... form of Leonardo da Vinci had previously manifested as Augustus Caesar, the first Emperor of Rome? If so, will you please tell me what exactly Augustus Caesar stood for in the history of Europe and how Leonardo's work was connected with his? "Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the... biggest of the lot. Kindly let us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. "Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil ...
... warrior. Napoleon and Caesar had no fear. Once when Caesar was fighting the forces of Pompeii in Albania, Caesar's army was faring badly. Caesar was at that time in Italy. He jumped into the sea, took a fisherman's boat and asked him to carry him there. On the way a storm rose and the fisherman was mortally afraid. The Caesar said "Why do you fear? You are carrying the fortunes of Caesar." I remember ...
... think one could collect some hundreds of names—which would not include of course the still greater number not recorded in history or the transmitted memory of the past. Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe—he came for that work and the... and moving in too different domains for comparison to be possible. 3 February 1932 Page 537 I would be obliged if you would tell me your opinion of the apostrophe of Caesar to the Sphinx in Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra. I find it very fine, but Dilip says he is not thrilled by it. I am not thrilled by the speech either; it is a creation of the intellect, eloquent and on the surface ...
... warrior. Napoleon and Caesar had no fear. Once when Caesar was fighting the forces of Pompey in Albania, his army was faring badly. He was at that time in Italy. He jumped into the sea, took a fisherman's boat and asked him to carry him to Albania. On the way a storm arose and the fisherman was mortally afraid. Then Caesar said, "Why do you fear? You are carrying the fortunes of Caesar." I remember a ...
... personality then." (19.7.1937) When the disciple suggested that Sri Aurobindo might have been Julius Caesar or Mark Antony and the Master gave a clue that he had been neither, the disciple wrote: "So who remains a famous person in contact with Horace? The answer is unmistakable: Caesar Octavianus, afterwards Augustus, the first emperor of Rome. Have I at last hit the nail on the head? If so,... Problems of Early Christianity Part One EARLY CHRISTIANITY Augustus Caesar and the Birth of Christ Some Reflections on their Contemporaneity December 25, year 0 or else 1 (authorities differ on the point): this has been observed for centuries as the date of the birth of Jesus. The historical situation of... to be by the Holy Ghost's "overshadowing") was taken by her husband Joseph to Bethlehem, which was "his own city", for both of them to be taxed along with "all the world" according to "a decree from Caesar Augustus", which was passed "when Cyrenius was governor of Syria". By our present computation of the Christian era both these statements are inaccurate - except for the broad contemporaneity ...
... extraordinary as to do several things simultaneously without any direct or indirect Yogic discipline, several quite different things? I was told that Napoleon used to do this. Yes, Julius Caesar also — he could dictate 5 letters on different subjects at a time to 5 secretaries without losing the thread of any of them for a moment. It is said about Napoleon that whenever he... man without a single vice, all virtues from the crown of his head to the tip of his toe. He is the type of the truly great man as you conceive him. But do you really believe that men like Napoleon, Caesar, Shakespeare were not great men and did nothing for the world or for the cosmic purpose? that God was deterred from using them for his purpose because they had defects of character and vices? What... Page 250 human consciousness and not with fulfilling limited human ideals; and I look at things from that standpoint. In defence of R you gave the examples of Napoleon, Caesar and Shakespeare. But they had no vices like his. Their ambition was not so small, petty and trivial but was rather great, heroic and dazzling — worth having by the great men of the world! ...
... miserable." SRI AUROBINDO: All that is shallow, it is mere moralising. If Caesar and Napoleon are not to be admired, then it means that human capacity and attainment are not to be admired. Caesar and Napoleon have been admired not merely because they were successful: plenty of successful people are not admired. Caesar has won admiration because it was he who founded the greatness of Imperial Rome... 18 JANUARY 1939 Nirodbaran read out to Sri Aurobindo some passages from Aldous Huxley's Ends and Means. They were on war, passive resistance, non-attachment, the Jacobins, Caesar, Napoleon and dictators in general. The last was: "More books have been written about Napoleon than about any other human being. The fact is deeply and alarmingly significant. . . . Duces and Fuhrers... abilities—are these things not great? PURANI: I suppose men admire them because they find in them the realisation of their own potential greatness, SRI AUROBINDO: Of course. But Huxley speaks of Caesar and Napoleon as if they were the first dictators the world had seen. There have been dictators since the beginning of the world. And they are of various kinds. Kernal, Pilsudski, all the kings of Balkan ...
... doubt about the historicity of Christ. I am surprised that my article in the Mother India of last December - "Augustus Caesar and the Birth of Jesus" - has revived your scepticism. It accepts the historicity of Christ as much as that of Augustus Caesar. And it would not have done so if Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had anywhere been uncertain. In that very issue you will find on the opening... the starting-point of a new stage in the evolution of human civilisation. That is why Sri Aurobindo tells us that the death of Christ was of greater historical consequence than the death of [Julius] Caesar. The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss ...
... an autobiography. What he said was in conversation with his disciples and others. He was certainly quite as much an Avatar as Christ or Chaitanya. Page 501 Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first transmission of the Graeco-Roman civilisation to Europe—he came for that work and the... personality on the usual level. But from the point of view of Avatarhood I would no more think of defending his moral perfection according to modern standards than I would think of defending Napoleon or Caesar against the moralists or the democratic critics or the debunkers in order to prove that they were Vibhutis. Vibhuti, Avatar are terms which have their own meaning and scope, and they are not concerned ...
... went after women—two were ambitious, unscrupulous. Napoleon was most arrogant and violent. Page 505 Shakespeare stole deer, Napoleon lied freely, Caesar was without scruples. But do you really believe that men like Napoleon, Caesar, Shakespeare were not great men and did nothing for the world or for the cosmic purpose? that God was deterred from using them for His purpose because they... Greatness and Vices It is not only the very very very big people who are of importance to the Divine. All energy, strong capacity, power of effectuation are of importance. As for Napoleon, Caesar and Shakespeare, not one of them was a virtuous man, but they were great men—and that was your contention, that only virtuous men are great men and those who have vices are not great, which is an absurd ...
... than the death of Caesar. To what plane of consciousness did Christ belong? In the Essays on the Gita Sri Aurobindo mentions the names of three Avatars, and Christ is one of them. An Avatar is an emanation of the Supreme Lord who assumes a human body on earth. I heard Sri Aurobindo himself say that Christ was an emanation of the Lord's aspect of love. The death of Caesar marked a decisive... human civilisation. This is why Sri Aurobindo tells us that the death of Christ was of greater historical significance, that is to say, it has had greater historical consequences than the death of Caesar. The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss ...
... Aśvins, 107, 110, 581, 582 Atar, 445 Atharvaveda, 84, 128 Athenaeus, 237-8, 246, 435, 436 Atiyan Naduman Anji the Satiyaputra, 279 Atiyoha, 278 Attalusī, 236 Augustus Caesar, 450, 454 Aurobindo, Śri, see Śri Aurobindo Āvanti, 242 Āvanti-varman, 490 Āvasyaka Sūtra, 178 Avesm.281, 315, 333 Āyu, 96 Āyudhajlvi Sahghas, 250 Babylon... Buddhists, 240, 241, 242, 361, 395, 402-9 Buddhist Councils, 242 Buddhist Kingdoms, 379 Budhagupta, 404, 431, 494, 508, 512 Buhler, G„ 265, 270, 329, 586, 587 Bussagli, 445 Caesar, 174 Calanus, 146 Calingae/Galingae/Kalinga, 117, 163-4, 165, 169, 187; Gangarides-Calingae, 117, 165, 169, 187; Macco-Calingae, 117, 165; Modogalingae, 117, 167;... 247 Cleisobora.94, 95, 397 Clement of Alexandria, 240 Cleophis, 272, 456 Codrington, K. de B., 384 Coins, 40-45, 216, 263-4, 348, 430. 438-52, 467, 469.485, 602-3 of: Augustus Caesar, 450; 'Chandra', 42; Chandragupta I, 40, 216, 440-47; Chandragupta II, 440-41, 449; Gahadavalas, 440; Guptas, 446, 449, 603; Huvishka, 448; KadphisesII, 449; Kanishka, 430.449; Kumāra-gupta, 449-50; ...
