Himalaya Himalay Himaloy Himavan : Himādri or Tushārādri in Sanskrit.
... short extract of the first canto, which opens on a description of Himalaya, seen at the same time as a god, as a mountain and as a living being. The reader will find side by side the Sanskrit text and two different renderings by Sri Aurobindo. . First rendering by Sri Aurobindo: 1 A God mid hills northern Himaloy rears His snow-piled summits' dizzy majesties And in the eastern... in a few Puranas, particularly in the Brahma-Purana, the Skanda-Purana and in the Shiva- Purana. The version in the Shiva-Purana is quite detailed: its Parvati- khanda starts with the marriage of Himavan and ends with Shiva and Parvati's marriage. However it is not certain that Kalidasa borrowed from the Puranas. It is more likely that the Shiva-Purana was the borrower. As to Kalidasa's specific sources... majesty, Embodied to our cloudy physical sight In snowy summits and green-gloried slopes, To northward of the many-rivered land, Measuring the earth in an enormous ease, . Immense Himaloy dwells and in the moan Of eastern ocean and in western floods Plunges his giant sides. Him once the hills Imagined as the mighty calf of Earth When the wideness milked her udders; gems ...
... face yearn through— All life plucked from its level loiterings To one dense danger of divinity, A sheer leap everywhere of soul made rock Of rapture unperturbable by time— The Himalay's immense epiphany! No thin melodic themes drawn to high hush Which yet weighs never the ineffable on earth's ear Nor wipes out the earth's eye with infinite blank: Here an al... mystic sleep How shall it wear the crown of the endless sky?... O wanderer soul, drunkard of distances, Perfection's pilgrim, touch with votive brow The foot of the one transcendent Himalay! 8.6.48 Page 292 ...
... Splendour Revelation* Where ghostlike gleamed the vanishing day Against abysmal space, And dumb, with orbless gaze, Monsoon-hung loured the Himalay, My mind essayed on stormy wings the universe to span. I plunged a deep, aspiring eye Into the holy hue Which twilight sprayed like dew On the corolla of the sky, And ...
... swayed unmeasured insolent hopes in my breast: Melting like snows heaped upon Himalaya-crest Songs of my glory would o'erflow land and sea In tempestuous floods bursting the limits of Eternity. (Sri Aurobindo's version): Once swayed an insolent hope unmeasured in my breast: That like bright snows heaps upon Himalay's crest Page 48 Songs of my glory overflowing land and sea Would ...
... CRITICISM I have kept you hanging for quite a time, I I am sorry, but couldn't help it, for I had a Himalaya of work on my hands. Having written this, I am visited by a scruple. Could I have justifiably penned a line of poetry like: A Himalaya of work on my frail hands? How would such a line fare face to face with the two criteria of AE's, which you endorse but... quantity to India's northern mountain-range of 800 miles' length and 5 miles' height. Here is evidently an exaggeration: literal truth has been sacrificed to significant effect. Again, to think of the Himalaya is to visualise endless snow, perpetual solitude, eternal immobility. What have these things to do with my work? Surely I am letting fantasy run riot. My words cannot possibly answer to my actual... speak, behind the expression are wanting. Here the technique — the structural design of word, sound and metre — has a pointed say. The original line's alliteration of the h-sound in the long word "Himalaya" at the start and in the short one "hands" at the close, its consecutive stresses on the two end-words "frail hands" as if there were a relentless weighing down of the objects meant — where are such ...
... yearn through— All life plucked from its level loiterings To one dense danger of divinity, A sheer leap everywhere of soul made rock Of rapture unperturbable by time— The Himalaya's immense epiphany! No thin melodic themes drawn to high hush Which yet weighs never the ineffable on earth's ear Nor wipes out the earth's eye with infinite blank: Here an all-i... How shall it wear the crown of the endless sky?. .. O wanderer soul, drunkard of distances, Perfection's pilgrim, touch with votive brow The foot of the one transcendent Himalaya! 8-6-48 Page 65 ...
... Overhead Poetry Himalaya The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky But bring no tremor to my countenance: How shall sun-rise or moon-ebb lure, when I Have gripped the Eternal in a rock of trance? Here centuries lay down their pilgrim cry, Drowsed with the power in me to press my whole Bulk of unchanging peace upon the eye... expression and rhythm, I suppose, and its force of substance and image. As all these are there, I called it a fine poem. Here there is more power than subtlety—it is the power with which the image of Himalaya as the mountain soul of calm and aspiration and supereminent height is conveyed that makes it fine." Page 122 ...
