Manu Manu Vaivaswata Manou : Manu (man the thinker, the mental being) from which came the Vedic word manyamānāh, the thinkers of the word, & manyu, temperament, emotive mind. Manu, as the progenitor of mankind, is the first of the ten Prajāpatis created by Brahmā. According to tradition, Manu incarnates 14 times in each Kalpa (one fourteenth of a day of Brahmā) & each of these fourteen is called a Manu. The period for which a Manu manifests & holds sway on earth is called a manvantara, an evolutionary cycle. Each Manvantara consists of a varying number of chatur yugas – there are not less than 4,320,000 years in each Chaturyuga. In each Yuga, a Veda-Vyāsa appears, formulates that Yuga’s Veda (Eternal Knowledge) & organises it in four chief parts. 28 Chaturyugas have so far transpired. Manu, as the first Prajāpati, is always swayambhuva, self-manifested. To him is ascribed the Mānava-dharma-shāstra or Manusmriti or Manu Samhita. The Manu of the present Kalpa or aeon (the seventh according to the Vishnu Purana), is named Vaivasvata (q.v.), son of Vivasvata, the Sun. The legend of the fish & the deluge is connected with this Manu. In Vishnu Purana, Vaivasvata, also known as Sraddhadeva or Satyavrata, was the king of Dravida before the great flood. He was warned of the flood by the Matsya (fish) avatar of Vishnu, & built a boat that carried the Vedas, Manu’s family & the Sapta-Rishis to safety, helped by Matsya. Manu, the first Prajāpati, says Sri Aurobindo, is different from the four eternal Manus (chatvāro-manavāh) “the spiritual Fathers of every human mind & body”, who are in themselves are beyond this manifest universe, “for the active nature of the Godhead is fourfold & humanity expresses this nature in its fourfold character... from them are all these living creatures in the world; ...these Manus are in themselves perpetual mental becomings of the supreme Soul & born out of his spiritual transcendence into cosmic Nature.” [SABCL 13]
... which the fathers, the Angirases, found when by their true mantras they brought to birth the Dawn. It is that which is referred to in the mystic hymn to all the gods (VIII.29.10) attributed to Manu Vaivaswata or to Kashyapa, in which it is said, "Certain of them singing the Rik thought out the mighty Sāman and by that they made the Sun to shine." This is not represented as being done previous to the ...
... true Manomaya Purushas. But Manu Prajapati is a true manomaya Purusha. He by mental generation begets on his female Energies men in the mental & vital planes above earth, whence they descend into the material or rather the terrestrial body. On earth Manu incarnates fourteen times in each Kalpa & each of these fourteen incarnations is called a Manu. These fourteen Manus govern human destinies during... the ladder of his own being towards the Sat Purusha. Manu, the first Prajapati, is a part of Mahavishnu Himself descended into the mental plane in order to conduct the destinies of the human race. He is different from the four Manus who are more than Prajapatis, they being the four Type-Souls from whom all human Purushas are born; they are Manus only for the purpose of humanity & in themselves are... of the Pramatha-Rakshasa, of the sixth Manu in one of its most perfect & brilliant stages. It has to be kept vivid in the mind for future interpretation. Notes on Images - III The disposition of the Manwantaras may now be described. It will be remembered that there are fourteen Manus and ten gavas of the Dashagava. How are these divided among the Manus? In this Kalpa or rather Pratikalpa the ...
... unearned The ethereal race. MANU Did the gods tell thee? Has Varuna seen The high God's face? Page 224 RISHI How shall they tell of Him who marvel at sin And smile at grief? MANU Did He not send His blissful Angels down For thy relief? RISHI The Angels know Him not, who fear His frown, Have fixed belief. MANU Is there no heaven of eternal light... nest, My feet have stood. MANU Is he not That, the blue-winged Dove of peace, Father of Good? RISHI Nor Brahma, though the suns and hills and seas Are called his brood. Page 225 MANU Is God a dream then? are the heavenly coasts Visions vain? RISHI I came to Shiva's roof; the flitting ghosts Compelled me in. MANU Is He then God whom the forsaken... grand, a peak Immense of fire. MANU Knows He the secret of release from tears And from desire? RISHI His voice is the last murmur silence hears, Tranquil and dire. MANU The silence calls us then and shall enclose? RISHI Our true abode Is here and in the pleasant house He chose To harbour God. Page 226 MANU In vain thou hast travelled the unwonted ...
... to an original legislator, a Manu, Moses, Lycurgus; but the historic truth of any such tradition has been discredited by modern inquiry and perhaps rightly, if we consider only the actual ascertainable facts and the ordinary process of the human mind and its development. In fact, if we examine the profound legendary tradition of India, we see that its idea of the Manu is more a symbol than anything... the law of conduct of the mental or human being and in this sense we may think of the law of any human society as being the conscious evolution of the type and lines which its Manu has fixed for it. If there comes an embodied Manu, a living Moses or Mahomed, he is only the prophet or spokesman of the Divinity who is veiled in the fire and the cloud, Jehovah on Sinai, Allah speaking through his angels... has practically started with a largely mechanical mentality as the conscious living being, Nature's human animal, and only afterwards can he be the self-conscious living being, the self-perfecting Manu. That is the course the individual has had to follow; the group-man follows in the wake of the individual and is always far behind the highest individual development. Therefore, the development of the ...
... 13 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts. Despair on the Staircase . October 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts. The Dwarf Napoleon . 16 October 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts. The Children of Wotan . 30 August 1940. Two handwritten manu-scripts. The Mother of God . One handwritten manuscript, undated, but in the handwriting of the mid 1940s... separate poems. Discoveries of Science . Circa 1934–35. Three handwritten manu-scripts. All here is Spirit. No title in the manuscript. Circa 1934–35. One handwritten manuscript. Published here for the first time. The Ways of the Spirit [1] . Circa 1934–35. Four handwritten manu-scripts. The Ways of the Spirit [2] . No title in the manuscript. Circa 1934–35... The Hill-top Temple . 21 October 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts, the first two entitled "The Temple on the Hill-Top". This sonnet is about an experience Sri Aurobindo had at a shrine in the temple-complex on Parvati Hill, near Poona, probably in 1902. The Divine Hearing . 24 October 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts, one of which is entitled "Sounds". Because ...
