Apollo : son of Zeus & Leto; god of light, music, poetry, prophecy, medicine, pastoral pursuits & archery; his chief oracle was at Delphi. In later times he was frequently identified with Helios (q.v., cf. Phoebus). With Poseidon, he built the walls of Troy for Laomedan, & despite Laomedon’s treachery sided the Trojans in the war.
... in the paths that are common, Even I who know must send for thee, moved by Cassandra. Speak, O my child, since Apollo has willed it, once, and be silent." But in her raiment hidden Cassandra answered her father: "No, for my heart has changed since I cried for him, vexed by Apollo. Why should I speak? For who will believe me in Troy? who believed me Ever in Troy or the world? Event and disaster... after him, long who had passed from her vision. Then in the silent chamber Cassandra seized by Apollo Staggered erect and tossing her snow-white arms of affliction Cried to the heavens in her pain; for the fierce god tortured her bosom: "Woe is me, woe for the guile and the bitter gift of Apollo! Woe, thrice woe, for my birth in Troy and the lineage of Teucer! So do you deal, O gods, with those... torn by thy advent, Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future, What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo?" Then from the orb of his glory unbearable save to immortals Bright and austere replied the beautiful mystic Apollo: "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error. Therefore ...
... center of the Cyclades in the southern Aegean; it was regarded as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis (twin children of Zeus from Leto or Latona) and was the seat of an oracle of Apollo. Delphi: A rugged spot on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in central Greece, the site of the most important temple of Apollo, where the Pythia delivered the inspired messages of the god. Demeter: Daughter... Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy. She was loved by Apollo but deceived him. In retaliation the god turned to a curse the gift of prophecy he had bestowed on her, causing her prophecies never to be believed. Centaurs: Fabulous creatures, for the Cassandra, being slaved by Ajax in Athena's temple. Apollo is seen behind. Page 112 most part of... Asia minor, which became known as "Ionia". Laocoon: Trojan prince, son of Priam and priest of Apollo. He prophesies that Troy shall triumph and spurs the Trojans on to their destruction. Laomedon: A legendary king of Troy, grandson of Tros and father of Priam. He employed Apollo and Poseidon to build the walls of Troy, but cheated them of their payment, as a result of which Poseidon ...
... advent, Caverned already who sittest in Delphi knowing thy future, What wilt thou do with the veil and the night, O burning Apollo," Then from the orb of his glory unbearable save to immortals Bright and austere replied the beautiful mystic Apollo: "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings witherror... ancient, Came on her sandals lightning-tasselled. Up the vast incline Shaking the world with the force of his advent thundered Poseidon; Space grew full of his stride and his cry. Immortal Apollo Shone and his silver clang was heard with alarm in our kingdoms. Ares' impetuous eyes looked forth from a cloud-drift of splendour; Page 75 Themis' steps appeared and Ananke... touches Seized and subjected our clay to the greatness of passions supernal, Page 76 Grasping the earthly virgin and forcing heaven on this death-dust. Glorifying human beauty Apollo roamed in our regions Clymene when he pursued or yearned in vain for Marpessa; Glorifying earth with a human-seeming face of the beauty Brought from her heavenly climes Aphrodite mixed ...
... find in their paths the fallen and darkened Apollo. 92 Mystic Apollo will withdraw awhile and leave the stage to Pallas Athene and the reign of reason - but reason too will one day be compelled to recognise its insufficiency, Page 642 and then will come the time for Apollo's return signifying the age of sovereign intuition. Apollo will be all the purer and stronger for a temporary... who are thy children and dear ones. ... This too I know that I pass preparing the paths of Apollo And at the end as his sister and slave and bride I must sojourn Rapt to his courts of mystic light and unbearable brilliance. 91 Earlier during the debate, "the beautiful mystic Apollo" had accepted his temporary fading out and also prophesied his future resurgence: Zeus, I... the cloud of her golden hair like the moon in its halo. 90 And others too, "aegis-bearing Athene, shielded and helmeted", "Artemis, archeress Page 641 ancient", "immortal Apollo", Themis, and Ananke, and Hephaestus, and the "ancient Dis", "into the courts divine they crowded, radiant, burning". In Sri Aurobindo's play, Eric, as we saw earlier (Chapter VI), the end-note ...
... the reign of Mystic Apollo. The age of illumination is soon to be replaced by the age of logic and reason inspired and guided by young clear- minded Athena, who, we are told, was born directly from her father's head. 6 Wroth is my splendid heart with the cowering knowledge of mortals' Wroth are my burning eyes with the purblind vision of reason." Cries Luminous Apollo. But he knows that... too I know that I pass preparing the paths of Apollo And at the end as his sister and slave and bride I must sojourn Rapt to his courts of mystic light and unbearable brilliance. Presented here is book eight. The Book of the Gods. At their father’s call, together with all the other gods, impetuous Ares, lovely Aphrodite, beautiful Apollo and clear-smiling Athene have come to an assembly... him. Then, looking neither for fruit nor for failure, and in all knowledge, they take their place beside their favorite hero. Page 65 Page 66 Left: Apollo and the Muses. Apollo plays on the lyre while the Muses dance. Attic vase. Top right: Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love, beauty and fertility. She is supposed to have been washed up on the shore by the waves ...
... in Ilion the wall of his mysteries Delphic Apollo. Athene, not Apollo, is the clear and tempered light of the thinking mind, though still not without the breath of inspiration that always works when this mind is not all on its own but knows a rapport with a greater illumination, the intuitive Truth Consciousness beyond the intellect. Not Apollo, but Athene is the divinity of mental Wisdom... intuitive luminosity. And, when we turn to his poetry, the two Greek powers mixed 1 Heraclitus (Calcutta, 1947). pp. 3-4. Page 317 up emerge distinctly. They are Athene and Apollo. Apollo, God of the Sun, Leader of the Muses, Inspirer of Poetry, Lord of the Delphic Oracle, cannot be the voice of Reason. Thinker also he could be, as we gather from some lines in Ilion 1 but it is... intellectual contemplation, of logical order and philosophic calm" 1 and it would be incorrect to contrast "the restless masculine power of Dionysus and the quiet feminine beauty of Apollo". 2 Sri Aurobindo's Apollo cries to the Father of the Immortals: 3 "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures my lightnings with error. ...
... the corpse of Hector behind the car for dragging and haul him three times round the dead Patroclus' tomb, and then he'd rest again in his tents and leave the body sprawled facedown in the dust. But Apollo pitied Hector — dead man though he was — and warded all corruption off from Hector's corpse and round him, head to foot, the great god wrapped the golden shield of storm, so his skin would never rip... Athena and Hera — both goddesses. When they came to his shepherd's fold he favored Love who dangled before his eyes the lust that loosed disaster. But now, at the twelfth dawn since Hector's death, lord Apollo rose and addressed the immortal powers: "Hardhearted you are, you gods, you live for cruelty! Did Hector never burn in your honor thighs of oxen and flaw less, full grown goats? Now you cannot bring... a goddess — one I reared myself: I brought her up and gave her in marriage to a man, to Peleus, dearest to all your hearts, you gods. All you gods, you shared in the wedding rites, and so did you, Apollo. There you sat at the feast and struck your lyre. What company you keep now, these wretched Trojans. You forever faithless!" But Zeus who marshals the storm clouds warned his queen, "Now, Hera ...
... forbidden how shall a greater dawn be effected?" 3 In terms of the Greek Mythology, the. immediate issue was that of the departure of Apollo, the god of spiritual light, and enthronement of Athene, the goddess of Reason. The beautiful mystic Apollo knows this and responds to Zeus: "Zeus, I know that I fade; already the night is around me. Dusk she extends her reign and obscures... action begins with the proposal of Achilles to Troy conveyed at the dawn by a messenger, "carrying Fate in his helpless hands and the doom of an empire." Eight books are Page 30 Apollo ( Detail of a painting by Gustave Moreau ) Page 31 entitled respectively, The Book of the Herald; The Book of the Statesman; The Book of the Assembly; The Book of Partings; The Book... Achilles appears, "loud as the outbursting thunder." The impending catastrophe was already foreshadowed at the end of the assembly of the Gods, when it was seen that "in the noon there was night. And Apollo passed out of Troya." Ill An important element of this epic that strikes us forcefully is its unveiling of the profound meaning of the Siege of Troy and the fall of Troy. In Sri Aurobindo's ...
