Katha Upanishad : an Upanishad of the Krishna (Dark) Yajur-Veda.
... The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda . Sri Aurobindo first translated this Upanishad in Baroda around 1900; it forms part of TMS. He later said that he had tried "to convey the literary merit of the original". The translation, slightly revised, was published in the Karmayogin in July and August 1909. The Karmayogin translation was published as The Katha Upanishad by Ashtekar &... published translations of the Isha, the Kena and the Mundaka Upanishads, along with commentaries on the Isha and the Kena, in the monthly review Arya . These, along with the translation of the Katha Upanishad, which was published in 1909 and subsequently revised, may be said to represent his Upanishadic interpretation in its most definitive form. His other translations and commentaries were not published... the First Cycle. When it was proposed to bring out the translation in a book during the late 1920s, he replied that he did not have the time to make the necessary revisions. A new edition of Katha Upanishad was published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in 1952. In that edition, in Eight Upanishads (1953), and in The Upanishads (1971), the partially revised TMS version was used as text, with some ...
... 1; Compare the description of the Supreme in the Kena Upanishad, and Katha Upanishad. 22 RV, 1.71.2. 23 RV, 1.72.9. 24 RV. 1V.l. 17-18. 25 Rv,1v.2.19 26 Katha Upanishad 3.1.14. 27 Ibid. 2.1.23; Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.3. 28 katha Upanishad 2.1.24. 29 Mundaka Upanishad 3.2.4. 30 katha Upanishad 2.1.1-13. 31 Mandukya Upunishad 3-7. 32 See Kaivalya Upanishad... indefinable, can be described in the only expressive term, Sachchidananda, the object of the highest sheath, kosha, anandamaya kosha in us, to use the term of the Taittiriya Upanishad. 38 Katha Upanishad 2.3.7-8. 39 Ibid. 1.3.5,7. Page 70 40 Ibid. 1.2.5,6. 41 Isha Upanishad 11,14. 42 Ibid. 6. 43 Ibid. 7. 44 Kena Upanishad III. 1. 45 Ibid. IV. 1. 46 ...
... for ever; for not by things unstable shall one attain That One which is stable; therefore I heaped the fire of Nachiketas, and by the sacrifice of momentary things I won the Eternal." Katha Upanishad, First Cycle: Second Chapter 1-10 Page 47 II What is it Knowing Which Everything Is Known? Svetaketu was the son of (Uddalaka) Aruni. His father said to him ... Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya and Shvetashvatara are the most prominent. The stories that we have selected for this book are taken from the Chhandogya Upanishad and Katha Upanishad. The Upanishads give us a clear idea of the ancient system of education and of the role of the teacher and the pupil. Some of the examples that we have given in this book clearly indicate... quality is truthfulness, and the teacher rightly accepts him, convinced that his truthfulness is sufficient evidence of his qualification to be admitted. In the next story, taken from the Katha Upanishad, we have Nachiketas, a young brahmacharin, who is offered by his father to Yama, the god who controls and governs the kingdom of death. We are told that Nachiketas, seeing his father giving away ...
... BG., II.42 49 Ibid., II.52-3 50 Vide., Ibid., VII.4-14 5* Vide., Ibid., VII.5, XV.7 52 Vide., Katha Upanishad, II.1.5, 12,13,II.2.3 53 BG.,VII.5 54 Ibid.,III.33 55 Ibid.,VII.2 56 RV..X.90 57 Ibid., III. 1.9-10 58 Katha Upanishad, II.1.5 59 Ibid., II.1.12-13 60 BG.,III.27 61 Ibid., VII.1-2 62 Ibid. 63 Ibid.,VII.28 ... Rig Veda (RV), I.164.20 18 Mundaka Upanishad, III.1.1-3 19 Svetasvatara Upanishad, IV.6, 7 20 Ibid.,IV.5 21 Ibid., IV.10 22 Mundaka Upanishad, 1.2 23 Katha Upanishad, I.3.3-13 24 BG.,II.62-3 25 Ibid., II.61 26 Ibid., II. 55-72 Page 153 27 Ibid., II.42, 43 28 Ibid.,II.47 29 Ibid., II.48, 50 30 Ibid.,III.6 31... Ibid.,VIII.23 35 Ibid., IX. 4-8, 10, 12-16, 24, 26, 27 36 RV ., X.l29.2 37 Ibid.I.170.1 38 Ibid 39 Ibid., IV.58.3 40 Ibid.X.90 41 Isha Upanishad, 5 42 Katha Upanishad, II.3.8 43 Mundaka Upanishad, II.1.2 44 Kena Upanishad, III. 12 45 5G.XV.7 46 Ibid.,IX.8 47 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971. Vol. 18, pp. 146-7 ...
... teaching, nor by brain power, nor by much learning: but only he whom this Being chooses can win Him; for to him this Self bares His body. Katha Upanishad 1.2.23 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda उत्तिष्ठत जाग्रत प्राप्य वरान्निबोधत। क्षुरस्य धारा निशिता दुरत्यया दुर्गं पथस्तत्कवयो वदन्ति ॥१४॥ uttiṣṭhata... out the great ones and learn from them; for sharp as a razor's edge, hard to traverse, difficult of going is that path, say the sages. Katha Upanishad 1.3.14 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda ॐ सत्यं ज्ञानं ज्योतिररविन्द। om satyaṁ jñānaṁ jyotiraravinda. Om. Aurobindo the Truth, the Knowledge ...
... claim to be the first exposition of and commentary on the living ideas of the Vedas. The Upanishad is spiritual realisation, supraphysical experience, mystic perception and inner vision. The Katha Upanishad has clearly indicated: sarve veda yatpadamamananti...¹ ("The seat or goal that all the Vedas glorify and which austerities declare, for the desire of which men practise holy living, of That will... not the Vedas expounded the psychological personality of Indra in these few words? Further, the few words of Vishwamitra that we have ¹ Translated by Sri Aurobindo. ² ibid. ³Katha Upanishad. 4 Rigveda X. 129.4. 5 Ibid. I. 61.2. Page 78 already cited about Agni: vaisvanaram manasagnim nicayya... ("discerning' Fire, the universal Godhead, by the mind") have... hrdaya akash ... (The sky that we see in the outer space is also in our inner heart. Both the Heaven and the earth, Agni as well as Vayu — all are concentrated in our inner heart). In the Katha Upanishad too we come across the same utterance: yadeveha tadamutra¹ (Whatever is there in the inner world is to be found here as well). In ancient times, not only in India, but in all countries of the world ...
