Observations placeholder
Bose, Sir Jagadis Chandra - Thy will be done
Identifier
021017
Type of Spiritual Experience
Background
Bose often attended Jatras (folk plays) in village fairs and which inspired him to read the great epics, Mahabharata and Ramayana. The character of Karna in Mahabharata influenced him deeply. To quote Bose:
A description of the experience
“From his (Karna’s) low caste came rejection, came every disadvantage; but he always played and fought fair! So his life, though a series of disappointments and defeats to the very end – his slaying by Arjuna– appealed to me as a boy as the greatest of triumphs.
I still think of the tournament where Arjuna had been victor, and then of Karna coming as a stranger to challenge him.
Questioned of name and birth, he replies, “I am my own ancestor! You do not ask the might Ganges from which of its many springs it comes: its own flow justifies itself, so shall my deeds me!’
Like that of my boyhood’s hero Karna, my life has been ever one of combat and must be to the last. It is not for man to complain of circumstances, but bravely to accept, to confront, and to dominate them
The source of the experience
Bose, Sir Jagadish ChandraConcepts, symbols and science items
Symbols
SacrificeScience Items
Activities and commonsteps
Activities
Suppressions
Believing in the spiritual worldCommuning with nature
LOVE
Reducing desires
Squash the big I am