... seems to it the finished life of man. The conventional period of society has its golden age when the spirit and thought that inspired its forms are confined but yet living, not yet altogether walled in, not yet stifled to death and petrified by the growing hardness of the structure in which they are cased. That golden age is often very beautiful and attractive to the distant view of posterity by its... squalor that was hidden behind that splendid faҫade. So too the Hindu orthodox idealist looks back to a perfectly regulated society devoutly obedient to the wise yoke of the Shastra, and that is his golden age,—a nobler one than the European in which the apparent gold was mostly hard burnished copper with a thin gold-leaf covering it, but still of an alloyed metal, not the true Satya Yuga. In these co... × karma. × The Indian names of the golden age are Satya, the Age of the Truth, and Krita, the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished. ...
... seems to it the finished life of man. The conventional period of society has its golden age when the spirit and thought that inspired its forms are confined but yet living, not yet altogether walled in, not yet stifled to death and petrified by the growing hardness of the structure in which they are cased. That golden age is often very beautiful and attractive to the distant view of posterity by its... squalor that was hidden behind that splendid façade. So too the Hindu orthodox idealist looks back to a perfectly regulated society devoutly obedient to the wise yoke of the Shastra, and that is his golden age, — a nobler one than the European in which the apparent gold was mostly hard burnished copper with a thin gold-leaf covering it, but still of an alloyed metal, not the true Satya Yuga. In these... × 1 guṇa 2 karma × The Indian names of the golden age are Satya, the Age of the Truth, and Kṛta, the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished. × ...
... whole development, specifically on the Earth, which, as we will see, occupies a very special place in the universe. As a new Golden Age will follow the Iron Age, it is precisely at this end – the point where the Snake bites its tail – that the Work of change to enter the Golden Age can be done in its most concentrated and most effective form. The cycles of the human evolution are not exact and eternal... their periods as to escape not only all means of observation, but all our means of deduction or definite inference.” 7 According to the Hindu scriptures, the four Ages or yugas are the Krita or Golden Age, the Treta or Silver Age, the Dwapara or Bronze Age and the Kali or Iron Age. Together they cover the enormous span of 4,310,000 (human) years. (Hindu scripture also speaks about a “year of... the Caribbee and Hottentot, but the detritus and uncertain reformation of a great era of knowledge, balance and adjustment which lives for us only in tradition, but in a universal tradition, the Golden Age, the Saturnia regna , of the West, our Satyayuga or age of the recovered Veda. “What then are these savage races, these epochs of barbarism, these Animistic, Totemistic, Naturalistic and s ...
... The Human Cycle A League of Nations Ancient tradition believed in a golden age of mankind which lay in the splendid infancy of a primeval past; it looked back to some type or symbol of original perfection, Saturnian epoch, Satya Yuga, an age of sincere being and free unity when the sons of heaven were leaders of the human life and mind and the law of God... better that it should have the ideal of a saving machinery than that it should have no ideal at all, no figure of a larger, better and sweeter life. This secular dream of a future golden or half-golden age of a more perfected, rational and peacefully cooperative society has taken recently a singular step forward in the effectuating imagination of mankind and even got as far as some attempt at a first... legality and arrangement of the world's affairs, a guaranteed liberty,—or for the unfit a preparation and schooling for liberty,—an organised unity of the life of the race, this is the figure of the golden age which we are now promised. At the first sight one has some sense of a lacuna somewhere, a suspicion of a perfection too external and too well-regulated by clockwork and a timidly insistent idea that ...
... era which Samudragupta "heralded...in Āryavarta" the "Golden Age which inspired succeeding generations of Indians and became alike their ideal and despair". In the reigns soon after Samudragupta's, the very term "Kritayuga" was in the air. Several inscriptions of Gupta times show its popularity.' How compellingly the presence of a Golden Age was felt may be seen from an inscription" during the... from the Purānas: 3 "The waning strength and stability of Dharma in the four yugas is graphically depicted by representing it as a majestic bull which stood firm on its four legs in the golden age of the world (krtayuga) and lost one of its legs to [ either of] the succeeding two yugas, Tretā and Dvāpara, to stand tottering on a single leg during the present kaliyuga." The Purānic... man is already close to satiety and arrogance, and there is danger of destruction of everything in existence." Obviously, the words of Calanus begin with a reference to a Krita yuga (or Golden Age). They pass on to a time of destruction just before a return of the Age of abundance, a Kaliyuga before another Kritayuga. And they conclude with an awareness of ever-worsening circumstances of ...
... which was able, in 1588, to trounce Spain’s ‘Invincible Armada,’ also pirating the wealth which that country was shipping home from its South American colonies. Elizabeth’s reign became England’s Golden Age. It was the age of the playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson; of the poets John Donne, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, Georges Chapman; of the musicians Thomas Tallis... all Astraea. ‘Astraea, one of the most constant of all the names used for the Queen from her accession onwards, is the just virgin of Virgil’s “IVth Eclogue,” whose return to earth inaugurates the golden age, bringing not only peace but eternal springtime.’ 46 ‘Elizabeth’s name came to connote the peak of national greatness … It is difficult to convey a proper appreciation of this amazing Queen, ...
... Spirit may after all have led him to do this in order to bring about that result. There is a Cabbalist prophecy: the Golden Age will come when the Jews will be driven out and persecuted everywhere. So Hitler by his mass persecution of the Jews may be bringing about the Golden Age! NIRODBARAN: Then has one no responsibility? Can one do as one likes. In that case one becomes a fatalist. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... years ago, a few giants among men had wrestled out the Secret of the world, but this was the privilege of a few initiates, while now we must all become initiates. Ten thousand years ago reigned the Golden Age, while today everything seems to have been swallowed up in darkness. In truth, though, night has not descended upon the world, as the preachers of doom would have us believe; it is only that the... × 295 According to Indian tradition, each cycle has four periods: Satya-yuga , the age of truth (or golden age), followed by the age with "three-fourths of the truth," Treta-yuga , then "half of the truth," Dwapara-yuga , and finally the age when all the truth has disappeared, Kali-yuga , and when the ...
