... true ideal of the country, its true mission in the world. The thinking elite in India even identifies her with one of the aspects of the universal Mother, as the following extract from the Hymn to Durga illustrates: "Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength,... we, born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen, O Mother, descend upon... needlessly increasing your sufferings and your difficulties. Bulletin, November 1952 Page 47 × Hymn to Durga , translated by Sri Nolini Kanta Gupta from Sri Aurobindo's Bengali original. ...
... Congress, 292; on village samitis, 292; on 'Back to the Land', 292; on India under foreigner's māyā, 294; on true unity, 294; on Moderates' Convention, 294ff; on the new & the old politics, 297; 'Hymn to Durga', 298; 'The Parable of Sati', 299; on the Tuticorin & Tinnevelly disturbances, 300; on sanatoria dharma, 301, 334-5,345,351,359,389,390; on India, Asia & the world, 302-3; "Public Enemy No. One"... social life, 479; the Kingdom of God, 480; the coming spiritual age,480, 490, 658, 751 Huta, 684H, 690, 753 Huxley, Aldous, 417, 423, 694 Hydari,SirAkbar,579,730 Hymn to Durga' (Durga Stotra), 298, 786 Hymns to the Mystic Fire, 455ff Ibsen, Henrik, 79 Ideal of Human Unity, The, 404, 470ff; the problem of 'collective man', 481; beyond group ...
... time. The athletics and sports of July-August were followed by the eighth anniversary of the School which began on 1 December 1951, and the celebrations included recitations of Sri Aurobindo's Hymn to Durga and from the Mother's Prayers, as also a dance-rendering of her "Radha's Prayer". Then came the 5th December, and the interim from 5th to 9th, recalling the time of Sri Aurobindo's body lying... certainly the idea was not foreign to the people of India: The thinking elite in India even identifies her with one of the aspects of the universal Mother, as the following extract from the Hymn to Durga illustrates: "Mother Durga! Rider on the lion, giver of all strength,... we, born from thy parts of Power, we the youth of India, are seated here in thy temple. Listen, O Mother, descend ...
... a settlement as soon as there is an opportunity by conceding their reasonable demands. * * * 18.6.72 Pierre wished Mother to touch a card of extracts from Sri Aurobindo's Hymn to Durga by way of blessings. Mother blessed it. Ruudi, a Dutchman, wanted to know if he should be here or go- Mother said, "It is for oneself to choose, how can I choose? One has to choose... Navaratra at Matrimandir. Mother said 'Alright'. I informed her that the idea is that near the Matrimandir Workshop the place should be cleaned, Durga's picture be installed and Sri Aurobindo's 'Hymn to Durga' be recited. Mother nodded approval. When asked for further guidance or if she has to say more about it, she said, "Nothing." * * * 27.9.72 "Mother, I have nothing to ...
... continued to work in and for the school. All the while his admiration for and faith in Sri Aurobindo grew. He even started “Japa”, i.e. repeating Sri Aurobindo’s name in the evenings. He read “Hymn to Durga” but was not sure he understood it. At that time he read an article on Hathayoga, but concluded that it was not an indispensable part of the yoga Sri Aurobindo practised (during His imprisonment) ...
... we the youth of India, are seated here in Thy temple. Listen, O Mother; descend upon earth, make Thyself manifest in this land of India . Sri Aurobindo, Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit: Hymn to Durga ...
... Kalidasa ; The Brainof India; Essays from the Karmayogin; Art and Literature; Passing Thoughts; Conversations of the Dead. Volume 4 Writings in Bengali: Hymn to Durga; Poems; Stories; The Veda; The Upanishads; The Puranas; The Gita; Dharma; Nationalism; Editorials from Dharma; Stories' of Jail Life; Letters. Volume 5 Collected ...
... 396, 410-1 The Iron Dictators 396 The Dwarf Napoleon 397, 405 In the Battle 406 Perseus the Deliverer 406 Collected Poems and Plays 429 Assignation with the Night 490 Hymn to Durga 535, 539, 706 The Blue Bird 595 The Descent of Ahana 650 Ilion 680 Savitri 265, 387-93, 449, 491, 501, 615, 701, 793 Aswapathy and the Avatar 184-5 Night and Dawn 333, 812 ...
... in the physical world. She delivers us from tyrants: that is the aspect in which She was called by Sri Aurobindo in the days of India's struggle for independence early twentieth century. In his Hymn to Durga written in that period, he invoked Durga who tramples tyrant and oppressors with "the armed heel of Fate." 22 Here are her words of assurance in Savitri: My ear is leaned to the cry ...
... in order to surrender and be converted to the new life. It may be that that urge wore off in the end and had to be postponed for its fulfilment. It is significant what Sri Aurobindo says in his Hymn to Durga: "0 Mother, give to our life and mind the Asura's strength, the Asura's energy and to our heart and intelligence a God's character and a God's knowledge." Page 21 Asuras ...
... with arms-gathering and bomb-making and the study of revolutionary literature.* Nothing could be more soul-stirring, yet more burning in its realistic intensity, than Sri Aurobindo's Bengali Hymn to Durga, the perfect invocation song for a perfectly realised Bhavani Mandir; and, in a true sense, wasn't the whole country - from Himavant to Kumari from Dwarka to Puri and Kamarupa - an extended and ...
... Essays; Valmiki and Vyasa; Kalidasa; The Brain of India; Essays from the Karmayogin; Art and Literature; Passing Thoughts; Conversations of the Dead. Volume 4 — Writings in Bengali: Hymns to Durga; Poems, Stories; The Veda; The Upanishads; The Purana; The Gita; Dharma; Nationalism; Editorials from Dharma; Stories of Jail Life; Letters. Volume 5 — Collected Poems, THE COMPLETE... Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Volume 9 — The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART. Volume 10 — The Secret of the Veda: The Secret of the Veda; Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris; ... Other Hymns; Interpretation of the Veda; The Origins of Aryan Speech. Volume 11 — Hymns to the Mystic Fire: FOREWORD: The Doctrine of the Mystics; Translations (Hymns to Agni from the Rig-Veda translated in their esoteric sense); Supplement. Volume 12 — The Upanishads, TEXTS, TRANSLATIONS AND COMMENTARIES: Philosophy of the Upanishads; On Translating the Upanishads; The U ...
... earlier, on the eve of the explosion of Indian nationalism and the countrywide reverberations of the cry of "Bande Mataram", Sri Aurobindo indited the manifesto, Bhavani Mandir and the mantric hymn, Durga Stotra, and later, at Pondicherry (in all likelihood in 1918), the clarion call "The Hour of God", but their triune power of evocation was not limited by place and time. The Mother felt that the... immitigable Doom. The battle is joined-the battle that is to be waged and won in the occult infinitudes of Eternal Night, the Double Twilight and Everlasting Day. Page 704 Blessings on Durga Puja Day IV After 18 March 1962 and throughout the year, the Mother could not come to the Balcony in the mornings, and there were no Darshans on 24 April, 15 August and 24 November. The ...
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