Chimera : fire
... to be. Let me first explain the meaning. A chimera is a queer mythical creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail—and, as if this combination were not enough, its mouth breathes fire. Sri Aurobindo has made the chimera even queerer than it usually is: he has given it wings—with, I think, a purpose. He uses the word "chimera" for something fantastic in idea, and what he means... accent—expository in its mode—is very well heard in this extended pronouncement. The pronouncement mentalises also our "chimera" - line by mentioning "the high gods" and thus bringing in that line's "heaven" no less than the next one's "God". In passing we may remark that the "chimera" - line is also intuitive by its suggestive compactness, but it blends what Sri Aurobindo calls illumination with its ...
... of other luminous convictions that your logic has forced on me. But what to do next? You have put me in a terrible fix and I see no way out of it. For if the Way, the Yoga is merely sham, fun and chimera—then? [Here begins my typed letter. Sri Aurobindo's answer, written in hand on the same sheets, was never sent. I first read it after it was discovered among some old papers of Sri Aurobindo in... although the secret sign of the Godhead is there, it is at first indistinguishable." 69 Does it follow that the coating cannot be dissolved nor the mark effaced? Then stamp the stamp of the chimera on all efforts at spirituality and catalogue as asses and fools all who have attempted to rise beyond the human animal—all who have tried to follow the path of the Christ, the Buddha; stigmatise as... it will have no go with me, my heart won't leap up at such a divine possibility, such a dream of Paradise! Your heart not leaping up does not make my statement a falsehood, a non-sequitur or a chimera. My fellow-brothers may venture to reach there through such a thin hanging bridge, but if they do, I am afraid it will be into a fool's Paradise. The fool being myself, eh? For it is my Paradise ...
... develop the faith that the Divine is—you seem often to doubt it—that the Divine Grace is and has manifested both elsewhere and here, that the sadhana by which so many profit is not a falsehood or a chimera and that I have helped many and am not utterly powerless—otherwise how could so many progress under our influence? If this is first established, then the doubt and denial, the refusal off faith boils... In spite of your disclaimer you practically come to the conclusion that all my nonsense about integral Yoga and karma being as much a way to realisation as jnana and bhakti is either a gleaming chimera or practicable only by Avatars or else a sheer laborious superfluity—since one can bump straight into the Divine through the open door of Bhakti or sweep majestically in him by the easy high road... repetition of the statement of my own knowledge and experience—that is what I have done in today's answer to Nirod—and that amounts only to a perverse obstinacy in . riding my gleaming and dazzling chimera and forcing my nuisance of a superfluity on a world weary of itself and anxious to get a short easy cut to the Divine. Unfortunately, I don't believe in short cuts—at any rate none ever led me where ...
... of other luminous convictions that your logic has forced on me. But what to do next? You have put me in a terrible fix and I see no way out of it. For if the Way, the Yoga is merely sham, fun and chimera — then? NB: I have read your Essays on the Gita, Synthesis of Yoga... and, though I am wiser, my original and fundamental difficulty remains as unsolved as ever. What is so simple to you, as... stamped with her own stamp and mark of animal humanity..." Page 170 Sri Aurobindo: Does it follow that the coating cannot be dissolved nor the mark effaced? Then stamp the stamp of the chimera on all efforts at spirituality and catalogue as asses and fools all who have attempted to rise beyond the human animal... NB: [In your Essays on the Gita] you say that the Avatar's descent is... go with me, my heart won't leap up at such a divine possibility, such a dream of Paradise! Sri Aurobindo: Your heart not leaping up does not make my statement a falsehood, a non-sequitur or a chimera. NB: My fellow-brothers may venture to reach there through such a thin hanging bridge but if they do, I am afraid, it will be into a fool's Paradise. Sri Aurobindo: The fool being myself ...
... Sri Aurobindo has made the chimeras even queerer than they usually are: he has given them wings — with, I think, a purpose. He uses the word "chimera" for something fantastic in idea, and what he means to say in his first line is: He uses the word "chimera" for something fantastic in idea, and what he means to say in his first line is: "All strange apparently unmaterialisable dreams in earth's mind... positive instance of Phanopoeia. Here are the lines: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. Let me first explain the meaning. A chimera (pronounced kye-mere-a, accented in the second syllable) is a queer mythical creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and a serpent's tail — and as if this combination were not enough, its mouth ...
... by a nation of helots.’ It is that he took the standpoint of absolute independence for his motherland at his young age, even when still in England, and when everybody else held it to be ‘an insane chimera.’ Later, Sri Aurobindo would write about himself: ‘He always stood for India’s complete independence which he was the first to advocate publicly without compromise as the only ideal worthy of a se... intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence which was regarded, when he entered into politics, by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera. It was thought that the British Empire was too powerful and India too weak, effectively disarmed and impotent even to dream of the success of such an endeavour. Thirdly, there was the organization... He also noticed that whenever he sat for pranayama, not a single mosquito would bite him, though plenty of them were humming around! He also reasoned that ‘great men could not have been after a chimera.’ One of the great men he met was Swami Brahmananda, Deshpande’s guru, who had an ashram on the banks of the river Narmada and was supposed to be well over a century old. ‘He was, when I met him just ...
... Sri Aurobindo riding his gleaming and dazzling chimera! "I am afraid, Dilip, your letter too does very much the same thing. For in spite of your disclaimer, you practically come to the conclusion that all my nonsense about Integral Yoga and karma being as much a way to realisation as jnana and bhakti is either a gleaming chimera or practicable only by Avatars or else a sheer laborious... of the statement of my own knowledge and experience. That is what I have done in my today's answer to Nirod and perhaps that amounts only to a perverse obstinacy in riding my gleaming and dazzling chimera and forcing my nuisance of a superfluity on a world weary of itself and anxious to get an easy short cut to the Divine. Unfortunately, I do not believe in short cuts - at any rate none ever led me ...
... spite of your disclaimer, you practically come to the conclusion that all my nonsense about integral Yoga and karma being as much a way to realisation as jnana — and bhakti is either a gleaming chimera or practicable only by Avatars or else a sheer laborious superfluity — (since one can jump straight into the Divine through the open door of bhakti or sweep majestically into Him by the easy road... of the statement of my own knowledge and experience. That is what I have done in my today's answer to Nirod and perhaps that amounts only to a perverse obstinacy in riding my gleaming and dazzling chimera and forcing my nuisance of a superfluity on a world weary of itself and anxious to get an easy short cut to the Divine. Unfortunately, I do not believe in short cuts — at any rate none ever led ...
