Article - Death Poem: Birth And Death
A poem about birth and death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the boo...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poem: Prayer Of A Dying Man
A death poem from Isavasya Upanisha. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Death Poem: Encyclopedia - Death Poem
A death poem (辞世の句: jisei no ku) is a poem written near the time of one's own death. It is a tradition for literate persons to wr...   » Read the article

Article - Poem About Life: What Is Real Life?
A poem about life and death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book ...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poetry: What Is Real Death?
A poem about death. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Bec...   » Read the article

Article - Rebirth: A Poem On Rebirth
A poem on rebirth. The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Beco...   » Read the article

Article - Life After Death: What Becomes Of The Soul After Death
The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. We want to now the truth behind near death experiences and become...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: Soul�s Journey After Death
The soul accompanied by the chief vital air (Mukhya Prana), the sense-organs and the mind and taking with itself Avidya, good and evil ac...   » Read the article

Article - Death Poetry: Ode To Death
Death poetry! The death and dying and the life after death has always fascinated man. This is an excerpt from the book What Becomes ...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Personality And Individuality
There is a distinction between personality and individuality. Many have no clear understanding of these two terms. They get these mixed u...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Belief Of The Ancient Egyptians
The Egyptians believed in a �double� which was like a shadow of the body. This double remained as long as the body remained. The soul was...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Doctrine Of Reincarnation
Emerson, Plato, Pythagoras had perfect belief in the doctrine of reincarnation. The doctrine of reincarnation is the foundation of Hindui...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Karma And Reincarnation - Ii
The doctrine of reincarnation is accepted by the majority of mankind at the present day. It has been held as true by the mightiest Easter...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Reincarnation Is Quite True - I
Man can hardly attain perfection in one life. He has to develop his heart, intellect and hand. He has to mould his character in a perfect...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Transmigration Of Souls
The word �transmigration� means passing from one life to another. The one great and fundamental tenet of most schools of Indian Philosoph...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Theory Of Rebirth
Man can be compared to a plant. He grows and flourishes like a plant and dies in the end but not completely. The plant also grows and flo...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Reincarnation Is Quite True - Ii
Kamlesh Kumari Devi, alias Gita Murti, commenced preaching the Gita at the age of two and a half years. She was born on Tuesday, the 12th...   » Read the article

Article - Reincarnation: Reincarnation In Lower Births
Ordinarily in most cases the soul is not willing to take birth in the lower Yonis (wombs) for the salient reason that it has done good wo...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: How The Self Departs
The passage of the self from the body varies according to the number of good actions done by the Jiva and the knowledge gained by him. If...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: The Two Paths � Devayana And Pitriyana
The Uttara Marga or Devayana path or Northern path or the path of light is the path by which the Yogins go to Brahman. This path leads to...   » Read the article

Article - Resurrection And Judgement: Resurrection
Resurrection is rising again from the dead. Resurrection, judgement by God, reward or punishment are the three important tenets of Mohamm...   » Read the article

Article - Resurrection And Judgement: The Day Of Judgement
The departed soul will wait for some time. Then God will appear to judge them. Mohammed will take the office of intercessor. Then everyon...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Soul After Death According To Zoroastrianism
After death the soul goes to the intermediate world (Hamistaken) which corresponds to Purgatory of Christianity. The soul of the righteou...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: What Does The Gita Say On Life After Death
The Blessed Lord said: �Many births have been left behind by Me and by thee, O Arjuna, I know them all, but thou knowest not thine, O Par...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Death And After According To The Yogavasishta
Lila said: �Tell me in short, Goddess Sarasvati, something more with regard to death, as to whether it is happy or painful to die and wha...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Schopenhauer�s Views On The �after-death State�
Student�Tell me now, in one word, what shall I be after my death? And mind you, be clear and precise. Philosopher�All and nothing. St...   » Read the article

