Comments on: Lost Loves: Arshia Sattar http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/lost-loves-arshia-sattar/ A Bilingual, Bimonthly Magazine / द्विभाषी, द्विमासिक पत्रिका Sun, 14 Mar 2010 06:29:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: vivek iyer http://pratilipi.in/2009/10/lost-loves-arshia-sattar/#comment-1572 vivek iyer Sat, 17 Oct 2009 14:03:55 +0000 http://pratilipi.in/?p=4390#comment-1572 'While Rama chooses to place his love in the penumbra of his luminous public life, Sita chooses to place her love squarely in the glare of Rama’s shining glory. As it turns out, neither the shadowed love nor the illuminated one was able to survive." Beautifully written. On the other hand, if the theme of the Ramayana is love-in-separation with the mystical truth arrived at being that the viyogini attains greater powers of mental concentration than the yogi, then we get a reading similar to the Lailah-Majnoon or other Hubb al Udhri traditions- mutatis mutandis, of course. Clearly Rama woul ‘While Rama chooses to place his love in the penumbra of his luminous public life, Sita chooses to place her love squarely in the glare of Rama’s shining glory. As it turns out, neither the shadowed love nor the illuminated one was able to survive.”

Beautifully written.

On the other hand, if the theme of the Ramayana is love-in-separation with the mystical truth arrived at being that the viyogini attains greater powers of mental concentration than the yogi, then we get a reading similar to the Lailah-Majnoon or other Hubb al Udhri traditions- mutatis mutandis, of course.

Clearly Rama woul

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