Bharata : the epic written by Vyāsa, later enlarged into the Mahābhārata.
... to) see (face to face) Bharata, on whose account great suffering has been undergone by you, 0 scion of Raghu, as well as by Sītā and myself, and for whose sake, 0 Rama, you have been deprived of a kingdom which was ever yours. (21-22) Bharata, who has arrived .in state as an adversary, surely deserves to be killed outright, 0 heroic prince! I see no wrong in killing Bharata, 0 scion of Raghu! (23)... son on the throne on the death of a king) and that the said Bharata has not come with any other motive. (9-11) Getting angry with mother Kaikeyī and speaking unkind words to her and having obtained the consent of our father, the glorious Bharata has (evidently) come to offer the throne to me. (12) "It is (but) opportune that Bharata sees us — (in fact) he deserves to see us. He would not do any... NationMuseum, Delhi Page 127 that you mistrust Bharata today. (14) Bharata should under no circumstances be spoken to harshly nor should unkind words be addressed to him. If any offence were given to Bharata, indeed it would mean that I am told unpleasant things. (15) How on earth can sons take the life of their father in any ...
... Courtesy:Govt.Museum and Art Gallery, Chadigarh (India ) Page 16 that crown and entreated Rama to accept it; Sri Rama, with unflinching firmness declined, and persuaded Bharata to accept the crown. And yet when Bharata, accepting Sri Rama's advice, and therefore in his capacity as king, prayed to Sri Rama to bestow upon him the boon of his wooden sandals which would be installed in the kingdom... fourteen years to the forest and for the installation of Bharata as the king; Sri Rama's undisturbed state of mind even at this sudden reversal from coronation to exile; Sri Rama's dialogues with Kaikeyi, with Kausalya his own mother, Lakshmana and Sita and the departure of Sri Rama to the forest in the company of Sita and Lakshmana.) 2. Bharata meets with Sri Rama in the forest to urge him to accept... fateful night which was to break into the dawn of the crowning of Sri Rama, the king was compelled to take a decision to send his beloved Rama into exile for fourteen years and to bestow the crown on Bharata, the younger prince and the son of the youngest queen Kaikeyi. Only Valmiki has been able to describe the majesty and the divinity of Sri Rama, who even though dimmed by the unexpected turn of events ...
... (Mewar ) Page 35 Rāma of unfailing prowess, Bharata, rich in noble sentiments, actually implored (Srī Rāma) his (elder) brother (accordingly). (35) He addressed the following words to Srī Rama: — "You alone are the ruler, since you know right conduct." In deference to his father's decree, (conferring the throne of Ayodhyā on Bharata) Srī Rama, who was supremely magnanimous and enjoyed... hanker for the kingdom. Handing over to Bharata his (own) pair of wooden sandals as his representative to rule over the kingdom, Srī Rāma, Bharata's elder brother who was possessed of great might persuaded him to return from Citrakuta after repeatedly importuning him. Without realizing his mind's desire (of seeing Rama back in Ayodhya and crowning him king), Bharata returned to Ayodhya, touching the... recognition of her outstanding personal courage and service to her husband on the field of battle), however, asked of him (against the promised boon) the exile of Srī Rāma and the installation of Bharata (her own son). (19 22) Bound (as he was) by the tie of duty (in the form of his plighted word) due to his (ever) speaking the truth. King Dasaratha exiled his beloved son, Rāma. (23) In obedience ...
... car and approaching Śrī Rāma, Bharata of unfailing prowess, greeted him once more. (40) Fully rising (from his seat) and placing on his lap Bharata who had fallen within the range of his sight after a long time, Śrī Rāma (a scion of Kakutstha) joyfully embraced him. (41) Approaching Laksmana (and embracing him) as also Sīta (a princess of the v'aeha territory), Bharata, the scourge of his enemies there... (52) Śrī Rāma, the elder brother of Bharata, beheld thousands of joined palms held tightly by the citizens like (so many) fullblown lotuses. (53) Taking the wooden sandals bestowed on him by Śrī Rāma, Bharata for his part, who knew what is right, himself placed them below the Page 254 feet of Śrī Rāma (a ruler of men). With joined palms the said Bharata spoke to Śrī Rāma: — "Here is your... your moral force."(57) Seeing the said Bharata, who was (so) fond of his elder brother, speaking as above, the monkeys began to shed tears as also the rākshasa, Vibhīsana. (58) Placing Bharata on his lap in excessive joy, Śrī Rāma (a sci on of Raghu) then flew with his (entire) army (of monkeys and bears) in that aerial car to the hermitage of Bharata. (59) Alighting from the top of the aerial ...
... furthermore, Bharata has been nominated by my father for the office of Prince Regent. (23) As such I have come to see you while on my way to the solitary forest. In the presence of Bharata, I should never be praised by you. (24) For men endowed with fortune and power, do not brook to hear the glorification of others. Therefore my virtues should never be extolled by you before Bharata. (25) I should... Prince Regent) of Bharata and your departure to the Dandaka forest, 0 scion of Raghu. (33) If you want to prove your father and yourself to be true to your promises, 0 jewel among men, (please) listen to the following exhortation of mine. (34) Be faithful to the word of your father: as promised by him, you ought to retire to the woods for nine years and five. (35) And let Bharata be consecrated with... and goodwill (they cherish me) and the way in which they have looked after me (when I was a child). (32) Bharata and Satrughna too, who are dearer to me than life, should be particularly regarded by Page 71 you as your (own) brothers or sons. (33) No offence should be given to Bharata at any time; for he is (now) as it were the ruler of our country as well as of our family, 0 princess of ...