... impresses, there are flashes of poetry that impinge on the receptive consciousness, Page 165 and the whole dialectic steams forward towards the flagstaff apocalyptic vision of the Golden Age ahead. It is a notable intellectual statement in poetic terms, but the philosophy cannot be said to have been wholly consumed in the poetry. The Rishi is an even longer poem, and perhaps... the snows.... Then to my human frame awhile descend And walk mid men, choosing my instruments, Testing, rejecting and confirming souls - Vessels of the Spirit; for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth, ...
... want something to strike and so the popular cry, "The Jews the Jews". You remember I told you about the prophecy regarding the Jews that when they will be persecuted and driven to Jerusalem that the Golden age shall come? It is the Jews that have built Germany's Commercial fleet and her navy. The contribution of Jews towards the world's progress in every branch is remarkable. But this sort of dislike... legacy from the animal world. Just as dogs of one street do not like dogs of another. Disciple : But things will improve, I hope? Sri Aurobindo : If this goes, you may be sure that the Golden Age is coming! All my opinions are of course on the basis of the present conditions. But the things would be quite different if the Supermind came down. Disciple : You are tempting us too much ...
... the time broken. The fall of the Haihayas left the Ixvaacous & the Bharata or Ilian dynasty of the Kurus the two chief powers Page 293 of the continent. Then seems to have followed the golden age of the Ixvaacous under the beneficent empire of Bhogiratha & his descendants as far down at least as Rama. Afterwards the Coshalans, having reached their highest point, must have fallen into that... epic, lifted his divine hero above the basis of national character into an universal humanity, yet the original purpose of either poem remains intact. In the Ramayan under the disguise of an Aryan golden age the wide world with all its elemental impulses and affections finds itself mirrored. The Mahabharata reflects rather a great Aryan civilization with the types, ideas, aims and passions of a heroic ...
... Roman adage: "If you want peace, prepare for war", whether this be carried out on the psychological or the material level. This does not prevent us from truly aspiring to peace, from imagining a golden age in which our perpetual dissensions would finally be quelled. But this harmony between peoples such as we dream of would rest upon a superior code of ethics, the secret of which we have not yet found... thing which can be asked of us for the present is to believe in their arrival and in the fact that nothing will be able to prevent it. Thus, whatever may be the conditions which precede it, a Golden Age will begin on Earth. Should the world collapse, the new beings will help us to raise it again on a more certain basis. And those among us who perish, regardless of how numerous, will be reincarnated ...
... Human Being In the insecurity and confusion caused by the vortex of change, the longing for a meaning which would make life worthwhile was accompanied by a feeling that a new world, a new golden age was in the making. At the “historical juncture”, the Zeitbruch around 1880, the idea, not to say the need, of a new human being can be found everywhere in the expectations of thinkers, poets and... priest-kings of the past similarly endorsed List’s claims to secret knowledge and special authority. At the same time, the putative existence of a modern Armanenschaft suggested to believers that the golden age might be soon restored, and that Germany and Austria would be united in a theocratic pan-German realm, wherein non-German interests would play no part. Within thirty-five years this vision was instituted ...
... - Just back from the Radha Soami Ashram in N. Punjab (where on Sunday there were nearly 500,000 -half a million - people present, in a sort of peaceful kingdom of the Golden Age, of which their Master is like a King of the Golden Age) with plan to visit a nature reserve in which there are tygers - if I have the good luck to see one. I think I told you that I had been stricken with deafness, this ...
... corpse." Some of our readers may be familiar with Swinburne's adaptation of the saying, "A little soul for a little bears up the corpse which is man." Page 164 Nammalwar's Hymn of the Golden Age 1.Tis glory, glory, gloryl For Life's hard curse has expired; swept out are Pain and Hell, and Death has nought to do here. Mark ye, the Iron Age shall end. For we have seen the hosts of Vishnu;... the hosts of Krishna who wears the cool and beautiful Tulsi, the desire of the Bees. 3.The Iron Age shall change. It shall fade, it shall pass away. The gods shall be in our midst. The mighty Golden Age shall hold the earth and the flood of the highest Bliss shall swell. For the hosts of our dark-hued Lord, dark-hued like the cloud, dark-hued like the sea, widely they enter in, singing songs, and ...
... preliminary sketches of the destiny of Athens prepared by Fate and brought forward by the predecessors of Pericles; it was left to him to fill in the colours, which would announce it for posterity as the Golden Age or the Age of Pericles. Pericles Under the leadership of Pericles, Commander-in-chief of Athens, elected and. re-elected for almost 30 years by the Athenians, the polls (city) of... world, bursting the limits of the traditionally small city-state and establishing an empire. This, then, was the atmosphere in which Socrates took his first breath. Athens produced during that Golden Age great men in all walks of life Socrates, the founder of Greek philosophy, Pheidias, Myron, and Polycletus, the sculptors, Zeuxis and Parrhasius, the painters, Pericles, the great orator and statesman ...
... something to strike at. So the popular cry, "The Jews, the Jews." Do you remember my telling you about the prophecy regarding the Jews—that when they will be persecuted and driven to Jerusalem the Golden Age shall come? It is the Jews that have built Germany's commercial fleet and her navy. And the contribution of the Jews towards the world's progress in every branch is remarkable. But this sort... It is a legacy from the animals, just as dogs of one quarter don't like dogs of another. DR. SATYENDRA: But things will improve, I hope. SRI AUROBINDO: If these things go, we may be sure the Golden Age is coming. All my opinions are naturally on the basis of the present conditions. But, of course, the conditions would be quite different if the Supermind came down. NIRODBARAN: You are tempting ...
