On Sri Chinmoy's Sunlit Path - Lexicon

Lexicon: The whole kit and kaboodle

Priyadarshan — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 13:20:01 +0000

My dear friend Bishwas taught me once a very good locution: The whole kit and kaboodle.

I wanted to use it today, but forgot how to spell it. So here is a short page with its etymology, just in case you need to use it as well. It is a very nice idiom!

On Sri Chinmoy's splendid use of nominal compounds - tatpuruṣa

Priyadarshan — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 11:25:25 +0000

Sri Chinmoy's use of compounds -- the wonderful way he conveys new and richer meaning from the union of two, three, four, even five words -- possibly derives from the Sanskrit use of the nominal compound called tatpuruṣa (तत्पुरुष).

Italian word of the day: acribìa

Priyadarshan — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 09:08:42 +0000

<a-cri-bì-a> s.f.

   ~ Precisione meticolosa; rigore critico.

Dal gr. akríbeia ‘precisione’ | 1841

The russian Bylina

Priyadarshan — Wed, 01 Aug 2007 14:40:26 +0000

Bylina (Russian: были́на) is a traditional epic, heroic narrative poetry of early East Slavs of Kievan Rus, the tradition continued in Russia and Ukraine.

Bylina comes from the Russian "byl'" (быль), a word which signifies a story of real events, as opposed to a fictional one and a cognate of the English verb to be.

Bylinas are kind of poetry without rhyme (blank verse), but with a characteristic rhythm, a kind of free verse. Most of bylinas were preserved in northern regions of Russia, and their style was imitated by several famous Russian poets.

When metal is molten it can be poured into any vessel

Priyadarshan — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 11:23:43 +0000

From The Lunatic At Large,

by Clouston, J. Storer (1905)

Selflessness - Abnegazione

Priyadarshan — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:29:37 +0000

Finally I found the best translation for the word Selflessness