Hound of Heaven : by Francis Thompson, it depicts God’s pursuit of human souls.
... created is living. But why not leave out my poetry? If you want examples I gave you that of the Hound of Heaven and you may add Chesterton's Lepanto . Disciple : X says that if there is poetic force, it will be felt. I told him that everybody may not feel the force; the Hound of Heaven, for instance, won't be appreciated by everybody. Sri Aurobindo : Not by jana sādhārana... great poet because he has written one poem the Hound of Heaven which is great ? Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by "great”? At any rate it is a great poem and one who has written great poem is a "great" poet. Disciple : Perhaps if you take into account the mass of his work he may not appear great. But in his Hound of Heaven he has achieved the summit of poetic art and it... possible to serve it by going down to its level. 17-1-1940 (The talk centred round Tagore's letter to Nishikanta concerning poetry.) Sri Aurobindo : Take Francis Thompson's Hound of Heaven. Everybody does not understand it : does it follow that Thompson is not a great poet? Or take the Upanishads. They deal with one subject only and have one strain : can we say, therefore, that ...
... NIRODBARAN: Dilip asks whether Francis Thompson can be called a great poet. SRI AUROBINDO: Here, again, we must ask: what is meant by "great"? At any rate, Thompson has written one great poem, "The Hound of Heaven", and he who writes a great poem is necessarily great. NIRODBARAN: Dilip does admit that he has written a great poem. SRI AUROBINDO: But he holds, I suppose, that the writer is still a small... great. "Greatness" too can be variously defined. NIRODBARAN: I can only say that poets like Shakespeare are great. Also Wordsworth and Shelley can be called great poets. PURANI: Through "The Hound of Heaven" Thompson has expressed a whole life-experience and has achieved the summit of art while doing so. Considering these two points I think he must be called great. SRI AUROBINDO: I may add that... mere snatches. Still, she is hailed as a great poet. So there can be no fixed standard by which one can judge the greatness of a poet. As to Thompson and Wilde and Chesterton, I believe "The Hound of Heaven" is greater than any poem by the last two. ...
... The Secret of the Veda Chapter XX The Hound of Heaven There yet remain two constant features of the Angiras legend with regard to which we have to acquire a little farther light in order to master entirely this Vedic conception of the Truth and the discovery of the illuminations of the Dawn by the primeval Fathers; we have to fix the identity of Sarama... goddess by whom the Panis are attracted and whom they desire as their sister,—not as a dog to guard their cattle, but as one who will share in the possession of their riches. The image of the hound of heaven is, however, exceedingly apt and striking and was bound to develop out of the legend. In one of the earlier hymns we have mention indeed of a son for whom Sarama "got food" according to an ancient ...
... I have not read the other later poets of the decline. Of subsequent writers or others not belonging to this decline I know only A. E. and Yeats, something of Francis Thompson, especially the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God , and a poem or two of Gerard Hopkins; but the last two I came across very late, Hopkins only quite recently, and none of them had any influence on me, although one English... temperamental turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God , its limitation by his approach towards Paradise Lost . I think he would be naturally inclined to regard any very high-pitched poetry as rhetorical and unsound and d ...
... have not read the other later poets of the decline. Of subsequent writers or others not belonging to this decline I know only A. E. and Yeats, something of Francis Thompson, especially the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, and a poem or two of Gerald Hopkins; but the last two I came across very late, Hopkins only quite recently, and none of them had any influence on me, although one English... tal turn is shown by his special appreciation of Francis Thompson and Coventry Patmore and his response to Descent and Flame-Wind and the fineness of his judgment when speaking of the Hound of Heaven and the Kingdom of God, its limitation by his approach towards Paradise Lost. I think he would be naturally inclined to regard any very high-pitched poetry as 12 Ibid., p. 582 ...
... mind and the Vedic hound of heaven, who Page 93 was associated in my memory with the Argive Helen and represented only an image of the physical Dawn entering in its pursuit of the vanished herds of Light into the cave of the Powers of darkness. When once the clue is found, the clue of the physical Light imaging the subjective, it is easy to see that the hound of heaven may be the intuition ...
