... etc still strives to emerge into distinctness, stability & variety. Growth of the Kali permanence. The second chatusthaya increases in power. Tertiary dasya emphasised in action & thought. 3) 1 Telepathic trikaldrishti of movements of the child in the opposite house. 26 April 1915 Krishna-Kali now generalising itself at its lowest pitch. It alternates with the Anandam Brahma also... April 1915 The Krishna Kali as the all containing one (An. Br [Anantam or Anandam Brahma]) & everything as its expression in the terms of Purusha Prakriti. The Ishwara begins to take final possession. Truth continues to grow in the trikaldrishti telepathy, effectivity in the power. Rupa advances, but is still seriously obstructed. 30 April 1915 Krishna Kali in all, but not in the intensity... forms of a certain stability imperfectly manifested in the darkness. There is no advance in Saundarya. In Krishnadarshana the vision of everything as a form of Krishna Kali seems fixed. Darshana of Krishna Kali ranges between the various intensities down to non-intensity. Ananda is firmer, as the remnants of responsibility & desire have been diminished, the former to vanishing-point; ...
... regions, they met Kali, the King of Darkness, and Dwapara, Spirit of Twilight, coming to the earth. And when they asked where they were going, Kali replied, "To Damayanti's Swayamvara. My heart is fixed on wedding with that damsel." Hearing this, Indra smiled and answered, "But her Swayamvara is already ended. In our sight she hath chosen Nala for her husband." To this said Kali, that vilest of the... forbearance and knowledge, and purity and self control, and perfect tranquility of soul. Whoever, O Kali, wisheth to curse this Nala, will end in cursing and destroying himself by his own act!" Having spoken thus solemnly, the gods turned, leaving Kali and Dwapara, and went to heaven. But when they had gone, Kali whispered to Dwapara, "I must be revenged! I must be revenged! I shall possess Nala, and deprive... shalt help me to do this!" Yet was it twelve long years ere* Kali, watching Nala, could find in his conduct any slightest flaw by which he might be able to enter in and possess him. At last, however, there came an evening when he performed his worship without having completed all his ablutions. Then, through this error, Kali took possession of Nala. Also he appeared before his brother, Pushkara ...
... Maheshwari & assert the violent Asuric Kali bhava. For this reason the combination MahasaraswatiMaheshwari has been constantly strengthened against this assertion & each time it has thus been strengthened, it has absorbed more & more of the Kalibhava which it denied. Tonight the combination Mahalaxmi-Mahakali was effected & held steady against the Asuric Kali tendency which it then took into itself... right continent and the right pratistha. All that has now to be effected is the strengthening of the Kali tejas & virya till it reaches the right intensity without disturbing the other elements of the harmony. The intensification is already proceeding. The result is the divinised Asuro-Rakshasi Kali with the Pisachi, Pramatheswari & Pashavi contained in the Rakshasi element. Mahalaxmi-Mahasaraswati... soon as there is smarana, there is complete darshana, but emerging out of the incomplete darshana in which Ananda is involved, not dominant & Krishna concealed by the extended Brahman. In the person Kali is organised in the Maheshwari-Mahaluxmi-Mahasaraswati combination, the second element as yet insufficient, but the dominant Mahakali is occasional only, the normal bhava being the contained and dominated ...
... people? This is the wealth of the foreign exploiter! You impoverish me, Kali, O vile traitor to your Mother! म्लेच्छर्द्धिमेतां ज्वलनाय देहि रोषाग्निना किं न बिभेषि काल्याः। देवीं भवानीं हृदि पूजयित्वा यतस्व लक्ष्म्यै भव जन्मभूम्याः ॥२२॥ Give to the flames this wealth of the foreigner. Do you not fear the burning wrath of Kali? Worshipping the goddess Bhavani in your heart, strive and enrich your... rushed at her fearsome opponent. Before her and behind her Kali roared. ज्वलाकराला धरणी बभूव क्रोधैर्ज्वलद्भिर्गगनञ्च तुर्णैः। ह्रेषारवैर्दुन्दुभिघोरनादैस्त्रस्ता धराभूद्दनुजस्य युद्धे ॥४५॥ The earth grew lurid with flame and swift tongues of flaming wrath licked the sky. Sounds of neighing and the rumble of drums frightened the world as Kali fought with the Titan. रक्ताक्तमेघा नभसीव तेपुः पपात... blood which flows yonder laughs the shadow of the beautiful One, bran-dishing a sword, thundering, naked and hideous: I bow to Kali! काली त्वमेवासि सुनिष्ठुरासि त्वमन्नपूर्णा सदया च सौम्या। नमामि रौद्रां भुवनान्तकर्त्रि प्रेमाकुलामेव नमामि राधे ॥८७॥ Thou indeed art Kali and utterly ruthless thou art; thou art Annapurna, the merciful and gracious. I bow to thee as the Violent One, O ender of the ...
... 11. Page 106 himself Ekarāt, sole monarch, and he is designated by the Matsya as "a portion of Kali". Perhaps it is these words of the Matsya that clinched the misreading of "Nanda" for "Chanda" in the Vishnu's and Bhāghavata's phrase ending with: "....Kali age will attain its magnitude." And possibly the 1015 years after 3138 B.C. are meant to suggest that in the 15th of... Yugas or Ages breaks down. The Purānas speak of a recurring cycle of Four Ages, Chaturyuga - Krita, Tretā, Dvāpara and Kali - whose lengths progressively diminish in the ratio of 4:3:2:1. The Kri-tayuga is alloted 1,728,000 years, the Tretā 1,296,000, the Dvāpara 864,000, the Kali 432,000 years. The total or Mahāyuga is 4,320,000 years. The sum of the first 3 Yugas is 3,888,000 years. If the Kaliyuga... the Kali Age, p. 75. 2.A History of Sanskrit Literature, p. 411. 3. Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, 1911, p. 486, fn. 1. 4. The Hymns of the Atharvaveda (Benares, 1916), I, p. 390. Page 128 fairly ancient too. The Aitareya Brāhmana (VII.15.4), describing the merits of exertion, has the picturesque phrases: "A man while lying is the Kali; moving ...
... Are not these the signs and do they not tell us that the great Avatar of all arrives to establish the first Satya Yuga of the Kali? For in the Kali too, say the secret & ancient traditions of the Yogins, there is a perpetual minor repetition of Satya-Treta-Dwapara-Kali sub-cycles, the subSatya a temporary & imperfect harmony which in the subTreta & subDwapara breaks down and disappears in the subKali... dumb fate & sorrowful annihilation. It is not, as we too often think in our attachment to the form, a melancholy law of decline & the vanity of all human achievements. If each Satya has its Kali, equally does each Kali prepare its Satya. That destruction was necessary for this creation, and the new harmony, when it is perfected, will be better than the old. But there is the weakness, there is the half... the future. The Pandits are therefore right when they make a difference between the practice of the Satya & the practice of the Kali. But in their application of this knowledge, they do not seem to me to be always wise or learned. They forget or do not know that Kali is the age for a destruction & rebirth, not for a desperate clinging to the old that can no longer be saved. They entrench themselves ...
... know what. Something like that. There is a story of a head which comes out of the sand, buried up to the neck… It is a form of Kali—there are countless forms of Kali. Each believer has his image, has his particular relation with a certain Kali. Sometimes it is their own Kali: there are family Kalis—lots of family Kalis. I knew families that had very dangerous Kalis. If what they wanted was not done... re-started and when the Mother reached the Kali temple in Virampattinam and entered She understood that the dark figure She had met was in fact the deity of this temple. One day someone asked the Mother: “What plane does this Kali belong to?” The Mother answered: “The most material vital plane.” Then someone else asked: “Why is she called Kali?” The Mother continued: I don’t know. It... was a very strong formation. I suppose it was the family who were still more responsible than their Kali. And I knew people who when the misfortune came, a real misfortune in the family… someone’s death—took the image of Kali and went and threw it into the Ganges. Then someone enquired: “This Kali has no connection with Mahakali, has she?” The Mother’s answer: No. She has a very close connection ...
... forms Page 67 of Kali. Each believer has his image, has his particular relation with a certain Kali. Sometimes it is their own Kali: there are family Kalis—lots of family Kalis. I knew families who had very dangerous Kalis. If what they wanted was not done, always some misfortune befell the family members. There was a very strong formations. I suppose it was the family members who were... were still more responsible than their Kali. And I knew people who, when the misfortune came, a real misfortune in the family—someone's death—took the image of Kali and went and threw it into the Ganges. This Kali has no connection with Mahakali, has she? No. She has a very close connection with the human mind. I believe these are almost exclusively constructions of the human mind.... But I have... not only greed but of gluttony, of people who think about eating. And there was that Kali who was particularly satisfied with all the vital forces of all those poor little chickens; they had been killed off by hundreds and each one had a little vital force which escaped when its throat was cut, and so that Kali was feeding upon all that: she was very happy. And there was evidently—I don't know if ...
... antardarshi— The golden Kali four-armed & weaponed, destroying the Asuras; a young man rushes at & throws his arms around her in filial love not hatred; he is spared & lifted up & carried away in her arms no longer as a young man but as a boy. Symbolic of the process of conversion from the Asuro-Rakshasic mind to the divine balabhava by the embrace of Kali. The visitation of Kali seems to be intended... Saundarya by 9, Kali by 10, Krishna by 11, Karma by 12, Kama by 13; so in succession with the 4 members of the Brahma-chatusthaya & the 4 of the Siddhi Chatusthaya making 21 in all. 3) पृष्टो भिंध्यामस्याः संशयं यथानुभवकथनेन. This refers to the persistent doubts of the sceptical intellect re the Karmasiddhi & points to increasing authority of the divine Vani, अस्याः being Kali the Prakriti & the... Image, barbarously coarse; these seen today are of a higher kind, but all have a slightly Teutonic cast in the character-mould only half refined into an intelligent quiescence. 2) A low type of the Kali Pashu, 1ˢᵗ Manwantara,—in appearance hatted, bearded & visaged like a common type west country American. 3) A part of a hill with a house upon it roofed like a modern Church. 4) A very wide road ...
... choose, you can be shuddha, siddha and everything else, or, if you choose, you can be just the opposite. The first necessity is to believe in yourself, the second in God and the third to believe in Kali; for these things make up the world. Educate the Will first, through the Will educate the Jnanam, through the Jnanam purify the Chitta, control the Prana and calm the Manas. Through all these instruments... are the Jnata: receive all knowledge that presents itself to you. Adopt the attitude I have described here and apply it to every individual act of the sadhana or of life. You have nothing else to do. Kali will do the rest. Be not troubled, be not anxious, be not in haste, you have all eternity before you, why be in haste? Only do not be tamasic or idly waste your time. Yogic Sadhan - II I shall... not illimitable, helpless, not omnipotent. The Will has first to say, "I am omnipotent, that which the Purusha commands, I can act". For the Will is the Shakti in action, and there is only one Shakti, Kali herself, who is God manifesting as Divine Energy. Next the Will seizes the adhar and makes it shuddha in order that the Will may itself be shuddha. I have explained that if there is confusion and ...
... all of a sudden. Soon afterwards: I met V., he had a vision two or three days ago. He saw a peacock coming down, and on the peacock someone was sitting, erect, who wasn't Kali but like Kali (the naked Kali) and was holding in her hand the severed head of a man. Did he see whose head it was? No, I asked him if it was a Western head, or a Chinese one, anyway what it was. He told me... Truth"—a lovely story...). That's why Sri Aurobindo clearly and openly took the side of the Allies—it wasn't out of love for the British! ( long silence ) What was Kali sitting on? On the peacock. It wasn't Kali, but like Kali, and naked. It is clearly a victory through the disappearance of a man or a country. I don't know why, while you were speaking to me, I saw the twisted face of... one, which is FAR more serious. So when I said that ["the twisted face of a Chinese"], it seems to be beside the point, but that's because when those two things coincided, 2 Kali suddenly became furious—I saw Kali furious, as when Page 282 she decides that it will be "paid for." So V.'s vision adds a few landmarks. Oh, you know, when she goes into a fit of power... you really ...
... of the urgency of the accompanying note. Kali PS. I received information of your Tantric kriyas. It is clear that you are far from perfect yet. All the more reason why you should not be in a hurry to progress physically. Get rid of the remnants of sattwic ahankara and rajoguna, for that which we are within, our karmas & kriyas will be without. Kali demands a pure adhara for her works, & if you... have been drawn. I may possibly send you the facts of the case for publication in the Nayak or any other paper, but I am not yet certain. I shall write to you about sadhana etc. another time. Kali Page 176 [2] [August 1912 or after] Dear M P.S. has sent to his brother an address for sending Yogini Chakras. He says it is approved by you. Now we want to know, not only whether... Yogic sadhana which will not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect humanity & help in the restoration of the Satyayuga. That work has to begin now but will not be complete till the end of the Kali. 3) India being the centre, to work for her restoration to her proper place in the world; but this restoration must be effected as a part of the above work and by means of Yoga applied to human means ...
... degrees power, maintaining constantly the survival of the 30°, 40° & 50°, with the 60° as an occasional movement, still hold the field, though with greater effort than before. Krishna Kali The Krishna Kali consciousness is beginning to realise itself. It is indeed realised in the Saguna Brahman, but not in the Ishwara (Lilamaya). The fusion of Indra into the Agni-Vayu-Aryaman (containing... Page 735 Utthapana 2 hrs 40 m. Obstinate defect of anima consolidated in stiffness of shoulder-muscles. In the rest of the body, dull though always repeated. Krishna Kali Krishna Kali consciousness of the Iswara mould is now manifesting. Tapas-siddhi Swift, sudden & complete organised tapas-siddhi in immediate kriti (event last night, justifying yesterday's prediction... depend upon Sharira. On Kriti, then, there must lie for some time the principal stress. Krishna-Kali Anandamaya Krishnadarshana is now extending itself to all objects & beings independent of form, guna etc. The bhava of Mahalakshmi has taken its place in the Devi Bhava. The Kali Bhava has toned down its force in order to assimilate Mahaluxmi. Page 760 The Ishwara in ...
... another one in which he says, "I did not know whom I loved more. Kali or Krishna..." (I am commenting, not quoting exactly), "...till I realized that to love Kali was to love myself, while to love Krishna was to love myself and someone else too...." 427—I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another... years apart? Nolini seems to say it was at the beginning. Yes, it was at the beginning. At a time when he used to sign his letters "Kali" [around 1912]. Oh, there was a time when he used to sign "Kali".... He always signed his letters "Kali": the letters to Motilal, 2 for instance. Oh, I never saw that, I didn't know. So it was at that time. ( silence ) It was certainly... another, and still it was myself with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. Page 133 What exactly does he mean? I don't understand.... He writes as if he felt identified with Kali more than with Krishna. Yet (and he told me so) there was something of Krishna in him. So I would have liked to know if all those things were written at the same time, ...
... words of Garga. They' run: "At the junction of the Kali and Dvapara ages, the virtuous sages who delight in protecting the people stpod at the asterism over which the Pitris preside (that is, Maghā)." From these words Varāhamihira's meaning should be unmistakable. If, according to Garga, the Seven Rishis were in Maghā at the junction of the Kali and Dvāpara Ages and if, according to Varāhamihira... Fleet adds that most probably the astronomer Aryabhata had in mind the same occurrence when he mentioned Bhārata Thursday as the last day of the Age which preceded the "Fourth Yuga" (=the Kali). Fleet quotes Aryabhata's commentator Paramesvara as explicitly connecting Āryabhata's words to this occurrence. Regarded along Fleet's lines, though without his omission of Krishna's death... known to modern historians as the Satavahana dynasty, back to Mahapādma. This interval is of 836 years. In the succeeding verse an interval equal to 1. The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age (London, 1913), p. 58, line 5 and fn. 21. 2."The Problem of Interpretation of the Purānas". Purāna (Vārānasi), January 1964, pp. 67-8. 3. Ibid., p. 68. 4. History of Dharmasāstra ...
... uphold it in the Dwapara by intellectual regulation and common consent and rule; then in the Kali it finally collapses and is destroyed. But the Kali is not merely evil; in it the necessary conditions are progressively built up for a new Satya, another harmony, a more advanced perfection. In the period of the Kali which has passed, still endures in its effects, but is now at an end, there has been a general... the world. Yogins like Janaka, Ajatashatru and Kartavirya once more sit on the thrones of the world and govern the nations. God's Lila in man moves always in a circle, from Satyayuga to Kali and through Kali to the Satya, from the Age of Gold to the Age of Iron and back again through the Iron to the Gold. In modern language the Satyayuga is a period of the world in which a harmony, stable and sufficient... India. Whenever he chooses to take the full pleasure of ignorance, of the dualities, of strife and wrath and tears and weakness and selfishness, the tamasic and rajasic pleasures, of the play of the Kali in short, he dims the knowledge in India and puts her down Page 71 into weakness and degradation so that she may retire into herself and not interfere with this movement of his Lila. When ...
... the Asuras, who strive to limit and obstruct man's high and mounting movement. Cutting off the Asura's head, Kali laps up the flowing blood so that no drop may fall on the earth and multiply the breed. Kali is a blood-thirsty goddess. Mother described her encounter with this particular Kali of the fishing village. "I Page 139 story, I knew nothing. I was going in a car from... everything went off well, we had brought paints to the church and kept them handy. Naturally, the priest then received us and, along with the anar- 1. Kali is the presiding deity of the Iron Age, and should not be confused with Kali, the goddess. Page 134 The mural at Pau chist, invited us to dinner. He was so nice! Oh, a real good man. I was already... nature, to assist humanity in its evolutionary ascent. Kalki will appear riding a white, two-winged Horse, holding a discus in one hand and, in the other, a sword like a flaming comet. He will slay Kali, 1 the Iron Age, and reestablish the Age of Truth. "All the slain Moors were at the bottom," Mother specified, "and I painted the slain or the struggling Moors, the reason being," she smiled, "that ...
... out to Damayanti, "That my kingdom was lost and that I abandoned you was all the work of Kali, it was not my doing." Kali, adds Nala, was burnt by Damayanti's curse "like fire burnt by fire", and "was defeated by my endeavours and tapasya" What were Nala's efforts to defeat Kali and overcome the deep crisis in which he had been plunged? It would be too long to list all of them... in front of the gods or in front of Damayanti. In fact, he is so pure and sincere that Kali, after resolving to take possession of him, had to wait for twelve full years as he could not find any opening, any flaw that would allow him to sneak in. After twelve years, a minuscule fault was committed that gave Kali the opportunities he sought. From then onwards, Nala was not himself. However, in... crack appears in this beautiful picture widens more and more. ________ * Literally: "will get sons, grandsons, cattle, honour, health and happiness". Page 11 An evil being named Kali enters the king, clouds his judgement and leads him to all kinds of disasters, including the loss of his kingdom, exile, the separation from his children, the abandoning of his wife in the forest, ...
... preservation that make up the līlā . The greatness of this teaching is for the great. Those who are commissioned to bring about mighty changes are full of the force of the Zeitgeist. Kali has entered into them and Kali when she enters into a man cares nothing for rationality and possibility. She is the force of Nature that whirls the stars in their orbits, lightly as a child might swing a ball, and... In all movements, in every great mass of human action it is the Spirit of the Time, that which Europe calls the Zeitgeist and India Kala, who expresses himself. The very names are deeply significant. Kali, the Mother of all and destroyer of all, is the Shakti that works in secret in the heart of humanity manifesting herself in the perpetual surge of men, institutions and movements, Mahakala the Spirit... refuge in egoism saying 'I will not fight,' this thy resolve is a vain thing; Nature will yoke thee to thy work." When a man seems to have rejected his work, it merely means that his work is over and Kali leaves him for another. When a man who has carried out a great work is destroyed, it is for the egoism by which he has misused the force within that the force itself breaks him to pieces, as it broke ...
... as it was complicated and the debate instead of leading to an understanding, culminated in a fight. The zemindar's first-born had said that it was written in the scriptures that Kali, the Destroyer, was more powerful than Kali, the Preserver. "And the reason is," he said, "that Her tongue is both redder and longer." This Ram hotly challenged, contending that the destructive deity's tongue might be a... My teacher says it's wonderful—the shade of the banyan tree! Govinda, go and fetch a can of water. Bhola, cut down a nice thick bamboo and bring it, quickly! We must put a fence round it, or our cow Kali will eat up my tree." Page 540 Digambari was in a sizzling temper that morning, "A banyan tree in the middle of the courtyard! I never heard of anything so absurd in my life." Ram... Hah, Govinda don't point at it! And . . . and... when it grows big, I'll... well, for one thing, hang up a hammock there for Govinda. Bhola! the fence must be at least this high, or the incorrigible Kali will stretch out her neck and eat it up.... Give it to me, give me the axe, you can't manage it, you toddling baby!" The bamboo cutting went on with a terrific clatter. Laughing once more, Narayani ...
... deathless memory I bore. Here is a description of a vision that Sri Aurobindo had during his Baroda period: Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image-worship—if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found... that can be behind image-worship. Sri Aurobindo, in one of his letters written much later, seems to be referring to this experience in the following words: Or, you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an... ³. These summits are: Shuddhi, Mukti, Bhukti, Siddhi—pertaining to Siddhi Chatushthaya; Sarvam Brahma, Anantam Brahma, Jnanam Brahma, Anandam Brahma— pertaining to Brahma Chatushthaya; Krishna, Kali, Karma, Kama—pertaining to Karma Chatushthaya; Samata, Shanti, Sukha, Hasya—pertaining to Shanti Chatushthaya; Virya, Page 17 January 13th 1912 10.15a.m. ... Ananda has ...
... Purana, which dates back roughly to the third century A.D., says many other interesting things about our Kali Yuga. For instance: "In the Kali Yuga, kings will not take care of their subjects, and yet they will steal their subjects' possessions on the pretext of collecting taxes ... In the Kali Yuga, the Shudras (the laborers) will demand the same rights as the Brahmins ... people will be haunted by... castes will become almost like Shudras. But notwithstanding all its flaws, the great virtue of the Kali Yuga is that a spiritual progress demanding great ascetic efforts in the age of Satya Yuga (the age of the beginnings or Age of Truth) can be accomplished by man with very little effort in the Kali Yuga." × ... another: from the mind center to the heart center to the stomach center to the sex center—that is, the center of Matter. We have come down all the way there, because the evolutionary work of our age— Kali Yuga, the Dark Age 101 —is taking place there, in Matter. We may deplore it rationally and morally and aesthetically, but Nature could not care less about our reasons and our morals. She does ...
... the mind, the other in which it is vivid and the very nature of the soul's view of things. The Ishwara is not as often before Krishna or Kali, Purusha and Prakriti, in the individual, but the Lilamaya impartially in all, Krishna with Kali in the purusha, Kali with Krishna in the stri . The prema-kama is normalising itself in the same way,—in two ways separately, first as essential stuff of the... fulfilment. Suddha vijnanananda is becoming more and more confirmed, brilliant and intense on the vijnana plane. It is becoming also full of the devibhava and is preparing to base the full Krishna Kali darshana. Devibhava grows in firmness and intensity and is preparing to expel the habit of reversion by the full illumination of the lower bhava and the removal of the division between para and... colour and the faery atmosphere of the ananda. The insistence throughout the day has been on the fifth chatusthaya + Ishwara, ie on the Ananda Brahman merging into the Anandamaya Purusha (Krishna-Kali). For days the rupadrishya has been disorganised. The mental Page 982 stress and formation is being eliminated. Meanwhile the old round of breaking up and rebuilding the broken siddhi ...
... Sometimes I see the Mother in the form of Mahakali or as the Transcendent and Universal Mother. But I see her in a white colour. I know that Kali is called Shyama because her colour is black, but I saw white. Why is this? Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. 13 March 1934 ... Personalities and Appearances of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Mahakali and Kali What is the essential difference between the Mahakali form as described in the Chandi and the Shyama form? These—Kali, Shyama, etc.—are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black or dark ...
... interesting comments. According to tradition, the Kaliyuga came the moment Krishna's "lotus-feet" left the earth. The message of the Gita is, therefore, the last spiritual summons to us from the pre-Kali epoch. I am not speaking of the historical date of this scripture. Whatever that may be, spiritual tradition has to look on it in this manner. And I should think that no other scripture has hailed from... the four yugas is an old Indian insight. One version speaks of a cow originally standing on her four legs but with the passing Page 231 of each yuga losing one of them until in the Kali she is precariously poised on a single leg. We may consider the Gita's threefold message - Karma, Jnana, Bhakti - as supplying the spiritual support in"an epoch in which the Time-cow has lost three... taken. You in India take long views and I hope your faith in 'evolution' may be justified; but having reached that section in my bad American translation of the Mahabharata where the last phase of the kali-yuga is described, I wonder if that is not where we are. Would that Kalki, the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus, etc., be at hand. But 'what rough beast/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'. Yet how ...
... all is taken back into its origin ( pralaya ) and then started again in the same order. “Lord Vishnu mounted on a white horse, with a drawn scimitar, blazing like a comet will come to end the present Kali Yuga and inaugurate a reign of universal goodness, peace and prosperity, he will renovate the creation with an era of purity or Krita Yuga. The four yugas will then proceed in the same order once again... remembered them.” The Mother Warrior In the Ashram the Mother was usually addressed as “Sweet Mother,” but everybody knew that some of her emanations or individualized personalities, among them Kali or Durga, were great warriors. She carried above her eye the scar of an occult battle. And did Sri Aurobindo not call the Second World War “the Mother’s War”? Of Mahakali, Sri Aurobindo wrote: “There... An hour began, the matrix of new Time. 63 6. The Kalki Avatar In Hinduism, the Kalki Avatar is thought of as the last of the succession of Avatars, who will come at the end of the present Kali Yuga. The victor of the last, decisive battle with the hostile forces, he will ride on a white (winged) horse and brandish a sword or scimitar. He will vanquish Yama, or Death, and resolve all opposites ...
... ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. 1 He invokes all these Vedic gods and tells each one to take possession of him; and THEN he tells Kali to free him from their influence! It is very amusing! It's written in black and white, but the people here read and don't understand what... still unmanifest. So if he has represented the Mother by Kali in particular, I believe it's in relation to all those gods. Page 73 Because, as he wrote in The Mother , the aspects to be manifested depend upon the time, the need, the thing to be done. And he always said that unless one understands and profoundly feels the aspect of Kali, one can never really participate in the Work in the world—he... of the world or the other, 'life' or 'death' ), it has no importance. But this is the true fact. There, petit. × Kali symbolizes the destroying or warrior-like aspect of the universal Mother: it is she who severs all bonds ... out of love. × ...
... where I had gone to meet the Yogi Brahmananda. This place is on the bank of the river Narmada, which is dotted with innumerable temples, big and small. I entered a Kali temple and lo! It was not a figure of stone that was there, but Mother Kali herself. It is since then that I began worshipping the Divine Mother and my belief in the Presence of the Divine, even in idols, grew strong and sure. I may add... awaken his artistic consciousness. In any case, it is clear that every Indian will be indebted to her forever. You should all read her books - The Web of Indian Life, The Cradle-Tales of Hinduism, Kali the Mother and The Master as I Saw Him." "Did she have any spiritual realisations?" asked Amal. "She must have had, but we never discussed them. We were busy with politics and revolution. But... born, age after age, to uphold the Good and to destroy the Evil. Was it not Sri Krishna who turned Kurukshetra into a huge playfield of death, who destroyed the Kauravas? And what about Mother Durga, Kali? No, no. God is certainly not against violence, if it becomes necessary. He even takes up arms himself. "But my political battle was not born of any personal dislike or disgust for the British. Neither ...
... age), followed by the age with "three-fourths of the truth," Treta-yuga , then "half of the truth," Dwapara-yuga , and finally the age when all the truth has disappeared, Kali-yuga , and when the Password has been lost. The Kali-yuga is followed by a new Satya-yuga, but between the two there is a complete disintegration, pralaya , and the universe is "swallowed back up." For Sri Aurobindo, however... average Indian, who will bow respectfully before Christ (with as much spontaneous reverence as before his own image of God), but who will see also the face of God in the laughter of Krishna, the terror of Kali, the sweetness of Saraswati, and in the thousands upon thousands of other gods who dance, multicolored and mustachioed, mirthful or terrifying, illuminated or compassionate, on the deliriously carved... leave behind our light and open cathedrals that soar high like a triumph of the divine thought in man suddenly to find ourselves before Sekmeth in the silence of Abydos on the Nile, or face to face with Kali behind the peristyle of Dakshineshwar, we do feel something; we suddenly gape before an unknown dimension, a "something" that leaves us a little stunned and speechless, which is not at all there in ...
... Aurobindo, on his part, had admired her distantly as the author of Kali the Mother, and now found in her a fiery spirit utterly consecrated to the cause of the liberation of Mother India from despotic foreign rule. They discussed neither spiritual questions nor Ramakrishna or Vivekananda; they saw themselves as fellow-votaries of Kali the Mother, as children of Bhavani Bharati, and this was the... direction, and Sri Aurobindo had besides the experience of certain unusual psycho-physical phenomena. Sri Aurobindo had darśan of Swami Brahmananda at his ashram. He also visited one of the temples of Kali in the neighbourhood, and what he saw was not just an image but a Presence, even as he had an experience of the vacant Infinite when walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir in 1903.... Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali behind a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, ...
... half of our work is done but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power, - Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Maser using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself only... only as a centre of his universal existence and responding to its workings as a soul to the Soul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all set-backs and recoils.... This is a remarkable analysis and a momentous confession. From cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of Unity (which, although it may be... personal felicity, will be "an escape instead of a victory"), the next stage would be to see the Unity as a creative duality of Two-in-One: Pure Existence and Power of Consciousness, or Krishna and Kali. The true Yogi turns himself into a pure engine of Power, to be used for His purposes by Krishna. What, then, happens to the individual self? In itself it is nothing; the more the Yogi becomes a power-house ...
... in the hearts of men. Dismissing the set ethical systems, defying conventional wisdom, he established in the Gita an inward and spiritual rule of conduct. He "prepared the work of the Kali," said Sri Aurobindo. Kali, the fourth Yuga, is the shortest time-wise. But, oh, how concentrated is the battle between the forces of purity and impurity, between the forces of light and darkness. It is horrible... into question. "The end of a stage of evolution is usually marked by a powerful recrudescence of all that has to go out of the evolution," to quote Sri Aurobindo. The battle is fiercest in Kali-yuga because Kali ushers in a new Satya Yuga. A new Age of Truth. "The seed of dawn sleeps in the heart of dusk." At any rate, although the system of the four castes was well established, it did not count... Manu—man comes from Manu. So there are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahma. The lifespan of each Manu is called a Manwantara. In each Manwantara there are seventy-one chaturyugas—Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. One human Page 377 year is one day-night for the gods. Kritayoa lasts for 4,800 god-years, Tretayoga for 3,600 god-years, Dwapara lasts for 2,400 god-years, and Kaliyoga lasts for ...
... stopped him from coming near by touching his shoulders.... But that was clearly Kali. Sri Aurobindo came and I told him what had happened. (The boy had got back to his feet and was climbing the stairs again; when he saw Sri Aurobindo, he scampered off!... He never did it again, of course.) But that was clearly Kali: when Kali wants to, she can be very strong, but that still belongs to the realm of terrestrial... letter in which I was told... in short, that it had become impossible, intolerable, that Page 362 he could not be kept here. So I concentrated for a minute and Kali arrived—Kali in her battling mood, a black, dancing Kali. I told her, "Why don't you go on his head?" ( Laughing ) She went and did her dance on his head—the next day, he wrote he was leaving the Ashram. In this case, it was very... lost his balance and fell all the way down the stairs, he rolled right down the stairs. So I thought it was Sri Aurobindo who had made Kali intervene (he had heard that demented boy shout, you see). It's not the same thing. Long ago, when Sri Aurobindo was here, Kali used to come from time to time—but it still belongs to this world, it's not the same thing [as the supramental Power]. Another time ...
... dread of me; NALA shall guard from KALI, if so now Thou spare to curse me, seeking grace of thee." Thus supplicated, Nala stayed his wrath, Acceding; and the direful Kali fled Into the Wounded tree, possessing it. But of no eyes, save Nala's, was he seen, Nor heard of any other; and the Prince, His sorrows shaking off, when Kali passed, After that numbering of... Nala's too. But wonderful! So soon as Nala knew That hidden gift, the accursed Kali leapt Page 89 Forth from his breast, the evil spirit's mouth Spewing the poison of Karkotaka Even as he issued. From the afflicted Prince That bitter plague of Kali passed away; And for a space Prince Nala lost himself, Rent by the agony. But... story. Nala's loss of his throne, his vicissitudes and separation from Damayanti upto his final reunion with her and his reinstatement are absent. The fault of Nala, which gives the opportunity for Kali to enter him and wreck his life and happiness, never occurs. The poem has only kept the "fairy tale" aspect and the sringar rasa is the dominating flavour all throughout. The poet describes at great ...
... it is the instrument of my rapture. 427) I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another, and still it was my Self with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. 428) What is the use of admiring Nature or worshipping her as a Power, a Presence and a goddess? What... from thee. 518) Sumbha first loved Kali with his heart & body, then was furious with her and fought her, at last prevailed against her, seized her by the hair & whirled her thrice round him in the heavens; the next moment he was slain by her. These are the Titan's four strides to immortality and of them all the last is the longest and mightiest. 519) Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power... heaven and thou exceedest the emancipation of the Adwaitin. 476) When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys & girls together with God revealed as Krishna & Kali, the happiest boy & strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam & Eve were too grown up and its God himself too old & stern & ...
... she had sought with the Maharaja of Baroda. She had heard of me as one who believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali, by which she meant she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew her already because I had read and admired her book, 'Kali the Mother'. It was in those days that we formed a friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain emissaries... Whenever she used to speak on revolution, it was her very soul, her true personality, that came out.... Yoga was Yoga, but it was that sort of work that was, as it were, intended for her. Her book, 'Kali the Mother' is very inspiring. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach revolution to them.... Her eyes showed a power of concentration and revealed a capacity for going into... person to his own country and makes him regard it as the greatest and best. He loved and adored India, because he knew that in the present Chaturyuga (a cycle of four ages: Satya, Treta, Dwapara, and Kali) India was destined to be the custodian of the supreme knowledge, and the leader of the world in the ways of the Spirit 50 - a fact which is being more and more realised and acknowledged by the ...
... interview she had sought with the Maharaja of Baroda. She had heard of me as one who 'believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali' by which she meant that she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew of her already because I had read and admired her book Kali the Mother . It was in these days that we formed our friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain... one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image-worship – if anything at that time he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. He got a direct proof of the truth that can be behind image-worship. He once wrote: "Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river... while repeating a Mantra. He then asked Barin to drink it; saying he wouldn't have fever the next day, and the fever left him."¹ It was perhaps the same Sannyasi who gave Sri Aurobindo a Stotra of Kali. "It was a very violent Stotra with 'Jahi, Jahi' in it. I used to repeat it, it did not give any results. ... It was at this time that I gave up meat diet and found a great feeling of lightness and ...
... this kind of spiritual “goondaism” [banditry] what am I to do? To wait till it is too late? I repeat, I do need the official protection from the Government of India. And quickly. May Mother Kali help us. Satprem PS: An occult Truth you must know: whatever Force and Light and Work is left by the Mother is automatically Page 131 the target of the remaining forces of Darkness... offers her savings ... Mother actually fills us with the joy of giving to her and putting a Meaning in what we do. Those law mongers are so pitiful. As for my “safety,” Mother is my best safety — Kali and Krishna were with Sri Aurobindo in prison. They accompany our steps, here or there. (...) This “hard, stiff, heavy body”: it is exactly that. It is the very sign that It has started to work... thundering voice, like Mother’s when She was very angry, or pretending to be angry (but “thundering” without thunder, with just the pressure of Consciousness, Page 262 like a mixture of Kali and Krishna), answering my challenge or my pain or my reproach for having dropped it all: “Well, do it !” It was a little frightening. But She actually may want her unbearable children to do the ...
... you are. I saw your mistake (not serious) between Lakshmi and Kali — the marvel of the Indian conception is precisely that the pitiless warrior is also the one who loves. She slits the adversary's throat and she loves. I've always had a particular affinity with Kali, like Sri Aurobindo... "Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali." (You remember this aphorism of Sri Aurobindo?). Neither by ... for 8,500 rupees. I shall not dwell on the horrible discussion with this individual and above all his witch of a wife: two days of negotiations — rapacity, hearts of stone. Sujata was there like Kali. (...) Without Land's End, it was the ruin of our plans. We needed these two houses to shelter our team, plus the machine and the installations. Harwood was of no use without Land's End, we would... The difficulties that arise with our brothers are only there to help us put our finger on the sore spot — there is never someone's "fault,": there is a progress to make, that's all. But to call Kali, as C. does, is still a selfish violence that Page 61 calls for another, stronger violence. All that has to melt into tenderness . This Tenderness is Mother. She does not break anything: ...
... half of our work is done, but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power, - Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Master using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself... perception of the One behind the manifold, and also to the rapture of such unitive experience; then, from that position to the active self, from Krishna to Kali, the total elimination of the ego and the total sovereignty of Krishna and Kali, divine Knowledge coupled with divine Power; and then, the opening up of the higher planes of consciousness up to and including the supramental, and the subjection... myself only as a centre of his universal existence and responding to its workings as a soul to the Soul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all set-backs and recoils, imperfectly indeed in the secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. 5 This is a remarkable analysis, as ...
... that! (Laughing) Okay. So she's really terrible, that Kali. So Mother says to me, "Oh, you know, today is Kali's day. Do you know Kali?" I look at Mother without a word, with a slight smile. And Mother starts taking on Kali's appearance – that terrible appearance, you know. A Power that anybody who... (you know Ramakrishna, who worshipped Kali?), well, anybody would have been crushed by that Force... season for Puja , when we invoke the divinities – Durga, Kali, Lakshmi, and all the goddesses – and we worship them. Page 160 Well, at a certain period in the ashram, on those days, Mother would come downstairs to meet people, and she would give her blessings to everybody. One of those days, just before the celebration of Kali, I was working in a room, not far from where Mother was... (laughter) . It was my job. And in comes Mother. She stops in front of me and says, "Well, I am going downstairs. It's Kali's day." And she started to... Towarnicki: But who is Kali? (Laughing) Kali is the terrible Mother, who wears the heads of human beings and demons around her neck – heads that she herself has severed. She is completely black, her hair disheveled, and she has Shiva ...
... condition he can have them. October 3, 1935 Is there no truth behind animal sacrifices to Kali, or are they useless inhuman practices like vivisection in the name of Science (according to anti-vivisectionists)? If animal sacrifices are to be made, they may just as well be made to Kali as to one's stomach,—the Europeans who object to it have no locus standi. Buddhism says the killing... well object to the killing Of germs by fumigation or otherwise. What about the sacrifice of harmless animals to Kali? Useless and therefore inadvisable. External sacrifices of this kind have no longer any meaning—as so many saints have said, sacrifice ego, anger, lust etc. to Kali, not goats or cocks. One can massacre men and nations for the Divine, but what about this then for the Divine's... some Sharma has gone on hunger-strike to stop the sacrifices at Kalighat. Tagore supports him. Of course, I know. But he objects to animal sacrifice; why does he make a goat-offering of himself to Kali? Is human sacrifice better than animal sacrifice? The argument is: what does the loss of one life matter if by it other lives can be saved? I know the South African saying 'How glorious if the ...
... Lower Circular Road corresponds with the present 237, Lower Circular Road, is corroborated by the following change of ownership: 1881-1885 Coomar Kali Kristo Roy (owner) 1900-1905 Coomar Kali Kristo Roy (owner) 1906-1909 Coomar Kali Kristo Roy (owner) 1927-1934 B. Chakraborti, the official receiver of the High Court 1934-1940 The official receiver of the High Court, Hindusthan... a changing from Vedanta to Kali worship and Sri Aurobindo from Shakti worship to Vedanta is fantastic. Vivekananda's instruction to Sister Nivedita does not constitute a proof that he had converted from Vedanta to Tantra. One cannot lose sight of the fact that Vivekananda was the chief disciple of one who was a lifelong devotee of Kali. Besides, Vedanta does not bar Kali worship. 22. Girija surmises ...
... which is fourteen cubits in Treta, is reduced to seven cubits in Dwapara, and goes down to four and a half cubits in Kali. Sri Aurobindo 1.The Vishnu Purana, which was recorded in about the third century A.D., says many other interesting things about the Kali Yuga: "In the Kali Yuga, the kings will not take care of their subjects, and yet they will steal riches from their subjects on the pretext... caste will become almost like the Shudra [labourers]. . . . But notwithstanding all these defects, the great virtue of the Kali Yuga is that the spiritual progress man accomplishes with great, ascetic efforts in the Satya Yuga he can accomplish with very little effort in the Kali Yuga." 2.Some Puranas put the durations respectively as 4800, 3600, 2400, 3600, 2400 and 1200 years of the gods. One... when the degradation has begun and the age has lost one third of the Truth. It is followed by Dwapara, when Truth and Falsehood hold equal sway to begin with, but Truth continues to lose ground. The Kali, the Iron Age, throttles the remaining Truth, and the cycle is closed. The increasing twilight is finally a total Page 68 darkness. Darkness strangles earth's breast. It is stark ...
... brotherhood. They built according to their knowledge, but the triangle has to be reversed before it can stand permanently. The action of the French Revolution was the vehement death-dance of Kali trampling blindly, furiously on the ruins She made, mad with pity for the world and therefore utterly pitiless. She called the Yatudhani in her to her aid and summoned up the Rakshasi. The Yatudhani... mantra, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, the stern and terrible addition "or Death." Death to the Asura, death to all who oppose God's evolution, that was the meaning. With these two terrible Shaktis Kali did Her work. She veiled Her divine knowledge with the darkness of wrath and passion, She drank blood as wine, naked of tradition and convention She danced over all Europe and the whole continent was... have heard in his demand the voice of the Revolution calling on him to stay his sanguinary course. But he was full of his own blind faith and would not hear. Danton died because he resisted the hand of Kali, but his mighty disembodied spirit triumphed and imposed his last thought on the country. The Page 516 Terror ceased; Mercy took its place. Robespierre, however, has his place of honour ...
... the world that was, He is creating the world that shall be; it is therefore more profitable for us to discover and help what He is building than to lament and hug in our arms what He is destroying.... Kali is the age for a destruction and rebirth, not for a desperate clinging to the old that can no longer be saved____ Has the time arrived for that destruction ? We think that it has. Listen to the... vibhutis coming, arising thickly, treading each close behind the other. Are not these the signs and do they not tell us that the great Avatar of all arrives to establish the first Satya Yuga of the Kali ?... Yes, a new harmony, but not the scrannel pipes of European Page 91 materialism, not an Occidental foundation upon half truths and whole falsehoods. When there is destruction... (From a letter to Motilal Roy.) You must understand that my mission is not to create Maths, ascetics and Sannyasins; but to call back the souls of the strong to the Lila of Krishna and Kali.... Every ascetic movement since the time of Buddha has left India weaker and for a very obvious reason. Renunciation of life is one thing, to make life itself, national, individual, world-life greater ...
... Lord all this is a habitation whatsoever is moving thing in her that moves. Why dost thou say there is a world? There is no world, only One who moves. What thou callest world is the movement of Kali; as such embrace thy world-existence. In thy all-embracing stillness of vision thou art Purusha and inhabitest; in thy outward motion and action thou art Prakriti and the builder of the habitation.... being. There are many knots of the movement and each knot thy eyes look upon as an object; many currents and each current thy mind sees as force and tendency. Forces and objects are the forms of Kali. To each form of her we give a name. What is this name? It is word, it is sound, it is vibration of being, the child of infinity & the father of mental idea. Before form can be, name & idea must... unstable. No single rhythm can be eternally stable; therefore the universe is an ocean always in flow, and everything in it is mutable & transient. Each thing in Nature endures till the purpose of Kali in it is fulfilled; then it is dissolved and changed into a constituent of some other harmony. Prakriti is eternal, but every universe passes. The fact of universe endures for ever, but no particular ...
... an individual & local manifestation of the impersonal Chaitanya and not as the individual manifestation of Chaitanya as universal Personality. On the other hand the universal Sri Krishna or Krishna-Kali in all things animate or inanimate has been realised entirely, but not with sufficient constancy & latterly with little frequency. The remedy is to unify the two realisations & towards this consummation... heart and nature of the child (including the animal), the strength of the Titan, the appetites of the old giants, the intellectuality of Gods. 3) Kindly in intention, tragic in result. (Dharma in the Kali). 4) Finality to the tejas. (One of the immediate siddhis to be expected in the yoga.[)] 5) Rupadrishti. 6) Thaumaturgy. Yesterday, the 30ᵗʰ, there were four apposite sortileges which have... written prediction today:— 1) Finality of shuddhananda. 2) Increase of sharira ananda. 3) Progress of health and utthapana (health in linga & stomach) 4) Preparation of saundaryam. 5) Kali Krishna (finality of mental dasyam and sraddha in the guidance,—not in the truth of everything stated.) 6) Karma & kama increase. 7) Trikaldrishti notably, powers less, samadhi somewhat developed ...
... symbol of Shakti and devotion. Narada Narada stands for the expression of the Divine Love and Knowledge. Mahakali and Kali Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. These—Kali, Shyama, etc.—are ordinary forms seen through the vital; the real Mahakali form whose origin is in the Overmind is not black ...
... The Mother with Letters on the Mother Kali While praying today I saw the image of Mother Kali. She was black and naked and standing with her foot on the back of Shiva. Why is Kali seen in such a form and on what plane is she seen like this? It is in the vital. It is Kali as a destroying Force—a symbol of the Nature Force in the ignorance surrounded ...
... occasions that she use her Kali-power on the world, she tried every time as kindly and prudently as possible to make him see that such violent interventions by her were no longer in order, that her method of acting was not the same anymore. ‘There is the method of Kali which consists in administering a thorough spanking, but this means a lot of damage for meager results.’ 18 Kali is the goddess who destroys... destroys to bring the world faster to its divine goal by a new creation. There is however a whole hierarchy of Kalis, from those in the lower vital up to Mahakali, the Great Kali, who is one of the four aspects or direct emanations of the Mother. The lower Kalis are as depicted in the Indian iconography: naked, black, with bulging eyes, the tongue hanging out, a garland of skulls around the neck, terrible ...
... there. There is one Kali temple and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God. 5.12.1939 Sri Aurobindo The idol of Mahakali, Karnali situated on the northern bank of river Narmada, near Chandod in Gujarat. When Sri Aurobindo visited this shrine in 1906. He realised the living Presence of Kali in the image. The... and invariable union with the divine Will. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship — if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a... The poem which he wrote later. The Stone Goddess , is reproduced here. "You stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother..." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - I: ...
... and the United Nations has acted from a single motive, because they were dreadfully scared of a general war—of course, this blocks the vision. We'll see. But I believe in Kali, Mother. My only hope now is really in Kali: Kali's force striking. I can't imagine any other possibility. ( Silence ) This man who is heading Pakistan doesn't represent the whole of Pakistan. There is a whole part of... do." It seems there was a sense of tremendous effort ( laughing ): "This is all I have managed to do." The world isn't ready. That's the worst part. The world isn't ready. So then, if it is Kali, it means everything back to the melting pot, and with the means at their disposal, that may mean having to start the whole civilization from scratch again—how many centuries wasted? What has come... But I mean that according to my vision (which I don't think is mine, it's not a personal vision), nights and days like yesterday (which aren't pleasant) obviously give you a knowledge, and upheaval [Kali] still belongs to the old method—it's accepting that the world hasn't changed. While this sort of Page 256 apparent shrinking is in fact perhaps the proof that the earth consciousness has ...
... Sanscrit language is the devabhasha or original language spoken by men in Uttara Meru at the beginning of the Manwantara; but in its purity it is not the Sanscrit of the Page 475 Dwapara or the Kali, it is the language of the Satyayuga based on the true and perfect relation of vak and artha. Every one of its vowels and consonants has a particular and inalienable force which exists by the nature... without modification of the root and more complex words by the principle of composition. This language increasingly corrupted in sense and sound becomes the later Sanscrit of the Treta, Dwapara and Kali Yuga, being sometimes partly purified and again corrupted and again partly purified so that it never loses all apparent relation to its original form and structure. Every other language, however remote... incarnates as the lawgiver, ritualist and Shastrakara to preserve the knowledge and practice of the dharma by the aid of the intellect and abhyasa, customary practice based on intellectual knowledge. In the Kali all breaks down except love and service, the dharma of the Shudra by which humanity is maintained and from time to time purified; for the jnanam breaks down and is replaced by worldly, practical reason ...
... S. Rajaram writes: “It is beginning to be seen that even the chronology of ancient India based on the so-called Kali Date (3102 BC) for the Mahabharata period is not lacking in scientific support, falling as it does at the beginning of what we now call the Harappan Civilization. The Kali Age – especially its harbinger, the Mahabharata War – may be seen as marking the end of the spiritual age of the... like the Indian, that this enigmatic World-Power is one Deity, one Trinity, to lift up the image of the Force that acts in the world in the figure not only of the beneficent Durga, but of the terrible Kali in her blood-stained dance of destruction and to say, ‘This too is the Mother; this also know to be God; this too, if thou hast the strength, adore.’” 6 Therefore: “We must acknowledge Kurukshetra;... for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the earthquake and pain and famine and revolution and ruin ...
... forms. Page 520 29 June 1914 Sort . The supreme human aspiration lifting itself towards that which is at once the apparent contradiction and secret reality of our being. (ie Krishna Kali). Script. All is realised that was promised yesterday. It is the definite beginning of the precise ideality, as was predicted yesterday in an unrecorded lipi. Today the movement will become... the remnants of the old littleness, tucchyena abhwapihita, not now tad ekam, but sa ekah. The three affirmations have reemerged from the battle strengthened & intensified. It is less Krishna than Kali who is now manifest in all beings & things, but that is as it should be. Otherwise, the Krishnadarshana itself would be incomplete. Vijnana Aishwarya & Vashita are once again active; the... notable that the contradictions of the two first chatusthayas & the sixth are now only possible by a physical touch imposed with a tremendous force & slight effectivity. Even half of the fifth, Krishna-Kali is accomplished. The obstacle offered by the mental forms of the gods & the remoteness of the Ishwara is a means for the full manifestation of the Lilamaya. The full brilliant ritam jyotih is ...
... place. It is like the story X told me of his guru 2 who could command the coming of Kali (something which seems quite natural to me when one is sufficiently developed); well, not only could he commend the coming of Kali, but Kali with I don't know how many crores of her warriors! ... For me, Kali was Kali, after all, and Page 249 she did her work; but in the universal organization ...
