Listeners : poem by Walter de la Mare.
... spread brahmarasa , the sweet essence of the Eternal; it shall scatter abroad in all directions, all where and all wise and in every measure its full abundance of happiness. On hearing the song the listeners will simply slip into deep Page 109 meditation. But if there is an erudite scholar also he will ponder over its text and meaning. Its enjoyment shall prove to him to be greater than... worth. Then, there is the discerning audience who will ignore the blemishes and even the blunders,—as the faults of a little child are ignored by thoughtful and well-disposed elders. Entreating his listeners thus, Jnaneshwar continues further: ( Jnaneshwari : 9.20) Can anyone really hold or circumscribe the sky, or can anyone sway or direct the blowing wind the... characterise it, then surely it would be very audacious on the part of Jnaneshwar to attempt rendering it in the simple language that Marathi is. But the genuine and kind-hearted appreciation from the listeners can assuredly be warm and enthusing. It can be more encouraging, or else more cool and soothing than even the moonlight. In fact it can be more efficacious than ambrosia which gives to its drinker ...
... to the Ashram for a few days. In those days, the Ashram had a few guest-houses and he was staying in one of them. I organised his programme and the audience was mesmerised by his music. The Ashram listeners wanted to hear more of his music; however, it was not possible to have programmes everyday at the Ashram. So I organised sessions in different places informally. After finishing our Group activities... for him to leave and we all felt extremely grateful at having received so much from him. We had collected so many musical gems from him. He too was a musician of a very high order and when he found listeners eager to enjoy music, he would give most generously through his instrument. The responsibility of looking after all these musicians was on my shoulders. At the time of his departure, it fell on me ...
... couldn't claim immunity from the mounting strain resulting from contact with others and the struggle with universal forces. She suffered a slight haemorrhage in her left eye, and on 6 March she told her listeners at the Playground: "My eye won't allow me to read today." On 8 March, she was still unable to read, but told the story of her old friend Mme Alexandra David-Neel, who, seeing a tiger in front of her... readings from Thoughts and Glimpses for a few weeks, the Mother turned to Sri Aurobindo's culminating prose testament, The Supramental Manifestation. One way or another, the aim was to take the listeners to the inner countries of the Integral Yoga, rather like Virgil guiding Dante through the triple worlds in The Divine Comedy. It is seldom a sheerly sunlit path or the primrose path of easy success ...
... and felicity of phrase is very telling. 11 October 1936 My appreciation of the effect of Arjava's poem, especially its first eight lines, was a little staled by the memory of De la Mare's Listeners. De la Mare's poem has a delicate beauty throughout and a sort of daintily fanciful suggestion of the occult world. I do not know if there is anything more. The weakness of it is that it reads... down to the empty hall, ... the dark turf, 'Neath the starred and leafy sky are a description of things on earth made occult only by the presence of the phantom listeners. But ... the empty eerie courtyard With no name or ... the crescent moon swung wanly, White as curd are not earthly, they belong to a terrible ...
... and Page 306 considered it as, among other things, strikingly original. On learning this, Sethna invited his comment on it drawing his attention to Walter de la Mare's poem, The Listeners, to which it seemed to bear some affinity: "De la Mare's poem has a delicate beauty throughout and a sort of daintily fanciful suggestion of the& occult world. I do not know if there is anything... moonbeams on the dark stair That goes down to the empty hall... The dark turf' neath the starred and leafy sky are a description of things on earth made occult only by the presence of the phantom listeners. But ... the empty eerie courtyard With no name or Page 307 ... a crescent moon swung wanly, White as curd are not earthly, they belong to a terrible elsewhere, while ...
... existence. The composition of Jnaneshwari is in the manner of a discourse in which the speaker is explaining the Gita to a mixed audience; in the group there are also well-qualified and competent listeners, though perhaps fewer in number. But the exhortation transcends the immediate context and goes beyond the local-temporal to gather the infinite. The method of discourse gives an easy happy fluency... collective social order. The method of the poet is reiterative, emphasising each idea or concept with the help of several examples. It does amount to a kind of poetic fervour, but it is meant for the listeners to understand what is being presented. Explanatory-exhortative is the technique which makes sure that the author is sure of what he is speaking about. The commentary therefore, instead of becoming ...
... your parents did not give it to you. Think that over." 5 Storyteller's Zen Encho was a famous storyteller. His tales of love stirred the hearts of his listeners. When he narrated a story of war, it was as if the listeners themselves were on the field of battle. One day Encho met Yamaoka Tesshu, a layman who had almost embraced masterhood in Zen. "I understand," said Yamaoka, "you ...