... the face of the world with a mere flourish of his Yogic wand did indeed disillusion him, it at least indicated clearly enough his future line of action. He would not attempt the establishment of a Golden Age, a Satya Yuga, a New Heaven and a New Earth, all at once; that might prove a fiasco no better than the Trishuncou-Swarga of Vishvamitra's creation. What Sri Aurobindo could do was to convey to others... work with the chosen instruments and await the phoenix hour when his "too too sullied" earth that was heavy and in travail would give birth to a supramentalised blissful world: .. .for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth ...
... Vishnu given. I gather knowledge here, Then to my human frame awhile descend And walk mid men, choosing my instruments, Testing, rejecting and confirming souls, Vessels of the Spirit; for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold. The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out, And Atheism perish from the earth Blasted with knowledge, love ...
... rest of humanity—with animal humanity, that is to say. Thus its value was degraded and led to that great Fall which is spoken of in the world's scriptures, the coming out of Paradise, the end of the Golden Age. Indeed it was a loss from the point of view of consciousness, but not from that of material strength, since it was a tremendous gain to ordinary humanity. There were, certainly, some beings who ...
... within the caste, was the first to assert a divinity in the people and could cry to the monarch at the height of his power, "O king, what art thou but the head servant of the demos?" Its idea of the golden age was a free spiritual anarchism. Its spiritual extremism could not prevent it from fathoming through a long era the life of the senses and its enjoyments, and there too it sought the utmost richness ...
... rest of humanity—with animal humanity, that is to say. Thus its value was degraded and led to that great Fall which is spoken of in the world's scriptures, the coming out of Paradise, the end of the Golden Age. Indeed, it was a loss from the point of view of consciousness, but not from that of material strength, since it was a tremendous gain to ordinary humanity. There were, certainly, some beings who ...
... step in the new policy, the policy of conciliation and Page 419 liberalism. It is the sign-manual of the great reformer, Lord Morley, upon his work, the loud-tongued harbinger of the golden Age. No particular motive can be alleged for this sudden proclamation, nor is any alleged. The people are left to speculate in the dark as to the mystic motives of Lords Minto and Morley in this ...
... have been the condition of man as an isolated animal, living as the beast of prey, before he became in the process of his development an animal of the pack. But the tradition is rather that of a golden age in which he was freely social without society. Not bound by laws or institutions but living by natural instinct or free knowledge, he held the right law of his living in himself and needed neither ...
... development of human life, and no doubt some chief poet of the age, writing in the common or Page 507 official tongue—shall we say, Esperanto?—would sing confidently of the approach of the golden age or even proclaim its actual arrival and eternal duration. But after a time, there would be a dying down of force, a static condition of the human mind and human life, then stagnation, decay, dis ...
... The true sattwic community in which life shall be naturally regulated by calm wisdom, enlightenment and universal sympathy, exists only as an Utopia or in the Aryan tradition of the Sattwayuga, the Golden Age. We have not evolved even the rajaso-sattwic community in which the licentious play of individual activity and originality will be restrained not by the heavy brake of tamasic indolence, ignorance ...
... of the Caribbee and Hottentot, but the detritus and uncertain reformation of a great era of knowledge, balance and adjustment which lives for us only in tradition but in a universal tradition, the Golden Age, the Saturnia regna, of the West, our Satyayuga or age of the recovered Veda. What then are these savage races, these epochs of barbarism, these Animistic, Totemistic, Naturalistic and superstitious ...
... a symbol spells only "death" for the Christian mind. Down from the Rigvedic Dadhikravan through the Puranic animal on which the last Avatar Kalki is figured as riding onto earth to establish the Golden Age - down from hoary antiquity to the time of KDS the equus has played a spiritually suggestive part. As you know, KDS has several poems on his favourite quadruped. As your father loved horses dearly ...
... error. I have not denied that the ideal of a change on earth is of old standing. It is there vaguely in the human mind perhaps since the beginning, though more often perfection is put in some golden age of the past and deterioration and a cataclysm is the law of the future. Christianity foresees a descent of Christ and *his rule on earth, but this is figured as an outward event, not as a change ...
... uncorrupted life in imaginative accord with elemental earth, in which there is utter freedom of the individual and yet a collective harmony, a blissful blend of anarchy and order, the establishment of a Golden Age such as the myths and legends of all humanity report to have existed in a pre-history when the human was not divorced from the divine. A general aspect to note is that here we have an experience ...
... and these latter get thinned away into "a subtle, at the end almost unreal fineness ".36 No such extreme attenuation happens in French Classicism in its golden age, but the perfect balance between thought and life is not maintained with the sovereignty peculiar to Graeco-Roman Classicism. However, the poetic achievement ...
... and break through the control of the reason, either healthily or morbidly, he applies even this somewhat narrow definition in a rather restricted way. He 6 looks upon the Middle Ages as the Golden Age of Romanticism and there the goldenest height is for him the romance-cum-fantasy of Aucassin and Nicolette with its dei- fication of love at once intensely, tenderly, unsophisticatedly. A testament ...
... partisans of the past are of two kinds. The first admit the defects of the present but support it in so far as it still cherishes the principles of the high, perfect, faultless, adorable past, that golden age of the race or community, and because even if somewhat degenerate, its forms are a bulwark against the impiety of progress; if they admit any change, it is in the direction of the past that they ...
... religion." If religion primarily signified to him non-violence, then it is doubtful whether he can stand wholly as a representative of what India has historically understood by religion. In the golden age of spirituality, the Vedic times, the arts of war were not taboo. Even in the Ashrams of the Rishis archery was taught - surely not just to hunt animals (though that too would be contrary to ...
... mastery over self and a complete mastery, governance and utilisation of the forces of Nature could see at long last a prospect of total achievement.” 13 In other words, the age-long dream of a truly Golden Age the Mother spoke of would become reality. (Gold is the colour of the Supermind.) In the third article, Sri Aurobindo briefly summarises what we have tried to explain in Chapter 2: “It is indeed ...
... advantages, imagine today that same past as lost happiness. Yesterday is always better than today. Nostalgia is a malady of the senile.” 33 – “The sigh of the extreme conservative mind for the golden age of the past, which was not so golden as it appears to an imaginative eye in the distance”, writes Sri Aurobindo, “is a vain breath blown to the winds by the rush of the car of the Time-Spirit in ...