... ing the limit of human possibility. All this leads one to the conclusion that in the body of poetry I have described, we have the real Bharata, an epic which tells plainly and straightforwardly of the events which led to the great war and the empire of the Bharata princes. Certainly if Prof. Weber's venturesome assertion as to the length of the original Mahabharata be correct, this conclusion falls... by India as emperors in their own right, any more than say Sindhia or Holkar would have been in the last century. But by putting forward the just claims of a prince of the imperial Bharata line, the descendant of Bharata Ajamede connected with themselves by marriage, they could avoid this difficulty and at the same time break the power of the Kurus and replace them as the dominant partners in the new... national type of the great Bharata races, the Kurus, Bhojas and Panchalas who created the Veda & the Vedanta, find in Vyasa their fitting poetical type and exponent, just as the mild and delicately moral temper of the more eastern Coshalas has realised itself in Valmekie and through the Ramayana so largely dominated Hindu character. Steeped in the heroic ideals of the Bharata, attuned to their profound ...
... the notion that the actual time and life-style of the Bharata-War period had been discovered: he was even sceptical whether there was ever such an event as the Bharata War. Most Indian historians don't share Sircar's scepticism, but, as you note, the datings differ. My dating of Krishna - either 1482 or 1452 B.C. - which involves that of the Bharata War has the support of S.R. Rao's recent marine excavation... 250 B.C. as the date. You draw my attention to the article "The Pandyas and the date of Kalidasa" in the March 1994 Mother India, p. 191. But you are mixing up the poem Mahabharata and the Bharata War whose story it recounts. The author of this article is talking of the poem and not of the War. Similarly he is talking of the poem Ramayana which he dates to the first century B.C. I have found ...
... Laksmana departing, the doorkeeper went to Bharata and there having wished prosperity and having bowed down with humility with his palms joined together, said to Bharata, "The King desires to see you." On hearing from the doorkeeper the message sent by Śrī Rāma, the mighty Bharata sprang up from his seat and hurriedly left on foot. Then having beheld Bharata going away, the doorkeeper moving speedily... certain story, Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) inquired: — "Bhadra! What are the talks of the town and the kingdom? (4) What are the people of the town and the country talking about me and about Sītā, Bharata and Laksmana and what indeed about Śatrughna and mother Kaikeyī ? Kings are criticized in the forests and in the kingdom." (5-6) On being thus questioned by Śrī Rāma, Bhadra with his palms joined... through intellect Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) spoke these words to the door-keeper seated nearby: — (1) "Bring immediately Sumitrā's son Laksmana, endowed with auspicious marks, the highly illustrious Bharata and the unconquered Śatrughna." (2) Having heard Śrī Rāma's order the doorkeeper placed his hands with palms joined together on the forehead (as a mark of respect) and having set forth to Laksmana's ...
... share good news. For example, how great was Hanuman's joy when he could give joy to others. Listen: Noble Bharata, Lord Rama's brother, waited fourteen years while Rama was in exile from the city of Ayodhya. Rama, the all-beautiful, wandered in the forest and knew the perils of war. But Bharata did not know his brother's fate. As the end of the fourteenth year drew near, he pined in grief, fearing that... singing hymns in his praise, and now the Lord is on his way home with Sita and his brother." Bharata thought no more of his past sorrow. "Who are you, who bring me such glad tidings?" "I am Hanuman, the son of the Wind, and though I am a monkey, I am a servant of Raghupati, of Rama." Bharata embraced Hanuman. "Tell me more," he said, "yes, tell me all." And Hanuman told him all, and... that he would never see Rama's face again, for he had no news of him. One day more and the fourteen years would have passed. Bharata was sitting on a seat of sacred grass, his hair was braided, his body was thin, and he was sighing to himself: "O Rama, Rama, Raghupati!" Then there stood before him the monkey-king Hanuman, noble Hanuman who had served the hero Rama so faithfully in the wars ...
... The Secret Splendour Bharata (The Ramayana tells how Bharata, a brother of Rama—by another wife of Dasaratha's—and an extreme devotee of his avatarhood, was sorely grieved to learn that Rama had been sent into exile and that he himself was to succeed to the throne owing to an unfortunate promise made by Dasaratha to Bharata's mother. He set out to find... after a strenuous journey reached his goal. He fell at Rama's feet, but Rama lifted him up and embraced him, yet while appreciating his devotion exhorted him to stand by the word of their father. Bharata surrendered his will to Rama's and returned to the capital; but he took with him Rama's sandals and placed them on the throne to rule in his stead.) Sandals of the great Wanderer's feet ...
