... vibhutis in the cosmos; 71 and (iv) the great vision of Sri Krishna in action, 72 the great time-vision, specially granted to Arjuna by Sri Krishna. Divine Birth and Divine Work (Divyam Janma, Divyam Karma) Divyam janma, divine birth, can be regarded as the crucial means of Karma Yoga, and divyam karma, divine work, may be regarded, as the culmination of Karma Yoga. These two constitute... the synthetic method of its yoga and provides us authentic descriptions of the relevant experiences and realizations in great detail. The peaks of these experiences include: (i) the knowledge of divine birth, (divyam janma) and divine work, (divyam karma); 69 (ii) the attainment of Brahma-nirvana, 70 the total nirvana in the state of immobile Brahman in the freedom of which divine work can take place;... of the answer that Sri Krishna gives to the bewildering questions which arose from the unbearable intensity of the crisis which was not prepared to accept any compromising acquiescence. These, divine birth and divine work arise, according to the yoga that Sri Krishna expounds, from the operation of the law of sacrifice, Page 80 which essentially vibrates with Para Prakriti, and which ...
... ideas this passage we find before us and its declaration that by the knowledge of his divine birth and divine works men come to the Divine and by becoming full of him and even as he and taking refuge in him they arrive at his nature and status of being, madbhāvam . For then we shall understand the divine birth and its object, not as an isolated and miraculous phenomenon, but in its proper place in... the return of our consciousness to the Divine, it is the means of the knowledge, vidyā-māyā ; and in the divine birth it so operates—as the knowledge controlling and enlightening the works which are ordinarily done in the Ignorance. The language of the Gita shows therefore that the divine birth is that of the conscious Godhead in our humanity and essentially the opposite of the ordinary birth even... supreme Divinity who becomes manifest within us as Narayana, Lord of all our being and action seated secret in our hearts for ever, who becomes manifest even in the human form as the Avatar, the divine birth taking possession of our humanity, Krishna has declared in passing that this was the ancient and original Yoga which he gave to Vivasvan, the Sun-God, Vivasvan gave it to Manu, the father ...
... to do here your means of inner spiritual rebirth, the divine birth, and, having become divine, do still divine works as an instrument of the Divine for the leading of the peoples. Therefore there are here two things which have to be clearly laid down and clearly grasped, the way to the change, to this upward transference, this new divine birth, and the nature of the work or rather the spirit in which... of his being in Nature, manifests himself in all existences, is born as Man in the world, is there in the heart of all men, reveals himself as the Avatar, the divine birth in man; and as man grows into his being, it is into the divine birth that he grows. Works must be done as a sacrifice to this Lord of our works, and we must by growing into the Self realise our oneness with him in our being... the sense of personal virtue and personal sin is exceeded; where the universal, the impersonal, the divine spirit works out through us its purpose in the world; where we are ourselves by a new and divine birth changed into being of that Being, consciousness of that Consciousness, power of that Power, bliss of that Bliss, and, living no longer in our lower nature, have no works to do of our own, no personal ...
... of the divine consciousness and the divine power, a vessel of the divine birth and the divine works. But so surely it must be, since otherwise the object of the Avatar's descent is not fulfilled; for that object is precisely to show that the human birth with all its limitations can be made such a means and instrument of the divine birth and divine works, precisely to show that the human type of consciousness... he takes possession of his partial type of being and its nature and divinely dominates it. Not by evolution or ascent like the ordinary man, the Gita seems to tell us, not by a growing into the divine birth, but by a direct descent into the stuff of humanity and a taking up of its moulds. But it is to assist that ascent or evolution the descent is made or accepted; that the Gita makes very clear... divine presence. The heightening of the power of the qualities is part of the becoming, bhūtagrāma , an ascent in the ordinary manifestation; in the Avatar there is the special manifestation, the divine birth from above, the eternal and universal Godhead descended into a form of individual humanity, ātmānaṁ sṛjāmi , and conscious not only behind the veil but in the outward nature. There is an i ...