... the beginning of nothing less than an evolutionary jump in the earthly life. On that day a phase change of the frequency resonance [?] will take place, which opens the way for a post-2012 radiant golden age in our galactic-solar-planetary realization. … We will have made the transition not only to a post-historical, but to a superhuman phase in our evolution. … An immense change of consciousness will ...
... notions, along with those of Bengali, had been part of the I.C.S. curriculum in England. Thus he read much secular Sanskrit literature, especially the works of Kalidasa, the pre-eminent poet of the golden age of Sanskrit. He translated his plays Meghaduta and Vikramorvasie, later published under the title The Hero and the Nymph. And it is self-evident that he read and reread the Ramayana and the ...
... will begin to disappear, I cannot wish you a happier birthday than one in which that body of yours which Sri Aurobindo has blessed and the Mother has caressed will help more and more the Golden Age visioned by our Gurus to gleam forth. (7.11.1990) Of late there has been a strange sense of far-away-ness. Maybe something in me has withdrawn more from the usual run of life; time ...
... God, worshipped as divine and considered mankind's Saviour as well as the inaugurator of a new era moving towards the Kingdom of God, Augustus was heralded by poets like Virgil as the creator of a Golden Age of peace and prosperity and accepted worship from the East as a divine being and saviour of humanity. Like the virginal conception the Gospels of Matthew and Luke picture for Jesus, a supernatural ...
... error. I have not denied that the ideal of a change on earth is of old standing. It is there vaguely in the human mind perhaps since the beginning, though more often perfection is put in some golden age of the past and deterioration and a cataclysm Page 336 is the law of the future. Christianity foresees a descent of Christ and his rule on earth, but this is figured as a natural event ...
... (1682-1789). ² Louis XIV: known as le Roi Soleil (the Sun King). 1638-1715, king of France (1643-1715). Effective ruler from 1661, he established an absolute monarchy. His reign is regarded as a golden age of French literature and art. Page 13 prevent her from keeping up a lively correspondence with such illustrious friends as Voltaire, Diderot, Madame Geoffrin, and Baron Melchior ...
... epic, lifted his divine hero above the basis of national character into an universal humanity, yet the original purpose of either poem remains intact. In the Ramayana under the disguise of an Aryan golden age, the wide world with all its elemental impulses and affections finds itself mirrored. The Mahabharata reflects rather a great Aryan civilisation with the types, ideas, aims and passions of a heroic ...
... and then personal differences and jealousies would also creep in. We cannot, in that case, justify the high hopes which people have about our work. LAJPAT RAI: They expect you to usher in the golden age. SRI AUROBINDO: But why do you give them such high hopes? LAJPAT RAI: In the democratic age you have to. SRI AUROBINDO: Why? LAJPAT RAI: If you want to get into the governing bodies ...
... matter of temperament. There are plenty of people whose ordinary nature is sunny and cheerful. However, a yogi astrologer predicted that all my dark age will pass away at the age of 32 and the golden age will set in. The age of 32 has come but where is the gold? Glorious! you must begin glittering at once—even if there are other things than gold that glitter. But are you through the wonderful ...
... myself for the last two or three days—as flat as I could manage to at this stage. Am recovering curvilinear proportions and shall try to send something along. No medical cases today. Hello! Golden Age come or what? No—for R.B.'s pain is kicking cheerfully again. It is telling her, "Your Nirod's potions and things indeed! I just went because I took the fancy. I go when I like, I come when I like ...
... keeping us three in a room, they made us live separately and alone in our cells. For the authorities had now come to realise what kind of stuff we had beneath the mild surface. That was the end of our golden age in jail. All our special facilities and privileges were withdrawn. The court-room was now the only place where we could meet. The case dragged on for quite sometime, for several months in fact ...
... The language of the Greeks has been a simple easy and natural instrument in their hands for the work of purifying the heart and clarifying the mind and the inner being. (4) That was the golden age of Greece and Athens, famed in history as the Age of Pericles. Pericles was the leading man in his city, the chief Archon of the state, and a man of great genius. It was largely thanks to his genius ...
... resides an enormous power of the whole universe, and that power is aspiring for the divine manifestation in humanity, for the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth .and the Divine Play of the Golden Age. When that universal Power reveals itself to our sight, and when we are able to recognise it and consciously collaborate with it, there can be nothing beyond our reach. Page 309 ...
... ancient wisdom, however, if one goes back to the teaching of the Vedic Rishis, for example, one finds no idea of escape from the world; they sought a realisation upon earth and they even conceived a golden age when this realisation would be achieved. It is without doubt since the teaching of Buddha that the idea of escape came in; and that has gradually undermined the vitality of the country for ...
... life and surroundings. That is why he has never attained the full measure of success. Indeed a period of success or progress was always followed by a period of decline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age of iron. As a matter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly enclosed in a cage of iron as it were. The earth has become too small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous necessities ...
... a younger humanity A simple Child, That lightly draws its breath, And feels its life in every limb, What should it know of death ?¹ Yes, it was the age, almost a golden age, when man lived with his sense married to the Dawn, spontaneous in his reflexes, prime-sautier, intuitive and imaginative, full of a natural, unspoilt, unsophisticated happiness and hopefulness ...
... whole more or less the same, there is no global progress: there is no continued march forward towards a kingdom of heaven upon earth, even as there has not been a decline and deterioration from some Golden Age in the past. Is this so, in point of fact or is it bound to be so, in point of theory? What are the facts? There are at least two human groups or peoples extant that seem to point to a different ...
... age and not chiefly to their own intrinsic height of genius; and that power had many vices, flaws and serious limitations which their work exaggerates wilfully rather than avoids. The gold of this golden age of English poetry is often Page 613 very beautifully and richly wrought, but it is seldom worked into a perfect artistic whole; it disappears continually in masses of alloy, and ...
