Yesterday was the Nobel winning author Solzhenitsyn's birth anniversary.
I love these lines from one of his lectures.Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana pretty much said the same thing through his Telugu literary works.But ofcourse we brand him Brahminical and sideline him.
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I love these lines from one of his lectures.Kavi Samrat Viswanatha Satyanarayana pretty much said the same thing through his Telugu literary works.But ofcourse we brand him Brahminical and sideline him.
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Solzhenitsyn was a dissident against soviet tyranny so he was useful for cold war west. But he was also anti-west in the sense of criticising a godless materialistic civilisation. That part of him doesn't get as much attention.
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Excerpts from his lecture:
"On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.."
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"On the way from the Renaissance to our days we have enriched our experience, but we have lost the concept of a Supreme Complete Entity which used to restrain our passions and our irresponsibility.."
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"We have placed too much hope in political and social reforms, only to find out that we were being deprived of our most precious possession: our spiritual life..."
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" In the East, it is destroyed by the dealings and machinations of the ruling party. In the West, commercial interests suffocate it..."
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"This is the real crisis. The split in the world is less terrible -- The split in the world is less terrible than the similarity of the disease plaguing its main sections"
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That a disease plagues us all is lost on many of us. The cure for the disease need not be exactly the same for everyone everywhere. It can stem from their own cultural milieu.
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As Wendell Berry so poignantly put:
The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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The only true and effective "operator's manual for spaceship earth" is not a book that any human will ever write; it is hundreds of thousands of local cultures.
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I see Sanatana Dharma based way of life as a realisation of Wendell Berry's yearning above.
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