Narmada Narbada Nurmada : one of the seven holy rivers of India; it rises in the Maikhala Range, Madhya Pradesh, & flows into the Gulf of Khambhāt in Gujarat.
... banks of the Narmada, and thus reached Gangonath. It was there that the great yogi Brahmananda's Ashram was; and, what joy! he accepted to take the young boy as his disciple, and at the time of the initiation gave Pitambar the name Balananda. The guru of Balanandaji was therefore Swami Brahm-ananda of Chandod. Chandod, some forty kilometres south of Baroda, on the banks of river Narmada, is the railway... so many turned up for the feast that there was shortage of ghee (clarified butter). Then Brahman ananda would take water from the Narmada and have things fried in it. And when the feast was over and a fresh supply of. ghee came along he would throw into the Narmada a quantity of ghee equivalent to the water taken. These were not tricks played by Brahmananda. "They have happened," confirmed Sri... them sit by his side, and take them to the Maharaja's Lakshmivilas Palace. Brahmananda was dearly loved by all sections of the people. They believed him to be the Goddess Page 80 Narmada's own favourite son. Whenever a feast was given in his ashram on some occasion or another, it was open to all and sundry. People from the surrounding villages were sure to be invited. Out of a small ...
... introduces me to his disciples as his close friend. × Chandod is on a tributary of the Narmada; Karnali, only a few kilometers away, is on the Narmada. It was during a visit to Karnali that Sri Aurobindo had a vision of the World Mother in a Kali temple. He described it in his poem “The Stone Goddess”. Sri Aurobindo:... meeting with Sri Aurobindo, I accompanied my father and my aunt Motiben on their pilgrimage to Nashik, Tryambakeshwar, etc. On our way back we visited Chanod and Karnali 3 where we bathed in the holy Narmada. The stone stairs of the ghat along the river start unusually higher than the level of the water. I was sitting on the topmost stair, enjoying Nature's beauty all around, when suddenly I heard someone... Research , December 1978, pp. 209-10. × Jhadeshwar is near Bharooch; both are on the estuary of the Narmada. × Mother Jamuna or Yamuna—a holy river of North India. ...
... Palace, did not go to see him, did not practise Pranayam till long afterwards. He met the saint Madhavadas at Malsar on the banks of the Narmada and learnt about Yoga-āsanas. Visited, probably with Deshpande, one or two places on the banks of the Narmada, but no recollection of Malsar or Madhavadas, certainly no effect of the meeting, if it happened at all. Sri Aurobindo met, one by one... He had momentary contacts with Brahmanand, but as a great Yogin, not as a Guru—only darshan and blessing. There was no contact with the others. [He met Brahmananda on the banks of the Narmada for advice on national education activities.] Sri Aurobindo saw Brahmananda long before there was any question of national education activities. Brahmananda never gave him any counsel or advice ...
... Power, a Face that looks into yours, an inner sight in you has regarded the World-Mother." The 'sacred river' is the Narmada. It is one of the biggest rivers of India. Starting from the Amarkantak hills and after a long westward flow, it meets the Bay of Cambay. The Narmada is said to have issued from the body of Rudra. She is specially Page 180 View from Parvati Hill... described these three experiences in sonnets: Adwaita, The Hill-Top Temple of the Parvati Hill — his two experiences of contact with the Infinite; and The Stone Goddess on the northern bank of the Narmada at Karnali, where he regarded the World-Mother. Page 181 Among the many temples at Karnali, 'The Stone Goddess' is housed in a little shrine known as the Mahakali Mandir of... of pilgrimage. "Once," Sri Aurobindo said describing one of his pre-yogic experiences, "I visited Ganganath after Brahmananda's death, when Keshava-nanda was there." Ganganath, on the banks of the Narmada, is about two kilometres from Chandod. It was Swami Brahmananda's Ashram; upon his passing away Keshav ananda had become its head. "With my Europeanised mind," said Sri Aurobindo, "I had no faith in ...
... the divine Will. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Happiness Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship — if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. He... saw the living presence there. For the first time I believed in the presence of God. 5.12.1939 Sri Aurobindo The idol of Mahakali, Karnali situated on the northern bank of river Narmada, near Chandod in Gujarat. When Sri Aurobindo visited this shrine in 1906. He realised the living Presence of Kali in the image. The poem which he wrote later. The Stone Goddess , is reproduced ...
