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Vote: | A child does not notice the greatness and the beauty of nature and the splendor of God in his works. |
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Vote: | But aesthetics is not religion, and the origins of religion lie somewhere completely different. They lie anyway, these roses smell too sweet and the deep roar of the breaking waves is too splendid, to do justice to such weighty matters now. |
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Vote: | Down below the broad, roaring waves of the sea break against the deep foundation of the rock. But high above the mountain, the sea, and the peaks of rock the eternal ornamentation blooms silently from the dark depths of the universe. |
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Vote: | From our balcony we can see the wonderful Bombay Harbor. Right nearby sits the proud Gateway of India, and left of that we see the mountainous island of Elephanta. |
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Vote: | Heavy pillars, carved from the rock, bear the roof. Slowly, one's eyes become accustomed to the dim light; then they can make out marvelous representations from Indian mythology carved on the walls. |
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Vote: | The middle head looks straight ahead, silent and powerful; the other two heads are shown in profile. The stillness and the majesty of the image is complete. It portrays Siva as the creator, the preserver, and the destroyer of the world, and at the same time as the savior and bestower of blessings. |
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Vote: | To see this place would truly be worth a trip to India in itself, and from the spirit of the religion that lived here one can learn more in an hour of viewing than from all the books ever written. |
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Vote: | We do not find the root of religion here. Maybe those primitives were children. But then again, listen to the children outside. They are interested in little dogs and our chocolate bonbons, in the traps with which they catch the gray-green canary birds, and in their musical tops. But they are indifferent to the divine splendor that surrounds them. |
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Vote: | We went there three days ago. Visitors climb halfway up the mountain on magnificent stone steps, until on the right side a broaddoor opens in the volcanic rock. It leads into one of the biggest cave-temples of ancient India. |
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Rudolf Otto (September 25 1869 - 6 March 1937) was an eminent German protestant theologian and scholar of comparative religion.
Life
Born in Peine near Hanover, Otto attended the Gymnasium Adreanum in Hildesheim and studied at the universities of Erlangen and Göttingen, from where he received both his doctorate (with a dissertation on Luther) and habilitation on Kant. In 1906, he became extraordinary professor (see professor), and in 1910 he received an honorary doctorate from the University of Giessen. In 1915, he became ordinary professor at the University of Breslau, and in 1917, at the University of Marburg's Divinity School, then one of the most famous Protestant seminaries in the world. Although he received several other calls, he remained in Marburg for the rest of his life. He retired in 1929 and died eight years later, probably as a consequence from a malaria infection he had caught on one of his many expeditions. He is buried on Marburg cemetery.
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