... you are proving that to you it has no sacredness. You are juggling with truth; for you are pretending to consult Manu when you are really consulting your own opinions, preferences or interests. To recreate Manu entire in modern society is to ask Ganges to flow back to the Himalayas. Manu is no doubt national, but so is the animal sacrifice and the burnt offering. Because a thing is national of the past... reason why they should last into the future. It has other arrangements and habits for which textual authority can be quoted, but it is oftener the text of the modern Smritikaras than of Parasara and Manu. Our authority for them goes back to the last five hundred years. I do not understand the logic which argues that because a thing has lasted for five hundred years it must be perpetuated through the... modernity can be the test of truth or the test of usefulness. All the Rishis do not belong to the past; the Avatars still come; revelation still continues. Some claim that we must at any rate adhere to Manu and the Puranas, whether because they are sacred or because they are national. Well, but, if they are sacred, you must keep to the Page 50 whole and not cherish isolated texts while disregarding ...
... of Parashara or Manu has disintegrated. What will replace it, is another matter. Samaj and Shastra Every Samaj must have its Shastra, written or unwritten. Where there is no Social Scripture, there is none the less a minute and rigid code of social laws binding men in their minutest actions. The etiquette of the European is no less binding than the minute scrupulosities of Manu or Raghunandan... attached a superstitious importance to maintaining our society exactly in the mould of our Shastras while in reality that mould had been altered out of recognition centuries ago. We quoted Parashara and Manu while we followed Raghunandan and custom. This religious fiction was very much like the English superstition about the British constitution which is supposed to be the same thing it was in the days ...
... and writings is the sure index not only of unenlightened mediaevalism in the existing Government, but of its rottenness and instability. Our old Hindu regime allowed the utmost freedom of speech and Manu lays it down that when in a time of stress and trouble people take to speaking unpleasant things about the sovereign, it is the height of folly on his part to stop their mouths by punishing the free... India under the present circumstances, it is surprising that they should apprehend mischief from "enemies" against whom they are so well secured by the intrinsic merit of their rule. Of course when Manu wrote he had in view the natural princes and rulers of the people whose authority was rooted in the soil and their existence a benefit and not a scourge to the country. But the British claim that their ...
... violation of the obligation to rule to the satisfaction of the people were causes enough for the king's removal. The much maligned Manu goes so far as to advise that "an unjust and oppressive king should be killed by his own subjects like a mad dog." That fate overtook Manu's own descendant Vena, who turned out to be such a wicked king that a cry arose, "Kill this wicked man." Vena was killed. Sri Aurobindo... together these assemblies could depose the sovereign, or alter the succession at this death. Dasaratha was a mighty king of the Solar dynasty. Counting from its founder, Vaivasvata Manu (the seventh and the present Manu), Dasaratha was the forty-second descendant in the line. Hereditary monarchy was therefore well established. Dasaratha could have proclaimed his eldest son Rama the Crown Prince. But ...
... not Page 674 stopped (by anybody); and in whose sending the father and mother (heaven & earth) do not quickly prevail, the purifier like a well-pleased friend shines among the peoples of Manu. Tr. The gettings of this begetter of things (or the light of this begetter and getter of things) cannot be shut in; nor our Father and Mother when he urges. Then shines the purifying Flame as the... द्विर्यं पंच जीजनन्त्संवसानाः स्वसारो अग्निं मानुषीषु विक्षु । उषर्बुधमथर्यो न दन्तं शुकं स्वासं परशुं न तिरमम् ॥ S. Whom the ten sisters coming together (the fingers) bore, Agni, among the peoples of Manu, like women (अथर्यः, स्त्रिय इव), the waker at dawn, the eater (of offerings), bright, fair-faced, like a sharp axe (killing the Rakshasas). Tr. Twice five sisters who dwell together gave birth to ...
... 120 of his own time-span. Then another Brahma comes into being. One day of Brahma— a Kalpa—is divided into fourteen parts. Each division is ruled by a Manu—man comes from Manu. So there are fourteen Manus in one day of Brahma. The lifespan of each Manu is called a Manwantara. In each Manwantara there are seventy-one chaturyugas—Krita, Treta, Dwapara and Kali. One human Page 377 year ...
... mind manifested in life, an intensely feeling, a crude thinking and planning vital mind in the animal, but in man the full organisation and apparatus, the developing if yet imperfect mental being, the Manu, the thinking, devising, aspiring, already self-conscient creature. And from Page 167 that time onward the growth of mind rather than any radical change of life became her shining preoccupation... cycles. But Mind is not all; for beyond mind is a greater consciousness; there is a supermind and spirit. As Nature laboured in the animal, the vital being, till she could manifest out of him man, the Manu, the thinker, so she is labouring in man, the mental being till she can manifest out of him a spiritual and supramental godhead, the truth conscious Seer, the knower by identity, the embodied Transcendental ...
... say that they "will exist till the termination of the Manus". Pargiter 1 enters the footnote: "Or perhaps 'as long as Manu's race'." Traditionally, a Manu starts a series of roughly 71 Chaturyugas, is the father of the race living in it and presides over it till its termination. In any of these Chaturyugas, his race could well be called "Manu's". And our phrase would seem to mean that the dynasty... Tradition, has set up a table of collated genealogical lines from the time of Manu Vaiva-svata to that of the Bhārata War. His Purāna Text of the Dynasties of the Kali Age collates the members of the eight dynasties which the Purānas set ruling in Magadha after the latter event. As for the line from Vaivasvata backward to Manu Svāyambhuva who marks the ultimate point in the Purānic time-vision for... p. 76. From here we follow the continuation of the Pauravas at the bottom of col. 6 on p. 74. On completing this column we continue to col. 6 of p. 72 and climb on from Tamsu to Manu through several Paurava names. Below Manu Vaivasvata stands his daughter Ila. We have to replace her by Budha, with whom, we are told.'' she "consorted". Another departure is in regard to the name Bharadvāja on p. 74, col ...