... "seat of sadhana", 383; higher planes of consciousness, 388; clue from Vivekananda, 389; exploration of Inconscience, 391-2; synthesis of experience and knowledge, 393-4; the coming "golden age", 393; Paul Richard's tribute, 395; Alexandra David-Neel's visit, 395; Mirra Richard's visit, 395; assurance to her, 398,410; decision to launch Arya and Revue, 398-9; on name and aims of Arya ...
... difference between the old and the young, and in deciding a course of activity there is a conflict between the two. The old are trying to keep these youth, born of divine emanations, the pioneers of a golden age, confined to the old, selfish and narrow ways, without understanding they are trying to perpetuate the Age of Iron. The youth are sparks born of the Great Energy, Mah āsakti , eager to build the ...
... revived after a letter from Sri Aurobindo or the Mother, and once more started on the quest, and engaged in the intestine struggle, or commenced the weary climb. Our period (1931-38) was the Golden Age of yogic correspondence in the Ashram, and several thousand letters were written by a comparatively small section of the disciples to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. At the beginning, almost every ...
... that Reality, the wheel of the 'human cycle' thereby coming full circle. In the present treatise, Sri Aurobindo sees a like circular movement: ...there is also the ancient tradition... of a golden age in which he [man] was freely social without society... it is also possible that our progress has not been a development in a straight line, but in cycles.... It is even possible that our original ...
... among themselves. Concerning the persecution of the Jews, Sri Aurobindo spoke of a "Cabalistic prophecy," according to which "when the Jews will be persecuted and driven to Jerusalem, then the Golden Age shall come." He also pointed out that "the contribution of the Jews towards the world's progress in every branch is remarkable." Indeed the Jewish race has produced Page 94 ...
... Aniruddha is the Sudra. He is the kamin, the bhogin, the scientist, the Page 532 user of material means, the democrat, the leveller. The Satya is full of Srikrishna; it is the golden Age when men are full of might and wisdom. The Treta is full of Balarama; the Chakravarti Raja is the incarnation of the Treta; it is full of great wars and mighty sacrifices. The Dwapara is full of ...
... little bears up the corpse which is man". × Sri Aurobindo's translation of "Nammalwar's Hymn of the Golden Age" appears in Translations, volume 5 of THE COMPLETE WORKS OF SRI AUROBINDO.— Ed. ...
... for the divine in man, the Christian gospel of a kingdom of God and divine city upon earth, the Puranic idea of progressing Avataras ending in the kingdom of the perfect and the restoration of the Golden Age, not only contain behind their forms a profound truth, but they are necessary to the religious sense in mankind. Without it the teaching of the vanity of human life and of a passionate fleeing and ...
... according to the Swabhava, create the body of the Law. The ancient theory supposed that in an entirely right and sound condition of man, individual and collective,—a condition typified by the legendary Golden Age, Satya Yuga, Age of Truth,—there is no need of any political government or State or artificial construction of society, because all then live freely according to the truth of their enlightened self ...
... within the caste, was the first to assert a divinity in the people and could cry to the monarch at the height of his power, "O king, what art thou but the head servant of the demos?" Its idea of the golden age was a free spiritual anarchism. Its spiritual extremism could not prevent it from fathoming through a long era the life of the senses and its enjoyments, and there too it sought the utmost Page ...
... Babylon.' Soon I learnt that I was not the only one, even before I was born "A.E." had begun to cast his spell on many an Ashramite, especially the poets of the 1930's. The 1930's mark a golden age in the life of the Ashram not only in the field of Sadhana - we hear that almost every sadhak and sadhika in the Ashram used to have rich spiritual experiences at that time - but also in the fields ...
... seen in the omniscient Light, Some far tune of the immortal rhapsodist Voice, Some rapture of the all-creating Bliss, Some form and plan of the Beauty unutterable. 22 The Golden Age of Indian Art is considered to be the period from the late 4 th to the 6 th c, though astonishing embodiments of Beauty continue to be seen in Indian sculpture and architecture right up to the ...
... × Bliss. × The age of Truth, The Golden Age. × Spiritual liberation. × ...
... aus. From the Berghof, Hitler had a splendid view of the Untersberg where, as legend has it, Charlemagne is sleeping till one day he will awake and do battle with the Antichrist to make a new Golden Age possible – or, if you prefer, to lead the German people to their glory. “There he sat”, remembers Speer, “with his view of the Untersberg where, according to legend, the Emperor Charlemagne still ...
... to be the highest level limits its outlook even in the present times. The transition from the mythological to the rational age in ancient Greece took place at the time of Pericles, in Greece’s Golden Age. The instruments of this transition were the sophists – Protagoras, Gorgias, Prodicos, Hippias, Critias, and others – who were much more influential than is generally supposed. “Truly speaking, one ...
... there was the Führer, fervently awaited and, now that he had manifested himself as Leader of the German Volk, venerated as the messiah who would redress all injustices and lead them into a new golden age. “Hitler and his propaganda officials were fully aware that the Führer concept was the slogan which responded to the longing of the Germans to be led.” Children in the kindergartens sang a little ...
... our highest expectations. ‘Then all the long labour of Nature will end in a crowning justification.’ 18 Evidently, a yoga to turn such a fantastic ambition into reality — the coming of the Golden Age — required other means than those available in the traditional yogas, however much tested and practised — for the practitioners of those yogas do not intend a divine creation here on Earth but try ...
... × In Hinduism, Kalki is the tenth and last Avatar, expected to establish the Kingdom of God on Earth in a new Golden Age. He is usually represented on a winged white horse and wielding a sword. × In the beginning of ...
... this, one also understands Sri Aurobindo’s saying: ‘My life was not on the surface for men to see’ – and neither was the Mother’s of course. 95 Iyengar describes the years 1931-38 as ‘the Golden Age of yogic correspondence in the Ashram.’ ‘We could write to Sri Aurobindo any time up to 11 p.m. when the Ashram gate closed,’ reminisces Narayan Prasad. ‘Letters were generally addressed to the Mother ...