... daughter of Apollo’s priest, as a price of honor, and when her father came, offering him great treasures for her release, he had refused. The priest then prayed to Phoebus Apollo, the mighty 'god he served, and Phoebus Apollo heard him. From his sun-chariot he sent fiery arrows and men and animals perished of a pestilence, in great numbers. Achilles then conveyed an assembly of the Greek chieftains... Odysseus. It is assumed that Homer came from Asia Minor and was probably born on the island of Chios, or possibly in the city of Smyrna. A guild of poets did exist on Chios and in his hymn to Apollo, Homer sings of: "A sightless man on stony Chios /All whose poems stand capital." From these lines and the fact that both the bards in the Iliad and the Odyssey are blind, it has been suggested... Aphrodite was on the side of Paris, Hera and Athena against him. Ares, god of war, always took side with Aphrodite, while Poseidon, Lord of the sea, favored the Greeks, a sea people and great sailors. Apollo helped the Trojans for the sake of Hector, son of Priam and mainstay of Troy, and Artemis, his sister, did so too. Zeus, for his part, tried to stay neutral, but, urged by Thetis, who cruelly wounded ...
... Hector, with whose blood He most lusted to glut the battling Ares, him Of the tough hide shield. Host-urging Apollo, however, Inspired great strength in Aeneas and sent him to face The raging son of Peleus. Assuming the form And voice of Priam's son Lycaon, Apollo, Son of Zeus, spoke thus to the counselor of Trojans: "Aeneas, where now are the brags you made to the princes... everlasting: "Truly my grief Is great for high-souled Aeneas, who soon indeed Shall go down to Hades' halls, killed by Achilles For heeding the word of far-working Apollo childish Fool that he was! For Apollo will not keep sad death From him for a moment. But why should that innocent man Suffer woes that belong to others, he who has always Given such pleasing gifts to the... ing Hermes, The wiliest god of all. And with these went Hephaestus, Exulting in might, for though he limped, his thin legs Were nimble enough. But huge bright-helmeted Ares And Apollo with hair unshorn went down to the Trojans, Along with arrow-showering Artemis, Leto, The river-god Xanthus, and Aphrodite, adorer Of smiles. So long as the gods were not there, the ...
... fourteen youths, and was the saviour of them and of himself. And they are said to have vowed to Apollo at the time, that if they were saved they would send a yearly mission to Delos. Now this custom still continues, and the whole period of the voyage to and from Delos, beginning when the priest of Apollo crowns the stern of the ship, is a holy season, during which the city is not allowed to be polluted... mountains of Epirus in the back-ground. In Dodona, Zeus' oracle spoke through the rustling leaves of an age-old sacred oak tree. Right: at Delos, the sacred island of Apollo, a processional way, 7th century BC Left page: Apollo (Temple of Zeus, Olympia, c.470 BC) Page 125 ...
... foreseeing) made her the counselor goddess and the goddess of the assembly. Even more worshiped than Athena was Apollo, son of Zeus by Leto, goddess of the night. Apollo was the solar god without being the sun himself, which was represented by a special divinity, Helios. Apollo had assumed high moral qualities. He was honoured as patron of music, art, and poetry; as founder of cities, Page... laws and as god of healing and prophecy. Everywhere he was associated with order, measure and beauty; whereas in other cults there were strange elements of fear and superstition, in the worship of Apollo, and in his great festivals at Delphi and Delos, the dominant note was the rejoicing of a brilliant people in a god of health and wisdom, reason and song. In India the Vedic gods developed their ...
... cannot witness, Lifting the godhead within us to more than a human endeavour, Slayer and saviour, thinker and mystic, leaped from his sun-peaks Guarding in Ilion the wall of his mysteries Delphic Apollo. Heaven's strengths divided swayed in the whirl of the Earth-force. All that is born and destroyed is reborn in the sweep of the ages; Life like a decimal ever recurring repeats the old figure;... eye unamazed by their workings Ever can pierce where they dwell and uncover their far-stretching purpose? Silent they toil, they are hid in the clouds, they are wrapped with the midnight. Yet to Apollo I pray, the Archer friendly to mortals, Yet to the rider on Fate I abase myself, wielder of thunder, Evil and doom to avert from my fatherland. All night Morpheus, He who with shadowy hands heaps... earth, Laomedon's marvellous vision Held in the thought that accustomed his will to unearthly achievement And in the blaze of his spirit compelling heaven with its greatness, Dreamed by the harp of Apollo, a melody caught into marble. Out of his mind it arose like an epic canto by canto; Each of its halls was a strophe, its chambers lines of an epode, Victor chant of Ilion's destiny. Absent he entered ...
... earliest vaguely historic stage as moralised religions. Their gods had not only distinct moral attributes, but represented moral & subjective functions. Apollo is not only the god of the sun or of pestilence—in Homer indeed Haelios (Saurya) & not Apollo is the Sun God—but the divine master of prophecy and poetry; Athene has lost any naturalistic significance she may ever have had and is a pure moral force... rship & the cult of snake & four-footed animal seem to have been quite as old as any Nature-gods with whom research has made us acquainted. In all probability the Python was worshipped long before Apollo. It is therefore evident that even in the lowest religious strata the impulse to personify Nature-phenomena is not the ruling cult-idea of humanity. It is exceedingly unlikely that at any time this ...
... nature;... Death? I have faced it. Fire? I have watched it climb in my vision Over the timeless domes and over the rooftops of Priam, But I have looked beyond and have seen the smile of Apollo... Troy has arisen before, but from ashes, not shame, not surrender ! 2 — or it is the young lover and warrior setting aside both caution and self-censure and evoking happy confident heroism... Lifting the godhead within us to more than a hum an endeavour, Slayer and saviour, thinker and mystic, leaped fron his sun-peaks Guarding in Ilion the wall of his mysteries Delphic Apollo. Heaven's strengths divided swayed in the whirl of the Earth-force. 1 A curious point in connection with these Aurobindonian illustrations of the Homeric rush of oceanic sound is the... Heat of the glorious god and the fruitful pain of the iron. 1 Among the speeches given to Zeus a passage affords a rare insight into the nature of the deific. When Hera says that Zeus's sons Apollo and Ares forget the supreme purpose, he replies: "Hera, queen of the heavens, they forget not, but choose to be mindless. This is the greatness of gods that they know and can put back the ...
... the coast, the Greeks had stopped here and there to replenish their supplies of food and concubines; Agamemnon had taken the fair Chryseis, Achilles the fair Briseis. A soothsayer now declares that Apollo is withholding success from the Greeks because Agamemnon has violated the daughter of Apollo's priest, Chryseis. The King restores Chryseis to her father, but, to console himself and point a tale,... fight: Athena lays Ares low with a stone, and when Aphrodite, going for a soldier tries to save him, Athena knocks her down with a blow upon her fair breast. Hera cuffs the ears of Artemis; Poseidon and Apollo content themselves with words.- (XXII) All Trojans but Hector fly from Achilles; Priam and Hecuba counsel Hector to stay behind the walls, but he refuses. Then suddenly, as Achilles advances on him... cleansed and anointed body back to Troy. from Will Durant — The Life of Greece Before the siege of Troy Troy's strong walls were reputedly built with the help of the gods Poseidon and Apollo. The Trojans were further favored by the gift of the Palladium, an image of Pallas-Athene which fell to them from heaven. By the time Priam and Hecuba ruled, Troy was a prosperous center of civilization ...
... Agamemnon. This act set off the quarrel between the two which forms the central unresolved problem in the Iliad. Cassandra: the most beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba;She was loved by Apollo, but deceived him. In retaliation he cursed her with the gift of prophecy, with the hitch that her prophecies would never be believed. Cauldron: a large kettle. Centaur: a member... Menelaus. This story is the mythical explanation behind the siege of Troy. Lesbos: island and city off the coast of Asia Minor south of Troy. Leto: Greek goddess, mother of Apollo and Artemis by Zeus. Libation: the pouring out of a liquid as an offering to the gods. Lyre: a stringed instrument of the harp class used by ancient Greeks to accompany song... Peleus and commanded at Troy by his son Achilles Mysians: Trojan allies living east of Troy. Niobe: a Phyrigian woman whose six daughters and six sons were killed by Artemis and Apollo. Paris: the son of Priam and Hecuba, said to be the handsomest of mortal men. At birth he was left on the mountainside because a prophecy forecast that he would bring about the destruction of ...