... poetry. The Rishi is an even longer poem, and perhaps a more ambitious one as well. The situation is significant: King Manu of old seeks knowledge from the Rishi of the North Pole, and what follows is the Upanishadic conversation between Manu and the Rishi. It is with Manu's magnificent invocation that the dialogue begins: Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old Art slumbering, void... moments had passed, and were not to be recalled. He couldn't retain the force, the light; and so he had retired to the arctic heights where "pride could not follow, nor the restless will come and go". Manu now asks whether the Light isn't more likely to show itself in the haunts of human life, in the midst of Nature's seething life, than in the "great dumb night" on the "cold unchanging hill" of the arctic... shadows chase one another and scatter away. The King cannot help wondering at this stage of the argument whether - if this were all - life isn't mere illusion, a teasing phantasmagoria? The Rishi assures Manu that such is not the case. There are degrees of reality, although the one Truth sustains them all: Yet, King, deem nothing vain: through many veils This Spirit gleams, The dreams ...
... various senses in Indian literature. According to Manu Smriti, dharma is characterised by what is contained in the Veda, in the Smriti, and in what is involved in the conduct of good and noble people as also what is good for the one's inner soul. In Sanskrit literature, the word "Dharma Shāstra" is largely connected with all the Smritis beginning with Manu and Yājnavalkya and which is in conformity with... flourished extensively and as many as 100 Smritis seem to have been composed; some of them are in prose, but many are in poetic form. Among the authors of Smritis, Manu is the foremost, and there have been a large number of commentaries on Manu Smriti. Among these commentaries, the prominent ones are those of Medhātithi, Govindarāja, Kullukabhatta, Nārāyana, Rāghavānanda, Nandana and Rāmachandra. ... during the 13th century B.C. According to Brihadāranyakopanishad, all the four Vedas, Rigveda, Yajurveda, Samaveda and Atharvaveda, are the breath of the Supreme Lord. According to Manu Smriti, the entire Veda is luminous with knowledge It is believed that in its original condition Veda was one, but it was Rishi Vyāsa who divided it into four parts. For this reason, Rishi Vyāsa is ...
... The minute the four-line prayer ended we would break our formation and run to the classrooms. The classes were loosely formed of different age groups. The kindergarten had three classes, with Manu Bhai taking the youngest, Pran Bhai the next batch, and Pavitra, the children of seven to ten years old. These classes were held in the classrooms where now we have the body building gymnasium. The ...
... and with the fuel, O Priest of the call, O supreme will! उत स्वा भृगुवच्छुचे मनुष्वदग्न आहुत । अङगिरस्वद्धवामहे ॥१३॥ 13) O pure Flame, fed with offerings we call thee as did Bhrigu, as did Manu, as did Angiras. त्वं ह्यग्ने अग्निना विप्रो विप्रेण सन्त्सता । सखा सख्या समिध्यसे ॥१४॥ 14) For thou art kindled, O Fire, by the fire, thou who art the illumined seer art kindled by one who... × Or, clarified butter, × Or, like Manu, × Or, cast nourishment for thy eating. ...
... Vedas was so old, so old, a type of Sanskrit from times lost in the mist of oblivion. Sri Krishna told Arjuna, "This is the imperishable Yoga I declared unto Viva-swan, Vivasvan revealed it to Manu and Manu to Ikshvaku told it. Thus was it known to the royal sages by hereditary transmission, till by the great lapse of time this Yoga was lost This is the same ancient Yoga that I have told unto thee ...
... revelling with the heroes. And finally let us take the bulk of the third hymn that follows couched in the ordinary symbols of the sacrifice,— As the Manu we set thee in thy place, as the Manu we kindle thee: O Fire, O Angiras, as the Manu sacrifice to the gods for him who desires the godheads. O Fire, well pleased thou art kindled in the human being and the ladles go to thee continually.... Thee ...
... from pinnacle to pinnacle of thought stark, as it were, against Eternity we must listen to the colloquy which took place when King Manu in the former ages of the world, during which the Arctic continent still subsisted, sought knowledge from the Rishi of the Pole: Manu Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old Art slumbering, void Of sense or motion, for in the spirit's hold ... light We have forgone. Rishi Who art thou, warrior armed gloriously Like the sun? Page 35 Thy gait is as an empire and thine eye Dominion. Manu King Manu, of the Aryan peoples lord, Greets thee Sage. Rishi I know thee, King, earth to whose sleepless sword Was heritage. The high Sun's distant glories gave thee... dazzling snows have made me meek, Cooled my unease, Pride could not follow, nor the restless will Come and go; My mind within grew holy, calm and still Like the snow. Manu O thou who wast with chariots formidable And with the bow! Voiceless and white the cold unchanging hill, Has it then A mightier presence, deeper mysteries Than human ...
... Mamma, I was very happy to receive Sri Aurobindo’s letter. Can I come to see you upstairs? I hope you have received my mother’s letter. Can Manu come to the music? I like music very much. My pranams to both of you. Esha SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, you can come. Manu will come with Nolina. Page 190 ...
... Laocoon 18 London 10 Lombards 50 M Macbeth 19 Madhuchchanda 8 Madhyama 13 Mahabharata 103, 104 Mamata 9 Manmohan Ghose, Prof. 92,102 Mantra 25 Manu 5 Marcellus 23, 24 Matthew Arnold 102 Medhatithi Kanwa 8 Michael Angelo 19 Milton 9, 16 Mitra 1, 4, 5, 31 Montevideo 55 Modern Review, the 93 Mount Kailas 17 ...
... the votaries of other arts. The Buddhist Vishuddhi Magga has classed the painter with the cook, that is, both are taken to serve the same purpose, both cater only to the pleasure of the senses. Manu enjoins that the householder must abstain from vocal and instrumental music and from the dance. A dancer, a singer and a house-builder have no right to be present in the ceremonies performed for the ...
... time Rama may be considered to have existed ? My new chronology dates Krishna at the time of the Bharata War to c. 1482 or 1452 B.C. In the traditional table of royal genealogies, starting with Manu Vaivasvata, Krishna's number is 94 and Rama's 65 - a difference of 30 generations. Taking a generation to be roughly 30 years we get about 900 years. This would carry Rama to around 900 years before... three lakhs of lives had to be passed through before the soul could have a human embodiment. Earth's long history amply allows time for our pre-human past. You and I are certain to have been real Manu-man (mental being) and not something like Hanuman when Rama flourished and Nolini was in his train. In fact, I believe that most disciples of Sri Aurobindo were with Sri Aurobindo each time he ...
... course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mental— sattwic—human being, Manu, as referred here. Page 332 Now, here I give you the original text in translation: THE COLLOQUY OF AGNI AND THE GODS (Rigveda-X.51.) The gods 1 Huge and firm ...
... ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Page 4 Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mental—sattwic—human being, Manu, as referred here. Now, here I give you the original text in translation: The Colloquy of Agni and the Gods (Rigveda-X. 51.) The gods 1.Huge and firm was that ...
... a past and lost discipline; for Sri Krishna says to Arjuna of the true or sajnan karmamarga he reveals to him, "This is the imperishable Yoga I declared unto Vivaswan, Vivaswan revealed it to Manu and Manu to Ixvacu told it. Thus was it known to the royal sages by hereditary transmission, till by the great lapse of time this yoga was lost, O scourge of thy foes. This is the same ancient Yoga that ...
... photographed on the end organ, then reproduced at the other end of the nerve system in the cirta or passive memory. All the images of sight, sound, smell, touch and taste are deposited there and the manus reports them to the buddhi. The manas is both a sense organ and a channel. As a sense organ it is as auto- matically perfect as the others, as a channel it is subject to disturbance resulting either ...
... to c. 1482 or 1452 B.C. The recent underwater archaeological finds at Dwaraka put Krishna's submerged Dwaraka at about the same time. In the traditional table of royal genealogies, starting with Manu Vaivasvata, Krishna's number is 94 and Rama's 65 - a difference of 30 generations. Taking a generation to be roughly 30 years we get about 900 years. This would carry Rama to around 900 years before... that three lakhs of lives had to be passed through before the soul could have a human embodiment. Earth's long history amply allows time for our pre-human past. You and I are certain to have been real Manu-man (mental being) and not something like Hanu-man when Rama flourished and Nolini was in his train.(In fact, I believe that most disciples of Sri Aurobindo were with Sri Aurobindo each time he manifested ...
... course a bloody warfare, their ancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras and Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mental – sattwic – human being, Manu, as referred here. Page 159 Now, here 1 give you the original text in translation: THE COLLOQUY OF AGNI AND THE GODS (Rigveda - X. 51.) The gods 1. Huge and firm ...
... margin, I have put interstitials instead of marginals. Hitler and Mussolini are much better than Manu and Chanakya 40 , I should say, for they haven't excluded women. They want women to be subject to men and confined to the domestic drudgery and child-bearing—which is the same position as Manu and as all the old masculines had towards women. The Divine Grace has done something. I acted... converting itself into an instrument of realisation), then what you say may be true. But there lies the whole question. Since ancient times women have been trained to accept a position of subjection by Manu and others. Is it because men are more sexual? It would be rather hard on us to be accused of this! It is because of man's desire to be the master and keep her in subjection,—the Hitler and Mussolini... × The creative Force. × Manu was the original law-giver. He is also called "the father of man". Chanakya, a contemporary of Alexander the Great, codified the political laws of kings. ...
... became the motto of our life Page 249 From outside, new shackles were imposed on the life-energy that was already diminishing and dying out from within. The religious codes of Manu and others prescribed the routine of life in all its details. The canons enjoined on us taught how to regulate our life, what to do and not to do. The march of our life followed the rut of the rules ...
... highest elevation; it would mean the utter fulfilment of human destiny and terrestrial Purpose. In Indian terminology, it would be the advent of the Purna Bhagavan in the human body – manus im tanu asritam . All previous Avatars are only a preparation for the coming of this Supreme Divine. It is said also that the present epoch marks a crucial turn and transition. We await the Kalki ...
... birth taking possession of our humanity, Krishna has declared in passing that this was the ancient and original Yoga which he gave to Vivasvan, the Sun-God, Vivasvan gave it to Manu, the father of men, Manu gave it to Ikshvaku, head of the Solar line, and so it came down from royal sage to royal sage till it was lost in the great lapse of Time and is now renewed for Arjuna, because he is the ...
... of men whose bodies have had no burial, he speaks of their miserable agelong waiting and longing before being ferried across the underworld river Acheron to the place of blind rest: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. A line of extreme poignancy, this, - meaning (in Flecker's version) They stretched their hands for love of the other shore. Detached from its context it expresses ...
... friend, O Soma, Indra set flowing the waters for this human mentality; he slew the Serpent, he poured out the seven streams, he uncovered doors concealed (opened the doors that had been closed). मनवे. Manu, the typical मनस्वी or मनोमयः पुरुषः or simply “man” with a stress upon the root idea of the word, “man the mental being”. अपिहितेव. Sayana says अन्नेवशब्दश्चार्थे. इव means originally, “thus”, “thus... मनुः । सर्वस्य मंता प्रजापतिरस्मि । सुर्यः । सर्वस्य प्रेरखः सविता । न्यृंजे । नितरां प्रसाधयामि । पश्यता मा । हे जना मां सर्वात्मकं पश्यत । यूयमप्येवमेव स्वस्वरूपमनुभवतेत्युक्तं भवति । I became Manu, I am Surya; Kakshivan the Rishi am I of the illumined mind; I [ ] Kutsa son of Arjuni, I am Ushana the seer; Me behold. 2) अहं । वामदेव इन्द्रो वा । आर्याय । मनवे । वावशानाः । शब्दायमानाः ...
... tremendous pain he had not forgotten Arati’s birthday. He asked repeatedly: “Manu has not yet returned from the Mother?” It seemed that he was restless. That evening the Mother’s work ended very late. So Arati returned home only around six. On seeing her, father felt better at once. He came and sat in a chair. “Come to me, Manu.” And he hugged her tightly and asked her all kinds of questions about... with Sanyal-da about various things. Sanyal-da went back quite relieved. One day I found father in deep thought. Very pensive. We were sitting near him. After a while he remarked: “Tomorrow is Manu’s (Arati’s) birthday. I will not leave on her birthday. I will stay on till her birthday.” Then he looked at Manoj and said: “You will stay in this room with Nebu (Tapati).” He said these things ...
... automatically and fundamentally. The Divine then descends into the earth-frame, not merely as an immanent and hidden essence— sarvabhutantaratma —but as an individual person embodying that essence— manu-shim tanum ashritam. Man too, however earthly and impure he may be, is essentially the Page 6 Divine himself, carries in him the spark of the supreme consciousness that he is in his ...
... profound and radical sense of the phrase. It is not only that the human being is the one reasoning animal upon earth, the thinking race; he is essentially the mental being in a terrestrial body, the manu . Quite apart from the existence of a soul or self one in all creatures, the body is not even the phenomenal self of man; the physical life also is not himself; both may be dissolved, man will persist ...
