Idas : son of Aphareus, & twin brother of Lynceus. He was in love with Marpessa, whom he carried off in a chariot given him by Poseidon. The twins were finally killed in a battle with their rivals, the Dioskouroi (q.v.).
... conscious of the secret dawn Amid the darkness that we feel is green. This is how Marpesa opens. Idas is a youth who has fallen in love with the wonderful beauty of the girl Marpessa. She is wooed also by the God Apollo and has to choose between a mortal lover and an immortal. Idas has been restless through the night of summer with his own yearning for the perfection of Marpessa, a perfection... version — The nameless yearning of the garden wet — let us look at the original line in the company of those preceding and succeeding it: Wounded with beauty in the summer night Young Idas tossed upon his couch and cried, "Marpessa, O Marpessa!" From the dark The floating smell of flowers invisible, The mystic yearning of the garden wet, The moonless-passing night... in the lines which follow it we have the "moment deep" no less than the "secret dawn" to lend it sus-tenance by a throw-back affinity. Further, all that is without is attuned to all that is within: Idas and the garden, sharing the same summer night, are permeated with the same delightful ache for a distant flawlessness, an unattained beauty haunting them. And it is the strengthening of his own longing ...
... conscious range of poetical thinking, but all the more remarkable is the power with which this new influence comes out in what he can give us. We note a new treatment of life and human emotion. The love of Idas for Marpessa is not satisfied with the old forms of passion and feeling and imaginative idealism, there are here other notes which carry the individual emotion out of itself and strive to cast it into... passion for a body packed with sweet Of all this world, that cup of brimming June, That jar of violet wine set in the air, That palest rose sweet in the night of life. But, says Idas, Not for this only do I love thee, but Because Infinity upon thee broods, And thou art full of whispers and of shadows. Thou meanest what the sea has striven to say So long, and yearned up ...
... although unarmed and begging for his death, is killed by him. Marpessa: Daughter of Euenus, son of Ares. Idas, an Argonaut, had won Marpessa as his bride, but she was carried off by Apollo. Zeus intervened in the fight which ensued and offered her a choice between the two. She chose Idas. Menelaus: Younger brother of Agamemnon and husband of Helen. He was the king of Sparta, succeeding ...
... Shakespeare writing of Troilus and Cressida or Keats choosing to write of the fall of Hyperion or, on a smaller though not poetically inferior scale, Stephen Phillips conjuring up the story of Marpessa, Idas and Apollo? In our own day, Kazantzakis has written at a gigantic length (33,333 lines) a sequel to the Odyssey and in a form loosely reminiscent of Homer's. The only pertinent questions are: "Does ...
... to gather the Greek army. Among those who joined were Odysseus, king of Ithaca, Achilles of Phthia, Nestor, king of Pylos; Diomedes, the hero of Aetolia, Ajax, the Telamonian, Ajax the Lorcian, Idas, king of Crete and Idomeneus. When the fleet was ready for the departure in the harbour of Aulis, the winds stopped blowing, and the ships could not move forward. It was suggested to Agamemnon ...
... Then from on high the Father of gods and men Awesomely thundered, while down below Poseidon Caused the limitless earth to rumble and quake From plain to sheer mountain peaks. Well-watered Ida Was shaken from bottom to top, as were the city Of Troy and ships of Achaea. Hades, god Of ghosts in the world under ground, was filled with panic And sprang from his throne with a scream... face, against my will, With haughty Achilles? Not that it would be My first encounter with him, since once already He put me to flight with his spear, driving me down From Mount Ida where he had come for our cattle the time He sacked and laid waste Lyrnessus and Pedasus both. That time Zeus saved me by giving me strength and putting Great speed in my legs. Else I... recall a day Some time ago when I routed you with my spear. Don't you remember, Aeneas, when you were alone And I made you leave your cattle and hurtle headlong Down the slopes of Mount Ida? Not so much as one little look Did you cast behind you that day as you ran. From there You fled to Lyrnessus, which I attacked with the help Of Athena and Father Zeus and sacked it ...