... indeed, mind cannot explain this huge universal mechanism that God has created. His workings are mysterious; of this I can give you a luminous proof. When my ship reached Bombay and I disembarked at the Apollo Bunder, and touched the Indian soil, something miraculous happened. I felt a vast silence enveloping the earth and a deep motionless calm descended into me. Behind the hurly-burly of the city and its... that has helped me write books like The Secret of the Veda and The Foundations of Indian Culture. I have already described to you my first spiritual experience which I had on disembarking at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay. Perhaps that was the first pointer I received that I ought to plunge myself into the study of our ancient Scriptures." "But Sanskrit is a very difficult language. Its grammar and... my field of work at the time. Besides, the experiences came with such a suddenness, without any prior notice at all - that's another reason why I did not pay them much heed. The moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, on my return to India, something marvellous happened. I think I have told you about it. Then again, one day, as I was riding in a carriage through the streets of Baroda, the horse seemed suddenly ...
... conquered. 20 Ultimately, everything in this world is a matter of proper concentration; there is nothing that will not finally yield to a well-applied concentration. When he went ashore on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, he was overtaken by a spontaneous spiritual experience, a vast calm ; but he had more immediate concerns of food and survival. Sri Aurobindo was twenty. He found a position with... a disciple. All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material... the seekers of perfection. This is the quest for the Treasure in the depths of the cave; the battle against the subconscious forces (ogres, dwarves, or serpents); the legend of Page 221 Apollo and the Python, Indra and the Serpent Vritta, Thor and the giants, Sigurd and Fafner; the solar myth of the Mayas, the Descent of Orpheus, the Transmutation. It is the serpent biting it own tail. And ...
... apparently in life — but Dr. Krishnadhan's strong heroic soul had already passed away. When, after an absence of fourteen years, Sri Aurobindo set foot on the soil of India, when he touched the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, "a vast calm which descended upon him... [and] this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards" . 3 It was as though the Mother had received her child back and... My own life and my yoga have always been, since my coming to India, both this-worldly and other-worldly without any exclusiveness on either side. .. .since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material... to take to Yoga, Sri Aurobindo (as mentioned earlier) had declined, viewing Yoga as a mere retreat from life. Spiritual experiences like the vast calm that descended upon him when he set foot on Apollo Bunder — and on later occasions too (for example an effort of will seeming to materialise as a Being of Light and preventing a carriage accident in Baroda in 1893)45 — were a different matter, ...
... volumes). 46. Plato, "The Apology of Socrates", The Last Days of Socrates (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1961), p. 59. 47. Ibid.,p.6~[ 48. Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: divinely inspired utterances given at Delphi, the temple of Apollo, the most widely revered of the Greeks Gods. 49. Plato, "The Apology of Socrates", The Last Days of Socrates (Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1961), p. 63. ... inferences. The intellectual truth thus revealed, says Socrates, is only a very imperfect image of the Truth, which is the Divineʼs; compared to Godʼs, man's knowledge is mere ignorance. When the oracle of Apollo and Delphi48 called Socrates the wisest of living men, Socrates set out to disprove that statement, convinced that he really knew nothing. In the end, Socrates discovered that his so-called "wisdomˮ... carried by the soul from its past birth. In its new birth it is simply a recollection of the same knowledge. 56. Asclepius is said to be the Greek demigod of healing. Legend says that his father, Apollo, sent him to Chiron, a centaur, to learn the art of healing. He was so gifted that apart from healing, he could also restore life to the dead. Apprehensive about his restorative powers that could upset ...
... inferences. The intellectual truth thus revealed, says Socrates, is only a very imperfect image of the Truth which is the Divine's; compared to God's, man's knowledge is mere ignorance. When the oracle of Apollo at Delphi 1 called Socrates the wisest of living men, Socrates set out to disprove that statement, convinced that he really knew nothing. In the end, Socrates discovered that his so-called "wisdom... know to be evils: "To be afraid of death is just another form of thinking one is wise when one is not. " 4 1. Oracle of Delphi: Divinely inspired utterances given at Delphi, the Temple of Apollo, the most widely revered of the Greeks Gods. 2. Plato, ibid, p. 63. . 3. Plato, ibid, p. 73. 4. Plato, ibid, p. 60. Page 62 In The School of Athens by the Italian... expensive habits. Evenus of Paros was a rhetorician and poet (mentioned also in the Phaedo) who was staying at , this time in Athens. ¦ Delphi: The oracle of Apollo at Delphi was the supreme authority whose advice was sought on all kinds of subjects — religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a mystery; if it relied upon ...
... and Achilles felt deep mutual affection he offered Chryseida to Agamemnon. The father of Chryseida was a priest of Apollo, who demanded the return of Chryseida; but Agamemnon refused the demand and drove away the priest with harsh words — thus incurring the wrath of Apollo. As a result, the Achaean camp came to be gripped by a plague. In order to prevent this great disaster, Achilles asked Agamemnon... to a popular idea which was prevalent through out antiquity, Homer must have lived not much later than the Trojan War (1194-1184 BC) about which he sang. There is a so called Homeric Hymn to Delia Apollo, which is claimed to be the work of "a blind man who dwells in Chios," a reference to a tradition about Homer himself. Herodotus, the great Greek historian, assigns Homer to the 9th century BC. There... unparalleled throughout the war. But death was near him also. Achilles, at the head of his troops, had driven the Trojans back until they were at the walls of the city. At that moment, Paris, favoured by Apollo, aimed his fatal arrow at the hero's only weak point: his heel. Achilles fell, and a murderous battle ensued over his body. In the end, Odysseus and Ajax managed to carry it back to the camp. His body ...
... impossible to mistake the description for prose of a highly patterned and euphonious order. But who with a trained ear can mistake for a snatch of prose-sound the Virgil-ian phrases about the priestess of Apollo? Page 28 Sed pectum anhelum Et rabie fera corda tument, majorque videri Nec mortale sonans, adflata est numine quando Jam propione Dei. 1 Apart from any difference... within us to more than a human endeavour, Slayer and saviour, thinker and mystic, leaped from his sun-peaks Page 60 Guarding in Ilion the wall of his mysteries Delphic Apollo. Heaven's strengths divided swayed in the whirl of the Earth-force. The first five lines lift the hexameter to a ne plus ultra of poetically intense as well as mystically vivid grandeur... and penetrating power impossible except to a Yogi. Here we have Homeric figures driven with a Homeric energy to an Aurobindonian goal. Less Yogic, however, is the light thrown on Hera and Athene and Apollo. The tone and texture of the language presentingthem is in keeping with their call to and contact with more evolved strata of our consciousness: it is not the dense and dreadful subliminal that is ...
... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material... absolutely sure that there was a God at all...." ³ Once, in a letter to a disciple, 4 he referred to a pre-yogic experience in London, but he did not describe its nature. The experience he had at the Apollo Bunder can, therefore, be taken as the first authentic yogic experience that came his way - unbidden but decisive - as a gift of Grace, a bounty of Mother India. Sri Aurobindo returned alone... Universe" by Sri Chaitanya In the second year of his stay at Baroda, i.e. in 1894, Sri Aurobindo had another spiritual experience, which came in the same unexpected way as the first one he had at Apollo Bunder. One day, while he was going in a horse carriage, he 21. Love and Death, a long poem, and the drama, Perseus the Deliverer, belong also to Baroda period. Page 29 ...
... barbarous, they had already been moralised & intellectualised. Already even in Homer Pallas Athene is not the Dawn or any natural phenomenon, but a great preterhuman power of wisdom, force & intelligence; Apollo is not the Sun—who is represented by another deity, Helios—but a moral or moralised deity. In the Veda, even in the European rendering, Varuna has a similar moral character and represents ethical &... are founded on a fairly advanced knowledge & theory at least of our subjective nature. Nor when we look at the clearness, fixity & frequently psychological nature of the functions of the Greek gods, Apollo, Hermes, Pallas, Aphrodite, [have we] the right to expect anything less from the ancestors of the far more subtle-minded, philosophical & spiritual Indian nation. Page 160 ...