... supremacy, and the means by which this great work had been accomplished, were sanctified by the result. The scourge of India, a recital of whose misdeeds had 27 years before made some of Burke's listeners swoon with horror, was honoured as a hero and god, and biographies and histories have been written by the score to justify his action and exalt him to the skies. When therefore Mr. Morley declared ...
... supreme singer; Veda-Vyasa coming after him, the author of the Mahabharata, is the supreme poet-thinker. Anyone versed in Sanskrit would sing the Ramayana in poetic transport and ease, carrying the listeners along with him, but when one turns to the Mahabharata one is simply awed at its immensitude (twenty-five thousand couplets without accretions and one hundred-thousand with accretions) and its cosmic ...
... dead to life? Such is the power of the Guru’s grace and hence he need not harbour apprehension, argues the devout saint-poet. Finally, Jnaneshwar pleads for the indulgence of the respectable listeners attending the sessions. If there are defects, remove them—requests he. Nay, he goes a step farther and proclaims that it is from them that he is going to derive courage and strength to rise to the ...
... collapse if they separated”, writes Carl Pletsch. 692 When Wagner died, Nietzsche wrote in a letter: “Wagner was by far the fullest man I have ever known.” His music “seeped into the being of its listeners and transformed them from within. Nothing in the history of music was so daring in composition and so seeringly accurate and dangerously effective in conveying the power and nature of the human ...
... of a two-tier structure, with a small group of teachers, the ‘elect’, taking responsibility for the instruction of a much larger group of what the Platonists and Manicheans appropriately called ‘listeners’.” 5 Secrecy on penalty of death was imposed not only by the Pythagoreans but by all mystery cults. A striking illustration is this passage from Apuleius’ Golden Ass : “So listen, and be sure ...
... with the words: "Oscar, sewing?" Wilde at once replied: "No, reaping." I don't know whether Mallarme was as much of a wit as Wilde, but his talk was said to exert a deep influence on all his listeners. It is likely that the cult of the artistic which flourished in England during Wilde's day had a lot to do with Mallarme and his doc-trines, doctrines mostly inculcated in the Tuesday-talks. But Wilde ...
... weirdly dynamic symbol of a soul-attitude struck by the human in accord with some drama of hell's tyranny and murderous monotony. Here is de la Mare's ending: Never the least stir made the listeners, Though every word he spake Fell echoing through the shadowiness of the still house From the one man left awake: Ay, they heard his foot upon the stirrup, And the sound of iron on stone ...
... or a thing, I look into its soul, its deepest depth." Amal's words, even the seemingly casual expressions, always carry within them a deep truth which becomes a continuous subtle education for the listeners. As a poet Amal loves words. Talking of words he said: "Words, while they have a beauty of their own, are some-times transparent and reveal hidden depths of great poetic value. They give ...
... third hand; they come first to the intermediary spirit, Julia or another, by her they are conveyed to the human medium and through him conveyed by automatic or conscious speech or writing to the listeners. It is obvious how largely the mind of the medium and, to a smaller but still great extent, the thought-impressions of the other sitters must interfere, and this without the least intention on their ...
... with which my tune began. Glowing behind The singer's mind, A mystery journeys forth to meet Across the rapture of rhyming feet Its own unplumbed repose. Come then, O listeners, with a tranquil mood To feel far more than the loud heart knows; Or else the King who moves through the common word Shall never be heard And keep unseen the strange infinitude ...
... light with which my tune began. Glowing behind The singer's mind, A mystery journeys forth to meet Across the rapture of rhyming feet Its own unplumbed repose. Come then, O listeners, with a tranquil mood To feel far more than the loud heart knows, Or else the King who moves through the common word Shall never be heard And keep unseen the strange infinitude ...
... (4-10) Those two sons of the sage (Kuśa and Lava) then started singing, enhancing the joy of the assembly who were talking among themselves. (11) Then continued the celestial music; all the listeners, despite the musical wealth that was displayed were left thirsting for more. (12) The assembly of the sages and the kings of great glory, in their extreme joy were gazing at them again and again (the ...
... Judas in view of the depiction of the Last Supper his gentle voice, and with his subtle arguments in conversation. "His powers of conversation were such as to draw to himself the souls of listeners", remembers Vasari. 10 Employed as a "painter and engineer of the Duke", Leonardo directed an extensive workshop with several students, entertained the court with his decorations for the frequent ...