... Night with its look on things hidden Given to the gaze of the azure she lay in her garment of greenness, Wearing light on her brow. In the dawn-ray lofty and voiceless Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres, Ida first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing Time on... Heroes half divine whose names are like stars in remoteness, Triumphed and failed and were winds or were weeds on the dance of the surges, But from the peaks of Olympus and shimmering summits of Ida Page 389 Gleaming and clanging the gods of the antique ages descended. Hidden from human knowledge the brilliant shapes of Immortals Mingled unseen in the mellay, or sometimes, marvellous... luminous house of the ancients Soothing his restful age, the far-warring victor Anchises, High Bucoleon's son and the father of Rome by a goddess; Lonely and vagrant once in his boyhood divine upon Ida White Aphrodite ensnared him and she loosed her ambrosial girdle Seeking a mortal's love. On the threshold Thrasymachus halted Looking for servant or guard, but felt only a loneness of slumber Drawing ...
... majestic, And with her flowing garment and mystical zone through the spaces Haloed came like the moon on an evening of luminous silence Down upon Ida descending, a snow-white swan on the greenness, Page 100 Down upon Ida the mystic haunted by footsteps immortal Ever since out of the Ocean it rose and lived gazing towards heaven. There on a peak of the mountains alone... Weaving a tapestry fit for the gods to admire, who in silence Joy, by the cloud and the sunbeam veiled, and men know not their movers. They in the glens of Olympus, they by the waters of Ida Or in their temples worshipped in vain or with heart-strings of mortals Sated their vast desire and enjoying the world and each other Sported free and unscourged; for the earth was their... mightiest Ares: Thou shalt till sunset prevail, O war-god, fighting for Troya." So he decreed and the soul of the Warrior sternly consented. He from his seats arose and down on the summits of Ida Flaming through Space in his cloud in a headlong glory descended. Prone like a thunderbolt flaming down from the hand of the Father. Thence in his chariot drawn by living fire and by swiftness ...
... summer dies the swan. In Oenone, again, the verse moves smoothly in easy regular steps suggesting a superficial adequacy and fullness of articulation: O mother Ida, many-fountaind Ida, Dear mother Ida, hearken ere I die. I waited underneath the dawning hills, Aloft the mountain lawn was dewy dark, And dewy dark aloft the mountain pine: Beautiful Paris, evil-hearted ...
... have thousands of nerves (72,000 says Tantra). But in the Kundalini yoga three play a decisive role. SUSHUMNA, fiery red, is inside the spinal column. On both sides of the spine are the feminine IDA, pale, likened to the moon, and the male PINCAlA, red, likened to the Sun. They alternate from right to left and left to right as they go round the chakras. Reaching the Ajiia chakra they proceed to... subtler nerve Vajrini, and within it is the subtlest one, Chitrini. As she travels from lotus to lotus. the awakened Kundalini takes the channel of Chitrini. It is not without interest to note that both Ida and Pingala denote Time, while Sushumna devours time. Page 325 Such is the ascent of the Kundalini Shakti. Sri Aurobindo sums it all up in a few lines. "There is a force which accompanies ...
... sixty years GLIMPSES FROM A PERSONAL STANDPOINT A line in the opening passage of Sri Aurobindo's Il on runs; Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres... A sacred mountain of ancient Greece, Ida as seen by the poet, an ever-uplifting vigil, full of secret divine presences, now emerging in the dawn-light which has the purity and transparent... November 24, 1986, the sixtieth year of its establishment, what is termed in traditional reckoning its diamond jubilee. It is also apt that Ida should be spoken of in the feminine gender — indeed in classical poetry the mountain is sometimes addressed as "Mother Ida". The Ashram of Sri Aurobindo stands as the outermost body, so to speak, of the radiant personality in whose hands Sri Aurobindo put his ...
... Hellespont: narrow strait dividing Europe from Asia at the final exit of the waters of the Black Sea and the Sea of Marmara; the modern Dardanelles. Hippothous: Trojan, son of Priam. Ida: mountain in northwest Asia Minor, southeast of the site of ancient Troy. It was a seat of Zeus. Trojan, herald of Priam. Idaeus: Trojan, son of Priam. Ilus: legendary Trojan ...
