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/////////////////VI.5. UDDHAREDAATMANAATMAANAM NAATMAANAMAVASAADAYET;
ATMAIVA HYAATMANO BANDHURAATMAIVA RIPURAATMANAH.

(Krishna speaking to Arjuna)
Let a man lift himself by his own Self alone; let him not
lower himself, for this self alone is the friend of oneself
and this self alone is the enemy of oneself.

VI.6. BANDHURAATMAA'TMANASTASYA YENAATMAIVAATMANAA JITAH;
ANAATMANASTU SHATRUTWE VARTETAATMAIVA SHATRUVAT.
The self is the friend of the self for him who has conquered
himself by the Self, but to the unconquered self, this self
stands in the position of an enemy like the (external) foe.



//////////////////////paranjape also makes an interesting observation about how the
diasporic experience *transforms* the writer even as he gazes
homeward. naipaul takes it a step further in the essay in his book, A
Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling,
where he compares the writing of 3 people and the degree to which
their own observation and transformation informed their writing. in
other words gandhi would never have become the mahatma and his
Experiments with Truth would never have been born had he not gone to
South Africa. his time and work there permanently changed his way of
observing india, and in particular at the peasants and their
condition, caste and pollution and sanitation.

champa

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kismet (n) Fate; a predetermined or unavoidable destiny.


/////////////////////////History would be an excellent thing if only it were true.
--Leo Tolstoy



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