4 Quotes by Padma Viswanathan

We can never know more than the mind can assimilate and process, nor can we discuss any aspect of the world for which there is no language.

Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life's mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine form at Arjuna's request, Arjuna is terrified at seeing what no mortal can stand to see. But the end to human doubt surely must also bring with it a definite, final peace.

Perhaps terror and peace became the same thing when life’s mysteries were unveiled. In the Bhagavad Gita, when Krishna reveals his divine form at Arjuna’s request, Arjuna is terrified at seeing what no mortal can stand to see. But the end to human doubt surely must also bring with it a definite, final peace.

The sound did not hide the void, but it filled it with a kind of light: nothing that would stop you from falling, but maybe stop you from being so afraid.