... the Uttarpara Speech I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But how can that be? Didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujarat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose... All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... Suppliants, w. 17-19, speaks of Zeus making Io a mother 'with a mystic breath' (which could be interpreted as spirit)... (c) Plutarch, Table-Talk, VIII: 1, 2-3 (Loeb. Moralia, 9, 114-19), has Apollo engender Plato not by seed, but by power... (d) The cult of Dusares at Petra and Hebron (and sometimes associated with Bethlehem) which is related to the mystery-cult acclamation of the virgin-mother... reviewing Alice Swift- Rijink's Platonica in the Times Literary Supplement, 23 December 1978 (p. 1501), writes: "Did you know that Plato was born by virgin birth? His real father was the god Apollo who appeared in a vision to his mother's husband, Ariston, forbidding him intercourse with his wife until after the child was born." We are at once reminded of the angel of the Lord appearing to ...
... that has just been startled out of sleep. (K.D.S.) For the strong-without-rage type, nothing can be better than Homer on the priest of Apollo returning with bitter thoughts after Agamemnon's refusal to give him back his captured daughter: Silent he walked by the shore of the many-rumoured ... hour the house of omnipotent Olympus. (K.D.S.) Dante's restrained energy can be shown in countless lines: here is he invoking Apollo, the vanquisher of the uncouth presumptuous Marsyas: Entra nel petto mio, e spira tue Si come quando Marsia traesti Della vagina delle ...
... the world with bruised head, run together two incidents of Greek mythology, which have been already explained in the second part of The World of Sri Aurobindo's Poetry. The reference is to Apollo and Hercules. * ** Lines on Ireland. 1896 express indignation at the abject state into which Ireland fell soon after its petty disownment of Parnell and particularly after his... anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was,— e.g., a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards); the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takhti-Suleman [Seat of Solomon] in Kashmir; ...
... the most different kinds of style —Keats' 'magic casements', Wordsworth's Newton and his Page 100 'fields of sleep', Shakespeare's 'Macbeth has murdered sleep', Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's 'Sunt lacrimae rerum' and his 'O passi graviora'. "Homer's passage translated into English would be perfectly ordinary. He gets the best part of his effect from his... Aurobindo in his pronouncement on Dante, quoted above, referred to "the inspired style" in his writing: Si come quando Marsi'a traesti Delia vagina delle membra sue. These lines to Apollo may be tentatively rendered with a little freedom: Page 102 In that dire mode of yours as when you plucked Marsyas out of the scabbard of his limbs. An instance directly ...
... gods in heaven are high and far away, but these unobtrusive deities are near to our hearth and home. The Greeks referred to the Olympian gods, of high caste and rank as it were, – like Jupiter and Apollo – ¹ "The Ambrosia of Dionysus and Semele" in New Poems 1962 (Cassel-London). Page 180 and to those others who dwelt on the lowly earth and embraced its water and land, its... mainly worship the father, and Tantriks, the mother. Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite. However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength ...
... Osiris or Moloch and Baal or even the Jewish Jehovah. These vital gods have a sombre air about them, solemn and serious, grim and powerful, but they have not the sunshine, the radiance and smile of Apollo (Apollo Belvedere) or Hermes. The Greeks might have, they must have taken up their gods from a more ancient Pantheon, but they have, after the manner of their sculptor Phidias, remoulded them, shaped and ...
... majesty, the Shakespearean * Much have I travelled in the realms of gold And many goodly states and kingdoms seen; Round many western islands have I been Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Oft of one wide expanse had I been told That deep-browed Homer ruled as his demesne, Yet did I never breathe its pure serene Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold. ... taking up twice of the g of "gold"; this helps the fitting of it into the uplifted and forceful expression of the rest of the piece. The next two lines are more visual and vivid and with the mention of "Apollo" and the "bard" we are made aware of what the "realms of gold" really are. Line 5 hits off very well the character of the Homeric spirit in poetry. "Wide expanse" is what Homer's epic achievement in ...
... 9. The Völkisch Movement Hitler and his God The Light of Apollo, the Frenzy of Wotan We had a look at some of the ideas which became ever more articulated in “the new romanticism” that was the völkisch movement. We met with a new German history favouring heroes whose actions and ideals seemed worthy of imitation; there was the Motherland with its natural... Nietzsche and Wagner unleashed a stream of utopian fantasies that reversed these notions with their appeal to a return of an irrational, organic, Dionysian community of oneness of will and expression.” 505 Apollo and sun worship, and a Dionysian frenzy of possession: both trends were present in the völkisch movement. Sünner summarizes an article in the völkisch periodical Die Sonne (the sun) to illustrate ...
... meaning of the Vedic words. Go, for instance, means both cow and ray; the cows of the dawn and the sun, Homer's boes Eelioio , are the rays of the Sungod, Lord of Revelation, even as in Greek mythology Apollo the Sungod is also the Master of poetry and of prophecy. Ghrita means clarified butter, but also the bright thing; soma means the wine of the moon plant, but also delight, honey, sweetness, madhu... or rather an addition of psychical to physical functions; but the latter in some instances gave place to the less external significance. I have given the example of Helios replaced in later times by Apollo. Just so in the Vedic religion Surya undoubtedly becomes a god of inner light, the famous Gayatri verse and its esoteric interpretation are there to prove it as well as the constant appeal of the ...
... other expensive habits. 9 Evenus of Paros was a rhetorician and poet (mentioned also in the Phaedo) who was staying at this time in Athens. 10 Delphi: The oracle of Apollo at Delphi was the supreme authority whose advice was sought on all kinds of subjects religious, moral, political, and personal. The source of its information remains a Page 82 ... authority; the Assembly was open to all adult male citizens. 17 sun and moon are gods: The cult of the sun was prevalent in Greece, though it tended to be merged in the worship of Apollo. The moon (associated with Artemis and Hecate) was of especial importance in magic. The object of the question is to lead up to the doctrines of Anaxagoras. 18 Anaxagoras of Clazomenae ...
... his religion. To be quite explicit, the Olympian Games, the Page 289 greatest of the four international festivals, were held in honour of Zeus of Olympia, the Pythian Games in honour of Apollo, the Panathenaic Games in honour of Athena. Moreover, they were held in the sacred precinct. The feeling that prompted this was a perfectly natural one. The contest was a means of stimulating and ... of the body, there was not the slightest incongruity or affection in combining musical contests with athletic; a contest in flute-playing was an original fixture in the Pythian Games — for was not Apollo himself "Lord of the Lyre". It was arete that the games were designed to test — the arete of the whole man, not a merely specialized skill. The usual events were a sprint, of about 200 yards ...
... around Troy and took 12 cities. In the 10th year a quarrel with Agamemnon occurred when Achilles insisted that Agamemnon restore Chryseis, his prize of war, to her father, a priest of Apollo, so as to appease the wrath of Apollo, who had killed many in the camp with a pestilence. An angry Agamemnon recouped his loss by depriving Achilles of his favourite slave, Briseis. Achilles refused further service, ...
... gods in heaven are high and far away, but these unobtrusive deities are near to our hearth and home. The Greeks referred to the Olympian gods, of high caste and rank as it were,—like Jupiter and Apollo—and to those others who dwelt on the lowly earth and embraced its water and land, its rivers and trees and fields—the nymph, the satyr, and Pan and dryad and naiad. What are the powers and functions... mainly worship the father, and Tantriks, the mother. Svarga, Dyaus, is the world of light, and earth or bhu is that of delight and enjoyment. We have already said that high above, up there, dwell Apollo and Zeus and Juno, and below here on earth, Dionysus and Bacchus and Semele and Aphrodite. However the poet says that as the toadstool is born in the midst of thunder and lightning, his strength ...
... Deo told me it's the city of the gods. Metaneira Ah, yes?... Was it so very beautiful? Child The gardener said to me, "Come, my Apollo, What flowers do you like?" - But I told him, "No, Sir, my name is not Apollo, Sir. But I like roses." Then he laughed a lot! He wasn't angry a bit. He gave all these. Metaneira (handing them to Ariadne) They're beautiful ...
... the Twins, Upendra (Baal) the Crab, Varuna (Poseidon) the Lion, Aditi, called also Savitri or Sita (Astarte, Aphrodite) the Girl, Yama (Hades) the Balance, Aryama (Ares) the Scorpion, Mitra or Bhava (Apollo Phoebus) the Archer, Saraswati called also Ganga (Nais) the Crocodile, Parjanya (Apis) the Jar, Nara (Nereus) the Fish. All these gods have their own character and tend to imprint it on their protégé ...
... can mix with white And share a particoloured deep delight. Great thanks we owe then, loyalists, to "Max", Page 269 Who his capacious brain the first did tax. Behold the great result! Apollo Paean! The holy club, the Indo-European! Approach, approach the holy precincts, come And chat with Risley of affairs at home; With Fraser arm-in-arm like friends we'll walk, To Luson and to Lee ...
