Recently finished reading a slim booklet based on a series of lectures given in 1989 by K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar titled 'The Man of Letters and The Doomsday Clock'. The thing that I found interesting is that while the words from west presented on this subject had all kind of emotions like indignation, guilt and almost paranoidal fear, the only corresponding Indian voice on the subjects offered is that of Sri Aurobindo. And lines from his poem 'A Dream of Surreal Science' kind of sums his opinion on the subject: "Thus wagged on the surreal world till A scientist played with atoms and blew out The universe before God had time to shout" It seems that while writers in west people were almost loosing their mind thinking about the bomb, mystics in India were predicting doom that was in any case was foretold. While the influence of Aurobindo on Iyengar is known, still it all sounds dubious and all these words m...
