Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of T.S. Eliot

• Influence of the Indian Philosophy is seen in the writings of T.S. Eliot

•  The Waste Land scores of literary, cultural, and artistic allusions from a variety of sources including the Upanishads,the Greek dramatists, Baudelaire, and the Bhagavad Gita. Greek mythology, the Bible, Chaucer, Dante, Spenser, Shakespeare, and Leonardo Da Vinci. he was occupied with Sanskrit, Pali and the metaphysics of Patanjali.  Ironically, within this menagerie of literary homages, Eliot has created a vast emptiness, a world of pain, suffering, desolation and despair, as if to suggest that even in the presence of all the greatest artistic and cultural achievements of mankind, we must understand that life is transitory and material things ephemeral.The Waste Land ends with the reiteration of the Three Cardinal Virtues from the second Brahmana passage in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad: damyata (restraint), datta (charity) and dayadhvam (compassion) and the state of mind that follows obedience to the commands is indicated by blessing Shantih shantih shantih, that Eliot himself roughly translated as "the peace that passeth understanding." But it is the Gita that evidently made a more permanent imprint on Eliot's mind. It will be found relevant not only to The Waste Land, but to The Four Quarters, Ash Wednesday or Murder in the Cathedral, The Dry Salvages, and The Family Reunion. The tolerance preached by the Gita is echoed in Eliot's use of imagery drawn from several religions. He used SANSKRIT words: artha, avatara, dharma,  kala, kama, karma, moksha, nirvana, shanti . Eliot's message is the message of the Gita, of the essential utility of all activity: a message for all time, though it is harder to understand because it must be united from the materials, tone and perspective of his poems.