... I hope news about the welfare of Kausalyā and likewise of Sumitrā' as well as of Bharata, are frequently brought to his ears. (22) "Does Śrī Rāma, who is deserving of honour, feel stricken with grief occasioned by my absence? I hope he has not grown indifferent (to me). (And) will he rescue me? (23) Will Bharata, who is fond of his brother, send out for my sake a formidable army, consisting of... having been annoyed by the crow." (20) Due to exhaustion, 0 Hanūmān , I Page 175 lay asleep in the arms of Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) for long. And Śrī Rāma (the eldest brother of Bharata) in his turn lay fast asleep in my arms. (21) "Meantime (while Śrī Rāma was lying asleep in my arms) the same crow appeared on the scene once more. Descending all of a sudden, the crow then clawed ...
... cancelled. He had to forsake the kingdom out of respect for the earlier vow of his revered father to grant two boons to Kaikeyī, the mother of Bharata. It was Kaikeyī who asked for the banishment of Rāma to the forest for fourteen years and the kingdom for Bharata instead. Kālidāsa points out that the people of Ayodhya amazingly noted a rare equanimity on Rāma's face when first he wore the auspicious silken... himself in his Rāmāyana, particularly in the Sundarakānda, and Kālidāsa in his highly suggestive style has referred to this theme also very Page 76 clearly in half a stanza when Bharata meets and bows at the holy feet of Sītā, at the end of Canto XIII of Raghuvamśam. My point is that she was not at all timid (bhīru) in any ordinary sense, not even when she is seen clinging ...
... superstructure was and is still known as Bharata to the Indians themselves, and as "India" or variants like Hind and Hindustan to outsiders. The well-known quote from the Vishnupurana says: "Uttaram yat samudrasya himadreshcaiva daksinam Varsam tad bharatam nama bharati yatra santatih." That is, Bharata is defined as the land north of the seas... where the people are called "Bharati". But the Bharati peoples were not all similar and alike. They were distinct peoples and this was well known to the authors of the Puranas. Yet they used the term Bharata, thus indicating that in spite of differences, there was commonness and an underlying unity. We see this illustrated in the epics. The Ramayana and the Mahabharata provide a clear ...
... of a consciousness beyond the personal, a consciousness that has a cosmic character.) How far back in time may Rama be considered to have existed? My new chronology dates Krishna at the time of the Bharata War to c. 1482 or 1452 B.C. The recent underwater archaeological finds at Dwaraka put Krishna's submerged Dwaraka at about the same time. In the traditional table of royal genealogies, starting... Vaivasvata, Krishna's number is 94 and Rama's 65 - a difference of 30 generations. Taking a generation to be roughly 30 years we get about 900 years. This would carry Rama to around 900 years before the Bharata War: that is, c. 2382 or 2352 B.C. Here I may clear a possible misunderstanding. In chapter X, verse 31 of the Gita, Krishna speaking of his Vibhutis (manifesting human instruments) tells ...
... been in vogue by 634 A.D., the date of the Aihole Inscription of Pulakesin II which calculates both with the popular Śāka Era starting from 78 A.D. and with the Kaliyuga Era to which it links the Bharata War. So the Purānic pundits, who are said by modern historians to have arranged their chronology in the centuries just before 634 A.D., would be, according to the modern time-scheme, living face to... Era. We have only to revert to a topic already treated when we refuted the claim that the traditional Indian chronology is internally inconsistent and that the dating of the Kaliyuga and the Bharata War does riot come to us in a single coherent voice. We dealt with a pronouncement of Varāhamihira, the author of the famous astronomical works, Panchasiddh ā ntik ā and Brihatsamhit ā ...
... effortless ease. Would you want to know the saranagati tattva which is the central spring of India's religious thought? Sethna can take us straight to that divine being of fraternal love. Bharata the image of total surrender prayerfully paying his daily homage to the sandals of Rama in Nadhigram: "Here in this kingdom's vigilant heart I place Twin-lamps - the quiet sandals... author of the new volume to be a fanatic of the antiquity-favouring Puranas, even while giving them a good deal of consideration, nor to plead for the traditional fixing of the Kaliyuga and the Bharata War at the end of the fourth millennium B.C. as do the nationalist-minded revisionists of history today. Mr. Sethna has emphasised in his Introduction that if the chronological scheme ...
... the shoulders of the disciple and asks him whether he is on the disciple's back or the disciple on the Guru's back ( Laughter) Then there is a very fine description of Jada Bharata. Disciple : Is it true? Did Jada Bharata exist? Sri Aurobindo : I don't know. But it sounds very real in the Purana, where it is placed. It is also the most anti-Buddhist Purana. Disciple : Then ...
... ing the limit of human possibility. All this leads one to the conclusion that in the body of poetry I have described, we have the real Bharata, an epic which tells plainly and straightforwardly of the events which led to the great war and the empire of the Bharata princes. Certainly if Prof. Weber's venturesome assertion as to the length of the original Mahabharata be correct, this conclusion falls ...
... has entered in, which does not permit the revelatory truth in its dynamics to emerge In any case, this is a much better presentation than Kamala Subramanian's hurried assessment in her digested Maha bharata wherein she depicts Savitri as someone "who was able to outwit Yama the god of death by her wise talk and her devotion to her husband". Poor Yama! Nor does this make Savitri great. But why indeed ignore... significance of the injunctive aspect of the tale better from what Sri Aurobindo has written in a larger context regarding the old Vedic tradition that was carried forward by the poets of the Maha bharata and Ramayana. "The poets... wrote with a sense of their function as architects and sculptors of life, creative exponents, fashioners of significant forms of the national thought and religion and ethics ...