... sink towards a dull or catastrophic decadence. Even if the Absolute Good were a high spiritual or ideal chimera, the pursuit of it is rooted in the very make of humanity and it is one of the main sources of the perennial life of the race. And that it is so would seem to indicate that it is not a chimera—something still beyond man, no doubt, but into which or towards which he is called by Nature to grow ...
... to be achieved through the process of an evolutionary transfiguration, we are not indulging in a child-soul's phantasy or its demands for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible chimera that goes beyond or outside all forces of Nature. What we are envisaging is the control and conquest of the prevailing determinism of our bodily system by the higher determinism of the supernal... Ibid., pp. 61-62. 40. Ibid., p. 70. Page 241 revolutionary changes in the physical structure and functioning of the human body may appear to be a senseless and impossible chimera. But, Sri Aurobindo warns us, no limits and no impossibility of any necessary change can be imposed on the evolutionary urge. And when Supermind, the divine Gnosis, takes charge of evolution, there ...
... have criticised any promise of the emergence of life in a world of dead earth and rock and mineral as an absurdity and a chimera; so too afterwards he would have repeated his mistake and regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimera...." 2 Let's then give the lass a standing ovation for her handiwork. From a mass of gases to inanimate Matter, to a ...
... it exists at all, it is as a dynamic Power, a creator of illusions. There is nothing sound or real in what it builds; there is nothing true in what it sees; the world it shows us is [an] impossible chimera, a mass of figments and falsehoods. The sole consciousness that is true is the self-awareness of some absolute Silence, a spaceless immobile Infinite, a timeless featureless Eternity. Or, as the m... is what we propose to do integrally and with a full and exhaustive inquiry before we decide either way. The chances are that so enormous a thing as this world is something more than an astonishing chimera. The chances are that when two such great aspects of existence confront each other, there is a connection somewhere, a reconciliation of their contraries. It is possible that both are aspects, static ...
... have criticized any promise of the emergence of life in a world of dead earth and rock and mineral as an absurdity and a chimera; so too, afterwards he would have repeated this mistake and regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimera. It is the same now with the appearance of supermind in the stumbling mentality of the world of human consciousness and ...
... have criticized any promise of the emergence of life in a world of dead earth and rock and mineral as an absurdity and a chimera; so too, afterwards he would have repeated this mistake and regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimera,” wrote Sri Aurobindo in a letter. 6 The reader may remember Wallace’s crucial statement, the outcome of many years ...
... major changes in programmes of teachers' training. To expect fulfilment of great goals of education without preparing great teachers is a vain chimera. To expect teachers to do great things without giving them a great status in the society is also a vain chimera. Therefore, our country needs to launch a pro- Page 41 gramme which will ensure higher welfare of teachers and also higher levels ...
... there has not been. Yet it cannot be that a form of effort so earnestly & persistently pursued and so necessary to the perfection of culture and advance of civilisation, is the vain pursuit of a chimera. Nothing which mankind earnestly attempts is impossible, not even the conversion of copper into gold or the discovery of the elixir of life or the power of aerial motion; but so long as experiment ...
... our strength, must be alleviated without delay? Or was it a responsible pledge by a person in authority that the high-sounding promises of '58 should at last become something more than a beautiful chimera? No, it was simply a chance vote snatched by a dexterous minority from a meagre and listless House. As a fine tactical success it reflects Page 7 every credit on the acuteness and savoir ...
... allow their patrons and protectors to withdraw. This problem does not any longer trouble the peace of British statesmen; on the contrary it is definitely and for ever disclaimed and put aside as a chimera—or a pretence. British rule in India will continue, ought to continue and must continue. What then is the problem which is troubling Mr. Morley? The problem is "the difficulty of combining personal ...
... species, the greater the chances of inequality. In so high and developed a natural movement as Man, equality of individual opportunity is conceivable, equality of natural powers and accomplishment is a chimera. Nor will the generalisation of powers or the increase of material make any difference to the level of natural attainment. All the accumulated discoveries & varied information of the modern scientist ...
... doubtful validity. Revelation, inspiration, intuition, intuitive discrimination, were the capital processes of ancient enquiry. To the logical reason of Page 551 modern men revelation is a chimera, inspiration only a rapid intellectual selection of thoughts or words, intuition a swift and obscure process of reasoning, intuitive discrimination a brilliant and felicitous method of guessing. But ...
... its path. The positivist Western mind finds it difficult to give this conception the rank of a living and intelligible idea. The status of the siddha, bhāgavata, mukta appears to it a baseless chimera. It seems to its Christian associations a blasphemy against the solitary greatness of God, before whom man is only a grovelling worm, to its fierce attachment to the normal ego a negation of personality ...
... death, Page 244 of difficult alimentation and facility of disorder and disease and subjection to poor and unsatisfied vital cravings ceases to have the appearance of a dream and chimera and becomes a possibility founded upon a rational and philosophic truth which is in accordance with all the rest that we have hitherto known, experienced or been able to think out about the overt and ...
... human perception. If, as the seers chant, our race is destined to become immortal— which the intellect, lacking the requisite tools, cannot envisage without seeing therein an absurd and appalling chimera—, if we are destined here below to enter and live in Eternity, nothing will prevent that from coming to be. That has even been accomplished in advance, for the simple reason that Eternity does not ...
... life would be meaningless. It is life beyond or immortality actualising itself that gives meaning to life here on earth, the mortal life. In vain would be all our striving if immortality were a chimera. If time were of mere fleeting of events, vain would be the very concept of eternity that reflects itself in the events and times of the world. Sri Aurobindo describes various forms of co ...
... first to take the standpoint of absolute independence for his motherland, even when the general atmosphere was one of “apathy and despair” and absolute independence was still held to be “an insane chimera”. For a time Aravinda preferred to act behind the scenes. He was initiated in the Western Secret Society in Bombay, and administered in his turn the oath of secrecy and unconditional service of ...
... decision,” Nirodbaran writes in Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo. In spiritual as in political matters Sri Aurobindo was a radical. The unconditional independence of India was thought to be a chimera when he was the first to demand it from the colonial occupant; now the integral transformation of Matter in its divine essence, with the formation of a new evolutionary species, was supposed to be ...