Article - Soul After Death: Last Thought Forms
The last thought of a man governs his future destiny. The last thought of a man determines his future birth. Lord Krishna says in the Bha...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Experience Of Pretas
According to Sage Vasishtha in the Yoga-Vasishtha a human can after death be defined to belong to one of six different levels, from the ...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Pitri Loka
Pitri Loka is also known by the name of Chandraloka, wherein the forefathers, or Pitris, live. This is also a heaven. Those who perform s...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Heaven Or Svarga
When man becomes disgusted with the world around him through miseries, sorrows, disappointments, failures, loss of property, diseases, an...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Hell Or Naraka
Hells are not imaginary fiction as ordinarily conceived of by the modern rationalistic mind. The empiricist believes only in experience o...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Karmas And Hells
There are varieties of hells that a Jiva has to experience in accordance with the Karmas which he does through sin and passion. Twenty-ni...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Asurya Loka
There is no such thing as eternal damnation or eternal hell-fire for the sinners. It cannot be. It is a theory that has long been explode...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: The Way To Yama Loka
Lord Yama, the king of justice, gives fitting punishment to the sinners. Then the cruel messengers take them to hell and torture them. Ag...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: The City Of Justice
Lord Yama is the King of justice. His city is built of diamonds and jewels. It is effulgent and impregnable. It is full of palaces and ma...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Yama Sabha
The assembly-hall of Yama, the son of Vivasvan, was built by Visvakarma. That effulgent Sabha covers an area of one hundred Yojanas. It h...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Indra Loka
The celestial Sabha of Sakra (Indra) is full of lustre and it was obtained by him as the fruit of his actions. It was made by Indra himse...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Varuna Loka
The celestial Sabha of Varuna is matchless. Its dimension is exactly like that of Yama. It is adorned with white walls and arches. It is ...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Kubera Loka
The greatly effulgent assembly-hall of Vaisravana (Kubera) is one hundred Yojanas in length and seventy Yojanas in breadth. It was built ...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Goloka
Kine form high and excellent energy. The gift of kine is highly spoken of. Those good men, who, shorn of pride, make gift of kine, are co...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: Vaikuntha Loka
In Vaikuntha all persons dwell having the form of Vishnu and propitiate Him by means of Dharma which is not prompted by the desire of any...   » Read the article

Article - Spiritualism
Death is the most common phenomenon in nature and yet the least understood fact. It is one of the most difficult problems of philosophy, ...   » Read the article

Article - Sraaddha And Prayer For The Dead: Importance Of Sraaddha Ceremony
According to the theory of transmigration, even if the individual is to take another birth immediately after his death, the performance o...   » Read the article

Article - Conquest Of Death: How Yoga Is A Way Of Conquering Death
All are terribly afraid of death. No one wants to die. Even intellectual persons who have grasped the idea that the Soul is Immortal and ...   » Read the article

Article - Conquest Of Death: What Is Death And How To Conquer It
Death is only a change of form. Death is only separation of the astral body from the physical body. Birth follows death just as wakin...   » Read the article

Article - Conquest Of Death: Seek The Immortal
Desire determines which sort of objects you will have in your next life. If you desire wealth very much you will get it in your next life...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Function Of Udana Vayu
Vayu is wind or air. Vayu is Prana or vital force. Prana moves the senses or Indriyas. Prana generates thoughts. Prana moves the body and...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Philosophy Of Flesh
The Charvakas are atheists who deny the existence of the soul after the death of the body. The materialists who worship the body as the s...   » Read the article

Article - Prana: Soul�s Journey After Death
The Jiva or the individual soul along with Pranas, the mind and the senses leaves his former body and obtains a new body. He takes with h...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: The Third Place
The Sruti says that those who do not go by means of Vidya along the path of Devayana to Brahmaloka or by means of Karma along the path of...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: Karma And Reincarnation - I
Death is the separation of the soul from the body. All the sorrow of man comes from the body. The sage has no fear of death, because he i...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: How Soul Departs After Death
At the time of death when the breathing becomes difficult the Jiva or the individual self that is in the body goes out making noises. Jus...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: The Departing Soul Compared To A King
When the king of a country pays a visit to some place within his kingdom, the leaders of the particular village anticipating the king�s a...   » Read the article

