Kailas Coilas : one of the highest & most rugged mountains of the Himalayan range, located in the south-western part of China. It is holy both to the Hindus, who identify it with the paradise of Shiva & also regard it as the abode of Kubera, & to the Tibetan Buddhists, who identify it with Mount Sumeru, cosmic centre of the universe.
... Communications on Indian and World Events (1940-1950) Private Letters to Public Figures and to the Editor of Mother India (1948-1950) Autobiographical Notes To Kailas Nath Katju Owing to heavy pressure during the last month I am only now able to answer your letter of August 20ᵗʰ forwarding [a] full report of your address on the occasion of the Mahotsav. ...
... Kailas and Anie, Ashram Theatre, 1968 Kailas and Richard – Matagiri, New York, 1999 Kailas arrived August 14, 1964. She was brought to the nursing home as there was no vacancy anywhere in the Ashram. I was thirty years old at that time. Kailas taught me how to be open with myself. I did not have many friends and didn’t know how to make social contact. I went with Kailas to see... large books to Kailas and turned to me and said, “Aren’t you a gentleman?” She meant that I should have thought of helping Kailas with the books, but I was so shy. I was a different person before Kailas arrived. I was always resisting everything and reluctant to show my feelings. I would not even stop to take tea. Mona Pinto used to say about me, “This boy never had a mother!” Kailas would ask, “Is... and asked us to read it together. This drew us closer together and we began to have fixed times for meditation and to share our meals. Kailas was so free, full of vitality and exuberance that I began to change from a shy person to a sociable, joyous one. Kailas and I had two things in common: a love of beauty and a love of flowers. She knew their significances. She had started a sort of communion ...
... artist. Yamuna : the river is good but the figure is self-satisfied. Krishna and Vidur : Vidur is good. Kailas : not bad. Shiva with cobra : good. GENERAL REMARK: The artistic part is all right but he lacks in idea, that is to say, there is nothing big in the idea. Kailas : very good. Shiva profile : more original; there is some expression. Dwga and Fire : good; the face ...
... .. but I have not fixed my opinion yet.” Sri Aurobindo's comments on the paintings: Yamuna : The river is good but the figure is self-satisfied. Krishna and Vidur : Vidur is good. Kailas : Quite good. Shiva with Cobra : Good. Shiva profile : More original; there is some expression. Durga and Fire : Good. The face is not that of Fire. They seem to have benevolent, goody-goody ...
... AMRITA'S HUMOUR Often there used to be a mistake in calling the wrong Kailas by our Divine's messenger Suresh Joshi. When Amrita wanted to see me, he used to go and call the lady named Kailas and vice versa. So to avoid this confusion Amrita told me that he was naming me Purusha Kailas and she would be Prakriti Kailas. This shows his humorous way of dealing with us. The Mother used to... Amrita-da, you have drunk amrita quite a few times during your meditation. Amrita: You are mistaken. Amrita is meant for the Cosmic Gods, and not for this mortal. Kailas Page 107 Amrita around 1930 ...
... Manu 5 Marcellus 23, 24 Matthew Arnold 102 Medhatithi Kanwa 8 Michael Angelo 19 Milton 9, 16 Mitra 1, 4, 5, 31 Montevideo 55 Modern Review, the 93 Mount Kailas 17 Muse 61, 88 Page 104 N Naiad 32 Neapolitans 50 Nikumbha 17 Nobel Prize 47 Norway 25 O Olympian 4, 32 Ormuz ...
... truth and eloquently utters a note of warning, as pertinent today as K was when Pururavas faced the austere goddess and patroness of Aryasthan. But Pururavas wanders farther still, sights Coilas (Kailas) in the distance, receives benedictions from the Mother of the Aryans, and rising yet further sees the 'Mighty Mother herself on the peaks. The Mother knows that Pururavas, hero-man is sting ...
... the description of Savitri as she awakes on the fateful morning, self-poised with self-gathered force ready for the mortal challenge that is to turn into "the divine Event", is the apex, the Mount Kailas of the poem. It is when we read passages of sustained spiritual glow like the description of the 'Symbol Dawn or of Savitri when as the World-Mother she, the young Bride awakes on the appointed ...
... and poetry. And most of all the spiritual unknown was at the back of the intense hunger he mentioned in his Autobiography (1936) to visit "Manasarovar, the wonder-lake of Tibet, and snow-covered Kailas nearby" — two of the holiest spots of Hinduism. "I dream of the day," wrote Nehru, "when 1 shall wander about the Himalayas and cross them to reach that lake and mountain of my desire." The words were... draws motive-force from it. As a vibrant sign of this merging is Nehru's setting of the Ganga Page 102 at the very centre of his Indianism. Together with Lake Mana-sarovar and Mount Kailas, Ganga — the river mythologised as the Grace brought down from heaven by the Yogic meditation of Bhagiratha — stands for India's basic God-awareness. And it is worth marking, as an instinctive pointer ...
... of all Times Appendix Words of Long Ago Thirteen The Conquest of Knowledge The great Rishi, Bhrigu, shining in splendour, sat on the summit of Mount Kailas, and Bharadwadja questioned him: "Who made the world? "How wide is the sky? "Who gave birth to water? To fire? To the wind? To the earth? "What is life? "What is good? "What is there ...
... Eastern poet to see how he too has gone the same way although in a different tone and temper. Here is a Kalidasian image: To climb upon his Bull high and snow-white even like Mount Kailas The great Lord graciously presses his holy feet upon this back of mine; I am his slave, Kumbhodara by name, Nikumbha's comrade. 1 One can go on ad infinitum ...