... instance the mechanisms of inheritance and adaptation (which were still unexplainable at the time). The illumination which brought it all together in Darwin’s mind, Malthus’ theory, proved to be a chimera. As Tim Lewens writes in his book on Darwin: “Modern evolution has no essential commitment to the Malthusian view that lies at the heart of Darwin’s theory.” 16 ...
... more concrete and mightier than material force, and that consciousness literally is a concrete entity; otherwise spirituality and yoga would only be a fiction and the transformation of the body a chimera.) ‘Something strange happened; when we were in the vital all at once my body became young again just like I was eighteen!’ told the Mother. ‘There was a young man named Pearson, a disciple of Tagore ...
... the time he stepped ashore in Bombay. When he entered politics, the idea of an independent India ‘was regarded … by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera,’ 4 wrote Sri Aurobindo later; and again in the third person he wrote about himself: ‘He has always stood for India’s complete independence which he was the first to advocate publicly and without ...
... zones their torches fail to illumine must be Scouted as undivine and non-existent. ( With a smile ) How grand the verdict of your summit-wisdom: "What bears not the Vedas' seal is a chimera!" But can it not be that life has not yet Been fully fathomed or mapped out by even The holiest scriptures like your hoary Vedas? ( She draws a sigh ) B ut I'll bow down to you. Since ...
... rockets we zoom to return to earth — mere ash. We are haled by life but our souls stay baulked of peace. This is the ancient tale of human fate. It seems a riddle to the outer eye, A chimera calling the more as it recedes. The householder reads great sermons on life's march, Hugging his chains that cause his feet to bleed, With no destination set — far less a goal! ...
... and glorifying force of sublima-tion to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital ima-gination and mental idealised chimera." 1 Mark that Sri Aurobindo begins by speaking of the Divine Name and ends with speaking of the rose and sapphire of Divine Love. With them we circle back to the Rose of Bliss and its "vermilion ...
... was made [illicitly] into a people, and that this people was made [illicitly] into a race.” 281 The Aryan race existed only in the imagination of some scholarly racists, who released their pure-bred chimera into the fields of the imagination of a presumptuous Germany. “Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill which we see before our eyes today, is almost ...
... also can be changed. "The conditions under which men live upon earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change the conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera ." I have understood directly from the Mother and the books of Sri Aurobindo that now we have entered a new Age—the Age of a new Consciousness. The New Consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January ...
... State became really democratic, really the expression of the free reasoned will of the majority in agreement. Any true development of that kind would be difficult indeed and has the appearance of a chimera: for collectivism pretends to regulate life not only in its few fundamental principles and its main lines, as every organised society must tend to do, but in its details, it aims at a thoroughgoing ...
... need of something of the kind has been growing rapidly and the object lesson of the war brought the master idea of the future out of the nascent condition in which it was no more than the generous chimera of a few pacifists or internationalist idealists. It came to be recognised that it contains in itself some force of eventual reality, and the voice of those who would cry it down as the pet notion ...
... first weak beginnings of higher motives and a better national morality, and until this spirit is radically changed, the union of the human race by a federation of free nations must remain a noble chimera. Undoubtedly, a free association and unity must be the ultimate goal of our development and until it is realised the world must be subject to constant changes and revolutions. Every established ...
... remember that the Gita was composed at a time when war was even more than it is now a necessary part of human activity and the idea of its elimination from the scheme of life would have been an absolute chimera. The gospel of universal peace and goodwill among men—for without a universal and entire mutual goodwill there can be no real and abiding peace—has never succeeded for a moment in possessing itself ...
... liberated, when the visionary abounds, the executive worker also is uplifted, finds at once an orientation and tenfold energy and accomplishes things which he would otherwise have rejected as a dream and chimera, which to his ordinary capacity would be impossible and which often leave the world wondering how work so great could have been done by men who were in themselves so little. The union of the great ...
... are for the present more powerful and the facts will have their results, but the results which we deserve and not those aimed at by our egoism. The principle of self-determination is not in itself a chimera, it is only that if we choose to make it so. It is the condition of the better order of the world which we wish to bring into being, and to make jettison of it at the very first opportunity is an ...
... reasonable chance of establishing permanent peace and well-being. This would for the first time turn into an assured fact the ideal of human unity which, cherished by a few, seemed for so long a noble chimera; then might be created a firm ground of peace and harmony and even a free room for the realisation of the highest human dreams, for the perfectibility of the race, a perfect society, a higher upward ...
... of other luminous convictions that your logic has forced on me. But what to do next? You have put me in a terrible fix and I see no way out of it. For if the Way, the Yoga is merely sham, fun and chimera—then? 6 March 1935 When did I say that you are not an Avatar? On the contrary I wrote to you that you are an Avatar. Page 416 You don't say, but if your theory or description of ...
... life, liberty and goods from the caprices of the tyrant one or the selfish few; its evil is the decline of greatness in humanity. Page 309 All human governments are a falsehood or a chimera. One can hope that one day the earth will be governed by the Truth only if the Supreme Lord makes this Truth evident to all. 18 February 1970 ...
... sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and mental idealised chimera." 2 Mark that Sri Aurobindo begins by speaking of the Divine Name and ends with speaking of the rose and sapphire of Divine Love. With them we circle back to the Rose of Bliss and its "vermilion ...
... (The Life Divine, p. 264) 3 The Life Divine, p. 844. (Italics ours) Page 295 phantasy or its demands for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible chimera that goes beyond or outside all forces of Nature and becomes automatically effective. What we are envisaging is the control and conquest of the prevailing determinism of our bodily system by the ...
... the sun very clearly, we must not judge thereby that its size is such as we see it, and we can well imagine distinctly the head of a lion mounted on the body of a goat, without concluding that a chimera exists in this world. For reason does not insist that all we see or visualise in this way is true, but it does insist that all our ideas or Page 231 notions must have some foundation ...
... and call it Bhawani Mandir. We thought he meant that, but later I understood it as "Make a temple within." This gave me the final push to Yoga. I thought: great men could not have been after a chimera, and if there was such a more-than-human power why not get it and use it for action? I had been to Bengal twice or thrice for political work. I found the workers quarrelling among themselves and ...