... 4. India as Known to Pānini, p. 207. Page 577 as stated by Manu (VIII.135)." Goyal 1 tells us that the Manu-smriti "is usually assigned to the second century B.C. or later." If not only in Patanjali's time but in Kātyāyana's as well the pana of sixteen māshas was replaced by one of twenty, Manu in the original and not the later expanded version must be older than Kātyāyana... statements of Megasthenes. Coincidences indeed occur, but many of them are repeated in other ages of Indian history, and the differences are much more striking. Megasthenes finds more corroboration in Manu than in Kautilya." The precise view taken of the Arthaśāstra at present may best be gathered from Smith and Raychaudhuri combined, with one or 1. Ibid., p. 66. 2. Ibid., pp. 303-04... salutation to Śukra and Brhaspati evidently ranking them as the founders of the two greatest schools of Arthaśāstra. In the body of his work, again, he quotes several times the views of the schools of Manu, Brhaspati and Usanas (Śukra) as well as Parāsara. Among individual teachers the most frequently quoted names are those of Bhāradvāja, Viśālāksha, Piśuna, Vātavyādhi, Bāhudantīputra and Kaunapadanta ...
... son of Marīci. (5) Vivaswan (the sun-god) descended from Kasyapa. Manu himself was the son of Vivaswan. Manu for his part was formerly a lord of creation, and Manu's son was Ikswāku. (6) "Know that Ikswāku to be the (very) first ruler of Ayodhyā, to whom this prosperous earth was entrusted for the first time by (the said) Manu. (7) Ikswāku's glorious son for his part became known simply by the ...
... the symbol in a world of symbol-beings, to reach through it to that which is symbolised, to realise the symbol; being still a figure of humanity, a man among men, a living body among living bodies, manus, mental beings housed in that living matter among other embodied mental beings; being & remaining in our outward parts all this that we are apparently, yet to exceed it and become in the body what we ...
... cataclysm, occurred during Noah's time. He had received the divine command to build an Ark, in which he and his family and all animals in pairs escaped the Deluge - a striking similarity with the Indian Manu. Historians set the date somewhere around 3000 B.C. for this Deluge, which washed away the Indus Valley civilization and marked a break in the Mesopotamian. We do not know how many marvellous civiliza- ...
... born on February 21, was herself a Piscine and by virtue of this early date the primary one. Like the first member of the Hindu procession of Ten Avatars — the Fish-Incarnation of Vishnu who led Manu, the Indian Adam-cum-Noah, to safety over the World-Flood — such a Piscine would most appropriately be our leader through the super-Mallarméan mysteries which Sri Aurobindo in a line of Savitri ...
... is our index and our foundation. The Self of man is a thing hidden and occult; it is not his body, it is not his life, it is not—even though he is in the scale of evolution the mental being, the Manu,—his mind. Therefore neither the fullness of his physical, nor of his vital, nor of his mental nature can be either the last term or the true standard of his self-realisation; they are means of man ...
... goes straight forward to direct vision and communion with the Beyond. Religion labours to experience and express the world of Spirit in and through a turn, often a twist, given by the mental being— manu— in man; it bases itself upon the demands of the mental, the vital and the physical complex—the triple nexus that forms the ordinary human personality and seeks to satisfy them under a holier garb ...
... Luther, 273 HUCHCHANDA, 162 Mahabharata, the, 73, 235 Maitreyi, 105 Malebranche, 286 Mallarme, 66, 88, 152 -"Les Fleurs", 66n Mamata, 163 Manchester Guardian, 239n Manu, 159 Miira, 5 Marcellus, 173-5 Margaret, 138 Marut, 22, 28-9 Marx, 126 Mayavada,278 Mazumdar, Dipak, 213 -"Baritone", 212 Mazzini, 253 Mephistopheles, 250 Met ...
... universal being. These are the two movements that govern world-existence, adhogati, the descent towards matter or mere form and urdhwagati, the ascent towards Spirit and God. Man is a mental being, manu or manomaya purusha, who has entered into a vitalised material body and is seeking to make it capable of infinite mentality & infinite ideality so that it may become the perfect instrument, seat and ...
... 4 6 Letters on Yoga, p. 1472. 6 Compare the following standing injunctions for a roving monk: ekakālaṁ cared bhaikṣyam : "The monk should seek alms not more than once." (Manu Samhita, 55.6.) ekavāraṁ dvivāraṁ vā bhuñjīta parahaṁsakaḥ: "The Paramahamsa should take a single meal or at the most a double." (Smriti Shastra) 7 Sri Aurobindo, The Supramental ...
... all-illumining, all-manifesting seven Thoughts of the Veda, sapta dhiyaḥ ,—the Upanishad speaks of all things as being arranged in septettes, sapta sapta . Along with these are coupled the four eternal Manus, fathers of man,—for the active nature of the Godhead is fourfold and humanity expresses this nature in its fourfold character. These also, as their name implies, are mental beings. Creators of all... depends on manifest or latent mind for its action, from them are all these living creatures in the world; all are their children and offspring, yeṣāṁ loka imāḥ prajāḥ . And these great Rishis and these Manus are themselves perpetual mental becomings of the supreme Soul 2 and born out of his spiritual transcendence into cosmic Nature,—originators, but he the origin of all that originates in the universe ...
... big for the little pot. So he put it in a small pond. To Manu's amazement, the Fish grew too large for the small pond. Manu put the Fish in a great big lake. The Fish grew bigger than the big lake. Manu put it in the Ganges. The Fish outgrew the Ganges. So finally, Manu took the Fish to the Ocean. The Fish then told Manu that Pralaya, the Deluge, was imminent; that he should get... Prologue The Fish. Manu, the Father of men, opened his eyes and saw the little Fish. It was being chased by a very big fish. A faint sound had stirred Manu's deep meditation. It was the cry for help of the little Fish. Manu took the tiny little Fish in his palms and put it in a small pot. To Manu's astonishment, the next day, the little Fish had grown ...
... capital. For, "to the Life-Spirit, the individual in whom its potentialities centre is pre-eminently Man, the Purusha. It is the Son of Man who is supremely capable of incarnating God. This Man is the Manu, the thinker, the Mano-maya Purusha, mental person or soul in mind of the ancient sages. No mere superior mammal is he, but a conceptive soul basing itself on the animal body in Matter. He is conscious ...