... Night with its look on things hidden Given to the gaze of the azure she lay in her garment of greenness, Wearing light on her brow. In the dawn-ray lofty and voiceless Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres, Ida first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing Time on... the Blissful, Hera majestic, And with her flowing garment and mystical zone through the spaces Haloed came like the moon on an evening of luminous silence Down upon Ida descending, a snow-white swan on the greenness, Down upon Ida the mystic haunted by footsteps immortal Ever since out of the Ocean it rose and lived gazing towards heaven. There on a peak of the mountains alone with the sea and... Heroes half divine whose names are like stars in remoteness, Triumphed and failed and were winds or were weeds on the dance of the surges, But from the peaks of Olympus and shimmering summits of Ida Gleaming and clanging the gods of the antique ages descended. Hidden from human knowledge the brilliant shapes of Immortals Mingled unseen in the mellay, or sometimes, marvellous, maskless, Forms ...
... antithesis, there is a movement of synthesis also. To the movement sideways there is to be a movement beyond. We know of this threefold movement in the mystery of the Kundalini Force: the two currents ida and pingala on either side of the spinal cord and in between the mounts the susumna heading towards the beyond, to the Crown of the head. The Beyond is of course the Transcendent, the supreme status ...
... this admits of a number of very effective Page 359 variations which obviate monotony altogether. For example— In the dawn-ray lofty and voiceless Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks | into diamond lustres, Ida first of the hills | with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, | as since the ages First began | they had watched her, | upbearing ...
... —but no effort should be made to force the pace by concentrated meditation unless you have a guide whom you can trust—a clear guidance from within or a guide from without. The inspiration about the Ida nadi and the subsequent waking of the Shakti show that there was an intervention at a critical moment and that the call to it whenever needed is likely to be effective. In the experiences proper ...
... which wafts down to us, even into the air of today. Homer and Solon, Socrates and Aristotle, Pythagoras and Plato are still the presiding gods ruling over the human spirit that was born on Olympus and Ida. Human evolution took a decisive turn with the advent of the Hellenic culture and civilisation. All crises in evolution are a sudden revelation, an unexpected outburst, a saltum, a leap into ...
... thousand beauties are among the Shades - (K.D,S.) and in those lines of Virgil: Hie tibi mortis erant metae, domus alta sub Ida, Lyrnesi domus alta, solo Laurente sepulchrum. Here was the bourn of death for thee - lofty thy house under Ida, Lyrnesus' high-built house; in Laurentine soil thou art buried. (K.D.S.) The Classical Milton is said to have it - ...
... Destiny of Man, a compilation done by Rishabhchand and myself with her approval, the question was about the place of the printing, viz, the Ashram Press or somewhere in America through Duncan or Ida Patterson. The question had arisen because the Ashram Press would take more than a year. Amrita brought Mother's answer, "The time taken by our Press does not matter." In September 1967 I met a ...
... 70 Homer, 136, 197,206,219 Hugo, Victor, 197,275 -A Villequier, 275n Huma m, 16, 129-30, 163, 166, 168 Huxley, T. H., 140, 192 Hellas, 219 IDA, 219 Impressionists, 145 India, 25, 52-9, 74-5,. 90-2, 94, 98, 103-7, 119, 127, 153-7, 159-63, 168, 205, 207, 215, 217, 221-3, 229, 235, 238-43, 245, 260-2, 327 Indra, 9, 222 ...
... are variously counted, sometimes sixty-four, sometimes thirty-four, but the principal ones are three. These form a trinity and follow the line of the spinal cord. They are the famous 'Ida', 'Pingala' and 'Susumna.' Ida and Pingala are on either side of the spinal cord, the central one being the Susumna. The two on either side are the ascending and the descending lines, (sometimes they are represented... according to the occultists – it means the total encircling consciousness, the global music. The bridge tightens and maintains the poise of the strings. We may remember here the two subtle nervous lines of 'Ida' and 'Pingala' and the middle one, 'Sushumna' that balances the two. The psychological sense is that the dualities of the world-experience are resolved in the consciousness of the sadhak by a supreme ...
... the situation or not, even in our 'spiritual' ignorance and at all moments, we are devouring and enjoying only the Mother; for it is She who has become food in the shape of this world, annabhūtam ida ṁ jagat, and no creature can remain in existence even for a moment except by feeding upon Her various forms and figures. But because of our as yet impure and imperfect status, and that too because ...
... phrase like Savitri's A crystal of the ultimate Absolute... (38:21) An alternative to the "crystal" imagery is the "diamond"-metaphor as in the Ilion-line: Page 374 Ida rose with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres. A body, liberated from all load of common life and awaking into its own higher self-sense just by being swept clear of sexuality in a radical ...
