The Bhagavad Gita

by Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa

John Donne, which deserve to be read now with a fresh eye as not merely great rhetoric but a faithful representation of reality: No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main; if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were; any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls, it tolls for thee.