... achiever of works, and thou didst make to swing open all the doors of his city" (VI.18.5). At the beginning of all human traditions there is this ancient memory. It is Indra and the serpent Vritra, it is Apollo and the Python, it is Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, it is the mutually opposing gods of the Celtic mythology; but only in the Veda do we find the key to this imagery which conceals the hope ...
... At some psychological stage of the process of eviction—after the wishes have been granted and the British have been driven out of India,—the Government and Mr. Sparkes are to be intercepted on the Apollo Bunder by a deputation of Bipin Pal, Tilak and Khaparde on bended knees asking them to stay back on any terms rather than deprive India of their beatific presence. This is the first spark. The ...
... Examples of Grades of Perfection in Poetic Style Examples from Classical and Mediaeval Writers Would you please tell me where in Homer the "descent of Apollo" occurs? 1 It is in the first fifty or a hundred lines of the first book of the Iliad. 2 I don't suppose Chapman or Pope have rendered it adequately. Of course not—nobody could ...
... 1 But at the same time, the rays of Surya are the herds of the Sun, the kine Page 124 of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the enemy Vala, by the Panis; when Madhuchchhandas says to Indra, "Thou didst uncover the hole of Vala of the Cows", he means that Vala ...
... The motion of pure Idea, vijnana, is the door of our escape in Avidya; for it is the kingdom within us of Truth and Illumination, domain, in the Vedic symbol, of the god of the Sun, the prophetic Apollo, the burning and enlightening Surya. Sa no dhiyah prachodayát. The base of our being is in Matter, its knot is in mentality, its escape into divine Bliss. Our aim as human beings must be to rise ...
... learning and wisdom; similarly, Saraswati, a river Goddess, becomes in India the goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts: all the Greek deities have undergone a change in this direction—Apollo, the Sun-God, has become a god of poetry and prophecy, Hephaestus the Fire-God a divine smith, god of labour. In India the process was arrested half-way, and the Vedic Gods developed their psychological ...
... his early life. There was the shock of Page 79 an inner immensity once in England. "A vast calm", writes Professor Iyengar, "descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first contact with the soil and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for long months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Tak ...
... as the courage to live and die for the highest Beauty. But what is this Beauty? It is not appearance, it is essence — not beauty of body but beauty of being. We have ordinarily set up the figure of Apollo or of Aphrodite as representing the Greek ideal of Beauty. But actually this ideal was caught in the pug-nosed, stumpy, pot-bellied satyr of a man that was Socrates! He Page 357 was ...
... Undated Notes, c. January 1927 Amrita— Moses, Brihaspati, Hermes, Michael Angelo, Rudra, Pythagoras. Bijoy Child Krishna, St Jean, Kartikeya, child Vishnu Barin Nefdi. Apollo-Aryaman St Hilaire— Ramakrishna—(The Four) Kshitish Narada—Bach-Isaie Kanai Sukadeva—One of the Vital Four Tirupati One of the Vital Four Purani Trita. The Angel of Peace—One ...
... Instances would include the most different kinds of style—Keats' 'magic casements', Wordsworth's Newton and his 'fields of sleep', Shakespeare's 'Macbeth has murdered sleep', Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's 'Sunt lacrimae rerum' and his 'O passi graviora'. "Homer's passage translated into English would be perfectly ordinary. He gets the best part of his effect from his ...
... A weakling sped Page 62 The bullet when to custom's usual night We fell because a woman's faith was light. The opening lines telescope two incidents of classical legend. Apollo is called Pythian because he slew the serpent Python which was tormenting the god's mother Latona, while the killer of the terrible Lernaean Hydra with the hundred heads was Hercules. A rare leader ...
... the phenomenon of inspiration. From the several recorded facts we may pick out a few to get the nature of this phenomenon into focus. A brief account is available of how Keats came to describe Apollo in the third book of his unfinished epic, Hyperion. The passage arrived "by chance or magic — as if it were something given to him". He did not realise how beautiful the poetic expressions were, ...
... although doubt has been sown in the minds of many by fanatic Holocaust-deniers.) The March on Selma took place in 1965, two years after the assassination of President John Kennedy and at the time of the Apollo space programme. – At the time of writing the USA has a Black President, Barack Obama. Animal Lovers If the leading role of the USA in the eugenics movement surprises, the connections between ...
... material phenomena, not in the reality of the outer material world alone, after the Aristotelian fashion – though I am under the impression that Aristotle also worshipped the gods, including the Sun (Apollo). I think that is all he is after. But you needn’t bother your head much about Surya at present; if he manifests himself to you in vision or otherwise, then you can begin to take a more active interest ...
... student revolts of ’68, and the Velvet Revolution of the same year in Prague. There was also the technological acceleration resulting in the global spread of television, the space technology of Sputnik, Apollo 11 and the nuclear rockets, the computer, and an increasing miniaturization of things technological. The desegregation movement in the US gave equal rights to all. The the colonial countries of “the ...
... father had expected him on the SS Roumania and died of grief after being told that this ship had perished in a storm before the coast of Portugal. Two days after his arrival on Indian soil, at the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, Aurobindo had to report for service in Baroda. × On Himself , 378 ...
... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... him.’ 17 Aravinda had not booked his passage on the ill-fated Roumania but on the Carthage. He arrived in Bombay on 6 February 1893. From the moment he set foot on Indian soil, on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, a vast calm descended upon him; the black cloud, which had been hovering over him since that day some seventeen or eighteen years before at Darjeeling, dissolved and he began to have ...
... ten years older than she and came to be trusted by her. All her difficulties she used to put before me and she was eager to learn whatever I had to teach her. When she became engaged to a tall Apollo of a Swede, she would invite me in the mornings to talk to her on Ibsen or Tolstoy or some other literary celebrity and she would in the evenings amaze more her fiancé with her versatile knowledge ...
... Vedas the Sun has been called the Lord of Truth, "...the rays of Surya are the herds of the Sun, the kine of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the enemy Vala, by the Panis ...' ,63 In modem imagery we would speak of the rays of Truth covered by the coat of falsehood, the rays ...
... what ? The songs are very beautiful. I shall certainly send all force possible to back your heroic effort till you stand on the summit of achievement surrounded by your seventy songs like Apollo on Parnassus engirt by his nine (only) Muses. May 5,1936 I have written to Prithwisingh today giving him all the necessary information item by item. At present I am even beyond the ...
... ____________________ 1. Girish Ghose, a Bengali dramatist and actor, disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. 2. Trojan warrior, son of Priam and Hecuba, brother of Paris and Cassandra (who was loved by Apollo). Hector was killed by Achilles, who dragged his body three times round the walls of Troy. Page 339 telling Mother that the latter was one of his previous incarnations—consequently ...
... however, a few spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when he set foot on Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, on his return from England. A vast calm descended upon him and surrounded him and stayed with him for months afterwards. Then, in the first year of his stay in Baroda in 1893 ...
... and mocking the philosopher as they went away, "You may say what you like, but if I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes." Next he visited Delphi, because he wished to consult the oracle of Apollo 7 about the expedition against the Persians. It so happened that he arrived on one of those days which are called inauspicious, when it is forbidden for the oracle to deliver a reply. In spite of ...
... spiritual experiences even in his pre-yogic period. The first was in London, in 1892, the year of his departure from England. The next experience was when Sri Aurobindo set foot on the Indian soil at Apollo Bunder, Bombay, on his return from England. A vast calm descended upon him and surrounded him and stayed with him for months afterwards. Then, in the first year of his stay in Baroda in 1893, an ...
... Seer Poets Index A Agni 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 10, 13, 31, 72 Aldous Huxley 33 Antigone 40 Aphrodite 34 Apollo 34 Aristotelian 49 Arnold 43 Arya 90, 92 Ashram 92 Asuras 5 Athens 47 Atri 8 Atul Gupta 102 Auchathya 8 Avatara 27 B Bacchus 34 Balaka 92 Bamardo ...
... known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect-in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs and cherubs dwell here. In ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 Modernist Poetry A Modernist poet sings – O bright Apollo “Tin’ andra, tin' heroa, tina theon," What god, man or hero Shall I place a tin wreath upon! and a modernist critic acclaims it as a marvellous, aye, a stupendous piece of poetic art; it figures, ...