... already seen in one of our earlier chapters ("The Disciples' Humour") that what, in Sri Aurobindo's case, served as this "auspicious condition": was the presence of a small group of highly appreciative listeners (readers) of cultivated literary taste like Amal Kiran, Dilip Kumar and Nirod-baran. Otherwise, the general turn of Sri Aurobindo's writings is, in the main, quite serious and sublime in character ...
... the object of reflection by himself and the students. In this way, the problem-posing educator constantly re-forms his reflections in the reflection of the students. The students — no longer docile listeners — are now critical co-investigators in dialogue with the teacher. The teacher presents the material to the students for their consideration, and re-examines his earlier considerations as the students ...
... but I am continuing my compulsory Monday attendance, so much force had been generated in that dynamic utterance. Only we have named it "Black Monday", à la Charles Lamb. Nolini who was one of the listeners was also in our Group; he did not, of course, need any such compulsion from Page 84 outside, neither was Monday black for him; it was golden. But Nolini is Nolini. He joined also the Mass ...
... coup took place in October 1999. Musharraf gave his maiden speech at 3 am. To the people of Pakistan he stated boldly "the armed forces have never let you down," hoping that at that early hour, his listeners would not recall who was behind Pakistan's debacle in 1971. To some it bore an eerie resemblance to Yahya's boasting in March of 1971 that the armed forces were prepared to do everything to preserve ...
... he has to continue to be in a blank mind. If I speak, I have to think, I have to choose a subject. What am I to do? Lele Maharaj answered, "Do one thing, go to the meeting, stand in front of your listeners, do namaskar to the public and keep quiet, wait, see what happens. Don't try to say anything or think of anything simply remain as a passive instrument in the hands of the Supreme Power." Sri Aurobindo ...
... however, protested. He said, "The fault is entirely mine. They came to me only with a simple question, but instead of answering briefly, I am inflicting a long lecture on them. They are such passive listeners that I am enjoying talking to them!" "You must be very tired," said Mira with feeling and concern. "Oh! no; I go to sleep only at midnight, and I have still two solid hours," said Naveen ...
... from the Heroic Age to the more recent period of sophistication and organised civilisation. The old epics were evidently recited Page 371 before groups of appreciative listeners, but the 'literary' epics are read more often than listened to, treasured in books rather than in men's memories. Striking a sort of balance-sheet between the old epics and the new, C. M. Bowra ...
... preacher of the new political creed. For several days on the sands of the beach, he spoke words hot with emotion and subtly logical, which were wafted by the soft evening breeze to tens of thousands of listeners invading their whole souls and setting them aflame with the fever of a wild consuming desire. Oratory had never dreamed of such triumphs in India ; the power of the spoken word had never been demonstrated ...
... of all the parties." ( Mother points to another note ) The Pondicherry radio asked me for a message to be put up in their office, so I gave them this—and they put it up! "Teach your listeners to love the Truth. This is a work worth doing." ( Mother laughs ) They put it up, that's what amuses me! ( Mother starts writing her note to the healer ) "The time seems opportune ...
... which my tune began. Glowing behind The singer's mind, A mystery journeys forth to meet Across the rapture of rhyming feet Its own unplumbed repose. Come then, O listeners, with a tranquil mood To feel far more than the loud heart knows; Or else the King who moves through the common word Shall never be heard And keep unseen the strange infinitude ...
... it is the ineffable . In the Hindu cremation rites among the many unique mantras that are chanted, there is one that remains for a slightly longer time in the hearts of the genuine listeners: Vayur anilam amrtam athedam bhasmantam sariram Aum krato smara krtam smara krato smara krtam smara (May this life enter into immortal breath; then may this body end in ...
... performance for the benefit of the Candharvas and Gandharvis in distress. Shiva agreed, but on condition that He must have in His audience at least one perfect listener! Who were the perfect listeners? There were only two -Lord Vishnu and Lord Brahma. Narada met the two who were but too willing to oblige him, for an opportunity to listen to Shiva singing came but rarely. The event ...
... home and to receive visitors almost daily until his passing on December 7, 2001 at age 95. For many years, at 5PM each day, he read aloud from Sri Aurobindo’s epic poem, Savitri, to a group of rapt listeners who gathered for these recitations and meditations that followed in his sitting room at his home called “Fenêtres”. We have all met in previous lives otherwise we would not have ...