... or into the symbol of the labyrinth.. . 36 There are, of course, two terms to every symbol, and these are equated; on the one side there is the visible image or sign (the Sun, the Hound of Heaven, the Cross, the Swastika, the quincunx), and on the other side the idea or force that the image or sign is meant to signify. "The condition for the valid use of symbolic language is", writes W... dramatic symbol like the Lord himself driving Arjuna's chariot through the embattled hosts on the field of Kurukshetra, a religious symbol like the Cross, a hunting symbol like the Hound Page 270 of Heaven pursuing the frightened sinner, a dialectical symbol like Savitri vanquishing Yama, are all vivid and vague at once, vivid and therefore fixed in the mind, vague and therefore ...
... (Looking at Purani) It is for Purani to pronounce. NIRODBARAN: He also thinks your "Shiva" has it. SRI AUROBINDO: Why not leave my poetry out of it? If you want examples, there is "The Hound of Heaven", as I have said, and there is Chesterton's "Lepanto". They have the creative force. NIRODBARAN: What about Arjava (J. Chadwick)? SRI AUROBINDO: He has none. EVENING SRI AUROBINDO:... I didn't have any sly intention. We only want to grasp the point clearly. PURANI: Nirodbaran says that if there is poetic force, it will be felt; I say that not everybody will feel it. "The Hound of Heaven" won't be appreciated by all. NIRODBARAN: By "everybody" if you mean the masses, of course not. But I meant that a poet or a literary man who has a taste for poetry will feel the force there ...
... called a great poet. SRI AUROBINDO: Haven't we already dealt with this question? All depends on the poem. If a poet has written a few perfect lyrics he can be called great. Francis Thompson's "Hound of Heaven" makes him great. We spoke also of Sappho and Simonides. NIRODBARAN: Yes, I told Dilip about Sappho and about the fragments Simonides wrote. SRI AUROBINDO: Simonides did not write fragments... great in his works. The others are no good. Can we call him a great poet? SRI AUROBINDO: Oh! that Govind Das! I have read some of his poems. But, I don't think this poem is as great as The Hound of Heaven . NIRODBARAN: When I said that Petrarch is considered second in greatness to Dante, Dilip replied "That may be, but surely there is a vast difference between their greatnesses." SRI AUROBINDO:... Yes. Both Browning and Tennyson ranked as great—they were just below Shakespeare and Milton. But can Browning be taken to be a greater poet than Thompson? Has he any single poem as great as "The Hound of Heaven"? NIRODBARAN: Satyendra Dutt was also called a great poet once. SRI AUROBINDO : Is he equal to Browning? NIRODBARAN: Dilip says English critics don't think of Thompson as a great poet ...
... figured thought, "Intuition by the way of the Truth arrives at the hidden illuminations." Lacking the clue, we wander into ingenuities about the Dawn and the Sun or even imagine in Sarama, the hound of heaven, a mythological personification of some prehistoric embassy to Dravidian nations for the recovery of plundered cattle! And the whole of the Veda is conceived in such images. The resultant obscurity... ever imprisoned Page 368 in the darkling cave of the Lords of the sense-life or whether they await in their luminous world the hour when the Maruts shall again drive abroad and the Hound of Heaven shall once again speed down to us from beyond the rivers of Paradise and the seals of the heavenly waters shall be broken and the caverns shall be rent and the immortalising wine shall be pressed ...
... rose in my mind and the Vedic hound of heaven, who was associated in my memory with the Argive Helen and represented only an image of the physical Dawn entering in its pursuit of the vanished herds of Light into the cave of the Powers of darkness. When once the clue is found, the clue of the physical Light imaging the subjective, it is easy to see that the hound of heaven may be the intuition entering ...