... chronology dates Krishna at the time of the Bharata War to c. 1482 or 1452 B.C. In the traditional table of royal genealogies, starting with Manu Vaivasvata, Krishna's number is 94 and Rama's 65 - a difference of 30 generations. Taking a generation to be roughly 30 years we get about 900 years. This would carry Rama to around 900 years before the Bharata War, that is, c. 2382 or 2352 B.C. ...
... limit of human possibility. All this leads one to the conclusion that in the body of poetry I have described, we have the real Bharata, an epic which tells plainly and straightforwardly of Page 185 the events which led to the great war and the empire of the Bharata princes.... "...Tradition attributes it to Krishna of the Island called Vyasa who certainly lived about this time and was ...
... shield, scimitar, dart, mace, battle axe, and club; in driving and elephant riding; in musical instruments, such as the lute, fife, drum, cymbal and pipe; in the laws of dancing laid down by Bharata and others and the science of music such as Narada; in the management of elephants, the knowledge of a horse's age and the marks of men; in painting, leaf-cutting, the use of books and writing; in... singing, dancing, playing instruments but it also included dramatics. Later around the 3rd century A.D, an important treatise on music, dance and drama, the Natya Shastra was written by the sage Bharata. It described in detail the different modes of dancing, the gestures of hands and feet, the many different postures. It seems that even in the Vedic period dancing was practised by both men and ...
... original He jumps upon the shoulders of the disciple and then asks him whether he is on the disciple's back or the disciple is on his back? There is a very fine description of Jada Bharata. Disciple : Did Jada Bharata exist? Sri Aurobindo : I don't know, but he appears very real in the Purana. It is also the most anti-Buddhist Purana I believe. Disciple : Then it must have been composed ...
... and expressing so completely the life of a long formative age, that it is said of it in a popular saying which has the justice if also the exaggeration of a too apt epigram, "What is not in this Bharata, is not in Bharatavarsha (India)," and the Ramayana, the greatest and most remarkable poem of its kind, that most sublime and beautiful epic of ethical idealism and a heroic semi-divine human life ...
... and imitated in figures Page 350 like Rama and Sita, made so divinely and with such a revelation of reality as to become objects of enduring cult and worship, or like Hanuman, Lakshmana, Bharata the living human image of its ethical ideals; it has fashioned much of what is best and sweetest in the national character, and it has evoked and fixed in it those finer and exquisite yet firm soul ...
... which was "super" to the ordinary human mind. It is a common mistake. Even the word supermind (which I invented) has been taken up by several Page 142 people (writers in the Prabuddha Bharata and elsewhere) and applied generally to the spiritual consciousness. I see no reason to doubt that X saw things in vision (hundreds of people do) or had experiences. 7 July 1936 Supermind ...
... hunger strike, 145 , 168 , 171 I I. C .S. (Indian Civil Service), 223 idealism, 194, 196,246 imperialism, 24, 202, 226 India, her assimilation of other cultures, 86, 178,179,248 as Bharata Shakti, 139 as Bhawani Bharati, 15 her decline degeneration, 30, 40.41, 43,59-60,61,85.86, 150-153, 185 her destiny, 22, 133,134, 139,245,250 her dharma Swadharma, 42, 49 , 158, 165,177,250 ...
... for ever along with the soul of the nation that holds it in its keeping Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence.... Page 139 To follow a law or principle involuntarily or ignorantly ...
... 5 —except of course the loss of the sense of personality and the non-identification with desire and the movements of Prakriti. Still perhaps the condition of the jaḍavat Paramhansa (like Jada Bharata) may resemble it. The theory of prārabdha karma goes farther than that—it assumes that even if there are vital movements, that is also only the continuance of the machine of Prakriti and will drop ...
... Mandala Three Hymns to the Mystic Fire Devashravas and Devavata Bharata SUKTA 23 निर्मथितः सुधित आ सघस्थे युवा कविरध्वरस्य प्रणेता । जूर्यत्स्वग्निरजरो वनेष्वत्रा दधे अमृतं जातवेदाः ॥१॥ 1) Churned out and well-established in the house of his session, the Youth, the Seer, the leader of the pilgrim-sacrifice, imperishable in the perishing woodlands ...
... Mandala Five : The Atris Hymns to the Mystic Fire Tryaruna Traivrishna, Trasadasyu Paurukutsya, Ashwamedha Bharata SUKTA 27 अनस्वन्ता सत्पतिर्मामहे मे गावा चेतिष्ठो असुरो मघोनः । त्रैवृष्णो अग्ने दशभिः सहस्त्रैर्वैश्वानर त्र्यरुणश्चिकेत ॥१॥ 1) The Master of beings, the Holder of Plenty, the mighty Lord most awake to knowledge has made me largesse ...
... and evil. But still the world in the Gita's vision does not quite escape being "anityam asukham" (transient and unhappy), for all the field it offers of a mighty victory of Righteousness as in the Bharata War. The way in which the Acharyas, the erudite commentators, have interpreted the Gita, each in favour of his own penchant, is not entirely unconnected with the Gita's own many-sided synthesising ...