... Vedas as Aditi and Katha Upanishad also uses the same name and points out that that Aditi is also immortal. Further, the Katha Upanishad also points out that there is Jiva, who is the eater of sweetness, and that Jiva is manifested in the Aditi, who is herself the ocean of sweetness. That is' why Jiva is described as the eater of sweetness. That Jiva also is immortal. The Katha Upanishad also speaks of... Mother to what we may call 'The riddle of the Universe'. The Katha Upanishad states that the doors of the body face outward; these doors are the doors of the senses, and it is true that all the senses are naturally sensitive to the impacts coming from outside. It is difficult for man to turn inward. That is the reason why the Katha Upanishad compares our senses with the horses or the steeds that are... natural condition uncontrolled and run about unless the mind is able to control them. Katha Upanishad rightly compares the human body with a chariot and the senses as the horses, which are yoked to thechariot, and they compare the objects of the senses as the paths in which they move. But the Katha Upanishad rightly speaks of the soul when it compares it with the master of the chariot. Between ...
... (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book VII, Canto VI, p. 184.) Also: Katha Upanishad, V. 15: "tasya bh ā s ā sarvam idam vibh ā ti" ("By His shining all this shines'") 53. Savitri, Book VII, Canto VI. 54. The Life Divine, p. 129. 55. Ibid., p. 120. 56. Savitri, Book I, Canto II. 57. Katha Upanishad, 1.1.15. 58. The Life Divine, p. 262. Page 110 ... Mundaka Upanishad, II.2.1. 71. Ibid., II .2.1. 72. Katha Upanishad, II.2.15 (in Sri Aurobindo's translation). Cf.Sri Aurobindo's Ilion, p. 108: "There our sun cannot shine and our moon has no place for her lustres, There our lightnings flash not, nor fire of these spaces is suffered." 73. Katha Upanishad, II.3.9.: "No sa ṁ d ṛś e ti ṣṭ hati r ū pamasya... Aurobindo's translation). 63. Ibid., Rig-Veda, I .93.4. 64. Ibid., I .100.8. 65. Savitri, Book II, Canto V, p. 168. 66. Rig-Veda, VII.76.4. 67. Ibid., VI.47.18. 68. Katha Upanishad, II.2.9. "Agniryathaiko bh ū vana ṁ pravi ṣ to rupa ṁ r ū pa ṁ pratir ū po babh ū va, ekastathd sarvabh ū t ā ntar ā tm ā r ū pa ṁ r ū pa ṁ pratir ū po bahi ś ca." Page 111 ...
... The Purusha, the inner Self, no larger than the size of a man's thumb. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 12, 13; II. 3. 17.) Swetaswatara Upanishad. (III. 13.) He who knows this Self who is the eater of the honey of existence and the lord of what is and shall be, has thenceforward no shrinking. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 5.) Whence shall he have grief, how shall he be deluded ...
... Consciousness and the Ignorance The Life Divine Chapter XI The Boundaries of the Ignorance One who thinks there is this world and no other. Katha Upanishad. (I. 2. 6) Extended within the Infinite,... headless and footless, concealing his two ends. (Head and feet, the superconscient and the inconscient.) Rig Veda. (IV. I. 7, 11.)... (Verses 2-7.) A conscious being, no larger than a man's thumb, stands in the centre of our self; he is master of the past and the present;... he is today and he is tomorrow. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 12, 13.) It is now possible to review in its larger lines this Ignorance, or this separative knowledge labouring towards identical knowledge, which constitutes our human mentality ...
... Transformation A conscious being is in the centre of the self, who rules past and future; he is like a fire without smoke.... That, one must disengage with patience from one's own body. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 12, 13; II. 3. 17.) An intuition in the heart sees that truth. Rig Veda. (I. 24. 12.) I abide in the spiritual being and from there destroy the darkness... workings and be blameless before the Mother Infinite. Rig Veda. (I. 24. 7, 11, 15.) The Swan that settles in the purity ... born of the Truth,—itself the Truth, the Vast. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 2.) If it is the sole intention of Nature in the evolution of the spiritual man to awaken him to the supreme Reality and release him from herself, or from the Ignorance in ...
... does he die: came not from anywhere, neither is he any one: he is unborn, he is everlasting, he is ancient and sempiternal: he is not slain in the slaying of the body. (Katha Upanishad, 1.2.18*) ...Standing on Eternity's luminous brink I have discovered that the world was He; I have met Spirit with spirit, Self with self, But I have loved too... one's spirit-eternity while still in the body. For an aspirant thus made 'ripe', the advent 1 thirst. 2 Dhammapada, Chapter XI. (Translation by De La Vallee Poussain) 3 Katha Upanishad, I .1.6. (Sri Aurobindo's translation) Page 347 of physical death is indeed a welcome event, for with this terminal event the cycle of transmigration will be absolutely ended ...
... vadiśyāmi. These two words which have been used, ṛtaṃ and satyaṃ, are central in the process of education. __________________________________ ¹. All passages from the Taittiriya and Katha Upanishad which are cited here are taken from Sri Aurobindo's translations which are to be found in his book titled The Upanishads, Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary Library, volume 12. ². While referring... search of that knowledge by which sorrow can be removed. In the Upanishadic literature, we find a distinction made between knowledge and Page 99 ignorance (vidyā and avidyā). In the Katha Upanishad, Yama, the teacher, expounds to Nachiketas, the pupil, in the following words: "For far apart are these, opposite, divergent, the one that is known as the Ignorance and the other the Knowledge ...
... Shreyas, that which is good, and he chooses Shreyas instead of Preyas. This story, therefore, needs to be studied by all teachers and students. The text of this story is to be found in the Katha Upanishad, and it is well known that this Upanishad is one of the most difficult among all the Upanishads. Hence, this monograph undertakes a special effort to elucidate different terms and different turns... which aims at acquainting the reader with what Sri Aurobindo has written on the theme of immortality. Thus, this monograph may be regarded as the most up-to-date introduction to the message of the Katha Upanishad. * * * Page 11 ...
... The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, p. 426. 32 Mandukya Upanishad, 5, 6. 33 Vide, Sri Aurobindo,, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp. 501-23. 34 Ibid, p. 559. Katha Upanishad, II. 1.12. 36 Ibid., II.1.5. 37 BG,XV7. 38 Ibid., VII.5. 39 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 20, p. 419. Page 100 40 Vide, Ibid.,... one "who puts on his golden robe of light and whose scouts are all around" (RV, × 2 *Katha Upanishad, 1.2.5, 6. ...
... the moral law and the spiritual law. He wasted a great chance that the Mother had granted him. As you know very well, we are trying hard to awaken in us the psychic being, which, as per the Katha Upanishad, is "no bigger than this thumb" 89 , but very well hidden deep inside our being, very secret. For years and years, we have been pining for it. Well, we don't get it easily, and this gentleman... later. The distinction between spirituality and morality, they are not the same thing - some of you know it very well. Now I will read out to you some talk we had with Sri Aurobindo 89 Katha Upanishad, II/l, shlokas 12 and 13. SABCL, 12: 256. Page 53 on this subject of Japan. Very interesting, and the comments are somewhat similar to Mother's. Yes, I start from the relevant ...