... make them miserable. "(P. 99) Sri Aurobindo : That is mere moralising. If Napoleon and Caesar are not to be admired then it means that human capacity and attainment are not to be admired. They are not to be admired because they were successful; plenty of successful people are not admired. Caesar is admired because it was he who founded the greatness of imperial Rome which is one of the greatest... and abilities great? Disciple : I suppose men admire them because they find in them the realisation of their own potential greatness. Sri Aurobindo : Of course. Huxley speaks of Caesar and Napoleon as if they were the first dictators the world had ever seen. In fact, dictatorship is as old as the world. Whenever the times have required him the dictator has come in answer to the necessity ...
... Confucius, Lao Tse, Julius Caesar, Caesar Augustus, Mohammed, Joan of Arc, Leonardo da Vinci, Napoleon, Shankara, Ramakrishna, Vivekananda, and undoubtedly many more in all times and climes. All of them were concretely aware that they had a specific, superhuman mission to fulfil and so they did. It should be noted that some of them were atheists, like Julius Gaius Caesar. Secondly, morality seems not... unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis like Julius Caesar for instance have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent.” 9 “Because he [i.e. the Avatar] chooses to limit ...
... establish their time-bracket - from the beginning of the 1st century A.D. to the end of the 2nd. Thus we may be told: "The title Kaisera (Caesar) adopted by Kanishka of the Āra inscription of the year 41 points to a date considerably later than Augustus Caesar who died in A.D. 14". 1 But we may answer in the words of S. K. Dikshit: 2 "As to the title of this Kanishka (II), both Prof. Luders... Western scholars have introduced into this reading a conception of their own, and presumed that this late Kusana ruler assumed in imitation - which is the best way of flattery - the Roman title of Caesar. It is strange that such a late emperor should be introducing such an original title when none of his predecessors did it, or anything like it. We believe that there is as little reason for presuming... Kharoshthī legend on Wema Kadphises' coins has the expressions sarva-loga-iśvarasa-mahiśvarasa. 3 The ground sought for the chronology of the Ara inscription's Kanishka by a backlook at Augustus Caesar seems an utterly misguided ingenuity. 1.Sircar, op. cit., p. 144. 2."The Problem of the Kusanas and the Origin of the Vikrani Samvat", Annals of the Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute ...
... were you Valmiki, Dante, Virgil, Milton?" And he stoutly said "No." I asked him also whether he had been Alexander and Julius Caesar. He replied that Alexander was too much of a torrent for him and, as for Caesar, he said: "You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted for misappropriation of personality." (laughter) He was careful not to encourage commitment... field, because once you start thinking who you were, there is no end to the riot of imagination. But, while he said "No" to all, he didn't answer in the negative to my proposal of Leonardo and Augustus Caesar. And what Vasari has said about Leonardo's face would apply in a superlative degree to Sri Aurobindo's. Even as I remember his face, all my skin seems to bristle. It is not only sadhaks who have found ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 Caesar Versus the Divine "RENDER unto Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's." We do not subscribe to the motto. We do not admit that the world and the spirit are irreconcilables and incommensurables. On the contrary we assert their essential unity and identity. The spiritual force is not and need not... may be asked, how is it that in the history of the world we find men of action, great dynamic personalities to be mostly not spiritual but rather mundane in their character and outlook? Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Chandragupta, Akbar, even Shivaji, were not spiritual personalities; their actions were of the world and of worldly nature. And the force they wielded cannot be described as spiritual, and... Ramdas was not merely a spiritual adviser to Shivaji, concerned chiefly with the inner salvation and development of his disciple, and only secondarily with the gross material activities, the things of Caesar. The two domains are not separate at least in this case: the spiritual here directly and dynamically affects the physical. The spiritual guide is the dynamo – the matrix – of the power, the power ...
... gallows for love of their motherland. "Caesar and Napoleon never knew the meaning of the word 'fear'. There is a widely known story about Caesar. Once he was on a ship which was caught in a terrific storm. All the sailors were filled with fear. But Caesar was calm and said to them, 'How can you feel fear? Do you not know you are carrying the fortunes of Caesar?' "But, of course, such men are different ...
... consciousness that took the form of Leonardo da Vinci had previously manifested as Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome? If so, will you please tell me what exactly Augustus Caesar stood for in the history of Europe and how Leonardo's work was connected with his?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "Augustus Caesar organised the life of the Roman Empire and it was this that made the framework of the first ...
... da Vinci, also Pericles, Caesar Augustus and Louis XIV. He may have been King Solomon, for, after all, the basic form of his symbol is that of Solomon. A disciple of whom some incarnations are common knowledge was Nolini Kanta Gupta, a great yogi. He himself has said that he was Yuyutsu in the war on which the Mahabharata is based; Virgil, the Roman poet and friend of Caesar Augustus; Pierre de Ronsard... such unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis like Julius Caesar for instance have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent.’ 5 In the Earthly Paradise The Mother, according ...
... the connotation of the phrase "all the world" is really limited, as becomes evident from Luke 2:1: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed." Surely, Caesar Augustus could not institute a census for taxable purposes except within his own dominion: the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire and nothing else is signified by "all the... Bible testifies, he preached to the Thessalonians, Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians and Romans - all strictly the people of the regions contained within the Roman Empire under Caesar Augustus's successors Tiberius and Nero whose reigns covered Paul's ministry. No matter how much to the Page 94 non-jews Christianity or, as Mr. Vedanthan would have it, Paulinism ...
... what you think. Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar, or not?" 18 But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, "Why-put me to-the test, you hypocrites? 19 Show me the money for the tax." And they brought him a coin. 20 And Jesus said to them, "Whose likeness and inscription is this?" 21 They said, "Caesar's." Then he said to them, "Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the... Christ, and the founders of empires and the gods of other religions. That resemblance does not exist. There is between Christianity and any other religion the distance of infinity . . . Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne, and myself founded empires. But upon what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ alone founded his empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would ...
... handsome face—I am sure not you, Señor. BASIL Humph. ANTONIO Well, cousin. All silent? Open your batteries, open your batteries. BASIL Wait, wait. Ought a conqueror to be hurried? Caesar himself must study his ground before he attempts it. You will hear my trumpets instanter. BRIGIDA Will you take your letter, Sir? Page 811 ANTONIO To me then, maiden? A dain... Page 819 the wherewithal to stop the three mouths of him. ISMENIA Why, Brigida, Brigida. BRIGIDA Saints! to think how men lie! I have heard this Basil reputed loudly for the Caesar of wits, the tongue and laughter of the time; but never credit me, child, if I did not silence him with a few stale pertnesses a market-girl might have devised for her customers. A wit, truly! and ...
... animal below him. It is doubtful whether in the pure human mould Nature can go much farther than she has gone at present; that she can for instance produce a higher mental type than Newton, Shakespeare, Caesar or Napoleon, a higher moral type than Buddha, Christ or St Francis, a higher physical type than the Greek athlete or to give modern examples, a Sandow or a Ramamurti. She may seek to bring about a... divine intruder which lays its hand on the mould & sustains it, so that it does not break at all, nor is flawed; or if there is a disturbance, it is slight and negligible. Such an element there was in Caesar, in Shakespeare, in Goethe. Sometimes also a force appears to which we can no longer apply the description of genius without being hopelessly inadequate in our terminology. Then those who have eyes ...