... be swathed with swaddling clothes; let them recover the free and unbound motion of the gods; let them have not only the minuteness but the wide mastery and sovereignty natural to the intellect of Bharata and easily recoverable by it if it once accustoms itself to feel its own power and be convinced of its own worth. If it cannot entirely shake off past shackles, let it at least arise like the infant ...
... condemned to death and deported to the infamous jail in Port Blair on the Andaman Islands. In the meantime a profound change had taken place in the political extremist Aurobindo Ghose, reverent son of Bharata Mata, Mother India. Having seen with his own eyes that yoga could give power, and wanting power for political purposes, he called for the help of a tantric yogi. The result of this yogi’s instructions ...
... translated, some- what freely, from the eleventh chapter of the Gita in the following order: Couplets 19, i6, 23, 24, 28, 29, 30, 31. Page 34. "Thou belongs!... to Me": translated from the Maha- bharata: Mamaiva tvam tavaivahamye madiyastavaiva te Yastvam dveshti sa mam dveshti yastvam anu sa mom anu Page 195 Page 35. "Renown nor wealth... love": translated from ...
... evolutionary destiny and our struggle will not cease till we have arrived at the Goal, the Divine, the One Divine who is All. Please refer to Vana-Parua (canto on exile of Parndavas)' of 'Maha-Bharata-c-lverses 310 to 313 mainly 312 wherein Dharmarajya (God of Justice, Keeper of Righteousness and Death) put a number 'o f questions to Yudhisthir to test his knowledge and sense of Justice-this is ...
... a certain area on a map, but a living being. As Sri Aurobindo wrote: ‘Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has ...
... doubt, Krishna says that he comes from age to age to uphold the Dharma, but does he make it quite clear anywhere in the Gita that the long line of births preceding his Avatarhood at the time of the Bharata War counted any Avatar-life, say, as Rama who in the Hindu procession of the Avatars is held to have come before him? Actually Krishna mentions no name of any past Avatar as once having been himself ...
... but to some extent they surely did, and we have some information about the curriculum followed in Taxila, the most important seat of learning in ancient India. It is said that Taxila was founded by Bharata and named after his son Taksha, who was established there as ruler. (Taxila was situated about twenty miles west of modem Rawalpindi.) Apart from the Vedic knowledge, grammar, philosophy, and eighteen ...
... to it to be loved and imitated in figures like Rama and Sita, made so divinely and with such a revelation of reality as to become objects of enduring cult and worship, or like Hanuman, Lakshmana, Bharata the living human image of its ethical ideals; it has fashioned much of what is best and sweetest in the national character, and it has evoked and fixed in it those finer and exquisite yet firm soul-tones ...
... ss on which they exercise their influence. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle, which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has ...
... Sri Aurobindo. India - A Living Personality 'Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle, which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has ...
... first essay, in an abridged form was broadcast on December 4, 1942. 'New World-Conditions' was published in the Hindusthan Quarterly Calcutta. (1945 ), .'The Basis of Unity' in the Prabuddha Bharata (1943, May), the papers 'On Social Reconstruction' in the Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, Bombay, (1945), and 'The Three Degrees of SociaI Organisation; in the Aryan Path (1943, August) ...
... Dwaitadwaita are not the same. The latter is the philosophy of Nimbarkar. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't think Bhedabheda is the philosophy of Nimbarkar; I have read so somewhere. Yes, in the Prabuddha Bharata it was mentioned. Nishtha's friend, the Swami in America, has reviewed The Life Divine. He has spent all his energy in defending the Sannyasis and at the end says that I don't believe in the ...
... 46 44. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 58 45. Purani, The Life, p. 52 46. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 22, p. 199 47. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 18 48. Prabuddha Bharata, March 1942, p. 127 49. R. R. Diwakar, Mahayogi (1954), p. 50 50. Ibid. 51. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 57 Chapter 4: Translations 1. 'New Lamps ...
... cross over the ocean of sin by the boat of knowledge." "As a blazing fire consumes a whole heap of wood, so does the fire of knowledge burn up all actions and their consequences." "Therefore, O Bharata (Arjuna), by the sword of knowledge cut off this doubt of your mind born of ignorance, and bestir yourself to practise Yoga." When the Light of knowledge shines out in our being, the mask of our mortal ...
... finds them difficult to understand even. Sri Aurobindo : All that could hardly prove that he is not a Christian in his make. Disciple : He has written a long paragraph on the Maha-bharata. He finds it a great poem, and he is especially charmed by the poet's consistently working out the law of Karma (cause and effect). The mighty Krishna dies like-an-ordinary-man; the great Arjuna ...
... Rasa Shastra, takes note of literary creations from higher levels of consciousness beyond Mind: Overhead creations like the Veda, the Upanishads, the Gita and the two great epics—Ramayana and Maha Bharata—were put outside the scope of ordinary aesthetics. Aesthetics are limited to the normal range of human consciousness; they deal with the mental and vital consciousness i.e. with ideas, emotions, i ...
... really a new religion. If it was the purpose of religion to take men to God, it was the purpose of the religion of Nationalism to bring men to their Mother, India - Bhavani Bharati or Prabuddha Bharata! To strive for the country, for India, was work for the Divine, and the Divine would give one the necessary strength to fight on, to persevere, even to sacrifice one's life if that should become ...