... To the Life-Spirit, therefore, the individual in whom its potentialities centre is pre-eminently Man, the Purusha. It is the Son of Man who is supremely capable of incarnating God. This Man is the Manu, the thinker, the Manomaya Purusha, mental person or soul in mind of the ancient sages. No mere superior mammal is he, but a conceptive soul basing itself on the animal body in Matter. He is conscious ...
... grow into a luminous being possessing the faculties and powers of cosmic and transcendental knowledge. In ^simple, but striking words, it enjoins: manurbhava janayā daivyam janam "Be first Manu, the being of the mind, and then generate the divine being, the being of divine light.” Page 105 In the last hymn, the Rigveda enjoins a gospel for a harmonious collective life, a life ...
... fundamental formations are put forward that give the ground-plan, embody the matrix of the subsequent creation or manifestation. The Four Great Personalities (Chaturvyuha), the Seven Seers, the Fourteen Manus or Human Ancestors point to the truth of a fixed number of archetypes that are the source and origin of emanations forming in the end the texture of earthly lives and existences. The number and scheme ...
... goes straight forward to direct vision and communion with the Beyond. Religion labours to experience and express the world of Spirit in and through a turn, often a twist, given by the mental being – manu – in man; it bases itself upon the demands of the mental, the vital and the physical complex – the triple nexus that forms the ordinary human personality and seeks to satisfy them under a holier ...
... not expressly solve the problem, we may solve it in some other way of our own, as that the body is prepared by the Jiva but assumed from birth by the Godhead or that it is prepared by one of the four Manus, catvāro manavaḥ , of the Gita, the spiritual Fathers of every human mind and body. This is going far into the mystic field from which the modern reason is still averse; but once we admit Avatarhood ...
... experience to Sachchidananda, and it must begin from below, in Avidya, with the mind embodied in Matter, the Thinker imprisoned and emerging from the objective Fact. This imprisoned Thinker is Man, the "Manu". Page 49 He has to start from death and division and arrive at unity and immortality. He has to realise the universal in the individual and the Absolute in the relative. He is Brahman growing ...
... ideas in any intelligent attempt at the unification of the human race. And it might so be done if that unification could be realised after the manner of a Lycurgan constitution or by the law of an ideal Manu, the perfect sage and king. Attempted, as it will be, in very different fashion according to the desires, passions and interests of great masses of men and guided by no better light than the half-e ...
... Agnivarna is not taken into consideration by the poet, when he counts the greatness of the kings belonging to this illustrious race. Page 38 DILIPA There once lived Manu, the son of Vivasvat, highly honoured by the wise, who was first among earthly kings like 'Om' among the sacred triad. In his pure line was born Dilīpa who was purer still, shining among kings... the four oceans for her udders. Following the cow in his vow of service he prohibited even the remainder of his attendants (to follow him); nor was there any other means of self-protection; for Manu's race their own valour defends. — Canto II. 3-4. Now we come to the occasion when a lion suddenly attacks Nandini, the cow of Vasistha's hermitage, while he was engaged whole-heartedly... to him by his father, he shone more brilliantly like fire which at the end of the day received lustre imparted to it by the sun. Again,: And the earth, whom although worthy kings from Manu onwards had enjoyed, yet wooed him as though she never had loved before. Page 51 And by his virtues exceeding those of his father, he made his subjects feel less keenly (the retirement ...
... king ceased to be faithful executor of the Dharma. Incompetence and violation of the obligation to rule to the satisfaction of the people were in theory and effect sufficient causes for his removal. Manu even lays it down that an unjust and oppressive king should be killed by his own subjects like a mad dog, and this justification by the highest authority of the right or even the duty of insurrection ...
... × There are 18 Puranas. Each Purana has five parts: (1) Creation of the World, (2) Destruction and recreation of the world, (3) Reigns and periods of Manus, (4) Genealogy of Gods, and (5) Dynasties of solar and lunar kings. × Sri Aurobindo: The Foundation ...
... upon pillar and rock, but the development of Indian religion and culture took its own line in other and far more complex directions determined by the soul of a great people. Only the rare individual Manu, Avatar or prophet who comes on earth perhaps once in a millennium can speak truly of his divine right, for the secret of his force is not political but spiritual. For an ordinary political ruling man ...
... the entire aim of existence. But the bodily life in man is a base, not the aim, his first condition and not his last determinant. In the just idea of the ancients man is essentially the thinker, the Manu, the mental being who leads the life and the body, 3 not the animal who is led by them. The true human existence, therefore, only begins when the intellectual mentality emerges out of the material ...
... organised system of individual and communal life and that endeavour resulted in the authoritative social treatises or Shastras of which the greatest and the most authoritative is the famous Laws of Manu. The work of the philosophers was to systematise and justify to the reasoning intelligence the truths of the self and man and the world already discovered by intuition, revelation and spiritual experience ...
... returning from the Samadhi can I find relief possible with the pre-repairs ease and comfort. Till then it's best for my spiritual life to be true, in a most physical mode, to the last word in King Manu's apostrophe to an exalted personage in a poem of Sri Aurobindo's: Rishi who trance-held on the mountains old Art slumbering, void Of sense or motion... Page 18 You ...
... विवस्वते योगं प्रोक्तवानहमव्ययं । विवस्वान्मनवे प्राह मनुरिक्ष्वाकवेऽब्रवीत् ॥ एवं परम्पराप्राप्तमिमं राजर्षयो विदुः । "This imperishable Yoga I revealed to Vivaswan, Vivaswan declared it to Manou, Manou to Ixvaacou told it; thus did the royal sages learn this as a hereditary knowledge", and when in the immense lapse of time it was lost, Srikrishna again declared it to a Kshatriya. But when the ...
... Manas — mind, the mind proper [as distinct from the intellect (buddhi)], sense-mind. manomaya puru ṣ a — mental Person; the mental being. manvantara — an age or period of a Manu, an extremely long period. of time, one-fourteenth of a day of Brahmā, mātrā — measure, the quantitative action of Nature. Maya — illusion; the power of self-illusion in Brahman. Menes —(fl. ...
