Josephine : (1763-1814), consort of Napoleon who had the marriage annulled in 1809.
... his dear pupil's papers. "Here they are, sir," cried Josephine. "I have tied them up carefully; they contain the last thing he composed; he was disturbed in the middle of it by the guns." The Master opened the roll and glanced at the last sheets; his face lit up. "Where is the piano?" he asked, but now in tones almost threatening. Josephine, a little frightened, led him upstairs. He sat and played... weak. Stay back, do not go: I have your child in me — and who shall protect me if you die? 1 spoke rashly in the street." "Would my child like to know that its father was a coward?" Josephine was silent. "Besides, you will not starve, my dear. Your father has enough to keep you happily." "Happily? How shall I live without you? It is not starvation I dread. Why are you so cruel ...
... life like Mustafa Kamal. Some are fortunate like Browning and are very happy all their life. K.D: What about Napoleon and Josephine? Isn't that relation psychic? Sri Aurobindo: Not entirely; it is half and half. Something in Josephine's luck helped Napolean. Josephine had a better chance of being an Empress than Napolean had of being an Emperor. It was by marrying her he made his chance secure ...
... mate late in life like Mustafa Kamal. Some are fortunate like Browning and are very happy all their life. What about Napoleon and Josephine? Isn't that relation psychic? Not entirely; it is half and half. Something in Josephine's luck helped Napoleon. Josephine had a better chance of being an Empress than Napoleon had of being an Emperor. It was by marrying her he made his chance secure. The ...
... the same context Dada spoke about Napoleon. 'Once Napoleon is said to have remarked to his wife Josephine: "The mirror reflects without talking, you talk without reflecting!" (Le miroir réfléchit sans paroles, vous parlez sans réfléchir.) On hearing these words from Napoleon Josephine retorted at once: "This proves that I am polished like the mirror while the emperor has no ...
... heart. 4 (In 1899 Swami Vivekananda again sailed to the West. But he seemed to be more and more detached from the world. This extract is from a letter he wrote during this period to Miss Josephine Mac-Leod, one of his closest western disciples:) Work is always difficult. Pray for me, Joe, that my work may stop for ever and my whole being would be absorbed in Mother. Her work She knows ...
... 1939 Talks with Sri Aurobindo 27 JANUARY 1939 This evening a letter written by Vivekananda on April 18, 1900, R Alameda, California, to Miss Josephine Macleod was read out to Sri Aurobindo. It was a very moving letter containing the following passages: "I am well, very well mentally. I feel the rest of the soul more than that of the body. The battles ...
... Chandernagore from my atmosphere. There was nothing of the Supramental there. 27-1-1939 This evening a very feeling letter written by Vivekananda in 1900 from California to Miss. Josephine Macleod was read to Sri Aurobindo . The relevant points in it are here reproduced. Alameda, California 18th April 1900 After all, Joe, I am only a boy who used to listen with rapt ...
... he not the strong man, the efficient ruler, the mighty one? The Rakshasa has kama, he has no prema. Napoleon knew not what love was; he had only the kindliness that goes with possession. He loved Josephine because she satisfied his nature, France because he possessed her, his mother because she was his and congenial, his soldiers because they were necessary to his glory. But the love did not go beyond ...
... Kamal had a great love for her parents, she did not love her husband. Secondly, she had in her the masculine complex which made her a suffragist. The writer also explained how Napoleon divorced Josephine because he loved his mother and Queen Elizabeth had a masculine complex but those who came in contact with her had not the feminine complex in them strong enough to keep her to them. He even says ...
... to break. In January 1899 the work of Belur Math was completed. In June he left for Europe and America for the second time. In 1900, April 18, he wrote a letter from California to Miss Josephine MacLeod. "After all, Joe, I am only a boy who used to listen with rapt wonderment to the wonderful words of Ramakrishna under the banyan at Dakshineswar. That is my true nature, doing good and so ...
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