... personal aim or in any self-regarding way. 8 October 1950 Of all the aspects of the Mother, Kali most powerfully expresses vibrant and active love, and despite her sometimes terrible aspect, she carries in herself the golden splendour of an all-powerful love. 24 February 1965 Kali rarely acts in the mind. In the higher domains she is a power of love which pushes towards progress... The Gods, Superior Beings and Adverse Forces Words of the Mother - III Kali, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati When people speak against you, I feel as if a big flame with many tongues is arising in me and the person in front becomes docile. It must be Kali's force which you evoke. I want to ask you a question concerned with my reaction to... force appears to be there which wants to destroy and which feels it has the power to destroy. Of course I would never think of using it for my own private ends. It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact ...
... Nivedita. It had started when Nivedita visited Baroda in 1902 to give some lectures. Sri Aurobindo went to the station to receive her. She had heard of him as a worshipper of Kali and Sri Aurobindo had appreciated her book Kali, the Mother. Nivedita had an interview with the Maharaja at which Sri Aurobindo was present. She tried to persuade the Maharaja to support the revolutionary movement but he... her. It was her very soul that spoke. Whenever we met we spoke about politics and revolution. But her eyes showed a power of concentration and revealed a capacity for going into trance. Her book Kali, the Mother is revolutionary and not at all non-violent.' ‘What about Barin,' we interposed, 'he was also fiery?' ‘But not like Nivedita. She was fire, if you like. She did India a tremendous... an experience which too he expressed in a sonnet, 'Adwaita': An unborn Reality world-nude, Topless and fathomless, forever still... Probably in the same year Sri Aurobindo visited a temple of Kali on the banks of the Narmada. This he did on the persuasion of his friends, as he himself had at the time no faith in idols or image-worship. 'With my European mind,' he wrote, 'I had no faith in them ...
... half of our work is done but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power, – Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Master using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself... ask them to come and see the tin to find what it contained. The French government took charge of the tin and found that it contained seditious pamphlets and journals. On some there was the image of Kali and some writing in Bengali. The suspicion was supposed to be created that all these refugees were carrying on correspondence with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Madame Cama and other leaders of the revolutionary... have been drawn. I may possibly send you the facts of the case for publication in the Nayak or any other paper, but I am not yet certain. I shall write to you about Sadhana etc. another time. Kali ¹ It can be seen from the above letter that there had been a search in the Rue St. Louis house. Sri Aurobindo also refers in it to the escape of Mayuresan to Cuddalore. On 15 August Sri A ...
... to him what his surrender meant. This surrender led to an identification with the Mother, which is evidenced by his signing his letters to Motilal Roy from Pondicherry as Kali. It was, in fact, a development of the Krishna-Kali experience he had in Alipore jail. IV "A son of the two Mothers, he attains to kingship in his discoveries of knowledge, he moved on the summit, he dwells in... half of our work is done but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power, - Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Master using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself only... only as a centre of his universal existence and responding to its working as a soul to the Soul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all set-backs and recoils, imperfectly indeed in the secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. When that has been done, then we may hope to found ...
... instance to a particular way of representing Shiva or Kali and I refuse to have any other. But the artist has nothing to do with my prejudices. He has to represent the essential truth of Shiva or Kali, that which makes their Shivahood or Kalihood, and he is under no obligation to copy the vision of others. If he has seen another vision of Shiva or Kali, it is that vision to which he must be faithful. The... an abiding place in the thought and imagination of the race, depends on its power to awake the deeper vision in the race. All that we can demand is that it shall be a real God, a real Shiva, a real Kali, and not a freak of his imagination or an outcome of some passing saṁskāra of his education or artistic upbringing. He must go to the fountainhead of knowledge within himself or his claim to freedom ...
... siddhi only in eventual accomplishment, except for a doubt of the sharira siddhi and of the extent of the karma . Page 1018 With this the determining of the Kali-Krishna bhava in the personality; together, dasya of the Kali-prakriti as expressive of the Krishna-purusha both making the upper and lower sides of one personality. The Ishwara of the system, with the Ishwara of the worlds above... denial, in all but the [ . . . ] roga which still persists. Utthapana is thrown backward, Saundarya only developed in psychic youth and a few preparatory movements of the physical change. Krishna Kali are both developed, but not perfect. Karma kama are psychically progressing, physically held back. Page 994 Brahmadarshana is complete as continent, incomplete in contents. Shuddhi, mukti... which compose the last five chatusthayas . 1) jnanam, 2) trikaldrishti, 3) rupa-siddhi, 4) tapas 5) samadhi, 6) arogya, 7) ananda, 8) utthapana, 9) saundarya, 10) Krishna, 11) Kali, 12) karma, 13) kama, 14) Sarvam Brahma, 15) Anantam, 16) Jnanam, 17) Anandam, 18) suddhi, 19) mukti, 20) bhukti, 21) siddhi. This jyotih is not yet to be free from interruption ...
... Vivekananda as the youngster Naren being advised by Ramakrishna Paramahamsa to go and pray to Mother Kali for alleviating his (Naren's) poverty as the family was in dire straights: 29 Savitri, p. 315. Page 196 At nine o'clock in the evening, Narendranath went to the Kali temple. Passing through the courtyard, he felt within himself a surge of emotion and his heart leapt... babe. She is achintyarūpā, one whose presence chases away all worries, one who is beyond our knowing. The Divine Mother is also kālikalmasha-nāshini, for she destroys all the effects of Kali Age like pride, jealousy and hate. When we compartmentalise ourselves into the prisons of our dimunitive ego, meditation upon the Mother breaks down these shells of separativity, increases friendship... possibly he had Sister Nivedita in his consciousness when he wrote the lines: I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. I am charged by God to do his mighty work. 52 Savitri moves on further saying that strength without wisdom cannot build eternal ...
... Bronze Age and the Kali or Iron Age. Together they cover the enormous span of 4,310,000 (human) years. (Hindu scripture also speaks about a “year of Brahman” which equals 360 human years.) “Every world creation begins in the perfection of the Krita Age, progressively deteriorates throughout the Treta and Dwapara until the final destruction comes at the end of every Kali – only to give way... cycles, the Mother once used the occult symbol of a Snake biting its own tail. In the course of the cycles there is “a progressive descent from the most subtle to the most material.” 9 The end of the Kali Yuga represents the most material point in the whole development, specifically on the Earth, which, as we will see, occupies a very special place in the universe. As a new Golden Age will follow the... – the perfect state, decline and disintegration of successive ages of humanity followed by a new birth – the mathematical calculations are not the important element. The argument of the end of the Kali Yuga already come or coming and a new Satya Yuga coming is a very familiar one and there have been many who have upheld it.” 43 The last sentence may be seen as Sri Aurobindo’s way of confirming ...
... itself and fulfil itself in dasyalipsa and atmasamarpana, in the surrender of himself to God and to God in man and the selfless service of God and of God in man. The Shudra is the master-spirit of the Kali, as is the Vaishya of the Dwapara, the Kshatriya of the Treta and the Brahmana of the Satya. Shakti Shakti is that perfection of the different parts of the system which enables them to do their... unable to hold these things perfectly. In extreme cases the physical brain is so disturbed by the shock from above as to lead to madness, but this is only in entirely unfit & impure adharas or when Kali descends angrily & violently avenging the attempt of the Asura to seize on her and force her to serve his foul & impure desires. Ordinarily, the incapacity of the body, the nervous system and the physical... thoughtpower in the mind. Their meaning is clear. For the full sense of vishuddhata, refer to the explanation of shuddhi in the seventh chatusthaya. Chandibhava Chandibhavah is the force of Kali manifest in the temperament. 1 Sraddha Sraddha is necessary in two things:— शक्त्यां भगवति चेति श्रद्धा । Shaktyam Bhagawati cha, iti sraddha. Page 12 There must be faith ...
... after that you will ask me why he wrote it. Not now! Sweet Mother, has that Chaldean legend 2 which you have written any relation with Kali Puja? Yes, my child, because on Kali Puja day I always distribute the flowers of "Divine's Love"; for Kali is the most loving of all the aspects of the Mahashakti; hers is the most active and most powerful Love. And that is why every year I distribute... beyond words, beyond systems, beyond languages; it is in a silent identity. It is in fact the only one which does not err. What else? Page 364 In the prayer you gave us this time for Kali Puja, you have written something in Sanskrit. It is Sri Aurobindo who has written a mantra. 1 Then why has he written like this? Why has he written this? Why don't you ask him? Perhaps ...
... there are so many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a frightful thing... to amuse us? Come now! It pleases you; I said "amuses"; it's... I was disrespectful; but it's because it pleases you. Page 193 Mahakali day, for instance... Yes, yes, sometimes Kali comes three days earlier or four days later or at some other time in the year. She is not necessarily there on that very day; at times, to make you happy, I call her a little. ( Laughter ) In any case ...
... pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. Why does Sri Aurobindo give more importance to Kali? It is good and necessary to possess all the divine qualities that these gods represent and symbolise; that is why Sri Aurobindo invokes them and asks them to take... one who wants union with the Supreme, for one who Page 84 aspires for the supreme Realisation, this cannot be sufficient. This is why at the end he calls upon Kali to give him the power to go beyond them all. For Kali is the most powerful aspect of the universal Mother and her power is greater than that of all the gods in her creation. To unite with her means therefore to become more vast ...
... Him. If you believe that the Divine is far away and cruel, He will be far away and cruel, because it will be necessary for your ultimate good that you feel the wrath of God; He will be Kali for the worshippers of Kali and Beatitude for the Bhakta. And He will be the All-knowledge of the seeker of Knowledge, the transcendent Impersonal of the illusionist; He will be atheist with the atheist and the love... Divine. With my love and blessing. 5 November 1947 You must learn once and for all that whatever mistakes people commit, it cannot vex me nor displease me. If there is bad will or revolt, Kali may come and chastise but she always does it with love. 23 March 1954 Page 89 Way of Working People say that you always admire the things we do, no matter what they are. ... Ashram. I attached no importance to them because most of the people here seem to live only for gossip and falsehood, and once and for all I have closed my consciousness to all that, in order to avoid a Kali or a Durga manifestation. I hope that those who are faithful and have common sense will not lose their time listening to all that. All that you say about the food business was known to me―but ...
... In this Kali age flaming passion is the chariot and falsehood the charioteer.., (Asa, 470) This Kali age is like a drawn knife with butchers for kings; and righteousness has taken wings; in this dark night of total falsehood, the Moon of Truth isn't visible.... How shall deliverance be secured? (Var Majh, 145) This distinguishes the Kali age: ... wine it turned young men's minds and sensibilities. There were the "Derozio Men" — as the students of the Calcutta Hindu College who had studied under Henry Derozio were called — who could salute Kali with "Good morning, madam!", who thought (in Surendranath Banerjee's words) that "everything English was good — even the drinking of brandy was a virtue; everything not English was to be viewed ...
... ar which was around eight kilometres from Calcutta. There she built temples and temple gardens. On 31 May 1855, the temple was dedicated, and Ram Kumar was appointed the first priest of the Kali temple. Kali here is known as Bhavatarini—the Deliverer of the world. Gadadhar also was a frequent visitor, and after some time he too became a priest at the Bhavatarini temple of Rani Rasmoni. Next year... six kilometres away from Kamarpukur. Page 5670 After the marriage Gadadhar returned to Dakshineswar. From this time onward his 'state' changed. While worshipping the image of Mother Kali, he began to see Her divine forms. People thought he had gone mad. Complaints began to reach Mathuranath, the son-in-law of Rani Rasmoni, who in effect ran her estate. He came to see for himself. Seeing... then only shall I accept it." Such friendship developed between this couple of Mother and son! It was the most intimate relationship there could ever be. Like a little child he always asked Mother Kali whether he should do something or not. For example, when the Vedantist Totapuri wanted to initiate him in Vedanta —"I'll give you Nirvikalpa samadhi, 1 will you take it?"—he replied, "I don't know ...
... static half of our work is done, but the active half remains. It is then that in the One we must see the Master and His Power,—Krishna and Kali as I name them using the terms of our Indian religions; the Power occupying the whole of myself and my nature which becomes Kali and ceases to be anything else, the Master using, directing, enjoying the Power to his ends, not mine, with that which I call myself only... only as a centre of his universal existence and responding to its workings as a soul to the Soul, taking upon itself his image until there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all setbacks and recoils, imperfectly indeed in the secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. When that has been done, then we may hope to found ...
... there are so many of these entities called Kali—who are given, besides, quite terrible appearances—so many are even placed in houses as the family-goddess; they are full of a terrible vital force! I knew people who were so frightened of the Kali they had at home that indeed they trembled to make the least mistake, for when catastrophes came they thought it was Kali who sent them! It is a frightful thing ...
... innumerable images and have known many people who had in their homes a Kali they worshipped and to whom, sometimes, quite dreadful things had happened. I always put them on their guard, I told them, "Don't think at all that Mahakali is responsible for your misfortunes, for she is not responsible for them. But it is likely that the Kali you have in your home must be harbouring some vindictive being, probably... their authority and power, and that really is the evil behind all religious institutions. Anyway, this is a digression. Let us come back to our subject. In the earth atmosphere there is indeed a Kali who deals with earthly things and is somewhat, one cannot say independent, yet not quite the expression of Mahakali; but she is altogether obedient to her and has her major qualities. They are diminished ...
... Rani Rasmani , which describes the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Rani Rasmani, a rich, very intelligent and religious Bengali widow, who in 1847 built the temple of Kali at Dakshineshwar (Bengal) where Sri Ramakrishna lived and worshipped Kali. × On 24 November 1926 Sri Aurobindo withdrew into seclusion... succeeded in making myself understood—but it was truly quite new and altogether unexpected. We were shown, comparatively clumsily, a picture of the temple on the banks of the Ganges, and the statue of Kali—for I suppose it was a photograph of that statue, I could not manage to get any precise information about it—and while I was seeing that, which was a completely superficial appearance and, as I said ...
... joyous indifference to all things in the world. He must be not un-mundane but supramundane, not inhuman but superhuman. In all his acts he must have in his soul the loud laughter, the attahasyam, of Kali. He must love with that inner laughter, slay with that laughter, save with that laughter, himself perish or reign, take joy or take torture with that secret & divine laughter. For he knows that the... Pure Blissful,—not anyone, no person or individual, for He alone is, but still neither a mere abstraction or state of Being. Entering into world existence, He is All-being, God, Shiva, Vishnu, Krishna, Kali, Allah, the Mighty One, the Humble, the Loving, the Merciful, the Ruthless. These things are aspects of Himself to His own consciousness. Just as Sacchidananda is Triune,—not three, but One,—for when... are false. Neither is one greater than the other, the Impersonal than the Personal, just as in the Personal, Shiva is not greater than Vishnu, nor Vishnu than Shiva, nor the All-Being than Krishna or Kali. Such exaggerated distinctions are the errors of partial or selective Yoga fastening on aspects & ignoring the true being of God in His self-manifestation. We must accept, for our perfection's sake ...
... confusion, this sankara or illegitimate mixing of different nature and function is the curse of the Kali and from it arises much, if not most, of the difficulty we experience as a race in escaping from this misery & darkness into bliss and light. It is part and a great part of Kali Kalila, the chaos of the Kali. Page 79 India has always attempted, though not, since the confusion of Buddhism, ...
... by brief mechanical discontinuities, but not a conquest of absorption and sleep; the other Anandas have therefore also to await their greater development. Karma is developing, but on a limited scale. Kali has deepened and possesses the system, but Krishna is still veiled by the ganas and devatas. Ananda Brahman has filled in with the chidghana and prema, but not yet with the fullness of the Anandamaya... fluctuates in intensity and varies in character; physically there is no advance except in one circumstance. Utthapana is stationary or rather in a state of inhibition. Fifth Chatusthaya. Mental Kali finally and permanently established, Krishna darshana in the being intermittent in its manifestation. Karma is limited to personal action and some force of tapas in outward things. Kama is personal... possible, found the two central arogyas. The development of the two other physical siddhis is not likely to come as yet to perfection, but the final battle may begin with the physical obstruction. V. Kali to idealise and fix herself in the gnosis and Krishna to fix himself as the visible Ishwara in the Ananda. Karma to extend its force of perfection in the personal working and its power on outward e ...
... from Him. If you believe the Divine to be distant and cruel, He will be distant and cruel, because it may be necessary for your supreme wellbeing to feel the wrath of God. He will be Kali 1 for the worshippers of Kali, and bliss for the bhakta 2 He will be the All-Knowledge of seekers after Knowledge, the Transcendent Impersonal of the illusionist. He will be an atheist for the atheist, and the... the Divine, He will Page 118 come and uplift you, and He will be there, very near, nearer and nearer. × Kali : the warrior (or destroyer) aspect of the Divine. × Bhakta : one who follows the path of love. ...
... in principle. 2 October 1957 ( Kali Puja 1959 ) We who have a common uplifting ideal, shall unite; and in this union and by this union we will face and overcome the attacks of all opposing forces of darkness and devastation. In union is Page 194 the strength, in union is the power, in union the certitude of Victory. Mother Kali will be with you on this day. 31 October... n which grows more and more integral, more and more constant, we turn to the Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. 31 October 1955 Kali Puja 1955 Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected ...
... whole life: for years there has just been Sri Aurobindo, that's all, never anything else. The other day he came, and all of a sudden he had a vision: he saw Kali coming out of the Samadhi from the spot where Sri Aurobindo's head is—an all-blue Kali, covered with gold ornaments. On which day? Some four or five days ago. ( Mother remains silent for a long time, then a misunderstanding follows... feeling her in there. What surprised him was that instead of being naked, she was covered with gold. What? Oh, excuse me! You're speaking of Bharatidi! Never mind, what did you say about Kali? What surprised him was that she was covered with gold instead of being naked. She was coming out of the Samadhi? No, that doesn't surprise me. 6 But my reflection was regarding Bharatidi ...
... , p. 99. 2."The Purānas", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 317. 3."The Early History of Southern India", ibid., p. 522. 4.Pargiter. The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, pp. 38. 71. 5. Ibid. Page 341 Purānic calculations yield to us for the length of the Āndhra dynasty, and we may accept the post-Āndhra "republic" of 75 years in Magadha... mostly permits. Pargiter 3 admits that his 3 years for the 26th Āndhra (Śivaskandha) is more or less conjectural. Sircar 4 counts 7 1.Pargiter, The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, pp. 36-7. 2. Ibid., pp. 71-2. 3. Ibid., p. 25, Note 7; p. 71, note 19. 4."The Sātavāhanas and the Chedis", The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 205. Page 470 years... 2 where 9 Yavanas along with 18 Śakas, 13 Murundas, 14 Tushāras and other tribal 1. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 200. 2. Pargiter, The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, p. 455. Page 521 chiefs are said to have ruled, presumbly in the Punjāb and Western India, before the Guptas arrived on the scene. A strange people called Kilakila Yavanas also ...
... and to the world. Savitri descends from the higher regions with the soul of Satyavan. In the return journey, although the names of Krishna and Kali are not mentioned, they are the godheads looking after her. Krishna, the ever delightful, and Kali, "the dark terrible Mother of life", the "World-Puissance on almighty Shiva's lap," and the one whose enormous dance steps on Shiva's breast: Pursuing... who bestrides the world And slay the ogre in his blood-stained den. I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes. I am charged by God to do his mighty work... 20 In God's mighty work Durga tolerates the opposition of none, not even of the ...
... India have a dark god and a dark goddess—Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh , how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, that ...
... no comparison. You speak of religious ceremonies. There is, for example, a being called Kali; there are many Kalis, of many varieties, installed in temples and houses. All of them almost are vital beings and forces, some are ugly and terrible. I have known people who had such a fear of Kali—their household Kali—that they trembled at the thought of offending her in any way, of committing the least fault ...
... have a dark god and a dark goddess— Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness of the earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark ...
... name of Kali? What need has one of rituals, if all the three holy hours one utters the name of Kali? The rituals pursue him in vain and find him not. Neither charity nor benevolence nor rites have any room in his consciousness. He has done the sacrifice of the passions at the golden feet of the Divine Mother. Who can know the infinite power of the name, Kali? The God ...
... lived in Rungpore and he himself sometimes came and played for the Rungpore team. "This serves you right," he said. "Mother Kali is a living goddess, you see." With this, he took out a half-pice bit from his Page 450 pocket and went on, "We had been to the Kali temple; we made this offering to the goddess and said to her, 'Mother, here we have come, begging for thy protection; take... nervous: how were his boys to face these giants? And a change came upon him. On the previous day he refrained from drinking, fasted, observed mauna or silence, went to Kalighat and worshipped Mother Kali. On the next day the hour struck and the players were about to take the field. The team of British soldiers came in carriages (there were horse-carriages in those days), with music, bugle and ...
... have a dark god and a dark goddess - Krishna and Kali. Krishna is dark, his is the deep blue of the sky. Kali is dark, hers is the blackness ofthe earthly night. The Vaishnava poet and saint sang: Oh, I love black, For black is the tamal tree, black is Krishna, Oh, how I love black. Ramprasad the Bhakta thus speaks of Kali, his dark Mother: the poem itself is very dark, ...
... no comparison. You speak of religious ceremonies. There is, for example, a being called Kali; there are many Kalis, of many varieties, installed in temples and homes. All of them almost are vital beings and forces, some are ugly and terrible. I have known people who had such a fear of Kali – their household Kali – that they trembled at the thought of offending her in any way, of committing the least ...
... for three days: not the Yogas of our degenerate Kali Age, but the Hatha Yoga of Ravana, Dhruva and of the old Lemurian Kings, and the Raja Yoga of Chakravarti Bali and of the old Atlantic Kings. Directed now by Vyasa to seek out Krishna, make total surrender to Him and then manifest the Divine Truth on earth - an easy task enough till the Iron Age of Kali when the fight against Darkness must prove more... Then to my human frame awhile descend And walk mid men, choosing my instruments, Testing, rejecting and confirming souls - Vessels of the Spirit; for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth, Blasted with knowledge; ...
... relationship with J. C. and his wife Lady Abala. "I was very much enamoured at the time of her book Kali the Mother," Sri Aurobindo wrote in a note, "and I think we spoke of that; she had heard, she said, that I was a worshipper of Force,—'believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali' —by which she meant that I belonged to the secret revolutionary party like herself, and I was present at... soul that spoke, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was yoga but revolutionary work it was that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book, Kali the Mother, is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent......There was no non-violence about her." Gandhi once criticized Nivedita, reported Nirod, as being volatile and mercurial; ...
... me, I have seen him.... One can speak with Him...." So said Sri Ramakrishna. The 'half-mad' Thakur not only could himself see God, he could also make others see Him—or rather Her, for She was Kali. Kali as Bhavatarini, the Deliverer of the world. When Noren's father died the relatives who had so long merrily sponged on him, now began to appropriate his lands that lawfully belonged to Bishwanath's... Mother to make some arrangement." "Oh, but I can't talk to Her of such matters. Why don't you tell the Mother yourself? All your trouble stems from the fact that you don't believe in Her. Go to the Kali temple, whatever you ask Her today She will give you. Go to Her." That night Noren sat in deep meditation in front of Mother Bhavatarini. The image made of earth became full of consciousness. She ...
... am told that Babu Kali Prasunna Ghose has set his shoulder. However that may be, the works of this distinguished prose-writer are a remarkable proof of what I have just been saying. Not long ago anyone moving in that province of the mind which Babu Kali Prasunna has annexed, would have held it beneath the dignity of his subject to write in any medium but English. Work like Babu Kali Prasunna's marks ...
... bahyasparsha of pain; even there the after effects tend to be anandamaya. Tapas-siddhi against roga is getting stronger, though still not decisive. Krishna growing stronger in personal Krishna Kali. Kali now normal, old bhava of personality almost entirely destroyed. All the instruments of vijnana are becoming the Ishwara's entirely. Madhuradasya increases. T² still hampered & obscured, but developing... resuscitated Asamata. This is connected with defect of Aiswarya & sraddha in the perfect siddhi. Brahmadarshana has become again & more firmly Ananda-brahmadarshana and is now being refilled with Krishna-Kali-darshana. At the same time madhura dasya is restored with intensity. The last remnants of the personal egoistic attitude are being attacked and persistently and rapidly removed to be replaced ...
... Aphorism - 428 428—I did not know for some time whether I loved Krishna best or Kali; when I loved Kali, it was loving myself, but when I loved Krishna, I loved another, and still it was myself with whom I was in love. Therefore I came to love Krishna better even than Kali. Sri Aurobindo always had his own way of saying things, always original and always unexpected. ...
... anything. But I thought to myself, 'So that's how it is!...' Page 194 Another thing happened to me in a fishing village near A., on the seashore, where there is a temple dedicated to Kali—a terrible Kali. I don't know what happened to her, but she had been buried with only her head sticking out! A fantastic story—I knew nothing about it at all. I was going by car from A. to this temple and halfway... Spanish, when their god doesn't do what they want, take the statue and throw it in the river! Page 191 There are people here who do the same thing. I know some people who had a statue of Kali in their house (it was their family divinity), and all kinds of calamities befell them, so the last generation became furious and took the idol and threw it into the Ganges. They are not the only ones—there ...
... lesson it gives. 9 March 1965 ( The Mother's statement on the working of Kali ) Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., Page 252 or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere to hasten the progress of transformation... you tell me what is true humour? The humour of the Supreme. About 1965 Mother, According to the old tradition there is a cycle of four ages or Yugas: Satya, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. In "The Yoga and Its Objects" Sri Aurobindo seems to confirm it. I did not find any definite mention in other places. Please tell me whether the Satya Yuga that you are bringing is again to be followed ...