... Eternity. What, however, was still imprecise in him Thompson made clear and definite. Shelley's Intellectual Beauty with its awful command to his daimon from behind the veil became to Thompson the Hound of Heaven, a tremendous Lover with a grip as of flesh. What in a more personal mood Shelley had pictured, in the colourful transports running through Epipsychidion , as his all-consummating Archetype come... fastness casts to light Its learning multitudes, that from every height Unfurl the flaming of a thousand dreams. Even the Thompson who hurls forth the opening rhythms of The Hound of Heaven — I fled Him down the nights and down the days; I fled Him down the arches of the years; 1. I take this and the preceding quotation after Mr. M é groz who also discusses Shelleyan ...
... SRI AUROBINDO (After keeping silent for a while) : It really comes to this: "You can't be a great poet unless you write like me!" (After a short pause) Take, for instance, Francis Thompson's "Hound of Heaven". How many people understand and appreciate it? Does it follow that Thompson is not a great poet? Milton is not understood by many. He is not a great poet then? NIRODBARAN: Tagore doesn't raise... oneself to a single theme is that its appeal becomes circumscribed and not universal. SRI AUROBINDO: Do you mean to say that poetry is understood and appreciated by all? How many appreciate "The Hound of Heaven"? PURANI: That is the modern socialistic theory. These Socialist poets say poetry must be understood by the masses. They say Spender is very popular. SRI AUROBINDO: Popular? I thought these ...
... brings up a convincing picture of life, sets before us a whole living situation of the Spirit. "Expressive" is just that which communicates feeling, vision or experience. In Francis Thompson's "Hound of Heaven", for instance, you get a true creative picture. Blake was often confused and was a failure when he tried to be creative in his prophetic poems. NIRODBARAN: You wrote to X that where life is... and greater creative force. Why not be satisfied with that? NIRODBARAN: What precisely did you say about creative poetry? SRI AUROBINDO: That a complete picture of life is given. Thus "The Hound of Heaven" brings intensely before us the picture of the life of a man when pursued by God. SATYENDRA: Thompson had some experience of what he has written. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, yes. NIRODBARAN: It ...
... have faith and to be faithful, or the other way: to love the Divine, and love Him alone. Or you can love others, young friends, but love Him at the same time. But, for some of us, He's the 'Hound of Heaven' - "All things 276 I shall deliver you from all sins, do not grieve. (18.66) Page 227 betray thee, who betrayest Me." 277 He keeps watch over us all the time. As I said... shoulder, and had to be operated upon several times, but not being identified with the body and living in the Self, he was able to remain indifferent to all of it. 277From the poem "The Hound of Heaven" by Francis Thompson (1859-1907). What it means in this context is that if the soul is ready within, but the outer nature is not, conditions of life get arranged in such a way that it appears ...
... asmākebhiḥ nṛbhiḥ , "by our men". Strengthened by them he conquers in the journey and reaches the goal, nakṣad-dābhaṁ taturim . This journey or march proceeds along the path discovered by Sarama, the hound of heaven, the path of the Truth, ṛtasya panthāḥ , the great path, mahas pathaḥ , which leads to the realms of the Truth. It is also the sacrificial journey; for its stages correspond to the Page 183 ...
... figured thought, "Intuition by the way of the Truth arrives at the hidden illuminations."* Lacking the clue, we wander into ingenuities about the Dawn and the Sun or even imagine in Sarama, the hound of heaven, a mythological personification of some prehistoric embassy to Dravidian nations for the recovery of plundered cattle! 41 August, 1915 That stupendous effort [of Western materialism ...
... things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute ...
... memories!) English poetry is chockful of both economical and lavish wonders. Francis Thompson's In No Strange Land may be rated economical but can anybody apply the same epithet to his Hound of Heaven? I don't know whether you have dipped into William Watson, a wrongly neglected poet according to me. He can bring a memorable economy wedded to a striking vision of la condition humaine: ...
... the Page 207 operation of the Grace. Has Rajneesh never heard of the overwhelming appearance of Christ to the anti-Christian Paul on the road to Damascus? Has he never read "The Hound of Heaven"? Again, what does he mean by saying that the Divine will descend only if man ascends? What is the need of the descent if the ascent is accomplished and the Divine reached? Rajneesh writes: "Mankind's ...
