SOME RANDOM THOUGHTS
1.
Today,
India as also other countries, are celebrating the ‘Festival of Lights’. It is
an auspicious day, a day of greeting each other, offering gifts and also
blessings for happiness and material prosperity.
There will be light in every home. In India a sacred city
called Ayodhya has been illuminated with thirty lakhs earthen lamps.
However, this night of illumination with such a huge number
of earthly lamps is a temporary phenomenon. It will not fill the hearts of
celebrators with unending light till the next year’s similar celebration. That
requires the development of spiritual light which refuses to fade away.
2.
Obstinate
are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I
want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. ….The shroud that covers me is a
shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love.-----Indian poet and polymath Rabindranath
Tagore.
3.
Values
have natural and logical origins. They are interdependent and interrelated in
logical, hierarchal systems. These systems, and the perturbations thereof,
ought to be subject to study and analysis and perhaps prediction and even some experimentation
on a model basis these days, with computer assistance.
4.
Science
tells us free will is just an illusion and gives us, instead, casual
determinism.
5.
Science
can be accused of having deprived the thinking man of his Father in heaven,
along with heaven itself.
6.
Remember,
no men are strange, no countries foreign
Beneath all uniforms, a single body breathes
Like ours; the land our brothers walk upon
Is earth like this, in which we all shall lie.
They, too, aware of sun and air and water,
Are fed by peaceful harvests, by war’s long winter starv’s.
Their hands are ours, and in their lines we read
A labour not different from our own.----The English poet James Kirkup.
7.
It
is a shameful thing to be weary of inquiry when what we search for is
excellent.
8.
Unstained
thoughts do seldom dream an evil. ---English
poet, playwright, and actor William Shakespeare (1564-1616).
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G. R. Kanwal
8 November 2026
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