Reality, Poetry, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Metaphor and Srimad-Bhagavatam

Reality, Poetry, Consciousness, Enlightenment, Metaphor and Srimad-Bhagavatam: In Srimad-Bhagavatam culture, there is not such a breakdown between prosaic reality and poetic metaphor. Actual reality is far more enchanted and magical and strange than our modern scientific, mechanistic, deracinated conception. Things that we think of as concepts %u2014 like fear, love, intelligence, decay and so on %u2014 are actually living beings who can interact with other, similar beings.