... in commemoration of a deceased parent. 2 Samkirtana: Group dancing and chanting in the name of Krishna. A distinctly informal, unritualistic emotional mode of worship. 3 The age of Kali (or Kali Yuga): According to the Indian tradition, this is the era we live in now. It is the last of the four Yugas, or Ages, which form a cosmic cycle. This fourth Age is a Dark Age, after which a new... These nocturnal and private gatherings continued for some time. But as already indicated, the professed mission of Nimai's life was to preach Samkirtana as the only means of deliverance in the age of Kali. 3 He could not, therefore, confine his devotional activities to the limited circle of his friends, and it did not take him long to organize Samkirtanan parties and processions in which thousands ...
... students is useless. It is like the body without spirit. Both are essential. Students must respect the Goddess of war. Kali, and always show respect to their master. That is where our strength of mind comes from. If we receive the blessings of our master and the Goddess Kali, we receive power. It becomes our habit and we have faith in it. We believe that we get power from our master and the Goddess... both styles must perform salutations to both their martial gods and goddesses, and their masters, before training. A whole pantheon of gods is associated with the kalari, but the principal figure is Kali, goddess of war. The southern style contains more circular movements and perhaps looks cruder than the northern. Strikes and blocks are usually delivered with the hands open and the arms bent. The ...
... gaming table." This was the very moment for which Nala had waited and served so long! However, he preserved his composure, and immediately the King impated to him his knowledge. And lo! As he did so, Kali, the .spirit of darkness, came forth, invisible to others, from within Nala, and he felt himself suddenly to be released from all weakness and blindness, and to have again all his old time energy and... take me by the hand, and say, 'Verily, I shall be ever thine'? Where was that promise, do you think, when he left me thus?" And Nala answered, "In truth, it was not my fault. It was the act of Kali, who hath now left me, and for that only, have I come hither! But, Damayanti, was there ever a true woman who, like thee, could choose a second husband? At this moment have the messengers of thy father... gave her blessing, and hour after hour passed in recounting the sorrows of their separation. The next day were Nala and Damayanti received together in royal audience by Bhima. And in due time, Kali being now gone out from him, Nala made his way to his own kingdom of the Nishadas and recovered his throne, and then, returning for his Queen, Damayanti, and their children, he took them all back to ...
... self-born, Supreme. In Thee we move and live and have the bliss of our being. My heart in gratitude bows down at Thy feet. 63 O Victorious Kali Your boundless love for the Divine Is the most intense, fiery ardor And vehement Ecstasy. Your intolerant violence of passion For the Divine knows no control, No... drunken ocean Seized by the mightiest winds, You bring all the measureless splendor Of your invincible power to protect The worshipper of the Divine. Be with us, O Victorious Kali, Liberate us in the love of the Eternal Mother, May we love Her with your mad Passionate rapture. May Her face remain clear and shining Day and Night in a Vision which ... transmutes the sordid into sublime. Weak with the weakling, subtle with the cunning, comedian with the fool, Lover with the beloved, Master with the servant, Teacher with the disciple, Kali to the strong, Krishna to Your comrades, Mother to Your children, You draw each one to Your breast through roads that seem to deviate. If a lotus could appear in a corner of this lifeless ...
... in the material body. He continues to be in the earth atmosphere, but not very far from the material. In our childhood we used to hear that in Kali the practice of religion or spirituality has been made easy by the Divine Grace in view of man's frailty. In Kali man is now incapable of austerity, so, at present simply to utter God's name is sufficient to bring salvation. So I was saying the Divine help... the help She has left with us is there almost in the same way as before. In this age, the saints say, the Divine is near to us, quite near. When we were young we were told that we have entered into Kali age, the age of darkness, of darkness and smallness, that is to say, human beings are small, small and weak in the body and in the inner make-up. But the Divine took pity on us and to be with us became ...
... relatives lived in Rungpore and he himself sometimes came and played for the Rungpore team. "This serves you right," he said. "Mother Kali is a living goddess, you see." With this, he took out a half-piece bit from his pocket and went on, "We had been to the Kali temple, we made this offering to the goddess and said to her, 'Mother, here we have come, begging for thy protection; take this half-piece... terribly nervous: how were his boys to face these giants? And a change came upon him. On the previous day he refrained from drinking, fasted, adopted mauna , went to Kalighat and worshipped Mother Kali. On the next day the hour struck and the players were about to take the field. The team of British soldiers came in Page 90 carriages (there were horse-carriages in those days), ...
... He and Nivedita were already known to one another through their writing, as well as through their bond in their love of India 49 and of freedom. To Aurobindo Ghosh, Nivedita was the author of Kali, the Mother. To her, he was the leader of the future, 50 whose fiery articles in the Indu Prakash... had sounded opening guns in the coming struggle, four years before. "What he (Sri... her very soul, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was Yoga but revolutionary work it was that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book. Kali, the Mother, is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. "She went about the Thakurs of Rajputana, trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some... Realise God in the nation, realise God in your brother, realise God in a wide human association.' This is the ideal by which humanity is moved all over the world, the ideal which is the dharma of the Kali Yuga.... For the fiat of God has gone out to the Indian nation, 'Unite, be free, be one, be great'." We make no apology for having quoted rather long extracts from Sri Aurobindo's speech at ...
... having meat then a young goat or sheep from the garden was sent to the temple of Kali, where after being sacrificed to Mother Kali it was cooked. No onions or garlic or chillies were used - only pepper was allowed. Page 26 Once a young sheep was brought, and I used to play with it a lot. So sending it to Kali was out of the question. If anyone even suggested the contrary: "No, no, that ...
... education began at the age of five with a ceremony called "hathey khodi" (chalk in the hand) in Bengal. I still remember that day very vividly. There was a lot of celebration in the house. Mother Kali, our family deity, as well as Saraswati, the goddess of learning, were being worshipped. Alipana (patterns made with liquefied rice-powder) had been done on the verandah in front of the store-room... Naturally Chhotokaka found out. "What's that you have in your pockets?" And saying this he emptied my pockets of all those coins. Page 173 (15) It was around the same time and Kali-puja was on. It was afternoon. After a lot of work and a good meal everyone was taking a nap. I was not feeling sleepy at all. So I was wandering distractedly about the house. The whole after noon... fire?" I stood looking at them fearfully like a guilty person. My throat was dry like wood and my mouth incapable of uttering a word. Someone said: "There must have been some mistake in our Kali-puja. The fire was Mother Kali's wrath." Another disagreed: "No, no, not at all. You see, it's summer-time. The floor must have warmed up so much that the hay caught fire." A third person s ...
... started preparing themselves silently. Many of them took a vow at the altar of Ma Kali with blood drawn from their chest: they would surely liberate their Motherland from the chains of bondage. Nolini-da was one of them. Nolini-da recounts: I had already taken a vow about a year ago, in front of a picture of Kali at a secret ceremony at dead of night, a vow written out in blood drawn from the... had been their constant companion. I was myself transported to the distant past by the story of their lives. Nolini-da (Nolini Kanta Gupta) had taken his vow in a secret ceremony at the altar of Kali at midnight with blood drawn from his own chest: “I shall one-pointedly serve my Motherland with body and soul.” That same Nolini Kanta Gupta is standing now so quiet and poised, Sri Aurobindo and the ...
... together, and also consulted Sri Aurobindo who advised them to inform the police. On examination, the box was found to contain some seditious pamphlets and journals. On some there was the image of Kali and some writing in Bengali. The investigating magistrate, M. Nandot, came to Sri Aurobindo's house with the Chief of Police. But all they found was literature in Latin and Greek. The appropriate... Topless and fathomless, for ever still.... A lonely Calm and void unchanging Peace On the dumb crest of Nature's mysteries. 15 Again, the living presence of Kali in one of the temples at Karnali near Chandod on the banks of the Narmada came upon him unawares and filled him with an eerie and stupendous Power leaping out of the sculptured confines. This experience... instruments and await the phoenix hour when his "too too sullied" earth that was heavy and in travail would give birth to a supramentalised blissful world: .. .for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out And atheism perish from the Earth, Blasted with ...
... without a word. — Dāo . She took my hand and let some cold water run over the wound. She looked gentle and young, like Batcha's sister. — E ké ?... Who is it? I asked, pointing to the statue. —Kali. She raised her hand to her forehead, emptied the water jug on to my hand. It smarted. —He went out in a great hurry, she said... She looked at me questioningly, then went away with her water... action is also part of this Marvel..., your errors too. But I would like you to see. Abruptly, he seized a chisel. —Do you see this chisel? He took his statue in the other hand; —Do you see Kali? She is the Mother of the worlds. He raised the statue. He looked like a god. —... She holds a sword in her right hand and She cuts off the demon's head—She acts, She “does” something, as you... and change your suffering into joy, then you live. It is a new life. We die because we can no longer contain joy, we die in order to start over again with more joy. He straightened up, he was like Kali in front of me. —The secret is not behind, in the past, it is in front, in the other one that you must become through the very force that wants to destroy you. He caught hold of his chisel and ...
... materials it studied, three books in particular drew its attention. Bhawani Mandir was the first. "The Bhawani Mandir Page 264 (temple to Bhawani, one of the manifestations of Goddess Kali)" ran the Report, "exalt Bhawani as the manifestation of Sakti. Indians must acquire mental, physical, moral and spiritual strength.... They must draw strength from religion. How this is to be done... Com-mitee's Report again refers to Bhawani Mandir. "The central idea as to a given religious order is taken from the well-known novel Ananda Math of Bankim Chandra. We find the glorification of Kali, under the names of Sakti and Bhawani (two of her numerous names) and the preaching of the gospel of Force and Strength as the necessary condition for political freedom. 1 The necessity for Indians... Each aspect creates and marks an age. Sometimes She is Love, sometimes She is Knowledge, sometimes She is Renunciation, sometimes She is Pity. This Infinite Energy is Bhawani, She also is Durga, She is Kali, She is Radha the Beloved, She is Page 266 Lakshmi, She is our Mother and the Creatress of us all. Bhawani is Shakti In the present age, the Mother is manifested as the ...
... certain gods who stand behind these planets. Behind the Sun & Moon is Vishnu, behind Mangal and Shani Rudra, behind Shukra, Rahou & Ketou is Kali, behind Budha Lakshmi, and behind Brihaspati Durga. Vishnu gives royalty & victory, Rudra force and fortune, Kali subversive genius & destructive energy, Lakshmi wealth & ease, Durga wisdom, protection and glory. Page 764 ...
... him all that thou knowst and art. For thou art he, elect from mortal men To guard the Knowledge,—yet an easy task While the third Age preserves man's godlike force,— But when thou seest the iron Kali come, And he from Dwarca leaves the earth, know then The time of trial, help endangered Man, Preserve the knowledge that preserves the world, Until Sri Krishna utterly returns. Then art thou from... I gather knowledge here, Then to my human frame awhile descend And walk mid men, choosing my instruments, Testing, rejecting and confirming souls, Vessels of the Spirit; for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold. The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim debates die out, And Atheism perish from the earth Blasted with knowledge, love and brotherhood ...
... went for the word of illumination. Sri Krishna was the intellectual force that took up all these scattered tendencies and, by breaking down the strong formalism of the Dwapara, prepared the work of the Kali. In the Gita he denounces those who will not go outside the four corners of the Veda and philosophises the whole theory of the sacrificial system; he contemptuously dismisses the guidance of the set... appeared as a baneful and destructive portent; like all great revolutionary innovators, he is denounced by Bhurisravas as a well known misleader of men and corrupter of morals. It is the work of the Kali Yuga to destroy everything by questioning everything in order to establish after a struggle between the forces of purity and impurity a new harmony of life and knowledge in another Satyayuga. Page ...
... something outward but can ascend again at will once you have been there. 16 September 1933 I have heard that the colour of Kali is black and she has four hands. But I saw her with only two hands and her colour was bright white. Why did I see her like this? The black Kali form is a manifestation on the vital plane of Mahakali—but Mahakali herself in the Overmind is golden. What you saw was the ...
... call from Srikrishna, but these vital visions are not always what they seem to be. The vision about Kali and the dark forces and the fainting indicates on the contrary very serious difficulties, danger from the Asuric forces and an insufficient strength in the Adhar. On the other hand the vision of Kali with the dagger followed by that of the boy might mean that the Divine Shakti will destroy the ...
... Page 289 aspects—though they are quite independent and act according to their own aspiration. And yet she can control them, in the sense that if... Take, for example, the instance of Kali. If Kali decides that she is going to intervene and the Mahashakti, who has naturally a much more total and general vision of things, sees that the moment for intervention is not opportune or that it is ...
... and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. 1 So Sri Aurobindo makes Kali the great liberating power who ardently impels you towards progress and leaves no ties within you which would hinder you from progressing. I think this will be a good subject ...
... system by the Ishwara is now almost complete, though still of a moderate intensity & force. The second chatusthaya & the nature & realisation of the Shakti Jiva, marked by the appearance of the lipi 11 (Kali), are growing more rounded and permanently real to the consciousness. Sraddha is increasing but falters before anupalabdhi. The movements of the [ ] 6 vani & thought, which have become one, of the... latter the result of insufficient prakasha, the former of the imperfect conquest of the physical being by the vijnanam. The manifestation of the Kalibhava, harmonising the bala, raudra (karali) & shiva Kali, has perfected the second chatusthaya in all but intensity. The remnants of general asraddha in God & swashakti are disappearing and the only province of asraddha is the Adesha and the rapidity of the ...
... g are at least in established action. The sraddha alone is still deficient and liable, even in some of its efficient parts, to be discouraged. A fresh siddhi today is the finality of the Krishna-Kali relation in the personality; the personal activity of the Purushottam; the personal script; the personal vani; the personal guidance. The period of intermittent manifestation of guidance passed some... more definite. A third is preparing, but still indefinite. Page 237 9 February 1913 Today is marked mainly by the continuation of the movements of the eighth; development of the Krishna Kali relation, progress of the instruments of knowledge, a more general force of the Powers, a more settled action of the rupadrishti, a finally secure and easy action in the akash of the lipi, Kamananda ...
... or of the Divine Mother of all, Durga or Kali. Each religion really erects a different personal Deity according to its own heart and thought to adore and serve. The fierce and inexorable God of Calvin is a different being from the sweet and loving God of St. Francis, as the gracious Vishnu is different from the terrible though always loving and beneficent Kali who has pity even in her slaying and saves ...
... I conceive it; the metaphors you quote contain nothing precise with which I can compare my own experience or my own intuitions about the change. According to certain accounts there was a descent of Kali into his body which made it luminous, but he repressed it as something contrary to what he was seeking after. If there is something anywhere in the past which coincides with the aim and conceived process... self-knowledge that Divine Existence creates and supports the world and is at once the same God and Nature and world, Personal and Impersonal, Pure and Varied, Qualified and without qualities, Krishna and Kali, and Shiva and Brahma and Vishnu, man and animal and vegetable and stone, all aspects of Himself and all symbols. We need not doubt therefore that we, recovering our divine reality, shall not be ...
... Fourth chatusthaya. Sharira chatusthaya Arogya, Utthapana, Saundarya, Ananda [ or Vividhananda] Fifth chatusthaya. Karma chatusthaya [ or Lila chatusthaya] Krishna, Kali, Karma, Kama [ last two sometimes reversed ] Sixth chatusthaya. Brahma chatusthaya Sarvam Brahma, Anantam Brahma, Jnanam Brahma, Anandam Brahma Seventh chatusthaya. ... have five instead of four elements. The scheme is as follows: 1. Jnana 2. Trikaldrishti 3. Rupa(-siddhi) 4. Tapas 5. Samadhi 6. Arogya 7. Ananda 8. Utthapana 9. Saundarya 10. Krishna 11. Kali 12. Karma 13. Kama 14. Sarvam Brahma 15. Anantam Brahma 16. Jnanam Brahma 17. Anandam Brahma 18. Shuddhi 19. Mukti 20. Bhukti 21. Siddhi Sapta Chatusthaya. This text almost certainly ...
... and ineffective force. Our business is by renouncing our divided & unequal individual force of action & thought into the one, undivided universal Chitshakti of Kali to replace our egoistic activities by the play in our body of the universal Kali and thus exchange blindness & ignorance for knowledge and ineffective human strength for the divine effective Force. Delight in Ananda is pure, unmixed, one ...
... divine than to rise to the austere heights of the Adwaitin & the ineffable self-extinction in an indefinable Existence. For us the embrace of Krishna is enough and the glory of the all-puissant bosom of Kali. We have to transcend & possess Nature, not to kill her. In any case, whatever may be the choice for exceptional individuals, it is a general path of supreme attainment for humanity that we are seeking... show Him to you; but presume not to separate Sita & Rama, to cast her out into some distant Lanca under the guard of giant self-tortures so that you may have Rama to yourself in Ayodhya. Wrestle with Kali, if you will, she loves a good wrestler; but wrestle not with her unlovingly, or in mere disgust & hate; for her displeasure is terrible and though she loves the Asuras, she destroys them. Rather go ...
... the fundamental completeness. K.A is to confirm its continuity and intensity and be a basis for the regular working of the other Anandas. Karma is to develop its already developing action, Krishna Kali to deepen and possess the system, Ananda Brahman to fill in with the Ishwara. The other siddhis are still uncertain of development, but the fight with the obstacles of arogya is to continue with a necessary... in the thought perception, but T² continues on the lower intuitive level, is mainly telepathic and draws down the rest of the thought towards its own present type of action. Tapas is increasing its Kali force and largeness of action. There is now a struggle between two kinds of ideality, the old ideality which depends upon the existent actuality, illumines it, goes a little beyond it but from it ...
... but it's a something you would have found quite small; if you had felt it, you would have thought, "Oh, really, that was it!?" ( silence ) But he has given W a new mantra—a mantra to Kali, with the sound of Kali! Yet W isn't on Kali's side, 3 not in the least! It's things of this sort that I don't understand in X. Whereas I know so well the kind of force, the quality of power that not only influences ...
... forth your music was fundamentally altered in its character and outlook; you have continued ever since to succeed, progressively, in expressing what you sang. For instance, when you sang your song on Kali the other day, she actually appeared in the subtle and danced before my eyes, as I told you, and also her characteristic red colour appeared. When you sang of Shiva, he actually came and stood before... stars.'" "No matter," said Mother, giving me an answering smile. "The stars will tingle all right — all in good time. Besides, Krishna is difficult to invoke in this way, much more difficult than Kali. But what I am emphasising is that you have been succeeding more and more in expressing your theme: the white light which developed yesterday is an instance in point." "I see a most beautiful lambent ...
... taken by energy in this eternal work of creation, preservation and destruction. This is the work of Chit-Shakti, the conscious Power of the Divine. Shiva and Kali are one, not two. When at rest, it is Shiva and when creating, it becomes Kali. These phenomenal creations of trillions of names and forms are not outside itself for there is nothing except this sole abiding one Existence or the Existent ...
... or less distorted form of Ananda, and thus justify in themselves the quest for personal satisfaction, creating in themselves an almost insuperable obstacle to their own transformation.’ Ishwari, Kali, Lakshmi and Saraswati’s presence and action among humans is age-old. When, then, had this new Personality of the Mother, the Ananda, come down? The question was put by someone present and she replied:... between the two doors on the southern side of the narrow room with her eyes shut, lost in deep meditation. I have never seen her like that again. To me she looked like the personification of Mother Kali herself, so powerful was the appearance. I stood before her for some time.’ 53 The details of Sri Aurobindo’s last days have been evoked in some detail to allow us a glimmer of understanding ...
... Some of them get converted. Their conversion means a great entity joining the divine Work—but that seldom happens. Page 118 Yes, but what about the minor gods? You often speak of a "little Kali" or a "little Durga"; are these beings beneficent? Ah, they aren't from the vital at all! Not at all! They are manifestations of Overmind 2 beings, projected into the vital world for a specific... They are forces, generally feminine in appearance, that do some work and have a great deal of power. They are usually the ones that respond to Tantric invocations (I don't mean the Tantrics who call on Kali or Durga, that's something else altogether, those belong to a totally different world). Most of the time these Nature forces are very willing to help—at any rate, they are wonderfully obliging with ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 October 19, 1960 ( The day before 'Kali Puja,' the ritual festival devoted each year in India to the goddess Kali, the warrior aspect of the universal Mother ) She has already been here for two days and ... Oh, yesterday especially, she was so ... in such a mood!—like a warrior. I said to her, 'But why not change them through ...
... fell, just at the hour I enter into contact with X, I called for his help—whereupon he sent me this little Kali whom he had already sent once before. So I went to your house, I took you in my arms and pressed you tightly to my heart to keep you as sheltered as possible from blows, and I let Kali do her warrior dance against this titan who is always trying to possess you, creating this rebelliousness ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1966 November 12, 1966 Yesterday was Kali puja, 1 and in English I would say, She has been outspoken . In the afternoon, she expressed... ( laughing ) her "view of things." She was displeased? ( Mother nods her head ) And it was amusing, because it wasn't just here, it wasn't just the earth, but it was a displeasure even at... telegram: "We're dying of thirst, everything has dried up"! Quite symbolic. Yes, disorder—lack of equilibrium. × Kali represents the warrior aspect of the universal Mother. Ceremonies in honor of her take place every year around this time. ...
... punished!... It's always the same idea; men always have that idea: the guilty must be punished—but where does that lead to?? ( silence ) I also wrote another thing. I told you that on the day of Kali puja she came and was displeased. So I wrote ( Mother takes another note and reads ): "They know what should not be done They know what should be done They know how to do it They know everything... and it was absolutely blocked, it couldn't get through! So I wrote this note. "They know what should not be done They know what should be done They know everything!..." It was the result of Kali. And it was a very strong experience (a material one, here; not far away: here). Something has been clarified since it was said. There was a sort of absolute need to say Page 270 it. And ...
... crowned with dense, dark forest -deodar, walnut, wild cherry, wild olive, and wild pear, but mostly deodar, which is the Himalayan cedar; and under the shadow of the deodars stood a deserted shrine to Kali -who is Durga, who is Sitala, who is sometimes worshipped against the smallpox. Purun Dass swept the stone floor clean, and sat down to rest. Immediately below him the hillside fell... here - I will not go into that weather. Look, Brother, even the barasingha comes for shelter.' The deer's antlers clashed as he strode into the shrine, clashed against the grinning statue of Kali. He lowered them in Purun Bhagat's direction and stamped uneasily, hissing through his half-shut nostrils. 'Hai!Hai!Hai! said the Bhagat, snapping his fingers. 'Is this payment for a night's ...
... Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II The Power of Kali Behind all destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere, to hasten the progress of transformation. All ...
... see some of his best works — from his early period to his last works in the marbling technique — in the book Champaklal as an Artist. One interesting work, Sri Ramakrishna with the image of Mother Kali in the background, is included here; this unfinished painting was made before Champaklal joined the Ashram. The Mother gave titles to many of his marbling paintings after looking into the movement of... goodwill in printing the book. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Roshan Pondicherry - 605 002 1929: The Mother setting out for an evening drive Sri Ramakrishna with the image of Mother Kali Painting by Champaklal Nirodbaran and Champaklal Part V Talks and Interviews with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother During the 1920s Sri Aurobindo often gave interviews in the morning ...
... conceive it; the metaphors you quote contain nothing precise with which I can compare my own experience or my own intuitions about the change. According to certain accounts there was a descent of Kali into his body which made it luminous, but he repressed it as something contrary to what he was seeking after. If there is something anywhere in the past which coincides with the aim and conceived... philosophy does not upset me. Welcome to the moisture! May it change before long into the Rain of Heaven. November 12, 1935 It was Mother's sweet grace to offer to translate my song of Kali into French that made me launch into this desperate attempt to render it in English somehow. So please correct and make it presentable. I have at places put within brackets alternatives; which to retain ...
... all was as before; Only that deathless memory I bore. Here is a description of a vision of Sri Aurobindo. 'Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chanded he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a... can be behind image-worship. Sri Aurobindo in one of his letters, written much later, seems to be referring to this experience in the following words: 'Or, you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? — a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours ...
... composing of the Mahabharata. According to Indian tradition the events described in the epic, the great war fought between the Kauravas and the Pandavas, took place around 3100 BC (the beginning of the Kali age, which is mentioned in the epic: praaptam kaliyugam viddhi). But the date at which the epic was composed varies considerably according to the critics. What can be said with certainty is that the... remain very long on this earth. On October 13, 1911, she passed away in Darjeelng. Among her books, the best known is The Master as I saw Him, a book on Swami Vivekananda. She wrote also Kali the Mother, Shiva and Buddha, Cradle Tales of Hinduism and Myths of the Hindus and Buddhists. Page 77 ...
... Srinivasachari and also well known to Sri Aurobindo. Mayuresan got hold of some seditious pamphlets etc. and forged other documents such as letters and plans. He also produced some papers with the image of Kali and had some Bengali written on them to indicate that the swadeshi revolutionaries were involved with the Tamils in what appeared to be large-scale subversive activities. He then packed these in a... Sadhana which will not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect humanity and help in the restoration of the Satya Yuga. That work has to begin now but it will not be complete till the end of the Kali. India being the centre, to work for her restoration to her proper place in the world; but this restoration must be effected as a part of the above work and by means of Yoga applied to human means ...
... secretary, and two other Bengali suspects named Bejoy Kumar Nag of Khulna, and Nalini Kanta Sirkar alias Gupta. They were said to be practising yog under Arabindo Ghose and worshipping the Goddess Kali, On 15th August, 1912, a meeting was held at the house of Arabindo Ghose, in celebration, it is believed, of his 40th birthday. The meeting was attended by V. V. S. Aiyar, C. Subramania... ask them to come and see the tin to find what it contained. The French government took charge of the tin and found that it contained seditious pamphlets and journals. On some there was the image of Kali and some writing in Bengali. The suspicion was supposed to be created that all these refugees were carrying on correspondence with Shyamji Krishna Varma, Madame Cama and other leaders of the revolutionary ...