... Wealth, banished for a year from his home & wife sends his imagination travelling on the wings of the northward-bound cloud over the sacred places, the great cities & rivers of India to the snowbound Himaloy and the homes of the Gods. There his mind sees his wife, breathes to her all its sorrow & longing and prays for an answering message. The love described may not be on the highest altitudes, but it ...
... Parvati, the lovely daughter of Himalaya, had set her eyes. This was not for the first time. She had been his from the beginning of time, in other lives, under other names. But in this birth as daughter of the Rocs, Shaila-ja, she once again had to seek Him and awaken his love and be recognised by Him as a part of Himself. She had grown up on the slopes of the Himalaya; she had heard the music of... heavenly creatures could almost be our brothers — but brothers belonging to a more refined, more beautiful, more conscious, more harmonious world than ours, a world in which even sadness is charming. Himalaya is successively and sometimes simultaneously described as mountain range and living god. Similarly in Parvati the human and divine features blend with an astounding ease. The great being that she... Kumarsambhava contains seventeen sargas or cantos, it is admitted by most critics that only the first eight cantos are from Kalidasa's hand. The poet opens the first sargas with a description of the Himalaya, "a god concealed in mountain majesty", recounts his union with Mena, "that mind-born child of the world-fathers" and the birth of their daughter, Parvati. We are told that Shiva has renounced marriage ...
... The Secret Splendour Still Water Still water, reverie's gymnast, standing even The Himalaya on its head! Occult-eyed seer To whom the depths are hidden heights and all Heaven is a prophecy floating in earth's heart! Magician laying the sky at man's frail feet, Yet by cool flattery flaming higher the ache Of the prisoner soul ...
... He draws it with a loud clang; He is the commander, He is the Voice, OM. Awake, O Word; awake, O wild Winds! Awake, O Tempests; awake, Lightning! Out of the ocean of the heart, awake, O Himalaya! Awake, O dancing Beauties of Heaven! Awake, O Supreme! O Supreme, awake, appear Upon the waters of the Deluge, O Mental Being – Man and Woman! Gouri Dharmapal Page 87 ...
... "she who has flowing motion". But even Saraswati is only an intermediary. Ganga is the real mother of inspiration, she who flows impetuously down from the head of Mahadev, God high-seated, over the Himalay of the mind to the homes and cities of men. All poetry is an inspiration, a thing breathed into the thinking organ from above; it is recorded in the mind, but is born in the higher principle of direct ...
... and virtue, like a man of fame and wealth, receives worship wherever he happens to be. Page 236 [15] The wise one shines from afar even like the snowy Himalaya, the unwise one is invisible like an arrow shot in the night. [16] One who sits alone, lies alone, walks alone untiringly, disciplining oneself all by oneself ...
... Greatness of earth—high mountain, ocean deep— God's solar zenith, watching it, shall find No difference 'twixt small thinker and huge mind! Between sea-level and the Himalaya's leap. Between shore-level and the Pacific's plunge, Full five miles stretch—five miles that ever sound Marvellous, the earth's sublime, the earth's profound, But a mere nought the ...
... Earth G reatnessof earth—high mountain, ocean deep— God's solar zenith, watching it, shall find No difference ' twixt small thinker and huge mind! Between sea-level andthe Himalaya's leap, Between shore-level and the Pacific's plunge, Full five miles stretch-five miles that ever sound Marvellous, the earth's sublime, the earth's profound, But a mere nought the ...
... mind), Smara (remembrance), Manmatha (the one who churns the mind), Madana (the one who intoxicates). 2. The daughter of the Mountain: Parvati means the daughter of Parvat, i.e. the mountain, Himalaya. Shailaja, another name for Parvati, means also the daughter of the rocs or of the mountain. 3 . Shirisha: One of the most beautiful Indian flowering trees (latin name: Albizzia lebbek). ...
... To which Vivekananda replied, "No, Shankara does not say so, but I, Vivekananda, say so", and the Pundit sank back amazed and speechless. That "I, Vivekananda" stands up to the ordinary eye like a Himalaya of self-confident egoism. But there was nothing false or unsound in Vivekananda's spiritual experience. This was not mere egoism, but the sense of what he stood for and the attitude of the fighter ...