... followed. As for the exact step, it is difficult to say—perhaps he meant that he took possession of the Senate, the august monument of Republican Rome, in order to have a sure base for his empire. Caesar & Antony after him neglected these little powerful details about which Augustus who had always a practical intuition was always very careful.—When did you have it? In coming or going—Where? But where... Egypt then—Well, then, the dream had obviously a close connection with the hidden object of your voyage,—hidden from yourself, of course. Augustus was the organiser of a new era in civilisation, though Caesar was the founder,—a civilisation which gave a firm base for a new development of the world. You have the same idea of a new civilisation—but what is missing is the organising power—It is that you waked ...
... characteristic of Greece – felt the tide that was moving high and shared in that elevated sweep of life, of thought and creative activity. Greece withdrew. The stage was made clear for Rome. Julius Caesar carried the Roman genius to its sublimest summit: but it remained for his great nephew to consolidate and give expression to that genius in its most characteristic manner and lent his name to a ch... respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather organisers. Page 207 A Buddha, a Christ or a Mohammed or even a Napoleon or Caesar or Alexander are truly creators: they bring with them something – some truth, some dynamic revelation – that was not there before. They realise and embody each a particular principle of being, a unique ...
... small consciousness as all human consciousness, mental, vital or physical always is. Yesterday X was explaining to me Antony's oration over the dead body of Caesar. I felt in such sympathy with Antony and such pity for Caesar that tears began to roll from my eyes. How did this emotional outburst happen even though the separative consciousness felt the movement to be stupid? It ...
... so characteristic of Greece—felt the tide that was moving high and shared in that elevated sweep of life, of thought and creative activity. Greece withdrew. The stage was made clear for Rome. Julius Caesar carried the Roman genius to its sublimest summit: hut it remained for his great nephew to consolidate and give expression to that genius in its most characteristic manner and lent his name to a ch... respective epoch crystallises as a peak culture unit. They are not creators or originators; they are rather organisers. A Page 97 Buddha, a Christ or a Mohammed or even a Napoleon or Caesar or Alexander are truly creators: they bring with them something—some truth, some dynamic revelation—that was not there before. They realise and embody each a particular principle of being, a unique ...
... Brahman, 3, 9-10, 22, 68, 85, 90, 92, 113, 151, 153, 204,289, 380 Brindaban, 101 Britain, 96, 198 Broad, Prof., 55 Buddha, 9, 17, 112, 150, 187, 189,232, 268,317,347 Byron, 209 CAESAR, 116,209,324,406 Chaitanya, 209 Cha1dea, 199 Christ, 64, 73, 82, 93, 116, 118, 127, 130, 187, 189, 191,209, 243, 283, 317 Christianity, 192 Chronos, 226 Colbert, 209, 411 Congo... 199 St. Matthew, 186 St. Paul, 73 St. Vincent de Paul, 411 Sankhya,45,85 Satan, 46 Savitri, 163, 165 Second Empire, the, 418 Shakespeare, 79, 116n., 406 -Julius Caesar, 116n. -Hamlet, 72n. Shankara, 17, 21, 68, 71,403 Shelley, 209 Shiva, 129, 208, 339 Socrates, 116 Soma, 70, 208 Spanish Armada, the, 198 Sri Aurobindo, 3-4, 7-10, 17-19 ...
... if not all, at least the biggest of the lot. Kindly let us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am u ...
... where eternity and time intersect, yet on that account we" do not consider a phrase like Anno Domini irrelevant or inapplicable and do not hesitate to locate the birth in the reigns of Herod and Caesar Augustus with as much precision as we can manage. The Church, finding that the reports of Paul and the Evangelists about "last things" had proved wrong, naturally shifted the eschatological moment... Page 158 Christian religion and much less as inevitably true. Miracle-avid believers in an epoch when not only were human figures (e.g., Plato, Apollonius of Tyana, Augustus Caesar, the last two Jesus' own contempories) said to have been virginally born but also Mother-Goddesses were rife - such believers were most likely to support the Creed-makers, particularly as Matthew ...
... own individual point of view but who will dare deny, when one _________________ *Antony (to the dead body of Caesar): O! pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth.... Thou art the ruins of the noblest man That ever lived in the tide of times. Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, scene 1 Page 52 looks at man and the world as they are, that it is almost completely ...
... ¹ Guidance from Sri Aurobindo: Letters to a Young Disciple — Nagin Doshi (Sri Aurobindo Society, Pondicherry, 1974), p. 285. Page 48 of him in the past: Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. Should we not take all his previous births to have formed only Vibhutis, just as the Mother's evidently did? Going by a certain set of his correspondence with a disciple... and since the Mother saw the former and not the latter as Krishna, the latter evidently belongs to a line which is not the same. Fourthly, since Sri Aurobindo was present as the Vibhuti Augustus Caesar when Christ lived, the line of Christ too must be dissimilar. So we come to the vision that the Purushottama has more than one line of Avatar and that two general categories may be distinguished; ...
... light is thrown on the word "world" by Luke's announcement: "And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed" (2:1). It is obvious that "all the world" can mean no more than the Roman Empire: Caesar Augustus cannot tax any further world. A more particular illumination on this point can be drawn from the eminent Roman ...
... priests and said, "I find no crime in him. " But when the priests saw Jesus they cried out, "Crucify him, crucify him!" "Shall I crucify your King? " asked Pilate. They answered, "We have no King but Caesar." Pilate relented and handed Jesus over to be crucified (John cc 18 & 19.) But as the Gospels tell us, Jesus rose from his tomb three days after the crucifixion. He spent forty more days among his... further reading Bultmann, Rudolf. Jesus and the Word. Fontana, 1958. Carpenter, Humphrey. Jesus. London: Oxford University Press, 1980. Durant, Will. The Story of Civilization: P. Ill, Caesar and Christ. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1972. Grant, Robert. A Historical Introduction to the New Testament. Fontana, 1971. Holy Gospel, The. Bombay: St. Paul Publications, Revised Standard ...
... all, at least the biggest of the lot. Kindly let us know the truth. Among your other and non-poetic incarnations, some surmise Alexander and Julius Caesar. Sri Aurobindo: Good Heavens, all that! You have forgotten that Mrs. Besant claims Julius Caesar. I don't want to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil ...
... beginning of undertone, but no overtone, while the "Take o take those lips away" 144 (the whole lyric) is all overtones. Again Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him 145 has admirable rhythm, but there are no overtones or undertones. But in maiden meditation, fancy-free 146 has beautiful running undertones, while In the dark... × Measure for Measure , IV. i. 1. × Julius Caesar , III. ii. 79-80. × A Midsummer-Night's Dream , II. i. 164. ...
... India again that there developed such lines of synthetic sadhana. Rather it was Europe that gave evidence of this conflict and duality much more than India. We may remember the motto: "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, etc." By pointing to the path of self-restraint Christianity holds that it leads to the Kingdom of Christ and those who would remain chained down to their senses will remain in their... the ultimate ideal of Europe. When the famous novelist Balzac used to sit down to write he would do so in a lonely place in a monk's tunic in order to help his one-pointed concentration. Napoleon, Caesar and Alexander were no Page 312 helpless slaves of their senses. In fact, no country or race can build its greatness except on the foundation of self-control. It is not that self-control ...
... in degree and opposite in kind. The glorious First Consul and Emperor did not end in ablaze of glory: he had to live and die as the commonest of prisoners. Even his great prototype, the mighty Caesar, did not meet a different fate – he too fell – 0, what a fall was there, my countrymen! Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, ¹ A Jeanne d'Arc, another glorious creature, Deliverer... see days when he could not even lift his own bow with which he once played havoc. And in our own days, a Ramakrishna, who could cure souls could not cure his own cancer. ¹ Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act III, Sc. II Page 116 This is the "tears of things" – spoken of by a great poet – the tragedy that is lodged in the hearts of things. There runs a pessimistic vein in Nature's ...