... Songs of Ramprasad ( I ) SAY what does it mean: the eyes drip with tears (when one takes the name of Kali) ? You have seen much, your. wisdom is great, say for certain what it is. One sense I make out: the body is but a sunken log! The name Kali is a fire burning .on the tongue, a fire that is flowing water, flooding water. I meditate also upon the Lord and close ...
... infinite, immobile extension of Time could be seen as Space and the pulsations in the bosom of the Infinite, its movement or stirring could be seen as Time. The dance of Kali within the bosom of Shiva. Shiva is Space and Kali, Time. In this regard I asked him to go through the Kala-sukta of the Atharva Veda and the famous saying 'Kaloasmi' from the Gita, For me these two facets. Space and Time ...
... mind." [9] One of the silk sarees she embroidered and offered to the Mother, had a stream of the flower Divine’s love . A life-size photograph of the Mother wearing it on 25 th October 1954 (Kali Puja day), stands in the ground floor Meditation Hall. [10] Amma also embroidered sarees with the flowers Grace and Realisation . Long before I met Amma, glaucoma had debarred her from... . [8] The full commentary is found in Complete Works of Kapali Sastriar. [9] SABCL, Vol. 20, pp.74-75. [10] On Kali Puja days, Mother distributed blessings-packets with petals of Divine’s love . In the photograph, a tray with these packets is on a table on the Mother’s right side. ...
... were pretty while Indian girls were beautiful. Their nature was more inclined towards Saraswati, towards beauty, sweetness, gentleness, perfection. But I wanted them to have the energy of the Force of Kali too, her strength and keenness. Indian girls' legs are not very beautiful. As the lower limbs are covered they don't pay much attention to them or care for them. When I asked the girls in 'group' (that... a bastard present in the assembly?' The nawab agreed. Now Gopal Bhand looked at the empty sky and pointing up started saying: Page 137 'Look there, my Lord! Mother Kali dancing in the sky! Can you see?' The nawab was in a fix. What could he do? Not wishing to be considered a bastard he exclaimed: 'Yes, yes, of course I can!' 'And look there! My Lord ...
... (including one's life) at the altar of the Mother, all partook of a religious rite and a religious vocation. Nolini Kanta Gupta has recorded , how, as a mere boy, at dead of night in front of a picture of Kali, he took a vow written out in blood drawn from his chest that he would "dedicate his life to the whole-hearted service of the Motherland". 1 In an earlier chapter (8. IV), we have seen how Sri Aurobindo... and iron heart, the grim fighter whose tough nerves defeat cannot tire out nor danger relax, the born leader in action, the man who cannot sleep or rest while his country is enslaved, the priest of Kali who can tear his heart out of his body and offer it as a bleeding sacrifice on the Mother's altar, the heart of firs and the tongue of flame whose lightest word is an inspiration to self-sacrifice ...
... Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? —a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an... head. "With my Europeanised mind," said Sri Aurobindo, "I had no faith in image worship and I hardly believed in the presence of God. I went to Karnali where there are several temples. There is one of Kali. And when I looked at the image I saw the Living Presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God." Page 183 ...
... creating the world that shall be; it is therefore more profitable for us to discover and help what He is Page 16 building than to lament and hug in our arms what He is destroying.... Kali is the age for a destruction and rebirth, not for a desperate clinging to the old that can no longer be saved." Henceforth Sri Aurobindo was going to devote his time to discovering and helping create... vibhūtis coming, arising thickly, treading each close behind the other. Are not these the signs and do they not tell us that the great Avatar of all arrives to establish the first Satya Yuga of the Kali?" Page 117 Sri Aurobindo and Mrinalini at Nainital ...
... on a Kali puja day. 1. Hatred into harmony 2. Jealousy into generosity 3. Ignorance into knowledge 4. Darkness into light 5. Falsehood into truth 6. Wickedness into goodness 7. War into peace 8. Fear into fearlessness 9. Uncertainty into certainty 10. Doubt into faith 11. Confusion into order 12. Defeat into victory 9.10.51 (Kali puja ...
... the incarnation of the Treta; it is full of great wars and mighty sacrifices. The Dwapara is full of Pradyumna; He prepares in the Dwapara the love which supports men through the Kali. Aniruddha, the Sudra, reigns in the Kali; He breaks the ancient moulds, He shatters to pieces the achar; He questions everything, destroys everything, levels everything, rebuilds everything. He is a Sudra and has the passion ...
... Each aspect creates and marks an age. Sometimes She is Love, sometimes She is Knowledge, sometimes She is Renunciation, sometimes She is Pity. This Infinite Energy is Bhawani. She also is Durga, She is Kali, She is Radha the Beloved, She is Lakshmi. She is our Mother and the Creatress of us all. BHAWANI IS SHAKTI. In the present age, the Mother is manifested as the mother of Strength. She is pure... forth from the one and the Jnana given us by the other, but from the lack of Shakti, from the lack of Karma, we have not been able to make our Bhakti a living thing. May we yet remember that it was Kali, who is Bhawani mother of strength, whom Ramkrishna worshipped and with whom he became one. But the destiny of India will not wait on the falterings and failings of individuals; the mother demands ...
... like the Indian, that this enigmatic World-Power is one Deity, one Trinity, to lift up the image of the Force that acts in the world in the figure not only of the beneficent Durga, but of the terrible Kali in her blood-stained dance of destruction and to say, "This too is the Mother; this also know to be God; this too, if thou hast the strength, adore." And it is significant that the religion which has... of devouring by love, of egoism by universality, of death by immortal life. God is not only the Destroyer, but the Friend of creatures; not only the cosmic Trinity, but the Transcendent; the terrible Kali is also the loving and beneficent Mother; the lord of Kurukshetra is the divine comrade and charioteer, the attracter of beings, incarnate Krishna. And whithersoever he is driving through all the strife ...
... own volition never went anywhere, but since it was Her adesh, he went. He reached a lonely place and prayed and practised austerities. The Mother gave him Darshan. She was not the usual traditional Kali — black, naked and many-armed. She was a resplendent white form, sari-clad, the head covered by the anchal and wearing a golden diadem. She was two-armed, sitting on a lion. She told him that She would... Chitradhama Ashram) to late Sanjiban-da, one of the artists of our Ashram (Pondicherry). The latter made a painting based on that description and it was shown to our Mother. She said, “Yes, this is Kali who has come down on Earth amongst men to do Her work, down here, to uplift and enlighten them. And that is why She is seen with two arms and not the usual four.” The original is now somewhere here ...
... darshan of the Mother it seems that she said to Sri Madhav Pandit, “Does that man know about occultism?” Madhav said, “I don’t think so.” Mother said, “Behind him there stands a tall, dark figure.” Was it Kali? In the late 1960s I had begun to work with self-hypnosis. I experimented with past life regression and as far back as I could remember. Suddenly I saw that I had been a herdsman in Central Asia... “Never stop striving for perfection.” This is a strong motto for my life and one that motivates my life and work and sadhana. Anurakta with Dieties in his puja room, Aug. 1995 Kali deity and other statues , Aug. 1995 ...
... positive ending, she asked.) It was a Bengali film, Rani Rasmani, about the rich widow of that name and Ramakrishna Paramhamsa. In 1847, this lady had the Kali temple built where Ramakrishna passed his later years in adoration of Kali, the Mother. The temple is still a much visited place of pilgrimage. The Mother saw all films at the Playground together with the young and the adult Ashramites ...
... ‘von Kluck’s Turn’. In 1970 the Mother again referred to it. She told once more how Kali had entered her room dancing and had cried out: ‘Paris is being taken! Paris is being destroyed!’ But this time she narrates how the Great Mother herself, the Mahashakti with whom she had identified, came into the room behind Kali and said no, very simply but irrevocably. Now we have a somewhat better idea of the ...
... this tendency in this way so long as it does not drop from them. Useless and therefore inadvisable [ to sacrifice animals to Kali ]. External sacrifices of this kind have no longer any meaning—as so many saints have said, sacrifice ego, anger, lust etc. to Kali, not goats or cocks. Page 414 Religious Fanaticism There is nothing noble in fanaticism—there is no nobility of motive ...
... the Mother and Energy of the worlds. All powers are hers. Sometimes Devi-power may mean the power of the universal World-Force; but this is only one side of the Shakti. Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. Ganesh is the Power that removes obstacles by the force of Knowledge—Kartikeya represents victory ...
... the aham bhartá by the bhartri, the aham sakshi by the sakshi brahma. What is left of the aham is a kendra of action, a kendra of knowledge, a kendra of vision, a kendra of enjoyment. In this kendra Kali receives Page 307 the will of God, thinks it out in the idea, fulfils it in action, watches its fulfilment and sends up the bhoga to God, becoming herself the will, the action, the vision... double possibility. Premananda reestablished on a basis of firm finality; only the shadow of the negative bhava, udasinata, affects its completeness, by denying it to men, especially of the strong Kali-type. On objects, children, animals, women etc it is fixed. The source of this denial is the old virakti with the mean & the sordid. This must now disappear. The action of the vijnana in details ...
... rupadrishti, very bright in colours and numerous in forms and groups, mostly crude, in the prana akasha; this was under stimulus. In the afternoon the depression of the tejas parted and the Krishna Kali emerged with the Rudra personality of Krishna; the kamananda more continuous & persistent while walking. There is a throwback in the saundarya. The continuity and intensity of sharira Page 276 ... being expelled still appear momentarily or in isolated touches as external intrusions appearing with or without provocation. Exposure to cold is still effective in assisting this kind of uneasiness. The Kali consciousness aware of Krishna as the Iswara attached itself to all the acts & experiences; but the Krishna personality was held back & the anna given over to other influences. This last movement ...
... according to the importance & difficulty of the stage with which it is concerned. Once at least in each chaturyuga the Manu of the Manvantara incarnates as a man upon earth, but this never happens in the Kali Yuga. The seventh & eighth Manus are the most important in each Prati Kalpa & have the longest reigns, for in their Manvantaras the critical change is finally made from the Page 1325 type... trying to recover the grace, humour, artistry, fantasy, liveliness of their Gandharva blood, so as to develop again in themselves the Pashu deva. This fixes the period of these incidents. It is in the Kali of the fourth chaturyuga in the reign of the first Manu when the Rakshasa Asura of the Pashu Asura type reigns & is attempting to turn full Asura with occasional overshootings to the Pashu deva. Every ...
... for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Page 380 Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the earthquake and pain and famine... take place, and the turn given too will be not what the individual ego, but what the World-Spirit wills. Even, the force of destruction may feed on this new power, may get a more formidable impetus and Kali arise filling the world with a more terrible sound of her laughters. No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace; the law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn ...
... interview she had sought with the Maharaja of Baroda. She had heard of me as one who "believed in strength and was a worshipper of Kali" by which she meant that she had heard of me as a revolutionary. I knew of her already because I had read and admired her book "Kali the Mother". It is in these days that we formed our friendship. After I had started my revolutionary work in Bengal through certain ...
... he. Do you feel capable of being an unequalled Prime Minister of India? I reply: "Certainly not", and I advise you to keep silent and remain calm. 24 October 1962 ( Regarding a prayer for Kali Puja Day ) It is all right, my children, but it is not enough to pray; you must also make a persevering effort. 26 October 1962 Sweet Mother, In a discussion with a friend about our... tradition have a "family deity", yet it doesn't bother them at all to take their deity and throw it into the Ganges when they get displeased! It does happen—I know some people who did it. They had a family Kali in their house, they actually did take her and throw her into the Ganges because they were displeased with her. If one believes in the Divine, one cannot do things like that. I don't know—believe ...
... come forward disappeared. That is receptivity. No one knew why they withdrew! On the Indian side a few were touched and they told me of terrible conditions. Since World War II, I have been keeping Kali 2 quiet, but she is restless! Times are critical, anything may happen. If people will only give up their ego! (B.) I shall suggest a simpler way—to turn to you. Perhaps the time has come... was pouring into Bengal, sparking off numerous reprisals against the Muslim communities there. × Kali : the warrior aspect of the supreme Mother. ...
... with devotion) always attract an emanation or a representation, a representative form, which is present at the puja and responds: it responds to the puja. Every family that worships Kali, for instance, has its own Kali. And it's true, they are little entities that aren't quite independent, but have their own lives. And in Durga's case, it was very clear. So when I say it makes a big difference, it's ...
... "Hindu Chronology", The Encyclopaedia Britannica (13th Ed.), XIII "Sālivāhana and the Śaka Era", Journal Of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1916. Page 609 "The Kali-yuga era", The Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society, London, 1911 Frisk, Hjalmar, Le Périplus de la mer Érythrée suivi d'une étude sur la tradition et la langue (Goteberg Hogskole Arsskrift... 1.1957 Oxford Dictionary, The Concise, 1952 Pai, Govind, In The Journal of Indian History, August 1935 Pargitar, F. E., The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age (Oxford, 1913) Ancient Indian Historical Tradition (Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi, 1962) Paranavitana, A. P., "History of Ceylon", A New History of the Indian People, edited ...
... 1967 November 4, 1967 ( Regarding the storm that coincided with Kali Puja. ) Your home isn't flooded, is it? In the room over there, water fell on the table beside my chair, so I put a flower pot and gave people all the wet flowers! Has Kali calmed down? ( Laughing ) Maybe she got dampened! She laughed.... She can laugh, too! ( The c ...
... when he came to Pondicherry [in 1910]. At the very beginning.... But then, what does he mean when he says, "When I knew that God was a woman"! (Nolini:) He always used to say that Krishna and Kali were one Page 110 and the same being. Ramakrishna, too, once became a woman: God was Krishna and he became a woman; for a long time he had that impression. Naturally, for me, the answer... that way?..." It depends on the date when it was written. (Satprem:) It looks like the same experience as Ramakrishna's. (Nolini:) At the time he used to sign letters not "Sri Aurobindo" but "Kali." Oh! (Nolini:) Yes, always.... All the letters he wrote to Motilal were signed that way. But the way he puts it!... ( general laughter ) Soon afterwards This morning, for HOURS ...
... humanism the directive energy for the former's fight against her colonial policy. The Country's Very Soul in Pure Power Then a strange thing occurred. Out of a temple in which the Goddess Kali was worshipped by stagnant though not uncultured religious conventionalism there came a man who had all the outer look of representing superstition-ridden illiteracy. And yet he was as little the common... of the country's decadence went out of the limbs and India knew what she was and grasped the essential energy of her own self. Ramakrishna, the illiterate man from the temple of conventional Kali-worship, was a veritable colossus of mystical experience: in him direct and immediate realisation of the Divine Being reached an intensity and variety which made him a marvellous summing-up of the whole ...
... Dakshineswar, at Amarnath or at the Parliament of Religions. His whole dynamic Yoga was shaped and guided by this one living motif, this pure psychic realisation. Why, then, did he not preach the name of Kali, the beloved Shyama of his Bengali poems, instead of letting Her be sick-lied over with the appellation of Maya? Why did he not raise a temple of philosophy to Her instead of pointing with so splendid... all that constitutes our humanity and which possesses on the plane of ideal realities the one yet multiple symbol of the perfected human form. Thus even the anthropomorphic con-ceptions of Shiva and Kali are justified as types of the living divine reality which is to be incarnated in us and to whose infinity of essence, conscious force and beatitude we have to ascend. If, therefore, we are to profit ...
... from those who claimed to be God-lovers and God-lovers the answer to one question: Have you seen God? No one gave him a satisfactory answer. Then one day some friends took the sceptical Narendra to the Kali Temple at Dakshineshwar, some miles from Calcutta, to see someone who was known to be a "Godman". The first meeting between Narendra Nath and Sri Ramakrishna was momentous. First, Narendra sang a few... you please speak to Her on my behalf. You must. " He replied tenderly, "My dear boy, I have done so again and again. But you do not accept Her, so She does not grant my prayer. All right... go to the Kali temple tonight, prostrate yourself before the Mother, and ask Her any boon you like. It shall be granted. She is Knowledge Absolute, the Inscrutable Power of Brahman. By Her mere Page ...
... discovered that her husband was an idiot and she ordered him out of the house. According to some stories, Kalidasa then undertook a tapasya and prayed to the goddess Kali. That is how he took the name of Kalidasa, the servant of Kali. The goddess was pleased and conferred on him high poetic genius. Then, a transformed man, he came back to the house. The door was closed. Kalidasa called his wife in ...
... with the Infinite-one at Poona on the Parvati hills and the other on the Shankaracharya hill in Kashmir. Again, at Karnali, where there are many temples, I went to one of them and saw in an image of Kali the living Presence. After that, I came to believe in God. NIRODBARAN: What led you to Yoga? SRI AUROBINDO: What led me to Yoga? God knows what. It Was while at Baroda that Deshpande and others... (inertia) to Rajas (dynamism). He was not quite wrong. Then I came into contact with a Naga Sannyasi. I told him I wanted to get power for revolutionary activities. He gave me a violent Mantra of Kali, with "Jahi Jahi" to repeat. I did so, but, as I had expected, it came to nothing. Barin at that time was trying some automatic writing. Once a spirit purporting to be that of my father came and ...
... Before the ineffable grandeur of a mystic Existence. 142 - 143 Fiery Rings of Grace A Whirlwind, a volcanic eruption, an earthquake, Mighty Kali passed, challenging our right to live and breathe, Defiant, vigilant eagles lightning-swift came tearing down, Roaring young lions answered forth with their talons and... One tree and its million yearning branches, One Sun and its numberless darkness-destroying rays, One oceanic impulse and its eternal passionate waves. O Kali, we welcome Thy fury, keep us awake. Shatter the mortal hold of the old deities unwilling to admit the new. Thyself withdraw and leave the future to the power of Love, Harmony ...
... expects of Him. If you believe that the Divine is far and cruel, He will be far and cruel, because it will be necessary for your ultimate good that you feel the wrath of God; He will be Kali for the worshippers of Kali, and Beatitude for the Bhakta. And He will be the All- Knowledge of the seekers of Knowledge, the transcendent Impersonal of the illusionists; He will be atheist with the atheist and the ...
... tremendous crisis admits of no doubt. And difficult it is to fathom the depth of deformation and depravity in which human nature and human society have sunk. The scriptures speak of the darkest days of Kali when even the last traces of religion would be wiped out; man would become irreligious to the last degree; even in his stature he would shrink to a pigmy. Today's man seems certainly to have diminished... diminished to such an extent; his life and consciousness have greatly narrowed down; a drop of water is now his ocean. From what is happening all around one can justifiably say that the realities of Kali have overpassed its original conception. Man seeks worldly advancement and prosperity. That means extreme selfishness; there is nothing that this lure of self-aggrandisement cannot make man do without ...
... from my sports. Two other boys were with me. Night had almost fallen. We could hear the sound of conches from the surrounding houses. We were coming through a mango-grove. Suddenly I saw a statue of Kali in front of me, holding a glistening sickle in one hand and a garland of human skulls in the other. Her bright red tongue flashing out. Dark, long, luxurious hair. A red glow beneath the eyes and another... where a light burned. She wore anklets and was dancing to the sound of bells under the trees. My two companions jumped up in fright and bolted. I remained unperturbed and did not move. This living Kali came dancing towards me: "Child, don't be scared. I'm but a bohuroopi.” On another occasion, a beggar turned up in front of our house one evening: "Sir, give me some alms, please!" At first ...
... flowers, red powder, cloth, etc. You were standing on one side. Then Mother Kali came and asked you to mount the elephant. But you politely refused. So she ordered you a little more firmly but you declined once again. She went on increasing the force of her order but you continued to refuse. Then she kept quiet. "Kali loves you!" (45) It was on another day at the ...
... energy in the physical. It was for that the Kshatriyas did not give up meat in India. From Tamas you pass to Rajas and Vivekananda was not quite wrong. There came a Sanyasi who gave me a Stotra of Kali, – a very violent Stotra ending with "Jahi" "Jahi" – "kill", of securing Indian freedom. I used to repeat it but it did not give any results. Once I visited Ganganath (Chandod) after Brahmananda's... Keshwananda was there. With my Europeanized mind I had no faith in image-worship and I hardly believed in the presence of God. I went to Kernali where there are several temples. There is one of Kali and when I looked at the image I saw the living presence there. For the first time, I believed in the presence of God. At one time – in Sadhana – I used to try all sorts of experiments to see what ...
... Disciple : In that case it seems that many of the gods worshipped by men are vital gods. Page 86 Sri Aurobindo : I think so; many of the people who get possessed by Kali and such other gods are only possessed by these vital beings and much of the worship offered to them in the temples goes to these vital beings. Disciple : Then it is dangerous to worship these... iii. X was self-willed and never used to pay attention to the instructions sent to him from Pondicherry. He had one idea in his mind that everything that was coming to him was from Shakti or Kali, though he was repeatedly warned against it. iv. He could not distinguish between what was true and what came to him from the vital and the lower world. v. At present X is completely under ...
... . Never has the earth been so bound and never have they spoken so much of liberty; it is the age of gnomes, it is the reign of anti-life, anti-liberty, anti-fraternity; it is the age of Falsehood, Kali Yuga , the Dark Age. A crow began to caw above the well, I started to slip away elsewhere. But Björn would not let go of me. —And I have looked everywhere: I have looked in Europe, in Oslo, in... × Dhoti : a long piece of cloth used as a dress × Kali: the Warrior-goddess of the World. Her hands are outstretched to strike and to succour. She kills the demons and cuts the knots that bind men. For she is the Mother and her love is as intense as her ...
... high British officials in Bengal, but was to prove, on contrary, a mighty inspiration and supreme driving force to countless revolutionaries. The worship of the Divine Mother as Durga, as Kali, as Lakshmi - or in anyone of her many manifestations - comes down from very ancient times, and is even now universal in India; and of particular significance is the worship of Mahalakshmi, otherwise... and marks an age". Love, Knowledge, Power, Strength characterise different ages as the dominant aspect of the Mother, and she reveals herself, now as Radha the Beloved, and at other times as Lakshmi, Kali, Bhavani - and each may assume for us a multiplicity of forms. In our age, the Mother's characteristic aspect is Shakti, or masterful strength; in this aspect her name is Bhavani. Modem science and ...
... all be integrated into a massive movement, leading to a moral and spiritual upliftment of India and the world. And the leader of such a movement must needs be a veritable Avatar of this Iron Age of Kali. ...he will be not only the religious guide, but the political leader, the great educationist, the regenerator of society, the captain of co-operative industry, with the soul of the poet,... to the Divine, a total identification with the supreme creatrix, a continuation and intensification of the experience in the Alipur jail where he had felt the presence not only of Krishna but also of Kali. 12 Very likely what now happened was not unlike Aswapathy's early realisations when he had resolutely withdrawn from the pressures and pains of the world, - withdrawn from outer sovereignty so as ...
... mediatrix, collaboratrix, creatrix 100, 105, 117, 156 launching the Arya 101ff Kundalini experience 111 as 'the golden bridge' 115, 293 identification with the Divine Mother 116 vision of Kali, danger to Paris 116-7 as 'paraclete' 122, 138, 242 perfect self-offering 124 departs for France 134 Dark Night of the Soul 134-5 experience in Lunel 136-7, 148 (cf10, 18, 23, 773) ... events and people 103, 148-50 in a French Presidential election 132fn in the Russian Revolution 198 'never a philosopher' 131 aims and achievements 149-52, 204, 380, 503 'Krishna' and 'Kali' in 155 'teeming with the catch of the Infinite' 200 and India's independence 206, 450, 458 his Samata 210 change in his complexion 212 descent of Divine Consciousness 214, 216 ...
... Aurobindo spoke of a yogic sadhana that would help in the restoration of the Satya Yuga, the Age of Truth, and He added, That work has to begin now but it will not be complete till the end of the Kali [Yuga]. 17 It is the descending path for the whole world ... right down to the supreme mainspring. We cannot touch one point of Matter without touching all of Matter. We cannot destroy Death without... Amidst these revolutionary changes, India will become free. 32 India was to become free thirty-seven years later. What strange Fire was burning within him? He used to sign all his letters then Kali —the Warrior of the Worlds, the mighty Mother who pokes the world and the hearts because She loves human beings, not in their small virtues or spotless whiteness, but in the upright Truth of their hearts ...
... central idea of Mahatma hood. These "souls to death denied" preserve the knowledge that preserves the world. For, when Kali comes men are endangered because they lose true knowledge and are covered in ignorance. But Kuthumi gives hope to man. "... for the golden age In Kali comes, the iron lined with gold, The Yoga shall be given back to men, The sects shall cease, the grim ...
... eventually to the Rome of its longing, the dwelling of the Most High God. One can see how powerfully Kalidasa's poetry must have prepared the national mind for the religion of the Puranas, the worship of Kali, Our Mother & of Srikrishna, of Vrindavun, our soul's Paramour. Here indeed lies his chief claim to rank with Valmekie & Vyasa as one of our three national poets, in that he gathered the mind-life of ...
... yet in practice we live by the religion of the Puranas & Tantras even more profoundly & intimately than we live by & realise the truths of the Upanishads. In heart & soul we still worship Krishna and Kali and believe in the truth of their existence. Nevertheless this divorce between the heart & the intellect, this illicit compromise between faith & reason cannot be enduring. If Purana & Veda cannot be ...
... truth. There is something that makes the heart of the world to rejoice and take pleasure in the name and nearness of the Divine. It is the profound sense of that which makes us see in the dark face of Kali the face of the Mother and to perceive even in the midst of destruction the protecting arms of the Friend of creatures, in the midst of evil the presence of a pure unalterable Benignity and in the midst ...