... Brahmananda of Chandod lived for 400 years. Could you possibly enlighten me? There is no incontrovertible proof. 400 years is an exaggeration. It is known however that he lived on the banks of the Narmada for 80 years and when he arrived there, he was already in appearance at the age when maturity turns towards over ripeness. He was when I met him just before his death a man of magnificent physique... Mazumdar learned that he was suffering from a bad tooth and brought him a bottle of Floriline, a toothwash then much in vogue. The Yogi refused saying, "I never use medicines. My one medicine is Narmada water. As for this tooth I have suffered from it since the days of Bhao Girdi." Bhao Girdi was the Maratha general Sadashiv Rao Bhao who disappeared in the battle of Panipat and his body was never... was still in full strength and his death came not by decay but by the accident of blood poisoning through a rusty nail that entered into his Page 15 foot as he walked on the sands of the Narmada. I had spoken to the Mother about him, that was why she mentioned him in her Conversations which were not meant for the public–otherwise she might not have said anything as the longevity of Brahmananda ...
... this. Afterwards they lived in a deeper and truer harmony. × Some miles southwest of Chandod-Karnali, not far from Narmada. ...
... months afterwards,) the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-[Sulaiman] 1 in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine in Chandod on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay etc. But these were inner experiences coming of themselves and with a ...
... ancient times Indians used every time they bathed: Page 1 Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. These are the great rivers of the Indian subcontinent and it is along the ...
... is not a mere belief. All this reminds me of an incident narrated by Sri Aurobindo. When he visited Chanod-Karnali, he had a living vision of Mahakali in a srone image in a small temple on the Narmada. So many visit the same temple but how many have this living darshan? Similarly, we have all heard that Sri Ramakrishnadev even talked with the image of Kali at Dakshineshwar. And again there is the ...
... or Maikal range. There lies the plateau of Amarkantak. Several great Indian rivers have their sources on this plateau of Amarkantak: Narmada, Sone and Mahanadi. It may interest the Reader to know that some geophysicists believe the fifty-to-sixty-kilometre wide Narmada rift which starts at Amarkantak and its entire length of 1,312 kilometres to be a highly earthquake-prone zone, which one day may split ...
... expressed in a sonnet, 'Adwaita': An unborn Reality world-nude, Topless and fathomless, forever still... Probably in the same year Sri Aurobindo visited a temple of Kali on the banks of the Narmada. This he did on the persuasion of his friends, as he himself had at the time no faith in idols or image-worship. 'With my European mind,' he wrote, 'I had no faith in them and I hardly believed in... the practice of yoga and politics and one became a part of the other. At this time, that is around 1905, Sri Aurobindo visited the Ashram of Swami Brahmananda of Karnali on the banks of the river Narmada, had the darshan of the maha yogi and was greatly impressed. Usually when receiving pranams Swami Brahmananda sat with closed eyes but for Sri Aurobindo he made an exception and gazed at him with... speculation about the age of the Swami, some claiming that he was more than 400 years old. Sri Aurobindo wrote: '400 years is an exaggeration. It is known however that he lived on the banks of the Narmada for 80 years and when he arrived there, be was already in appearance at the age when maturity turns towards overripeness. He was when I met him just before his death a man of magnificent physique showing ...
... Indian Ocean. Bordering the Arabian Sea are the Malabar and Konkan coasts. The western coast extends from the Cape almost in a straight line towards the north up to the Gulf of Khambat, where Mahi, Narmada and Tapti rivers end their overland journey. Along the Bay of Bengal is the Coromandel coast. It too stretches northwards, but less steeply, before curving to the north-east towards the delta of the... major rivers that rise Page 113 on the crest of the Western Ghats course down to the Bay of Bengal, and not to the Arabian Sea. From very ancient times, from the mouth of the Narmada to the mouth of the Ganges, there were well-known port towns studding the long coast lines of India. Among the ports on the Coromandel coast was one named 'Poduca' in the Periplus of the Erythraean ...
... is first to think about our physical motherland. Stretching from the Himalayas in the north to Kanyakumari in the south, its boundaries are formed by the seas on the east and west. Ganga, Jamuna, Narmada, Krishna, Godavari flow here unceasingly; here are ancient cities, tall and imposing temples, artistically designed palatial homes. Such is the part of this earth we call India. It is this picture... teach it in a different way. First we tell the children that India is our Motherland; in this way we make them aware of the gross body of the nation. We tell them about our rivers, Ganga, Jamuna, Narmada, etc., and what these rivers mean, not merely where they flow. In our national schools, when we teach the children about Maharashtra we describe the land in which Shivaji lived. Speaking about Punjab ...
... Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland , Mizoram,and Sikkim — together known as the seven sisters. The two rivers Narmada and Tapti in central and western India have the unique distinction of flowing in the east to west direction, unlike other major rivers in India. Of the two, Narmada has more mythological significance as being the mother and giver of peace. Legends in India have it that the mere... for the sacrificial purification of water. It runs thus: Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna, the Godavari, the Saraswati, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. These are the great rivers of the Indian continent. They cover practically the ...
