Listen "The Veiling of Reality. Rishi Sunak, William Blake and the Bhagavad Gita"
Episode Synopsis
Rishi Sunak is Britain’s first Hindu leader. His success is a conspicuous manifestation of the deep links that exist between Indian and English culture.It reaches back William Blake, an early reader of the Bhagavad Gita after it was translated into English. His angel-morphic figures and Vedantic impulses would have been developed with his reading, helping him to restore the unitive sense of reality to English Christianity, much lost after the Reformation. As Jesus tells Albion in Blake’s epic poem, Jerusalem: “I am in you and you in me, mutual in divine love."For more on King Charles and Kathleen Raine see - https://www.markvernon.com/awakening-in-a-caroline-age-king-charles-william-blake-kathleen-raine
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