... our flesh-form Sways like a weed in His enfolding storm. Page 425 SRI AUROBINDO COMMENT It is extremely fine and quite revealing and effective. * Himalaya The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky But bring no tremor to my countenance: How shall sun-rise or moon-ebb lure, when Have gripped the Eternal in a rock of trance? ... expression and rhythm, I suppose, and its force of substance and image. As all these are there, I called it a fine poem. Here there is more power than subtlety - it is the power with which the image of Himalaya as the mountain soul of calm and aspiration and supereminent height is conveyed that makes it fine." Page 426 II Whitenesses I have viewed many miracled ...
... Page 311 Gita, the, 5, 38, 68, 112 Greece , 103 Gundari, 258 Gupta, Robi, 192 HAMLET, 72 Heruka, 268 Himalaya , 237, 281n. Hiranyagarbha, 143, 256 Hugo, Victor, 191 ILIAD, 22 India , 10-12, 24-5, 57, 112, 189, 254 Indra, 134, 138, 144,203,272 ...
... journey has to be made all alone. The chariot will not go any further. I have been there and I have tried to tell you what it is all about. You have to develop your own wings to reach the foot of the Himalaya of the Unknown.' " What happens has been finely and correctly described here — it is true that we have to pass beyond poetry, acknowledging its high aid, yet also recognising its insufficiency for... rolling further is possible it can change its luminous locomotion and fly instead of rolling: it has wings as well as wheels and on its pinions it can bear us, if only we let it, to "the foot of the Himalaya of the Unknown" — nay, even to the crest of the Sacred Mountain! Page 18 ...
... in him outtop the sociological thinker? Does he shine brighter as a politician or as a poet? It is difficult to decide. Everywhere Mount Everest seems to face Mount Everest. But when we study this Himalaya of various extremes of height, the first eminence that strikes us is Sri Aurobindo the poet. Even in his teens the Muse had touched his lips and drawn from them the perfect note, at once exquisite ...
... the magnificence of superhuman poverty, and fitting into the powerful word-painting we find in a verse of J. C. Squire from his poem Rivers: And that aged Brahmapootra Who beyond the white Himalaya Passes many a lamissery On rocks forlorn and frore, A block of gaunt grey stone walls With rows of little barred windows Where shrivelled young monks in yellow silk Are ...
... neither pentametric fish, nor lyrical red herring. I have turned it into Alexandrines. "Once swayed an insolent hope unmeasured in my breast: That like bright snows high-heaped upon Himalay's crest Songs of my glory overflowing land and sea Would break in deathless floods through long Eternity." April 24, 1936 In one of your letters you spoke of fictitious stresses. What is meant... And where is the cost to be supplied from? Gratis—for the poor. I have composed a sort of a poem: "Once swayed unmeasured insolent hopes in my breast: Melting like snows heaped upon Himalaya-crest Songs of my glory would o'erflow land and sea In tempestuous floods bursting the limits of Eternity..." Too grandiloquent? Yes. But, man alive, what is the metre? It seems to be neither ...
... flesh-form Sways like a weed in His enfolding storm. SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT "It is extremely fine and quite revealing and effective." * Page 186 HIMALAYA The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky But bring no tremor to my countenance: How shall sun-rise or moon-ebb lure, when I Have gripped the Eternal in a rock of trance?... expression and rhythm, 1 suppose, and its force of substance and image. As all these are there, I called it a fine poem. Here there is more power than subtlety—it is the power with which the image of Himalaya as the mountain soul of calm and aspiration and supereminent height is conveyed that makes it fine." * Page 187 SKY- RIMS As each gigantic vision of sky-rim ...
... between the moderns and the ancients. For example, if a wasteland is taken for the subject-matter, then we do not look for the poet's account or his description of it as in the case of Kalidasa's Himalaya. If a wasteland could speak for itself, then the poet would be the organ of his speech, the poet could identify himself and be one with it. Similarly if 'hollow men' are the poet's theme, then we ...
... shows and high-sounding claims — the fanfares of what the Mother bluntly designated as "a humbug". No matter what may have attracted us in our days of ignorance, the moment the immaculate Himalaya of Sri Aurobindo rose up before us and the silvery Ganges of the Mother flowed down from it to our lowlands, all our work in the world should lie in giving ourselves to that Guardian Peace of the ...