... Visva-devaloka (Karmadevatas), Ganaloka, Jnanaloka from top to bottom Page 1280 [ . . . ] = Suryaloka. Swar—Chandraloka & Swarga. Jana, Tapah & Satya above Swar—Chandraloka—Pitriloka; Kailas above, between 7 tiers of 14 worlds, according to types—Pashu, Pisacha, Pramatha, Rakshasa, Asura, Deva, Siddha— Swarga—7—Kama, Yuddha, Prema, Manas, Jnana, Nishkama & Bhagavata Naraka—offences ...
... turn to an Eastern poet to see how he too has gone the same way although in a different tone and temper. Here is a Kalidasian image: To climb upon his Bull high and snow-white even like Mount Kailas The great Lord graciously presses his holy feet upon this back of mine; I am his slave, Kumbhodara by name, Nikumbha's comrade.³ One can go on ad infinitum, for in a sense poetry is nothing ...
... of art and poetry. And most of all the spiritual unknown is at the back of the intense hunger he mentions in his Autobiography to visit "Manasarovar, the wonder-lake of Tibet, and snow-covered Kailas nearby"—two of the holiest spots of Hinduism. "I dream of the day", writes Nehru, "when I shall wander about the Himalayas and cross them to reach that lake and mountain of my desire." The words ...
... Empire. The same Bipin Chandra is now a peaceful and unsuspected journalist and lecturer in London acquitted, we hope, of all wish to be the Ravana destined to Page 146 shake the British Kailas. But Anglo-India needs a bogeyman and by a few letters to the Times Mr. Krishnavarma has leaped into that eminent but unenviable position. Who knows? In another year or two even he may be considered ...
... spaces, the discovery of visionary worlds. Physical death could be a candidate - but that too was not satisfying enough. What seemed the master-attraction was, in the words of an old poem of mine, "The Kailas of Night", some supreme mystery, infinite and eternal, in which the obscuration and absence of all conceivable things and activities would lead to the emergence and presence of a plenitude from which ...
... hushed dreadful hills And snows more breathless to the quiet banks Of a wide lake mid rocks and bending woods He came, and saw calm mountains over it, And knew in his awed heart the hill of God, Coilas, and Mainaac with its summits gold. Awed he in heart, yet with a quicker stride He moved and eyes of silent joy, like one Who coming from long travel, sees the old Village and children's faces... Grew to him moments, and his limbs became Undying and his thoughts as marble endured. Then to the hero deified the goddess, "O strong immortal, now pursue thy joy: Yet first rise up the peaks of Coilas; there The Mighty Mother sits, whose sovran voice Shall ratify to thee thy future fair," Said and caressed his brow with lips divine. And bright Pururavus rose up the hill Towards the breathless ...
... 463 Invocation to the Fourfold Divine 86 Inward 485 Inward and Upward 602 Isis of the Black Veils 36 Judgment Day 381 Kailas of Night 520 Kingfisher 600 Lacrimae Rerum 472 Lalita 17 Lament and Rhapsody 235 Lammergeyer 377 Laura de Sade 513 ...
... of course clears the atmosphere: everything is always ready when he arrives, in silence, in perfect peace. Hasn't he always told you that when he comes into that room he enters another world, like Kailas?... 1 And that's the way it has always been. If there has been a change, it's that now it's even more like that—because (how to put it?) it's more stable. Before, it fluctuated a bit: it came, went ...
... father, but I had just gone along with the group decision. After this experience I returned to the Ashram. I was twenty years old. Sri A.B. Purani in New York 1964 with Eric Hughes, Anie, Kailas, Matilda Scott, Sam Spanier, Dr. Karelitz-Karry, Mrs. Polly Holmes, Mrs. Eleanor Montgomery What did you do after you returned to Pondicherry? The Mother had asked me to join the embroidery ...
... story entitled "Prayers Have Wings" from Tales of India by Daulat Panday: Once upon a time, two angels flew down from Heaven, to settle on the topmost branch of a tall pine tree in Kailas. It was a beautiful moonlit night, and all around among the snow-covered hills and valleys there reigned a silvery peace and silence. The angels looked around and saw that every now and then wings ...
... speaks of the habitat of the Goddess, the first among several to whose heights Pururavus climbs en route to his attainment of Urvasie's paradise. "The Mother of the Aryans" sat by a lake under Mount Kailas, In a wild fairy place where mountain streams Glimmer from the dim rocks and meet the lake Amid a wrestle of tangled trees and heaped Page 25 Moss-grown disordered ...
... informed Sri Aurobindo that he wished to resign from the position of president of the Bengal Pradesh Page 602 Congress Committee (B.P.C.C.). To Kailas Nath Katju. 3 September 1949 . Dr. Kailas Nath Katju (1887 - 1968) was a lawyer and, after 1937, a Congress leader. In 1948 he was appointed Governor of West Bengal. In this capacity he presided over a public celebration... the Communist government's efforts to limit the influence of the Catholic Church. On the Kashmir Problem . Circa September 1949. This letter was written around the same time as the letter to Kailas Nath Katju (see above, previous subsection). The article of Sethna's to which Sri Aurobindo referred is no longer available. On "New Year Thoughts". 1 January 1950 . Sethna sent a copy of ...
... siddhi देवक्रिडानुदर्शनम्, watching the sports of the gods, because all life is to them a sport or lila. The Gods, however, dwell for us in the lower Swarloka, ie, Chandraloka of which the summit is Kailas and the basis Swarga with Pitriloka just above Swarga. Nevertheless even there they keep their jyotirmay and lilamay nature, their luminous bodies and worlds of self-existent bliss free from death ...
... ideas and impressions uppermost are such as to associate the self with the higher understanding and bliss of the Self, the soul passes quickly to a condition of highest bliss which we call variously Kailas, Vaikuntha, Goloka or Brahmaloka, from which it does not return in this aeon of the Page 214 universe. But if we have learned to identify for ever the self with the Self, then before death ...
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