... Upanishad in 1952 (See 39). A revised version was issued in 1970. Katha: Translation in the Karmayogin, July 3, 1909 and July 31 to August 28, 1909. Later came out as Katha Upanishad (See 38). Subsequently received partial revision. Mundaka: Translation in the Karmayogin, February 5, 12 and 26, 1910. A revised translation appeared in the Arya, Novem... essay have been found among Sri Aurobindo's Baroda papers.A revised version was included in Kalidasa, 1929 Edition (See 35). SABCL: The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3 38 . KATHA UPANISHAD Ashtekar & Co., Popna, 1919 Revised Edition, Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, 1952 The First Edition was a reprint of the translation from the Karmayogin, July ...
... × 13 Rig Veda, III.39.5. × 14 Katha Upanishad, V.8. × 15 Rig Veda, II.1.12. ... × 45 Rig Veda, I.71.2. × 46 Katha Upanishad, I.I.7. × 47 Sri Aurobindo, “A God's Labour,â€� 5:101. ...
... desires of many: the calm and strong who behold Him in their self as in a mirror, theirs is eternal peace and 'tis not for others. Katha Upanishad 2.2.11 , 2.2.13 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda नमस्तेऽस्तु महामाये श्रीपीठे सुरपूजिते। शङ्खचक्रगदाहस्ते महालक्ष्मि नमोऽस्तु ते ॥१॥ नमस्ते गरुडारूढे ...
... ever closed, even if he would search through all the dictionaries!" 47 Indeed, the content of a spiritual experience cannot be verbally communicated to one who has not lived it. As the Katha Upanishad has so long ago declared: "The self-born has set the doors of the body to face outwards, therefore the soul of a man gazes outward and not at the self within: hardly a wise man here and... p. 13. 48. "par āñ ci kh ā ni vyat ṛṇ at svaya ṁ bhustasm āt par āṅ pa ś yati n ā ntar ā tman, ka ś citdhira ḥ pratyag ā tmanamaik ṣ ad ā v ṛ ttacak ṣ uram ṛ tatvam icchan." (Katha Upanishad, II, I.I: Sri Aurobindo's translation.) Page 159 analytic and divisive in its nature. The idea of measure and separation and distinction is inherent in all its operations. Unity... 'the Eternity that is the all-containing ever-new moment, and 'the Infinity which is the same all-containing all-pervading point, without magnitude.' Speaking about the Atman or Self, the Katha Upanishad nonchalantly affirms in the same breath: "Finer than the fine, huger than the huge... Seated He journeys far off, lying down He goes everywhere." 56 The Rishi of the Isha Upanishad also speaks ...
... Chhandogya, Brihadaranyaka, Mundaka, Mandukya, Taittiriya and Shvetashvatara are the most prominent. The stories that we have selected below for this book are taken from the Chhandogya Upanishad and Katha Upanishad. The Upanishads give us a clear idea of the ancient system of education and of the role of the teacher and the pupil. Some of the examples that are given here dearly indicate that the pupil... quality is truthfulness, and the teacher rightly accepts him, convinced that his truthfulness is sufficient evidence of his qualification to be admitted. In the next story, taken from the Katha Upanishad, we have Nachiketas, a young brahmacharin, who is offered by his father to Yama, the god who controls and governs the kingdom of death. We are told that Nachiketas, seeing his father giving away... sympathy' as Wordsworth put it. The Mahabharata gives the full traditional story of Kacha and Devayani. A number of books on the Upanishads are available. We have taken the extract from the Katha Upanishad from Sri Aurobindo's book 'The Upanishads.' The other extracts are from the translation by V.M. Bedekar and G.B. Palsule. Aspirations and Victories of the Ancient Rishis (A few ...
... It is "the child suppressed in the secret Page 82 cavern" of the Rig Veda (V.2.1), "the son of heaven by the body of the earth" (III.25.1), "he that is awake in those who sleep" ( Katha Upanishad V.8). "He is there in the middle of the house" ( Rig Veda I.70.2); "He is like the life and the breath of our existence, he is like our eternal child" (I.66.1); he is "the shining King who was... depending upon our capacities. "A conscious being, no larger than a man's thumb, stands in the centre of our self; he is Master of the past and the present... he is today and he is tomorrow," says the Katha Upanishad. (IV.12, 13) We need to have numerous experiences, with actual verifications whenever possible, before we can appreciate to what extent these dreams are not dreams. There are some prisons that... darkness ever have created all that light? If we had been born out of darkness, we would end up only in darkness. "This is the eternal Tree with its roots above and its branches downward," says the Katha Upanishad. (VI.I) We feel we are making great efforts to progress toward more understanding and greater knowledge; we have a sense of tension toward the future. But this is still our limited perspective ...
... about Christianity being based on a divine revelation. Every genuine religion is derived from an experience of transcendent reality, which can never be comprehended by the rational mind. As the Katha Upanishad says: 'This doctrine cannot be obtained by argument, but when it is declared by another then it is easy to understand.' Faith, as St. Paul says, comes by hearing, and faith is essentially an... creation and pantheism. I don't think that debates on matters of faith are really useful, as we start from different premises and argument usually only leads to frustration. So I quoted from the Katha Upanishad: "This doctrine is not to be gained by argument." Of course, I admit that there is a place for rational criticism of the articles of one's faith, and I agree that the Virgin Birth is not... discern any historical element in the other alleged occurrence. But before I comment on your latest brief for the latter I should like to say a word on the quotation you have made from the Katha Upanishad. As far as I can see, the quotation, like similar ones from the Upanishads, refers to matters of spiritual- experience and realisation. The supreme Self of selves, Atman, cannot "be gained by ...
... IX. 20 Kena Upanishad, IV.6. 21 Vide., Katha Upanishad, 1.1.1-29. 22 Ibid., 1.1.20. 23 Ibid., 1.2.1-3. 24 Ibid., 1.2.4-8. 25 Ibid., 1.2.9. 26 Ibid., I.I.28. 27 Ibid., I.2.12. 28 Ibid., 1.2.11. 29 Ibid., 1.2.15. 30 Ibid., II.3.10-16. 31 Kena Upanishad, II.4, 5. 32 Katha Upanishad, 1.3.11,12. 33 Ibid., 1.3.10, 11. 34... 34 Vide., Ibid., II.2.1-2. 35 Ibid., II.2.3-8. 36 Vide., Ibid., 11.1,11.2,11.3. 37 Ibid., I.3.14. 38 Ibid., II.1.1-13. 39 RV. III. I. 40 RV.,V2. 41 Katha Upanishad, II.2.7. 42 Ibid., II. 1.5. 43 Vide., Ibid., 11.1.3-9,11.2.8. 44 Mandukya Upanishad, 3-7. 45 Kaivalya Upanishad, 1. 46 Isha Upanishad, 5. 47 RV., I.170.1. ...
