Janus : Roman god source of the January, the 1st month of the Gregorian calendar; as god of war & peace he is usually represented with a double-faced head, bearded or unbearded, placed back to back; his temple-doors were opened during war, & closed in times of peace.
... I wrote out a very full essay, dwelling first on the virtues of imitation, next on its drawbacks. I began the second part of my essay by saying, "But Janus has his other face too." I had at the time just heard about the god Janus. You know who is Janus? He is the two-faced god of ancient Rome. He was also known as a god of war, war and peace being his two faces. The doors of his temple were opened in ...
... endless folds are Time, and are also Space and are also Causality, these three being fundamentally Page 397 one,—a Trinity. In the upper half Parabrahman is still utterly Himself, but with a Janus face, one side contemplating the Absolute Reality which He is, the other envisaging Maya, looking on the endless procession of her works not yet as a reality, but as a phantasmagoria. In the lower half ...
... was ready for working out in the immediateness of the moment's potency. More was involved which will now press for its reign, but belongs to the future. The cataclysm of the last five years had a Janus face, one side turned towards the past, one turned towards the future. In its dealings with the past it was a conflict between two forces, one represented by Germany and the central Powers, the other ...
... Humour attains its consummated stage when it broadens its outlook and becomes one with pathos and reflection. Then one realises that "the humourous conception and the serious conception are just the two Janus faces of the same truth." 13 We are here reminded of Nirodbaran's pregnant remark visa-vis Sri Aurobindo's humour. Let it not be forgotten that NB lived in close physical proximity to Sri Aurobindo ...
... demons of the Greek legends that come out of the unknown, the sea or the sky, to prey upon a help - a less land and its people until a deliverer comes. Corruption appears today with a twofold face, Janus like: violence and falsehood. In private life, in the political field, in the business world, in social dealings, it is now an established practice, it has gained almost the force of a law of nature ...
... changes no amount of moralising will prevent it. Page 436 There has been almost continuous war in the world—it is as in the history of the Roman Republic when the gates of the temple of Janus were closed only once or twice in its many centuries—a sign that the Republic was at peace with all the world. There have been in modern times long intervals between long wars, but small ones have been ...
... al technique. What was adequate for a blurred vision of the dawn became useless in the shine of the morning. (Remember in this connection the case history of phlogiston.) The Spectre of Janus Again, the same set of phenomena cuuld be explained in terms of Page 42 different theories starting from different sets of concepts and each positing the existence of a ...
... demons of the Greek legends that come out of the unknown, the sea or the sky, to prey upon a help- less land and its people until a deliverer comes. Corruption appears today with a twofold face, Janus like: violence and falsehood. In private life, in the political field, in the business world, in social dealings, it is now an established practice, it has gained almost the force of a law of nature ...
... an atmosphere of godlike calm." It was indeed 'a rare privilege' that was granted to him, and he was the first to acknowledge it. 1. Our Greatest Need and Other Addresses (1953), Janu's Death and Other Kulapati's Letters (1954), published by Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan. Page 228 "The other day I had the rare privilege of meeting Sri Aurobindo. I had seen him last in 1908 ...
Share your feedback. Help us improve. Or ask a question.