Levi Levite : Levi was the 3rd son of Jacob & his first wife, Leah. He was the ancestor of the Levites, the Jewish priestly class. In Apostle St Luke’s Gospel (10:32) a Levite, being Jewish, ignored a sick man but a Good Samaritan, being Christian, nursed him.
... Talks with Sri Aurobindo TORU DUTT'S POEM FRANCE-1870 Not dead,—oh no,—she cannot die! Only a swoon from loss of blood! Levite, England passes her by, Help, Samaritan! none is nigh; Who shall stanch me this sanguine flood? Range the brown hair, it blinds her eyes, Dash cold water over her face! Drowned in her blood, she makes no sign, Give her ...
... DR. MANILAL: Are German philosophers influenced by Vedanta? Vivekananda said that Max Müller was a reborn Sayanacharya. SRI AUROBINDO: How? It is more than a compliment. DR. MANILAL: Sylvan Levi is also a Sanskrit scholar. He came to Baroda. The Gaekwar used to refer to you, Sir, as "my secretary". SRI AUROBINDO: Not a troublesome one? (Laughter) DR. MANILAL: No, Sir. Vallabbhai once ...
... the height of the disturbances in East Bengal this Friend of India maintained a rigid silence on Indian affairs and discoursed solemnly day after day on large questions of European policy. Like the Levite it turned its face away from the traveller wounded by thieves and passed by. Since the deportation of Lajpat Rai, it has cared less and less to preserve its tone of affected sympathy until on the 15th ...
... and Plays, 717; contributions to Bulletin, 718ff; on perfection of body, 718-9; Mind of Light, 720H, 743; on the world situation, 721-2; on Korea and Chinese aggression, 721-2; interviews to Tagore, Levi & others, 723; on Golconde, 723-4; Brahmabandhab on, 728; Gandhiji on, 730; Justice Chatterjee on, 730; Munshi on, 731; on Yogic cure of maladies, 732; on leaving his body, 732; the Bhrigu astrologer's... A., 572 Krishnaprem, Yogi (Ronald Nixon), 468 Langley, G. H., 752 Lawrence, D. H., 215,615 Lele, Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar, 274fr, 279-80, 289, 291, 318, 387, 389 Levi, Sylvain, 550 Life Divine, The, 17, 20, 22, 122, 404ff; a declaration for the future, 419; greatly planned, 419; key opening 419; materialist denial and ascetic refusal, 420-1; omnipresent ...
... capital of Maisolia, the country named, as S. N. Majumdar 4 observes, "from the river Maisolos which signifies the whole extent of the mouths of the Godavari and the Krishnā" - Pityndra which, as Levi pointed out, is the same as Pithuda mentioned in the Hathigumpha Inscription of Kharavela before Ptolemy's time as having been completely destroyed by that conqueror. Even the celebrated Palibothra ...
... and, from 1939, a fourth day, 24 April (the day of the Mother's second coming), was added. Also, he occasionally broke the rule of retirement in favour of visitors like Rabindranath Tagore and Sylvain Levi. Further, since the Mother and one or two disciples kept in constant touch with Sri Aurobindo and since he answered in detail the letters from his disciples posing their problems, his involvement in ...
... robbers, who stripped him and beat him, and departed, leaving him half dead. 31 Now by chance a priest was going down that road; and when he saw him he passed by on the other side. 32 So likewise a Levite, when he came to the place and saw him, passed by on the other side. 33 But a Samaritan, as he journeyed, came to where he was; and when he saw him, he had compassion, 34 and went to him and bound ...
... he revised poems written by others, he gave interviews though only very occasionally. Even during the years of complete retirement after 1926, he received friends and savants like Tagore, Sylvain Levi, M. Baron the Governor of Pondicherry, M. Schumann from Paris, C.R. Reddy, K.M. Munshi, and others. From behind the scenes, he helped the Mother whenever necessary with advice regarding the organisation ...
... of the three chatusthayas of effectuation, only in the three which are purely subjective. R. [Reference] And he shall sit as a purifier & refiner of silver, and he shall purify the sons of Levi & refine them as gold & silver that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness. Indicating the purification of thought & life into the terms of the Ritam. In this p ...
... repeat here what we have remarked in a much earlier context -the Gokāk plates of Dejja Mahārāja. Palaeography - the comparative study of old writings - is not an exact science. We may recall Sylvain Levi's opinion 1 that palaeographical tests have little independent value (autorite absolue) although they may be used as a check (controle) upon or a guide (indice) to the interpretation of positive... others that the first and most 1. Indian Archaeology Today (Ajanta Publications, Delhi, 1979), p. 130. 2. A History of Sanskrit Literature (Edition 1912), pp. 136-137. 3. Cf. Sylvain Levi, as quoted by Vincent Smith in The Indian Antiquary, 1902, p. 199: "There is not, I believe, any reason to doubt the substantial accuracy of the Ceylonese dates... from... the... time of Dutthagāmanī ...
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