Short Takes, AUG98-NOV99

Chaitanya Jyothi Museum Opening, 2000 RAMANAM In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti.  Amen. Countrymen, ORBIS NON SUFFICIT SOLUS DEUS SUFFICIT Another thought on this “where does the Kshatriya spirit go” during Kali Yuga?”  The generic and most important answer is that it goes where everything good goes, namely, into the monastery, which is…

Electricity And Man-Made Cyberspace

An observation on the centrality of electricity to the existence of, by implication, man-made cyberspace we call internet. There is, of course, natural cyberspace, what we ordinarily call the universe, which also is based on electricity. But this natural cyberspace is more persistent than the internet — and we should note that man is as…

Tillich On War

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 Tillich no doubt talks about Christian soldiers somewhere — he was one! WWI German Army Chaplain — but I do not know where. He mentions Templars in The History of Christian…

On The Justification Of War

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 In Honor of Our Fallen Army Special Operations Soldiers and Navy SEALs The notion of a just war is discussed throughout Christian theological history and most theologians assert that there is…

The Solar Dynasty

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 On the subject of India and USA, I want to mention a little history that I find enlightening and cheering. The summary is that USA is, as Swami said, member of…