A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Sunday, January 17, 2016

RENE GUENON 5

Rene Guenon, Man and His Becoming According to the Vedanta (Collected Works of Rene Guenon), translated from the French by Richard C. Nicholson (Hillsdale, NY: Sophia Perennis, 1925, 2001) From "The Vital Center of the Human Being: Seat of Brahma": "Yoga . . . the intimate and essential union of the being with the Divine Principle, or, if it is preferred, with the Universal. The exact meaning of this word Yoga is in fact 'union', neither more nor less, despite the numerous interpretations, each more fanciful than the last, which orientalists and Theosophists have suggested." Id. at 30, 30.).