Word: vedanta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course the best descriptions of transcendent states is not necessarily either contemporary or western. D. T. SUZUKI's essays on Satori, the poetry of VEDANTA, the Bhagavad Gita, CHRIST's Sermon on the Mount, all put into word what is ultimately wordless, ineffable, breathtaking, transcendent, God-knowing...
...seems to be Isherwood's intention to show the spirit of Vedanta triumphant against such corruption, but it is the evil Patrick who runs away with the book. Much of the story is told through his letters home. They all tell the same facts, but each is satanically slanted to fit in with the several views of him self that Patrick wants to cultivate: the dutiful son, the weak but loving husband, the homosexual friend in power. The letters also give Isherwood a chance to poke fun at Olde England in parodies ("This brassy tea, this wooden toast, these...
...Rose, Rose, Roses." To the uninitiated, the Self-Realization Fellowship looks like the religious counterpart of mild curry - a bit of India adapted to Western tastes. Members adopt Indian names upon joining the sect, profess belief in such Hindu concepts as reincarnation. But like Bahai, Subud, Unity, the highbrowish Vedanta Society, and a number of other religious groups, the Self-Realization Fellowship is a syncretic faith, combining ingredients of both Eastern and Western religions. The Fellowship teaches that there is a common truth behind all religious experience, and the members revere both the Bible and the Bhagavad Gita. Fellowship doctrine...
...unsuccessful novel called The World in the Evening followed in 1954. But the elegant dactyls remained on the literary scene. Their possessor had moved to Southern California in 1939. There he taught, wrote film scripts that seldom saw celluloid, and set aside left-wing politics to dabble in Vedanta-living, as Alfred Kazin once remarked acidly, "by the River Ganges where it flows into the Hollywood desert...