Dr. Jai Maharaj
2015-02-23 20:52:47 UTC
Hindu Wisdom
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Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, poet,
social critic and author of many books, including Seeds
of Contemplation, Life and Holiness, Mystics and Zen
Masters.
Merton, in his book Thoughts on the East talks about the
living importance of the Bhagavad-Gita:
"It brings to the West a salutary reminder that our
highly activistic and one-sided culture is faced with a
crisis that may end in self-destruction because it lacks
the inner depth of an authentic metaphysical
consciousness. Without such depth, our moral and
political protestations are just so verbiage. If, in the
West, God can no longer be experienced as other than
"dead", it is because of an inner split and self-
alienation which have characterized the Western mind in
its single-minded dedication to only the half of life:
that which is exterior, objective and quantitative."
(Source: unknown).
Hindu Wisdom
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Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
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http://hinduwisdom.info
Thomas Merton (1915-1968) was a Trappist monk, poet,
social critic and author of many books, including Seeds
of Contemplation, Life and Holiness, Mystics and Zen
Masters.
Merton, in his book Thoughts on the East talks about the
living importance of the Bhagavad-Gita:
"It brings to the West a salutary reminder that our
highly activistic and one-sided culture is faced with a
crisis that may end in self-destruction because it lacks
the inner depth of an authentic metaphysical
consciousness. Without such depth, our moral and
political protestations are just so verbiage. If, in the
West, God can no longer be experienced as other than
"dead", it is because of an inner split and self-
alienation which have characterized the Western mind in
its single-minded dedication to only the half of life:
that which is exterior, objective and quantitative."
(Source: unknown).
Hindu Wisdom
http://hinduwisdom.info
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj