In Dhaka, Muslims have started riots with the complicity of the police. They attacked the houses of the Hindus, raped the women and slaughtered all t… - Mircea Eliade

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In Dhaka, Muslims have started riots with the complicity of the police. They attacked the houses of the Hindus, raped the women and slaughtered all those who resisted. They burned down whole neighbourhoods under the eyes of the policemen. These only intervened when a Hindu grabbed a weapon to defend himself. In that case, they entered the house, seized the weapons and arrested the men. The Muslims were armed; they on their part did have that right. All attempts by Congress to brng them to peace have failed.

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About Mircea Eliade

Mircea Eliade (13 March 1907 {O.S. 28 February} – 22 April 1986) was a Romanian historian of religion, fiction writer, philosopher, and professor at the University of Chicago. His most enduring and influential contribution to religious studies was possibly his theory of Eternal Return, which holds that myths and rituals do not simply record or imitate hierophanies, but, at least to the minds of the religious, actually participate in them.

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It is known that for the Greeks delta was a symbol for woman. The Pythagoreans regarded the triangle as the arche geneseoas because of its perfect form and because it represented the archetype of universal fertility. A similar symbolism for the triangle is to be found in India.

Aş suferi mai mult dacă aş fi respins. Iar eu vreau să înving întotdeauna. De aceea mă arăt retras, dispreţuitor. Nădăjduiesc într-un timp când munca mă va înălţa destul ca să atrag privirile. Suferinţele mele - până atunci - nu le va cunoaşte nimeni.

Inainte chiar de a afla vreun raspuns satisfacator, si numai prin faptul ca a fost rostita, intrebarea justa regenereaza si fertilizeaza; si nu numai fiinta omeneasca, ci intreg Cosmosul. Ghicesc in acest simbolism solidaritatea omului cu Firea intreaga; intreaga viata cosmica sufera si se ofileste prin nepasarea omului fata de problemele centrale. Uitand sa ne punem intrebarea justa, pierzandu-ne timpul cu futilitati sau intrebari frivole, ne omoram nu numai pe noi, ci omoram prin moarte lenta si sterilizare o particica din Cosmos. As putea merge si mai departe. As putea presupune ca oamenii continua sa traiasca sanatosi si Cosmosul isi continua ritmurile datorita exclusiv intrebarilor pe care si le pun acei cativa alesi care, asemenea lui Parsifal, patimesc pentru lenea noastra spirituala. Poate ca am deveni, peste noapte, sterpi si bolnavi daca n-ar exista, in fiecare tara si in fiecare moment istoric, anumiti oameni hotarati si luminati, care sa-si puna intrebarea justa... Si n-ar fi deloc exclus ca haosul si catastrofa in care ne pregatim sa intram si noi sa se datoreze, in ultima instanta, disparitiei acestor oameni hotarati si luminati, sau faptului ca nimeni nu se mai indreapta spre ei ca sa le puna, din nou, intrebarea justa...

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