Shoka - sorrow
May 9, 2007
“Only when men can wrap themselves
with the sky as if it were a simple skin,
only then will there be an end of sorrow
without acknowledging God.”
- Shvetasvatara Upanishad
This quote comes from a chapter in “The Vedic Experience” by Raimundo Panikkar. In his commentary he says, “Evil, suffering, and sorrow have no why, because if we could really know the why of them - and not only the how - we would explain them away.”