... chance, had always immense hope and faith. Against failures, against tremendous odds they have always persisted, always believed in their star. Like Caesar they said not only to themselves but also to others: "Thou carriest with thee the fate of Caesar." Only, of course, the self-confidence sometimes overrides itself, becomes conceit and arrogance. Then you go beyond your depth, tempt the fates beyond ...
... is not for joy. A creation or “way of being” based on death, hell, and suffering makes no sense whatsoever, unless we say, like those poor Roman gladiators in the circus, Ave Caesar, morituri te salutant , “Hail Caesar! We who are about to die salute you!” It seems obvious, too, that this animal body, produced by evolution and built through countless deaths, has no intelligible sense other ...
... (1958). Page 256 went also to Krishna's life to draw a lesson in nation-building. The essay, however, begins rather unexpectedly with a glance at Brutus' killing of his friend Julius Caesar: It was not in vain that Brutus polluted his hands with the blood of his own beloved comrade and exclaimed by way of palliating his sanguinary action, "As he was ambitious, I slew him". Ambition... applicable elsewhere! Sri Aurobindo is aghast at this kind of logic: It is difficult to know what inequity reasoning of this sort would not cover. "I thoroughly believe in the Ten Commandments," Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, "but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, ...
... he really expected this, really wanted this? He says simply: Heaven's joys Without thee now were beggarly and rude. A distantly parallel situation is Portia (in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar) claiming and winning equality with her husband, Brutus, who is forced in the end to answer her defiance with disarming acquiescence, and exclaim prayerfully; "O ye gods, render me worthy of this... well as the temper of the originals. Sri Aurobindo has tried a variety of stanza-forms, and one can judge his feeling for words even by merely scrutinising some of the titles: "The Human Cobra", "Aut Caesar aut Nullus", "Altruism Oceanic", "The Immutable Courage", "The Script of Fate", "Flowers from a Hidden Root", "The Flame of the Soul", "The Rain-lark to the Cloud", "Mountain Moloy", "The Might ...
... III shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. or in Julius Caesar The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interrèd with their bones. or in the much later & richer vein of Antony & Cleopatra I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune ...
... Spirit to force the highest work on the body. 1 Mahomet's idea that in his epileptic fits he went up into the seventh heaven & took the Koran from the lips of God, is extremely significant; 2 if Caesar & Richelieu had been Oriental prophets instead of practical & sceptical Latin statesmen they might well have recorded kindred impressions. In any case such an impression is purely sensational. It is ...
... and rumours of battle and in a confused medley of blood, terror and unspeakable desolation. In that horror of great darkness, the Roman world crashed on from ruin to ruin, until the strong hand of Caesar stayed its descent to poise it on the stable foundation of a sane and vigilant policy rigorously enforced by the fixed will of a single despotic ruler. But the grand secret of his success and the success ...
... Yugoslav calling "Help me! I dare not alone; he will shatter my fleet and my empire," You did not cower, O African people, you did not tremble. Armed but with rifle and spear you fronted the legions of Caesar. Statesman wise and beneficent, emperor, patriot, hero, King of the Amharas, Haile Selassie, Lion of Judah. Man is but man and the weapons of Hell are too fierce for his spirit, Forged ...
... that in the fight with brute force the spirit, the idea is bound to conquer. The Roman Empire is no more, but the Christianity which it thought to crush, possesses half the globe, covering "regions Caesar never knew". The Jew, whom the whole world persecuted, survived by the strength of an idea and now sits in the high places of the world, playing with nations as a chess-player with his pieces. He knows ...
... Capitol the laurel crown that shall shield his head from the lightnings. But who is the hostile deity against whom the muttered mantras of the Brahmins were invoked to shield the head of our Surendra Caesar? Sir Jupiter Fuller is gone and no other Thunderer takes his place. We repeat, the whole affair was silly in the extreme and we hope it will not be repeated. Mr. A. K. Ghose has gone to Jamalpur ...
... হয়, সেই চেষ্টা করেন ৷ যে ধৰ্ম্মমন্দিরের দ্বারে তুমি ভগবদ্ভক্ত কিনা, এই প্রশ্ন জিজ্ঞাসা না করিয়া, তুমি রাজভক্ত কিনা, এই প্রশ্ন জিজ্ঞাসা করা হয়, সেই মন্দির যেন কোন ভগবদ্ভক্ত না মাড়ান ৷Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, unto God the things that are God's. সম্রাটের প্রাপ্য যাহা তাহাই সম্রাটকে অর্পণ কর, ভগবানের প্রাপ্য যাহা তাহা ভগবানের, সম্রাটের নহে ৷ পরিশিষ্ট [এই দুইটি রচনা ধৰ্ম্ম’ ...
... shepherds would be grazing their flocks) synchronising with Herod's reign and the governorship of "Cyrenius" (the Roman Quirinius under whom the census was held in 6 A.D.) in the reign of Augustus Caesar. The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn in the constellation of Pisces 4. A halya Kunti Draupadi Tara Mandodari tatha/ Panchakanya smarenityam mahapataka nashaka/ See my "Riddle of ...
... in me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip... ...Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath. Husband I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life. So, have ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks “She was Ambitious” 1953-03-31 Yesterday Mother saw the film Julius Caesar at the Playground. Today she said: “The play is very interesting. In future, some may say about me that I was very ambitious. So I have written something very very interesting. But I won't show it now. I have kept it ...
... highbrow journalism. And therefore ‘objective’ historians sometimes write such ‘reasonable’ but inane psychological dissections of personalities like Joan of Arc, Napoleon, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and of ancient cultures — in brief, of everything that really mattered on the wearisome and tortuous road of the human pilgrimage. The norms of rationalistic historical writing are always too superficial ...
... personality on the usual level. But from the point of view of Avatarhood I would no more think of defending his moral perfection according to modern standards than I would think of defending Napoleon or Caesar against the moralists or the democratic critics or the debunkers in order to prove that they were Vibhutis. 39 Vibhūti, Avatar are terms which have their own meaning and scope, and they are not ...
... more convinced than ever that you lived and wrote and sighed ('I am between tears and sighs', said Maecenas as he sat between the weak and watery-eyed Virgil and the aesthetic Horace) under Augustus Caesar. You have kept the spirit and turn and most even of the manner. "Your 'epistolary frivolity' was all right. There is laughter in the Kingdom of Heaven, though there may be no marriage there ...
... for geographical accuracy or historical possibility. It is true that sometimes he follows closely the authorities he had at his disposal, such as Holin-shed or another and in plays like Julius Caesar he sticks to the main events and keeps many of the details, but not so as to fetter the play of his imagination. So I don’t think you need worry at all about either historians or biographers, even ...
... the use of 'the Divine' in English. Casually turning the pages of Bernard Shaw's Three Plays for Puritans in the Penguin Edition, what do I chance upon on pp. 133-34? In the 'Prologue' to his play 'Caesar and Cleopatra' included here Shaw imagines an Egyptian god addressing the modern audience. Towards the end of the 'Prologue' the god says: '...I had not spoken so much but that it is in the nature ...
... would win the day and develop the “natural philosophy” we call science. There was also a third component in the Renaissance movement, the “emotional”. In Thucydides, Demosthenes and Pericles, as in Caesar, Cicero and Tacitus, the Renaissance men rediscovered the pride and glory of belonging, of patriotism, of “the general weal”, of the heartening inspiration of tradition and the past of the body of ...
... unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis, like Julius Caesar for instance, have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent. The Avatar: Historicity and Symbols Then as to the Avatar ...
... is a beginning of undertone, but no overtone, while the "Take, O take those lips away" (the whole lyric) is all overtones. Again Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him has admirable rhythm, but there are no overtones or undertones. But Page 125 In maiden meditation fancy-free has beautiful running undertones, while ...
