Desire To Think
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Emotions and Indian music
The Sāma Veda and its place in the Indian musical tradition
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Emotions in Indian Art and Poetry
A verse and a painting on Rama’s love for Sita
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Emotions in Indian literature
… as a source of spontaneity in the Ramayana and some works of Kālidāsa
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Chance events and Indian Philosophy
Encountering reality as radically singular, unique and ineffable
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Theology and Indian Philosophy
A translation and analysis of the Nāsadīya Sūkta
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Indra as Vedic hero
Reflecting on the place of Indra in the Veda and in the Indo-European tradition
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The Cosmos in Indian Philosophy
Reflecting on the sacred fig tree as a metaphor for the cosmos
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The Self in Indian Philosophy
Reflecting on the chariot as a metaphor for the Self
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Death and the Rig Veda
King Dasharatha cremates Shravana and his aged Parents — Wikimedia Commons (B.N.Goswamy/ Gazal world) Ideas about some kind of afterlife are commonly found in all religions. In the Bhagavad Gītā, Krishna explains that those who resort to him do not get ‘punarjanma’ (rebirth in this world). A precursor to ‘punarjanma’ is the idea of ‘punarmṛtyu’ or ‘re-death’, found…
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T.S. Eliot and Indian Philosophy
T.S. Eliot — Wikimedia Commons (Octave.H) It is well-known that T.S. Eliot engaged deeply with Indian philosophy in ways which significantly influenced his worldview and his poetry. In fact,Eliot was a student of the eminent Sanskrit scholar Professor Charles Rockwell Lanman at Harvard University, and in fact Eliot’s PhD supervisor there, Josiah Royce, had also earlier learnt…
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