... reminiscent of the dog-world: that gripping Grace without which none can hope to be even within ten thousand miles of the Supermind can best be designated, after the poet Francis Thompson, as the Hound of Heaven, a Power which is all the time after us with a hound's tenacity in order to save us in spite of ourselves! More prosaically but still pointedly we may declare that we shall reach the Super-mind ...
... race to which the Infinite and the Eternal is the very life-breath. All that responds rapturously in the English poets to the One that is everywhere, all that bears a thrilled instinct of the Hound of Heaven, all that leaps colorfully to the Immortal Beauty in its world-wandering, all that is a flaming contact with the Divine Dweller within and with the hidden realms of the Gods is raised to a rare ...
... "him", 17-19,27,43,44,69.108, 110 Hell, 65 Hermetica, 28,170,171,176,193,209, 219 Holy Ghost, The; Holy Spirit, The, 50, 148,224 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 50,185 Hound of Heaven, The, 73 Human Abstract, The, 57, 232 "Human Imagination, The", 70, 152 Illustrations of the Book of Job, 236 Imagination, 4,147-49,152,153 Isaiah, 47,48, 104 ...
... col. 1. 7. Mohenjo-daro and the Indus Civilization (London, 1967), I , pp. 110 ff. Page 38 streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering and distribute ...
... singers of the sacred chant, and fighters in the battle. Strengthened by them he conquers during the journey and reaches the goal. The journey proceeds along the path discovered by Sarama, the hound of heaven, the intuitive power that sees that path directly, the path of the Truth, ritasya panthah, the great path, mahas panthah, which leads to the realms of the Truth. The drinking of the soma ...
... first, and there are five powers of truth-consciousness: mahi or bharati vast word; Ila, the power of revelation; Saraswati, the power of inspiration; Sarama, the power of intuition, the hound of heaven, who descends into the cavern of the subcosncient and finds from there hidden illuminations; and dakshina, the power to discern rightly, to dispose the action and the offering and to distribute ...
... Your offer is a tempting one, but I regret that I cannot answer it in the affirmative. It is due to you, that I should state explicitly my reasons. 115Francis Thompson, "The Hound of Heaven", Poems (1909). 116When Sri Aurobindo used to live in the Guest House. Page 78 In the first place I am not prepared at present to return to British India. This ...
... behind a veil. Suddenly, one day, arrived a printed copy of Conversations with the Mother with the Mother's blessings written on it. I was then in Burma [now renamed as Myanmar]. See how the "hound of heaven" 238 pursues! I was exceedingly surprised. A revelation! "She remembers me!" was my delightful surprise. But nothing more; for, even then, I was a man of the world and no inner change had taken ...
... admission of God's longing for His other self, can provide a solution of celestial history and, through it, of the destinies of both man and the world." 32 There is, for example, the symbol of the Hound of Heaven, which Francis Thompson has Page 267 turned into a wonderful poem. In the Rig Veda, there are references to Sarama and the Sarameya, her two dogs; some pursuit is implied ...
... unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the Hound of Heaven down the corridors of Time, and yet it will be caught in the end and wholly transmuted in the divine embrace into the substance of the Divine Himself. All the unwillingness and protestation and ...
... They are his messengers, "they move widely and delight in power and possess the vast strength." The Vedic Rishis pray to them for Power and Bliss and for the vision of the Sun.1 There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer. My suggestion is that the dog is ...
... that is the god in this region of the vital functions. The Vedas speak of the purifying streams of the Sindhus and the Srotas; they speak of the underground stream of rasa which Sarama, the Hound of Heaven, crossed to come over to our earth. Water, in fact, does the work appropriate to this region. It is the vital region in man and consists of functions attached to the vital activities. The vital ...