... 1960 ( Letter from Mother to the disciple concerning her former commentaries on the 'Dhammapada' at the Playground ) ...When I began the readings from the Dhammapada, I had hoped that my listeners would take enough interest in the 'practical' spiritual side for me to read only one verse at a time. But quite quickly, I saw they found this very boring and were making no effort to benefit from ...
... myth, but the myth here is made to yield up its truth-element and embody the poet's realisations. Though these realisations come to us as thought-forms in which the poet sees what he conveys to his listeners, transcendental pictures form themselves in our mind, till an overhead world in formed; Sri Krishnaprem remarks: "The stairway of the worlds reveals itself to our gaze—the worlds of light above, the ...
... bom. 36 Nothing else needs to be said. Those who know how to recite Savitri —and there are several—might communicate its mantric force and power to others. And, perhaps, make their listeners' entire being throb with the Supreme Certitude in the very last line in the above. Clearly, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother did not walk the earth in vain. Finally, it is important to stress ...
... The light with which my tune began. Glowing behind The singer's mind, A mystery journeys forth to meet Across the rapture of rhyming feet Its own unplumbed repose Come then, O listeners, with a tranquil mood To feel far more than the loud heart knows; Or else the King who moves through the common word Shall never be heard And keep unseen the strange infinitude ...
... of the song; how can that be finished in two and a half minutes? She is very particular that the programme should not be exceeded; for she fixed it at the very maximum that (non-musical) European listeners can be expected to hear without losing interest or feeling fatigue. There is only one, a Mr. Cime, who is an addict of Indian music, the rest— He however is also a busy man who cannot be expected ...
... fact, this was Jesus' most common way of teaching. Over a third of the Gospels by Matthew, Mark, and Luke contain parables told by Jesus. Jesus used these illustrations to reach the heart of his listeners by stimulating their imagination, and to point to another order of reality — hidden, yet visible to those who had "eyes to see" and "ears to hear". These vivid illustrations captured the imaginations ...
... twin brothers born to Sita arrive at Sri Rama's magnificent sacrifice called Aswamedha Page 29 and chant the great poem depicting the heroic life of Sri Rama, casting a spell on the listeners — the citizens of Ayodhya and all who have assembled for the sacrifice. Sri Rama himself is charmed by their song of the Ramayana and requests the two young boys to continue to chant during the ...
... all to do, and will try to gratify your wish. To be reminded of Socrates is always the greatest delight to me, whether I speak myself or hear another speak of him. ECHECRATES. You will have listeners who are of the same mind with you, and I hope that you will be as exact as you can. PHAEDO. I had a singular feeling at being in his company. For I could hardly believe that I was present at ...
... for its production was also indicated by Shakespeare when he wrote that a jest's prosperity lies in the ears of those who hear it. Unfortunately, just as there are colour-blind people, so are there listeners and readers who prove themselves incapable of appreciating the deeper nuances of humour. This is what Samuel Johnson said in his familiar lexicographical way: "Wit like every other power has ...
... delightful golden sunshine of the physical presence of the Divine upon earth. Also it is said, when the Mother used to play on the organ, the same thing happened; there was a crowd of invisible listeners around Her; not only so, the Mother Herself revealed the secret, some beings, even departed musicians, also prayed to Her to be allowed to play on the organ through Her fingers – making the Divine ...
... telling now and then about my experiences, it would be justice if I demand from you some of your own experiences in return, like friends. Otherwise it will be all one-sided indeed. [Some of the listeners narrate stories of similar experiences.] ... I hope all of you can hear me? Yes, soon after the Darshan, I don't remember on which day, one of our young friends asked me about an experience ...
... Revolutionary Movement, the youth of the nation was shaken wide awake. Barin was unequalled in his ability to recruit men. He had the art of speech, discourse and argumentation that could set aflame his listeners, instilling in them great self-confidence. His words could turn meek lambs into lions overnight, though of course, now and then, there were a few who turned out to be sheep in lion's clothing!" ( ...
... Dante: Dante and Shakespeare: Shakespeare and Blake: the poetry of the school of Dryden and Pope: Shelley's Skylark: Baudelaire's "vulgarity": Anatole France's "ironising": Walter de la Mare's Listeners: five kinds of poetic style: austerity in poetry: architectonics in poetic composition: "great" poetry and merely beautiful poetry: limits of personal vagaries in criticism: relation between length ...