... knowledge is to be taken as the true, the broad way of escape; for, says the Gita, "he who knows in their right principles my divine birth and works, comes when he leaves his body, not to rebirth, but to Me, O Arjuna." Through the knowledge and possession of the divine birth he comes to the unborn and imperishable Divine who is the self of all beings, ajo avyaya ātmā ; through the knowledge and execution... perfection, but to know and realise Him as a transcendent peace and silence is not all; the secret that has to be learned is at once the secret of the eternal and unborn Divine and the secret of the divine birth and works, janma karma ca me divyam . The action which proceeds from that knowledge, will be free from all bondage; "he who so knoweth me," says the Teacher, "is not bound by works." If the escape ...
... circumstances, means, instruments of the divine consciousness and the divine power, a vessel of the divine birth and the divine works... the object of the Avatar's descent... is precisely to show that the human birth with all its limitations can be made such a means and instrument of the divine birth and divine works, precisely to show that the human type of consciousness can be compatible with the... love and strength and purity.. . 51 The reasoning is that, if the Divine can descend into humanity, humanity too can ascend to the Divine heights: ...there are two aspects of the divine birth; one is a descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising... since his works are that Being's, he has to give up all his actions to the Godhead in him and the world, by whom they are done in the divine mystery of Nature. This is the double condition of the divine birth of the soul, of its release from the mortality of the ego and the body into the spiritual and eternal, - knowledge first of one's timeless immutable self and union through it with the timeless Godhead ...
... Ribhus made for the divine Birth, made by men whose minds have attained to illumination and possess that energy of the Light from which the Ribhus were born. It is made by the breath of the mouth, the life-power in the world. Its object is to confirm in the human soul the entire delight of the Beatitude, the thrice seven ecstasies of the divine Life. 2 This divine Birth is represented by the... Chapter XI The Ribhus, Artisans of Immortality Rig Veda I.20 अयं देवाय जन्मने स्तोमो विप्रेभिरासया । अकारि रत्नधातमः ॥१॥ 1) Lo, the affirmation made for the divine Birth with the breath of the mouth by illumined minds, that gives perfectly the bliss; य इन्द्राय वचोयुजा ततक्षुर्मनसा हरी । शमीभिर्यज्ञमाशत ॥२॥ 2) Even they who fashioned by the mind for Indra ...
... truth which the Teacher has had in view all along and therefore insisted on the sacrifice of works, the recognition of the Supreme as the master of our works and the doctrine of the Avatar and the divine birth, has yet been at first kept subordinate to the primary necessity of a quietistic liberation. Only the truths which lead to spiritual calm, detachment, equality and oneness, in a word, to the perception... since his works are that Being's, he has to give up all his actions to the Godhead in him and the world by whom they are done in the divine mystery of Nature. This is the double condition of the divine birth of the soul, of its release from the mortality of the ego and the body into the spiritual and eternal,—knowledge first of one's timeless immutable self and union through it with the timeless Godhead... practice of this Yoga becomes possible and easy is that in doing it we give up the whole working of all that we naturally are into the hands of that inner divine Purusha. The Godhead works out the divine birth in us progressively, simply, infallibly, by taking up our being into his and by filling it with his own knowledge and power, jñānadīpena bhāsvatā ; he lays hands on our obscure ignorant nature ...
... art easy to sacrifice to for men, thee the Bhrigus established among men for ( attaining ) divine birth, beautiful like delightful wealth. " I. 58. 6. Here the aim of the sacrifice is clearly stated to be the ________________________ 7. Page 171 attainment of " divine birth " which would make man realise Immortality, the Delight of the Eternal. " In I. 62. 2... this shine, it is the One that has become various by all this." I. 115. I. " The Sun is Self of all that is moving and unmoving. " I. 20.1. " This hymn of praise is made for the divine birth - for the birth of the god. " II. 6. 7. " O Fire, thou movest within having knowledge of both the Births. " Page 174 ...
... the will of the supreme Person, a direct power and visible becoming of the Purushottama. Page 279 The Gita has laid it down from the beginning that the very first precondition of the divine birth, the higher existence is the slaying of rajasic desire and its children, and that means the exclusion of sin. Sin is the working of the lower nature for the crude satisfaction of its own ignorant... says the Godhead in the Gita, is my self; the others seize only motives and aspects in Nature, but he the very self-being and all-being of the Purushottama with which he is in union. His is the divine birth in the supreme Nature, integral in being, completed in will, absolute in love, perfected in knowledge. In him the Jiva's cosmic existence is justified because it has exceeded itself and so found ...