... the pleasant, preyas, and the good, shreyas, and the choice for the latter even when the former is guaranteed. Next, this inquiry is to be aided by a competent teacher, such as Yama in the Katha Upanishad, or as Pippalada in the Prashna Upanishad, or Brahma, the first of the Gods — devanam Prathamah, to Atharvan, he to Angir, Angir to Satyavaha the Bhardwaja, or Angiras in the Mundaka Upanishad... detachment from enjoyment; (iii) calm and self-conquest; and (iv) desire for salvation. (b) "Turn inwards" is the first message of the yoga of the Upanishad. In the following passage from the Katha Upanishad, we have a description of the method of turning inwards as also some indications of the realization that follows: Page 22 "The Self-born has cloven his doors outward, therefore man... Fourth of the Mandukya. But that Fourth, the incommunicable, has behind it the Purusha, that is the highest that is both the unmanifest and the Mighty manifest Spirit. In simple but decisive terms, Katha Upanishad tells us that it is when that Purusha is known that the mortal man is released into immortality; for that Purusha is the Substance, the Stable and dynamic, that which does not move and that which ...
... 962-3. 9 Ibid., pp. 889-90. 10 Katha Upanishad, ILL 12-13. "BG,XV7. 12 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 18, chapter 23. 13 Ibid., p.225. 14 BG, XV.7. 15 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 18,p.228. 16 Ibid., Vol. 19, p. 891. 17 Katha Upanishad, 1.2.12. 18 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The... The Life Divine, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 19, p. 891-5. 19 Ibid., pp. 895-7. 20 Katha Upanishad, U.I.5. 21 Brahmāndvalli of Taittiriya Upanishad, chapters I - V. 22 Mundaka Upanishad, IL1.2 and 10. 23 Vide., Isha Upanishad, 16. 24 BG, VII.5. 25 Vide., Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Pondicherry, 1971, Vol. 20, p.283. Page 90 ...
... Idle sense that its action does not depend on any outer Merit or fitness on the part of the sadhaka. Did not the same Rishi of the Katha Upanishad specify that "the Self is not to be won by eloquent teaching, nor by brain power, nor by much learning"? (Katha Upanishad, 1.2.23) . And fitness? — Which sadhaka can claim with presumption that he has made himself so fit that the divine Grace... guarantee this intervention of the Grace? For we are often told that the Grace is ahetukī, unconditional and causeless, and 'the Spirit bloweth where it listeth.' Did not the Rishi of the Katha Upanishad too declare that 'Only he whom the Being chooses can win Him', 'yamevaisa vrnute tena labhyah 1 ? If such be the case, how can a sadhaka expect with a sense of surety that in case of ...
... the heaven and the earth, and into all dualities, - Beneath and Above, Near and Far, Without and Within, - and has thus become virat, the manifoldness of the universe. In the Katha Upanishad 40 virat is imagined as the world-tree whose roots are above and branches below. Sethna takes up this ancient image: The tree is an Omniscience at blind play — Not... Sethna, p. 5. 38. See Ranajit Sarkar , In Search of Kalidasa's Thought-World, A Study of Kumarasambhava, Lucknow, 1985, pp. 23-24. 39. Raine: and Sethna, pp. 11-12. 40. Katha Upanishad, 2.3.1. 41. Sethna, The Poetic Genius of Sri Aurobindo, 1947, p.88. 42. Sri Aurobindo, Life, Literature and Yoga , p. 43. 43. Sethna, Overhead Poetry, 1972, p. ...
... that matter, against the possible assumption that the state of wakefulness might be the substratum on which the state of sleep is occasionally imposed. 1 ya eṣa supteṣu jāgarti. (Katha Upanishad, V. 8) 2 divīva cakṣurātatam. 3 Mainly based on the following articles: (1)Prof. N. Kleitman, "Sleep" in Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. 20. (2)Prof. R. A... difference between diverse forms in existence, between plants and animals and men, between inert and inanimate 1 2 Savitri, Book III, Canto IV, p. 336. 3 ya eṣa supteṣu jāgarti. (Katha Upanishad, V. 8) Page 180 Matter, living physical bodies and a creature like man in whom the mind consciousness has emerged into the open to look around and wonder? The essential difference ...
... Part Five Discovery of the Psychic Entity But even deeper than the subliminal, there is in us an inmost being, which Sri Aurobindo calls psychic entity or soul and which the Katha Upanishad describes as "the Purusha that is no larger than the thumb of a man and who is seated in the midst of our self (angustamātrah puruso madhye atmani tistati)? 5 The psychic entity supports the... and which, as Sri Aurobindo has explained, is the Supreme Himself in His individuation which takes place in the second poise of the supermind. It is that Jivatman which has been described in Katha Upanishad as the eater of sweetness, and about which the following has been stated in that Upanishad: "He that has known from the very close this Eater of sweetness, the Jiva, the self within that is ...
... Nachiketas Usha, the Dawn the luminous Emergence that the Aryan forefathers worshipped Page 12 Introduction to the Katha Upanishad The Katha Upanishad contains secret knowledge of the soul and the self, which has been described in terms that evoke a sense of authenticity and assured experience. The Upanishad contains two cycles ...
... × Entretiens , 5.28.1958 × Katha Upanishad, 12:256 × Taittiriya Upanishad, 12:343 ... × Mothers Agenda XIII, 8.9.1972 × Katha Upanishad, 12:237 ff. × II Peter 3:13 ...
... Him Brahman, Him Immortality, and in Him are all the worlds established: none goes beyond Him. This is That thou seekest . Katha Upanishad 2.2.9 , 2.2.10 2.2.8 Translated by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda दशवक्रा दशभुजा दशपादाञ्जनप्रभा। विशालया राजमाना त्रिंशल्लोचनमालया ॥३॥ स्फुरद्दशनदंष्ट्रा सा भीमरूपाऽपि ...
... efficiency, if not quite so effectively as before, yet with energy and success. AUROBINDO GHOSE OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Kalidasa's Seasons I: Its Authenticity The Katha Upanishad I.2 Page 160 ...
... of the nation to which they belong and the work to which they have been called. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Kalidasa's Seasons II: The Substance of the Poem The Katha Upanishad I.3 Anandamath: Prologue Page 170 ...
... thwart in the minds of the young the work which by these celebrations God has been doing. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Kalidasa's Seasons III: Its Poetic Value The Katha Upanishad II.1 Anandamath I Suprabhat: A Review Page 177 ...
... the good sense of the people at large to decide between these conflicting views and determine what is best for Bengal and the nation. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Katha Upanishad II.3 Anandamath II, III Page 202 ...
... The Principle of Evil The Stress of the Hidden Spirit Volume 17. Isha Upanishad The Isha Upanishad Volume 18. Kena and Other Upanishads The Kena Upanishad The Katha Upanishad Moondac Upanishad of the Atharvaveda Page 468 ...