... songs * In his earlier drafts and publications of the Baroda period, Sri Aurobindo spelt Indian proper names in their Bengali way of pronunciation: Yudhishthere, Arjoon, Cowshalya, Dussaruth, Himaloy, Menoca, etc., but I have usually given the current spelling so as not to cause undue puzzlement to the readers. Page 72 also came out in the same year. It is clear, however, that... of Urvasie; he is mistaken - Page 96 Me miserable! This was No anklets' cry embraceable with hands, But moan of swans who seeing the grey wet sky Grow passionate for Himalay's distant tarns. Well, be it so. But ere in far desire They leap up from this pool, I well might learn Tidings from them of Urvasie. 78 In Venkatanatha's Hamsa Sandesa too, Rama ...
... dreadful silence of the peaks and trod Regions as vast and lonely as his love. Then with a confident sublime appeal He to the listening summits stretched his hands: "O desolate strong Himalaya, great Thy peaks alone with heaven and dreadful hush In which the Soul of all the world is felt Meditating creation! Thou, O mountain. My bridal chamber wast. On thee we lay With... O mountains, with a heart Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch Towards your solemn summits kindred hands. Give back to me, O mountains, give her back." He ceased and Himalaya bent towards him, white. The mountains seemed to recognise a soul Immense as they, reaching as they to heaven And capable of infinite solitude. Long he, in meditation deep immersed ...
... be Dravidian in blood or, without assigning either an "Aryan" or "non-Aryan" origin, believe it to be homogeneous—omitting some islander types on the southern coast and the Mongoloid races of the Himalaya,—cannot be so lightly dismissed. The question is full of doubt and obscurity. The one thing that seems fairly established is that there were at least two types of culture in ancient India, the "Aryan" ...
... 603 Helena—Two Visions 702 Heloise 704 Her Changing Eyes 438 Here and Now 245 Hidden Apocalypt 336 Hierophantic 405 Himalaya 187 How? 456 I Bring a Song... 346 I Love Thee 479 Ideal 260 If I Became a Great Poet 747 Ilda 32 In Horis ...
... recalling Rigvedic deities - Suriash (sun-god, cf. Sanskrit Sūrya), Indas (cf. Sanskrit Indra), Maruttash (cf. Sanskrit Marutah, storm-gods), and are said to have had even the word Shimalia (Himalaya) meaning "queen of the mountains". In a subsequent section we shall touch on the precise provenance of these colonizing adventurers and their exact relation to the Rigveda. But it is obvious that ...
... Life-Poetry-Yoga (Vol 1) 10 I wonder what disturbed you so much. Earthquakes should be out of place in your life now unless they can bring up a Himalaya out of nowhere. Perhaps the meeting with a sadhak who can leave everything to the Mother was a Himalayan discovery. But can one really call this chap's condition Mount Everest? "Total reliance" on the Divine ...
... strong Himalaya, great Thy peaks alone with heaven and dreadful hush Page 104 In which the Soul of all the world is felt Meditating creation!... I come to you, O mountains, with a heart Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch Towards your solemn summits kindred hands. Give back to me, O mountains, give her back." 15 And the Himalaya "bent ...
... interpretation on the rights given them by their function, making mountains even out of what seems to us a mole-hill. A little trifling false step or mistake and they appear on the road and clap a whole Himalaya as a barrier across it. But this opposition has been permitted from of old not merely as a test or ordeal, but as a compulsion on us to seek a greater strength, a more perfect self-knowledge, an intenser ...
... both of them a prolonged flow from the inner and the higher being of ourselves - I should believe that what is at play is at once peace and power, serenity and felicity, Sri Aurobindo's imperturbable Himalaya getting mirrored in the Mother's gleaming and laughing Ganges. Perhaps this description could apply also to the prolonged flow of Savitri, at the same time a grandeur of sight and a subtlety ...
... inertia of matter, the other a reflection of the Spirit's changeless eternity. Within the former the latter is latent. When the latent becomes manifest you'll be able to say what a poem of mine on the Himalaya makes that mountain say: I have caught the Eternal in a rock of trance. Sri Aurobindo considered this line "superlative". Brood on it, let it live within you, evoke in yourself the truth of ...
... flash, another, and the vision burns Like lightning in the brain, so leaped that name Into the musing of the troubled king. Joyous he cried aloud and lashed his steeds: They, rearing, leaped from Himalaya high And trampled with their hooves the southern wind. But now a cry broke from the lovely crowd Of fear and tremulous astonishment; And they huddled together like doves dismayed Who see the... came To dreadful silence of the peaks and trod Regions as vast and lonely as his love. Then with a confident sublime appeal He to the listening summits stretched his hands: "O desolate strong Himalaya, great Thy peaks alone with heaven and dreadful hush In which the Soul of all the world is felt Meditating creation! Thou, O mountain, My bridal chamber wast. On thee we lay With summits towards... come to you, O mountains, with a heart Desolate like you, like you snow-swept, and stretch Towards your solemn summits kindred hands. Give back to me, O mountains, give her back." He ceased and Himalaya bent towards him, white. The mountains seemed to recognize a soul Immense as they, reaching as they to heaven And capable of infinite solitude. Long he, in meditation deep immersed, Strove to ...