... On this view the frequent contention that Shankara who is said to have brought about the decline of Buddhism could not have come after the reign of Chandragupta II which historians acclaim as "the Golden Age of Hinduism" cannot stand. Besides, the Imperial Guptas, true to the typically tolerant spirit of the Hindu religion, are known to have partly patronised both the Buddhist and the Jain faiths. Perhaps ...
... front. As for the disorders and misfires you find all around us today, don't allow them to trouble you overmuch. The best we can do is to appeal to our Gurus to hasten the advent of the Golden Age they have visioned in spite of being clearly conscious of the misery and madness of the world into which they had descended. If within our little individual world we try to live with the deep ...
... own for fifty-three years out of her ninety-five. By her grace—and by it alone—the Ashram, India and the world will emerge, despite all opposing influences and after whatever delays, into a new Golden Age. 2 Yes, a faith and a force are present everywhere and at all hours. There is also an attempt to comprehend more and more the exact nature and the precise implication of the event that ...
... culture in a fabulous prehistoric past. Astrology, the myth of the Edda and the runes, whether mysteriously whispered or cut as strange magical characters, all represented a marvellous link with that golden age. They were all the promissory tokens of a new era, in which magic, mystical vision and world-power would be restored to all true-born Germans.” 504 While to its practitioners occultism was a method ...
... genius; and that power had many vices, flaws and serious limitations which their work exaggerates wilfully rather than avoids, so that it is only exceptionally free from glaring flaws. The gold of this golden age of English poetry is often very beautifully and richly wrought, but it is seldom worked into a perfect artistic whole; it disappears continually in masses of alloy, and there is on the whole more ...
... perplexities and stumblings of the suffering and ignorant ego. If by some miracle of divine intervention all mankind at once could be raised to this level, we should have something on earth like the Golden Age of the traditions, Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth or true existence. For the sign of the Satya Yuga is that the Law is spontaneous and conscious in each creature and does Page 206 its own ...
... ceremony. Without tapasya there can be no Veda. This was the course that the stream of thought followed among us, according to the sense of our Indian tradition. The capacity for tapasya belongs to the Golden Age of man's fresh Page 308 virility; it fades as humanity ages & the cycle takes its way towards the years that are of Iron, and with tapasya, the basis, divine knowledge, the superstructure ...
... in the morning of our national daytime may last, even though with diminutions and obscurations, not only into its evening but on through whatever night of time is intended, to the dawn of another golden age of spirituality. Who shall say out of what distant twilight of time the Veda was first revealed to mankind? Who shall say to what pre-cataclysmal undreamed consummation of our present humanity it ...
... by a reversion to the predominantly political spirit of the past or the temper and forms of the old aristocratic social type. The sigh of Page 487 the extreme conservative mind for the golden age of the past, which was not so golden as it appears to an imaginative eye in the distance, is a vain breath blown to the winds by the rush of the car of the Time-Spirit in the extreme velocity of ...
... I have not denied that the ideal of a change on earth is of old standing. It is there vaguely in the human mind perhaps since the beginning, though more often perfection is put in some golden Page 401 age of the past and deterioration and a cataclysm is the law of the future. Christianity foresees a descent of Christ and his rule on earth, but this is figured as an outward event, not as ...
... teaching. If we go back to the teaching of the Rishis, for example, there was no idea of flight out of the world; for them the realisation Page 289 had to be terrestrial. They conceived a Golden Age very well, in which the realisation would be terrestrial. But starting from a certain decline of vitality in the spiritual life of the country, perhaps, from a different orientation which came in ...
... man has brought itself into now-a-days—whether in thought or in the field of practical life! An infant crying in the night when he is not hitting other infants in the stomach in order to bring the golden age. (I am referring to infants like Hitler, Mussolini and others.) 95 * * * August 10, 1933 (A disciple:) I am disconcerted at what is happening in the world. Everywhere ...
... country when Megasthenes had already departed. Clearly, what the Jain books report has no relevance to the epoch of Sandrocottus and Megasthenes. This epoch has economically all the signs of the golden age initiated by the Chandragupta who was the founder of the Imperial Guptas. The second closing theme is religion. Raychaudhuri 2 writes: "Jain tradition recorded in the Rājāvalīkatha avers ...
... be true and profound. And I suppose that, given re-incarnation, there also would be 'evolution' throughout history. In that case what is the kali-yuga? It would seem that the clear vision of the Golden Age is progressively darkened to the Iron Age where we now are. But these are mysteries far beyond poetry. But it might seem that from the Vedas and the Psalms and the epics of all civilizations there ...
... to religion." If religion primarily signified to him non-violence, then it is doubtful whether he can stand wholly as a representative of what India has historically understood by religion. In the golden age of Indian spirituality, the Vedic times, the arts of war were not taboo. Even in the Ashrams of the Rishis archery was taught - surely not just to hunt animals (though that too would be contrary ...
... to me."(10) Then the holy and pure wind-god blew emitting divine fragrance and caused the joy of all, on all sides. (11) That wonderful and unconceivable happening as used to be in Krtayuga (golden age of Truth), was seen by all men coming from various countries. (12) Sītā wearing a brown garment, having seen all of them arrived, with folded hands, keeping her gaze downwards and face cast down ...
... Indian tradition, this is the era we live in now. It is the last of the four Yugas, or Ages, which form a cosmic cycle. This fourth Age is a Dark Age, after which a new cycle will start again, with a Golden Age or Satya Yuga. 4. Alwars: Twelve poet Bhaktas of Tamil Nadu, who lived in the second half of the first millenium AD, and composed beautiful devotional hymns. Page 220 A few ...
... don't open, it doesn't come. Three possibilities. But how — ? Well, God he knows or perhaps he doesn't. In my medical report I wrote: No medical cases to report today. Sri Aurobindo: Hello! Golden Age come or what? No — for R.B.'s pain is kicking cheerfully again. It is telling her, "Your Nirod's potion and things indeed! I just went because I took the fancy. I go when I like, I come when I like ...