... Kena and Other Upanishads The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda The First Cycle; First Chapter उशन् ह वै वाजश्रवसः सर्ववेदसं ददौ । तस्य ह नचिकेता नाम पुत्र आस ॥१॥ 1) Vajashravasa, desiring, gave all he had. Now Vajashravasa had a son named Nachiketas. तं ह कुमारं सन्तं दक्षिणासु नीयमानासु श्रद्धाविवेश । सोऽमन्यत ॥२॥ 2) As the gifts ...
... the Great Self, beyond the Great Self is the Unmanifest, beyond the Unmanifest is the Conscious Being. There is nothing beyond the Being,—that is the extreme ultimate, that the supreme goal. Katha Upanishad. (I. 3. 10, 11.) Rare is the great of soul to whom all is the Divine Being. Gita. (vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti, VII. 19.) A consciousness-force, everywhere inherent in Existence ...
... Page 353 na tatra silryo bhati na candra-tarakam nemo. vidyuto bhanti kuto 'yam agnih/ tarn eva bhdntam anubhati sarvam tasya bhasa sarvam idam vibhati// (Katha Upanishad , II.2.15.) (The sun does not shine there, nor the moon; the stars do not shine; the lightnings do not flash there, let alone this earthly fire. All things reflect Him who is the shining ...
... Unborn. 90 All light is but a flash from his closed eyes. 91 The eyes with their closed lids that see all things. 92 We remember here the significant utterance of the Katha Upanishad: "For all that is bright is but the shadow of His brightness and by His shining all this shines." (Sri Aurobindo's translation of the Upanishadic verse: tameva bhāntaṃ anubhāti sarvaṃ ...
... to its own subtle condition and again reconstituting it in the terms of gross matter. × 2 Katha Upanishad (Ed.) ...
... Aurobindo's The Life Divine into French with a team of translators. My heart is far from overflowing compassion for people who approach the Divine only when they are sick. Katha Upanishad, 1.3.14. Page 302 Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BCE): Roman statesman surnamed "The Censor". His speeches were principally directed against the young free-thinking and ...
... This is the eternal Tree with its root above and its branches downward; this is Brahman, this is the Immortal; in it are lodged all the worlds and none goes beyond it. This and That are one. Katha Upanishad. (II. 3. 1.) If a spiritual evolution of consciousness in the material world and a constant or repeated rebirth of the individual into an earthly body are admitted, the next question ...
... controlling inner Self of all beings.... As the Sun, the eye of the world, is not touched by the external faults of vision, so this inner Self in beings is not touched by the sorrow of the world. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 12, 11.) The Lord abides in the heart of all beings. Gita. (XVIII. 61.) The universe is a manifestation of an infinite and eternal All-Existence: the Divine ...
... evolution of his self-knowledge, world-knowledge, God-knowledge. Page 729 × eko vaśī sarvabhūtāntarātmā — Katha Upanishad , II. 2. 12. ...
... will look through it and revise and add two or three chapters to finish. The time taken will depend on the amount of revision necessary—probably not very extensive alterations are needed. The Katha Upanishad . This also needs revision before it can be published; but it is not likely to take very long. The Kena Upanishad . My present intention is not to publish it as it stands. This must be postponed ...
... involved Consciousness and 1 The Life Divine, p. 853. 2 Ibid., p. 306. 3 Ibid., p. 593. 4 Ibid., p. 711. 5 ya e ṣ a supte ṣ u j ā garti. (Katha Upanishad, V. 8) Page 294 make it the overt master there even over our outer existence and nature. It follows then that the evolutionary emergence cannot stop short with man or mental ...
... by thee, I would know.": Page 42 "Yeya ṁ prete vicikits ā manu ṣ ye, Ast ī tyeke n ā yam ast ī ti caike Etad vidy ā m anu ś i ṣṭ as tvay ā 'ha ṁ " (Katha Upanishad, I. 1.20) Yes, the puzzled and troubled adolescent of the Upanishad wanted to know directly from the presiding deity of death the real truth about the Ultimate Journey of man, about what ...
... home is in the law, and His dwelling is in the firmament: He is all that is born on the mountains. He is the Truth and He is the Mighty One. Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda Swan: Indian symbol of the individual soul, the central being, the divine part which is turned towards the Divine, descending from there and ascending to it. ...
... a veritable world of wonderful illuminations, that our mind and vital being retire when they withdraw by inward-drawn concentration from their absorption in surface activities. 1 Katha Upanishad, II. 1.1. 2 Mandukya Upanishad, 3. 3 Savitri, Book VII, Canto II, pp. 484-85. Page 72 It is because of its inward plunge bringing in its train ...
... 26 (7) The old evolutionary procedure that relied on a prior form evolution 22. The Life Divine, p. 593, 23. Ibid., p. 711. 24. Ya e ṣ a supte ṣ u j ā garti. (Katha Upanishad, V.8.) 25. The Life Divine, p. 853. 26.Cf. "The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of Consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into ...
... death—will be a sexless one. 1 "The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It", Bulletin of Physical Education, February 1954. 2 Babylonian mythology. 3 Katha Upanishad, II.1.10. 4 Brihadaranyaka Upanishad, I .2.1. 5 Taittiriya Upanishad, II.2. 6 Vide : D. Merejkovsky, Les Myst è res de l'Orient, p. 299. Page 408 ...
... Chapter III Survival Beyond the Tomb Nachiketas says: "This doubt there is about a man who has passed: some say, ' He is'; some others, 'He is no more.' " (Katha Upanishad, 1. 1. 20) Yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?... If a man die, shall he live again? (The Book of Job, 14.10,14) I shall live even when I am dead, just as ...
... and the quality of the pupil will be judged by and will depend upon the choice he makes. This is the choice between the good and the pleasant, shreyas and preyas, to use the terms of the Katha Upanishad. Not that pleasure or enjoyment has no place in an ideal life, but there is a distinction between seeking pleasure for the sake of pleasure and taking pleasure in whatever worthwhile action one ...
... Page 34 conscious silent Purusha no longer subject to the distractions of Nature. (The psychological account which is given here in the Gita can be compared to that given in the Katha Upanishad.)²³ In the former alternative, buddhi and the psychological complex of the being is at the mercy of the objects of sense, and it lives in the outward contacts of things. The resultant life ...
... eva an ś ah sanātanah). Again, there are here the experiences of the jiva that presides over individual evolution, and its delegate, caitya purusha, (psychic being described in the Katha Upanishad as the one not bigger than the thumb) which is directly related to and involved in the evolution and formations of the body, life and mind, which are all products of Prakriti. One gets contacts ...
... for the mental being is how to rise beyond the mind and its instruments and how to attain to the Brahman. The Kena concentrates on this all-important problem of human existence. Again, the Katha Upanishad aims at the knowledge of Immortality and enjoyment of Immortality, but it focuses on the psychological complex of man and on the cause of death and not only on what happens after the death but ...
