How to Excel in Mathematics

There is no royal road to Mathematics. Mathematicians, like poets, cannot be made but they are born. Still I have firm conviction that the following guiding principles and cautions, if strictly observed, shall convert Mathematics from a cold, unsociable stranger with...

Puran

When I am pure I shall have solved the mystery of life, I shall be sure I am in Truth and Truth abides in me, I shall be safe and wholly free When I am pure. No jealousy, no fear; I’m the dearest of the dear, No sin, no sorrow: No past, no morrow; No rival, no foe, No...

To Rama

Still ever still with Thee I rest in a peaceful calm, On the world’s troubled stormy tea I float like a bird in the dawn. Ever at rest in infinite Love While the waves do surge and toss Knowing full well that in Thee I move, And never more can be lost. Thee in...

Yuzuf to Zuleikha

Not love thee!—ah! How much I loved. Long absent, years of grief have proved. But I would not passion’s victim be, And turned from sin, but not from thee. My love was pure, no plant of earth From my rapt being sprung to birth: I loved as angels might adore, And...