... father read the complete Savitri at home using the one-volume university edition which had been published in 1954. And the two days in November 1959 when Ambalal Purani kept the 1000-strong student-listeners of Andhra University in the Erskine Square mesmerised by his speeches on Sri Aurobindo and Savitri. The audience with the Mother after my thesis had brought me the doctoral degree, the publication ...
... read with profit, although more than half a century has elapsed since the words were spoken on Sunday mornings redolent of 'the holy hush of ancient sacrifice' before less than a dozen attentive listeners in a quiet room in remote Pondicherry. The Socratic dialogues in ancient Greece had a like seminal quality, but there the accent was on enlightened reason, whereas with the Mother the inspiration ...
... 'think' at all. From the home of Truth within there were radiations, vibrations, emanations - and with her these took the shape of words. But it needed a power of concentration on the part of the listeners to understand, really to understand, what she wished to convey. It was being oft repeated, almost like a catchword, that "all Life was Yoga". But what did it mean? What did an intense "aspiration ...
... Notes and References 1. 115.11. 2. "Shakespeare's Sonnets", The Listener (London), July 2, 1964, p. 7, col. 1. 3. Ibid., pp. 7-8, cols. 2, 1. 4. Ibid., p. 7, col. 1. 5. Shakespeare's Sonnets (New York, 1951), Introduction, p. x. 6. The Listener, July 9, 1964, p. 46, col. 2. 7. Ibid., July 2, p. 7, col. 2; 8. Ibid.... edited with an Introduction and Commentary (Heinemann, London, 1963), p. 155. 13. Ibid. 14. The Elizabethan Love Sonnet (Methuen & Co., London, 1956), pp. 233-4. 15. The Listener, July 9, 1964, p. 46, col. 2. Page 93 16. from hence - henceforth, from these poems 17. gentle - polished, noble 18. rehearse - tell of 19. ...
... Soul is all, the Soul is all is the refrain; But who gives up this bodily attachment? These words were sung again and again, and were infused with such feeling that they could penetrate the listener's heart and awaken his inner consciousness. The voice came from the window of a house on the riverside. I was attracted to it and felt like going there. While I was wondering which way to go, a ...
... teacher to know by his inner contact whether the student knows the language well and he can be promoted? W was wonderful in my class for ten days in a year; on the rest of the days she was just a listener. I always promoted her on the basis of the possibility based on those ten days. It is all right. Page 98 Naturally the teacher has to test the student to ...
... old young lady asks seriously: “Sweet Mother, What exactly are the subconscient and the inconscient?” But there is no hemming and hawing. The answer comes clear, direct and with full faith in the listener’s sincerity. “The inconscient is that part of Nature which is so obscure and asleep that it seems to be wholly devoid of consciousness; at any rate, as in the stone, the mineral kingdom, the co ...
... with one of them, Lt. Madhavrao Jadhav. He was a very close friend of A. G. 's. Madhavrao would often drop in of an evening for a chat. A. G. himself was not talkative, but he was a very good listener. And, oh, how he would laugh I The Jadhavs were three brothers, noted D. K. Roy. This noble and cultured family was loyal to the Gaekwad. The eldest brother was a Police Commissioner somewhere ...
... hands." He conceded, "There have been slight but very important changes in the brain and some details here and there. You have cast off your fur and horns." "Not all men!" interjected another listener. "Khitish has a lot of fur yet." Page 290 Amidst the roar of laughter that followed, Sri Aurobindo said with a smile, 'You see, after all it is not so great a change in the physical ...
... there are not many who have come to know Him. The man who can speak of Him wisely or the man who is skillful to win Him is a miracle. But even if one such is found,i t will be a miracle to find the listener who can know Him even when the teacher or knower teaches him." Yama then explains to Nachiketas why we need the very best to teach us of Him. The reason is that He is subtler than the most subtle... concerning this wisdom and points out that that wisdom cannot be obtained by mere thinking and that it has got to be learnt from another Page 27 who has true knowledge, and who makes the listener as stead-fast in truth as Nachiketas. He says: "This wisdom is not to be obtained by reasoning,0 beloved Nachiketas; only when told thee by another it brings real knowledge, the wisdom that thou ...
... hailed me. "Come round and have tea with me" he said "we are speculating at large on the primitive roots and origin of the universe, and I know your love for light subjects." "I shall be a delighted listener" I said, and was genuine in the assurance, for I had many a while listened with subtle delight to the beautiful and imaginative talk of Keshav Ganesh. I rode to the stables and returned to the College ...