... underlined in the Vedas and the Upanishads? The path, we are told, is difficult like a razor's edge (kśurasya dhārā), and it is best to arise, awake, find out the great ones and learn of them. Katha Upanishad speaks on behalf of the Rishis of both the Vedas and the Upanishads and declares the severity of the difficulty of the path. In general, the methods of yoga worked out in the Vedas are reconfirmed ...
... about. Even poetry, the art that is perhaps most bound to the sense pattern, as no other, so indissolubly married to sense-life, seems to be giving way to the new impact and inspiration. ¹ Katha Upanishad, 11.2.15 Page 298 A poetry devoid of all thought-content, pure of all sentiment and understandable imagery is being worked out in the laboratory, as it were, a new poetry made ...
... the significance of the mystic syllable AUM are described. As an example of greater clarity of statements, which are nearer to our intellectual apprehension, we may refer to the passages of the Katha Upanishad where the knowledge of the Purusha, no bigger than a thumb, as man's central self is given. 13. Chhandogya Upanishad 4.11.1. 14. Ibid., 6.8.7. Page 107 15. Ibid., 3.14.1; ...
... same self-sacrifice, self-offering, dedication and prostration. The lower levels and the lower dharmas in us have to be quietened and surrendered to the higher and higher levels and dharmas. The Katha Upanishad declares: Yacchedvammanasi prajñastadyacchejjñana atmani, Jñamatmani mahati niyacchettadyacchecchanta atmani.¹ "Let the wise man restrain speech in his mind and mind in Self, and knowledge ...
... its obvious physical function, the life-breath, verse 8 can only mean, "He who liveth (breatheth) not by the life-breath", & the other verses must follow suit. For a kindred idea we may compare Katha Upanishad II.2.5. "No mortal lives by the superior or the inferior life-energy, but by another thing men live in which both these have their foundation." ...
... of them, for in no other human tongue than Sanscrit is such grandeur & beauty possible. But there are ways and their degrees. For instance Étadwaitad , the refrain of the Page 167 Katha Upanishad has a deep & solemn ring in Sanscrit because étad and tad so used have in Sanscrit a profound and grandiose philosophical signification which everybody at once feels; but in English "This truly ...
... self and God and universe. Here the intuitive mind and intimate psychological experience of the Vedic seers passes into a supreme culmination in which the Spirit, as is said in a phrase of the Katha Upanishad, discloses its own very body, reveals the very word of its self-expression and discovers to Page 329 the mind the vibration of rhythms which repeating themselves within in the spiritual ...
... The Methods of Vedantic Knowledge This secret Self in all beings is not apparent, but it is seen by means of the supreme reason, the subtle, by those who have the subtle vision. Katha Upanishad. (I. 3. 12.) But what then is the working of this Sachchidananda in the world and by what process of things are the relations between itself and the ego which figures it first formed ...
... beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 3.) This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 8.) All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation ...
... is a vital mental, several layers of the vital itself, a physical vital and so on in each realm. Everything contains everything else, as it were. It is quite probable that the sloka [ Katha Upanishad 2.3.4 ] refers to a going up into higher worlds of felicity and light and this can be called a liberation or release. In later times the idea grew strong that from all these higher worlds return ...
... and death are merely semblances and operations of Nature,—of Aditi full of the gods, Aditi devatāmayī ; the spirit is really one in all bodies and is neither born nor dies. Nachiketas in the Katha Upanishad raises the question whether the man as we know and conceive him really survives death and this seems to be the sense of the answer that he receives. Page 452 ...
... an instance expressly given of the way in which the Theosophists arrive at their results & shows both their sincerity & the possibilities and pitfalls of their method. 4) Three sortileges. Katha Upanishad (Apte's edition) p. 82. (1)यव्दिज्ञानात्र किंचिदन्यत्प्रार्थयंते ब्राह्मणाः कथं तदधिगम । उच्यते—येन रूपं रसं गंधं शब्दान्स्पर्शांश्र्च मैथुनान् । एतेनैव विजानाति किमत्र परिशिषयते । एतव्दै तत् ...
... It is the All; and it is that which transcends the All. Page 75 × Avidyāyām antare vartamānāḥ. —Katha Upanishad I. 2.5; Mundaka I. 2.8. × Intuition (revelation, inspiration, intuitive perception, intuitive ...
... truth-feeling, truth movement, truth-action can then become the integral law of our nature. Page 655 × Katha Upanishad , II. 2. 9. ...
... the doors of sense outward, therefore one sees things outwardly and sees not in one's inner being. Rarely a sage desiring immortality, his sight turned inward, sees the Self face to face. Katha Upanishad. (II. 1. 1.) There is no annihilation of the seeing of the seer, the speaking of the speaker... the hearing of the hearer... the knowing of the knower, for they are indestructible; ...
... have to be matured their result of development and appoints all qualities to their workings. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (V. 3-5.) He fashions one form of things in many ways. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 12.) Who has perceived this truth occult, that the Child gives being to the Mothers by the workings of his nature? An offspring from the lap of many Waters, he comes forth ...
... concession to that watery British substitute for it which is only Imperialism afraid of its convictions. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE Yoga and Human Evolution The Katha Upanishad I.1 Page 99 ...
... accomplish for Italy, to place her in the head and forefront of the new world whose birth-throes are now beginning to convulse the Earth. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Katha Upanishad II.2 Anandamath I (continued) Page 188 ...
... understands everything, recalls everything. Therefore this consciousness within is independent of evolution and, consequently, we may presume, anterior to evolution. Esha supteshu jagarti, says the Katha Upanishad, This is the Waker in all who sleep. This new psychological research is only in its infancy & cannot tell us what this secret consciousness is, but the knowledge gained by Yoga enables us to ...
... Circa 1913 Essays Divine and Human The Evolutionary Aim in Yoga In the Katha Upanishad there occurs one of those powerful and pregnant phrases, containing a world of meaning in a point of verbal space, with which the Upanishads are thickly sown. Yogo hi prabhavapyayau. For Yoga is the beginning & ending of things. In the Puranas the meaning of the ...
... Vedantist comes to a different conclusion; he admits an identical, a self, a persistent immutable reality,—but other than my personality, other than this composite which I call myself. In the Katha Upanishad the question is raised in a very instructive Page 272 fashion quite apposite to the subject we have in hand. Nachiketas, sent by his father to the world of Death, thus questions Yama ...
... the Life Force. Page 387 In Book VII Canto 5, concerned with the finding of the Soul, the line A being no bigger than the thumb of man, is a translation from the Katha Upanishad where the inmost soul of man, divine in essence, governing his many lives and evolving through the ages into the Supreme Spirit's infinity, is spoken of in these terms. In the long passage ...
... × Samadhi : trance. × The Ashwatha Tree Katha Upanishad , II, iii, 1 . ...
