Scientists, poets, philosophers and playwrights have embraced impersonalism, which Srila Prabhupada, in a poem, once called a ‘calamity.’ “Absolute is sentient, Thou hast proved, Impersonal calamity Thou hast moved.” John Donne, the English writer, saw impersonalism as ultimate. He wrote these famous lines: 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 Promintory 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.