Tag: Maya

  • Saturday’s Poem

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    Lips Long Since Returned to Forest Mulch The Maya wrote their concept of zero as a resting oval with small curved lines, one on top two at the bottom, coming together in points at either end. Three shorter lines rise within like eyelashes or tiny sails. The glyph is a leaf, a seed, an eye…

  • Sunday Prayer

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    In honor of New Delhi’s recently held Bhakti poetry presentation, I am devoting this week’s Sunday Prayer to three legendary poets, Tulsidas, Surdas and Kabir Das: The great Bhakti movement swept through Central and Northern India during the 14-17th centuries.  It was initiated by a loosely associated group of teachers or sants. Ramananda, Ravids, Srimanta Sankardeva,…

  • Merging of Science and Spirituality

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    In an article in The New India Express, Swahilya Shambhavi reflects on the merging of science and spirituality: Though the borders of science are closely merging into spirituality when it comes to subjects such as quantum physics, which tells us that each time someone observes this universe, the whole pattern changes. That is what Vedanta…