... earthly creation — ‘have a psychic being.’ 28 By this they are superior to all other creatures, even to the gods, who have to take on an earthly body if they want to evolve further. The Katha Upanishad says that the soul is ‘no larger than a man’s thumb’; the Swetaswatara Upanishad says it is ‘smaller than the hundredth part of the tip of a hair.’ Actually, these figurative descriptions mean ...
... yatha chandanabharavahi bharasya vetta na tu chandanasya Page 49. "All... Brahman": from Chhandogya Upanishad: Sarvam khalvidam Brahma "What is here ... traced": from Katha Upanishad: Yadeveha tadamutra yadamutra tadanviha Page 49. "Krishna is ... peaks": from a famous Sanskrit pronun- ciamento: Jale Krishnah sthale Krishnah Krishnah parvata-mastake ...
... master of food and its eater', annavānannādo bhavati 4 , 'enjoys all desire', so'śnute sarvān kāmān, 5 'eats what he 1 Sri Aurobindo, Isha Upanishad, pp. 28-29. 2 Cf. Katha Upanishad, II.3.14: "When every desire that finds lodging in the heart of man, has been loosened from its moorings, then this mortal puts on immortality." (Sri Aurobindo's translation) 3 Sri Aurobindo ...
... self-fulfilment of the process of death, we must at the very outset try to get rid of a basic and besetting error of perspective 1 Sri Aurobindo, Eight Upanishads, p. 47 fn. 2 Katha Upanishad, I .1.21. (Sri Aurobindo's translation) 3 Ibid., I .1.29. 4 The Epic of Gilgamesh composed around the beginning of the second mil lennium B.C. 5 Bulletin of Physical ...
... hanumāṁśca vibhīṣanaḥ krpaḥ paraśurāmśca saptaite cirajivīnaḥ. 2 Mahābhārata, vanaparva, sarga 295. 3 Manasāmaṅgal. 4 Babylonian myth. 5 Greek legend. 6 Katha Upanishad. 7 8 Greek mythology. 9 Mahābhārata, ādiparva. Page 329 to have escaped death and been bodily assumed to heaven. 1 But, alas, all these are ...
... shroud, A shroud of Death, a shroud of Ignorance. (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, p. 658) Who thinks he sees difference, from death to death he goes. (Katha Upanishad, II. 1.10) When every desire that finds lodging in the heart of man has been loosened from its moorings, then this mortal puts on immortality. (Ibid., II.3.14) ...
... here also. * In Book VII, Canto 5, concerned with the finding of the Soul, the line A being no bigger than the thumb of man, [p. 526] is a translation from the Katha Upanishad where the inmost soul of man, divine in essence, governing his many lives and evolving through the ages into the Supreme Spirit's infinity, is spoken of in these terms. In the long passage ...
... Yoga. See yoga intellect bright and dark 307 intelligence 82,215 intuition 235 Overmind 323,347 Iqbal 70 K Kabir 126 Kalidasa 182,205,216,218 Katha Upanishad 115 kavayah satyaśhrutah 184 Kavi 163 Kazantzakis, Nicos 60,213 Keats 18,197,336 knowledge Agni and 306 lustrous lid and 36,37,311 Savitri full of 208 ...
... Ashwattha tree is located in the third celestial world, the World of Varuna. Once Agni, in the guise of a horse, Ashwa, stayed under this tree for a year and hence it is called Ashwattha... . In the Katha Upanishad we have the eternal Ashwattha tree whose root is above but whose branches are downward. The Gita has undoubtedly lifted up this image and brought out its true significance in several details while ...
... Knowledge and the Ignorance both of which have the hidden being in the Eternal and Infinite. This reiterates the distinction made between Knowledge and Ignorance in the Isha Upanishad. As in Katha Upanishad, so here, a distinction is made between the Supreme in the highest status and the Supreme as the individual, described in terms of the size of a man's thumb but whose aspect comprehends all the ...
... several layers of the world in which one can come to live simultaneously. The knowledge of the supra-physical worlds and their order can be found recorded in the Veda and the Upanishad. Hence, the Katha Upanishad states: "They who dwell in the ignorance, within it, wise in their own wit and deeming themselves very learned, men bewildered are they who wander about stumbling round and round helplessly like ...
... They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad.* This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy that assumes more or less material, more or less gross or subtle forms for self-presentation to its own experience ...
... of the books, for that is mere weariness of the tongue" (iv,4,2I). Describing the higher Self, the Taittiriya Upanishad says: "Before whom words and thought recoil, not finding him" (ii,4). The Katha Upanishad declares: "Not by the Veda is the Atman attained, nor by intellect, nor by much knowledge of books" (i,2,23). page-29 Medhatithi. 1 Some of the prose Upanishads have a vivid narrative ...
... earlier, but it is always good to hear this story again and again. This will always strengthen us in our aspiration to know the truth. This story is to be found in one of the Upanishads called 'Katha Upanishad'. The story begins with an event in the house of one whose name was Vajashravasa. In those ancient days, there used to be important events when sacrifices were performed. A sacrifice ...
... outwards, therefore the soul of a man gazes outward and not at the Self within: hardly a wise man here and there, desiring immortality, turns his eyes inward and sees the Self within him." (Katha Upanishad, II. 1.1. Sri Aurobindo' s translation.) Herein lies the absolute necessity, also the proper utility, of withdrawing our sight from the superficies of life and bringing it inward to ...
... but a flash from his closed eyes" (681) (4)"The eyes with their closed lids that see all things" (41) Page 74 We remember here that significant utterance of the Katha Upanishad: "For all that is bright is but the shadow of His brightness and by His shining all this shines." (Sri Aurobindo's translation of the Upanishadic verse: tameva bhāntam anubhāti sarvam tasya ...
... both of them, surprises which are loaded with meaning. The little prince is a symbol of the inner being of man who appears in different traditions and cultures under various names. In the Katha Upanishad, the inner being is described as something "not bigger than a man's thumb" (angushthamatram) The early Greeks called it the psyche. In other traditions it is spoken of as the soul. However, some ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8 ON UPANISHADIC THOUGHT Yama - Nachiketa (Katha Upanishad) VAJASRAVAS desired that he would give away all he had. He had a son named Nachiketas. As the boy saw the gifts being given, his heart was filled with respect and devotion, and he pondered: "The realm of undelight ...
... and life-energy is the expression of that power Page 134 as force of action. That explains the Fire's emphasis on 1ife-force. (2) The Fires are three in number. The Katha Upanishad also speaks of Nachiketa learning the method of worshipping the three Fires; he thereby conquers death and comes to possess the three worlds, trilokamaptim . Here too it is the same story. ...
... the poet, is also involved. It may well be what is comparatively easy and natural in the language of the 1 Harindranath Chattopadhyaya: "Blue Profound" in Strange Journey. 2 Katha Upanishad. 8 Ibid. Page 297 gods (devabhasha) would mean a tour de force, if not altogether an impossibility, in a human language. The Sanskrit language was moulded and fashioned ...