... followed by discussion groups. Here Hitler came into his own. He had always been what one might call a profuse “monologist” when agitated, unstoppably pouring the flood of his words over any individual listener as if addressing a crowd. His one close friend during the days in Linz and Vienna, August Kubizek, tells in his reminiscences about Adolf’s frequent outbursts of oratory, and many of Hitler’s companions ...
... out all its possibilities, that the music fit for the Mantra makes itself audible. It is the triumph of the embodied spirit over the difficulties and limitations of the physical instrument. And the listener seems to be that other vaster and yet identical eternal spirit whom the Upanishad speaks of as the ear of the ear, he who listens to all hearings; "behind the instabilities of word and speech" it ...
... moulder of their destiny. When the Mantra is established in a definite way Peace, Light, Power, Knowledge, Joy course through the inner being of the receiver. In the silence of his mind the quiet listener gets the message and The Word repeats itself in rhythmic strains: Thought, vision, feeling, sense, the body’s self Are seized unalterably and he endures An ecstasy and an immortal change; ...
... before him had attempted it—passed easily into the language, because he caught and lifted its native rhythm into a perfect beauty of sound captivating to the ear and moving to the inner witness and listener silent within us—the soul, to whom all art and all life should appeal and minister. This great victory was essential for the free flowering of poetry in the English tongue; the absence of any such ...
... am responsible, it is my agents." That's not nice, it is better to take the responsibility upon oneself. Page 287 Mother continues her reading which begins with a question from the same listener: "Is not this material world of ours very low down in the scale in the system of worlds that form the creation?" "Ours is the most material world, but it is not necessarily 'low down', at ...
... marks out the masterpiece. Take these lines from Yeats where he says that he has seen In all poor foolish things that live a day Eternal Beauty wandering on her way. Yeats is a listener to occult footfalls, a singer haunted by unearthly presences, but not, like Sri Aurobindo, a yogi who has climbed the ultimate summits; and his words and rhythm in the couplet above do not voice the ...
... Benares Congress endorsed the resolution under pressure of that militant group of Indian politicians. All the possibilities of situation were discussed at this meeting. Sri Aurobindo remained a silent listener." As we have before said, Sri Aurobindo had been a looker-on at the tame Ahmedabad session of the Congress in 1902, where a disgusted Tilak had taken him out of the pavilion and talked with him ...
... any poetry. The difference can be measured by taking the work of Chaucer or of subsequent poets almost at their best and of Shakespeare at a quite ordinary level and feeling the effect on the poetic listener in our own intuitive being. We take Chaucer with his easy adequate limpidity,— He was a very parfit gentle knight, and then pass on to Shakespeare's rapid seizing of the intuitive inevitable ...
... it with its own terms and standards. An Upanishad says: "The Gods love the obscure." In an analogous sense Mallarmé loved it. Once, after a lecture, he asked a student to hand him the notes the listener had taken. Mallarmé said: “ I want to put a little obscurity into them.” Without that tinge of the elusive his thoughts would become merely mental. By a certain inspired twist he would distance ...
... in setting forth his equation for electromagnetism. He postulated a term which nothing at the time necessitated and which was found correct by experiment later. His work on the 1. The Listener (London), May 28, 1959, p. 937. Page 24 laws of gases, too, contains a similar leap. It has provoked a modern physicist to exclaim: "Maxwell, by a train of argument which seems to ...
... ears", I would gladly part with them and not charge the least interest on the loan as there is nothing interesting about them. I hope that what the Upanishads call "the Ear behind the ear", the hidden listener to the universe's subtle hints, the undertones and overtones of cosmic existence, has a prettier configuration. Enough of comments on "the counterfeit presentment", as Hamlet would have said ...
... Stains the white radiance of eternity — but plays its role in a context of clear-cut spiritual thought-vision: the lines are luminous rather than mysterious. We have mystery 1. The Listener, January 29, 1959, p. 205. Page 196 touching mysticism in a somewhat homely way in the modern poet John Wain's: But she towards whom (though far) I softly cry, When ...
... I am not the experiencer, I am changeless and beyond activity; I am the Essence of Pure Knowledge, I am Absolute and identified with Eternal Good. I am indeed different from the seer, listener, speaker, doer, and experiencer; I am the Essence of Knowledge, eternal, without any break, beyond activity, limitless, unattached, and infinite. I am neither this nor that, but the Supreme ...
... any poetry. The difference can be measured by taking the work of Chaucer or of subsequent poets almost at their best and of Shakespeare at a quite ordinary level and feeling the effect on the poetic listener in our own intuitive being." Sri Aurobindo takes Chaucer's line - Page 8 He was a verray parfit gentil knight - to which for completer comparison with Shakespeare we ...