... difference between Europe and Asia is the difference between two species; and there can be no fruitful union between them. So, the meeting and fusion of Europe and Asia is nothing but a barren ideal, a chimera. It is a hope and a desire cherished, no doubt, by sentimental visionaries, but it is bound to come to grief in the end, when brought to face the realities of life and the stern forces that shape the ...
... if either of these represented the true truth of existence, then "any divini-sation or transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, a senseless and impossible chimera." 5 But, as a matter of fact, this is not so. These views represent indeed aspects of the Truth but in no way the whole of the Truth nor the liberating integral Knowledge that would harmonise ...
... minds bound to the present form of things the divine transfiguration of the human body, the golden dream of planting heaven here on the soil of Matter, may well appear as 'a senseless and impossible chimera' 1 , the 'bright hallucination' 2 of an idealist's thoughts, a vain and ineffectual imagination and 'the noble fiction' 3 of man's subconscious yearnings. For, the problem at the base is ...
... of laws, does not appear strange to a mathematician; it may well be so to the so-called experimental scientist who, basing himself on the supposed inviolability of all physical laws, may dub as a chimera all hope of transforming this earth-life. But, after all, what is a law if not "the habits of the world"? 26 And, while considering "the possible relation between the divine life and the ...
... see the sun very clearly, we must not judge thereby that its size is such as we see it, and we can well imagine distinctly the head of a lion mounted on the body of a goat, without concluding that a chimera exists in this world. For reason does not insist that all we see or visualise in this way is true, but it does insist that all our ideas or notions must have some foundation in truth, for it would ...
... be there among the invisibles, since invisibles there are? If only visibles were admitted, then of course. In that case all the trouble I took for D was sheer waste of energy, hallucination and chimera. Hallucination also the fact that D's improvement agreed exactly with the thought I put out in the force? Well, it may be so. Modern science says there is no such thing as cause and effect, only conditions ...
... May 1934 Suddenly I have dropped from a state of exaltation and peace to that of depression. The soaring, the days of exaltation seem to be so unreal—almost a chimera beside this world of reality. ? [Sri Aurobindo underlined "world of reality".] It is surprising that I cannot live in one state for more than a few days, and yet this dejection, sadness seems ...
... childhood, that is to say, when there will be peace and harmony on Page 151 earth, when racial, cultural or ideological egoism will no longer divide man and man – a thing that seems today a chimera and a hallucination – when there will be one culture, one civilisation, one spiritual life welding all humanity into a single unit of life luminous and beautiful. Roerich believes that such a consummation ...
... were the truth it is obvious that any divinisation or divine transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, an imagination, a senseless and impossible chimera. But even if we suppose a soul, a conscious will at work in this body it could not arrive at a divine transformation if there were no radical change in the bodily instrument itself and in the organisation ...
... tended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence which was regarded, when he entered into politics, by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera. It was thought that the British Empire was too powerful and India too weak, effectively disarmed and impotent even to dream of the success of such an endeavour. Thirdly, there was the organisation ...
... about it – that one has to go to the forest and give up everything. I was interested in the freedom of the country. But I always thought that the great figures of the world could not have been after a chimera and if there was such a Power Page 94 why not use it for the freedom of the country? Barin used to do automatic writing at Baroda. Once the spirit of my father appeared on being ...
... with regard to him in his inimitable way. This transformation of the human personality into the Divine – perhaps even the mere connection of the human with the Divine – is probably regarded as a chimera by the modern mind. To the modern mind it would appear as the apotheosis of a human personality which is against its idea of equality of men. Its difficulty is partly due to the notion that the Divine ...
... the meditative pose no more than an expression of the "weed called vanity", and the Mother feels that unless this weed is thrown out and replaced by true humility, spiritual progress must remain a chimera. The Mother dismisses being humble before others as the wrong way and states categorically: True humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is ...
... lived, touched by Mirra: The conditions in which humans live on earth are the result of their state of consciousness. Trying to change the conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera. 28 So if people want to build hospitals and treat lepers and invent anti-cancer drugs, let them do it, but it is not the world that they are helping to progress or heal: it is they themselves ...
... as 'Make a temple within.'" Bhawani is one of the names of the Supreme Mother. "This," revealed Sri Aurobindo, "gave me the final push to Yoga. I thought: great men could not have been after a chimera, and if there was such a more-than-human power, why not get it and use it for action?" Still waters run deep. The youth's pent-up love for a mother found a channel in his Motherland. He loved ...
... All of thyself to thy manhood and Nature and Circumstance giving, Be what thou must be or be what thou canst be, one hour in an era. Knowing the truth of thy days, shun the light of ideal and chimera: Curb heart's impatience, bind thy desires down, pause from self-vexing." Who is the nomad then? who is the seeker, the gambler risking All for a dream in a dream, the old and the sure and the stable ...
... also, so it is with everyone, not with you alone. The way to the heights is always like that up to a certain point, but the ups and downs, the difficulties and obstacles are no proof that it is a chimera to aspire to the summits. 5 January 1933 I am afraid I cannot endorse your reading of the situation, at least so far as the Mother and myself and the prospects of the work are concerned. I can ...
... intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence which was regarded, when he entered into politics, by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera. It was thought that the British Empire was too powerful and India too weak, effectively disarmed and impotent even to dream of the success of such an endeavour. Thirdly, there was the organisation ...
... CENTRE OF EDUCATION* The conditions under which men live upon earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera. All who have had the perception of what could be and should be done to improve the situation, in the different domains of human life, economical, political, social, financial, educational or sanitary ...
... sanction and glorifying force of sublimation to gild the mud of the old earth and colour with its rose and sapphire the old turbid unreal skies of sentimentalising vital imagination and mental idealised chimera. If that falsification is permitted, the higher Light and Power and Bliss withdraw, there is a fall back to a lower status; or else the realisation remains tied to an insecure half-way and mixture ...
... University Centre - I The conditions in which men live on earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change these conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera. Those who have been able to perceive what could and ought to be done to improve the situation in the various domains of human life—economic, political, social, financial, educational and sanitary—are ...
... question of Indian politics is now a generally recognised fact, recognised openly or tacitly by its supporters and its opponents alike. The Anglo-Indian papers are busy trying to make out that it is a chimera and a failure: the executive are straining every nerve to crush it by magisterial interference, by police zulum , by prosecution of newspapers and all the familiar machinery of repressive despotism: ...
