Week 3 ends
Knowing that we are weak, always start with the lord of humility and wonder: Knowing how shallow my learning is, to you, Hanuman, I pray-- Grant to me wisdom, knowledge and strength; take every blemish away
There are some overlapping ideas that come up for me as I pick up pace in the semester. The foremost is the habit of consistency, to always have a shape of things, to always have the verses within the day.
The commitment to reason and to knowledge, as a form of light to guide one, especially in times of darkness. Here is where the recent people I have been reading come to mind. First is Primo Levi, who survives a year in concentration camps, paying attention and 'thinking his way' out of the place. Second is ambedkar, who begins and remains with the commitment to reason in his work. And finally, Fredrick Douglas who refused to accept ignorance as a state and lived his way into knowlegde. It is to these three that I dedicate my first few weeks of being back in the United States.
Next, what Drybread wants me to see in my work is the whole process of the writing and thinking, of going from being a graduate student to being a scholar.