... crookedness. In the Kena Indra, Agni & Vayu seek to know the supreme Brahman and their greatness is estimated by the nearness with which they “touched” him,—nedistham pasparsha. Uma the daughter of Himavan, the Woman, who reveals the truth to them is clearly enough no natural phenomenon. In the Brihadaranyaka, the most profound, subtle & mystical of human scriptures, the gods & Titans are the masters... mysterious and ill-understood Mastering Brahman, meets with the Woman in the heaven of things—tasminn evakashe striyam ajagama UmamHaimavatim, “In that same sky he came to the Woman, Uma, daughter of Himavan”,—that he is able to learn the thing which he seeks. The Stri, Page 36 the Aja or unborn Female Energy, is the executive Divinity of the universe, the womb, the mother, the bride, the mould ...
... it all. How much less this error would be if they had learnt at an early age to love truth so much that they would always seek it more and more. The King of Kumaon, in the region of the Himalaya mountains, was hunting one day on the hill of Almora, which at that time was covered by thick forest. A hare ran out of the thickets and the king began to chase it. But this hare suddenly changed ...
... make us relive within ourselves wholly what it creatively embodies, - the vision and the truth, the inner hearing, inner sight, inner taste and the intense awakened vibration, as in Amal's Himalaya: The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky But bring no tremor to my countenance: How shall sun-rise or moon-ebb lure, when I Have gripped the Eternal in a rock ...
... Wind-God. At the other end of the scale I am the radiant sun among lights and splendours, the moon among the stars of night, the ocean among the flowing waters, Meru among the peaks of the world, Himalaya among the mountain-ranges, Ganges among the rivers, the divine thunderbolt among weapons. Among all plants and trees I am the Aswattha, among horses Indra's horse Uchchaihsravas, Airavata Page ...
... soul-fulfilment for you. The Himalayan presence of Sri Aurobindo has given you the sense of reaching the end of all journeys. Your inmost being catches him saying (in words from a poem of mine where the Himalaya is vocal): Page 363 Here centuries lay down their pilgrim cry, Drowsed with the power in me to press my whole Bulk of unchanging peace upon the eye And weigh that vision ...
... 45-70, 95-106, 121, 125-6, 128-9 Hariyūpiyā, 125, 128-9 "Hatti", 89 Hermes, 74 Herodotus, 93 Hertel, 84 Herzfeld, E., 77, 82, 84 Hillebrandt, 110 Himalaya, 67 Hindu Kush, 85 Hindustan, 24 Hindu, The, i, 23fn., 30fn. Hissar, 7, 8, 68, 76 Historical Geography, 13-15 History of Sanskrit Literature, 38fn., 103, 119 ...
... and everything dances—the world is a miracle. It was dazzling, a wind of frosty powder on the blue crest of a mountain; and perhaps, a same breath up there, at the same moment, had enchanted that Himalaya... and my heart. Bhaskar-Nath arranged his chisels. The children were still chanting. I felt that I had lived blindly for thirty years in a flat photographic world, an exact world, minutely marked ...
... seeking her, imagining her or hints & tokens of her in everything he meets, but never grasping unless by some good chance he accept the Jewel Union born from the crimson on the marvellous feet of Himaloy's Child, Uma, daughter of the mountains, the Mighty Mother, She who is the Soul behind Nature. Then he is again united with her and their child is Ayus, human life & action glorified & ennobled by contact... philosophic & contemplative spirit, was alarmed for the balance of the world and the security of his own rule. He therefore sent the Opsaras to disturb the meditations of Naraian. Then upon the desolate Himalaya Spring set the beauty of his feet; the warm south wind breathed upon those inclement heights, blossoming trees grew in the eternal snow and the voice of the cuckoo was heard upon the mountain tops ...
... talking here of the young. This scolding was not necessarily expressed in words. She could make us feel without verbalising the awful weight of Her strong dissatisfaction. It was like the tremendous Himalaya. Every boy and girl of our time had a taste of this tremendous psychological pressure at some time or the other. Probably the adults did not totally escape this either. The Mother did not always express ...