... regarded Cicero—were they not hypnotised by his eloquence, scholarship, literary versatility, conversational and epistolatory powers, overflowing vitality? One would think that men like Catullus and Caesar would see through him, though. There is certainly a note that sounds very like irony in the last three lines, but it is very subtle and others than Cicero may have regarded it as a graceful eulogy ...
... Asura Rakshasa type of Pashu brought back into a more advanced age in order to re-invigorate the over-refined type that has been evolved. The young chief of the image is a sort Page 1327 of Caesar-Augustus or Alaric of the barbarians. He takes the lead of their revolt which is at first a disordered movement of indignation (lipi Indignation alternating with indigenous)[,] systematises it, conquers ...
... Mother—the answer is yes. It may even be said that each Vibhuti draws his energies from the Four, from one of them predominantly in most cases, as Napoleon from Mahakali, Rama from Mahalakshmi, Augustus Caesar from Mahasaraswati. 31 October 1935 "Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with ...
... unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis, like Julius Caesar for instance, have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent. Still I can't understand one thing: even though you did ...
... Mother—the answer is yes. It may even be said that each Vibhuti draws his energies from the Four, from one of them predominantly in most cases, as Napoleon from Mahakali, Rama from Mahalakshmi, Augustus Caesar from Mahasaraswati. 31 October 1935 ...
... he asks and asks again and again, and perseveres until he really knows. Some men of whom history tells are known as conquerors: Alexander the Great who conquered Western Asia and Egypt, Julius Caesar who conquered France and England, the emperor Baber who conquered the North of India, Napoleon who became for a time the master of Europe. But there are other ways of being a conqueror. You also ...
... the means of action. O Thou who dwellest in my heart and directest all by Thy supreme Will, Thou hast told me a year ago to burn all my bridges and cast myself headlong into the Unknown, as did Caesar when he crossed the Rubicon: it meant the Capitol for him or the Tarpeian Rock. Thou didst hide then from my eyes the result of the action. Now still Thou keepest it secret; and yet Thou knowest ...
... bring down the artistic value of the thing a little, in order to put it within the range of the public... and it was a bit grandiloquent, forced, it did not have all the purity of the original. Julius Caesar was played to us one day, you know. Well, there already I made my reservations; I told myself, "It is falsifying people's taste." Instead of having the pure nobility of the thing, it exaggerates just ...
... strands. There is another thing — Lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up — e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghis-Tamerlane-Napoleon — meeting together there — so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and diverging ...
... works for Ludovico, Regent of Milan. 1483 - The Virgin of the Rocks. 1500-1 - Leonardo goes back to Florence. 1502(June) - Military engineer to Caesar Borgia in Romagna. 1503(April) - Back to Florence. 1503-6 - Painting of Mona Lisa. 1507 - Leonardo is appointed as "painter and engineer ...
... Choosing in all fields one need only think of Milton, who was Page 464 blind, Beethoven, who became deaf, or Lord Nelson, who, mutilated by wounds, had to fight pain all his life. Julius Caesar suffered from epilepsy, Alexander the Great was a drunkard, and Nietzsche died insane. Gibbon had a famous hydrocele, Marat suffered frightfully from a skin disease, and Charles V had gout, arteri ...
... the course of History. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, There was. It changed the course of European history and gave the world new political and social ideas. NIRODBARAN: Aldous Huxley says Napoleon and Caesar were bandits. SRI AUROBINDO: Nonsense. NIRODBARAN: He also says all evil, economic and otherwise, of the modern age are due to Napoleon.. PURANI: That is going too far. SRI AUROBINDO: If ...
... controlling the activities of the nature. Will is will whether it is calm or restless, whether it acts in a yogic or unyogic way, for a yogic or an unyogic object. Do you think Napoleon and Caesar had no will or that they were Yogis? You have strange ideas about things. You might just as well say that memory is memory only when it remembers the Divine and it is not memory when it remembers other ...
... Champaklal said, "My eyes always remain watery." Sri Aurobindo: Virgil had eyes like that, while Horace used to breathe hard. Once Mycaenas, the great patron of literature in the reign of Augustus Caesar, was sitting between the two poets and remarked, "I am sitting between sighs and tears." Addressing Dr. Manilal with whom he was very free during the talks, Sri Aurobindo said, "Your mention of ...
... Britain, 89, 104-5, 128 British Isles, the, 100 Buddha, 8, 50, 54-5, 166, 195, 208, 215-6, 222, 243, 280, 384 Buddhism, 54, 110, 166, 280 Byron, 194 CAESAR, jULIUS, 206, 208, 239, 367,394 Calcutta Review, the, 336n., 339n Camoens, 197 Canada, 106 Cato, 239 Chaitanya,216 Chaldea, 219, 223 Chamberlaine, ...
... amount of energy. The mightiest effort of our intelligence has incomparably less effect on metabolism than the contraction of the biceps when this muscle lifts a weight of a few grams. The ambition of Caesar, the meditation of Newton, the inspiration of Beethoven, the passionate contemplation of Pasteur, did not modify the chemical exchanges of these great men as much as a few bacteria or a slight stimulation ...
... in archaeology, geology, in the restoration of art works and for food conservation. Tsar or Czar: Russian imperial title in use until the revolution in 1917, derived from the Latin Caesar, the title of Roman Emperor. X-Rays: One century ago, Wilhelm Konrad Roentgen discovered the X-ray (so called because at that time no one knew what this was) which began the use of energy ...
... his-ocean voyage, that the army believed in Alexander's wonderful luck, and was of the opinion that there was nothing he could not dare and do. It was that mystical faith of an army in its leader, which Caesar also and later Napoleon were able to evoke. It is more difficult to understand or even to judge the statesman in Alexander than the general; for his views as a statesman were in a state of flux ...
... religion down to the level of the mundane and is about to lose it there, while the East has pushed religion up and is at last on the verge of losing the world in the Brahman or the Void. Alexander, Caesar and Napoleon are the ideal men of action in the West, while Krishna, Arjuna and Bhishma are the representatives 'of the ideal of the East. The European heroes display daemoniac restlessness and exuberance ...
... the scope, extent and variety of that power is even wider and higher. We will not suffer the field of life and its richnesses to pass into the asuric hold. 'Give the devil his due' or 'Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's' – this will not be our motto. That would be a betrayal of faith, an attitude of divided loyalty. The Divine alone is the Sovereign; He has no partner in this domain. 'I, thy Lord ...
... political unity of Europe appears to be a very difficult and even an impossible problem. The union of Europe is an armed peace. One kind of union was attempted at times in the past, but the union which Caesar, Charlemagne and Napoleon wanted to bring about was but the sole supremacy of a particular country and nation; that means the union of the devourer and the devoured. Another type of union too is at ...
... to put into a too rigid and mathematical formula something that is living and variable. Still it will serve to give a clearer picture of the matter. Napoleon evidently was a child of Mahakali; and Caesar seems to have been fashioned largely by the principle of Maheshwari; while Christ or Chaitanya are clearly emanations in the line of Mahalakshmi. Constructive geniuses, on the other hand, like the ...
... into history, we shall never find an example where collective leadership solved any problem of man. It can serve as a stop-gap arrangement, temporarily, as it happened after the murder of Julius Caesar by forming the triumvirate. Successful kings, explorers, scientists, reformers, political religious leaderships, are all one man's show. And our tradition of Avatars, spiritual leaders and ...
... see, for a modern version, William Faulkner's A Fable (Random House, 1954), pp. 341-56. 131. Paradise Regained, Book IV, II. 368-72. 132. ibid., 1.576. 133. Julius Caesar, II, i, 11. 66-9. 134. The Allegory of Love, pp. 68-9, Lewis himself, in his 'cosmic trilogy' of novels, has presented vividly the temptation of Eve, the grapple between his hero, Ransom ...