... and body of spiritual being. That transfiguration on the summit Page 326 of the mountain, divine birth, divya janma , is that to which all these births are a long series of laborious steps. An involution of spirit in matter is the beginning, but a spiritual assumption of divine birth is the fullness of the evolution. East and West have two ways of looking at life which are opposite ...
... thy adorer though he stood in the middle of the waters; Page 504 be gracious, O puissant Lord, have grace. Whatever this be, O Varuna, that we human beings act, a treason against the Divine Birth, wheresoever by the Ignorance we have put away thy laws, smite us not for that sin, O God." Ignorance, this matrix of sin, has in its substantial effect the appearance of a triple cord of limited... a sevenfold principle in our being which has to be fulfilled in its integral perfection; Aryaman is the master of the sacrificial action who offers this sevenfold working to the godheads of the Divine Birth. Aryaman within us develops our various forms Page 515 of birth in the ascending planes of our existence by which the Fathers climbed, travellers on his path, and by which it must be ...
... In both cases Maya is the means of the creation or manifestation,” but in the divine birth the Avatar is conscious, and in the ordinary, multiple birth the “Avatar” is not conscious … “[The Avatar] is the manifestation from above of that which we have to develop from below; it is the descent of God into that divine birth of the human being into which we mortal creatures must climb; it is the attracting ...
... action, he is also the Will in the mind and clarifies it by aspiration. When he enters into the intellect, he is drawing near to his divine birth place and home. He leads the thoughts towards effective power; he leads the active energies towards light. His divine birth-place and home,—though he is born everywhere and dwells in all things,—is the Truth, the Infinity, the vast cosmic Intelligence in ...
... hymn to Agni of the woodlands, the Flame that feeds on and enjoys the pleasant things of the earthly being and when the emotional and vital being is offered to the gods becomes a creator of the divine birth and a giver of the supreme bliss and the immortal rapture. नू चित्सहोजा अमृतो नि तुन्दते होता यद् दूतो अभवद् विवस्वतः । वि साधिष्ठेभिः पथिभी रजो मम आ देवताता हविषा विवासति ॥१॥ 1) Now... दिव्याय जन्मने ॥६॥ 6) The Bhrigus set thee, O Fire, among human beings like a beautiful treasure, one swift to the call of men, an offering priest and desirable guest, like a happy friend for the divine birth. होतारं सप्त जुह्वो यजिष्ठं यं वाघतो वृणते अध्वरेषु । अग्निं विश्वेषामरतिं वसूनां सपर्यामि प्रयसा यामि रत्नम् ॥७॥ 7) The Flame is a priest strong for sacrifice and the seven offering ...
... divine sage's spiritual self which is beyond the three gunas. All must be consummated by a divine birth into the higher spiritual nature. And the philosopher's equality is like the Stoic's, like the world-fleeing ascetic's, inwardly a lonely freedom, remote and aloof from men; but the man born to the divine birth has found the Divine not only in himself, but in all beings. He has realised his unity ...
... Essays on the Gita XVII The Divine Birth and Divine Works The work for which the Avatar descends has like his birth a double sense and a double form. It has an outward side of the divine force acting upon the external world in order to maintain there and to reshape the divine law by which the Godward effort of humanity is kept from decisive retrogression... collectivity as well as to build the kingdom of heaven within in the individual human soul. The inner fruit of the Avatar's coming is gained by those who learn from it the true nature of the divine birth and the divine works and who, growing full of him in their consciousness and taking refuge in him with their whole being, manmayā mām upāśritāḥ , purified by the realising force of their knowledge ...
... Self, - not the philosopher's intelligent self, but the divine sage's spiritual self which is beyond the three Gunas, All must be consummated by a divine birth into the higher spiritual nature." (Essays on the Gita, p. 189) Yes, "a divine birth into the higher spiritual nature" is indeed the apposite solution. But that cannot be achieved soon. The sadhaka has to start from where he is now ...
... then he gives the desirable good to the creature that makes the journey" or, it may be, for his journeying. The hymn is therefore an invocation to Agni for the journey to the supreme good, the divine birth, the bliss. And its opening verse is a prayer for the necessary conditions of the journey, the things that are said here to constitute the form of the pilgrim sacrifice, adhvarasya peśaḥ , and ...