... Marlowe has caught from both Virgil and the Greek poet Bacchylides the stimulus for his own phrase about Tambur-laine's troops: In numbers more than are the quivering leaves Of Ida's forests... But how unforgettable is Milton's expression - compact yet elegant, gathering up all the meaning in the opening stressed monosyllable "thick" and then suavely loosening it out into ...
... things hidden, Given to the gaze of the azure she lay in her garment of greenness, Wearing light on her brow. In the dawn-ray lofty and voiceless Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres, Ida first of the hills with the ranges silent beyond her Watching the dawn in their giant companies, as since the ages First began they had watched her, upbearing... through most of it on a supreme height. There are three movements in this symphony. First the superhuman beings are pictured in their dynamic forms and outward activities: from the peaks of Olympus and Ida, Gleaming and clanging the gods of the antique ages descended. Hidden from human knowledge the brilliant shapes of the Immortals Mingled unseen in the mellay, or sometimes, marvellous ...
... down. Just as a snake struck with a stick becomes straight like a stick, in the same way, sakti (susumna) becomes straight at once. Then the Kundalini, becoming as it were dead, and, leaving both the Ida and the Pingala, enters the susumna (the middle passage). It should be expelled then, slowly only and not violently. For this very reason, the best of the wise men call it the Maha Mudra. This ...
... all our mortal enemies, seeing you're dead set on going down to the ships — though you go against my will. But if you go, you must pray, at least, to the great god of the dark storm cloud, up there on Ida,, gazing down on the whole expanse of Troy! Pray for a bird of omen, Zeus' wind swift messenger, the dearest bird in the world to his prophetic heart, the strongest thing on wings — clear on the right... from his wife and taking a stand amidst the forecourt, prayed, pouring the wine to earth and scanning the high skies, Priam prayed in his rich resounding voice: "Father Zeus! Ruling over us all from Ida, god of greatness, god of glory! Grant that Achilles will receive me with kindness, mercy. Send me a bird of omen, your own wind-swift messenger, the dearest bird in the world to your prophetic heart ...
... was given the interpretation that the child about to be born would Page 50 be the cause of Troy's destruction. To save their city, the parents decided to send the babe to be left on Mt. Ida. As fate would have it, the child was rescued and then raised by kind shepherds. He became a hearty and strong youth with a reputation for his good looks. After the Iliad Even after the ...
... Aurobindo. There is here fresh youthfulness and enlivening revelations of the deeper springs of action that actuate gods, goddesses, heroes, heroines, and even the old and the young. Troy and Mount Ida are repainted here in their golden hues, and ships and tents seem to have sprung up anew on the sea coasts, and men and women of those ancient days appear to be breathing again with all their hopes ...
... half divine whose names are like stars in remoteness, Triumphed and failed and were winds or were weeds on the dance of the surges, But from the peaks of Olympus and shimmering summits of Ida Gleaming and clanging the gods of the antique ages descended. Hidden from human knowledge the brilliant shapes of Immortals Mingled unseen in the mellay, or sometimes, marvellous, maskless ...
... country, and in Gandaria which must have been the name used by those who termed the inhabitants Gandarioi. A country to have its inhabitants known as Gangaridai must itself be Gāngāra or else Gāngār-ida. To derive Gangaridai from Gange or Ganges is not sound philology. Sircar's idea that, since the capital in the Ganges-delta was called Gāngā from the capital city's name and since Vangah sounded like ...
... glorious & starlike career has itself been a conscious epic and whose soul holds friendship & close converse with the Gods. This is Pururavus, "the noise of whom has gone far & wide", whose mother was Ida, divine aspiration, the strange daughter of human mind (Manu) who was once male & is female, and his father Budha, Hermes of the moonlike mind, inspired & mystic wisdom, and his near ancestors therefore ...
... leads to a kind of trance which may give a certain Ananda. Disciple : The idea seems to be to invert the freed tongue so as to close the passage of breathing. The two nostrils are called the Ida and Pingala currents of Prana. The third is Sushumna on the crown of the head. When these two are stopped, by inverting the tongue and blocking the passage of breathing, then Sushumna begins to function ...
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