Article - Soul�s Journey After Death: Process Of Detachment
When the man is about to die, the various organs withdraw themselves into their original sources and help no more the function of the org...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Rebirth And Evolution Of Man
The question of rebirth, of life after death, has remained an enigma through the ages. Human knowledge is hardly capable of answering all...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Death Is Not The End Of Life
The individual souls or Jivas build various bodies to display their activities and gain experience from this world. They enter the bodies...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Process Of Death
Vasishtha says in the Yoga-Vasishtha: �When on account of the diseases of the body its Nadis lose their vigour and thus become unabl...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Dissolution Of Elements At Death
This physical body is composed of five great elements or the Mahabhutas, namely, earth, water, fire, air and ether. The Devas or gods are...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: The Phenomenon Of Death
Death is separation of the soul from the physical body. Death becomes the starting point of a new and better life. Death does not end you...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Signs Of Death
It is very difficult to find out the real signs of death. Stoppage of the heart-beat, stoppage of the pulse or breathing are not the actu...   » Read the article

Article - Lokas Or Planes: The Stay In Supra-physical Planes Between Death And Rebirth
People wish to know the exact period that elapses from the time of leaving the body and being born again. Does the soul take a new body i...   » Read the article

Article - What Is Death?: Swoon, Sleep, Death
A man lying in a swoon cannot be said to be awake because he does not perceive external objects by means of his senses. The man who retur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lament: Encyclopedia - Lament
A lament or dirge is a song or poem expressing grief or regret. Many of the oldest and most lasting poems in human history have been lame...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia - Orpheus
In Greek legend, Orpheus was the chief representative of the arts of song and the lyre, and of great importance in the religious history ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa
Kālidāsa (कालिदास) is arguably India's greatest Sanskrit poet and dramatist, his title Kavikulaguru ('Preceptor of All P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Later Poems And Death
In 1920 Gumilyov co-founded the All-Russia Union of Writers. Gumilyov made no secret of his anti-communist views. He also crossed himself...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edvard Munch: Encyclopedia Ii - Edvard Munch - Frieze Of Life — A Poem About Life Love And Death
In December 1893, Unter den Linden in Berlin held an exhibition of Munch's work, showing, among other pieces, six paintings entitled Stud...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - War Experience
When the WWI started, Gumilyov rushed to Russia and enthusiastically joined a corps of elite cavalry. For his bravery he was invested wit...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Guild Of Poets
In 1910, Gumilyov fell under the spell of the Symbolist poet and philosopher Vyacheslav Ivanov and absorbed his views on poetry at the ev...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nikolay Gumilyov: Encyclopedia Ii - Nikolay Gumilyov - Early Life And Poems
Nikolai was born in Kronstadt, into a family of a naval physician Stepan Yakovlevich Gumilev (1836—1920) and Anna Ivanovna L'vova (1854...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Orphic Poems And Rites
A large number of Greek religious poems in hexameter were attributed to Orpheus, as they were to similar miracle-man figures like Bakis, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - After Death; Collected Works
There is no definitive version of his collected works (or diwan); editions vary from 573 to 994 poems. In Iran, his collected works have ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Orpheus
According to a Late Antique summary of Aeschylus's lost play Bassarids, Orpheus at the end of his life disdained the worship of all gods ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edvard Munch: Encyclopedia Ii - Edvard Munch - Biography
Born on December 12th, 1863, Løten, Norway, Munch grew up in Christiania (now Oslo). He was related to painter Jacob Munch (1776 – 183...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Overview
The name Orpheus does not occur in Homer or Hesiod, but he was known in the time of Ibycus (c. 530 BC). Pindar (522—442 BC) speaks of h...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - The Post-classical Orpheus
In the Divine Comedy Dante sees the shade of Orpheus along with those of numerous other "virtuous pagans" in Limbo. This story of Orpheus...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - Life
Very little credible information is known about Hafez's life, particularly its early part - there is a great deal of more or less mythica...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - One Of His Poems