... was a dangerous legacy.... To dramatize his conception of kingship and to underscore the dependence on the monarch of all other persons and institutions in the state, Louis chose as his emblem Apollo, the sun god. The symbol of the sun, on whose rays all earthly life is dependent, was worked into the architecture and sculpture of the palace of Versailles. The Sun King patronized the arts and gave ...
... 33-34; member of Indian Majlis and 'Lotus & Dagger', 34,37,183,281; 'Riding Test', 36ff; rejection from ICS, 37; appointment in Baroda, 37; songs to Myrtilla, 38ff, 71; on Parnell, 42; on Goethe, 42; at Apollo Bunder, 46, 64, 281, 385; at Naini Tal, 47, 66; learning Bengali & Sanskrit, 50; as Professor, 52ff; on Oxford & Cambridge, 52,53; on the "cultured Bengali", 55; A. B. dark, on, 55; 'New Lamps for ...
... Days of extreme hardships, due to failure of remittances from home as the result of father's large-hearted charities. 1893 February: Returned to India; on landing At Apollo Bunder, Bombay, had a spiritual experience of infinite calm descending upon him. This continued for weeks. 1893-1896 In Baroda State Service. First in administrative departments ...
... Nationalism were anxiously awaiting the outcome of the issue; there, in the foreground - like the formidable sea-monster and the bright Sun-God Perseus - the redoubtable Eardley Norton and the young Apollo Chittaranjan fought out the issue between the Old and the New, slavery and freedom, death and life. Norton's massive experience and sheer driving intellectual power met Chittaranjan's jets of emotion ...
... men Catching their feet in their own subtleties. King Phineas, wilt thou seize Olympian Zeus And call thy Tyrian smiths to forge his fetters? Or wilt thou claim the archer bright Apollo To meet thy human doom, priest Polydaon? ' Tis well; the danger's yours. 11 The wily Phineas hopes, with Polydaon's help, to eliminate Iolaus, marry Andromeda and rule over Syria (as ...
... his increasing inner preoccupation with India's own predicament, which was indeed worse than Ireland's. His first spiritual experience of immense peace and calm and joy on touching Indian soil at Apollo Bunder in Bombay instantaneously quickened his political sensibility by giving it a mystical dimension. It did not take him long at Baroda to size up India's political life, the elegant petitioning ...
... strong influence on human thought and action. 47 Things have, however, changed during the last fifty years, especially since the coming of the Jet age and the Space age. The whole adventure of Apollo flights and moon-landings is shared by hundreds of millions on TV all over the globe, and a new generation is growing up that will surely make mock of the narrow loyalties of their progenitors. In ...
... get back to Sri Aurobindo. He was explaining about the 'atmosphere of a place.' After alluding to the experience of "a vastness and a tremendous calm coming over me," as soon as he set his foot on Apollo Bunder, he said, "That is the atmosphere of the place. Another instance is the sense of Page 179 the Infinite I had at the Shankaracharya Hill at Kashmir and at Parvati Hill near ...
... about it. Then, the experience of the Self came unbidden. "A thing I knew nothing about, never bargained for, didn't understand either..........This began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage." One day, Sri Aurobindo was driving ...
... at Bombay. He began to get the experience of' the Self. "A vast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards)." Sri Aurobindo explained, "I did not know, of course, that it was an experience. It was a sense of calm and ...
... Page 379 Catching their feet in their own subtleties. King Phineus, wilt thou seize Olympian Zeus And call thy Tyrian smiths to forge his fetters? Or wilt thou claim the archer bright Apollo To meet thy human doom, priest Polydaon? 'Tis well; the danger's yours. Give me three days And I'll produce him. CEPHEUS Priest, art thou content? POLYDAON Exceed not thou the period ...
... with black and black can mix with white And share a particoloured deep delight. Great thanks we owe then, loyalists, to "Max", Who his capacious brain the first did tax. Behold the great result! Apollo Paean! The holy club, the Indo-European! Approach, approach the holy precincts, come And chat with Risley of affairs at home; With Fraser arm-in-arm like friends we'll walk, To Luson and to Lee ...
... which figure so largely in Vedic imagery are not, as I shall show, the rays of the physical sun, but of Surya, the brilliant god of knowledge, master of revelation & ideal perception, the prophetic Apollo. Thus we have such expressions as gavyatá manasá, with a radiating mind. In the present rik the image is certainly of physical cows, Page 366 but the usual double figure of the Veda ...
... system strong, symmetrical and stable, its literature and its art good in their own way, but the salt of life is absent, the breath of will-power, the force of a living endeavour. This new journalistic Apollo, our Archer who is out to cleave with his arrows the python coils of Indian barbarism, abounds in outcries in this sense. But, if that is so, evidently India can have done nothing great, contributed ...
... it; "it expresses the essence of the situation." If all were of this character,—there is too much of it and it is deplorable,—a contemptuous silence would be the only possible reply. But fortunately Apollo does not always stretch his bow thus to the breaking-point; all Mr. Archer's shafts are not of this wildgoose flight. There is much in his writing that expresses crudely, but still with sufficient ...
... ) I never entered the special wards or rooms until many years later. But I did attend on a patient in the above-mentioned general wards. But things have changed. And much later came JIPMER, then Apollo (at Chennai) and PIMS to fall back on! Nripen-da moved on. He wanted to establish a well-equipped Nursing Home. For a beginning he ordered an X-ray machine from Germany. The customs held it up — ...
... have a spark of consciousness in them which can respond to an external force: In cities cut like gems of conscious stone. 17 We are reminded of a story from Greek mythology in which Apollo plays on his lyre and his divine music creates the city of Troy. It is, therefore, that architecture that is sometimes called "frozen music". If rhythm can create a city, however allegorical it might ...
... in epic code, similarly poetises the fall of Uranus (representing the rule of shapeless chaos) at the hands of Saturn (representing the rule of cosmic order), and his fall in turn at the hands of Apollo (Jove), the Power of Light and Beauty. Here is cosmic story told by the thoughtful Titan Oceanus, to his brother, the fallen Saturn: We fall by course of Nature's law, not force Or thunder ...
... perusing a book has again been transformed by Keats in his famous sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Here a book becomes a realm of gold, a state and kingdom Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Spelling his way through this duty and musty volume, he felt the exhilaration of breathing in "pure serene of a wide expanse" and the two magnificent similes in the sestet of his sonnet ...
... human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but, at the same time, since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... story about Atlantis. Still more important: according to Herodotus, “the father of history”, most of the Greek gods were the counterparts of the Egyptian gods. “In the Egyptian language”, he writes, “Apollo is called Horus, Demeter Isis, Artemis Bubastis”. Neith is identified with Athena, Osiris with Dionysus, Hathor with Aphrodite, Ammon with Zeus, and so on. 5 In the present context more need ...
... truly a man without a scar in his face telling anyone in his later life of his courage in the face of possible death. (Duellists died only, and exceptionally, by accident.) “Brotherhoods such as the Apollo, each with its own Gasthaus or beer-cellar, distinctive coloured cap and ribbons and duelling matches against rival fraternities, were the focus of student social life; they were at the same time ...
... repeatedly attacked Socrates, according to him the thinker responsible for the reverence assigned to the mind in European civilization. He called autonomous thought a deadly illness, and opposed to Apollo, the god of light and clarity, the wholeness and wholesomeness of Dionysus and the frenzied Dionysian experience. Socratic thought, said Nietzsche, was the source of Christian morality, in other words ...
... he could hire a trained Cambridge and ICS man, higher qualified than most, for less than a reasonable salary. Aravinda sailed for India in February 1903. He set foot ashore in his motherland on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay and entered the service of Sayaji Rao Gaekwad III (1863-1939) two days later. It must have been an enormous change for Aravinda to find himself in the princely but culturally backward ...
... intellectual argument or dissertation. It is not by the exercise of the logical or debating mind that one can arrive at a true understanding of yoga and follow it.’ 10 Above the entrance of the Apollo temple in Delphi was written: ‘Know yourself’. Nowadays, this adage is generally understood in the humanistic, psychological sense, but it was the key word from the core of the secret Greek mysteries: ...
... Frederic Amiel (27.9.1821-11.5.1881), Swiss critic and poet. Shailen, Anilbaran's brother. Lofty mountain of Greece, north of Delphi; associated in classical Greece with worship of Apollo and the Muses. Mundaka Upanishad, Chap. Ill, Section 1, 1. A new type of metre, ayugma (open syllable), yugma (closed syllable). Cottar or Cotter : a farm-labourer or ...
