This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Ge Hong, courtesy name Zhichuan, aka Gě Hóng and Ko Hung
When one peels away dark clouds, one exposes the sun; as a result, the ten thousand things cannot hide their shapes.
Benevolence | Regard | Trustworthiness |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Just as a painting does not stand without a support, or a shadow cannot exist without a stake and the like, so too the cognitive apparatus cannot subsist without a support, without specific particles.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
The constituents (gunas) consist in the pleasant, the painful and the delusive; they serve the purpose of illumination, activity and restraint; they are mutually dominating, dependent, productive, cooperative and coexistent.
Nature | Perception | Self |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
The subjects treated in the seventy verses are those of the entire science of sixty themes (shashtitantra), exclusive of illustrative tales, and devoid of polemical consideration of rival doctrines.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
This is an intellectual creation, termed obstruction, infirmity, complacency and attainment. Through the disparity in influence of the gunas, its varieties are fifty.
Individual | Self | Intellect |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Through virtue there is ascent; through vice there is descent; through knowledge there is deliverance; there is bondage through the reverse.
Attainment | Rest | Self | Virtue | Virtue |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
Celestial evolution is of eight kinds; the groveling species is fivefold; the human is single and specific in form. This, in brief, is material evolution.
Self |
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
So through study of principles (tattvas) arises the ultimate, undistracted, pure knowledge that neither I am, nor is anything mine nor am I embodied.
Ishvarakrishna, aka Iśvarakṛṣṇa NULL
When separation from the body takes place and Nature ceases to act, its purpose having been fulfilled, the Self attains to absolute and final emancipation (kaivalya).
How to deal with the goodness of their loved ones? Could be fought against goodness?
Chastity | Earth | Giving | Good | Guilt | Impression | Responsibility | Self | Truth | Wrong |
However, it must be admitted that our actual knowledge of these laws is only imperfect and fragmentary, so that, actually, the belief in the existence of basic all-embracing laws in Nature also rests on a sort of faith. All the same this faith has been largely justified so far by the success of scientific research.
Sir, I love you more than words can wield the matter, dearer than eyesight, space, and liberty, beyond what can be valued, rich or rare, no less than life, with grace, health, beauty, honor; as much as child e'er loved, or father found, a love that makes breath poor and speech unable.
Behavior | Cause | Children | Contempt | Counsel | Desire | Duty | Father | Fear | Friend | Good | Grace | Heaven | Honor | Love | Marriage | Mind | Obedience | Pity | Pleasure | Right | Sacred | Time | Wife | Will | Wise | Wit | Woman | Friendship | Counsel | Friends |
Elizabeth Drew, aka Elizabeth Brenner
The inspired scribbler always has the gift for gossip in our common usage he or she can always inspire the commonplace with an uncommon flavor, and transform trivialities by some original grace or sympathy or humor or affection.
Consciousness | Meaning | Self | Writing | Propaganda |