... , has unified even his mind and natural Page 232 consciousness with the Divine, manmanā maccittaḥ . This change is the final evolution of the nature and the consummation of the divine birth, rahasyam uttamam . When it is accomplished, the soul is aware of itself as the master of its nature and, grown a light of the divine Light and will of the divine Will, is able to change its natural ...
... increase of the soul in light, the satisfaction of its perfection in knowledge, its birth into the highest consciousness and the pure fulfilment of its own innate imperative. It is that growth, a divine birth or spiritual self-exceeding its supreme reward, which for the Eastern mind has been always the highest gain,—the growth out of human ignorance into divine self-knowledge. Page 426 ...
... वर्धयन्तीः ॥३॥ Then the battling and thinking peoples held the Truth and enriched the thought of the human being and bore it in all its breadth; unthirsting, doers of the work increasing the divine birth by the delight-offering, their walk is towards the gods. मथीद्यदीं विभृतो मातरिश्वा गृहेगृहे श्येतो जेन्यो भूत् । आदीं राज्ञे न सहीयसे सचा सन्ना दृत्यं भृगवाणो विवाय ॥४॥ When Matarishwan ...
... pockets where the heresy which was most powerfully fanning out from Ephesus in Matthew's and Luke's epoch had scarcely an echo." How the two Evangelists' concern for Jesus to have a special divine birth was occasioned and why Jesus' being the Son of God should involve his having no human father are problems which both the books of Brown leave unsettled. I shall briefly deal with them before I ...
... and all-seizing joy who dispels the evil dream of our jarring and divided existence and possesses all things in the light and glory of Aryaman's power, Mitra's love and light, Varuna's unity. This divine Birth shall be the son of our works; and than creating this what greater skill can there be or what more practical and sovereign cunning? Page 126 ...
... merely by their intuition, though they had not known what and where Jerusalem was. I never heard of Rishis from India going there. There is a legend of some Magi getting an intuition that a divine Birth was there on earth and following a star that led them to the stable in which Christ was born. But this is a legend, not history. Since you and the Mother were on earth constantly from the ...
... 48 of consciousness are described: "atrsyantīr apaso yanti acchā, devān janma prayasā vardhayantīh” "The doers of the works go towards the unthirsting waters which increase the divine birth by the satisfaction of delight." The emphasis here is on karma yoga by which work is constantly perfected by energies that are unthirsting and thus are devoid of desire. This movement of karma ...
... himself and growing into that which they mean, just as he becomes the Heaven and Earth and the other gods; or, Page 63 as it is otherwise put, man begets or creates or forms the divine birth in his own being. As Rik 15 says: 'Now as the seven seers of Dawn, the Mother, the supreme disposers [of sacrifice, which in psychological terms means self-consecration, the discipline by which ...
... examination of the concept of Avatarhood, we may refer them to Sri Aurobindo's Essays on the Gita, chapters entitled: "The Possibility and Purpose of Avatarhood", "The Process of Avatarhood", "The Divine Birth and Divine Works", as also Sri Aurobindo's Letters on Avatarhood in SABCL Vol. 22. Page 20 of the world that we see all around us. The world manifests a pattern of finite forms ...
... by their intuition, though they had not known what and where Jerusalem was. I never heard of Rishis from India going there. There is a legend of some Magi getting an intuition that a divine Birth was there on earth and following a star that led them to the stable in which Christ was born. But this is a legend, not history. Since you and the Mother were on earth constantly ...
... world needed it, the time was ripe and the intervention happened and that was his birth as an embodied human being – to which we offer our salutation and obeisance today. The century salutes a divine birth and a death divine, ushering in a century of diviner moment. Page 14 ...
... (III.39.5) They found "the treasure of heaven hidden in the secret cavern like the young of the Bird, within the infinite rock." (I.130.3) Shadow and Light, Good and Evil have all prepared a divine birth in Matter: " Day and Night both suckle the divine Child." 250 Nothing is accursed, nothing is in vain. Night and Day are "two sisters, immortal, with a common Lover (the Sun)... common they ...