... early date. There is therefore no reason to doubt that an actual historical event is recorded with whatever admixture of fiction in the Mahabharata. It is also evident that the Mahabharata, not any "Bharata" or "Bharati Katha" but the Mahabharata existed before the age of Panini, and tho' the radical school bring down Panini [ incomplete ] Page 344 ...
... wa of the manas. The object & so far the result has been to secure entire passivity in the mental parts of the mortality, both knowledge & tejas and a purification of the jada nirananda. The jada Bharata stage has again been realised and emphasised. The Sat & Tapas of the manas has been manifested so far as they can be with a complete absence of initial vijnana, and it has been shown both how the thing ...
... on the sole Existent; and they speak continually on the Brahman as the creator, Master, enjoyer of the worlds, by meditating on whom we shall attain to perfect liberation. Neither Buddha nor Jada Bharata are the true guides & fulfillers of our destiny; it is Yajnavalkya, it is Janaka &, most of all, it is Krishna son of Devaki who takes us most surely & entirely into the presence & into the being of ...
... swallowed up and the nation which lived by it will lose its soul and perish. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has ...
... 740 Beyond Both Grief and Joy 302 Beyond Earth and Heaven 37 Beyond Sight 589 Beyond the Rainbow 535 Beyond the Spectrum 599 Bharata 527 Bird-Reveries 515 Birds in the Night 475 Black Magic 498 Black Swan 374 Blake 589 Brahman 452 Calm White ...
... subjective inner realm was feminised and the Nation was seen as taking its origin in a purely feminine space. Bankim Chandra exploited the symbolic potential of such a mind set and conceived of Bharata Mata and his heroines in Anand Math and Debi Chaudhurani are idealised versions of Indian womanhood. The modulation from this conception of the Indian woman informed by the spirit of Sita ...
... the foothills of the Himalayan mountains. It was a beautiful, hilly paradise. He had a dance school there for the summer months. I joined up. After I arrived and started the program, he told us that Bharata Natyam had no real meaning. He told us we must find our own way of dancing. The first thing he did was to make us walk. Then he would say, “Why are you looking down?” He wanted us all to walk around ...
... Another point,—and perhaps most desirable in terms of it acting as a guiding principle,— which one has to bear in mind is the evaluation of poetry itself. People often bring in aesthetic theories of Bharata in its evaluation and therefore miss its essential significance and Rasa. This is not altogether correct and therefore the method is greatly inapplicable in this case. We have to understand in what ...
... much and as long as you can the command of Sri Krishna: bhajasva mam, "love "and worship Me." Sri Krishna has graced our times with a manifestation still more luminous than in the period of the Bharata War. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have touched our earth with the blessings of their holy feet. Let us do our best to follow in their footsteps. Particularly you who have heard the call of the Magic ...
... administered with evidence from the undersea excavations at Dwaraka, where the submergence has been dated to about 1400 B.C., tallying with what the Maha- Page 334 bharata and the Harivamsa state regarding this event following Krishna's death. If the Kurukshetra war took place around this time, surely the period of the Rigveda will have to be considerably anterior ...
... is correct. This submergence he dates on firm archaeological grounds to about 1400 B.C. The Mahabharata associates the submergence with the time of the traditional Krishna who took part in the Bharata War which that epic recounts. If there is no reason to doubt the historicity of Krishna and of the War in which he participated - historicity in however legend-shorn a form - they are dated to c. ...
... 63 our progress and battle and victory and with immortality as the home to which the soul travels. Therefore, says the Teacher, put away this vain sorrow and shrinking, fight, O son of Bharata. But wherefore such a conclusion? This high and great knowledge, this strenuous self-discipline of the mind and soul by which it is to rise beyond the clamour of the emotions and the cheat of the senses ...
... (the poem) there as instructed formerly by the sage Vālmīki. That scion of Kakutstha heard that musical recitation accompanied with musical notes, never heard before, composed by the former teacher (Bharata). (1-2) Śrī Rāma was amazed on hearing (that song) set to the proper beat and tune and accompanied with the lute, from the two boys. (3) Then in the midst of the performance (of the Asvamedha) ...
... shall not be able to endure the reproach which will be levelled (at me) by Sumitrā. Oh, what on earth shall I say to mother Kausalya and what shall I say to Kaikeyī? (17) Again, what shall I say to Bharata as well as to Satrughna, who is Page 199 endowed with extraordinary might, when they ask me, how I came back without Laksmana even though I retired to the for est along with him? (18) It ...
... but to some extent they surely did, and we have some information about the curriculum followed in Taxila, the most important seat of learning in ancient India. It is said that Taxila was founded by Bharata and named after his son Taksha, who was established there as ruler. (Taxila was situated about twenty miles west of modern Rawalpindi.) Apart from the Vedic knowledge, grammar, philosophy, and eighteen ...
... .. every action is spontaneous and impulsive, and the whole energy of being enters into every movement. And thus the human figures of the Pahari painters are veritably god like, in the sense of Bharata, who says that the actions of the gods spring from the natural disposition of the mind, while those of men depend upon the conscious working of the will." ______ *For Coomaraswamy, Rajput ...
... carried out. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Some admiral has said he could have taken Trondjheim if he had been given the command. He is a famous man. (Later, to Purani while lying in bed) The Prabuddha Bharata has a remarkable article quoted from the Amrita Bazar Patrika. Have you seen it? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: See it. It is there on the table. You may find something familiar in the style ...