... difficult part of the process of unification to fulfil itself more or less rapidly. The unity created could never take the form of an IndoBritish empire; that is a figment of the imagination, a chimera which it would never do to hunt to the detriment of the real possibilities. The possibilities might be, first, a firm political unity secured by common interests; secondly, a sound commercial interchange ...
... perhaps for the edification of the ignorant, admits its value as a moralising influence or its utility to the State for keeping the lower classes in order, even perhaps tries to invent that strange chimera, a rational religion. The former attitude has on its positive side played a powerful part in the history of human thought, has even been of a considerable utility in its own way—we shall have to ...
... and become the psychic and the true mental being. It may be questioned whether such a mass progress or conversion is possible; but if it is not, then the spiritualisation of mankind as a whole is a chimera. From this point of view it is an excellent thing, a sign of great promise, that the wheel of civilisation has been following its past and present curve upward from a solid physical knowledge through ...
... the cosmopolitan socialist thinker may therefore be realised after all. And given the powerful continuance of the present trend of world-forces, it is in a way inevitable. Even what seems now most a chimera, a common language, may become a reality. For a State naturally tends to establish one language as the instrument of all its public affairs, its thought, its literature; the rest sink into patois, ...
... and his demand for freedom of thought involving necessarily the freedom to err and for freedom of action involving necessarily the freedom to stumble and sin may be regarded as an insolence and a chimera. The collective self-consciousness will then have the right to invade at every point the life of the individual, to refuse to it all privacy and apartness, all self-concentration and isolation, all ...
... the Science of Language seemed to be on the point of self-revelation; as the result of the century’s toil it can be asserted by thinkers of repute that the very idea of a Science of Language is a chimera! No doubt, the case against Comparative Philology has been overstated. if Page 547 it has not discovered the Science of Language, it has at least swept out of existence the fantastic, arbitrary ...
... Matter. If that were the truth it is obvious that any divinisation or divine transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, an imagination, a senseless and impossible chimera. But even if we suppose a soul, a conscious will at work in this body it could not arrive at a divine transformation if there were no radical change in the bodily instrument itself and in the organisation ...
... also, so it is with everyone, not with you alone. The way to the heights is always like that up to a certain point, but the ups and downs, the difficulties and obstacles are no proof that it is a chimera to aspire to the summits. Page 673 What you said to X is indeed very true, especially the phrase, "However feeble the clay, the flower is in the bud and it will blossom." That is ...
... material agencies for its birth and its operations and an infallible Truth-consciousness, such as we suppose supermind to be, would be a contradiction of these conditions and must be dismissed as a chimera. Fundamentally, physical science regards evolution as a development of forms and vital activities; the development of a larger and more capable consciousness is a subordinate result of the development ...
... might be described as the science of the supernatural; but it is in fact only the discovery of the supraphysical, the surpassing of the material limit,—the heart of occultism is not the impossible chimera which hopes to go beyond or outside all force of Nature and make pure phantasy and arbitrary miracle omnipotently effective. What seems to us supernatural is in fact either a spontaneous irruption ...
... remained swinging between a bright future hope and a grey present certitude. But the grey certitude is not so certain as it looks and a divine life evolving or preparing in earth Nature need not be a chimera. All acceptations of our defeat or our limitation start from the implied or explicit recognition, first, of an essential dualism and, then, of an irreconcilable opposition between the dual principles ...
... of animal birth and life and death, of difficult alimentation and facility of disorder and disease and subjection to poor and unsatisfied vital cravings ceases to have the appearance of a dream and chimera and becomes a possibility founded upon a rational and philosophic truth which is in accordance with all the rest that we have hitherto known, experienced or been able to think out about the overt and ...
... individual scale an evolutionary breakthrough. To me it is a pity that the response is so poor or else so conditional. Some hold that he, with his dream of a total divinisation of man, was pursuing a chimera: they have not grasped the meaning of those two lines of Savitri: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. Others hold that ...
... existence, but of all mundane existence. In the extreme forms of this view both nature & supernature, man & God are lies of consciousness, myths of a cosmic dream & not worth accepting. Amelioration is a chimera, divinity a lure and only absorption in a transmundane impersonal existence worth pursuing. The worshippers of God, the seekers after human perfection, those who would raise humanity from nature to ...
... chemical and nothing more, then it is obvious that any divinisation or divine transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, an imagination, a senseless and impossible chimera. Page 283 But even if we suppose a soul or a conscious will at work in the body, it could not arrive at a divine transformation if there were no radical changes in the bodily instrument ...
... predestined me to be the greatest liberator of humanity”, Hitler said to Rauschning. “I liberate man from the coercion of a mind which becomes a goal in itself, from the foul and humiliating pangs of a chimera called ‘conscience’ and ‘morality’, and from the demands of a liberty and personal independence of which anyway only a very few are capable … To the Christian teaching of the nothingness and insignificance ...
... But here we are no longer following Vedanta, at least not as interpreted by most Indian sages who, like the rest of us, found life on Earth such a mess that they declared it to be a bad dream, a chimera, an illusion, advising us to get out of it as soon as possible. Following their line of reasoning, these sages did not seem to be aware that they were pulling the carpet if not from under the feet ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother, but to perceive it one has to be prepared for it. Five Confirmations Is there any confirmation that Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s vision is not another “mystic” chimera? This is a common and valid question from the few, among the mass of humanity, who have heard of them. In answer one could point to Auroville, “the utopia of all utopias” continuing to exist and growing ...
... there is no ignominy come only when one realises that one is completely impotent by oneself. In any event, I appeal to you in this deep impasse to respond to me — give me a sign that you are not a chimera.' "O Guru, as soon as this prayer issued from my heart of humility I experienced a velvety softness within and a feeling of ineffable plasticity which rapidly grew into something so concrete that ...
... To minds attached to the present form of things this sort of revolutionary changes in the physical structure and functioning of the human body may appear to be a senseless and impossible chimera. But, Sri Aurobindo warns us, no limits and no impossibility of any necessary change can be imposed on the evolutionary urge. And when Supermind, the divine gnosis, takes charge of evolution, there ...
... to be achieved through the process of an evolutionary transfiguration, we are not indulging in a child-soul's phantasy or its demands for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible chimera that goes beyond or outside all forces of Nature. What we are envisaging is the control and conquest of the prevailing determinism of our bodily system by the higher determinism of the supernal grades ...