... Parables from the Upanishads Yama - Nachiketa (Katha Upanishad) Vajasravas desired that he would give away all he had. He had a son named Nachiketas. As the boy saw the gifts being given, his heart was filled with respect and devotion, and he pondered: "The realm of undelight is his portion who makes a gift offering of kine that have ...
... life-energy is the expression of that power Page 20 as force of action. That explains the Fire's emphasis on life-force. (2) The Fires are three in number. The Katha Upanishad also speaks of Nachiketa learning the method of worshipping the three Fires; he thereby conquers death and comes to possess the three worlds, trilokamāptim. Her too it is the same story. ...
... how we can take courage and march out of the inferior nature into the peace and light and power of the higher divine nature. ¹ "Nor by brain-power, nor by much learning of Scripture." – Katha Upanishad, 1. 2. 23 . ² "This Self cannot be won by any who is without strength.”–Ibid. Page 78 ...
... example, Ramanuja says at one place that no such thing as consciousness exists and that nobody can experience pure consciousness! It is staggering. SATYENDRA: You have made a translation of the Katha Upanishad. It is very fine. Why haven't you republished it since it first came out? SRI AUROBINDO: It was translated when I was very young. I wanted to convey the literary merit of the original in the ...
... by the poet, is also involved. It may well be what is comparatively easy and natural in the language of the ¹ Harindranath Chattopadhyaya: "Blue Profound" in Strange Journey. ² Katha Upanishad. ³ Ibid. Page 69 gods (devabhasha) wouJd mean a tour de force, if not altogether an impossibility, in a human language. The Sanskrit language was moulded and fashioned in ...
... Dante through Hell and Purgatory and then arriving at the frontier of Paradise and there entrusting him into the hands of Beatrice. It is to give the preliminary ¹ The Gita: II, 59 ² Katha UPanishad: II, 23 Page 284 experiences, initiate into the basic mysteries in order to prepare the vessel that is to house the Supreme. The Supreme is not. amenable to your control whatever ...
... Kara-Kahini, 307fn, 308ff, 314H, 318, 320 Karmayogin, The, 201,250, 335,336ff, 345, 346ff, 359ff, 362H, 370, 375, 376, 390, 399, 449, 514, 531 Kathasaritsagara, 147 Katha Upanishad, 337 Kazantzakis, Nikos, 649 Keats, John, 30,41,176,177 Kena Upanishad, 337,459, 461ff, and Isha, 461; comparison with Mother's prayer, 462; and stair of consciousness ...
... what he says about them: " Here the intuitive mind and intimate psychological- experience of the Vedic seers passes into a supreme culmination in which the Spirit, as is laid in a phrase of the Katha Upanishad, discloses its own very body, reveals the very word of its self-expression and discovers to the mind the- vibration of rhythms which repeating themselves within in the spiritual hearing seems to ...
... Mother asked, "Why are they upset ?" I told her the reason. They have requested for written blessings. She wrote, "Blessings". * * * Mother signed the notice of the play "Katha Upanishad" on 26.2.72 at the Aspiration Cultural Centre. * * * There was a request from an American Hippy, William Phillips, "Your vibrations of Universal love and light have reached my life ...
... kaścit, ajo nityaḥ śāśvato'yaṁ purāṇo na hanyate hanyamāne śarīre. 18 aṇoraṇīyānmahato mahīyānātmāsya jantornihito guhāyām, tamakratuḥ paśyati vītaśoko dhātuprasādānmahimāna-mātmanaḥ. 20 Katha Upanishad 1.2. 18 , 20 The Wise One is not born, neither does he die: he came not from anywhere, neither is he any one: he is unborn, he is everlasting, he is ancient and sempiternal: he is not slain ...
... yadā pañcāvatiṣṭhante jñānāni manasā saha, buddhiśca na viceṣṭati tāmāhuḥ paramāṁ gatim. 10 yadā sarve prabhidyante hṛdayasyeha granthayaḥ, atha martyo’mṛto bhavatyetāvaddhyanuśāsanam. 15 Katha Upanishad 2.3. 9 , 10 , 15 God has not set His body within the ken of seeing, neither does any man with the eye behold Him, but to the heart and themind and the supermind He is manifest. Who know ...
... विद्याच्छुक्रममृतमिति ॥ aṅguṣṭhamātraḥ puruṣo’ntarātmā sadā janānāṁ hṛdaye sanniviṣṭaḥ, taṁ svāccharīrāt pravṛhenmuñjādiveṣīkām dhairyeṇa, taṁ vidyācchukramamṛtaṃ taṃ vidyācchukramamṛtamiti. Katha Upanishad 2.3.17 The Purusha, the Spirit within, who is no larger than the finger of a man is seated for ever in the heart of creatures: one must separate Him with patience from one's own body as one ...
... help to engineer the nation's movement towards a bright and purposive future. The early issues of the Karmayogin carried Sri Aurobindo's English translations of the Isha, Kena and Katha Upanishads. The paper also published his renderings from Kalidasa's Ritusamhara and the first thirteen chapters of Bankim Chandra's Anandamath, besides several of Sri Aurobindo's poems. Who, Baji... Bengali, he had already - by the time he launched the Dharma - won an individual mastery of the language to be able to make an astonishing variety of contributions to the paper: essays on the Upanishads, the Puranas and the Gita (including a rendering of the first two Books), essays on Nationalism, religion and spirituality, essays on subjects like 'The Eight Siddhis', 'Sannyasa and Tyaga', 'National... and when tested and experienced, turning it to the soul's uses, in this Hinduism we find the basis of the future world-religion. This sanatoria dharma has many scriptures, Veda, Vedanta, Gita, Upanishad, Darshan, Purana, Tantra, nor could it reject the Bible or the Koran; but its real, most authoritative scripture is in the heart in which the Eternal has His dwelling. It is in our inner spiritual ...
... even maintained that since he spoke about Sri Krishna in the Uttarpara Speech he was very much influenced by Sri Krishna. He translated the Kena and the Katha Upanishads at this time, therefore he was greatly influenced by these Upanishads. Well, this is a wrong way of explaining or understanding, or rather misunderstanding a great personality. With all his anxiety "to prove"–pramān karivār –... 6. Mr. Kulkami seems to suggest that Sri Aurobindo was seeking Satsang [good and holy company] at Baroda and that on his return from England he was buried in religious books like the Veda, the Upanishads and the Shastras in general. This is not true. He was reading all kinds of books at Baroda, among them books on ancient Indian culture. He was not specially seeking out good company. His circle... that Sri Aurobindo preached the doctrine of Deva-Devi grace in politics. He invokes the inherent spiritual reservoir of energy in each individual. He says, in fact, what was said long ago by the Upanishads and the Gita. It is not a cult of worship of little gods and goddesses but the general dependence on the inner spirit, on the Divine Shakti, Bhawani, that is in the race. 41. Girija says also ...
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