... s and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying soul for solution. ¹"The Hound of Heaven" Page 143 A modern Neo-Brahmin, Aldous Huxley, has given a solution of the problem in his now famous Shakespearean apothegm, "Time must have a stop". That is an old-world solution ...
... compulsive force, and the vibrations of this poetry - if they have potency enough - penetrate the mental and vital sheaths and reach the sahrdaya's soul. A poem like Francis Thompson's The Hound of Heaven makes on the reader an impact that is not capable of precise intellectual formulation. And this applies even more to Sri Aurobindo's Thought the Paraclete, Rose of God and other poems. These ...
... herds of the Sun for ever imprisoned in the darkling cave of the Lords of the sense-life or whether they await in their luminous world the hour when the Marut shall again drive abroad and the Hound of Heaven shall once again speed down to us from beyond the rivers or Paradise and the seals of the heavenly waters be broken and the cavern shall be rent and the immortalising wine shall be pressed out ...
... of Heaven, the Mother of radiance, heaven-gold her hue, the sweet-spoken Usha, is beloved of all. The whole clan of gods rallied round her in her moment of distress. Sarama, the Intuition, the Hound of Heaven was there. So was Agni, the Seer-Will. Indra, dark as the rain-clouds, came armed with his thunderbolt; the Maruts, his forty-nine brothers, closed ranks with him. The Ash wins, the Riders of the ...
... things out of the divine source; Ila, the strong primal word of the Truth who gives us its active vision; Saraswati, its streaming current and the word of its inspiration; Sarama, the Intuition, hound of heaven who descends into the cavern of the subconscient and finds there the concealed illuminations; Page 381 Dakshina, whose function is to discern rightly, dispose the action and the offering ...
... hearts and minds and with wide-open eyes understands that the building of God's body on earth is the whole purpose of existence Then we get the via mystica, the Inner Life, the pursuit by the Hound of Heaven, God-intoxication, Page 86 Yoga — but all this with a view to earth's transfiguration and not earth's rejection. So different in its intensity from our habitual aims is the ...
... Thompson's, the symbols of Sri Aurobindo take on a direct life, become themselves mystical states of being and consciousness instead of their hints and echoes. Thompson takes five lines to give us his Hound of Heaven: Still with unhurrying chase, Page 91 And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, Came on the following Feet, And a Voice above their beat ...
... Amal wrote on 9.5.81: Page 236 Your work for Puratattva seems to have no end. You are a very patient fellow. In more eulogistic terms I should say a dogged one - a kind of Hound of Heaven where a worthwhile quarry is involved. At this time he seems to have been afflicted with severe back pain, for he writes: Unfortunately my back has not benefited - and I don't ...
... in it the whole enigma of human life with its agonies and torments seeking refuge in temporary joys and supports, ultimately recognising the Divine pursuer in the fearsome mask of the eternal Hound of Heaven. We suffer because we flee From those strong Feet that followed, followed after. But with unhurrying chase, And unperturbed pace, Deliberate speed, majestic instancy, ...
... easy task. Leave it to us, we shall do it.” Later, on the day fixed by the Mother, Amrita, Purushottam and I presented ourselves before her in the verandah upstairs. Mother called Amrita 'the Hound of Heaven'; she often did some of her occult work through Purushottam. 1 When we three went upstairs we found Mother seated in Sri Aurobindo's chair. She looked very different that day, really magnificent ...
... (1622 - 1695). A Welsh metaphysical poet and mystic. Crashaw, Richard (1613 -1649). English poet of metaphysical inspiration. Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907): English poet, author of "Hound of Heaven". 54. Blake, William (1757 -1827). English poet, painter and mystic. 55. Esha: Maya's daughter. 56. Adhar Das: a Professor of Philosophy at Calcutta University. 57. The typed ...
... There was that powerful insight into the Divine Nature and its strange dealings with the world, which might be considered to have flashed out to Francis Thompson the "majestic instancy" of his Hound of Heaven : "And lo! Thou pressing at the heel of those who are fleeing from Thee. God of Vengeance and yet Fountain of Pity, who turnest us back to Thee in various ways." At the other end of the A ...