... The supreme Energy beneficent in upholding and protection is or else formulates itself as the Mother of the worlds, Luxmi or Durga. Or beneficent even in the mask of destruction, it is Chandi or it is Kali, the dark Mother. The One Godhead manifests himself in the form of his qualities in various names and godheads. The God of divine love of the Vaishnava, the God of divine power of the Shakta appear ...
... come to take place in it? by what cause? by what possibility? by what mysterious impulsion? The answer most approved by the ancient Indian mind was that Force is inherent in Existence. Shiva and Kali, Brahman and Shakti are one and not two who are separable. Force inherent in existence may be at rest or it may be in motion, but when it is at rest, it exists none the less and is not abolished, diminished ...
... possible; but still, when it decays it is good only to make manure to grow other flowers. But if it dries up, it is preserved, it can remain for quite a long time. Those small packets which I give on Kali Puja day are made to be preserved for one year. For a year they keep their force intact and I renew them every year to make sure that... I know that there isn't one in ten among you who makes a proper ...
... massacre, 156 (fn) Japan, 88, 137,202,216, 237 (fn) Japanese, 216, 218 jat, 90 Jews, 190, 242 Jinnah, 223, 224, 230, 241, 245 Judaism, 129 Judea, 137 K Kabir, 146 Kala Purusha , 91 Kali Yuga, 91 KaJi,44, 106, 124 Kalki,148 Karmayogin (English weekly) , 47, 71, 77,83 Kashmir, 228, 245(/n} Kemal , Mustapha , 169(fn), 192 Khaddar, 170 Khilafat movement, 149(fn), 156(fn), ...
... and iron heart, the grim fighter whose tough nerves defeat cannot tire out nor danger relax, the born leader in action, the man who cannot sleep or rest while his country is enslaved, the priest of Kali who can tear his heart out of his body and offer it as a bleeding sacrifice on the Mother's altar, the heart of fire and the tongue of flame whose lightest word is an inspiration to self-sacrifice or ...
... Questions and Answers (1956) 1 August 1956 Sweet Mother, does the worship offered to the goddess Durga and to Kali have any spiritual value? That depends on who offers the worship. It is not that which is of importance for the spiritual value. For the integrality and the complete truth of the Yoga it is important ...
... Vast in Nature, then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what? - a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, 2 Power, a Face that looks into yours, an ...
... particular method of knowledge which is not the purely material one, and the denial of experience, of the reality of experience. How can one convince them of that?... And then, there is the method of Kali which is to give a sound thrashing. But Page 210 according to me that means a lot of damage without much result. This is another big problem. It seems that the only method which can ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 520 520—Kali is Krishna revealed as dreadful Power and wrathful Love. She slays with her furious blows the self in body, life and mind in order to liberate it as spirit eternal. Shall we complain when we see this helpless little "ego" disappearing and giving way to a luminous spark capable of understanding ...
... torture? Canst thou see Him in that which thou art slaying, see and love even while thou slayest? Thou hast thy hand on the supreme knowledge. How shall he attain to Krishna who has never worshipped Kali? All is the Divine and the Divine alone exists. 8 June 1970 Page 362 ...
... are thy children, through thy grace, by thy influence may we become fit for the great work, for the great Ideal. Mother, destroy our smallness, our selfishness, our fear. "Mother Durga! Thou art Kali... sword in hand, thou slayest the Asura. Goddess, do thou slay with thy pitiless cry the enemies who dwell within us, may none remain alive there, not one. May we become pure and spotless, this is ...
... paragraph will appease his yearnings. Meanwhile we would suggest to him to put himself in communication with a Brahmin pundit and gather some information about the Amabasya and the worship of Raksha Kali. ...
... rigidly confined within his Shudrahood, nor the Brahmin in his Brahminhood, but each contains within himself the potentialities and the need of perfection of his other elements of a divine manhood. In the Kali age these potentialities may act in a state of crude disorder, the anarchy of our being which covers our confused attempt at a new order. In the intermediate ages the principle of order may take refuge ...
... suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself Page 333 in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner ...
... Saturday. Satya of telepathy becomes more & more ritam; general satya of trikaldrishti preparing. Growth of the more intense Vishayananda of the mind in all the objects of sense. Growth of Krishna Kali bhava in the Brahma darshana 2 March 1916 In the evening telepathic trikaldrishti that N [Nolini] will come soon after 8.30, M [Moni] soon after 9.0, S [Saurin] soon after 9.30. N came at 8.35 ...
... whether we have not at any rate some part of such a profound and organised knowledge in the surviving Upanishads and the still extant Sanhitas of the Veda;—written long afterwards, mostly in the Dwapara & Kali when, chiefly, men sought the aid of the written word & the material device to eke out their failing powers & their declining virility of mind & body, we need expect from them no picture of that ancient ...
... his personality are real truths of himself in which he meets us and seems to deal with us, as if the rest had been put away behind him. He is each separately and all altogether. He is Vishnu, Krishna, Kali; he reveals himself to us in humanity as the Christ personality or the Buddha personality. When we look beyond our first exclusively concentrated vision, we see behind Vishnu all the personality of ...
... created this humorous universe. ( Mother laughs ) 476—When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys and girls together with God revealed as Krishna and Kali, the happiest boy and strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam and Eve were too grown up and its God himself too old and stern ...
... for long months afterwards. Again, while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-SuIeman in Kashmir, the realisation of the vacant Infinite came upon him, unbidden as it were; the living presence of Kali in the shrine on the banks of the Narmada came upon him unawares and filled him with its stupendous majesty; and he had, on another occasion, when he was in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda ...
... explanation of "Dhana" the Mahāvamsatikā's "ingenuity" may have found self-justification for once. But can we be anything more than "just 1.Pargiter, The Purāna Texts of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, p. 26 with fn. 24; p. 69 with fn. 20. 2. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 31. 3."Chandragupta, the Founder of the Maurya Empire", The Cambridge History of India, I, p. 469. 4 ...
... it is such essence, Self, Spirit, one entirely real existence that the ancient Indian mind seized spiritually and philosophically. This mind declared: "Force is inherent in Existence. Shiva and Kali, Brahman and Shakti are one and not two who are separable. Force inherent in existence may be at rest or it may be in motion, but when it is at rest, it exists none the less and is not abolished ...
... vigorous language as he best understands, to youth & the enthusiast in accents of poetry, in language of fire, to the thinker in the terms of philosophy and logic, to the Hindu it repeats the name of Kali, to the Mahomedan it spurs to action for the glory of Islam. It cries to all to come forth, to help in God's work & remake a nation, each with what his creed or his culture, his strength, his manhood ...
... are recognised in our sacred books, formally included in Yoga by so devotional a Purana as the Bhagawat, noted and some of their processes carefully tabled by Patanjali. Even in the midnight of the Kali great Siddhas and saints have used them more sparingly, but with power and effectiveness. It would be difficult for many of them to do otherwise than use the siddhis since by the very fact of their ...
... of self-knowledge that Divine Existence creates & supports the world & is at one & the same [time] God & Nature & World, Personal & Impersonal, Pure & Varied, Qualitied & without Qualities, Krishna & Kali, Shiva & Brahma & Vishnu, man & animal & vegetable & stone, all aspects of Himself & all symbols. We need not doubt therefore that we, recovering our divine reality, shall not be bound to a single condition ...
... rare. Ordinarily samata in tapas is the temperament. (2) The samata having lost its old base is disturbed from time to time. The excessive mental tapas and its reactions which used to come with the Kali bhava recur, though with less and less hold on the system; they come but they cannot remain. They rush upon the adhara from outside, but can only partially get their hands upon it and have to loose ...
... except bhava saundarya. Some of them are advanced in certain directions. The fourfold Brahman full in continent and substance, not yet in content, but sometimes lowered by lapse to mentality. Krishna Kali prepared and established, but not yet in perfect working. Karma still rudimentary except in the habitual personal karma in which it is advancing towards perfection Page 1124 ...
... are all being rapidly changed into the form of the revelatory logistis. There is a strong tendency to the interpretative form. Page 1188 Ideal Shakti is being intensified into the Krishna Kali relation founded on madhura dasya. 14 February 1920 One day of lapse (12ṭḥ), another of trouble of recovery. Eye malady, bleeding of nose, constipation; the will prevails only with a struggle ...
... (4) Suddhi, mukti, bhukti complete except so far as they depend on the remainder of the unfinished siddhi. Subjectively they may be considered as complete; only the physical remains. (5) Krishna Kali firmly established, but it has to be more developed. (6) Vijnana is at last taking firm possession not only of Jnana, but of the telepathic mind. This movement is as complete today as it can be without ...
... surface of the physical mentality, they are at once stopped and either disappear or are transformed. The second chatusthaya is now complete in all its circumstances with the one fault that the Kali element in the Devibhava, which is constant, is not steady; the ordinary condition is that of the Mahasaraswati with a strong Mahaluxmi colouring and submerged Maheshwari basis. This is full of shama ...
... Dawn; O Night, be solemn and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready & buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. 57) When, O eager disputant, thou hast prevailed in a debate, then art thou greatly to be pitied; for thou hast lost a chance of widening knowledge. 58) Because the tiger acts according to his ...
... and they were the best possible pilots. It's an act of sabotage—the Communists are doing a lot of sabotage. So that makes two accidents in a row. But these accidents always occur at the time of Kali, in November—October and November. November and February. February, too? Revolutions, big strikes, dangerous INNER events are always just before February 21. And the catastrophes of this ...
... of formations of thought, of vital possibilities.... All that has become very clear. And with the consciousness absolutely certain, because there have been other details.... Three days earlier, Kali was in a fury because things weren't as they ought to be on the earth, and especially among the people whose mission it is to prepare the new world. She was... she really was in a fury. She saw all ...
... surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards); the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takhti-Suleman [Seat of Solomon] in Kashmir; the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada; the vision of the Godhead surging up from Page 371 within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay..." ...
... recognise it. To become conscious of the Divine Love, all other love must be abandoned. × Message for the 1955 Kali Puja. ...
... Lele’s Miracles Our ashram shifted from Kansia to Patan. We hired two bungalows belonging to a businessman, outside the Fatipal Gate on the way to the famous Kali Temple. Near our ashram, but on the other side, along the road leading to the Saraswati, was a Jain hostel for students in charge of a certain Fulchandbhai, who was interested both in the works of Sri ...
... between the two doors on the southern side of the narrow room with her eyes shut, lost in deep meditation. I have never seen her like that again. To me she looked like the personification of Mother Kali herself, so powerful was the appearance. I stood before her for some time.” The Mind of Light On the last day before Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mother said: “Each time I enter the room ...
... a dissolvent, like an acid.’ 7 Fear was not in her dictionary. Her former occult training had already taught her how dangerous and even deadly fear and apprehension might be. And was she not, as Kali and Durga, the intrepid warrior of the worlds? ‘Intrepid’ is indeed the word that is most applicable to her. She said somewhat ironically that for an adventure of discovery of this kind one should not ...
... is a very potent mantra, centres round Surya. * I don’t like to be in “a parlous state” – but que faire? The sun has never inspired me as a Godhead in the way that a Krishna or a Kali has. How ought I to look on the sun anyhow? I would like not to look at him irreverently, but how can there be positive reverence for one who, for all we know, doesn’t seem to be conscious in the ...
... On most occasions the Mother watched them together with the students and the adult Ashramites. Thus she had recently been watching a Bengali film, Rani Rasmani , about the rich widow who built the Kali temple in Dakshineshwar for Ramakrishna Paramhansa. This film, unexpectedly, had become the occasion of a powerful experience. (“For people who believe that some things are important and other things ...
... he had not come as expected in one male body, but in the bodies of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, who was herself no less a warrior. For are two of the personalities of the Great Mother not Durga and Kali? Out, out with the mind and its candle flares, Light, light the suns that never die. For me the cry of the seraph stars And the forms of the gods for my naked eye! 37 This too was ...
... Messiah. I cannot here possibly enlarge any more on my father's great though some-what enigmatic personality — since he composed some of the greatest hymns in the Bengali language (to Krishna, Shiva, Kali, Ganga, Sri Chaitanya, etc.) which he sang often with tears of ecstasy in his eyes. But one thing I must make clear at this stage — to obviate misunderstanding. In my summary description of my two ...
... still missing.’ 95 30 The day before the Mother had been present in the Playground at the projection of a Bengali film on the life of Rani Rasmani, the rich widow who in 1847 built the Kali Temple at Dakshineshwar for Ramakrishna Paramhansa. ‘It seems strange that something so new, so special, and I might say so unexpected [i.e. her experience], should happen during a film show … I have ...
... to Mirra’s highest expectations and she now sat near that window with a view of the house where Aurobindo Ghose resided. All at once, immersed in deep concentration but with her eyes open, she saw Kali, the naked, black goddess of battle and destruction, wearing a garland of skulls around her neck, entering the room through the door. ‘She executed her dance, a really wild dance. And she said to me: ...
... Indra Sen's Correspondence Indra Sen's Correspondence with The Mother 24 October 1946 On this Kali Puja day when you appear to us as Mahakali, my heart surges up with one prayer: May I realise that Mahakali's "blows beat what is rebellious in [our] material into strength and perfect truth, hammer straight what is wry and perverse and expel what is impure ...
... Mother, the more bur assimilating capacity is bound to increase until at the end we may dare exclaim with Ramprasad the famous saint of Bengal: "This time I shall devour Thee utterly, Mother Kali: Thou must devour me first, or I myself shall eat Thee up; One or the other it must be. To show to the world that Ramprasad is Kali's rightful son, Come what may, I shall eat Thee up—Thee and ...
... "The Divine is worth ferreting out even if oceans of gloom have to be crossed". If you could confront the formation always with that firm resolution, it should bring victory. In the Mother's vision Kali did express a wish to interfere and break the thing—I don't know how she proposes to do it—by giving you the strength you pray for or by breaking the head of the unwelcome lodger or visitor. I hope ...
... Once the ‘spirit of Ramakrishna’ told them to ‘build a temple.’ Subsequently, and mainly on Barin’s insistence, Aurobindo wrote the pamphlet Bhawani Mandir. (‘Mandir’ means temple, and Bhawani, like Kali and Durga, is a warlike, terrible aspect of the Universal Mother.) Part of the inspiration behind this pamphlet was Bankim Chatterjee’s Anandamath (Monastery of Joy), a famous novel about an order ...
... terrace to meditate every morning, facing Sri Aurobindo’s room. That day I was inside my room, but looking at Sri Aurobindo’s room through a small window. I was in meditation but my eyes were open. I saw Kali [the black goddess of power and destruction] entering through my door. I asked her: “What do you want?” She was dancing, a truly savage dance. She told me: “Paris is taken, Paris will be destroyed!” ...
... Behind all destructions—the big destructions of Nature—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, etc.... or the human destructions—wars, revolutions, riots—there is always Kali's Power and upon earth Kali works for the hastening of the terrestrial progress. Whatever is Divine not only in its essence but also in its realisation is above these destructions and cannot be touched by them. In all ...
... home—the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. I also had a glimpse of Dakshineshwar, on the other side of the Ganges. Here Ramakrishna lived, meditated, did tapasya and realised the Supreme Goddess. Temples of Kali, Radha and Krishna form part of the complex. There is a big banyan tree known as Panchvati, referring to Sri Ramakrishna's five-fold sadhana which culminated in the realisation of the harmony of all ...
... Volume One (1954-1955) The Story of a Soul 14 November 1955 November 14th was Kali Puja day. The Mother wore a black sari painted in glinting multi-colours with a touch of bright gold. She distributed a message in the form of a card with a packet of pomegranate flower petals (The Divine's Love) attached to it. The inscription was in French. Later it was ...
... may be the result of a bad conscience, but you must learn once and for all that whatever Page 143 mistakes people commit, it cannot vex me nor displease me. If there is bad will or revolt, Kali may come and chastise but she always does it with love. So, throw away all this nonsense and try to be quiet and happy. With my love and blessings. 23 March 1954 My dear child, "He ...
... medicine but your Grace that cures. It is true that the faith cures more than the treatment. You might take Dr. X's treatment and call for the Divine's help. 5 August 1962 Will you ask Kali to burn me with a fire of fever? I have become rather desperate. Shall I take simple ayurvedic medicines? Before being so desperate, try ayurvedic treatment and take it with a concentration on Kali's ...
... This handwritten note bore only this word and the date. Kalki is the name of the last Avatar who comes on a white winged horse to destroy the 'barbarians' ( yavan ) at the end of the Iron Age or the Kali Yuga , which is the period we are now passing through. His appearance marks the return of the Age of Truth, or the Satya Yuga . 9.7.59 Kalki Page 323 ...
... broadcast on February 21 all over India by radio. I said, "All right, I'll give one." But they want to have it in advance. And I saw so clearly that if I give it now, it will belong to the period of Kali, of the struggle—I have a strong feeling that from next year the atmosphere will ... ( gesture of lifting ) will clarify. I don't know why. So it would be better to wait till January. Because mentally ...
... "family deity," and yet when they are displeased they think nothing of taking the deity and throwing it into the Ganges! They Page 230 do it, I know people who did it; they had a family Kali in their home, they took her and threw her into the Ganges because they were displeased with her—if you believe in the Divine, you can't do such things, can you? I don't know.... Belief in the Divine ...
... the hands of great artists have blossomed into dramas and epics of the most delicate tenderness or the most noble sublimity." 16 We can presume that he had in mind the tender and sublime works of Kali das a. This is justification enough to take for theme these legends and myths. At the base of influence there is admiration and kinship. A spontaneous admiration not induced by teachers or ...
... February?) Sri Aurobindo, the author, has depicted with grandeur and in the most beautiful language the six seasons of the year—Summer, Raintide, Autumn, Winter, Dewtime and Spring. Compare this with Kali-dasa's discription of the seasons of the year in Ritu Samhar. I cannot resist the temptation of quoting a few lines here of Sri Aurobindo's description of Spring when Savitri was bom. Then ...
... Armed with the trident and the thunderbolt... She menaced the triumph of the nether gods. 30 She is Durga, goddess of supreme Power; she is Lakshmi, mother of cosmic harmony; she is Kali, destroyer of the demon hordes. She slays the malignant Titan and responds to the cry of the oppressed. But she can save only a few, for The cosmic evil is too deep to unroot: The cosmic ...
... anger: some force appears to me there which wants to destroy and feels it has the power to destroy. Of course I would never think of using it for my private ends. It is evidently the working of the Kali force that is lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact, ...
... force appears to be there which wants to destroy and which feels it has the power to destroy. Of course I would never think of using it for my own private ends.) "It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact ...
... packets. I could not understand why she was still sending the Divine's Love flowers for making packets, though she was not using them. The collection went on growing. Then on the occasion of the last Kali Puja day, she said she would give these Divine's Love packets to people. It was on 5.11.1972. She distributed them freely. ...
... srone image in a small temple on the Narmada. So many visit the same temple but how many have this living darshan? Similarly, we have all heard that Sri Ramakrishnadev even talked with the image of Kali at Dakshineshwar. And again there is the idol of Jagannatha in the world-famous temple at Puri. Nothing need be said of its outward form and colour etc.—anyone can see it. Yet we hear that Chaitanyadev ...
... This is what Housman in his book tries to explain with regard to Blake's poetry though he misses altogether the real nature of the response. What the poem suggests to me is the miraculous Divine Power (Kali) in the night of Time (Ignorance ?) standing beside the occult consciousness, in that night (the Cake) and doing her miracles there. I don't know whether that was Nishikanta's own conception. ...
... Supreme God having in him all the powers of creation, destruction and regeneration. Also He is claimed to be the symbol of Status (sthiti). In contrast His wife variously named Parvati, Durga and Kali are symbolic of the Dynamic (gati) principle. Sundara connotes beautiful, handsome, lovely, charming, agreeable and noble. The philologists presume that this word is derived from Su-nara- ...
... cannot describe or think out the Absolute in itself, beyond stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude, — nor is that at all our business, — we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable ...
... of a more and more complete spirituality. As Sri Aurobindo says, "One can see how powerfully Kalidasa's poetry must have prepared the national mind for the religion of the Puranas, for the worship of Kali, our Mother and of Sri Krishna of Vrindavan, our soul's Paramour." Although Kumarsambhava contains seventeen sargas or cantos, it is admitted by most critics that only the first eight cantos ...
... understandably in secret, had all the characteristics of an esoteric secret society with its own rituals and rites. One witness, Arumugham Pillai described it thus: 'There was a picture of Goddess Kali. There were red powder (kunkum), sacred ash (vibhuthi), and flowers. On the floor sat four or five people in a line. Nilakanta sat a little away and wrote on sheets of paper. We put that red powder ...
... joined. Both of us belonged to Rungpore, both were of nearly the same age, and intimate friends. This too pushed me to my decision. I had already taken a vow about a year ago, in front of a picture of Kali at a secret ceremony at dead of night, a vow written out in blood drawn from the chest, that I should dedicate my life to the whole-hearted service of the Motherland. With me there was a companion, ...
... taunts Savitri that she is but hugging the illusion of her secret soul's sovereign identity: I have created all, all I devour; I am Death and the dark terrible Mother of life, I am Kali black and naked in the world, I am Maya and the universe is my cheat. 302 For a while Savitri is drained of all her strength, but presently another voice comes from the heights, the squadrons ...
... halo of lightnings; it is the Mother of Might, and she tells Savitri: I am Durga, goddess of the proud and strong, And Lakshmi, queen of the fair and fortunate; I wear the face of Kali when I kill, I trample the corpses of the demon hordes... I rend man's narrow and successful life And force his sorrowful eyes to gaze at the sun That he may die to earth and live ...
... Both of us belonged to Rungpore, both were of nearly the same age, and intimate friends. This too pushed me to my decision. I had already taken a vow about a year ago, in front of a picture of Kali at a secret ceremony at dead of night, a vow written out in blood drawn from the chest, that I should dedicate my life to the whole-hearted service of the Motherland. With me there was a companion ...
... accord without as much as a grumble, like thorough gentlemen,—this looked rather like a fairy tale if not "a tale told by an idiot". We were no Vaishnava devotees. We were Tantriks, worshippers of Kali. Our chosen deity was the Goddess of Death incarnate, with her garland of skulls. Ours was the heroes' worship of strength. We had long been singing the proud refrain: Page 28 Have ...
... a shadow, but mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of Might, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. It is because of this realising power of the Mother that Slowly the Light ...
... 91, 98, 104 Indra 31 Ionian 52 J Japan 92 Jeanne d'Arc 48 Jules Romains 39 Jules Supervielle 55 Juno 34 Jupiter 32 Jouve 76, 77 K Kali 78 Kalidasa 17, 18, 27, 32 Kanhu 83 Kanwa 8 King Lear 20 King Zeus 34 Krishna 31, 78 Kronos 4 Kumbhodara 17 Kutsa 8 L Lalan the Fakir ...
... and blatantly hedonistic. From an occult point of view he has in this way subjected himself to the influences of dark and undesirable world-forces, has made an opening, to use an Indian symbolism, for Kali (the Spirit of the Iron Age) to enter into him. The sex-force is an extremely potent agent, but it is extremely fluid and elusive and uncontrollable. It was for this reason that the ancients always ...
... of a god, through an inner invocation—there is usually a whole ceremony in this connection—if the priest is someone having the power of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramkrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular ...
... y of expressing through the mind truths beyond the mind. We land into the weird and confused worlds of myths and mythologies, —myths and mythologies for example about popular Radha and Krishna, and Kali or Shiva. We are compelled to reduce to our human measures, to accentuate our human failings in order to present graphically to us the inexpressible intensities or extensions of the high experiences ...
... JALANDHRIPADA, 280 Janaka, 49, 51 Jayadeva, 149 –Gita Govinda, 147 Jayanandi, 286 Joshi, Yogishananda Nath Nilkantha Sharma, 155 KALI, 265 Kalki, 149 Kamali, 260 Kanhu, 260-1, 263-5, 269-70; 274,280, 282-3,285 Kankanapada, 284 Karataka, 77 Katyayani, 54 Kirkup, James, 46n. ...
... the Playground while she was taking a class and she did not object. Mother herself arranged vases with flowers and asked me to photograph them. On the Ashtami, Dasami, Lakshmi Puja and Kali Puja days Mother used to give special blessings. I took photos of Mother on these occasions. Mother had consented to these photos being taken only because of Dr. Sanyal's enthusiasm. However, Mother ...
... to you about this, I suddenly remember a story from my childhood. I was then about five or six. An old fakir-baba used to come to our house. Although he was a Muslim by birth, he was a devotee of Kali. He was a friend of my grandfather's. He would turn up unannounced, have his meals, rest awhile and then disappear as suddenly. Whenever he came, we young kids would Page 141 ...
... Berhampur in West Bengal A view of the courtyard leading to the covered verandah and the parlour of the Bhattacharya residence. The Chandi-mandap (a shrine to Kali) in front of the Bhattacharya residence. Ashuchi hon jagannath? Narayaneyr jaat jodi nai Toder keno jaateyr balai? (Tora) chheyleyr mukhey thuthu diyey Maar ...
... accept nor reject her relation with her husband. She must remain firm in her resolve about the yoga and allow things to take their own course. Disciple : I know of some cures effected by Pagala Kali Baba in Bengal. An iron ring is given to the patient to be worn always on the person. If he takes it off under any circumstances he again gets a relapse. There are other rules also, e.g., he must change ...
... the sign OM somewhere. SRI AUROBINDO: That is Vivekananda's creed. PURANI: Yes, but I am not sure of the details. SRI AUROBINDO: In Ramakrishna's temple there ought to be at least an image of Kali. ...