... "The 'forceful adequate' might apply to much of Dante's writing, but much else is pure inevitable; elsewhere it is the inspired style as in that reference to the result of Marsia's competition with Apollo: Si come quando Marsia traesti Delia vagina delle membre sue. 1 I would not call the other line - E venni del martirio a questa pace - 2 merely adequate; it is much ...
... anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was. For example, a vast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact'with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay. This calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards. There was also a realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir ...
... transported mind may soar Above the wheeling poles, and at Heaven's door Look in, and see each blissful deity How he before the thunderous throne doth lie, Listening to what unshorn Apollo sings To the touch of golden wires... 8 Here, except for the rhymes, we might be in the midst of one of the several exordiums in Paradise Lost. And a little further in the same youthful ...
... would include the most different kinds of style—Keats' "magic casements", Wordsworth's [ lines on ] Newton and his "fields of sleep", Shakespeare's "Macbeth has murdered sleep", Homer's descent of Apollo from Olympus, Virgil's "Sunt lachrimae rerum" and his "O passi graviora". 16 September 1934 You write, in regard to a poem of mine, "it is difficult to draw the line" between the illumined and ...
... significant change. The material attributes of the Gods are effaced or have become subordinate to psychological conceptions. The impetuous God of Fire has been converted into a lame God of Labour; Apollo, the Sun, presides over poetical and prophetic inspiration; Athene, who may plausibly be identified as in origin a Dawn-Goddess, has lost all memory of her material functions and is the wise, strong ...
... which these gods or demigods have become in vested with psychological functions, perhaps by the same process which in the Greek religion converted Athene, the Dawn, into the goddess of knowledge and Apollo, the sun, into the divine singer and seer, lord of the prophetic and poetic inspiration. Page 160 In the Veda it is possible that another tendency has been at work,—the persistent and ...
... 284) Who shall slay thee, O soul immortal? Who shall torture thee, O God ever-joyous? 285) Think this when thy members would fain make love with depression and weakness, "I am Bacchus and Ares and Apollo; I am Agni pure and invincible; I am Surya ever burning mightily." 286) Shrink not from the Dionysian cry & rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows. 287) Thou ...
... seems to be the sky, the Greek Ouranos,—et cetera. But when we have accepted these identities, the question of Vedic interpretation & the sense of Vedic worship is not settled. In the Greek religion Apollo was the god of the sun, but he was also the god of poetry & prophecy; Athene is identified with Ahana, a Vedic name of the Dawn, but for the Greeks she is the goddess of purity & wisdom; Artemis is ...
... knew anything about Yoga or even what Yoga was,—e.g. a vast calm which descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil after his long absence, in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay; (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards,) the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the ...
... All human interests are, I suppose, this-worldly and most of them have entered into my mental field and some, like politics, into my life, but at the same time, since I set foot on Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and intimate bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... Aphorisms Aphorism - 286, 287, 288 286—Think this when thy members would fain make love with depression and weakness, "I am Bacchus and Ares and Apollo; I am Agni pure and invincible; I am Surya ever burning mightily." 287—Shrink not from the Dionysian cry and rapture within thee, but see that thou be not a straw upon those billows. 288—Thou ...
... pronouncement on Dante, quoted above, referred to "the inspired style" in his writing: Page 37 Si come quando Marsia traesti Delia vagina delle membra sue. These lines to Apollo may be tentatively rendered with a little freedom: In that dire mode of yours as when you plucked Marsyas out of the scabbard of his limbs. An instance directly in English may ...
... to have a true measure of the claimed success we have only to take the reviewer's quotation of Lattimore's rendering of the first line of Homer's famous passage in the Iliad about the descent of Apollo to avenge the Greeks' insult to his high-priest Chryses: Be de kat' oulumpoio karenon choömenos ker. Lattimore writes: And strode down along the pinnacles of Olympos, angered in ...
... dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green. This is how Marpesa opens. Idas is a youth who has fallen in love with the wonderful beauty of the girl Marpessa. She is wooed also by the God Apollo and has to choose between a mortal lover and an immortal. Idas has been restless through the night of summer with his own yearning for the perfection of Marpessa, a perfection Page 103 ...
... the inspiration of fellow poets. Something in the secret places of your heart appears to come close to the work that is near my own heart in the realms of gold... Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. But how can that be? The outer KR has been often at loggerheads with me. Could the inner KR be less headstrong? And here arises as if with a natural affinity the picture which took me quite ...
... writing of Troilus and Cressida or Keats choosing to write of the fall of Hyperion or, on a smaller though not poetically inferior scale, Stephen Phillips conjuring up the story of Marpessa, Idas and Apollo? In our own day, Kazantzakis has written at a gigantic length (33,333 lines) a sequel to the Odyssey and in a form loosely reminiscent of Homer's. The only pertinent questions are: "Does the adopted ...
... t we shall miss the final touch of his oceanic verse. One of his most famous lines comes at almost the beginning of the Iliad. Agamemnon has captured Chryseis, the daughter of the high-priest of Apollo. The high-priest approaches him and pleads for the return of his daughter. Agamemnon insolently refuses to hand her over. Then the old man goes home along the Trojan beach, and Homer has the line: ...
... of mathematical or symbolic logic — a mind moving among abstractions: he became a first-rate bard under Sri Aurobindo's touch. Nirodbaran was trained to be a doctor, but his aspiration was towards Apollo, not Aesculapius. He wanted to write sonnets, not prescriptions. He yearned to dispense not medicines but Coleridgean "honey-dew". Here, too, Sri Aurobindo did the trick. Sri Aurobindo knew how to ...
... Using a large number of jurors prevented bribery and the panel before which a case was to be tried was decided by lot at the last minute to reduce corruption. All jurors swore an oath by the gods Zeus, Apollo and Demeter: "I will cast my vote in consonance with the laws and decrees passed by the Assembly and by the council, but, if there is no law, in consonance with my sense of what is most just, ...
... the French intellectual world, allowed de Coubertin to use its amphitheatre. Two thousand people attended the Congress, including 79 delegates and 49 sports associations from 12 countries. A hymn to Apollo, recently discovered at Delphi, was sung at the inauguration. Afterwards, Pierre de Coubertin stood by and unfolded his great dream before the Congress. He told them that "a man is not only formed ...
... was very pleased and told Socrates what the oracle had spoken to him. But when Socrates heard this, he was greatly puzzled. He thought that he knew nothing and yet he could not believe that the god Apollo could be wrong. He, therefore, went about among those people who were famous for their wisdom. First he went to a politician who was thought to be wise by many and regarded himself Page 129 ...
... name of Krishna, and in the Uttarpara I was speaking of Krishna, if you please. But didn't you begin Yoga later on in Gujerat? Yes. But this began in London, sprouted the moment I set foot on Apollo Bunder, touching Indian soil, flowered one day in the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose ...
... atheist. How do you explain this? You can't say it was the atmosphere of the place. It was in the blood or perhaps carried over from a past life. And the curious thing is that as soon as I set my foot on Apollo Bunder in Bombay the experience of the Self began in me—it was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere. There is a contact with a place that gives you an experience and sometimes the ...
... to Eliot. He says Pound's earlier poems are a preparation for later ones which have rhythm, form, etc., but have no substance. Have you found. wonderful rhythm? PURANI: None. Isn't that poem "O Apollo.. .tinwreath" by him? Nolini said tin-wreath is wonderful! (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it is in Greek tina; most idiotic it is. And he says it is a great pun; not a pun but most idiotic. ...
... realities, essential form-movements, fundamental modes of consciousness in its universal and transcendent status. It is this that the Indian artist endeavours to envisage and express. A Greek Apollo or Venus or a Madonna of Raphael is a human form idealized to perfection, – moulded to meet the criterion of beauty which the physical eye demands. The purely æsthetic appeal of such forms consists ...
... the, 75, 88, 89 America, 56, 72, 81, 87, 89, 91, 103-4, 111, 119, 209 Amitabha, 273 Anarchism, 112 Anaxagoras, 326 Angst, 377 Anselm, 150 Apollo, 177,220 Aquinas, Thomas, 150 Aristotle, 128, 182,219,322 Arjuna, 60, 188-9,384-5, 391 Arminius, 88 Arnold, Matthew, 68, 192, 240, 272 Artemis, 195 ...