... of darkness is immense, that of the Light is infinite. It is for man to side with the forces of Light and chase away the darkness of countless centuries. The crown of his earthly evolution is his divine birth in Sachchidananda. Both The Integration of Human Knowledge and The City of Man are expensive books. The third book : A New Earth and a New Humanity may be interesting. At least ...
... is crossed or thwarted by the contrary elements of nature and nipped by the frosts of life. But whenever it survives these assaults and grows into its full stature, it betrays something of its divine birth, and shines like a star over the grey fields of earthly existence. However brief it may be, it is one of the most beautiful movements of life. ¹ Words of the Mother, 4th Edition, p ...
... Mother sat in a reverie where figures shimmered, then came into focus on her mind's screen. "It is clearly taken as a symbol of the gestation of the New Birth, the second birth, the divine birth. That's certain." Then she asked abruptly, "He said 72 days?" "Three times 72 days. A little over eight months, 1 that is." "Just so," she nodded her agreement. Then said smilingly, "It ...
... sacred service out of sordid hopes and fears. But most of all the day should be a day of rejoicing and a day of consecration. The whole Indian part of the town should be illumined in honour of the divine birth which saw the light two years ago. And along with the outer illumination it should be a day of the illumination of hearts. It is the sacrament of our religion that can alone give the perfect and ...
... once to our vital & elemental parts. Intellect and the aesthetic faculties are necessary to the perfection of our critical enjoyment; but they were only assistants, not the direct agents of this divine birth. Page 404 ...
... supreme possible aim for the manifestation of a Christ, a Krishna, a Buddha, but is only the general condition of a higher aim and a more supreme and divine utility. For there are two aspects of the divine birth; one is a descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead 2.According to S. Dasgupta, it is even pre-Buddhistic (A History of Indian Philosophy, Cambridge, 1922-55, Vol, II, p. 551) ...
... Essays in Philosophy and Yoga , Complete Works, 1999 — Letters on Yoga , Birth Centenary Library, 1970 — Savitri , 4th edition, 1993 — The Human Cycle , 3rd edition, 1998 — The Life Divine , Birth Centenary Library, 1972 — The Synthesis of Yoga , 6th edition 2nd impression, 1980. Stannard, Russell: Science and Wonders , Faber and Faber, 1996 Staune, Jean, and others: L’Homme ...
... renowned not merely for its beauty but for the interest of many of the inscriptions on its walls. These inscriptions are illustrated by sculptures, and recount among other things the story of her divine birth.... Hatshepsut means Chief of Noble Women.... Queen Hatshepsut, who ruled as King, puts her position in plain language: 'I am God, the beginning of Existence.'—(Naville, temple of Deir-el-Bahri ...
... man. The word असुर्या may very well mean Page 211 Rajasic but not in the way Shankara applies to it; for असूर्या लोका cannot signify the births of beasts, men, gods as opposed to the divine birth of Parabrahman, who is above birth and above condition. Moreover, Daivic and Asuric are always opposed terms referring to the gods and Titans, precisely as Titanic and Olympian are opposed terms ...
... Essays on the Gita XVIII The Divine Worker To attain to the divine birth,—a divinising new birth of the soul into a higher consciousness,—and to do divine works both as a means towards that before it is attained and as an expression of it after it is attained, is then all the Karmayoga of the Gita. The Gita does not try to define works by any outward ...
... for the divine fulfilment through Agni of that which has been expressed by the aspiring thought of humanity, of the सप्रथस्तमं देवप्सरस्तमं वचः. देवाँ; . All the gods, constituting the whole Divine Birth, the ऋतं बृहत्. ऋतं बृहत्. The vast Truth. This is either in a sort of apposition to देवाँ;, "sacrifice to (all) the gods, to the vast Truth" which is the being of the infinite Godhead; or ...
... life can tell you. After this you say that the object of the Avatar's descent is "precisely to show that the human birth with all its limitations can be made such a means and instrument of the divine birth and divine works.... Even human sorrow and physical suffering he must assume and use so as to show ... how that suffering may be a means of redemption ..." [Essays, pp. 164-65 ]. Well, Sir, it ...
... merely by their inspiration, though they had not known what and where Jerusalem was. I never heard of Rishis from India going there. There is a legend of some Mages getting an intimation that a divine Birth was there on earth and following a star that led them to the stable in which Christ was born. But this is a legend, not history. 29 September 1935 Page 90 Since you and the Mother ...