... it - like neuritis, laryngitis, etc.; so coupletitis, illness of the couplet. 25 VIII. On medicines and medical treatment: NB: No medical cases today. Sri Aurobindo: Hello! Golden Age come or what? No — for R's pain is kicking cheerfully again. It is telling her, "Your NB's potions and things indeed! I go when I like, come when I like. Doctors - pooh!" 26 NB: The opthalmologist ...
... Alexander the Great (iv) Chandragupta Maurya (v) Ashoka III (i) Kushans and Kanishka (ii) Chandragupta, Samundragupta and Vikramaditya (iii) Gupta Period: the Golden Age of India (iv) Kalidasa, Varahamihira, Aryabhatt, Brahmgupta (v) Fa-Hieun's account of India IV (i) Harsha Vardhana (ii) Huen Tasang's account of India V ...
... later age.' There was a further misconception that Sri Aurobindo had to remove. Some disciples thought that the descent of the Supermind would result in miraculous changes and at once usher in the Golden Age. Sri Aurobindo wrote: 'All that is absurd. The descent of the supramental means only that the Power will be there in the earth-consciousness as a living force just as the thinking mental and higher ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: God doesn't. Pis a sort of weeping machine—touch a spring even unintentionally and it starts off. MYSELF: No medical cases today. SRI AUROBINDO: Hello! Golden Age come or what? No —for R's pain is kicking cheerfully again. It is telling her "your Nirod's potions and things indeed! I just went because I took the fancy. I go when I like, I come when I like ...
... an expanding universe out of an original compact mass, the egg may represent that original mass. Page 274 It is said that before this Iron Age (Kali Yuga) there was a Golden Age (Satya Yuga). It is also said that the world is always progressing. How then comes this downward turn (Iron after Gold)? There is no great utility in such theories. It was supposed that ...
... the coming of this Supreme Divine. It is said also that the present epoch marks a crucial turn and transition. We await the Kalki Avatar who will wipe off the past, the Iron Age, and bring in the Golden Age, Satya Youga. A question inevitably arises here – what next? Once the evolutionary movement has reached the apex, does it stop there? After the apex, the Void? I t need not be so. The completion ...
... life and surroundings. That is why he has never attained the full measure of success. Indeed a period of success or progress was always followed by a period of decline and retrogression, a so-called golden age by an age of iron. As a matter of fact today humanity finds itself terribly enclosed in a cage of iron as it were. The earth has become too small for his soaring capacities and multitudinous necessities— ...
... the coming of this Supreme Divine. It is said also that the present epoch marks a crucial turn and transition. We await the Kalki Avatara who will wipe off the past, the Iron Age, and bring in the Golden Age, Satya Yuga. A question inevitably arises here—what next? Once the evolutionary movement has Page 72 reached the apex, does it stop there? After the apex, the Void? It need ...
... ancient wisdom, however, if one goes back to the teaching of the Vedic Rishis, for example, one finds no idea of escape from the world; they sought a realisation upon earth and they even conceived of a golden age when this realisation would be achieved. . It is without doubt since the teaching of Buddha that the idea of escape came in; and that has gradually undermined the vitality Page 105 ...
... tier reflecting prismlike the fiery glowing colours, the vast horizons, the wide vistas vanishing beyond. Roerich is one of the prophets and seers who have ever been acclaiming and preparing the Golden Age, the dream that humanity has been dreaming continuously since its very childhood, that is to say, when there will be peace and harmony on Page 151 earth, when racial, cultural or i ...
... disposal of mankind. This is the force he has set free that is creating a new world,–reorganising and remoulding, through a great travail indeed, our ancient sphere that will cradle the earth of the golden age. II In Sri Aurobindo particularly the impersonalisation is in reality a re-personalisation. Impersonalisation need not mean de-personalisation, that is to say, a complete ...
... life and society of this country and thus lift man upward. First, King Chandragupta managed to bring almost the entire country under a single rule. That period of the country is known as its golden age. But then this very Chandragupta was disheartened and baffled. People began to die in hordes as a result of famine and plague. Despite being the king of a vast kingdom he looked on helplessly at ...
... but for his action India would not have been half as free as she is to-day. So, the Cosmic Spirit may have, after all, led him to do it to bring this result. There is a Cabalist prophesy : the golden age will come when the Jews will be driven off and persecuted every where. So, Hitler may be bringing that about. There are so many ways of looking at a thing. For instance, this American lady thinks ...
... and jealousies would also creep in.. We cannot, in that case, justify the high hopes which people have aboutour work. Page 61 La jpat Rai : They expect you to usher in the golden age. Sri Aurobmdo : But why do you give them such high hopes ? L aipat Rai : In the democratic age you have to. Sri Aurobindo : Why ? Lajpat Rai : If you want to get ...
... and of many lives. Human life is made great in proportion to their intensity. And running counter to the popular view about sannyāsa (renunciation) and the escapist adoration of a past golden age or a future existence other than the terrestrial, Sri Aurobindo affirmed categorically: Let us think reverently of the task that is before us. Never in history has there been a greater age ...
... the leap of sensuous pleasure is alone the governing law. Some years pass, she becomes a mother, and tired of "soulless woods and waves" they return to "the virgin's city Ilian" and inaugurate a golden age: The sacred city felt a finer life Within it; burning inspirations breathed From hallowed poets... And from the city of Pururavas High influences went.... 12 Seven ...
... preserve the knowledge that preserves the world. For, when Kali comes men are endangered because they lose true knowledge and are covered in ignorance. But Kuthumi gives hope to man. "... for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth, ...
... the Tamil language progressed so quickly that with Bharati's help he translated into English some pieces from Tamil literature. A few lines from the Kural of Tiruvalluvar; two pieces— Hymn of the Golden Age and Love-Mad —by Nammalwar, a poem by the Chera king and saint Kulasekhara Alwar, and three pieces by Andal. In all his literary works a double action came into play. Sri Aurobindo notes on ...