... 1940-contd Talks with Sri Aurobindo 6 MAY 1940 The Prabuddha Bharata gave a summary of The Life Divine , chapter by chapter. SRI AUROBINDO (after reading the summary): It is a mess—ideas are strung together without any connection. All very scrappy and loose! PURANI: Nolini also said something similar. How can anyone give a summary in such a short ...
... rather tear off his skin than pluck a flower. SRI AUROBINDO: That is the popular notion of art and artist. If you love flowers and admire the sky you are considered an artist. I saw in Prabuddha Bharata that Vivekananda was called a great master of art because he loved music. SATYENDRA: Perhaps one can be an artist by appreciating art? SRI AUROBINDO: In that case many people are artists. ...
... compulsion and violence, when man's voluntary effort fails. India possesses a resounding roll of great Page 92 names who endeavoured to give her this solid political and economic unity; Bharata, Yudhishthira, Asoka, Chandragupta, Akbar, Shivaji have all contributed to the evergrowing unification of Indian polity. But still what they realised was not a stable and permanent thing, it was yet ...
... Bentham, 50, 140 Berdyaev, 260 Bergson, 16-20, 255, 327, 351, 364 Bernard, Tristan, 373 Bernhardi, 24 Bethlehem, 215 Beveridge Plan, the, 129 Bharata, 93, 161 Bhasa, 96 Bhisma, 80 Bhrigu, 376 Bible, the, 70, 248, 267 Blake, 164 Boehme, 150 Bosanquet, 326 Boscovich, 333 Bo ...
... for physical perfection; Class IX a) Famous Indian stories: Panchtantra and Hitopadesh and Jataka stories; b) History of Sanskrit drama with special reference to (i) Bharata Muni and Abhinavagupta (ii) famous Sanskrit dramas prior to Kalidasa; c) Kalidasa: his poetry and drama; d) Post-Kalidasian drama; e) Katha Sarit Sagar; f) Use of ...
... let me know who must wage war with me in this great holiday of fight. Fain would I see who are these that are here for combat to do in battle the will of Dhritarashtra's witless son." Thus, O Bharata, to Hrishikesha Gudakesha said, who set in the midst between either army the noble car, in front of Bhishma and Drona and all those kings of earth. "Lo, O Partha," he said, "all these Kurus met ...
... human consciousness on which they exercise their influence". 1 "Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle, which it embodies. India is the Bharata Shakti, the living energy of a great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has ...
... From April 1933 the daily began to publish an illustrated weekly supplement on Sundays. Page 129 Forgotten narrative VOC's Tilak biography, titled Bharata Jothi Sri Tilaka Maharishiyin Jeeviya Varalaru, was serialised in the Sunday supplement. Nineteen instalments, published between May 1933 and October 1934, could be recovered. It's not clear why ...
... changes in his personality; he was greatly attracted by her rare vigour, love and strength. Above all he was deeply touched by her intense patriotism. Bharati soon had a vision of Mother India or Bharata Devi and visualised Mother India as Bharati Shakti. As a result of these experiences he decided to fight for the independence of India and the equality of women in India. He received an added impetus ...
... Nature's method of compulsion and violence, when man's voluntary effort fails. India possesses a resounding roll of great names who endeavoured to give her this solid political and economic unity; Bharata, Yudhish-thira, Asoka, Chandragupta, Akbar, Shivaji have all contributed to the evergrowing unification of Indian polity. But still what they realised was not a stable and permanent thing, it was yet ...
... consciousness is not clear to many people, and also some of the Monists consider Ishwar to be a lower status than Brahman because it is dissolved in the Pralaya. But Krishna took side openly in Maha Bharata and Rama also. Rama they do not consider an Avatar – He was weeping because he was not self-conscious – why! An Avatar cannot weep!! Sri Aurobindo had sent the message to the Congress knowingly ...
... its two epigraphs the verse from the Gita: yadā yadāhi dharmasya glānirbhavati Bhārata abhutthānamadharmasya tadātmānam srjāmyaham (Whenever Dharma declines and adharma is on the ascendant, 0 Bharata, it is then I bring about my birth). The professed object of the Dharma was to propagate Sanatana Dharma, the "Eternal Religion". Not "religion" exactly, for dharma really means much more; it ...
... Mitra and Saurin Bose (Mrinalini's cousin). He carried with him a letter of introduction to Mandayam Srinivasachariar, a sterling Nationalist, who was bringing out India, Vijaya, Karmayogi and Bala Bharata with the help of his brother Tirumalachariar and other Nationalists like Subramania Bharati. Since Bharati's flight from Madras to Pondicherry, that obscure French town had begun to attract political ...
... made by Vyshampaian, Ugrosravas & innumerable other writers. -Aurobind Ghose Proposita. An epic of the Bharatas was written by Krishna of the Island called Vyasa, in 24,000 couplets or something more, less at any rate than 27,000, on the subject of the great civil war of the Bharatas and the establishment of the Dhurmarajya or universal sovereignty in that house. This epic can be disengaged ...