... also, so it is with everyone, not with you alone. The way to the heights is always like that up to a certain point, but the ups and downs, the difficulties and obstacles are no proof that it is a chimera to aspire to the summits. Page 296 January 6,1933 Yes, the metre is very successful and the poetry very fine. I do not find any substantial departure from the original 1 ...
... chemical and nothing more, then it is obvious that any divinization or divine transformation of the body or of anything else would be nothing but an illusion, an imagination, a senseless and impossible chimera. But even if we suppose a soul or a conscious will at work in the body, it could not arrive at a divine transformation if there were no radical change in the bodily instrument itself and in the or ...
... else is needed. Is that to be religion? But the immediate question is which religion? The dream of exclusive religions to occupy the whole globe and to bring about a millennium seems to be a vain chimera. You will recall that during our first meeting I had declared myself to be an atheist; it is only when I understood the distinction between religion and spirituality that I could enter into the portal ...
... there is growing preponderance of those impulses which can thrive only through ignorance, fragmentation, discord and violence. As we study the situation, we feel convinced that it is a vain chimera to believe that the world of today and tomorrow can be safe without a radical change in human consciousness and character. It is true that the wisest leaders of today have declared unambiguously that ...
... brought about through the process of an evolutionary transformation, we are not indulging in a child-soul's phantasy or its irrational demand for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible chimera that goes beyond and outside all possible forces of Nature. What we are envisaging is the control and conquest of the prevailing determinism of our bodily system by the reverse higher determinism ...
... the possibility or otherwise of the third perfection: harmonious mutual relation between individual and individual and between individual and society. This too is bound to remain an unrealisable chimera until and unless man transcends his present ego-centric nature. For ego means separation, division and fragmentation. The consciousness, knowledge and will of the egoistic individual remain divorced ...
... individual creature." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 190, 191, italics added) But the detractors may contend: Is it not too Utopian a task we are placing before the Ashramites? Is it not a sheer chimera we have been chasing in vain? ...
... body, to be brought about in the course of the future evolution of man, we are not indulging in a child soul's phantasy or its demands for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible chimera that goes beyond or outside all forces of Nature and somehow becomes automatically effective. What we are contemplating is the control and conquest of the prevailing determinism of our bodily system ...
... there was a public propaganda intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence, which was regarded by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible; an almost insane chimera. Thirdly, there was the organisation of the people to carry on a public and united opposition and undermining of the foreign rule through an increasing non-cooperation and passive resistance. ...
... greatest compass must heeds govern and fashion man in his entire being, in all his members and functions. The ideal, as we have said, has seldom been accepted; generally it has been considered as a chimera and an impossibility. That is why, we repeat, even to this day the world has its cup of misery full to the brim- anityam asukham . All this has to be said by way of explanation and apology. For ...
... the genuine thing— Swalpamapyasya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat. Now, if it is asked what is the proof of it all, how can one be sure that one is not running after a mirage, a chimera? We can Page 7 only answer with the adage, the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. (3) I have a word to add finaly in justification of the title of this ...
... first of all, to show that it is possible, next that it is probable and finally that it is inevitable. Now to the first question. It is usually contended that the ideal is an impossibility, a chimera, since it involves on the face of it a self-contradiction. For, is not divinity the very opposite of humanity, immortality that of mortality and Matter that of the Spirit? These pairs, all of them ...
... greatest compass must needs govern and fashion man in his entire being, in all his members and functions. The ideal, as we have said, has seldom been accepted; generally it has been considered as a chimera and an impossibility. That is why, we repeat, even to this day the world has its cup of misery full to the brim— anityam asukham. All this has to be said by way of explanation and apology ...
... some of us—his disciples—with regard to him. This transformation of the human personality into the Divine—perhaps even the mere connection of the human with the Divine—is probably regarded as a chimera by the modern mind. To the modern mind it would appear as the apotheosis of a human personality which is against its idea of equality of men. Its difficulty is partly due to the notion that the ...
... the real, the genuine thing Swalpamapyasya dharmasya trayate mahato bhayat¹ Now, if it is asked what is the proof of it all, how can one be sure that one is not running after a mirage, a chimera? We can only answer with the adage; the proof of the pudding is in the eating thereof. 3 I have a word to add finally in justification of the title of this essay. For, it may be asked, ...
... that temper and vibration is master of an energy, a force of execution-a will and power to do the miracle. To live in hope, to work in hope is not merely to live in illusion and to work for a chimera. On one consideration, to live otherwise, in hopelessness, cannot cure matters, even if the matter is truly and really as dark as it looks. To view a matter of fact solely and wholly in the matter ...
... greatest compass must needs govern and fashion man in his entire being, in all his members and functions. The ideal, as we have said, has seldom been accepted; generally it has been considered as a chimera and an impossibility. That is why, we repeat, even to this day the world has its cup of misery full to the brim – aniryam asukham. All this has to be said by way of explanation and apology ...
... al Centre of Education). 'The conditions in which men live on earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change these conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera.' - Apr Plays tennis with Indian Davis Cup ace Ramanathan Krishnan. - Oct 3 Notes that for the transformation of her body, 'it is necessary that, for at least one individual if not more ...
... material agencies for its birth and its operations and an infallible Truth-Consciousness, such as we suppose supermind to be, would be a contradiction of these conditions and must be dismissed as a chimera. Fundamentally, physical science regards evolution as a development of forms and vital activities; the development of a larger and more capable consciousness is a subordinate result of the development ...
... of the problem: The conditions in which men live on earth are the result of their state of consciousness. To seek to change these conditions without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera... collective progress and individual progress are interdependent.... A way must therefore be found so that these two types of progress may proceed side by side. ... All impulsions of rivalry ...
... intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence which was regarded, when he entered in to politics, by the vast majority of Indians as unpractical and impossible, an almost insane chimera. It was thought that British Empire was too powerful and India too weak, effectively disarmed and impotent even to dream of the success of such an endeavour. Thirdly, there was the organization of ...
... some of us—his disciples—with regard to him. This transformation of the human personality into the Divine—perhaps even the mere connection of the human with the Divine—is probably regarded as a chimera by the modern mind. To the modern mind it would appear as the apotheosis of a human personality which is against its idea of equality of men. Its difficulty is partly due to the notion that the Divine ...