... comprehending consciousness and posits it as part of itself or a function of its apprehension. The many Purushas (conscious beings or subjects) are imbedded in the universal Nature, say the Sankhyas. Kali, Divine Nature, is the manifest Omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent reality holding within her the transcendent divine Purusha who supports, sanctions and inspires secretly, yet is dependent on the ...
... her very soul, her true personality that came out. Her whole mind and life expressed itself thus. Yoga was Yoga, but it was revolutionary work that seemed intended for her. That is fire! Her book, Kali the Mother , is very inspiring but revolutionary and not at all non-violent. She went about among the Thakurs of Rajputana trying to preach to them revolution. At that time everybody wanted some ...
... , a shadow, but mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of Might, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. I t is because of this realising power of the Mother that Slowly the Light grows ...
... ILA, 189 Ilion, 399 India, 32, 106, 143, 196, 269, 289-90, 338, 357, 361 Indra, 275, 371 Italy, 196 JACOB, 121 Japan, 54, 78, 196 Job, 305 Jupiter, 328 KALI, 80, 249, 297 Kalidasa, 278, 390-1 – Hero and the Nymph, 390 – Vikramorvasie, 39 1n Krishna, 134, 183, 206-7, 350 228, 297, LAKSHMI, 249 Lear, 391 Leo X, 196 Lindberg ...
... that Combatant; to transmute, even I, in my own small capacity, matter into spirit. 113 If Evolution is the adventure of consciousness, world-existence is the ecstatic dance of Shiva - of Kali - of Krishna. While, Kali's feet measure "in rhythms of pain and grief and chance. Life's game of hazard terrible and sweet", Krishna's dance will radiate "sweetness, laughter, rapture, love". 114 ...
... monthly philosophical review Arya. Helps edit its French edition till February 19115, when the French edition terminates. Page 851 - Sep-Oct Uses her occult force to subdue the savage Kali gloating over the impending destruction of Paris by the German armies then advancing upon it. The Germans, not finding any French resistance, suspect an ambush and withdraw. 1915 Jan 17 '...from ...
... and rites of Ma Bhavani. Sudhir was initiated into the group only after he had pledged himself with a solemn Oath: Voluntarily drawing blood out of his chest he wrote in red before the image of Mother Kali: “I hereby promise to abide by the laws and rules that govern the revolutionary party, and to follow its strictest norms even at the cost of my life.” Now for Sudhir nothing was greater than the ...
... existence precisely where and what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole object is the joy of the dancing". A timeless, spaceless pure existence and a measureless movement in time : Shiva and Kali in one. Questions and Answers Q : Can one say : "Absolute existence is absolute nonexistence ? A : To say "Absolute" non-existence is contradiction in terms. Non-existence ...
... contribution when I deal with Sri Aurobindo's gospel of the supramental race. I was distressed to read of the terrific storm which has devastated a sizeable part of your country. The Mother says that Kali has begun her dance of destruction in order to sweep away whatever is obstructing the influx of the new Light. Many innocent lives will inevitably perish in this dreadful holocaust. She has to destroy ...
... detours, because an unshakable peace upholds it from below. This truth was sought to be conveyed by the symbolic image of Shiva supporting upon his prostrate, moveless body the unceasing dance of Kali, the supreme creative Force. Peace is the last of he three principles of jyoti, Tejas and Shama or Shanti, which .are the supernal spiritual equivalents of Sattwa,¹Rajas,² and Tamas,³the three primal ...
... leave his body. Each drop of his blood as it fell on the branches of this bush turned into a crimson flower. What an exquisitely beautiful flower! The Mother called this flower Divine’s Love and on Kali-puja day She would distribute this flower to us in a packet as Her blessing. What an amazing incident! We had heard this story from the Mother Herself in the Playground. The Mother also told us that ...
... than you! I have something that you have not—I have the filth of the earth, I have the night of the earth. I have the suffering of the earth. I even love a dead one whom I shall never see again. Oh! Kali, you can bless, you can kill, you can crush me under your law, but I love... j'aime . I love, it is all I have, it is all that remains. I have no offerings, no drums, no trumpets, no paradise at the ...
... Dawn; O Night, be solemn and pregnant. O Life, be full, ready and buoyant; O Death, lead my steps from mansion to mansion. Harmonise all these, O Brahmanaspati. Let me not be subject to these gods, O Kali. 75 Haven't we here the very quintessence of the Veda? Elsewhere Sri Aurobindo's imagination and intellectual brilliance fuse into gem-like images, flashing on every side, and also illuminating ...
... Bhairavī chinnamastā ca vidyā dhūmāvatī tathā, vagalā siddhavidyā ca mātaṅgī, kamalātmikā, etā daśa mahāvidyāḥ siddhavidyāḥ prakīrtitāḥ. Aparadhabhanjana stotram 8/dashamahavidya slokah Om. Kali, who has a complexion as dark as the rain-bearing cloud, whose hair is spread out and beautiful, and who wields asword and a human head in Her hands, Tara Mahavidya, Sodasi, Bhuvaneshwari, Bhairavi ...
... छिन्नमस्ता त्वमसि च भुवना त्वञ्च लक्ष्मीः शिवा त्वम् ॥१५॥ tvaṁ kālī tvañca tārā tvamasi girisutā sundarī bhairavī tvam tvaṁ durgā chinnamastā tvamasi ca bhuvanā tvañca lakṣmīḥ śivā tvam. Thou art Kali and Thou art Tara too, Thou art Chhinnamasta, Thou art Bhubana, Lakshmi, Siva too. Aparadhabhanjanastotram 15 त्वमसि शरणमेका देवि दुर्गे प्रसीद। tvamasi śaraṇamekā devi durge prasīda, ...
... heard the change of music strange from a lyre Page 484 which our hands cannot master." He saw. Visions trooped, group upon group ... Among them: "I had an experience of Krishna-Kali in Alipore Jail. It was a very powerful vision." Strange! Sri Krishna was born in a prison. He came to reveal himself to Sri Aurobindo in a prison. "In the jail," he noted, "there were many ...
... with counterfoils, the rubber-stamp facsimile of my signature with a pad and some printed papers," noted Srinivasachari. Among the many seditious papers the jar contained, "was a photo of a temple of Kali with the heads of Europeans separated from their bodies scattered before the image made as offerings to her." There were several copies of such photos. Also included was a card written in Bengali, ...
... not only liberate the soul, but prepare a perfect humanity and help in the restoration of the Satya Yuga [the Age of Truth]. That work has to begin now but it will not be complete till the end of the Kali [the Iron Age]. "3. India being the centre, to work for her restoration to her proper place in the world; but this restoration must be effected as a part of the above work and by means of Yoga ...
... of Vyasa's poetical genius and, far more important than either, to a definite understanding of the great ethical gospel which Srikrishna came down on earth to teach as a guide to mankind in the dark Kali yuga then approaching. But I fear that if the inquiry is to be pursued on the lines the writer of this article seemed to hint, if the Society is to rake out 8000 lines from the War Purvas & dub the ...
... Those eyes in that face, over that body, arm, hand seem to be those of one whose spirit is not affected by the actions of the body, whose natural part and organs are full of the destroying energy of Kali while the soul, the witness within, looks on at the sanguinary drama tranquil, darkly approving but hardly interested. And then it dawns on one that this is not so much the Nadir of history; unconsciously ...
... in Europe and Asia at this moment, was, if you consider it, inevitable. It is the Age of Iron, not even thinly coated with gold, only splashed here and there with a counterfeit of the nobler metal. Kali at the lowest depth of one of his plumb descents, his eyes sealed, his ears deaf, his heart of bronze, his hunger insatiable, but his nerve relaxed and impotent, stumbles on through a self-created darkness ...
... apexed dome, the Indian arch; In Chitore the jackals crowd: Krishna's Dwarca sleeps for ever, o'er its ruined bastions march All the Oceans thundering loud. Still, yet still the fire of Kali on her ancient altar burns Smouldering under smoky pall, And the deep heart of her peoples to their Mighty Mother turns, Listening for her Titan call. Yet Pratapaditya's great fierce spirit ...
... Three Sonnets Collected Poems The Cosmic Dance Know more > ( Dance of Krishna, Dance of Kali ) Two measures are there of the cosmic dance. Always we hear the tread of Kali's feet Measuring in rhythms of pain and grief and chance Life's game of hazard terrible and sweet. The ordeal of the veiled Initiate, The hero soul ...
... Gurkhas and constables after everything has been finished." This phenomenon has been more than once repeated. "All shops at Bakshiganj, Mymensingh, have been looted and papers destroyed. The Image of Kali has been broken to pieces;" but "I hear that a regular enquiry is not taking place in the Bakshiganj case. Some of the accused who were arrested, have been let off. First informations have not been ...
... hundred chaturyugas; there is the dharma, the well-harmonised law of being, perfect in the golden period of the Satya, impaired progressively in bronze Treta and copper Dwapara, collapsing in the iron Kali only to open the way by its disintegration to the manifestation in the next Satya of the old law, truth or natural principle of existence arranged in a new harmony. There is throughout this zigzag, ...
... but of slow progress in Sahitya, Veda & Bhashatattwa; obstructed in dharma, rudimentary in kriti. The last three chatusthayas are in the state of sure foundation, unfulfilled superstructure. Kali and Krishna are manifest, but not in their full power and being, and because they are not manifest in a sufficiently full power and being, therefore kama and karma linger. The fourfold Brahman, on which ...
... back the sword when it is necessary that it should strike—for sometimes to strike is the highest beneficence, as those only can thoroughly realise who know that God is Rudra as well as Shiva, Chamunda Kali with the necklace of skulls no less than Durga, the protectress & Gauri, the wife & mother. Our courage does not bind itself by the ostentations of the fighter, but knows when flight & concealment are ...
... without the dues to the Vishwa-Devas, destroys his hope of all the seven worlds. काली कराली च मनोजवा च सुलोहिता या च सुधूम्रवर्णा । स्फुलिङ्गिनी विश्वरुची च देवी लेलायमाना इति सप्त जिह्वाः ॥४॥ 4) Kali, the black, Karali, the terrible, Manojava, thought-swift, Sulohita, blood-red, Sudhumravarna, smoke-hued, Sphulingini, scattering sparks, Vishwaruchi, the all-beautiful these are the seven swaying ...
... aright and see God in all things, not things as aught but God. Our fathers did not commit the error of sectarianism or a partial philosophy. They were mighty as Gods or Titans, not like the men of the Kali Yuga who shout and quarrel over their imperfect philosophies and little bounded religions; their souls were spacious enough to take in all truth for their portion. In this Brahman then, on the sure ...
... for renunciation release from phenomena and the bliss of the unconditioned Brahman. The devotee sees Him in divine Personality; he hopes to get, in return for what he offers, Shiva or Rama, Krishna or Kali. Some aspire to the Pure & Bright Stillness beyond, others like the Tantriks, seeing Him as Universal Power, attempt to acquire & feel Him here in a superior & divine power and mastery, yet others would ...
... be able to see who looks upon the Nataraja, it expresses on the contrary the rapture of the cosmic dance with the profundities behind of the unmoved eternal and infinite bliss. So too the figure of Kali which is so terrible to European eyes is, as we know, the Mother of the universe accepting this fierce aspect of destruction in order to slay the Asuras, the powers of evil in man and the world. There ...
... communal life and consciousness. The last and worst state of the society growing out of this increasing artificiality and convention must be a period of anarchy and conflict and dissolution of the dharma,—Kali Yuga,—which must precede through a red-grey evening of cataclysm and struggle a recovery and a new self-expression of the spirit in the human being. The main function of the political sovereign, ...
... think out the Absolute in itself, Page 85 beyond stability and movement, beyond unity and multitude,—nor is that at all our business,—we must accept the double fact, admit both Shiva and Kali and seek to know what is this measureless Movement in Time and Space with regard to that timeless and spaceless pure Existence, one and stable, to which measure and measurelessness are inapplicable ...
... the past (in Ashram) Pavitra-da was often addressed by many here as Ramakrishna. I gather that a portion of Sri Ramakrishna Paramahansa’s being had incarnated in him. It would seem once possessed by Kali, always possessed by Her. Who could have seen into this past life of Pavitra-da’s? Only one guess — our Lord Sri Aurobindo. My lover took away my robe of sin and I let it fall, rejoicing; then ...
... all the organs operating in the body. And in this silence, I found myself communicating with a feminine being who emanated wisdom about life and death, a being I later in India came to identify as “Kali”. The detachment and peace, lack of desire, was total. Later I came to understand that the answer to the first koan given to me, i.e. “Moo”, was in fact the silent mind. How did you come to discover ...
... father told her that his family used to say prayers daily to Sri Aurobindo. They were all worshippers of Shakti Force and always worshipped together as a family. The entire village came to their home for Kali puja. The Bhattacharya family is descended from the highest caste of Brahmin priests. About seven generations before her grandfather’s time they had been priests to the royal family of Assam (in ...
... though a battle had been launched. That road had to be closed off to traffic and pedestrians for more than eight hours. It was the worst storm to hit the area in thirty years. Ashramites spoke of the Kali Yuga in connection with the cyclone. As we began our interview Gauri served my favorite drink; “Power Syrup”, made in the Ashram. It is a blend of the essences of hibiscus flowers, rose petals and ...
... Chandod is on a tributary of the Narmada; Karnali, only a few kilometers away, is on the Narmada. It was during a visit to Karnali that Sri Aurobindo had a vision of the World Mother in a Kali temple. He described it in his poem “The Stone Goddess”. Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research , December 1978, pp. 209-10. × ...
... perceptive comment from David Frawley alias Vamadeva Shastri: "It seems that the urge to transform the Earth consciousness was stronger in the earlier ages of light. It fell away during the worst of Kali Yuga, when it was enough for a few individuals to gain liberation and the collectivity was too caught in tamas. As we move back towards 33 This early version has been published in Mother India ...
... these packets. I could not understand why she was still sending the Divine's love flowers for making packets, though she was not using them. The collection went on growing. Then on the occasion of Kali Puja day in 1972, she said she would give these Divine's love blessing packets to all. It was on 5.11.1972. She distributed them freely. ...
... Mahabharata." It can be said that all that man is and holds within himself, all that he is likely to be, is in Savitri. The poet of the Mahabharata perhaps saw with his prophetic vision the Age of Kali, the Iron Age, approaching and sang his song celestial of the triumph of righteousness against the apparently overwhelming array of the forces of unrighteousness by the play of the secret Divine managing ...
... a shadow, but mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of Might; we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. It is because of this realising power of the Mother that Slowly the Light ...
... Mother said: “As if they are living for the Truth only and they are the people who will give the Truth to the world! There are people there who worship the Black Mary; I think it is a deformation of Kali. But they are not sincere in their adulation.” ...
... Vast in Nature; then suddenly there comes the touch, a revelation, a flooding, the mental loses itself in the spiritual, one bears the first invasion of the Infinite. Or you stand before a temple of Kali beside a sacred river and see what?—a sculpture, a gracious piece of architecture, but in a moment mysteriously, unexpectedly there is instead a Presence, a Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner ...
... calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards. There was also a realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay. But these were inner experiences ...
... people get of India is as of a land where all kinds of funny or weird creatures are taken as deities - say, an elephant-headed pot-bellied Ganesh riding on a mouse or a hanging-tongued fierce-eyed Kali with a necklace of skulls or a Hanuman with a monkey's face and tail. At a little less fantastic-seeming level, there is a Shiva with matted hair and a bull for his mount or else an Ardhanarishwara ...
... house." 11 About Harappān Lothal he says: "...it is speculated that cremation was also practised." 12 And, what is most pertinent to our purpose, we hear from him about one type of grave at Harappān Kali-bangan, where "the grave-pit... curiously contained no skeletal material": "Is it because there was the custom of cremation-cum-burial, so that the body was burnt, and later only the ash and a few bones ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Then I received a letter from Piero: Dear Huta, Today concreting in the Kali pillar is going well and we feel very strongly that the symbol of Mother and Her blessing is to be there. Therefore today I will prepare a hole 12x12x12 on top of the pillar, ready for the 21st. You will from the platform of meditation send up in ...
... evolution, the perfect state, decline and disintegration of successive ages of humanity followed by a new birth—the mathematical calculations are not the important element. The argument of the end of the Kali Yuga already come or coming and a new Satya Yuga coming is a very familiar one and there have been many who have upheld it. Rama as an Avatar I have no intention of entering into a supreme defence ...
... her workings. There is another form of this realisation in which the Jiva disappears into and becomes one with the Shakti and there is then only the play of the Shakti with the Ishwara, Mahadeva and Kali, Krishna and Radha, the Deva and the Devi. This is the intensest possible form of the Jiva's realisation of himself as a manifestation of Nature, a power of the being of the Divine, parā prakṛtir ...
... every part of himself, it is represented with a form that answers to its aspects and qualities and which becomes the living body of God to the adorer. These are those forms of Vishnu, Shiva, Krishna, Kali, Durga, Christ, Buddha, which the mind of man seizes on for adoration. Even the monotheist who worships a formless Godhead, yet gives to him some form of quality, some mental form or form of Nature ...
... मृतकः dead man मृतकम् corpse, death.. ceremonial impurity by death of relation. मृतिः death मृतिमन् mortality. मृत्युः death, decease.. Yama .. Brahma, Vishnu, Kali, Maya.. god of love. मृ to hurt, kill. मर्तः mortal; earth. मर्त्य mortal मत्य: mortal, earth मर्त्यम् body. मरः (Ved.) Death.. the earth मरकः ...
... continuity, insufficient in intensity. Arogya— unaccomplished, but on the verge of accomplishment. Utthapana unaccomplished, but in progress. Saundarya, feebly begun. Krishna Kali Accomplished, but not always nor perfectly manifest. Karma Commenced, but in its infancy and much obstructed Kama Embryonic. Brahman. Founded in all its parts, perfect ...
... about sudden powerful results, is that it establishes only a momentary force in the Akasha, instead of a permanently growing Power of Nature in the material ether which will form a dominant centre of Kali always responsive to the Purusha in this Adhara. It is noticeable that when this Shakti fails in its effort, the object after executing a contrary or different movement, returns to fulfil the original ...
... stairs to the terrace, not familiar. Samadhi Page 40 18) A bundle of carbon papers for typewriting, put down, not folded, but partly turned down. Samadhi. 19) Chhaya in Akash of Kali armed, followed by Chhaya of Kalki on horseback. For Feb 4ᵗʰ & 5ᵗʰ see other book. 1 Feb 6ṭḥ. 20) Chhayamay of Sister Nivedita. 21) Tejomays of a collar of pearls and two others of Jogini ...
... Vijas of agni, jala, prithivi outside continually seen. Chaya Purusha, bust. Swarupa in red. U.R. exercise with kamananda. Long rope of prithivi, brilliant & coiling, in clouds of vayu. Brilliant rose. Kali blue black bust crowned with sun = Shakti with awakened buddhi (not ugra , simply outline). Savikalpa, Savichara & Avichara Samadhi, brief but very deep in spite of loud noise at ear. Exposure to sharp ...
... Shuddhi, Mukti, Bhukti, Siddhi. 2) Brahma Chatusthaya— Sarvam Anantam Jnanam Anandam Brahma. 3) Karma Chatusthaya— Krishna, Kali, Karma, Kama 4) Shanti Chatusthaya— Samata, Shanti, Sukha, Hasya (Atmaprasada) 5) Shakti Chatusthaya— Virya, Shakti, Chandibhava, Sraddha ...
... referred to here is Physical Ananda or Kamananda. This is of various kinds, sensuous, sensual etc. Page 1477 V. Karma Chatusthaya Krishna is the Ishwara taking delight in the world. Kali is the Shakti carrying out the Lila according to the pleasure of the Ishwara. Karma is the Divine Action. Kama is the Divine Enjoyment. VI. Brahma Chatusthaya Sarvam, Anantam, Jnanam, Anandam ...
... types of this selfless divine energy and it is therefore to these mighty spirits, God-in-man, that the Karmayogin may well direct his worship. Or he may worship Isha in His Shakti, in the form of Durga-Kali, the most powerful realisation of His cosmic energy which the human mind has yet envisaged. If he is able to dispense with forms, he may worship the idea of Isha Himself, the Almighty Lord, whom the ...
... order to free the inspiration; for in this effort the equilibrium of the average material brain is her chief opponent. Pass over the madness of such and profit by their inspiration. 216) Who can bear Kali rushing into the system in her fierce force and burning godhead? Only the man whom Krishna already possesses. 217) Hate not the oppressor, for, if he is strong, thy hate increases his force of r ...
... wanting, though the seeds have been sown & even the first beginnings made; nor are the Vedic experiences any longer pursued in their entirety by the Indian Yogins who have learned to follow in this Kali Yuga less difficult paths and more modern systems. But the ritualistic interpretation of the Rigveda does not stand on the authority of Sayana alone. It is justified by Shankaracharya’s rigid division ...
... "The Divine is worth ferreting out even if oceans of gloom have to be crossed." If you could confront the formation always with that firm resolution, it should bring victory. In the Mother's vision Kali did express a wish to interfere and break the thing—I don't know how she proposes to do it—by giving you the strength you pray for or by breaking the head of the unwelcome lodger or visitor. I hope ...
... top-heavy dome and praised the Dharmashala near it. Khaserao stared at [her] and opined that she must be at least slightly cracked to have such ideas! I was very much enamoured at the time of her book Kali the Mother and I think we spoke of that; she had heard, she said, that I was a worshipper of Force, by which she meant that I belonged to the secret revolutionary party like herself and I was present ...
... That was done long before the sojourn in Pondicherry. There were no predecessors. Sri Aurobindo had some connection with a member of the governing body of the Naga Sannyasis who gave him a mantra of Kali (or rather a stotra) and conducted certain Kriyas and a Vedic Yajna, but all this was for political success in his mission and not for Yoga. ...
... (this calm surrounded him and remained for long months afterwards,) the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine in Chandod on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay etc. But these were ...
... 27 - 30). The code sometimes got rather complicated (see the note to letter [3] below). Sri Aurobindo did not use his normal signature or initials in the first 22 letters. Instead he signed as Kali, K., A. K. or G. He often referred to other people by initials or pseudonyms. Parthasarathi Aiyangar, for example, became "P. S." or "the Psalmodist". [1] 3 June 1912. The "letter to our Marathi ...
... I conceive it; the metaphors you quote contain nothing precise with which I can compare my own experience or my own intuitions about the change. According to certain accounts there was a descent of Kali into his body which made it luminous, but he repressed it as something contrary to what he was seeking after. If there is something anywhere in the past which coincides with the aim and conceived process ...
... make a difference between any other animal and a human animal. It is a very strange thing. In the majority of religions, I believe it used to be as it still is here in the temple of the headless Kali 1 —it is an extremely dark Page 346 and ignorant affair. It comes from a sort of unhealthy fear of a monstrous god who needs either blood or force or no matter what in order to be satisfied ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 217 217—Who can bear Kali rushing into the system in her fierce force and burning godhead? Only the man whom Krishna already possesses. This is a charming and most expressive way of saying that only the conscious Divine Presence is capable of mastering and conquering all violence. 8 December 1969 ...
... On Thoughts and Aphorisms Aphorism - 519 519—Sumbha 1 first loved Kali with his heart and body, then was furious with her and fought her, at last prevailed against her, seized her by the hair and whirled her thrice round him in the heavens; the next moment he was slain by her. These are the Titan's four strides to immortality and of them all ...
... Aphorism - 477, 478, 479 477—When will the world change into the model of heaven? When all mankind becomes boys and girls together with God revealed as Krishna and Kali, the happiest boy and strongest girl of the crowd, playing together in the gardens of Paradise. The Semitic Eden was well enough, but Adam and Eve were too grown up and its God Himself too old and stern ...
... not subject to any mental guidance, they obey its impulsion: will they know how, will they be able to obey to the very end? Will they not let themselves be carried away by their own movement? Will not Kali, the longer she dances, lose control over her dance?... All depends on the clarity with which the divine Will can be manifested upon earth; if it has been able in time to prepare for itself instruments ...
... vigorous language as he best understands, to youth and the enthusiast in accents of poetry, in language of fire, to the thinker in the terms of philosophy and logic, to the Hindu it repeats the name of Kali, the Mahomedan it spurs to action for the glory of Islam. It cries to all to come forth, to help in God's work and remake a nation, each. with what his creed or his culture, his strength, his manhood ...
... earth in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time; and every progress we make this time will help us then. Kali always helps those who call on her, and with her help the progress comes more quickly. Blessings. 15 November 1971 Individual existence has been created to make possible the joy of finding ...
... on of Your Grace! Insincerity seems to be an incurable defect which nullifies the working of the Grace in a being. It is certainly insincerity which has necessitated the violent intervention of Kali in the world. I cannot possibly give orders to an insincere person because he will respond hypocritically, and that increases even further the darkness he is engulfed in. One must either have ...
... great wave of love the gift came to me and I felt the presence of the ocean which projected that wave. With that pot in hand when you called me, do you know of whom I was thinking? I was thinking of Kali standing before me ready to give a boon! In fact, I was Page 211 invoking Her and there you were with the pot of pickles and an ocean of Love! Such is your play, dear playful Mother! ...
... to Hindu cosmology, the formation of each universe begins with an 'age of truth' ( satya-yuga ) which slowly degenerates, like the stars, till there is no truth left at all; it becomes a 'dark age'( kali-yuga ) like ours, and ends with a cataclysm. Then a new universe is reborn out of this cataclysm and the cycle begins again. There is a correspondence here with a modern cosmological theory according ...
