Commentary on Sri T.S. Eliot/ WAS SCIENCE & SPIRITUALITY

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Commentary on the "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot

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We shall not cease from exploration

 

Commentary: The nature of the mind is to be active, to

explore, to go where (apparently) no one has gone before.

 

And the end of all our exploring

 

Commentary: The exploring will come to an end (when the mind

sees its limit and surrenders).

 

Will be to arrive where we started

 

Commentary: It will be clear that we have not gone anywhere

other than where we already always have been.

 

And know the place for the first time.

 

Commentary: Self is always fresh, perpetually new, drinking

itself, consuming itself, Knowing It Self always as if for the first time.

 

 

Harsha

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Dear Harshaji,

 

I have added my two cents worth in parenthesis. It is not mine

actually. It is everyone's as I am quoting Eesaavaasyopanishad (from

memory and unintelligibly so):

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In advaitin, "Harsha" wrote:

Commentary on the "Four Quartets" by T.S. Eliot

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We shall not cease from exploration

 

Commentary: The nature of the mind is to be active, to

explore, to go where (apparently) no one has gone before.

 

And the end of all our exploring

 

Commentary: The exploring will come to an end (when the mind

sees its limit and surrenders).

 

Will be to arrive where we started

 

Commentary: It will be clear that we have not gone anywhere

other than where we already always have been.

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[Thadaijathi, thannaijathi, thaddoore, thadanthike, thadantharasya

sarvasya, thadusarvasyaasya baahyatha]

(My translation: That comes, That goes, That is away, That is near,

That is inside everything and That is also outside everything.)

(My comment: Space is negated. One can't help being at where one

started from! One is afterall Everywhereness!).

 

 

And know the place for the first time.

 

Commentary: Self is always fresh, perpetually new, drinking

itself, consuming itself, Knowing It Self always as if for the first

time.

 

Harsha

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Pranaams.

 

Madathil Nair