... creatrix of the worlds; and son as well of Diti , the black cow, Mother of 'the tenebrous infinite' and divided existence—for when Diti at last reaches the end of her apparent Night, she gives us divine birth and the milk of heaven. All is fulfilled, The Rishi 'sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine' (IX.70.3), he has realized the universal in the individual, become the Infinite ...
... 134 I was hesitating between Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati. ( Mother remains concentrated ) It is clearly taken as a symbol of the gestation of the new birth, the second birth, the divine birth. That's certain. He said 72 days? Three times 72 days.... A little more than eight months, that is. That's it. It's... ([ laughing ] I've just asked him!) it's the work of gestation ...
... Rashtriya Veda Vidya Pratishthan, Sareen, S. K. and Paranjape, M. (eds) (2004), Sabda. Text and Interpretation in Indian Thought. New Delhi: Mantra Books. Sri Aurobindo. (1970), The Life Divine. (Birth Centenary Edition ed.). (Vol. 18). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. Sri Aurobindo. (1971), The Secret of the Veda. (Birth Centenary Edition ed.). (Vol. 10). Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo ...
... to say, creating them in himself and growing into that which they mean, just as he becomes the Heaven and Earth and the other gods; or, as it is otherwise put, man begets or creates or forms the divine birth in his own being. As Rik 15 says: "Now as the seven seers of Dawn, the Mother, the supreme disposers [of sacrifice, which in psychological terms means self- consecration, the discipline by which ...
... observer of life can tell you. After this you say that the Avatar's descent is "precisely to show that the human birth with all its limitations can be made such a means and instrument of the divine birth and divine works... Even human sorrow and physical suffering he must assume and use so as to show... how that suffering may be a means of redemption." 71 Well, Sir, it will have no go with me ...
... Aurobindo is not content only with offering this message, for he is not a mere philosopher in the Western sense of the term: he is, above all, the Mahayogi, the supreme Architect of this great divine birth whose advent he has heralded in no uncertain terms in his own personal life. In fact, he has built up a new system of Yoga, the Supramental Yoga, and chalked out ways and means by following which ...
... immortal dharma becomes manifest when we are liberated from the limitations of all dharmas that we erect in our process of ascent to the attainment of the supreme end of being. We can then manifest the divine birth and divine action, divyam janma and divyam karma. Kartavyam Karma The Gita speaks of kartavyam karma, the action that has to be performed and never to be renounced; that action ...
... divine right for a mess of pottage. It is an old story, but it is eternally true.”¹ It is the worst tragedy that can happen to mankind—and it happens perpetually—that he sells away his soul, his divine birth-right to be a son of God, for a mere mess of earthly pottage ! If he only turned to the psychic within him, believing that it is his own true, essential and immortal divine self, and that the ...
... the worlds, but also son of Diti , the dark cow, Mother of the "black infinite" and divided existence, for at the end of her apparent Night, Diti eventually gives us the milk of heaven and the divine birth. All is fulfilled. The Rishi "sets flowing in one movement human strengths and things divine," (IX.703) he has realized the universal in the individual, he has become the Infinite in the finite ...
... which increase the divine births by the satisfaction of delight," atṛṣyantīr apaso yanti acchā, devān janma prayasā vardhayantīḥ . The sevenfold Truth-consciousness in the satisfied sevenfold Truth-being increasing the divine births in us by the satisfaction of the soul's hunger for the Beatitude, this is the growth of immortality. It is the manifestation of that trinity of divine being, light and bliss... works and in light, seeking the godheads, gods, forging the Births like iron (or, forging the divine births like iron), making Agni a pure flame, increasing Indra, they attained and reached the wideness of the Light (of the Cows, gavyam ūrvam ). As if herds of the Cow in the field of riches, that was manifested to vision which is the Births of the Gods within, O puissant One; they both accomplished... here very clearly the seven divine Seers as the supreme ordainers of the world-sacrifice and the idea of the human being "becoming" these seven Seers, that is to say, creating them in himself and growing into that which they mean, just as he becomes the Heaven and Earth and the other gods or, as it is otherwise put, begets or creates or forms ( jan, kṛ, tan ) the divine births in his own being. Next ...