... arrived in Calcutta in 1783. During the rest of his life of roughly nine years, he not only translated Shakuntala (1789), but also Hitopadesa (1786), Institutes of Hindu Law or the Ordinances of Manu (1794), and Gita Govinda (1799). He also wrote nine odes to Indian gods and goddesses, the first example of the use of the English language for purely Indian themes. Jones's enthusiasm for things ...
... general outlook. And he also wrote: ‘Then he [the Creator] creates out of this solar body of Vishnu the planets, each of which successively becomes the Bhumi [Earth] or place of manifestation for Manu, the mental being, who is the nodus of manifest life-existence and the link between the life and the spirit. The present earth in its turn appears as the scene of life, Mars being its last theatre.’ ...
... goes inward and lives intimately and pre-eminently in his mind and soul, the more he discovers that he is in his essential nature a mental being encased in body and emmeshed in the life activities, manu, manomaya puruṣa . He is more than a thinking, willing and feeling result of the mechanism of the physical or an understanding nexus of the vital forces. There is a mental energy of his being that overtops ...
... clearly laid down in the Gita and of the teaching of the Gita, Srikrishna Page 117 says that it was told by him to Vivasvan, the Vishnu of the solar system and by him to Manou, the original Thinker in man, and by Manou handed down to the great king-sages, his descendants. Nay, it plainly arises from the nature of things. The whole confusion in this matter proceeds from an imperfect understanding ...
... Mulakalpa, 149, 180, 208, 217 Mankad, D. R., 7, 8, 29, 68, 71, 120, 130, 143, 263, 422, 462, 468, 475, 498 Mānsehra, 265 Mantakala, 477 Manu, 91, 578 Manu Svāyambhuva, 68, 71, 82, 91, 230 Manu Vaivasvata, 69, 78, 82, 96, 224 Manusamhitā, 206, 207, 254, 255, 309, 311 Manusmriti, 88, 130, 136, 143 Marinus of Tyre, 476, 520 Mārkandeya Purāna ...
... This may be hexametricised in English: Son of Saturnine Zeus was I, yet have I suffered Infinite pain... Then there is the poignant phrase in Virgil's Aeneid: Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. Again a hexametrical version would be: Forth did they stretch their hands with love of the shore beyond them. Perhaps the poignancy comes out better in ...
... this effort was the Shastra. When we speak of the Shastra nowadays, we mean too often only the religio-social system of injunctions of the middle age made sacrosanct by their mythical attribution to Manu, Parashara and other Vedic sages. But in older India Shastra meant any systematised teaching and science; each department of life, each line of activity, each subject of knowledge had its science or ...
... readers. The legend of Agastya who drained the ocean dry; of Parasu-Rama a Brahman who killed the Kshatriyas of the earth; of Bhagiratha who brought down the Ganges from the skies to the earth; of Manu and the universal deluge; of Vishnu and various other gods; of Rama and his deeds which form the subject of the Epic Ramayana; — these and various other legends have been interwoven in the account ...
... Brahmana, unless he has the Kshatratejas in him, the Vaishyashakti and the Shudrashakti, but all these have to serve in him the fullness of his Brahmanyam. God manifests Himself as the four Prajapatis or Manus, the chatwaro manavah of the Gita, & each man is born in the ansha of one of the four; the first characterised by wisdom and largeness, the second by heroism and force, the third by dexterity and ...
... entire aim of existence. But the bodily life in man is a base, not the aim, his first condition and not his last determinant. In the just idea of the ancients man is essentially the thinker, the Manu, the mental being who leads the life and the body, 4 not the animal who is led by them. The true human existence, therefore, only begins when the intellectual mentality emerges out of the material... Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 5-14 The Self of man is a thing hidden and occult; it is not his body, it is not his life, it is not, — even though he is in the scale of evolution the mental being, the Manu, — his mind. Therefore neither the fullness of his physical, nor of his vital, nor of his mental nature can be either the last term or the true standard of his self-realisation; they are means of ...
... Daksha, but with Agni. “That Agni whom Kanwa Medhyatithi has kindled from the truth above (or it may equally mean upon the truth as a basis or in the field of the truth)” and again “Thee, O Agni, the Manu has set as a light for the eternal birth; thou hast shone forth in Kanwa born from the Truth.” This passage is of great importance in fixing the character & psychological functions of Agni; for our ...
... conscious presence that determines all our thoughts, activities, feelings, impulsions of will by its infallible power and knowledge. The older religions erected their rule of the wise, their dicta of Manu or Confucius, a complex Shastra in which they attempted to combine the social rule and moral law with the declaration of certain eternal principles of our highest nature in some kind of uniting amalgam ...
... which houses them. This means seven sub-strata in each; in the three vyahritis there are therefore thrice seven, trih saptani. (6) Man, although living here in Bhu, belongs to Swar & Bhuvar. He is manu, the Thinker,—the soul in him is the manomayah pranasarira neta of the Upanishad, “the mental captain & guide of life & body”. He has to become vijnanamaya (mahan) and anandamaya, to become in a word... grope within itself to stumble over ignorance. It is, too, perfectly effective whether for knowledge, speech or action, satyakarma, satyapratijna, satyavadi. The man who rising beyond the state of the manu, manishi or thinker which men are now, becomes the kavi or direct seer, containing what he sees,—he who draws the manomaya purusha up into the vijnanamaya,—is in all things “true”. Truth is his cha ...
... Godward will finds its manhaná, its absolute fullness & fulfilment. Sat, Tapas, Ananda, Vijnana, Manas—this is the Indian ladder of Jacob by which one descends & ascends again to heaven. Man the Doer, the Manu, the Krana, perfecting himself by works, is lifted by the divine will to Vijnana, to the ideal self of true knowledge & right action & emotion, attains by Truth to Divine Love & Bliss, Mayas, the dháma ...
... Italiam summa sublimis ab unda. I dare say— Sternitur infelix alieno volnere caelumque aspicit et dulcis moriens reminiscitur Argos as well as Page 388 tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore. belong to the same category. To an ordinary Roman Catholic mind like Belloc's, which is not conscious of the subtle hierarchy of unseen worlds, whatever is vaguely or ...