... many, and even of those that have heard, they are many who have not known Him, a miracle is the man that can speak of Him wisely or is skilful to win Him, and when one is found, a miracle ts the listener who can know Him even when taught of Him by the knower. Page 47 8. "An inferior man cannot tell you of Him; for thus told thoucanst not truly know Him, since He is thought of in ...
... wide Thy purifying waters on our smoldering lives. 80 - 81 The Spirit of Music I feel closer to the Mother When I play music. She is my listener. Music is my communion. I feel Her Grace flowing through Me in the form of music. It is an ardent prayer rising to the Supreme Mother and at the same time Her sweet ...
... standards". I am sure many passages have supreme excellence even though they embody only one voice or another of the three. Further, we hear: "...the epic bard should never distract the listener's attention from the on-rushing flow of the narrative. Milton following the Homeric tradition also does the same thing." Well, does he? Milton is famous — or notorious — for his large digressions and ...
... standards". I am sure many passages have supreme excellence even though they embody only one voice or another of the three. Further, we hear: "...the epic bard should never distract the listener's attention from the on-rushing flow of the narrative. Milton following the Homeric tradition also does the same thing." Well, does he? Milton is famous - or notorious -for his large digressions ...
... has a basis there: our customary line of reasoning receives a sudden shock, as it were, and then is shaken; moved, lifted up, transported—gradually or suddenly, according to the temperament of the listener. Besides, we have here the peculiar modern tone, which, for want of a better term, may be described as scientific. The impress— imprimatur— of Science is its rational coherence, justifying ...
... has a basis there: our customary line of reasoning receives a sudden shock, as it were, and then is shaken, moved, lifted up, transported – gradually or suddenly, according to the temperament of the listener. Besides, we have here the peculiar modern tone, which, for want of a better term, may be described as scientific. The impress – imprimatur – of Science is its rational coherence, justifying ...
... many, and even of those that have heard, they are many who have not known Him, — a miracle is the man that can speak of Him wisely or is skilful to win Him, and when one is found, a miracle is the listener who can know Him even when taught of Him by the knower. "An inferior man cannot tell you of Him; for thus told thou canst not truly know Him, since He is thought of in many aspects. Yet ...
... knowledge rushes on him like a sea: Transmuted by the white spiritual ray He walks in naked heavens of joy and calm, Sees the God-face and hears transcendent speech. The receiver of the Word, the listener of the transcendent speech, parā vāŋī , awakens to its true splendid reality and unhesitatingly gives himself to its unblemished task and objective. A total transmutation gets effected. Knowledge ...
... many, and even of those that have heard, they are many who have not known Him,—a miracle is the man that can speak of Him wisely or is skillful to win Him, and when one is found, a miracle is the listener who can know Him even when taught of Him by the knower. *This passage is taken from Upanishads by Sri Aurobindo. Page 76 8. 'An inferior man cannot tell you of Him; for thus told ...
... of information to an already existing Page 116 documentation. Even when the object is to present a new discovery, this discovery is evidently made by another person and not by the listener. Once again, this presentation of information has a completely different character when it is made to a mature mind or to a child at school level. The adult has already a constituted knowledge ...
... toad repeated "Poff", as if asking her to continue, "Go on! don't stop! play again!" And henceforth, every time Mirra played on the piano, the toad was there too, an attentive and appreciative listener. VI As a result of her stay at Tlemcen and apprenticeship to M. Théon, Mirra was not only able to consolidate her own earlier gains in occultism but also to take her mastery of the ...
... verses, and it has been attributed to Shoshāchārya. Atharvaveda Jyotish has 14 chapters and 102 verses. It is supposed to be a dialogue between Pitāmaha who was the speaker and Kashayapa who was the listener. Among the greatest astronomers and astrologers of India, the most celebrated name is that of Varāhamihira. His famous book, Pancha Siddhāntikā speaks of 5 systems of Jyotish: Pitāmaha Siddhānta ...
... for the moment completely evaporate. We have seen too that the said sense of sudden exultation or its polar opposite, - a sense of unexpected frustration, - may be induced in the reader or the listener by an artful play upon the words ("verbal humour") or by the clever manipulation of the ideas ("ideational humour"). But these are not the only two devices available with the humorist. He can produce ...