... Then only, consequent on the self-annihilation of the Asuras, can this earth be free and open for the incoming of the new race of beings born divine, not made divine after birth. Whether any remnants of the human race will be left and in what condition, if any part of it can be incorporated or integrated into the new dispensation, is a mystery that will remain till the actuality reveals it. But... of the Asura. Man enshrines in himself the individualised Godhead, the personal Divine: the possibility of the incarnation of the Divine lies in him alone. Hence the struggle between the Gods and the Asuras for the possession of the human vessel. It was the intention of the Mother to implant the Divine upon the turbid soil of normal humanity, purifying it of its dross and suffusing it with... and finally destroy themselves in the act even like the Yadavas of old after Krishna's retirement. Some Asuras may pretend to be divine precisely to catch the voting strength, so to say, of the human being, who may still seem to have a prejudice or predilection for the divine things; but the truth will be out and the pretenders will be compelled to disclose themselves exactly as they are. Then ...
... indivisible companions. Agni is now manifest in many forms of bliss, and the gods or divine powers in man using the mind as an instrument reach him there, unite around him, set him to the great work of the j world in this new, mighty and effective birth. They, the ¦ outshinings of the vast consciousness, cleave to this divine force, Agni, as its bright lightnings and from him in the superconscient, the shoreless... praise and God-affirmation, God-attainment and self-expression. By these hymns man can house in himself the Gods, build in the gated house of his being the living image of the deity, grow into divine births, and form within himself vast and luminous worlds for his soul to inhabit. The secret potency of the Word is realised when we realise that it is by the Word of the Truth that all-engendering Surya... of the seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth. This discovery was made by Ayasya, the companion of the Navagwas. We are told that Ayasya became by this discovery universal, embraced the births in all the worlds and manifested a fourth world or four-fold world, turiyam svid janayad vishwa janyah. 2 The Vedic legend of the cow and of the Angirasa Rishis is important, since if properly ...
... praise and God-affirmation, by the hymn of God-attainment and self-expression man can house in himself the Gods, build in this gated house of his being the living image of their deity, grow into divine births, form within himself vast and luminous worlds for his soul to inhabit. By the word of the Truth the all-engendering Surya creates; by that rhythm Brahmanaspati evokes the worlds and Twashtri fashions... field of his experience and the home of his spirit. He lives in contact and union with their powers and godheads and remoulds himself in their image. Each ascent is thus a new birth of the soul, and the Veda calls the worlds "births" as well as seats and dwelling-places. For as the Gods have built the series of the cosmic worlds, even so they labour to build up the same series of ordered states and... breadth of his power, force and strength, confirms an intenser beatitude of joy and liberates his soul into immeasurable peace that man becomes capable of immortality. To widen is to acquire new births. The aspiring material creature becomes the straining vital man; he in turn transmutes himself into the subtle mental and psychical being; this subtle thinker grows into the wide, multiple and cosmic ...
... are like him kavikratu ; they possess the divine Light, they act by it with the divine force; they are not only Rishis, but heroes of the Vedic war, divas putrāso asurasya vīrāḥ (III.53.7), sons of heaven, heroes of the Mighty Lord, they are, as described in VI.75.9, "the Fathers who dwell in the sweetness (the world of bliss), who establish the wide birth, moving in the difficult places, possessed... foes": but also, they are, as the next verse describes them, brāhmaṇāsaḥ pitaraḥ somyāsaḥ , that is, they have the divine word and the inspired knowledge it carries with it. 6 This divine word is the satya mantra , it is the thought by whose truth the Angirases bring the Dawn to birth and make the lost Sun to rise in the heavens. This word is also called the arka , a vocable which means both hymn... enjoyment, confirm in us a wealth of varied brightness ( citram ) full of inspired knowledge ( śravasyum ), in us mortals, O human and divine. These are the lustres of the visible Dawn which have come varied-bright ( citrāḥ ) and immortal; bringing to birth the divine workings they diffuse themselves, filling those of the mid-region," janayanto daivyāni vratāni, āpṛṇanto antarikṣā vyasthuḥ . Again we ...