... my son, the fierce Chandi. Verily you shall see her, the mother of the Bharatas, striking down her foes mightily in the thick of the fight. सनातनान्याह्वय भारतानां कुलानि युद्धाय जयोऽस्तु मा भैः। भो जागृतास्मि क्व धनुः क्व खड्ग उत्तिष्ठतोत्तिष्ठत सुप्तसिंहाः ॥३१॥ Summon forth to battle the ancient tribes of the Bharatas. Let there be victory; fear not. Lo, I have awakened! Where is the bow,... the thundering of ocean upon the rocks: मातास्मि भोः पुत्रक भारतानां सनातनां त्रिदशप्रियाणाम् । शक्तो न यान् पुत्र विधिर्विपक्षः कालोऽपि नाशयितुं यमो वा ॥१२॥ “I am the mother, O child, of the Bharatas, the eternal people beloved of the gods, whom neither hostile Fate nor Time nor Death has a power to destroy. ते ब्रह्मचर्येण विशुद्धवीर्या ज्ञानेन ते भीमतपोभिरार्याः। सहस्रसूर्या इव भासुरास्ते... माता भृशं क्रन्दति भारतानाम् ॥३३॥ I saw then this land of India, the Aryan country, wrapped thickly in darkness, suffering, blinded; hidden in the night, ruined by her enemies, the mother of the Bharatas wept aloud. स भ्रामयामास दृशं रजन्यां भ्रातॄन् स तप्तस्तिमिरे विचिन्वन्। कङ्कालसाराणि ददर्श तानि शवानि तेषां करुणानि भूमौ ॥३४॥ I cast my glance about in the night, grieved, searching out my ...
... Vivekananda as his emanation in life dynamic and material, symbolises this great secret of India's evolution. The promise that the Divine held out in the Gila to Bharata's descendant finds a ready fulfilment in India, in Bharata's land, more perhaps than anywhere else in the world; for in India has the. Divine taken birth over and over again to save the pure in heart, to destroy the evil-doer and ...
... with Vivekananda as his emanation in life dynamic and material, symbolises this great secret of India's evolution. The promise that the Divine held out in the Gita to Bharata's descendant finds a ready fulfilment in India, in Bharata's land, more perhaps than anywhere else in the world; for in India has the Divine taken birth over and over again to save the pure in heart, to destroy the evil-doer and ...
... and the most attached to the old type of thought & character, while the Rajputs, who are only a Central Nation which has drifted westward, preserved longest the heroic & chivalrous tradition of the Bharatas. The Dravidians of the South, though they no longer show that magnificent culture and originality which made them the preservers & renovators of the higher Hindu thought & religion in its worst days ...
... worthy disciple has found the Guru and the Guru has accepted the disciple. Jnaneshwar bows to Nivritti and turns his attention to the greatness of the tale narrated by Vyasa in his vast Epic of the Bharatas. This is a tale from which issues out every happiness; all the propositions of existence are present in its splendid formulations; the ocean of its nectarine utterance is filled with the nine ...
... Avatar; his worship and Avatarhood must therefore have been well established by the time—apparently from the fifth to the first centuries B.C.—when the old story and poem or epic tradition of the Bharatas took its present form. There is a hint also in the poem of the story or legend of the Avatar's early life in Vrindavan which, as developed by the Puranas into an intense and powerful spiritual symbol ...
... Ramayana. In his Foundations of Indian Culture, he has passed valuable remarks about these two great epics. About the Mahabharata he says: "The Mahabharata especially is not only a story of the Bharatas, the epic of an early event which had become a national tradition, but on a vast scale the epic of the soul and religious and ethical mind and social and political ideals and culture and life of ...
... Aryan thought. The supreme godhead is designated a Bull, never a Horse. That is one of my grievances against the Rishis no less than against the composer of the Gita who dubs Arjuna "Bull among the Bharatas" and nothing like "Horse among the Pandavas". Sri Aurobindo, however, has given pride of place to the horse through Savitri's father Aswapati, "Lord of the Horse". In an earlier version, a whole section ...
... hidden in the Yogi. I don't remember - for that matter - that Krishna anywhere in the Gita calls Arjuna a lion: as far as I can recollect, his highest apostrophic compliment is: "O Bull among the Bharatas!" If I may interpret Krishna à la Chesterton, I should say: "A bull is one who is never cowed, yet never bullies." In the same vein I may define: "A lion is one who leaps to lie on another ...
... and then, making him see the essential, divine justification of it all, instructs him in the yoga. Arjuna receives his initiation on the battlefield. That the Mahabharata , the great war of the Bharatas, has been a historic event is not in doubt, but the date of the war is still under discussion. In the introduction to his Search for the Historical Krishna , Navaratna S. Rajaram writes: “It is beginning ...
... given an estimate of the two Indian epics, the Mahabharata and the Ramayana in his Foundations of Indian Culture which is quoted here: The Mahabharata especially is not only the story of the Bharatas, the epic of an early event which had become a national tradition but on a vast scale the epic of the soul and religious and ethical mind and social and political ideals and culture and life of ...
... two Indian epics, the M ā h ā bh ā rata, and the R ā m ā yana in his Foundations of Indian Culture which is quoted here: "The M ā h ā bh ā rata especially is not only a story of the Bharatas, the epic of an early event which had become a national tradition, but on a vast scale the epic of the soul and religious and ethical mind and social and political ideals and culture and life of India ...
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