... unmistakable on whatever plane and in whatever personality it may shimmer through the veil of articulate sound. On a congenial level of manifestation it bursts upon us in the "majestic instancy" of a Hound of Heaven; it is, however, none the less present, irradiating the Page 66 ordinary rhythm of life, in an utterance of such exquisitely decadent despair as Je suis comme le roi ...
... wonderful chariot, twins also, saviours of Bhujyu from the ocean, ferriers over the great waters, brothers of the Dawn, and Helen very possibly the Dawn their sister or even identical with Sarama, the hound of heaven, who is, like Dakshina, a power, almost a figure of the Dawn. But in either case there has been a farther development by which these gods or demigods have become in vested with psychological functions ...
... steal from us the Rays of the illumined consciousness, those brilliant herds of the sun, and pen them up in the cavern of the subconscient, in the dense hill of matter, corrupting even Sarama, the hound of heaven, the luminous intuition, when she comes on their track to the cave of the Panis. But the conception of this hymn belongs to a stage in our inner progress when the Panis have been exceeded and ...
... A percipient friend 1 opines: "I think the second part of the last line means some sudden shock to our ordinary career, which turns us to the spiritual life. 'Surprised' suggests the 'Hound of Heaven': Sri Aurobindo always uses 'surprised' in its original sense 'to be caught from behind'. At the stage of philosophical and spiritual development, when he wrote the poem, he could not have said ...
... s dictum and call Paradise Lost a poem which influenced Blake more than any other writing, the Bible included. Page 72 (b) According to a critic, Francis Thompson's Hound of Heaven must have been born from a phrase flashed out by St. Augustine nearly fifteen centuries earlier in his Confessions: 65 " Et ecce tu, imminens dorso fugitivorum, Deus ultionis et fons misericordium ...
... colour in its rocket-like leap into the heaven of heavens, Wordsworth's Immortality Ode may be richer and more varied in the roll of its harmony towards the vision splendid, The Hound of Page 34 Heaven may carry itself on a more passionate torrent of religious imagery, but to see language stride like an imperturbable Colossus from pinnacle to pinnacle of thought stark, as it were ...
... an island. Seshadri said about the poem "Revelation" that the girl spoken of there must be somebody I came across on the Pondicherry beach! (Laughter) PURANI: What would he say about "The Hound of Heaven" then? An ordinary dog? SATYENDRA: That is not interesting. SRI AUROBINDO: There is nothing about my life here. It is all about my poetry, also the poetry of Tagore, Das, Monomohan, etc. ...
... while the “poetic mind demands a variety of tunes.”] Sri Aurobindo: It really comes to this: “You can’t be a great poet unless you write like me!”…Take, for instance, Francis Thompson’s Hound of Heaven. How many people understand and appreciate it? Does it follow that Thompson is not a great poet? Milton is not understood by many. He is not a great poet then?… What does it matter if there is ...
... Tantras, the, 28-9, 165 Terence, 239n The Eternal Wisdom, 131 Theocritus, 86 . The Times Literary Supplement, 62n., 126n Thibon, Gustave, 126-7 Thompson, Francis, 143 -"The Hound of Heaven", 143n Times, 127 Titan, 97, 159 Turkey, 284 UCHATHYA, 163 Uma,170 United Nations Organization, 263 Upanishads, the, 6, 8-9, ll-12, 15, 23, 25-30, 35, 37, 39-40, 50, 53, 57 ...
... we must note that the poet is a woman. She calls herself kukkuri. But why of all names a "bitch"? Well, she is in good company. One remembers the Vedic Sarama or Sarameya. The West too has its Hound of Heaven. Only the term here has been put in its vernacular form. Anyhow it is a yogini who embodies or represents the divine Being, nairatma devi, as the Buddhist commentator says. The opening ...
... his messengers, "they move widely and delight in power and possess the vast strength." The Vedic Rishis pray to them f or Power and Bliss and f or the vision of the Sun.¹ There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer. My suggestion is that the dog is ...