... history in which there was given a kind of example, as a promise, of what would be there one day. These were called the golden ages. But certainly there were times in which a more or less complete representation of what had to be was as though lived out. Only it was just a demonstration, an example, which the world was completely unfit to take up as a realisation. It was only to say: you see, this is how... says that in the Vedic age they tried to bring the spiritual life into the physical life, but he says that the means they employed, the paths they followed at that time are no longer any good now. Just imagine us before an altar making a Puja !... It won't do now, it is not suitable. Is their goal and ours the same? I think so. In any case, there were several ages in the earth's history... But these promises and examples were like starting-points, like the first push given to begin the evolution of the consciousness towards a higher realisation. Page 352 I think the Vedic age was the latest. There were others before it, but of a very short duration. Something over there? A question?... Is that all? Mother! It's still that fellow asking questions! What do ...
... free, yet consciously plays with bondage,—Mahas, the link between the Parardha and Aparardha, pouring the glory of the higher hemisphere into the lower,—Mahas which we enjoy and possess in the golden ages of our humanity, love and seek for in the iron. For to Mahas we rise, through Mahas we aspire to the perfect oneness of Sacchidananda. Brahman at first becomes involved in gross matter,—he ... the Universe, the Playmate, Lover, Master, Teacher and Friend of all His creations; He is Hari, He is Srikrishna, He is the Personal God whom we love and adore and whom we pursue and seize through the Ages. Then, descending a step farther, avataran, He is known to Himself not only as the universal Lord of the Lila, but as the individual, Narayana concealed in Nara, playing through him, different from ...
... "Cours des Feuillantines,” if I recall correctly, and there, like everyone else, She learned assiduously the false world, the one that is arranged in maps, atoms and "golden ages,” which, we finally come to realize, were not all that golden; as for our atoms, we have yet to discover whether they are not masking something else that masks something else that masks something else—but where is the Thing... at the same time, the future as well. If we looked at the future, it might grow faster and, who knows, break through this small shell of the present, no thicker than a page of History, and slip its golden rays into it. She would go with her friends to see Versailles by night; then, suddenly, I saw the park filling up with lights (the electric lights had vanished), with all kinds of lights: torches... word “reincarnation," probably it would have been Mirra’s turn to stare—let us not forget that we are in the century of Taine and Renan, caught between Mathilde and her banker husband. But at Mirra’s age it all seems quite natural; it is just another way for Nature to behave, no stranger than the ladies beneath their parasols marching in a line to the church of Saint-Philippe du Roule on Sunday afternoon ...
... generally intended for recitation and the literary epic intended for reading. The first type has usually a simple concrete subject and a sustained splendour. It treats a popular story of the golden "heroic age". Hot racial elements and nascent cultural trends are boldly brought out 1 A.B. Purani, Sri Aurobindo's Savitri: An Approach and a Study, p. 25. in it. While in the... - Part 1 Savitri as an Epic This is the age of what is called 'modernist' poetry and the possibility of an epic being written in modem times is strongly discounted. It is supposed that an epic requires a certain primitive atmosphere for its birth and growth, and the modem age is not suitable for it. Although in some of their latest tendencies in painting... glad of a glory of multitudinous mind And rich with life's adventure and delight And packed with the beauty of Matter's shapes and hues Climed back from Time into undying Self, Up a golden ladder carrying the Soul, Tying with diamond threads the Spirit's extremes. 3 The apparent opposition between Eternity and Time seems to be resolved in human life by the intervention of ...
... high civilisations that had disappeared long ago. The progress of humanity moved in a kind of a spiral, she said, at times progressing, at times apparently regressing. Brilliant civilisations, “Golden Ages”, some of which still live in humanity’s memory, suddenly disappeared and were followed by long eras of darkness and primitivism. (We find this repeatedly confirmed in Sri Aurobindo. 45 ) The high... establish the Supermind, not to explain it.” 72 – “I know that the supramental Descent is inevitable – I have faith in view of my experience that the time can and should be now and not in a later age … But even if I knew it to be for a later time, I would not swerve from my path or be discouraged or flag in my labour. Formerly I might have been, but not now – after all the path I have traversed ...
... The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953 , p. 2. As to what the Mother said about the families of artists who have come down on earth together in order to create the “golden ages”: of the great civilisations, see the chapter “Artist among the artists” in The Mother by Georges Van Vrekhem. × ... humanity but in the course of evolution on this Earth. Things were no longer as they had been, she said in the last years of her embodiment. “This really is a new world.” “There is something like a golden Force, without material consistence and yet apparently enormously heavy, that is pressing down upon Matter in order to compel it to turn towards the Divine inwardly – not an outward escape (gesture... sincere aspiration to find those who, like you, are in search of something, you will always be put in a position to meet them in one way or another, in totally unexpected circumstances.” 27 – “It is ages of ardent aspiration that have brought us here to do the Divine’s Work.” 28 “When people, who are born dispersed over the world at great distances from one another, are driven by circumstances ...
... solution, the emergence of a new age of truth, the “supramental age” Sri Aurobindo spoke of, like the buttercup breaking its last envelope to free its golden fruit. If the parallel holds true between the collective body and our human body, we could say that the center governing the age of the sages was located at the level of the forehead, while that of the age of the nobles was at the level of... to blow up the beautiful machine and expose the old untouched savage underneath. Indeed that evolution has descended; it has cast us down from our fragile heights and golden ages, which were perhaps not so Page 116 golden as it is said, to force us to find here, too, that Light and Harmony and Consciousness, in this low place, which is low only for us. In fact, there is no descent, no... blazing and tranquil surge – an unutterable sound that would contain all sounds and all notes in one, a fusion of music, a golden outburst one single time of a cry of love or a cry of joy issuing from the abyss of time; a pure triumph that has seen all those worlds and ages in a glance, and the sorrow of a child on the bank of that blue river and the softness of the paddy fields and the death of ...
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