Audio and transcript of a talk by Prof. Mangesh V Nadkarni
"The only creature who is tragic is man. He has lost the innocence of the beasts, he is yet to achieve the perfection of gods. Mind is what has made the human enterprise tragic. "
I am going to tell you a story. ...I heard it from Alexandra David-Neel who, as you probably know, is a well-known Buddhist, especially as she was the first European woman to enter Lhasa.
It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns — and it is so because it is into the deep inconscience of material life that we have to bring, not an intermediate glimmer, but the full glory of the divine Light.
But it is vain and idle to believe that the Kingdom of Heaven can be reproduced outside by an act of parliament as long as we have not discovered the kingdom of Heaven within us.