Yesterday I was reading an autobiographic nursery rhyme by G.M. Hopkins and found it to be uncannily siamese to that of the Hindu political theory of Mortification and Renunciation as a system to come through to holy being.
Hopkins' poem, The Habit of Perfection was unexcitable in 1866, the same twelvemonth he was shortly after accepted into the Catholic Church. He consideration it fit to renounce himself the earthly pleasures calculable from the senses in proclaim to realize flawlessness in God's peep.
Hopkins chooses spiritual Silence and invokes it to intrigue his ears near its music. He afterwards asks the jaws to remain dumb, since they go silver only by silent entry to God. He also asks the view to hang around shut, because this unsocial enables them to see the uncreated blessed airy. Normal eyesight, on the contrary, remainder bound; surprised and vague by the swirling host of things. Likewise, he asks the palate, wherein is keep all the gourmet's pleasures, not to hunger for alcoholic beverage for souse the palate, because in divine fasts even cans and crusts are equally bonbon and new-made as the intoxicant itself.
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Further, the rhymester tells the nostrils that while their average bodily function is washed-out on the boosting and reparation of pride, they would take pleasure in by far the scent curled up from incense- pose censers in the internal sanctum sanctorum of the house of worship. He too tells the safekeeping that seek to quality the kind-heartedness of flowers and the feet that want to cognisance the spongelike ductile grass, that the feet will higher decide on to travel the gold-paved walk of heaven, and the hands will more whip the sacred Host from the tabernacle and proffer the sacrament at the Mass.
Lastly, to utter the modus operandi of perfection the writer proposes to Poverty to be his bride, and at the marriage-feast he will give his relative near refulgent albescent clothes, evocative of purity, similar lilies of the tract which shall be neither awkward nor spun.
The Habit of Perfection refers not single to the white robe ("habit") that symbolizes perfection, but as well to the steadfast disciplined movement of perfection by renouncing and transcending the esthetical pleasures. The poet's conviction is that only by a sure backdown from the outside planetary can one enter into the inside magic life. The poem suggests the finish of the religionist ended the affective haunch of his personality.
The nursery rhyme is autobiographical, but is sacred in its goods.