... degenerate into something severe, bitter and satirical, that hurts much more than illumines. In this sort of dry and blunt display of wit which hits offensively albeit humorously, the unlucky target (the listener or the correspondent) cannot happily participate: it lacks any kindly feeling altogether. This sort of caustic wit cannot elicit our appreciation. The other type of successful wit is a sort of ...
... by many, and even of those that have heard, they are many who have not known Him,—a miracle is the man that can speak of Him wisely or is skilful to win Him, and when one is found, a miracle is the listener who can know Him even when taught of Him by the knower. न नरेणावरेण प्रोक्त एष सुविज्ञेयो बहुधा चिन्त्यमानः । अनन्यप्रोक्ते गतिरत्र नास्त्यणीयान् ह्यतर्क्यमणुप्रमाणात् ॥८॥ 8) An inferior man ...
... from Forman, he remarks: "This is a more plausible statement than that a woman aged twenty-seven was once 'brown'"? Wells's case was so strong that Rowse himself had to concede the correction in The Listener of June 10, 1973. An indirect proof of Emilia's non-brunette feature comes from another TLS pointer. In the issue of June 7, 1974, p. 604, col. 3 we read: "That Forman does not in fact remark on ...
... has not excluded but rather powerfully supported a strong and rich intellectual, practical and vital activity. As an illustration, the aim of Indian classical music is to bring the listener into contact with his own soul. Here one will notice that many of the well-known Indian classical musicians are not only Hindu but also Muslim. Thus Indian music has become one of the most powerful ...
... explication fuses with exhortation, the several virtues balance and reinforce, the filiations between the worlds within and without are firmly forged, and as the lessons draw to a close, the reader or listener knows that the course is rounding itself purposefully. As if to underline the essential instruction, the Mother concludes the book with a rapid unconventional summary. There are things to wrestle ...
... help to raise up humanity to the Divine. For, in poetry, according to Sri Aurobindo, there is an upward evolution of its powers and at its summit the highest function of sound is to instil in the listener the poet's experience of a Truth that is behind all things, its significances in themselves beyond word and thought finding expression through an inner silence, and to lift him rapt, spellbound, dazzled ...
... of humour when it comes from the pen of a truly master artist. To perceive the point intended, by breaking the riddle, often requires a great amount of reflection on the part of the reader or the listener. Has not Prof. Walter Jerrold spoken of someone who foolishly laughed out without understanding, also of one who remained grave for a long time and then suddenly burst into laughter? Here are the ...
... expression, are futile restrictions on the spirit's freedom. Metaphors are modes through which the spirit is freed of the encircling rules of syntax and the result may be a chaos to the physical-minded listener, but to one with mystical leanings they open at once vistas of undreamt-of realities. A whole epic poem cannot be made up of metaphors or similes; the larger body of it consists of descriptive ...
... Sri Aurobindo in his cell daily, along with the Assistant Jail Superintendent, and there was some attempt at conversation; it was largely an one-sided affair though, for Sri Aurobindo was but a listener most of the time, and merely answered their queries. One day Dr. Daly informed Sri Aurobindo that he would be given permission to have a constitutional outside his cell, both in the morning and ...
... Leavis, p. 107. 80. Poetry, December 1959, p. 181. 81. The Use of Poetry and the Use of Criticism,pA52. 82. The Idea of Great Poetry, pp. 147-8. 83. The Listener, 2 February 1950. 84. Preface to Laureate of Peace, p. vii. 85. The Crown ofLife,p.225. 86. Coleridge on Imagination, p. 163. 87. People, Places and ...
... for a teacher to know by his inner contact whether the student knows the language well and can be promoted? W was wonderful in my class for ten days in a year; on the rest of the days she was just a listener. I always promoted her on the basis of the possibility expressed on those ten days. It is all right. Page 302 Naturally the teacher has to test the student to know if he or she has ...
... Balwant, "both Mahesh and I had excellent time, and as usual, I had a profitable opportunity to inflict a long lecture! You know how much I enjoy lecturing, and I am very glad that Mahesh is a very good listener." Vishuddha smiled. He said, "What is your programme now?" And then he turned to me and asked me as to what had happened during my meeting with Principal Chitle in the morning. Page 100 ...
... broken, or scattered into a powdering of microscopic thoughts depending on our level of reception; musical, grating, or discordant depending on our clarity or complication. But the seeker, the listener, does not try to pick up one channel or another, to turn the dials of his machine to capture this or that – he is tuned in to the infinite, focused on a little flame in the center, so sweet and ...
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