[3pm] Daily trivia: Shanti
Feb. 6th, 2011 01:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
piggymouseI guess not many of you know that the Sanscrit word shanti, meaning “the ultimate Peace” or “the Peace which passeth understanding”, besides being, uttered thrice, a climactic ending to T.S. Eliot's seminal poem The Waste Land, also closes the canonical studio version of Frank Zappa's Cosmik Debris, a piece advocating an utmost caution when indulging into obscure Eastern spiritual practices.