... system. But the teacher would now need to change his style of functioning, adopting with conviction a new attitude towards his pupils and towards the aim of education itself. Knowledge is a whole Himalaya that has piled up during the millennia of ceaseless human inquiry, speculation and experimentation, and without the teacher's guidance the child may feel rather lost while journeying alone. The teacher ...
... varied aspiration. His work comes nearer to common humanity than that of his father Nicholas, though I must add that the latter's work was not really "cold" in spite of its preoccupation with the Himalaya any more than one can consider as really cold the presence of that mighty mountain that is like a vast guardian of the land that lies at its foot. If 1 have to talk in ultimate language, I may aver ...
... sociological thinker? Does he shine brighter as a politician or as a poet? It is difficult to decide. Everywhere Mount Everest seems to face Mount Everest. But when we study this Himalaya of various extremes of height, the first eminence that strikes us is Sri Aurobindo the poet. 85 The first, as also the last eminence; for, if Sri Aurobindo's earliest efforts ...
... dawned on you, my dear one! (16) Calmly deliberating with your ministers, friends and wise counsellors too, get through even your major concerns. (17) Splendour would sooner depart from the moon, the Himalaya mountain would sooner shed its snow and the ocean would sooner transgress its limits than I shall violate the plighted word of my father. (18) No matter whether (all) this was wrought by your mother... his preceptors, counsellors, subjects and two younger brothers (Bharata and Śatrughna, who were going to Ayodhyā), Śrī Rāma (the pro- moter of Raghu's race), who stood by his duty unshaken like the Himalaya mountain, sent them away. (30) His mothers, whose throats were choked with tears through agony, could not even speak to him. Greeting all his mothers, the celebrated Śrī Rāma too re-entered his hut ...
... turn and to be deficient in close and keen scrutiny. To characterise as merely pleasant the poetic intensity that is Sri Aurobindo's is to be perilously near the level of the flapper who called the Himalaya "so sweet" and the Falls of Niagara "so dinky". To talk of his being "derivative" is not only to forget the genius-touch that can Page 60 make all shadows of past masters part of ...
... Perhaps a better! ALURCA Yet consider this. Look back upon the endless godlike line. Think of Parikshith, Janamejoya, think Of Suthaneke, then on our Vuthsa gaze. Glacier and rock and all Himaloy piled! What eagle peaks! Now this soft valley blooms; Page 641 The cuckoo cries from branches of delight, The bee sails murmuring its low-winged desires. VASUNTHA It was to amuse... As make earth's shadows pale? or wilt thou have The infinite abysmal silences Made vocal, clothed with form? These things at birth The Kinnarie, Vidyadhur and Gundhurva Around me crowding on Himaloy dumb Gave to the silent god that lived in me Before my outer mind held thought. All these Page 679 I can make thine. VASAVADUTTA Vuthsa, I take all these, All thy life's ornaments ...
... to lay the outer ghost, so to speak, and deal practically with the limited symbol and evidence of his crime — the stained hands. Macbeth , however, is the Mount Everest of Shakespeare's Himalaya not only because, over and above the usual organic heat and constructive onrush, it has a more uniform poetic inspiration than anywhere else. The poetry and the drama now depict, with a keener vision ...
... morbid? Anyhow, it looks as if you have at least succeeded in putting some intellect in this brain-box of mine! Sri Aurobindo: Good heavens, what a gigantic forehead they have given you! The Himalaya and the Atlantic in one mighty brow! also, with the weird supramental light upon it! Well, well, you ought to be able to cross the Ass's Bridge with that. Or do you think the bridge will break down ...
... mixed with a hundred streams of her blood. पदा तुषाराद्रिमदीनसत्त्वं मृद्नन्तमन्ध्रानितरेण पौण्ड्रान्। प्रसारयन्तं करवालमुग्रं चीनावनौ पह्लवभूमिखण्डे ॥३६॥ Oppressing with one foot the invincible Himalaya, with the other the plains of Andhra and Paundra, he brandished a harsh sword over China and the land of the Pahlavas (Persia). खलं विशालं बलगर्वितं तं धर्मेण दृप्यन्तमधर्मबुद्धिम्। दृष्ट्वा ...
... serene in the minds and sensibilities of countless numbers of Indians. The blue flag figuring the great Indian subcontinent stretching from Kashmir to Sri Lanka, from Sind to Burma, environed by the Himalaya in the North, the Indian ocean in the South, the Arabian sea on the West and the Bay of Bengal in the East, and with the Mother's symbol of her Shakti, her four powers and her twelve emanations c ...