... attempting a biography, because they do not live in their external life. Their real life is inner and how can anyone else know that life? It is different with men of action like Napoleon or Julius Caesar, men who develop themselves through action, but even in their cases it would be best if they wrote their biographies themselves." 22 November. In the evening Sri Aurobindo said: "I would have ...
... but in that of poets, philosophers and yogis it is no use attempting a biography, because they do not live in their external life.... It is different with men of action like Napoleon or Julius Caesar...." 38 What do we know of Valmiki, for instance? Only this and what more do we want? that he was the kind of man (or superman) who could have written (because he did in fact write) the immortal ...
... the Mikado; I would have had to obey my soul and I would no longer have been a faithful subject of my emperor. I had to go away. 18 There is the classic compromise that one should render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's. But the spiritual world admits of no such compromises! Page 160 VII For several months after her arrival ...
... integral unity in one's life-movements. The discussion had centred on ambition on two successive Wednesday evenings. It was about this time that the Mother saw at the Playground the film Julius Caesar. She told Champaklal: The play is very interesting. In future, some may say about me that I was very ambitious. Many years later, Champaklal found among her chit-papers this entry, which ...
... material comfort. Keshav —Have you any historical data to bear out your generalisation? Trevor —I cannot say I have, but I appeal to common sense. Page 38 Keshav —Oh, if you appeal to Caesar, I am lost; but be sure that if you bring your case before the tribunal of common sense, I will appeal not to common, but to uncommon sense—and that will arbitrate in my favour. Trevor —Well, we ...
... who hold themselves back, suppress the force in their personality in order to put it wholly into their work. Of such were Shakespeare, Washington, Victor Emmanuel. There are others like Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, Goethe, who are as obviously superhuman in their personality as in the work they accomplish. Napoleon was the greatest in practical capacity of all moderns. In capacity, though not in character ...
... lusting for beauty. Dire and fierce and formidable chieftains followed Atrides, Merciless kings of merciless men and the founders of Europe, Sackers of Troy and sires of the Parthenon, Athens and Caesar. Here they had come to destroy the ancient perishing cultures; For, it is said, from the savage we rose and were born to a wild-beast. So when the Eye supreme perceives that we rise up too swiftly ...
... truthful Yudhishthira at the Rajasuya sacrifice. If Babu Surendranath wishes to be the king of independent Bengal, he should surely conquer his Page 127 kingdom first and then enjoy it. Even Caesar refused the crown thrice; but Surendra Babu has no scruples. He accepted his coronation with effusive tearfulness; in the touching language of the Bengalee , "his mighty voice shook and he got choky" ...
... government of the foreigner. All government is to him an interference with the liberty of the individual, and he sets out to assassinate Czar or democratic President, constitutional king or imperial Caesar with a terrible impartiality, an insane logicality. For if we ask him how liberty of any kind except the liberty of the strong to prey on the weak can exist in the absence of government, he will probably ...
... principles can keep in Page 755 the heat of the Indian sun. It is difficult to know what iniquity reasoning of this sort would not cover. "I thoroughly believe in the ten Commandments," Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, "but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, but ...
... enduring work achieved. One who first founds on a large scale and rapidly, needs always as his successor a man with the talent or the genius for organisation rather than an impetus for expansion. A Caesar followed by an Augustus meant a work of massive durability; a Philip followed by an Alexander an achievement of great importance to the world by its results, but in itself a mere splendour of short-lived ...
... even for geographical accuracy or historical possibility. It is true that sometimes he follows closely the authorities he had at his disposal, such as Holinshed or another and in plays like Julius Caesar he sticks to the main events and keeps many of the details, but not so as to fetter the play of his imagination. So I don't think you need worry at all about either historians or biographers, even ...
... strands. There is another thing—lines of Force. In the universe there are many lines of Force on which various personalities or various achievements and formations spring up—e.g. the line Pericles-Caesar-Napoleon or the line Alexander-Jenghiz-Tamerlane-Napoleon—meeting together there—so it may be too in poetry, lines of poetic force prolonging themselves from one poet to another, meeting and Page ...
... consciousness and force. Will is will whether it is calm or restless, whether it acts in a Yogic or unyogic way, for a Yogic or an unyogic object. Do you Page 718 think Napoleon and Caesar had no will or that they were Yogis? You have strange ideas about things. You might just as well say that memory is memory only when it remembers the Divine and it is not memory when it remembers other ...
... undertones: Golden lads and girls all must, As chimney-sweepers, come to dust. Page 165 Again Shakespeare's Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him, has admirable metrical rhythm, but Sri Aurobindo can catch no undertones or overtones in it. Undertones run exquisitely all through the same poet's In maiden meditation ...
... poetry and that is why from the point of view of art I regard it as his magnum opus. It may be that the Everests come so close together because Macbeth, with perhaps the exception of Julius Caesar, is the shortest play Shakespeare ever wrote. But that does not quite explain the recurrence of his poetic heights at such close quarters, since even if a play is short the usual range of his best ...
... scourges of Power; the new walks straight to meet them. The old shuddered at the idea of revolution; the new is ready to set the whole country in turmoil for the sake of an idea. The old bent the knee to Caesar and presented him a list of grievances; the new leaves his presence or dragged back to it, stands erect and defies him in the midst of his legions. Page 1106 The initial condition of recovering ...
... that shone on the pride of Nahusha, the tapasya of Dhruv and the splendours of Yayati, that saw Tiglath-Pileser, Sennacherib and the Egyptian Pharaohs, Pompey's head hewn off on the sands of Egypt and Caesar bleeding at Pompey's sculptured feet, Napoleon's mighty legions thundering victorious at the bidding of that god of war on the field of Austerlitz and Napoleon's panic legions fleeing disordered with ...
... existed nowhere, the Bhagwat could not have been written. 39) Strange! the Germans have disproved the existence of Christ; yet his crucifixion remains still a greater historic fact than the death of Caesar. 40) Sometimes one is led to think that only those things really matter which have never happened; for beside them most historic achievements seem almost pale and ineffective. 41) There are four ...
... humanity. They have erected a temporary form or given a secular impetus. An empire has been created, an age or a century organised, but the level of humanity has not been raised nearer to the secret of a Caesar or a Napoleon. Love fails because it hastily rejects the material of the world's discords or only tramples them underfoot in an unusual ecstasy; Power because it seeks only to Page 156 ...
... their course; here Indus shall flow, there Ganges pace yellow and leonine to the sea. Therefore we find that the greatest men of action the world has known were believers in Fate or in a divine Will. Caesar, Mahomet, Napoleon, what more colossal workers has our past than these? The superman believes more readily in Destiny, feels more vitally conscious of God than the average human mind. A saying of ...
... Horace has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words " musarum sacerdos " and taken them far beyond the priesthood of poetry practised in the Augustan Age. It is thought-provoking that Caesar Octavius, renamed Augustus, is an early manifestation of Sri Aurobindo of the vibhuti kind. No wonder the two greatest bards Augustus patronised were born again - Virgil as Nolini and Horace as Dilip ...
... even for geographical accuracy or historical possibility. It is true that sometimes he follows closely the authorities he had at his disposal, such as Holinshed or another and in plays like Julius Caesar he sticks to the main events and keeps many of the details, but not so as to fetter the play of his imagina- tion. So C don't think you need care at all about either historians or biographers, even ...
... time of the birth of Christ large armies from Schleswig-Holstein had appeared in northern Italy, whose blood, despite their defeat, will not have mixed with the Romans completely. Since the time of Caesar, the exchange of blood between Rome and the lands along the lower Rhine had become very intense. It is said that Pilate’s bodyguard consisted of soldiers from Lower Germany. In any case, shortly before ...
... "satiated but not satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature" and afflicted with a sense of taedium vitae, is preparing once again to seek his salvation "not in the kingdom of Caesar which lies outside him, but in the kingdom of God which lies within man." (Anatol von Spakovsky.) "Therefore the time grows ripe and the tendency of the world moves towards a new and comprehensive ...
