Andal : Tamil Vaishnava saint (c.8th cent.), putative daughter of Periya-Alwār (q.v.); popularly remembered for her Tiruppāvai.
... end a means of progress towards self-realisation and God-realisation". 17 And one particular feature of Indian religion has been the periodic occurrence of "messengers of the Spirit" - Nammalvar, Andal, Manikkavasagar, Tukaram, Kabir, Mira, Sankara Deva and Nanak - who were minstrels of God and ambassadors of the Absolute. But although many were these witnesses, these Seers, Rishis, Alvars, Acharyas... Ranade, which are now included in Volume 17 (The Hour of God) of Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library. In the same volume appear Sri Aurobindo's articles on the two poets of bhakti - Nammalvar and Andal - who are held in great veneration by the Tamils. Take it all in all, the Arya heritage is a formidable body of writing, and knowledge and wisdom, variety and versatility, are its distinguishing marks ...
... spiritual greatnesses. The poetess Andal was the foster-daughter of Vishnuchitta, found by him, it is said, a new-born child under the sacred Tulsi-plant. We know little of Andal except what we can gather from a few legends, some of them richly beautiful and symbolic. Most of Vishnuchitta's poems have the infancy and boyhood of Krishna for their subject. Andal, brought up in that atmosphere, cast... Love. b ) A selection from Sri Chaitanya Mahaprabhu ' s experiences of Sri Krishna and Radha. c ) A selection from Sri Ramakrishna's experiences of Sri Krishna and Radha. (a) Andal The Vaishnava Poetess Preoccupied from the earliest times with divine knowledge and religious aspiration the Indian mind has turned all forms of human life and emotion and all the phenomena... blest, they sang the Vedic songs. The holy grass was laid. The sun was established. And He who was puissant like a war-elephant in its rage, He seized my hand and we paced round the Flame. * Andal Page 162 Nammalwar The Supreme Vaishnava saint and poet MÀRAN, renowned as Nammalwar ("Our Saint") among the Vaishnavas and the greatest of their saints and poets, was born ...
... spiritual greatnesses. The poetess Andal was the foster-daughter of Vishnuchitta, found by him, it is said, a new-born child under the sacred tulsi-plant. We know little of Andal except what we can gather from a few legends, some of them richly beautiful and symbolic. Most of Vishnuchitta's poems have the infancy and boyhood of Krishna for their subject. Andal, brought up in that atmosphere, cast... Other Writings from the Arya Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Andal: The Vaishnava Poetess The Vaishnava Poetess Preoccupied from the earliest times with divine knowledge and religious aspiration the Indian mind has turned all forms of human life and emotion and all the phenomena of the universe into symbols and means by which the embodied soul may strive ...
... poetic genre called Pillai-t-tamizh. Here the deity is seen as passing through different stages of childhood, boyhood/girlhood and youth. Thus, when we read a Pillai-t-tamizh on Meenakshi or Andal we go through the stages of the Divine Mother as a babe waving one hand (the Chenkeerai-stage), the babe in the cradle, the child clapping its hands, blowing a kiss, the toddler moving forward like... favourite with the worshippers of the Mother Goddess in South India. Then the marriage, an auspicious moment is renacted annually even today in several temples as Meenakshi Kalyanam, Sita Kalyanam, or Andal Kalyanam. Significantly it is only the name of the goddess which is used to indicate the divine marriage. Even the lay man will speak of Rukmini Kalyanam or Radha Kalyanam but never a Krishna Kalyanam ...
... 444, 490,525 Ambedkar, B. R., 496-497 Ambirajan, S., 13fn. Amrita (Aravamudachari), 405, 525, 536, 540 Amrita Bazar Patrika, 229,309, 312 Anandamath, 76, 194, 219, 337 Andal, 497 Andre Morrisset, 726 Andromeda, 128 Anger, Roger, 775,780 Appian, 135 Arabian Nights Entertainments, The, 129, 177 Archer, William, 490,49 1ff Archimedes, 416 ...
