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SHORT TAKES
The Mystic Eye
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev is certainly an unusual spiritual guru who does not want "to make spirituality into a bundle of symbols". He would rather concentrate on making spirituality a practicable concept, something that one should be able to understand rationally and benefit from its application. Although, in this volume, written in interview format, Sadhguru deals with subjects like after-life, enlightenment and God, one finds his discourse on Dhyanalinga quite absorbing. Pointing out that the whole aspect of Shiva and Shakti is about the duality of life, he avers that our sense organs enhance this duality, which, in turn, is the source of all pleasure and pain in the world.
History is more than a totality of all past events. It is an enumeration as well as informed interpretation of such events. This slim volume has tried to enumerate various exploitations, threats and betrayals experienced by the country. While there is some truth in his claim that the British replaced India’s indigenous industry and agricultural practices with their own, Singh’s contention that they "carried the secrets to develop their own agriculture and industry" does not bear scrutiny. Colonialism was one of the byproducts of the Industrial Revolution in Europe. The industrial revolution was fuelled by raw materials and labour extorted from colonies like India, but knowledge inputs were certainly occidental. The author often gets emotional and resorts to unsubstantiated magniloquence.
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SPIRITUALISM,
as a concept, is dynamic enough to include both the conformist and the
heretic. So, you can be spiritual without being religious.
India
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