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Aurobindo's ashram (a retreat for disciples of a religious leader) is only one of many in mystic-minded India. Best known is Mohandas Gandhi's. Much more worldly, and very pro-British is Aurobindo's, which he set up 33 years ago. There Margaret Wilson responds to the name Dishta, meaning in Sanskrit the discovery of the divine self...
...generation that grew up to be the fathers of this graduating class, mystic faith reached a crazy high during the war years, when they were still young. Boys of twenty were found dead in France with prayer books in their pockets. But those who came back left the prayer books behind them and had nothing to read to the children they hardly knew. It was not easy to teach religion and idealism from memory, so what their sons learned was something less than the absolute beliefs that Victorian generations had never thought to question...
...first lieutenant's commission in the Twentieth." Holmes returned the copy of Leviathan, went off to war and a wound in the throat at Antietam. "As he grew older," writes Biddle, "the thought of war came to mean ... a selfless surrender of individual comfort and ambition to some mystic faith that drew brave men together." Said Holmes in a Memorial Day address...
...Life is painting a picture, not doing a sum. . . . Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal. . . . There rises a mystic spiritual tone that gives meaning to the whole...
...gets its performance under "Gone With the Wind" length, the German producers of "The Brothers Karamazov" are forced to omit huge chunks of plot. The entire tale of Aliosha, dreamy near-mystic and perhaps the hero of the novel, is scrapped to make way for the study of Dmitri Karamazov, his love Grushenka, and the intricacies of another brutal murder. The German production is good so far as it goes, but Dostoevsky fans will weep at the wholesale butchery of the novel. Anna Sten, as the seductive Grushenka, contributes a fine performance...