... of this transformation. There is, I think, a subtle relation between the birth and growth of Kalidasa's Parvati and that of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. Parvati is the Mother of the Universe bom as Himalaya's daughter. Mythologically she is divine. Yet when we read carefully about her birth and childhood, about her childish plays with her friends, about her youth the beauty of which Kalidasa describes... translations of a fragment of Kumārasaṃbhava . The first is in five-line rhymed stanzas, the other two are in blank verse. I shall take the rendering, from the second version, of a verse describing Himalaya. The original is: āmekhalaṃ saṇcaratāṃ ghanānāṃ chāyām adhaḥ-sānu-gatāṃ niśevya/ udvejitā vṛṣtibhir āsrayante śṛngāni yasyātapavanti siddhāḥ (1.5) Sri Aurobindo's ...
... one of the Himalayan foothills? Mussoorie, as you know, has beautiful memories for me. I'll reserve Ages in Chaos for your sojourn in sight of the eternal snows. Do you remember my poem in which the Himalaya finds tongue? The tides of gold and silver sweep the sky But bring no tremor to my countenance: How shall sun-rise or moon-ebb lure, when I Have gripped the Eternal in a ...
... latter-day Napoleon Bonaparte's - but these 'men of the moment' were but so many pathetic thistle downs at the mercy of every random gust of wind. But the people's sufferings in the mass were a whole Himalaya of pain, and yet instinct with a "sovereign beauty ... in the depth of this outer anguish". Perhaps this is the needed cracking of the 'human egg' for new life to step forth into the light of ...
... AUROBINDO'S VISION * Lights from Passages in Savitri We have said a good deal about Sri Aurobindo the Poet. And we have looked upon Savitri as the peak—or rather the many-peaked Himalaya—of Aurobindonian poetry. Also, in dealing with the supreme altitudes as well as the inferior heights we have given glimpses of the Poet's view of the poetic phenomenon both in its essence and in its ...
... VISION 1 LIGHTS FROM PASSAGES IN SAVITRI We have said a good deal about Sri Aurobindo the Poet. And we have looked upon Savitri as the peak - or rather the many-peaked Himalaya - of Aurobindonian poetry. Also, in dealing with the supreme altitude as well as the inferior heights we have given glimpses of the Poet's view of the poetic phenomenon both in its essence and ...
... Lights from Passages in Savitri We have said a good deal about Sri Aurobindo the Poet. And We have looked upon Savitri as the peak — or rather the many-peaked Himalaya — of Aurobindonian poetry. Also, in dealing with the supreme altitude as well as the inferior heights we have given glimpses of the Poet's view of the poetic phenomenon both in its essence and in ...
... 160-17. hemp, 316-17 Herodotus (Histories) 206, 314-19, 322, 325 hieroglyphics, 171 Hillebrandt, 253, 291, 297, 344, 374 Hilmand Civilization, 231 Himalaya, 189, 313 himavantah, 313 Hindu /Sindhu, 267 Hindukush, 282, 284 hiranya, 235-6 Hissar, 234, 311 History to Prehistory ..., by G.R. Sharma, 220, 250, ...
... peace. Whatever the difficulty or fear, it is removed in a flash and the body and mind are filled with a sense of confidence and total security. Such is Dada: offering protection like the unshakable Himalaya. The grieving and the afflicted have but to come and stand before him to receive that tremendous sense of solace. The young and the old, they all come to Dada with then- problems and complaints ...
... side by side. Though full of a transcendent beauty, she leaned towards us and put us at ease by her smiling all-giving grace. Sri Aurobindo, though near to us in the act of benediction, was like a Himalaya, a far height of all-transcending truth. In my dream the Mother was both herself and Sri Aurobindo. She re-enacted in her own person the old Darshans, suggesting in a sort of pre-view that in another ...
... snap—a Mussolini gone morbid? Anyhow, it looks as if you have at last succeeded in putting some intellect in this brain-box of mine! Good heavens, what a gigantic forehead they have given you! The Himalaya and the Atlantic in one mighty brow! also, with the weird supramental light upon it! Well, well, you ought to be able to cross the Ass's Bridge with that. Or do you think the bridge will breakdown ...