... In flaming curtains, with the dead. Then there are the great scenes of Antony and Cleopatra, as Shakespeare has intuited them. Hating the idea of being captured by the victorious Octavius Caesar and heart-broken on hearing the report, which later turned out to be false, of Cleopatra's death, Antony runs upon his sword which he makes his attendant hold straight before him and hurts himself ...
... declared by Nolini), I guess I must have belonged to the period of the one or the other. The two certainties about Sri Aurobindo's past, as deducible from his correspondence with me, were Augustus Caesar and Leonardo da Vinci. To Amrita he said he still felt the edge of the guillotine on his neck. This would indicate that his birth immediately before the present one was associated with the French ...
... has well touched the core of my poetic life with the words "musarum sacerdos" and taken them far beyond the priesthood of the Muses practised in the Augustan Age of Rome. It is thought-provoking that Caesar Octavius, renamed Augustus, was, as we have come to know, an early manifestation of Sri Aurobindo not as an Avatar, a direct conscious expression of the Divine, but as a Vibhuti, a leader of the age ...
... Bethlehem, the birth occurring in Joseph's own house; Luke (2:4-7) makes Joseph and Mary travel from Nazareth, where Jesus has been conceived, to Bethlehem in order to attend a census under Augustus Caesar, which, in Brown's words, 32 is "a Lucan device based on a confused memory" and "almost surely represents an inaccuracy", and it is there that the time comes for Jesus' birth: he is born in a manger ...
... end your discourse on Progressivism with the text: 'Seek ye first the Kingdom of God, and all these things shall be added unto you.' Have you thought that this text (like the one: 'Render unto Caesar...') is at present the major difficulty encountered by a throng of minds within the Church - and that it represents (like the plurality of 'Mankinds' in the Cosmos) one of those points urgently calling ...
... me: now no more The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip... ...Methinks I hear Antony call; I see him rouse himself To praise my noble act; I hear him mock The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men To excuse their after wrath. Husband I come: Now to that name my courage prove my title! I am fire and air; my other elements Page 571 ...
... unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis like Julius Caesar for instance have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent. Still I can't understand one thing; even though you did ...
... would write letters to serve friends." He endeared himself to his soldiers by his kindliness; he risked Page 86 their lives, but not heedlessly; and he seemed to feel all their wounds. As Caesar forgave Brutus and Cicero, and Napoleon Fouche and Talleyrand, so Alexander forgave Harpalus, the treasurer who had absconded with his funds and had returned to beg forgiveness; the young conqueror ...
... personality on the usual level. But from the point of view of Avatarhood I would no more think of defending his moral perfection according to modern standards than I would think of defending Napoleon or Caesar against the moralists or the democratic critics or the debunkers in order to prove that they were Vibhutis. Vibhuti, Avatar are terms which have their own meaning and scope, and they are not concerned ...
... people can be happy with a regular life. I was different. I felt there was more to life than just plodding through an average existence. I'd always been impressed by stories of greatness and power. Caesar, Charlemagne, Napoleon were names I knew and remembered. I wanted to do something special, to be recognized as the best. I saw bodybuilding as the vehicle that would take me to the top, and I put all ...
... suppose that such principles can keep in the heat of the Indian sun. "It is difficult to know what inequity reasoning of this sort would not cover. 'I thoroughly believe in the Ten Commandments,' Caesar Borgia might have said in his full career of political poisonings and strangulations, 'but they may do very well in one country and age without applying at all to another. They suited Palestine, but ...
... Senor. Basil: Humph. Antonio: Well, cousin. All silent? Open your batteries, open your batteries! Page 267 Basil: Wait, wait. Ought a conqueror to be hurried? Caesar himself must study his ground before he attempts it. You will hear my trumpets instanter. Brigida: Will you take your letter, Sir? Antonio: To me then, maiden? A dainty-looking ...
... unnecessary display; all that is behind him but not in the front of his consciousness. As for the Vibhuti, the Vibhuti need not even know that he is a power of the Divine. Some Vibhutis like Julius Caesar for instance have been atheists. Buddha himself did not believe in a personal God, only in some impersonal and indescribable Permanent. Still I can't understand one thing: even though ...
... divine Power and the guardian of the Dharma, he did not have absolute power. But now we had a totally different system. The Muslim State in India was a theocracy and the Sultan was considered to be Caesar and Pope combined in one. His authority in religion was based on the Holy law of the Koran but in practice, he was an autocrat, unchecked by any restrictions and his word was law. The real source of ...
... degree and opposite in kind. The glorious First Consul and Emperor did not end in a blaze of glory: he had to live and die as the commonest of prisoners. Even his great prototype, the mighty Caesar, did not meet a different fate—he too fell— Page 108 O what a fall was there my countrymen! Then I and you and all of us fell down— A Jeanne d'Arc, another glorious ...
... hence it is that Judas betrayed Christ and even his faithful disciple Peter denied him thrice before the cock crowed. And consequently the second motto is: Page 200 Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar's, The calamities of nature cannot be evaded, they have to be bravely faced. One has to march through the stormy and tenebrous night to reach the Light and Peace beyond ...
... ing the talk) : My eyes always remain watery. SRI AUROBINDO: Virgil had eyes like that, while Horace used to breathe hard. Once Mycaenas, the great patron of literature in the reign of Augustus Caesar, was sitting between the two poets and said, "I am sitting between sighs and tears." (Laughter) To get back to Becharlal's question: one offers one's vital being, one's heart and one's mind to ...
... to put into a too rigid and' mathematical formula something that is living and variable. Still it will serve to give a clearer picture of the matter. Napoleon. evidently was a child of Mahakali; and Caesar seems to have been fashioned largely by the principle of. Maheshwari; while Christ or Chaitanya are clearly emanations in the line of Mahalakshmi. Constructive geniuses, on the other hand, like the ...
... had taken it up from the Mauryas; a system initiated perhaps by still earlier legislators and builders of Indian polity. Mussolini of twentieth century Italy is in no way related to Cato or Julius Caesar of ancient Rome, but Sri Ramakrishna or Sri Aurobindo is a direct descendant of the Vedic Rishis. What is the cause of this 'strange longevity or stability that India or China enjoys? Whence ...
... back, so I will reveal to you today some of those tales which have 296 "This was the most unkindest cut of all" - from Mark Antony's famous burial speech in William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, Act III, Scene ii, line 183. Page 251 been held back. You know, perhaps, that I worked in many departments of the Ashram before I found my true vocation. As soon as I came ...
... 141, 313 Sankhya, 182, 186, 279 Sarama, 330 Saraswati, 189 Sati, 184 Satyavan, 242-6 Savitri, 242-6, 252-3, 307 Shakespeare, 228, 386, 391 – Hamlet, 386n – Julius Caesar, 386n – King Lear, 391n Shankara, 104-5, 309, 344 Sindhus, 330 Shiva, 106, 182, 184, 207, 297 Socrates, 196,297, 379 Soma, 330 Sri Aurobindo, 3, 8,9, 29n., 42,46,51, 90 ...
... 764 Jayaswal, K. P., 508 Jinnah,M.A.,529,702,710 Joan of Arc 55,191 Johnson, Lionel, 99 Jones, Sir William, 13 Joyce, James, 535 Julius Caesar, 140 Kabir, 9, 497 Kalidasa. 10,50, 69ff, 90H, 337, 695 Kama, 169, 172 Kanungo, Hemachandra, 216, 326 Kant, Immanuel, 416 Kara-Kahini, 307fn, 308ff ...