... Sri Aurobindo took in his hands the task of moulding the medico into a creative poet. And what was the result? Let Amal Kiran, NB's poet-friend, speak now: "Nirodbaran's aspiration was towards Apollo, not Aesculapius. He wanted to write sonnets, not prescriptions. He yearned to dispense not medicines, but Coleridgean 'honey-dew'. Here, too, Sri Aurobindo did the trick. Sri Aurobindo knew how to ...
... the age of Reason began to develop. There was no parallel movement such as the one that developed in the period of intuition of the Upanishads. To use the terminology of the Greek gods, the reign of Apollo, the God of revelation, was followed by the reign of Athena, the goddess of Reason. The reason why the Indian trend of thought, during the Age of Reason, came to be greatly influenced by knowledge ...
... returning home, a darkness which had entered his being when he was a small boy in India and had hung on to him alt through his stay in England, fell off him like a cloak. And when the ship touched Apollo Bunder, Bombay, and he stepped at last on Indian soil, he had a strange experience. A vast cairn and quiet descended on him and remained with him for months thereafter. This young man was Aurobindo ...
... Afghanistan, 284 Agni, 16, 19-20,22-3,28, 33-5, 45, 157 61, 164, 166, 180,214 America, 198,284 Ananda, 133 Andamans, 103 Ansars, 267 Antigone, 187, 273 -Aphrodite, 182 Apollo, 180, 182 Aragon, 88 Aristotle, 89, 248 Arjuna, 254 Arnold, Matthew, 71, 189,234 -Essays in Criticism, 234n Arya, the, 131,227-8 Asia, 284 Asuras, 159 Aswins ...
... known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandharvas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect—in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs and cherubs dwell here. In ...
... known as aesthetic or artistic creation derives its spirit from this sphere. Many of the gods of beauty and delight are denizens of this heaven. Gandhar-vas and Kinnaras are here, Dionysus and even Apollo perhaps (at least in their mythological aspect—in their occult reality they properly belong to the Overmind which is the Page 47 own home of the gods), many of the angels, seraphs ...
... Index Aditi, 46 Africa, 272, 323 Agni,44, 52, 120, 151 Ahriman, 46, 110 Ahura Mazda, 46 Alexander, 56-7 Allies, the, 66 America, 133,214,421 Aniruddha, 44, 207-8 Apollo, 47 Ardhanarishwara, 84 Arjuna,9, 14,76-8,93, 112n., 116, 161 Arnold, Matthew, 92, 119 Aryaman, 208 Asia, 272 Asura, 19,45-6,80,98, 162,208-9,226, 253, 334, 349, 379 Axis Powers ...
... found expression in their arts. Their idea of perfection was that of a human perfection in which the intellect, the aesthetic sense and the body—all the three—found a harmonious development. Apollo is the embodiment of that perfection in Sculpture. So, while you work with your hands and eyes your mind should envisage the life of the people who created this art-form. True art is founded upon life ...
... that? You can't say that it was the atmosphere of the place. It was in the blood or perhaps carried from past life. Then there was the experience when I came to India : as soon as I set my foot on Apollo Bunder, I felt a vastness and a tremendous calm coming over me. I did not know, of course, that it was an experience. It was a sense of calm and vastness pervading everywhere and I had not got it in ...
... tremendous peace. This is one of the experiences that came to him unasked. Here is what he wrote to a disciple incidentally about this experience : " . . . Since I set foot on the Indian soil on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, I began to have spiritual experiences, but these were not divorced from this world but had an inner and infinite bearing on it, such as a feeling of the Infinite pervading material ...
... service of the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 January 12 Leaves England by the S.S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is retroactive ...
... Book Achilles takes leave of his mistress, Briseis. There is also a synod of the gods on Olympus, and the future is dimly determined after a long debate: "And in the noon there was night. And Apollo passed out of Troya." 121 The battle at last begins, and now one side, now another seems to get the upper hand; when the poem abruptly ends, Penthesilea is not dead yet, and Achilles is still alive ...
... the Maharaja Gaekwar of Baroda. 1893 — January 12 Leaves England by the S. S. Carthage. Travels via Gibraltar, Port Said and Aden. February 6 Arrives in India, landing at the Apollo Bunder, Bombay. A "vast calm" descends upon him as he sets foot on Indian soil and remains for months afterwards. February 18 Officially joins the Baroda State Service; his pay is ...
... these have been referred to already. These had begun, in fact, since the very moment he touched Indian soil on his return from England. A vast calm had descended upon him with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay, his first recontact with the body and spirit of India; and this calm surrounded him and remained with him for many months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Tak ...
... seem to find everywhere that ancient Memory of a great transmutative truth and its overshadowing, of the Quest, the battle of the heroes of Light against the evil forces, Indra and the snake Vritra , Apollo and the Python, Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, but nowhere do we find so purely the totality of the Secret, and we are filled with wonder at these Vedic conquerors : They may not have yoked ...
... reached by the same means and through the same companionship with the gods of Light. At the beginning of all human traditions there is this ancient memory. It is Indra and the serpent Vritra, it is Apollo and the Python, it is Thor and the Giants, Sigurd and Fafner, it is the mutually opposing gods of the Celtic mythology; but only in the Veda do we find the key to this imagery which conceals the hope ...
... the mantra of Indian culture. So he skipped the riding test of I.C.S. -"Avast calm descended upon him at the moment when he stepped first on Indian soil ... in fact with his first step on the Apollo Bunder in Bombay" (6 February 1893). -The experience of the 'Godhead' when he "sat behind the dance of Danger's hooves" at Baroda. -The sense of the Infinite, 'Adwaita,' which he experienced ...
... Mother's Chronicles Book Five: Mirra Meets the Revolutionary Chronology 1893, February 6 — Sri Aurobindo, returning from England, lands at Apollo Bunder, Bombay. February 18 —Joins the Baroda State Service. May 31 — Swami Vivekananda sails for America to attend the World Parliament of Religions in Chicago in September ...
... to a single level. All things can be seen as having divine beauty, but somethings have more divine beauty than others. "In the artist's vision too there can be gradations, a hierarchy of values.—Apollo's grapes deceived the birds that came to peck at them, but there was more aesthetic content in the Zeus of Phidias, a greater content of consciousness and therefore of Ananda to express and fill in ...
... authenticity, value is, first and last, Inspiration — Inspiration working through any part of man's nature. The outward-going body-conscious Page 110 mind of Homer describes Apollo's descent from Olympus with an intense atmosphere of the god's subtle physicality of power. Shakespeare passes a sudden voice from spiritual heights through the life-force's peculiar thrill and colour... Force one with unimaginable rest. In all these expressions the inspiration is absolutely unmarred. Sri Aurobindo has experienced the very state he poetises, while Homer never knew Apollo's deific puissance nor Shakespeare the world-soul's profound reverie; yet their language when filled with a mystic intuition has not suffered the least weakness in imparting a real-sense. For each has ...
... Of course, old Milton (he was young, however, when he wrote these lines) says that philosophy is divine and charming: Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute.! Well, I am not sure if the poet was anything more than being metaphorically rhapsodical, at the most he had only a poetic perception, he did not give us the scientific truth of the ...
... fact. Of course, old Milton (he was young, however, when he wrote these lines) says that philosophy is divine and charming: Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute. 1 Well, I am not sure if the poet was anything more than being metaphorically rhapsodical, at the most he had only a poetic perception, he did not give us the scientific truth of the ...
... more beautiful picture? In short, the first and foremost of Mirra's morals was a sort of extension of aesthetics—the Greeks had not discovered anything else. But we are not so sure that all their Apollos did not conceal the same misery. And Mirra did not like cheating. Honesty began with the color of ones thoughts. She was to live this artist’s life for exactly ten years, until 1908, when She ...
... intention can be noble, as for instance, the example quoted by Arnold from Virgil, Disce, puer, virtutem ex me verumque laborem, Fortunam ex aliis Page 173 or the line quoted from Apollo's speech about the dead body of Hector and Achilles' long-nourished and too self-indulgent rage against it tlēton gar Moirai thumon thesan anthrōpoisin. These two lines Still raise for ...
... Gallio's proconsulship of Achaia (Acts 18:12), starting from 52 A.D. according to an inscription found at Delphi. 156 At the time 1 Corinthians was written, a learned Jew from Alexandria (Acts 18:24), Apollos, who after Paul's departure from Corinth had become a leader there of the Christian community, was with Paul and was unwilling to return to Corinth just then (1 Corinthians 16:12) "in case his presence ...
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