... Hour of God; Evolution — Psychology — The Supermind; On Yoga; Thoughts and Aphorisms; Essays Divine and Human; Education and Art; Premises of Astrology; Reviews; Dayananda — Bankim — Tilak —Andal — Nammalwar; Historical Impressions; Notes from the Arya. Volume 18 — The Life Divine, Book One and Book Two, PART ONE. Book One: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe; Book Two: The Knowledge ...
... "knowingly or unknowingly, I have been what the Lord wanted me to be, i I have done what the Lord wanted me to do. That alone matters." Siddhartha, Jesus, Mahomed, Nanak, Ramakrishna; Andal, Teresa, Juliana, Rabia, Mira these were men and women no doubt, and yet a divinity hedged them round, they surpassed our familiar categories of thought and feeling, and ceasing to be merely human ...
... This brief-lived feature was halted after the second issue of the Arya , September 1914. South Indian Vaishnava Poetry Sri Aurobindo published these essays on Andal and Nammalwar, two of the alwars or Vaishnava devotional poets of Tamil Nadu, in the Arya in May and July 1915. In the same issues he published translations of some of their poems, which he executed ...
... Rising, she speaks but His name and cries, "Do come, O Lord." Ah, what shall I do with my poor child o'erwhelmed by this maddest love? * Nammalwar Page 170 Translations - Tamil - Andal I dreamed a dream² I dreamed a dream,O friend. The wedding was fixed for the morrow. And He, the Lion, Madhava, the young Bull whom they call the master of radiances, He came into the ...
... and mystic phenomena are the same in ages and countries far apart from each other and even though systems were practised quite independently from each other. The experiences of Saint Teresa, those of Andal or of Mirabai are precisely the same in substance, however, differing in names, forms, or cultural colouring. It is a fact that they were not corresponding with one another or aware of each other's ...
... of her child whom love for Krishna has rendered "mad", the ultimate spirit of the universe. (See the poem entitled, 'Love-mad' composed by Nammalwar) Two poems are from the famous saint-poetess, Andal. They are entitled, 'I dreamed a dream' and 'Ye Others'. Page 50 Another poem is from Horu Thakur, a Bengali saint where he describes the longing of the soul for reunion with God, without ...
... of God; Evolution — Psychology — The Supermind; On Yoga; Thoughts and Aphorisms; Essays Divine and Human; Education and Art; Premises of Astrology; Reviews; Dayananda —Bankim — Tilak — Andal — Nammalwar; Historical Impressions; Notes from the Arya. Volume 18 The Life Divine , BOOK ONE AND BOOK Two, PART ONE. Book One: Omnipresent Reality and the Universe; ...
... Tamil literature. A few lines from the Kural of Tiruvalluvar; two pieces— Hymn of the Golden Age and Love-Mad —by Nammalwar, a poem by the Chera king and saint Kulasekhara Alwar, and three pieces by Andal. In all his literary works a double action came into play. Sri Aurobindo notes on 7 January 1913, "The only work done in the day was a grammatical commentary on the fifth hymn of the Rigveda. Here ...
... independent-seeming, are grammatically inseparable. Many of them are really subordinate clauses or else contain words that internally link them together, as against mere external linkage by means of ands, which add mechanically rather than organically to the length of a sentence. In the instance from Savitri we have an ultra-Homeric simile, a long-drawn-out comparison whose sense, beginning with ...
... everything, rather poorly at that." Apart from Sri Aurobindo and Richard, Bharati also participated in the monthly by contributing his English translation of some verses from the Vaishnava poetess Andal's Tiruppavai. The Arya was printed at the Modern Press, Pondicherry. "The Arya was, in fact, a financial success. It paid its way with a large surplus," said Sri Aurobindo. No, in ...
... independent-seeming, are grammatically inseparable. Many of them are really subordinate clauses or else contain words that internally link them together, as against mere external linkage by means of and's which add mechanically rather than organically to the length of a sentence. In the instance from Savitri we have an ultra-Homeric simile, a long-drawn-out comparison whose sense, beginning with "As" ...
... are definitely to assert that the appellation was inexistent prior to the Victory Day and must have been absent even on that Day, we have to credit the arguments mustered apart from the note. Ands on whether their apparent strength is genuine. We have been disposed to ascribe to a mere back-look the phrase: "Krishna or the Overmind or something equivalent." But actually it sounds as ...
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