... Totapuri gave initiation to Gadadhar, and made him a sannyasin. Gadadhar became Ramakrishna. Totapuri was the greatest living Vedantist. He had practised intense sadhana on the banks of the Narmada for forty years before he achieved realisation. And what did this 'idol-worshipper' do? Whit him three days he had mastered all that the Vedantist could teach him, and had entered Nirvikalpa samadhi ...
... for instance, skin diseases or bad teeth. Sri Aurobindo spoke once of a Yogi who, still enjoying robust health and a magnificent physique, had been living for nearly a century on the banks of the Narmada. Offered by a disciple medicine for a toothache, he observed, in refusing, that one tooth had given him trouble for the last two hundred years. This Yogi had secured so much control over material nature ...
... others cited some cases of miracles. DR. BECHARLAL: Brahmananda on several occasions fed many people out of a small quantity of food. Also, when the ghee ran short, he used to take water from the Narmada and have things fried in it. And when the occasion was over and a fresh supply of ghee came along he would throw into the river a quantity equivalent to the water taken. NIRODBARAN: Are such things ...
... Of course the old Page 139 disused wells may be filled up, but that again means cholera in excelsis. The only resource will be for the whole State to go and camp out on the banks of the Narmada and the Mahi. Of course if I get half pay I shall send Rs 80 to Bengal, hand over Rs 90 as my contribution to the expenses to Khaserao and keep the remaining 10 for emergencies; but supposing the ...
... which every Indian had to use every time he went to bathe: Gangecha Jamunechaiva Godavari Sarasvatee Narmada Sindhu Kaveri jalesmin sannidhim kuru And it means: May the Ganges, the Yamuna. the Godavari, the Sarasvatee, the Narmada, the Sindhu and the Kaveri enter into this water. Page 5 These are the great rivers of the Indian sub-continent ...
... November, Jatin can stay with you as now; the difficulty is about Anjali. Mother has only 2 rooms that she can offer her and they are both bad. There is the room in Belle-Vue, formerly occupied by Narmada who has shifted now into a better one; it is a very bad room, dark and ill-ventilated and it opens into K's with only a curtain between. I suppose you know also that the ... sadhikas in the house are ...
... saw and explored the mystery of creation. It was the sublime gift of the Saraswati. The Rishis were great travellers. The hymns sung on the banks of the Saraswati spread to the banks of Ganga and Narmada, of Godavari and Krishna, of Kaveri and Tamra-parni.... From the Himalayan peaks to Dakshina Jalanidhi (Indian Ocean), from Purva Sagar (Bay of Bengal) to Pashchima Payodhi (the Arabian Sea), India's ...
... living out in the open were miraculously saved. That's why I say the Bengalis are a lucky people. "I know of another similar story. "A Bengali sadhu set off on a pilgrimage along the river Narmada. He walked all alone through dense forest and lodged at night in any temple he found on the way, In his bag he had a little sago and some sugar-candy. If Page 88 he got any alms from... "It has been observed among some fierce clans or sects of sadhus that they often raid one another. "One night this Bengali sadhu found refuge in a Shiva temple in a forest on the bank of Narmada. He settled down comfortably in a corner after tidying up the place. He lit a fire and sat on his blanket. It was winter-time and the night was very cold. He brought out a palm-leaf manuscript from ...
... while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-SuIeman in Kashmir, the realisation of the vacant Infinite came upon him, unbidden as it were; the living presence of Kali in the shrine on the banks of the Narmada came upon him unawares and filled him with its stupendous majesty; and he had, on another occasion, when he was in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay there, a ...
... d on a later occasion a sense of the vacant Infinite while walking on the bridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir, and Mahakali's living presence once filled him with rapture on the banks of the Narmada. 15 Soon after his return to India, Sri Aurobindo employed special tutors and quickly mastered his mother tongue, Bengali and Sanskrit. Page 8 As he was serving ...
... by a water famine. Of course the old disused wells may be filled up, but that again means cholera in excelsis. The only resource will be for the whole State to go and camp out on the banks of the Narmada and the Mahi. "Of course if I get half-pay 1 shall send Rs. 80 to Bengal, hand over Rs.90 as my contribution to the expenses to Khaserao and keep the remaining 10 for emergencies; but supposing ...
... long months afterwards. There was also a realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takht-i-Suleman in Kashmir, the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada, the vision of the Godhead surging up from within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay. But these were inner experiences coming of themselves and with a sudden ...
... Only that deathless memory I bore. Here is a description of a vision of Sri Aurobindo. 'Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chanded he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image worship if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. He ...