... regard, perhaps you know that X is the tenth in the line of Bhaskaraya (my spelling of this name is perhaps not correct), the great Tantric of whom you had a vision, who could command the coming of Kali along with all her warriors. It is from X that Swami received his initiation. Your last letter gave us great pleasure, knowing that you have finally recovered physically. But we deeply hope that ...
... me a little joy, and then everything becomes better again. Swami told me that the mantra to Durga is intended to pierce through into the subconscient. To complement this work, he does his pujas to Kali, and finally one of his friends, X, the 'High Priest' of the temple in Rameswaram (who presided over my initiation and has great occult powers), has undertaken to say a 'very powerful' mantra over me ...
... changed. Release Your saving Forces into action and prevent us from going still deeper into confusion and disorder. It is for mercy and grace that one must ask, not for power and justice, because if Kali manifested what and who would remain standing!... Love and blessings. 8 October 1963 Sweet Mother, In spite of my sustained effort to have good feeling for others and be a force for ...
... the destructions—the big destructions of Nature—earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the human destructions—wars, revolutions, riots—there is always Kali's power and upon earth Kali works for the hastening of the terrestrial progress. Whatever is Divine not only in its essence but also in its realisation is above these destructions and cannot be touched by them. In all ...
... out summarily, evidently deals with the very beginning of the Gupta sovereignty and marks for the context where it occurs the end of the 1.F. Pargiter, The Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age, p. 73. 2.The Classical Accounts..., p. 262. 3. Ibid., p. 342. 4. Ibid., p. 198. 5. Ibid., p. 193. Page 212 Purānas' dynastic record. But the ...
... cruelty—especially viciousness, cruelty, what LOVES to cause suffering—that's still difficult, one still has to keep a hold on oneself. In figurative language (not "language," but a way of being), it's Kali that wants to strike, and I have to tell her, "Keep still, keep still." But that's a human transcription. All those gods, all those beings are real, they exist, but... it's a transcription. True truth ...
... to take great care not to have the least indignation, otherwise ... And the supreme Consciousness above, looks on, and so ... That's the supreme Smile. I told you about the meeting with Durga. Kali is there, waiting. And naturally, it's the great power—the great power, a power ... you understand, they are stronger, more powerful than this teeming humanity, so if you let them loose ... As for me ...
... taken care of" within, that they are "being taken care of," is no longer sufficient. Now we need this ( Mother lowers her fist forcefully into matter, like a blade of light ): like this. You mean Kali? An ABSOLUTE is needed, you follow. You must accept nothing in yourself that says: it will come, it will come.... I had an experience.... That's all right, I was happy, I was very happy because ...
... world is not ready! ( silence ) It will take another few hundred years. Terrible.... ( Mother raises her arms ) Well, it will take a few hundred years. Oh, but in that case, I'd prefer Kali! ( Mother laughs ) People don't understand. Things have to follow a comfortable little path. ( Mother draws meandering paths in the air ) That way, they understand. Well. ( silence ) ...
... Mother nods her head ) No, it's worse still: there is a VERY disastrous formation over India, and they're pulling it down, the fools! But precisely, Mother, one just can't keep from thinking that Kali has to intervene. ( after a silence ) But already quite some time ago I saw China invading India, even South India. And that's the worst of catastrophes—the Chinese don't have a psychic being ...
... torture? Canst thou see Him in that which thou art slaying, see and love even while thou slayest? Thou hast thy hand on the supreme knowledge. How shall he attain to Krishna who has never worshipped Kali? You answer: "All is the Divine and the Divine alone exists." ( Mother goes into a contemplation ) ...
... principle innate in every man. In that sense it would of course be true and profound. And I suppose that, given re-incarnation, there also would be 'evolution' throughout history. In that case what is the kali-yuga? It would seem that the clear vision of the Golden Age is progressively darkened to the Iron Age where we now are. But these are mysteries far beyond poetry. But it might seem that from the Vedas ...
... our chronology in terms that are prominent in the Indian tradition we should arrive at an estimate of the epoch in which the Bhārata War was fought and in whose wake the Yuga traditionally designated Kali commenced, essentially marked by the death of Krishna who had been the centrally determinative figure in that critical carnage. We have fastened on the last quarter of the 4th century B.C. for ...
... all my incarnations. I have now come to initiate the process of chanting the holy names. For starting the sahkīrtanamovement, devotional service in ecstatic love, have I appeared in this age of Kali. All the Vedas and Puranas teach everyone to take my shelter. I always reside in the company of my devotees. There is no one dearer to me than my devotees. They are my father, mother ...
... bat, and even Tota Puri, Ramakrishna's teacher in Adwaita, was after thirty years of sadhana far from his goal, so much so that he went off to the Ganges to drown himself there—only Ramakrishna and Kali interfered in a miraculous way; that at least is the story. The Buddhist Church, however, as distinguished from the uncompromising theory of the thing, proved weak and admitted সরনম্ 122 in Buddha ...
... heard that you had guidance from Sri Krishna. Was it the Brindavan Krishna or the Kurukshetra Krishna? SRI AUROBINDO: I should think it was the Kurkshetra Krishna. I had an experience of Krishna-Kali in Alipore Jail. It was a very powerful vision. PURANI: These distinctions between the personalities of Krishna seem to be of later growth: I mean, later Vaishnavism. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, they ...
... as personal. SATYENDRA: I suppose he has the same idea as Ramakrishna once had. SRI AUROBINDO: What was that? SATYENDRA: When Ramakrishna wanted to go into the Nirvikalpa Samadhi the form of Kali used to come and intervene. So he took an inner sword, as it were, and clove the form in two, and then he was able to pass into that state of featureless and trance. SRI AUROBINDO: But Sen is not ...
... restlessness” by staying in the Ashram under the aegis of the Gurus. Nirodbaran writes: “…the relief was not found; there was neither peace nor less war. Besides, whenever he tried to meditate on Shiva, Kali or Krishna, the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s presence used to surround him instead. Realising that the Ashram was his only haven of peace, he came back with a determination that no more art but God ...
... Philosophy, 317n Jehovah, 220 Johnson, Samuel, 212 Junkerism, 88, 89 Juno, 220 KABALA, 151, 214 Kahler, Erich, 358-9 -Man the Measure, 358 Kali, 327 Kalidasa, 8, 55, 136, 197 Kant, 326, 345 Kanwa, 247 Keats, 120, 194 Kepler, 301, 308 Khilafat, 51 Kierkegaard, 362, 375-6 Koran ...
... Ashta Siddhi eight perfections or realisations. (See note at the end). Bhukti spiritual possession and enjoyment. Candibhava the force of Kali (Candi, 'the fierce one') manifest in the temperament. This was originally the third element of the sakticatustaya; as such, it was later replaced by the more inclusive devibhava or daivi prakriti ...
... for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the earthquake and-pain and famine and revolution and ruin ...
... valour, power of understanding, retention, memorizing, speech and analyzing facts. There is gradual diminution in the qualities of dhatus and dominance of vata during this age. During this kali age, the span of life is hundred years. Of course, there are people who live for a longer or shorter period than this. This age should be classified by determining the life-span with the help of factors ...
... that since he was in a constant state of meditation in works, repose, sleep, there was no need for regular, fixed hours of meditation. So too Sri Ramakrishna says, 'One who is uttering the name of Kali at all the three sandhyas, where is his need for fixed hours of worship?' Indeed, in the course of only a few months, Sri Aurobindo had gone far beyond the depth of an experienced yogi like Lele. ...
... had a lovely garden from which she would pick flowers in the early morning and enter her Puja House (House of the Deity) and spend many hours there. It was kept beautifully decorated with pictures of Kali, Sri Ramakrishna, Vivekananda and Sarada Mata. Two small pictures of Vivekananda and Sri Aurobindo were placed on either side of a shelf. One day I entered the room after she had left and I saw flowers ...
... allopaths are concerned with diagnosis. We open up even a dead man's viscera not to speak of sacrificing so many guinea-pigs which, according to Moni, is much more abominable than goat-sacrifice before Kali. I suppose the objection is to the suffering inflicted which is avoidable in the other cases. Shall we continue giving K cod-liver oil? He seems all right. It might be stopped. Perhaps Nergine ...
... to beat Her brother; so one day, when She could not stand it any more, She said, "If you beat him any more, I shall leave this house for good." From that day on, Her mother never beat him. See the Kali aspect in Her even as a little child! ...
... present scientific theory of an expanding universe out of an original compact mass, the egg may represent that original mass. Page 274 It is said that before this Iron Age (Kali Yuga) there was a Golden Age (Satya Yuga). It is also said that the world is always progressing. How then comes this downward turn (Iron after Gold)? There is no great utility in such theories ...
... the home of the ¦ worldly-minded?" There was a mat spread out on the floor. I asked him to ! sit; a few of his friends were with him that day. I saw that their nature was Page 290 Kali temple at Dakshineswar that of ordinary worldly people, just the opposite of his. They were thinking only of their pleasure. I asked him about his singing and I found that he knew only two or ...
... , a shadow, but mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of Might, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. It is because of this realising power of the Mother that "Slowly the Light ...
... comprehending consciousness and posits it as part of itself or a function of its apprehension. The many Purushas (conscious beings or subjects) are imbedded in the universal Nature, say the Sankhyas. Kali, Divine Nature, is the manifest omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent reality holding within her the transcendent divine Purusha who supports, sanctions and inspires secretly, yet is dependent on the ...
... Iqbal, 62n Isaiah, 118 Italy, 253 JAPAN, 228, 253 Jeanne d'Arc, 192 Jerusalem, 115, 122-3 Joyce, 88 Jouve,216-17 Judas, 120 Jung, III Juno, 182 Jupiter, 108, 180 KALI, 24n., 218 Kalidasa, 39, 85, 98, 176, 181 -Shakuntala, 162 Kant, 246 Kanwa, 162 lOIn., 162, 170, Kasyapa, 133 Keats, 68, 78n., 98 -"Ode on the Poets", 78n Ken, 68n -"A Morning ...
... Queen = the Divine Consciousness-Power. Chit-Shakti. King = the ignorant being (Purusha) that normally rules the ignorant nature. 7. 64. squares = fullness, integrality of life. Kali, Mother Nature, is said to have 64 yoginis, powers and instruments. There are also 64 arts (kalas) embellishing a full life. XIII The threefold adherence ...
... , a shadow, but mostly a misshapen resemblance, an aberration of the divine reality that hides behind, and yet half-reveals itself. That Godhead is the Mother's form of Might, we name it variously, Kali and Durga and Lakshmi, for it is Her Grace that is ultimately expressed and fulfilled in this world of vital power. It is because of this realising power of the Mother that Slowly the Light ...
... Iphigenia, 246 Iran, 46 Isaie, 394 JACOB, 397 Jagai-Madhai, 65, 73 Janaka,21 Japan, 421 Jeanne d'Arc, 116, 118, 198 Jehovah, 46, 98 Jung, 134-5, 139, 147 Jupiter, 25 KALI, 383 Kalidasa,210 Kant, 137, 139, 389 Kanwa, Rishi, 151 Kinnara, 47 Krishna, 9, 58, 76, 82, 93, 101, 105, 112, 116, 161,317 Kurukshetra, 66, 109, 116 LAo- TSE, 134 Laplace ...
... of expressing through the mind truths beyond the mind. We land into the weird and confused worlds of myths and mythologies, – myths and mythologies for example about popular Radha and Krishna, and Kali or Shiva. We are compelled to reduce to our human measures, to accentuate our human failings in order to present graphically to us the inexpressible intensities or extensions of the high experiences ...
... invocation – there is usually a whole ceremony in this connection – if the priest is someone having the power Page 382 of evocation, then the thing succeeds (what Ramakrishna did in the Kali temple). But generally priests are people with the commonest ideas and the most traditional training and education; when they think of the gods they give them attributes and appearances which are popular ...
... unavoidable – the breaking up of the old rigid world. It is a necessity for the ultimate good of earth and even man. The work has started – call it the dance of Shiva, the tandava or the dance of Kali the fierce Mother – it has started and is proceeding faster and faster on its way. Destruction, dissolution, decomposition – yes that is the first result and we are already witnessing and participating ...
... purity; none of these are all the Divinity; yet these forms of his personality are real truths of himself. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "He is each separately and all together. He is Vishnu, Krishna, Kali; he reveals himself to us in humanity as the Christ personality or the Buddha personality. When we look beyond our first exclusively concentrated vision, we see behind Vishnu all the personality of ...
... often remain for ages hidden like an underground stream; they have been submerged in the lower reaches of society. They have taken as their chosen deity, not Durga or Lakshmi, nor Brahma or Vishnu, but Kali and Karali, Chandi and Baguli. In the Page 118 words of one of these poets: . For an entire epoch, the line of this particular form of spiritual discipline was practically ...
... gentle heart fell into error! A high desire caught you in the meshes of Sannyasa! A mighty effort is Krishna, the eternal Emanation: Dharma is fallen in the whirl of adharma in this age of Kali! Vainly you find fault with the Path and blame it. You cannot understand my violent purpose: A slave of ignorance, of sattva (Light) mixed with tamas Or else even in this ...
... accord without as much as a grumble, like thorough gentlemen, – this looked rather like a fairy tale if not "a tale told by an idiot". We were no Vaishnava devotee. We were Tantriks, worshippers of Kali. Our chosen deity was the Goddess of Death with her garland of skulls. Ours was the heroes' worship of strength. We had long been singing the proud refrain: Have the hero-sons, O men, Adorned ...
... e— the breaking up of the old rigid world. It is a necessity for the ultimate good of earth and even of man. The work has started—call it the dance of Shiva, the t ā ndava, or the dance of Kali the fierce Mother—it has started and it is proceeding faster and faster on its way. Destruction, dissolution, decomposition—yes, that is the first result and we are already witnessing and participating ...
... with salt to drink and as I vomited all the water came out. I was laid flat on the ground till I regained my senses. Page 93 Then I was given some medicinal water; a Pooja to Mother Kali was performed at home, mantras for peace were chanted, etc. Later when we came to Calcutta with our father, he told me: "If you don't wish to drown again then learn to swim." And so this ...
... Mahābhārata". It can be said that all that man is and holds within himself, all that he is likely to be, is in Sāvitrī. The poet of the Mahābhārata perhaps saw with his prophetic vision the age of Kali, the Iron age, approaching and sang his song celestial of the triumph of righteousness against the apparently Page 39 overwhelming array of the forces of unrighteousness by the play ...
... meant". Page 325 The abyss said: there is no soul, no personality,—"hope not to be happy in a world of pain". Do not try "to burden with bliss the silent still Supreme." "I am Death," "I am Kali," "I am Maya" and the universe is my cheat", for "only the blank Eternal can be true". "All else is shadow and flash in Mind's bright glass. "...from vain existence cease." Savitri ...
... forced to relinquish them in favour of a sane method of moderation : the golden mean; Sri Ramakrishna, after a pretty long spell of physical neglect and ascetic practices, had to pray to the Mother (Kali) to let him live a life of easeful sweetness, and not to turn him into a desiccated ascetic. The Christ, we all know, was no ascetic, nor did he preach the mortification of the flesh, so common in his ...
... veiled behind the Gunas. From that plane one finds that Gita is right in what it says about the Gunas : that man is made to act by the action of the Gunas. There was an angry Sannyasi who came to the Kali Temple at Calcutta. Ramkrishna said about him : "he “s a Tamsik Narayanan." Bu” he could not keep that standard when another vedantin came there and had a concubine with him. He asked the vedantin ...
... is quite amazing even to imagine that during Durga-puja the Mother used to come down bringing Durga with Her. On Lakshmi-puja day She would come to the Meditation hall along with Lakshmi. And then on Kali-puja day Mahakali came with the Mother. On Mahasaraswati-puja day the Mother came down in Her aspect of Mahasaraswati. We were able to have the Darshan of these different aspects of the Mother without ...
... to matter if the Adhar breaks ? Sri Aurobindo : The best is to have the Maha Saraswati and Maheshwari aspects working. Formerly I used to work in that way. Many would not be able to bear Maha-kali – only a few can pull with impunity. All the four aspects have to be harmonised in us. The ideal condition is to have in front any one aspect of the Power, that is necessary for action, with the three ...
... same missionary spirit that had animated her own great Master, Swami Vivekananda, Page 338 and Sri Aurobindo glimpsed in her the Shakti that had made her the inspired author of Kali, the Mother. Returning to Bengal, she gave sustained support to him in his secret work, and in 1903 he appointed her a member of the controlling revolutionary committee of five; and during his first ...
... days of the War", this incredible thing happened: That day I was in my room, but looking at Sri Aurobindo's room through a small window. I was in meditation but my eyes were open. I saw this Kali entering through my door; I asked her, "What do you want?" And she was dancing, a truly savage dance. She told me, "Paris is taken, Paris will be destroyed." ... I turned towards her and told her, ...
... saw it, it is man - man alone - who is capable of deliberate cruelty, which is also a form of stupidity as well. She considered the practice of sacrificing fellow human beings (or even animals) to Kali and other divinities "an extremely dark and ignorant affair". The question comes up for discussion on 4 November, and the Mother's answer is forthright: There is not much difference between ...
... spontaneity of infallible efficiency undreamt of before. On 9 July, the Mother saw in the evening a Bengali film, Rani Rasmani, with a picture of the temple at Dakshineshwar and the statue of Kali which, according to the Mother, represented an attempt to recapture "all that world of religion and worship, of aspiration, of man's relations with the gods". For the Mother herself, this was something ...
... destructions, whether the immense destructions of Nature, earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, cyclones, floods, etc., or the violent human destructions, wars, revolutions, revolts, I find the power of Kali, who is working in the earth-atmosphere to hasten the progress of transformation. All that is not only divine in essence but also divine in realisation is by its very nature above these destructions ...
... eternity, living, solid, right there— Oh, to have had the privilege to enter there, to gaze or rather to be gazed at by those eyes, which had somehow changed from the glowing ember black of a warrior of Kali to a golden brown and then into that melted infinity which one no longer knew if it were blue like the sky or even if it had any color at all, because one went far, far away, as if adrift, toward a ...
... “half of the truth”; and finally ours, the age of the “little men,” the Shudra, the servants (of the machine, of the ego, of desire), the great proletariat of regimented liberties – the “Dark Age,” Kali Yuga, when no truth is left at all. But because this circle is the most extreme, because all the Page 13 truths have been tried and exhausted, and all possible roads explored, we are nearing ...
... nothing at all!... I wanted to see the gods—you understand, to see, to love—to love, you understand? One shuts one's eyes and then one sees , and then it is there and one loves for ever. One day I saw Kali—oh! a picture,—she was so beautiful, all black, with her long hair, and I said to myself: if only I could see her always, at any time, anywhere... He remained for a moment looking into space. ...
... savage! Then I swept everything away, cut off the current. And I was king everywhere. × Tara: another name of Kali, the Mother of the world × Based on a Bengali song ...
... The Acacia Forest I took the northern track by chance, but today I know that there is no chance. I was not going anywhere special, simply towards the Rock of Kali. I was happy or almost, it was a kind of happiness which had grown in me imperceptibly and did not really depend on anything, needed nothing in order to exist: it was a simple clarity, it was the clear ...
... invasions of Light, thrills of hope, spurts of quickening energies in its hidden depths; but it is not aware of them on its surface, and in the mass of mankind, the stricken collectivity. The Age of kali has been the nurse of the Age of satya, — a long, dark night preparing the glory of the coming dawn. It is passing now. The splendour of the spring will soon burst forth out of the pervading blight ...
... 'Adwaita,' which he experienced at the Shankaracharya Hill at Kashmir, or -the invasion of the Infinite he felt when he stood atop the Parvati hill near Pune. -Standing before a temple of goddess Kali at Karnali, looking at the sculpture, unexpectedly, mysteriously he saw "a Face that looks into yours." -Sri Aurobindo began his practice of pranayama in 1903, if we recall aright. This practice ...
... shall succeed even partially in that, then I shall know that my hour of success is at hand and that I have got rid of the past Karma in myself and others, which stands in our way and helps the forces of Kali-yuga to baffle our efforts." Almost from the beginning of the Pondicherry days, in letter after letter, Sri Aurobindo spoke about the financial difficulties he was facing. When he wrote to Anandarao ...
... It was about the same time that Sri Aurobindo came into contact with a Naga Sannyasi, Mohanpuri. "I told him that I wanted to get power for revolutionary activities. He gave me a violent mantra of Kali, with 'Jahi, Jahi' etc. to repeat. I did so, but, as I had expected, it came to nothing." Mohanpuri was a member of the governing body of the Naga Sannyasis. He also "conducted certain kriyas ...
... vigorous language as he best understands, to youth and the enthusiast in accents of poetry, in language of fire, to the thinker in the terms of philosophy and logic, to the Hindu it repeats the name of Kali, the Mahomedan it spurs to Page 308 action for the glory of Islam. It cries to all to come forth, to help in God's work and remake a nation, each with what his creed or his culture ...
... in order to progress and to perfect ourselves in the course of many successive lives. What we cannot do this time, we shall do next time, and all the progress we make this time will help us then. Kali always helps those who can call on her, and with her help the progress comes more quickly. Blessings. November 1971 * * * We are at a moment of transition in the history of the ...
... Mail". In the morning I reached Madras. The journey was uneventful. Yet an apprehension kept nagging me. If I was not accepted at Pondicherry, I had no other alternative to fall back upon. I invoked Ma Kali’s name and decided to continue on my path leaving the result to fate and Her will. At the station, on making enquiries, I learnt from a person that a train leaves for Pondicherry at night but buses are ...
... They used to come.... Also when I was going downstairs and giving meditations all these Gods and Goddesses used to assemble over there. But they are indeed independent; you see, for example, one of Kali's many aspects comes to me and tells me when human beings do wrong things. And I keep Her quiet. Also one of the aspects of Durga came to me last year on one of the Puja days. She was simply magnificent ...
... least of goodwill (there can always be a greater harmony, that goes without saying), then it's all right. With some people, the minute they come in, there is a tremendous descent, very often of Kali's power or Maheshwari's power (not the Supreme, but what they understand best), very often—right away, instantly. Then everything is stilled. And it's very amusing, it's interesting: the Response (the ...
... purpose none!" Ideals, ethics, systems had no base And soon collapsed or without sanction lived; All grew a chaos, a heave and clash and strife... All reeled into a world of Kali's dance. 102 Can mere meaningless chaos be the final meaning of the universe? No; some other power must there surely be that can render Mind's handiwork far from futile: Then science ...
... contact with the formation of Falsehood and violence, and then the inner tremor, which naturally made contact automatically and allowed that manifestation of Falsehood to have an action. It was Kali's force that came. But that's all right, that's what Page 34 she wanted; she found we were nodding off! Soon afterwards: Oh, if you want to be amused, I have received a letter ...
... depends on you. —On me? —He said: “Souls always find each other again and each time one comes back to make a step forward.” And I, too, had a step to make... When you left, I saw Kali's Rock all the time. —Kali's Rock?... —I was falling there... Oh! I wanted very much to throw myself from it. —You were falling... But Batcha what must we do, what depends on me, tell me? I looked at Batcha ...
... Second Cycle - The Journey in the Great Expanse By The Body Of The Earth or The Sannyasin Kali’s Rock I was about to leave the caravanserai when Balu fell headlong upon me, with his hair tousled, his forehead covered with sweat, his satchel under his arm. —So, little frog, what's happening to you? —Where is he? —With the king of the cobras. ... He looked to the right, to the left, his nose in the air as if he were on the scent of a trail. Then he grabbed my arm. —This way. And he started running towards the north, in the direction of Kali's Rock. I began to feel anxious. I ran, I cut my feet on some coral banks, stumbled in the sand. No one was there. The track plunged into dales of thorny bushes and tormented banyan trees, as in a dreamscape ...
... a certain method of knowing that isn't the purely material method, and a negation of the experience, of the reality of the experience—how can they be convinced of it?... And then, there is Kali's method, which is to give a sound thrashing. But... it's a lot of damage for little result, if you ask me. No, it is still a big problem. It seems that the only method capable of overcoming all ...
... e entities manifest in them; sometimes the consequences are rather unfortunate, for these forms are precisely so remote from the original godhead that... they are awkward formations. Some of those Kalis they worship in certain families are veritable monsters! I can tell you, believe me, that I have advised some people to take the statue and throw it in the Ganges in order to get rid of a thoroughly ...
... is an impossibility. To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle.... Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Page 25 Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. 11.11.1967 Before going to sleep I remember You and when ...
... could hardly stand. I put my arm round his neck and we went out into the corridor. He turned back for an instant towards his “poop-deck”, then looked at the margosa over the well, the thorny bushes and Kali's Rock in the distance. I thought he was going to say something. He clenched his teeth: —Let's go. There are ways of looking at things which say everything even when we have understood nothing; ...
... intelligent is an impossibility. To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle. 8 November 1967 Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Kali's force is necessary only for those who are not yet open to Divine Love. For one who is open to Divine Love, nothing more is needed. 11 November 1967 By Your Grace, my body is now collaborating ...
... Anyway the line cannot be altered. The only concession I can make to you is to alter the first. 1948 All reeled into a world of Kali's dance. [ p. 255 ] It is "world", not "whirl". It means "all reeling in a clash and confusion became a world of Kali's dance". 1948 Knowledge was rebuilt from cells of inference Into a fixed body flasque and perishable; [ p. 267 ] "Flasque" is ...
... this time the combination being made of Eastern and Western imagery: Creation and destruction waltzed inarmed On the bosom of a torn and quaking earth; All reeled into a world of Kali's dance. 143 From these images taken from dancing, we go to an image drawn from drama and stage: No wandering ray of Heaven can enter there. Armoured, protected by their lethal masks ...
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