... An integral spiritual perception discovers therein an absolute drive towards perfection and purification, transfiguration and a divine new birth, devāya janmane. All that is not integrally, and in a joyful conscious 'sacrifice' (yajña), possessed by the Divine, all that is as yet maimed and impure, has perforce to be devoured again and again by the Cosmic Devourer and pass through the portals... whom is the food, thou art that divine food, thou art the vast, the divine home. (Rig Veda, IX.83) In the beginning all was covered by Hunger that is Death. (Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I .2.1) All Matter...is food, and this is the formula of the material world that "the eater eating is himself eaten". (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 192) He who knows... Agni is thus essentially a 'purifier', pāvaka, and "all that is... born, he as the flame of Time and Death can devour. All things are his food which he assimilates and turns into material of new birth and formation." 1 Indeed, destruction is always a prior necessity if there is to be any new creation or re-creation. "Destruction is always a simultaneous and alternate element which keeps ...
... emanation in life dynamic and material, symbolises this great secret of India's evolution. The promise that the Divine held out in the Gita to Bharata's descendant finds a ready fulfilment in India, in Bharata's land, more perhaps than anywhere else in the world; for in India has the Divine taken birth over and over again to save the pure in heart, to destroy the evil-doer and to establish the Right Law of... lives in a realm where the body, the life and the mind stand uplifted and transmuted into their utter realities. Religion is the human way of approaching and enjoying the Divine; Spirituality is the divine way of meeting the Divine. Religion, as it is usually practised, is a special art, one—the highest it may be, still only one— among many other pursuits that man looks to for his enjoyment and fulfilment;... Indian's soul is not imbedded in some far-off region of his unconscious nature; he has succeeded in raising it up and bringing it forward to the level of his waking consciousness,— as the gold-tusked Divine Boar lifted the Earth out of the dark depths of the primeval deluge to the light of the Day. The French, for example, have developed as a people a special characteristic and mental turn that has ...
... in life dynamic and material, symbolises this great secret of India's evolution. The promise that the Divine held out in the Gila to Bharata's descendant finds a ready fulfilment in India, in Bharata's land, more perhaps than anywhere else in the world; for in India has the. Divine taken birth over and over again to save the pure in heart, to destroy the evil-doer and to establish the Right Law... lives in a realm where the body, the life and the mind stand uplifted and transmuted into their utter realities. Religion is the human way of approaching and enjoying the Divine; Spirituality is the divine way of meeting the Divine. Religion, as it is usually practised, is a special art, one – the highest it may be, still only one – among many other pursuits that man looks to for his enjoyment and ... Indian's soul is not imbedded in some far-off region of his unconscious nature; he has succeeded in raising it up and bringing it forward to the level of his waking consciousness – as the gold-tusked Divine Boar lifted the Earth out of the dark depths of the primeval deluge to the light of the Day. The French, for example, have developed as a people a special characteristic and mental turn ...
... चिद्धि त्वे धिषणा वष्टि प्र देवाञ्जन्म गृणते यजध्यै । वेपिष्ठो अङ्गिरसां यद्ध विप्रो मधु च्छन्दो भनति रेभ इष्टौ ॥३॥ 3) In thee the understanding is full of riches and it desires the gods, the divine births, that the word may be spoken and the sacrifice done, when the singer, the sage, wisest of the Angirasas chants his honey-rhythm in the rite. अदिद्युतत् स्वपाको विभावाऽग्ने यजस्व रोदसी उरुची... जातवेदो विचर्षणे । जहि रक्षांसि सुकतो ॥२९॥ 29) O wide-seeing Fire, God who knowest all births that are, bring to us the treasure with its strength of the Heroes; O mighty of will, slay the demon-keepers. त्वं नः पाह्यंहसो जातवेदो अधायतः । रक्षा णो ब्रह्मणस्कवे ॥३०॥ 30) O God who knowest all births that are, guard us from sin and from him that worketh calamity; O Seer of the Word, protect... a seer of the Day; he is the one we must know and founds an adorable joy. In him is universal life, he is the Immortal in mortals; he is the Waker in the Dawn, our Guest, the Godhead who knows all births that are. Page 60 द्यावो न यस्य पनयन्त्यभ्वं भासांसि वस्ते सूर्यो न शुकः । वि य इनोत्यजरः पावकोऽश्नस्य चिच्छिश्नथत् पूर्व्याणि ॥३॥ 3) The heavens seem to praise his giant might; ...
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