…the trouble. It is by thinking that we divide the world into separate events and separate things. That is calculus. And Ananda Kumaraswamy once described the life of the liberated being as a perpetual, uncalculated life in the present. And you say, wow I…

…I'm going to invite another absent guest to my program. This guest absent not so much in space as in time: the late Ananda Kumaraswamy, sometime a research fellow at the Boston Museum of fine arts and one of the most celebrated scholars and sages of the…

…tricks of seduction and the shyness of the spiritual allegory and of the purely human experience. My absent guest tonight was Ananda Kumaraswamy, and I've been reading to you from his essay sahaja, the sanskrit word approximately translatable as spontaneity.

…he can't say to a person: all right you should die. I think it's a good thing. A very wise man once said this was Ananda Kumaraswamy: I would rather die ten years too early. Than ten minutes too late. There's a time to die and dying should be one of…

…birth and should be a matter for rejoicing because death is the symbol of the liberation. There is a wonderful saying that Ananda Kumaraswamy used to quote. I pray that death will not come and find me still unannihilate. In other words that man dies…

…in regard to Indian Philosophy and Indian Culture, I would particularly recommend this. It's called the dance of shiva by Ananda Kumaraswamy. I think you can probably see the name clearly again it's another complex Indian name. Ananda Kumaraswamy was for…

…the dance of shiva by Ananda Kumaraswamy. I think you can probably see the name clearly again it's another complex Indian name. Ananda Kumaraswamy was for many years a research fellow at the Boston Museum of fine arts a man of astounding learning. He knew…