... apas, that is the god in this region of the vital functions. The Vedas speak of the purifying streams of the Sindhus and the Srotas; they speak of the underground stream of rasa which Sarama, the Hound of Heaven, crossed to' come over to our earth. Water, in fact, does the work appropriate to this region. It is the vital region in man and consists of functions attached to the vital activities. The vital ...
... That is a sea of silence and of salt, but the cry of the wild storm-bird is not there. * * * In the dark woodlands of our nature animals rush about. Someone is chasing them. A hound of heaven, a falcon of the sky is after its prey. There are hidden bushes, grottoes, secret holes and corners that shelter my favourite animals. But to the secret luminous eye the soild walls of the shelter ...
... somewhere within. That is a sea of silence and of salt, but the cry of the wild storm-bird is not there. In the dark woodlands of our nature animals rush about. Someone is chasing them. A hound of heaven, a falcon of the sky is after its prey. There are hidden bushes, grottoes, Page 67 secret holes and comers that shelter my favourite animals. But to the secret luminous eye ...
... of English poetry reveals that not only poets like Blake and others in the past have resorted to the symbol but that many of the modem poets have used it effectively. Francis Thom- son's The Hound of Heaven is symbolic of the Divine Love pursuing insistently its victim, the human soul. W. B. Yeats and AE in their poems and dramas make profuse use of ancient Irish legends which are symbolic: Deirdre ...
... goddess of learning and Ila, mother of the Lunar dynasty. But Sarama was familiar enough. I was unable, however, to establish any connection between the figure that arose in my mind and the Vedic hound of heaven, who was associated in my memory with Argive Helen and represented only an image of the physical Dawn entering in its pursuit of the vanished herds of Light into the cave of the Powers of darkness ...
... inevitably lead to the climactic "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"—is Rudra the fierce also Shiva the serene and auspicious? The last lines but feebly echo the first; as in Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, here too the chase of discovery is over; the wheel has come full circle; the revelation is complete. Turner and Blake both write about the Tiger; but one is the creation of the vital or mental ...
... leave it quite alone in my half-dead fleshly birth. 124 Sri Aurobindo clinches the point in a sentence: "He who chooses the Infinite has been chosen by the Infinite." 125 It is the Hound of Heaven, and Love is another name of this celestial Hound, that runs the quarry to its ultimate cave of awakening and acceptance. It was this Hound that drove Dante on and on till he came to the immediate ...
... Vayu is the Lord of Life. Saraswati represents śruti (truth-audition), Ila represent a drsti (truth-vision), and Mahi (or Bharati) the largeness of the truth-consciousness. Sarama the 'Hound of Heaven' and her dogs, the Sarameya, have their symbolic overtones too. These dogs... range as the messengers of the Lord of the Law among men.... Page 457 Whether Sarama figures ...
... whole cohort of the usurpers : the dualizers, obstructors, tearers, and COVERERS. But the "divine worker," Agni , is aided by the gods and led in his quest by the "intuitive ray," Saramā , the hound of heaven with a subtle sense of smell, who puts him on the track of the "stolen herds" (strange herds, these "shining herds"). At times a fleeting dawn breaks forth, then all grows dim again. It is a slow ...
... so, it is unwise to be dogmatic about the paths or the techniques. For one thing, "it is not always the wisest who goes fastest" and more truly still, "the Grace is upon all". Grace is like the Hound of Heaven, who is always after us; it is we who do the running away from it. But if we will follow the lead of Grace, or at least let it take us in hand, we cannot possibly miss our goal. Page 621 ...
... means "sound", "noise" as in "rumour of the sea". 28. "Its thorns of fallen nature are the defence It turns against the saviour hands of Grace" Compare Francis Thomson's "The Hound of heaven". Page 139 CANTO - I "The gesture must be "Slow Miraculous"—.If it is merely miraculous or merely slow that does not create a picture of the thing as it is, but ...
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.