Without the beloved’s face, the rose is not pleasant. Without wine, spring is not pleasant. The border of the sward and the air of the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Orpheus: Encyclopedia Ii - Orpheus - Death Of Eurydice
But the most famous story in which he figures is that of his wife Eurydice. Eurydice is sometimes known as Agriope. While fleeing from Ar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Hafez: Encyclopedia Ii - Hafez - After Death; Influence
Not much acclaimed in his own day and often exposed to the reproaches of orthodoxy, he greatly influenced subsequent Persian poets, and l...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Poems
In addition to his plays, Kalidasa wrote two surviving epic poems Raghuvamsha (Dynasty of Raghu) and Kumarasambhava (Birth of the War God...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Death
As in life he is a mystery at its end. Legend has it that he was murdered by a courtesan in Sri Lanka during the reign of Kumaradasa. But...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Plays
Three famous plays written by Kalidasa are Mālavikāgnimitra (Mālavikā and Agnimitra), Vikramuurvashiiya (Pertaining to Vikrama and Ur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - The Date Of Kalidasa
The exact dates of Kalidasa's life are disputed. These range from the 1st century BC to the 5th Century AD. Kalidasa's play Mālavikāgn...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jens Bjørneboe: Encyclopedia Ii - Jens Bjørneboe - Death And Legacy
After having struggled with depression and alcoholism for a long time, he committed suicide on May 9th, 1976. Bjorneboe was described in ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kālidāsa: Encyclopedia Ii - Kālidāsa - His Life
Not much is known about Kalidasa's personal life and background, but there are several myths and legends about it.From his works he comes...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Literary And Artistic Theory
In his essay "The Poetic Principle" Poe argued that there is no such thing as a long poem, since the ultimate purpose of art is aesthetic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Notable Works
Edgar Allan Poe - Poems. A Dream (1827) (Full Text at Wikisource) A Dream Within a Dream (1827) (Full Text at Wikisource) Dreams (1827...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Memoir - Griswold's Biography Of Edgar Allan Poe
The day Edgar Allan Poe was buried, a long obituary appeared in the New York Tribune signed "Ludwig". The piece began, "Edgar Allan Poe i...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - The Life Of Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of actress Elizabeth Arnold Hopkins Poe and actor David Poe, Jr. His father ab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Death
On October 3, 1849 Poe was found on the streets of Baltimore, delirious and "in great distress, and... in need of immediate assistance," ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Edgar Allan Poe: Encyclopedia Ii - Edgar Allan Poe - Legacy And Lore
Poe's works have had a broad influence on American and World literature (sometimes even despite those who tried to resist it), and even o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesar Rodney: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesar Rodney - Early Political Career
Under the Proprietary government, he served as Sheriff of Kent County from 1755 through 1758, and later was appointed to a series of posi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesar Rodney: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesar Rodney - American Revolution
Rodney joined Thomas McKean as a delegate to the Stamp Act Congress in 1765 and was a leader of the Delaware Committee of Correspondence....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesar Rodney: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesar Rodney - President Of Delaware
Amidst the catastrophic events following the Battle of Brandywine, and the occupation of Wilmington and Philadelphia, a 2nd General Assem...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesar Rodney: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesar Rodney - Death And Legacy
Rodney died June 25, 1784 at "Byfield," his home at Jones Neck, in St. Jones Hundred, Kent County, Delaware, and is buried there. The exa...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Caesar Rodney: Encyclopedia Ii - Caesar Rodney - Public Offices
Before 1776 elections were held on the first day of October of the year noted. Terms for members of the House of Assembly began on the tw...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Jens Bjørneboe: Encyclopedia Ii - Jens Bjørneboe - Literary Career
Bjørneboe wrote a number of socially critical novels. Among those were Ere the Cock Crows (Før Hanen Galer, 1952), Jonas (1955) and The...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James Keir Baxter: Encyclopedia Ii - James Keir Baxter - Selected Works
James Keir Baxter - Posthumously published. Runes, 1973. Two Obscene Poems, 1974 Barney Flanagan and Other Poems, read by James K. Bax...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Margaret Cavendish: Encyclopedia Ii - Margaret Cavendish - Poems And Fancies 1653
Poems and Fancies is a collection of poems, epistles and some prose written by Cavendish on a variety of themes. Topics addressed in Cav...   » Read the article