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Friedrich Nietzsche, the monk with a big mustache, who died of syphilis was one of the most influential and famous philosopher from the 19th century. His ideas were revolutionary. And unacceptable. He was despised by many and loved by few. But there is no doubt that he was one of the best existential philosopher. Thus Spake Zarathustra is the only fictional book written by Nietzsche. It was his magnum opus. A book for all and none. Nietzsche explains to us how there is an eternal recurrence of the same thing.  The book has borrowed the imagery from Plato's "The Allegory of the Cave' from Republic. Nietzsche was not particularly a fan of Plato. But when we read his works we can know that he was influenced by him. Plato explains that an enlightened thinker is in a gradual struggle like a man who is struggling to free himself of the illusions in an underground cave. Who learns that once he ascends to the world above and views things in the daylight, he discovered...

During the 17th century, Rene Descartes wrote a very beautiful book called Meditations of First Philosophy. He rejected all his previously pre-convinced belief system. And started a journey of pure reason. Descartes is a rationalist.  The book is divided into 6 meditations (parts). Each meditation builds a way for another meditation. He wrote the book on French. Which was not normal at that time. Books used to be written in Latin. But Descartes wanted to reach a larger audience. Hence he used French. Because people speak it. They will understand it. Descartes did not accept easy traditional answers, but he himself started his internal journey to find reason behind logics. And logics behind reasons.  The first meditation starts by doubting what is real. Science requires truth. Not a truth that works in percentage. But an absolute truth. Descartes rejects everything that comes under the circumference of doubt. He doesn't need to go on rejecting every thou...

A book written while Joyce was sinking. That's what Carl Jung tells about Finnegans Wake. Jung deduced that Joyce's works come as a process of unconscious exploration. The book is an experimentation of language that Joyce carried out for 17 long years. It's a bewildering book. Rarely we read such a gem. Because it's incomparable to any other book. Just like Joyce's Ulysses. Even the harshest critique would have nothing to say about it. If they do, well they are critique. Finnegans Wake remains a pinnacle of linguistic achievement in English.  What makes Finnegans Wake so special? The answer is simple. It's that book, that is everything. For a reader, it's like jumping into the Rabbit Hole that was once jumped by Alice. Finnegans Wake is a wonderland. It's a novel, a myth, a poem and a riddle. It's the dreamspeak of Joyce. Joseph Campbell famously said that 'If our society should go to smash tomorrow (which, as Joyce implies, it may) ...

Hermes Trismegistus was the first Egyptian Philosopher. He was the founder and initiator of ancient mystery schools. He is said to have written The Book of Thoth, Emerald Tablets and The Divine Pymander. He was the master of all from medicine, chemistry, law, art, arc, music, rhetoric, magic, philosophy, geography, mathematics (esp. geometry), anatomy, and oratory. Because of his extensive wisdom and mysteries, he was later considered amongst the Egyptian Pantheon.  His wisdom largely correlates with the Vedas, Kabbalah, Nordic and many other world culture and religions. A lot of mysteries surrounds Hermes Trismegistus. Hermes is called the 'Thrice Greatest', the greatest of all philosophers, the greatest of all priests and the greatest of all kings. In the Islamic tradition, Sayyid Ahmed Amiruddin, a teacher of the Baha-ud-Din Naqshband Bukhari and Abdul-Qadir Gilani Sufi schools,  has pointed out that Hermes Trismegistus has a major place i...

Dream in sanskrit is called Swapna (Svapna). It is a stage at which the human experiences all his senses only through his mind. This stage of dream is called 'Taijasa'. The consciousness is divided into three stages. The first stage is the 'Vishva', the waking stage of gross body (sthula sarira). The second stage is called 'Taijasa', the dream stage of the subtle body (sukshma sarira). And the third stage is called the 'Prajna', the deep sleep consciousness which is the experience of the brahman.  Dreaming is a weird phenomenon.  We close our eyes and go into a temporary hibernation which is called sleep. And in that sleep we experiences various things which are absurd and unrelated. A person while in dream reaches the top of everest, without even knowing what everest looks like. Dreaming the experiences is a thought away. It's like googling certain things and reaching there mentally. And experiencing that place with our senses. We fee...

The human body is one of the most universal, most beautiful and most holy of all symbols. The man is the mini-universe, and the universe is the grand man.  A human being is only alive through his senses. And his senses are the output of what the sense organs receives. These organs are the foundation of his life process. Imagine a life without the sense of touch or vision, or any of those one sense criterion. A human would be incomplete. In many ways we are the materialization of the information that our senses receives. The sense is not just of the sensory organs, but subtle internal sense perception that are stored in the subconscious of human mind. For example: the sense of balance, the sense of time, the sense of movement, the sense of being.  Various higher senses remain dormant in our being. These senses are also the collection of memories that are passed down generations on DNA, atmosphere, the water, and even the space. An attraction and repulsion of the ...

ॐ श्री ॐ Devi Mahatmya or Durga Saptasati is one of the most beautiful book in Sanatana Dharma, which explains the nature of life and divinity in the form of Devi. It is the foundation of Shakta Tradition. The texts define life in a way no other vedic tradition can. It's an epitome of perfection if approached and understood correctly. We can either understand the book as an jungle of words, or grab the essence and mysteries behind it. The wisdom of Devi Mahatmya is revealed according to the wisdom of reader.  The book describes the infinite as mother. In the vedic time it was believed that the ruler of the all pervading existence is the compassionate mother. It's unlike Judeo, Christian or the Islamic view, where the all pervading one is a father figure. The understanding of divinity as a force of Devi, Durga, Mother is not just a religious understanding. But it's an practical view of life and the universe.  During the inception of civilization, the ...