... in sin. They persecuted every faith that did not agree with theirs "And founded unity upon fraud and force". They cherished no ideals and considered spiritual seeking as a self-deception "or mad chimera" or "hypocrite's fake". In this anarchical state, "A lie was there the truth and truth a lie". While passing through this region Aswapathy found it necessary to protect himself by uttering the divine ...
... good, or not. THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH PEOPLE LIVE UPON EARTH ARE THE RESULT OF THEIR STATE OF CONSCIOUSNESS, She said. TO WANT TO CHANGE THE CONDITIONS WITHOUT CHANGING THE CONSCIOUSNESS IS A vain CHIMERA. 30 The whole problem of the world and the whole enormity of the illusion that has driven us since the first locomotive in one single sentence. How can you possibly change anything without having ...
... that, for I was interested in the work for the freedom of my country." He was then an agnostic, but nevertheless "always thought that the great figures of the world could not have been after a chimera and if there was such a Power why not use it for the freedom of the country?" Thus he entered the path of Yoga by a side door, as it were! Page 149 "Then I began to practise pranayama ...
... more likely have his own throat cut. Christians talk of universal brotherhood ; but anyone who is not a Christian must go to that place where he will be eternally barbecued." 1 That strange chimera, a rational religion! Is it not passing strange how every monotheistic religion claims to be the sole possessor of Truth? Then again, their attempt to shut up Truth in a single Book! The "Book" being ...
... democratic Trinity of Godheads: Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. •But Reason cannot sufficiently establish them or sustain them. One by one, these Godheads tend to be discarded as noxious democratic chimeras. •What is the solution? The Train of Reason Democracy - Socialism - Anarchism Liberty - Equality - Fraternity "If we may judge from the modern movement, the progress of the ...
... climes and conditions and numbered among them are some of the greatest intelligences of the past, some of the world's most remarkable figures. Must these possibilities be immediately condemned as chimeras Page 65 because they are not only beyond the average man in the street but also not easily seizable even by many cultivated intellects or because their method is more difficult than that ...
... And the Titan kings assail, But I dare not rest till my task is done And wrought the eternal will. Page 535 How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! "Thy hope is Chimera's head Painting the sky with its fiery stain; Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead. "Who art thou that babblest of heavenly ease And joy and golden room To us who are waifs on inconscient ...
... of Real-politik is the thing needed in this world. To achieve something actually in the physical and material field, even a lesser something, is worth much more than speculating on high flaunting chimeras and indulging in day-dreams. Yes, but what is this something that has to be achieved in the material world? It is always an ideal. Even procuring food for each and every person, clothing and housing ...
... mind all-knowing, a life-force all-effecting, a physical being which is perpetually young, immune to disease, free from death. Alone the Mother and Sri Aurobindo have proclaimed: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. [p. 52] And today - the 102 nd anniversary of the Supernal Beloved's birth - the sign of the future to which our ...
... heart replied to her194 But now the half-opened lotus bud of her heart115 Compelled renewed consent to see and feel80 Condemned to resume the effort and the pang80 Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven 68,109,322 Even were caught as through a cunning veil39,130 Faced all experience with unaltered peace349 Fixed with gold panel and opalescent ...
... Sanyal is Mother's usual doctor. × How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! "Thy hope is Chimera's head Painting the sky with its fiery stain; Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead...." (A God's Labour) × ...
... self-contented do, but getting to the heart of them, making sure of their hidden secret, their deeper reality. Indeed it will not hurt any of us to put out of sight for a moment those vain and fantastic chimeras about Simon de Montfort and the gradual evolution of an Indian Parliament, with which certain politicians are fond of amusing us, and look things straight in the face. We must resolutely hold fast ...
... carries on his search after truth. If he wants to remain strictly faithful to reality as it appears, then he cannot exceed the realm of sense-perceptions. But without reason he will simply indulge in chimeras and build castles in the air which are but deformations of: sense-perceptions. Bergson the philosopher, however, opines that the intellect by itself cannot go beyond the domain of sense-knowledge ...
... tremendous greatness of the Presence that alone can appease them. * Not only the intuitive directness blended with a keen gnomic turn is remarkable in the line: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven... [p- 52] The line is notable for its metrical structure also. We have two equal parts balanced on either side by the connecting verb "are" which implies their... syllables is reinforced by the stress-scheme being precisely the same in either part: two consecutive stresses followed by a stress between two slacks - Page 109 "Earth's winged chimeras", "Truth's steeds in Heaven". Metrical as well as rhythmical effects of expressive originality are abundant in Savitri. There is: With the Truth-Light strike earth's massive roots of trance ...
... hint of the formations of light in which divine beings appear during their courses of action in the supra-terrestrial. Perhaps a denser challenge to the day-to-day intelligence is: Earth's winged chimeras are truth's steeds in Heaven. Possibly as dense yet intuitively more graspable comes the line: Our minds hush to a bright Omniscient. Half mystical half spiritual is the notation of an ...
... movement goes on by the force of nature; it works as force of nature works and goes inevitably on, whatever obstacle comes in the way. What is it that this movement seeks, not according to the wild chimeras born of unreasoning fear but in its real aim and purpose? What is it that we seek? We seek the fulfilment of our life as a nation. This is what the word Swaraj, which is a bug-bear and terror to the ...
... , a face turned upwards to The joy that beckons from the impossible. This seeming unattainable is shown with a sweet severity, as the only logical goal because Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. (6.6.1994) Page 267 ...
... are a thousand and one And the Titan kings assail, But I cannot rest till my task is done And wrought the eternal will. How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! "Thy hope is Chimera's head Painting the sky with its fiery stain; Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead".... But the god is there in my mortal breast Who wrestles with error and fate And tramples a road through ...
... Matter, spiritual realization and experience can be discredited as a shadowy mysticism. It may be argued that the mystic turns aside into he unreal, into occult regions of a self-constructed land of chimeras. It may even be argued that the spiritual tendency n humanity has come to very little; it has not solved the problem of life or any of the problems with which humanity is at grips. It may be pointed ...
... take at times a compact, strangely figured epigrammatic form heightened as well as enlightened the more by being immediately followed by a verse of simple surprise: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. 26 Ancient motifs and motifs of our own day are equally caught up by the integral inspiration. Even modern ...
... the Great Endeavour. He will understand that the visions of the seers and prophets of all religions, the words of the sages of all nations, the dreams of the idealists of all times were not mere chimeras; they were promises. And he can see now that the Future will realize all the promises of the Past. 8 Whatever the effect of the memorandum on the ultimate findings of the Education Commission ...