... 11. MO 4:224 12. SA 26:480 13. Champaklal : 107 14. Champaklal :246 15. MO 16:153 16. Savitri : 1 17. MO 16:153 18. SA 16:394 19. MO 16:154-55 20. Caesar II.i.66-69 21. MO 16:161 22. MO 16:161 23. SA 24:1093-94 24. MO 16:164 25. Grace :367-68 26. MO 16:166 27. MO 16:170-71 28. Corres :110;SA 24:1365 29 ...
... something larger than his ego. The introduction of the Eremite - who appears twice during Antiochus' campaigns - may appear a little puzzling at first. Like the Soothsayer in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, the Eremite too tries to undermine Antiochus' overweening self-confidence. On the second occasion, when he tells the hero - Despise not proud defeat, scorn not high death. The gods ...
... Pondicherry, have brought up not only potsherds bearing epigraphs, terracottas, but also a megalithic tomb and a trove of gold ornaments, including a ring with the seal of the Roman Emperor Augustus Caesar, besides quantities of Roman coins in silver and gold. As Roman commerce was officially authorized at Pondicherry, the Romans owned here a 'loge,' and minted their coins to pay wages to the Indian ...
... the well-known sprit communications through a medium at spirit sitting. Someone comes and tells you he was Napoleon, another was Shakespeare and so on. How many Shakespeares and Napoleons and Caesars have manifested in this way, there is no counting! There are spirits who are extremely talkative and bewitch you with extraordinary stories, many that seem so true and genuine on the face, many others ...
... the well-known spirit communications through a medium at spirit sittings. Someone comes and tells you he was Napoleon, another was Shakespeare and so on. How many Shakespeare and Napoleons and Caesars have manifested in this way, there is no counting! There are spirits who are extremely talkative and bewitch you with extraordinary stories, many that seem so true and genuine on the face, many others ...
... which the nobles and the commons have disappeared and a single individual rules with absolute power through the instrumentality of officials. The Hindu King, however, never became a despot like the Caesars, he never grasped the power of legislation but remained the executor of laws over which he had no control nor could he ignore the opinion of the people. When most absolute, he has existed only to secure ...
... highest military and civil offices and even to the imperial purple, so that within less than a century after Augustus, first an Italian Gaul and then an Iberian Spaniard held the name and power of the Caesars, but she proceeded rapidly enough to deprive of all vitality and then even nominally to abolish all the grades of civic privilege with which she had started and extended the full Roman citizen ... new and inexperienced in imperial methods, clung to the old Roman idea of assimilation which he sought to execute both by Roman and by un-Roman means. He showed even a tendency to go back beyond the Caesars of old to the methods of the Jew in Canaan and the Saxon in eastern Britain, methods of expulsion and massacre. But since he was after all modernised and had some sense of economic necessity and advantage ...
... brought about this that in the first instance the accident could not be prevented, but it stopped short of a catastrophe. But once the destiny of my brother was not there with the machine, - like Caesar's destiny that made the boatman row safely across the river through a storm – the protection was also withdrawn and the pilot had to go down under the full blast of his bad fate. I can narrate another ...
... s brought about this that in the first instance the accident could not be prevented, but it stopped short of catastrophe. But once the destiny of my brother was not there with the machine,—like Caesar's destiny that made the boatman go safely across the river through a storm—the protection was also withdrawn and the pilot had to go down under the full blast of his bad fate. I can narrate another ...
... the utilitarian may not justly do, it is beyond the limits of my intellect to discover. Had it not been for these premature civilizations, had it not been for the Athens of Plato, the Rome of the Caesars, the India of Vikramaditya, what would the world be now? It was premature, because barbarism was yet predominant in the world; and it is wholly due to our premature efflorescence that your utilitarian ...
... growth of Socialism and the seizure of the doctrine of State despotism by masterful and ambitious minds to cloak a usurpation the ancient and known forms of which would not be tolerated, just as the Caesars, while avoiding the detested name and form of kingship, yet ruled Rome under the harmless titles of Princeps and Imperator, first man of the state and general, far more despotically than Tarquin could ...
... For Seneca, too, — influenced as he was by the Platonizing bent of Posidonius — the body was a contemptible thing. Marcus Aurelius, 'the last Roman who sat upon the throne of the Caesars', was also a professed Stoic. But he, too, "speaks repeatedly of the body in tones of passionate scorn. He reprobates it especially as the souree of carnal appetites, and as tending to inveigle ...
... movement in this inexhaustible source that every fresh impulse and rejuvenated strength has arisen. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the grave where dead nations lie, with Greece and Rome of the Caesars, with Esarhaddon and the Chosroes. You will often hear it said that it was the forms of Hinduism which have given us so much national vitality. I think rather it was its spirit. I am inclined to give ...
... And so one sees, one can see these various moments, but one cannot narrate a whole life. I believe Sri Aurobindo has written something very amusing Page 34 about this, the number of Caesars one knew, the number of all the great beings, the Napoleons and all the important personages, the Shakespeares, all the people whose names have survived in history! How many are there! There are hundreds ...
... exclaim at first sight of Juliet's beauty at a ball given by her family: O she doth teach the torches to burn bright! - or else when that distillation of the Stoic in the Roman temper is put in Caesar's mouth in Antony and Cleopatra: Be you not troubled with the time, which drives O'er your content these strong necessities, But let determined things to destiny Take unbewailed ...
... marching in To torch and cresset gleam, And the roads of the world that lead to Rome Were filled with faces that moved like foam, Like faces in a dream. The stanza about "Caesar's sun" is almost worthy, I think, of Aeschylus, for the imaginative tension reached there in a style that just falls short of the true epic. Here the falling short is in consequence more of ...
... solutions are heroic; but one is a mighty heroism of difficult retreat and flight; the other a mightier heroism of self-perfection and conquest. The one is the retreat of the Ten Thousand; the other is Caesar's movement from Dyrrhachium to [Pharsalus]. One path culminates in Buddha, the other in Janaka and Srikrishna. The language of the Seer is perfectly framed, as in the first line, to bring about a c ...
... continuity from a past beyond that of Egypt or Greece or Rome to a present in which Memphis is but a wonderful momory, Periclean Athens no more than a mass of magnificent ruins and the Rome of the Caesars only the windswept and grass-covered Coliseum - the perpetual Shakti tore the veil between the inner and the outer and with her fiat gave the struggle for independence an inevitability of success. ...
... sanguine shell, Where the scenes are little and terrible Keyholes of heaven and hell. × When Caesar's sun fell out of the sky And whoso hearkened right Could only hear the plunging Of the nations in the night. × ...
... incomplete without Sri Aurobindo's tribute. Even a message of two lines or a couplet coming from him will be looked upon as a boon of his Grace" .— etc. But Sri Aurobindo's Grace was not like Caesar's, amenable to flattery. "I take Pramatha Choudhuri's remark — that Tagore's Golden Book will be incomplete without my contribution — as a complimentary hyperbole. The Golden Book will be as golden ...
... In foribus pugnam ex auro solidoque elephanto Gāngāridum faciam victorisque arma Quirini. Dryden renders the lines: High o'er the gate in elephant and gold The crowd shall Caesar's Indian war behold. C. Day Lewis, in our own time, translates them: On the doors of my temple I'll have engraved in gold and solid Ivory a battle scene - the Romans beating the ...
... movement in this inexhaustible source that every fresh impulse and rejuvenated strength has arisen. Otherwise we should long ago have been in the grave where dead nations lie, with Greece and Rome of the Caesars, with Esarhaddon* and the Chosroes**____ The result of this well-meaning bondage [to the outer forms of Hinduism] has been an increasing impoverishment of the Indian intellect, once the most gigantic ...
... like a blind king. Then, and only then, can we begin to speak of reincarnation and memories of past lives, which will not necessarily be memories of garish or glorious deeds (how many Napoleons and Caesars there have been if we believe the scribblers of reincarnation!), but memories of soul-moments, 91 because for the psychic nothing is glorious or inglorious, high or low; the conquest of Mount ...
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