... assertions, saying: 'But Shankara does not say so'. Vivekananda replied: 'No, but I, Vivekananda, say so, and the Pundit was speechless. That 'I' Vivekananda' stands up to the ordinary eye like a Himalaya of self-confident egoism. But there is nothing false or unsound Page 163 in Vivekananda's spiritual experience. For this was not mere egoism, but the sense of what he stood for and ...
... flock. Here are the age-old towns that stand dreaming of the past glory: Ayodhya of Rama of the Raghus, Mathura and Vrindaban of Krishna, Sarnath of Buddha, Allahabad where Ganga the daughter of Himavan meets Yamuna the daughter of the Sun, Agra with its Tajmahal like a teardrop on the cheeks of Time. And here lies its brightest jewel, Benares, where Shiva the Godhead reigns as Vishwanath, the Lord ...
... be Dravidian in blood or, without assigning either an "Aryan" or "non-Aryan" origin, believe it to be homogeneous—omitting some islander types on the southern coast and the Mongoloid races of the Himalaya,—cannot be so lightly dismissed.... It distresses us to see Indian inquirers with their great opportunities simply following in the path of certain European scholars, accepting and adding to ...
... than our own, are whirling with indescribable speed at the beck of that Page 130 Ancient of Days whither none but He knoweth, and yet that they are a million times more ancient than your Himalaya, more steady than the roots of your hills and shall so remain until He at his will shakes them off like withered leaves from the eternal tree of the Universe. Imagine the endlessness of Time, realise ...
... , McCrindle's Ancient India, p. 162)" 2 and not to "the small state of Ch'in which later gave its name to the whole of China" nor to "early representatives of modern hill tribes (Shinas of the Himalaya or Chins of Burma)". 3 But "the name 'China' applied to the famous land can hardly be anterior to the first emperor of the Ch'in Dynasty (249-210 B.C.)". 4 A post-Megasthenes date is also suggested ...
... whole, and filling this present little fleeting second with an eternity of being. That is where we have taken our position, in that little clearing. It is our base, our crystal-clear retreat, our Himalaya of the boulevards, our tiny unalterable song. And finally we realize there is no need “to do” or “not to do,” to get involved or not, to want or not, to master; all we need is to be there, securely... not just to take stock of the world, but to lead the whole species to the zero point, to that supreme juncture where there is not a single jungle left to explore, not one sea to plumb, not one Himalaya, when soon not even an acre of ground will be left for our concrete and steel structures, when even the gods have been squeezed dry of all their juices and collect dust on the shelves of our libraries ...
... the Darshan. As soon as Dilip entered inside, I took my stand on the highest step and glimpsed Sri Aurobindo sitting majestically on a sofa slightly leaning against it — bright and immobile like the Himalaya. He was of a fair complexion and wore a white silk dhoti and chaddar ; the bust was half covered and the hair and beard mixed together hung down to the chest. As I came near what a serene, collected ...
... me... while walking down the street or drinking scotch if necessary! While doing... while living life, you know! Something that would fill me every second of the day and would depend neither on a Himalaya nor on a monk's garb! I wanted something not dependent on anything. And that's where that SWORD – that sword of light that Mother's gaze was – drew me back. Because that was not something that ...
... which Vivekananda replied: "No, Shankara does not say so, but I, Vivekananda, say so," and the Pundit sank back annoyed and speechless. That "\, Vivekananda," stands up to the ordinary eye like a Himalaya of self-confident egoism. But there was nothing false or unsound in Vivekananda's spiritual experience. This was not mere egoism, but the sense of what he stood for and the attitude of the fighter ...
... 486 The Aphsad inscription describes in very general and conventional terms the military achievements of the first three kings. The third king is said to have carried his arms to the Himalaya mountains as well as to the sea. But there is nothing to show whether these campaigns were undertaken by the Later Gupta rulers as feudatories on behalf of their suzerains or as independent chiefs... over Orissa as over Mālwā and further north, yet it would not be illogical to assume it. In the Aphsad Inscription, as Majumdar 2 recounts, their "third king is said to have carried his arms to the Himalaya mountains as well as to the sea". The concluding phrase is explained by another which mentions "the Lauhitya" or Brāhmaputra as the limit of his triumph in the seaward direction which "leaves little ...
... seriously. Surely, parts of India also were mountainous? We gather from Macdonell: 262 "Mountains are constantly mentioned in the Rigveda and rivers are described as flowing from them. The Himalaya ('abode of snow') range in general is evidently meant by the 'snowy' (himavantah) mountains which are in the keeping of the Creator [10, 21,4]." I do not think we have any reason to visualize ...
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