੱਖ ਕੰਮ ਇਹ ਹੈ ਕਿ ਉਸ ਨੇ ਲੋਕਾਂ ਵਿਚਕਾਰ ਸਮਝੌਤਾ ‘ਤੇ ਸਹਿਮਤੀ ਰੱਖਣਾ ਏ | ਉਸੀ ਦੇਵਤਾ ਕਰਕੇ , ਕੋਈ ਵੀ ਸੰਧੀ ਜਾਂ ਇਕਰਾਰਨਾਮਾ ਤੋੜਿਆ ਨਹੀਂ ਜਾਵੇਗਾ |

The rage of the warrior in literature

I previously discussed how strong emotions such as grief and rage well up from a very deep place within the self, expressing themselves in ways which go beyond the usual range of human expression, and how, according to the Indian tradition, the first poetic verse utterance emerged as an expression of deep sorrow. We see this particularly in the expression of rage on the battlefield, as will be described here.

Some Indian love poetry

Human emotions such as love, anger and sorrow have a universal dimension, affecting all peoples in all times and places similarly. But emotions also perhaps have a specific way of emerging and manifesting themselves which perhaps varies according to contextual factors.