... latter use द्रविणं = हविर्लक्षणं धनं (2) पूर्वया अग्निर्देवेद्ध इत्यादिकया कव्यता गुणिनिष्ठगुणाभिधानलक्षणां स्तुतिं कुर्वता— कु शब्दे— कवनं स्तुति करोति आयोः मनोः संबंधिनोक्थेन च. Praised by Manu he created men. विवस्वता. विवासनवता विशेषेणाच्छादयता चक्षसा तेजसा (3) आरीः गच्छन्त्यः (अग्निं स्वामिनं) not vocative in agreement with विशः! प्रथमं देवेषु मुख्यं ऋंजसानं स्तोत्रैः प्रसाध्यमानं ...
... on the Manusamhitā's designation of what he calls "the most famous clan of the Vrijian confederacy". He says: "Early Indian tradition is unanimous in representing the Lichchhavis as Kshatriyas... Manu concurs in the view that the Lichchhavis are Rājanyas or Kshatriyas [X. 22]... The obvious conclusion seems to be that the Lichchhavis were indigenous Kshatriyas who were degraded to the position ...
... first harmonised and perfected its traditionary ideals and routine of life and expressed the consciousness of the race in their political or ethico-legal systems. Such were Lycurgus, Confucius, Menes, Manu. For in those days individual greatness and perfection commanded a sacred reverence from the individual consciousness, because in each man it was to this greatness and perfection that individuality ...
... Fiercer griefs you have suffered: to these too God will give ending - (Sri Aurobindo) or Tendebantque manus ripae ulterioris amore - Forth did they stretch their hands with love of the shore beyond them - (K.D.S.) or the verse ...
... Coshala by the Soroyou, a land Smiling at heaven, of riches measureless And corn abounding glad; in that great country Ayodhya was, the city world-renowned, Ayodhya by King Manou built, immense. Twelve yojans long the mighty city lay Grandiose, and wide three yojans. Grandly spaced Ayodhya's streets were and the long high-road Ran through it spaciously with ...
... मनुषो हविर्भि- र्देवाँ अयजः कविभिः कविः सन् । एवा होतः सत्यतर त्वमद्य अग्ने मंद्रया जुह्वा यजस्व ॥ मनुषः. S. मनोः—मन जाने. मनुषः does indeed mean the thinker, but the mental being generally, not Manu. विप्रस्य. S. मेधाविनः, from विप् to be luminous—cf सूरिः which like सूर्यः means also luminous; men of knowledge are in the R.V. frequently called द्दयुमतः, luminous. अयजः probably an aoristic ...
... getting mentioned 1. M. de St.-Martin (McCrindl e, op, cit. p. 133, fn.) thinks they are such a subdivision and finds their representat ives in the ancient Mada,a colony which the Book of Manu , in its enumeration of the " impure" tribes of Āryavarta, mentions by the side of the Andhras, a people ancientl y located also in the lower Gangesregion. S.N. Majumdar (McCrindle's Ancient India ...
... 162, 164, 172, 179, 184 Mahagara, 220, 221, 251, 278, 279 Mallory, LP., 262, 264, 272, 276, 277, 324 Malwa culture, 215, 216, 219 mantra, 176, 196, 350, 364, 417 Manu, 334, 383 mānuṣa-, 334, 418 Manusmriti, 236 Margiana, 206, 210, 211, 228, 305-7, 310, 312, 320 Margos (= modern Murghab), 206, 229 Marshal, Sir John, 245 ...
... fingers in contempt) But you are but a stooge. 'Tis she who is Responsible — the prime mover, chief offender Against Divinity — His will and fiats To which all among us must bow, or be Excommunicated by Manu's law. ( Consternation among the devotees. A stifled outcry ripples through them) PUNDARIK ( bridling ) How dare you, sire- SANATAN ( putting a restraining ...
... retrogressions. And the extent of that slow movement can, hardly be conceived. We are going to recognise in effect the Indian conception of time, namely, ages, cycles presided over by some great creators (Manus). As a result, we have been discovering things not commensurate with the undeveloped, immature and ancient minds of our conception. So some scientists and philosophers are of the opinion that the ancients ...
... Superintendent. After a stay of almost fourteen years, Sri Aurobindo now shook the dust of Baroda from off his feet, and sprang into action at Calcutta, armed with the assurance of the Rishi to King Manu: Of this be sure, the mighty game goes on, The glorious strife, Until the goal predestined has been won. 21 * For a detailed history, the reader is referred to Haridas and ...
... penal system in ancient India ? Sri Aurobindo : There were no jails as we have them now. Disciple : No jails ! Disciple : What will non-co-operators do ? Disciple : The laws of Manu – do they represent the ancient penal code of the past ? Page 50 Sri Aurobindo : Manusmriti is a compilation made by the Brahmins and it is not very old. It was, I believe ...
... complexity of the situation, there has arisen in India some universal and general idea of Dharma and certain recognized variations of the formulations of Dharma. The great Smritis of Yajnavalkya and Manu are attempts to codify this Dharma, and although these two are Page 48 themselves in conflict with each other in many respects, they have provided a general background of a common formulation... during this period, was entirely anti-Vedic. "There are 18 Puranas. Each Purana has five parts: (1) creation of the world, (2) destruction and recreation of the world, (3) reigns and periods of Manus, (4) geneology and Gods, and (5) dynasties of solar and lunar kings. While Puranas are Vedic, Tantras are Vedic only indirectly, and they are called Agamas. We do not know the exact number ...
... Lipi The lipi— Light tonight was justified by the return of this qualified luminosity & the re-idealising of the system & also by some new light on the world problem in the script re the 14 Manus. Script Resumption of script yesterday. First movements unsatisfactory & repetition of old false & trivial script, finally there came a movement that started from the best of the old script... mixed of these two races, which overthrows the Empire. 4) Fantastic images of animals, a lion with an impossibly slender body, a cock face on a fourfooted animal,—belonging to the idea-world of the Manus where types are evolved & varied before they are fixed in the sthula. In the same way as in the trikaldrishti, so in the rest of the siddhi & the lipi affirmation is being enforced. Every feeling ...
... can be the test of truth or the test of usefulness. All the Rishis do not belong to the past; the Avatars still come; revelation still continues.... To recreate Manu entire in modern society is to ask Ganges to flow back to the Himalayas. Manu is no doubt national, but so is the animal sacrifice and the burnt offering. Because a thing is national of the past, it need not follow that it must be national ...
... "This debate that there is over the man who has passed and some say 'This he is not' and some that 'he is', that, taught 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 ...
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