... Our intuitions are its tide-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. 1 DILIP KUMAR, ROY Sri Aurobindo Came to me, pp. 85-103 (first ...
... it is the exhaustion that followed it which alone prevents as yet another vast and sanguinary struggle. The new fair and peaceful world-order that was promised us has gone far away into the land of chimeras. The League of Nations that was to have embodied it hardly even exists or exists only as a mockery and a byword. It is an ornamental, a quite helpless and otiose appendage to the Supreme Council, ...
... and the sadhak who can attain to it, is in his condition the complete Yogin. Is such a triune condition of the soul possible? Logically, it would seem impossible; logically, all trinities are chimeras and a thing must be one thing at a time & cannot combine three such divergent states as oneness, differentiated oneness & effective duality. But in these matters an inch of experience runs farther ...
... All can be done if the God-touch is there [p. 3] or the deeply surprising Our minds hush to a bright Omniscient [p. 48] or the revelation-packed Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven [p. 52] or the inward-alluring Unweave the stars and into silence pass. [p. 696] Excepting the last of these brief miracles, which occurs towards ...
... life's repose is in the Infinite. A certain type of effect, however, occurs often in Savitri, which escapes all comparison. One facet of it is that epigrammatic flash: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven... This line is not only the pure Overhead style: it is also a sheer Page 159 depth of Yogic insight conveyed with concentrated richness and a ...
... all-witnessing Gods approve, Clear in a greater light than reason owns: Our intuitions are its title-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth s winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven,. The impossible God s sign of things to be. It would really be a critical apocalypse if one could learn from Mr. Lal where in any of these magnificent ...
... spirit of collectivism; we see accordingly the idea of it if not the fact still insisted on in the new social systems, even those in which both liberty and equality are discarded as noxious democratic chimeras. But comradeship without liberty and equality can be nothing more than the like association of all—individuals, functional classes, guilds, syndicates, soviets or any other units—in common service ...
... is in the Infinite... [p. 197] A certain type of effect, however, occurs often in Savitri, which escapes all comparison. One facet of it is that epigrammatic flash: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven... [p. 52] This line is not only the pure Overhead style: it is also a sheer depth of Yogic insight conveyed with concentrated richness and audacity - the unique ...
... repose is in the Infinite. 19 A certain type of effect, however, occurs often in Savitri, which escapes all comparison. One facet of it is that epigrammatic flash: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven. 20 This line is not only the pure Overhead style: it is also a sheer depth of Yogic insight conveyed with concentrated richness and 14 Ibid., p ...
... Great Endeavour. He will understand that the visions of the seers and prophets of all religions, the words of the sages of all nations, the dreams of the idealists of all times were not mere chimeras; they were promises. And he can see now that the future will realise all the promises of the past. * Such is the basis that we, the teachers of Sri Aurobindo International Centre ...
... and the tremendous greatness of the Presence that alone can appease them. Not only the intuitive directness blended with a keen gnomic turn is remarkable in the line: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven. The line is notable for its metrical structure also. We have two equal parts balanced on either side by the connecting verb "are" which implies their equivalence... the identical number of syllables is reinforced by the stress-scheme being precisely the same in either part: two consecutive stresses followed by a stress between two slacks— "Earth's winged chimeras", "Truth's steeds in Heaven." Metrical as well as rhythmical effects of expressive originality are abundant in Savitri. Page 382 With the Truth-Light strike earth's massive ...
... for their basis. The mind creates the figure of a mermaid, but the phantasy is composed of two actualities put together in a way that is outside the earth's normal potentiality; angels, griffins, chimeras are constructed on the same principle: some times the imagination is a memory of former actualities as in the mythical figure of the dragon, sometimes it is a figure or a happening that is real or ...
... is the exhaustion that followed it which alone prevents as yet another vast and sanguinary struggle. The new fair and peaceful world-order that was promised us has gone far away into the land of chimeras. The League of Nations that was to have embodied it hardly even exists or exists only as a mockery and a byword. It is an ornamental, a quite helpless and otiose appendage to the Supreme Council, ...
... vision of the future? I remember those two lines from Savitri, driving home an insight first with concentrated audacious richness and then with an utterly simple paradox: Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven. The impossible God's sign of things to be. To go back to your book: I liked your remark that you went to the early Yeats for delight and to the later... immediately on the Page 63 heels of the same thought flashed out in imagery audacious in the extreme - a packed revelation cast in the form of a paradox such as Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. It is worth noting how the revelatory is conveyed by a cunning logic to the art-sense of the reader. In poetry ...
... all-witnessing Gods approve, Clear in a greater light than reason owns: Our intuitions are its title-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. [pp. 51-52] It would really be a critical apocalypse if one could learn from Mr. Lai where in any of ...
... claim the all-witnessing Gods approve, Clear in a greater light than reason owns: Our intuitions are its tide-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. Page 419 It would really be a critical apocalypse if one could learn from Mr. Lal where in any ...
... thousand and one And the Titan kings assail, But I cannot rest till my task is done And wrought the eternal will. How they mock and sneer, both devils and men! 'Thy hope is Chimera's head Painting the sky with its fiery stain; Thou shalt fall and thy work lie dead. 'Who art thou that babbles! of heavenly ease Page 236 And joy and golden room To ...
... claim the all-witnessing Gods approve, Clear in a greater light than reason owns: Our intuitions are its title-deeds; Our souls accept what our blind thoughts refuse. Earth's winged chimeras are Truth's steeds in Heaven, The impossible God's sign of things to be. 1 After Sethna it was Chadwick who came to impress me most. But I have not said one thing about Sethna which ...
... Kant is said to have refuted Anselm's logic but I don't think he could touch the question: "What makes us conceive of anything like God at all?" Imagination can conjure up Gorgons and hydras and chimeras dire because they are made of elements known separately and can be put together in our minds but God is not a composite construction in our thought: He transcends all that we can think of and ...
... off in the end. For the rest tell me, am I indeed growing through all this towards bhakti for you? Yes, surely. [Underlined by Sri Aurobindo] For genius, etc. are all chimeras and phantoms – that I know. All I want to be assured is that I be accepted as your devoted servant. Page 87 Yes. [Underlined] I leave tomorrow noon. You ...
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