Hippogriff : or Hippogryph having a horse’s body & hind & a griffin’s head & wings.
... some ultimate Self without personal confines. The poetic expression is packed with symbols and visions straight from the spiritual planes: The face .Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Eremite, sole, daring the bourneless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below. Sun-realms of supernal seeing... creature inwardly lit by a lust for the Eternal's empyrean, "pale-blue-lined" and wearing a symbolic form to its own inner eye according to what aspect of the consciousness has winged upward: the hippogriff — half horse and half eagle — is a form of this kind and no arbitrary futuristic figuration. And the worlds explored by that dynamic denizen of the inner being are real, concrete, objective. Sri... mystical spheres that are contacted in their concrete substance and form by Sri Aurobindo's poetry. That substance and form need not be always a definite symbol, a walking out into our midst by a hippogriff; it can just as well be a particular state of consciousness conveyed vividly by the impact of words plucked from the unknown and the deific, as in Sri Aurobindo's phrase: My soul unhorizoned ...
... advance and indicate the flight through the worlds of Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, and Overmind. The hippogriff, the "fabulous griffin-like creature with body of horse", 83 naturally calls to our mind the Aswins of the Veda rising upward in the "wide-shinings of the Dawn"; and since the hippogriff is also a winged creature, it is seen affiliated to the hamsa, the golden-winged swans that carry... Overmind: Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Page 318 Eremite, sole, daring the bournless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss ...
... a bit of explanation? To what region does it belong? Is it any relation of the Bird of Fire with "gold-white wings" or the Hippogriff with a face "lustred, pale-blue-lined"? All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff was the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas. All that however is to mentalise too much ...
... the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with 'gold-white wings' or your Hippogriff with 'face lustred, pale-blue lined' ? And why do you write: 'What to say about him? One can only see'?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas ...
... is the dragon bird any relation of your Bird of Fire with 'gold-wings' or your Hippogriff with 'face lustred, pale-blue lined'? And why do you write: 'What to say about him? One can only see'?" Sri Aurobindo replied: "All birds of that region are relatives. But this is the bird of eternal Ananda, while the Hippogriff is the divinised Thought and the Bird of Fire is the Agni-bird, psychic and tapas ...
... His feet; They view all heaven's roses in a kingly nail That with one touch can shatter the Winged Rock Brooding upon the broken breast of Time. O Master of Dragon and of Hippogriff, Saviour of the luminous Toad's barbaric bass. Planter of the Column that is all life's cry From stone to utmost opal of ether's hush! O diamond telescope into the Inane, Deep ...
... > Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the white-gold seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Eremite, sole, daring the boumeless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Thought ...
... self-lost in the vasts of God. Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Eremite, sole, daring the bourneless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed below. Sun-realms of supernal seeing, Page 562 ...
... p of brain; It pours, a luminous sea from spirit heights. A tranquil splendour, waits my Force of Life Couched in my heart, to do what He shall bid, Poising wide wings like a great hippogriff On which the gods of the empyrean ride. My senses change into gold gates of bliss; An ecstasy thrills through touch and sound and sight Flooding the blind material sheath's dull ease: ...
... round His feet; They view all heaven's roses in a kingly nail That with one touch can shatter the Winged Rock Brooding upon the broken breast of Time. O Master of Dragon and of Hippogriff, Saviour of the luminous Toad's barbaric bass, Planter of the Column that is all life's cry From stone to utmost opal of ether's hush! O diamond telescope into the Inane, Deep ...
... condition of the poet in which these poems are written is described in Thought the Paraclete, who is seen by the poet as some bright arch-angle The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, 1 Savitri, pp. 1-2. (Editor's Note: The Savitri-text quoted here belongs to the cantos that had appeared in the Ashram periodicals prior to 1949.) Page 409 Eremite ...
... Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred, pale-blue-lined of the hippogriff, Page 632 Eremite, sole, daring the bourneless ways, Over world-bare summits of timeless being Gleamed; the deep twilights of the world-abyss Failed ...
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