On Population And Dharma

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT The ordinary wisdom in many circles is that humanity suffers from overcrowding of living spaces. The view is widespread. The so-called condition of overcrowding is employed to explain many social and…

Taxonomy

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Patristic Christianity is two thirds of a religion, and not more. Dualism and Qualified Non-Dualism are grasped and promoted by Patristic Christianity but Non-Dualism is not. In effect, we have from…

Talents

Some years ago, Anson Stokes, the Episcopal Bishop of Boston, put the arm on his fellow New Englander, Trevor Hoy, for a substantial donation to his seminary fund. Trevor was a prominent member of the Episcopal Diocese of California and well-regarded in Berkeley and down the coast for relevant conferences exploring the lineaments of church

Ritual

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Actually, I am serious, as you are aware that I am. Christian Science is full of ritual formulae. Science and Health is a most carefully wrought, meticulously scripted work. MBE has…

Theology of the Mass – A Coup d’œil

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Second set of comments on a new Anglican Mass, plus, response to demand for verification of Pythagorean background of Christian theological formation. I am deeply saddened, as you must be also,…

A View of the Field

RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, DIAGNOSIS The salient phenomenon today, world-wide, is that lawyers (Kshatriyas) are attempting to usurp the Magisterium from clergy (Brahmins). Rulers are attempting to confiscate the responsibility of teachers and doctors. Underneath all other activities, this is the operational character of the times.…

Definition

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT My native context is neither the Church, the Synagogue, nor the Temple. It is the Hermitage. The Church, the Synagogue, and the Temple are defined by an assertion. The Hermitage, by an aspiration.…

The Story Of Adwaitha Hermitage

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT This Statement Composed 1992 And 2001 Adwaitha Hermitage is a Residence of Sanathana Dharma. The evolution of Adwaitha Hermitage has sprung from a Franciscan logos or germ.  It began in the

Philosophy of Religion / Response Regarding Charles Sanders Peirce

  Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is a Transcendentalist, line of Thoreau/Longfellow/Emerson, etc. He’s not a ‘Pragmatist’ as that term is generally used. He is far ahead of James and Dewey, who…

Evangelism

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Refit to situation where Christianity is taken by Christians as one among several equally valid and viable religions, where faith in Allah, for example, is recognized for being as potentially salvation-producing…

Epigrams V

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT No Nominalist system recognizes much less copes with the phenomenon of delusion. Every Realist system recognizes and more or less appropriately copes with the phenomenon of delusion.   To expand cosmology…

Epigrams IV

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT   Christianity has at its core an unmitigated horror. Christianity is a Saivite religion.   Diversity is in non-essentials. With respect to essentials, there is no diversity.   Incarnation Theology means that only…

Epigrams III

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT All that is embodied embodies all.   India, United States, Russia, Germany and Japan are going to destroy the Chinese capacity for belligerence so that the Chinese can be taught.  …

Epigrams II

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT   The origin and the termination of the species (a.k.a. genetic variation) is in the genomes, not in the history; in the structure, not in the activity; in the nature, not…

Hymns Great and Small / Plus, A Most Abbreviated Sanskrit Primer

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In the Name of The Father, and of The Son and of The Holy Spirit, Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT For Irby Henry J. Gauntlett, 1858 (To the rhythm in The Hymnal 1940, ECUSA) OM Sai Rama OM Sai Baba OM Sai Krishna OM Sai Ram Jai Jai Jesus Jai Kasturi…

Epigrams I

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT What I am is what is wanted. What I do is part of what I am. Therefore what I do is what is wanted.   Western Civilization is a species of Vedic Culture,…