... that he has described a particular region in some detail. On the other hand, those who would identify Rāmgiri with Rāmtek, near Nagpur, cannot be said to be entirely pointless; the river Reva, i.e., Narmada is towards the north of Rāmtek and the cloud messenger has been asked to go in the northerly direction (udarimukhah) of Rāmgiri. But whatever may be the case, in view of Kālidāsa's deep acquaintance ...
... Here is a description of a vision that Sri Aurobindo had during his Baroda period: Once when Sri Aurobindo was on a visit to Chandod he went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image-worship—if anything, till then he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image. ...
... while, if the din of life deafens you & you wish to seek solitude to meditate; for to the Karmayogin also Jnana is necessary and solitude is the nurse of knowledge. You may sit by the Ganges or the Narmada near some quiet temple or in some sacred asram to adore the Lord; for to the Karmayogin also bhakti is necessary, and places like these which are saturated with the bhakti of great saints and ...
... good; and — "Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new!" It is significant too that Sri Aurobindo is already talking of the Ganges and of the "regions of eternal snow" rather than of Baroda or Narmada or Mount Abu. Baroda would be a steppingstone, convenient and welcome enough, but Sri Aurobindo's real work would embrace all India; and he seems to have known it — somehow very clearly glimpsed ...
... prose writer can be a poet if he has a poetic gift in him." . . . One day ... in the beginning of 1905, Messrs Arvind Babu, Deshpande and Jadhav went to Chandod, a small town on the bank of the Narmada, and a place of pilgrimage. There they passed a day with a Yogi and then proceeded to Ganganath, a place a few miles distant from Chandod. There is a beautiful Ashram there where Swami Brahmanand spent... away and on his last visit Sri Aurobindo met Brahmananda's successor, Swami Keshavananda. During one of his visits to Chandod Sri Aurobindo went to one of the temples of Kali on the bank of the Narmada. He went there because of the company. He never had felt attracted to image-worship – if anything at that time he was averse to it. Now when he went to the temple he found a presence in the image ...
... Calm and void unchanging Peace On the dumb crest of Nature's mysteries. 15 Again, the living presence of Kali in one of the temples at Karnali near Chandod on the banks of the Narmada came upon him unawares and filled him with an eerie and stupendous Power leaping out of the sculptured confines. This experience was to be immortalised in a sonnet of later years. The Stone Goddess: ...
... Sri Aurobindo paid two or three visits to a great Yogi, Brahmananda, who was living on the banks of the Narmada. He describes the Yogi in the following words: "There is no incontrovertible proof. Four hundred years is an exaggeration. It is known however that he lived on the banks of the Narmada for eighty years, and when he arrived there, he was already in appearance at the age when maturity turns... g confidence in its own competence to judge all things under the sun is fatal to its own growth. Sri Aurobindo used to go out with Deshpande and some others of his friends to the banks of the Narmada river in search of Yogis who could give him some power for his political work. On one such excursion, he visited a temple of Kali and had the realisation of the living Presence of the Mother in the... he died, he was still in full strength and his death came not by decay but by the accident of blood-poisoning through a rusty nail that had entered into his foot as he walked on the sands of the Narmada.... I may say that three at least of his disciples to my knowledge kept an extraordinary aspect and energy of youth even to a comparatively late or quite advanced age - but this may not be uncommon ...
... India that he started certain practices on his own, just getting the rule from an Engineer friend, Mr. Devadhar, who was a disciple of Swami Brahmananda of Ganga Math, Chandod, on the banks of the Narmada; this was, however, confined for the time being to sustained prānāyāma, for three hours in the morning and two in the evening. The immediate effect was a marvellous mental illumination, prakāśmaya; ...
... measures of a rapid dance. MAHASEGN If this portentous morning reach our gates, My star is fallen. Yet I had great dreams. Oudh and Cowsamby were my high-carved doors, Ganges, Godavary and Nurmada In lion race besprayed with sacred dew My moonlit jasmines in my pleasure-grounds. All this great sunlit continent lay sleeping At peace beneath the shadow of my brows. But they were dreams. ...
... Baroda (1893). The Stone Goddess . 13 September 1939. Three handwritten manu-scripts. This sonnet is about an experience Sri Aurobindo had at a temple in Karnali, on the banks of the Narmada, near the end of his stay in Baroda (c. 1904–6). Krishna . 15 September 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts. Shiva . 16 September 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts. ...
... months afterwards); the realisation of the vacant Infinite while walking on the ridge of the Takhti-Suleman [Seat of Solomon] in Kashmir; the living presence of Kali in a shrine on the banks of the Narmada; the vision of the Godhead surging up from Page 371 within when in danger of a carriage accident in Baroda in the first year of his stay..." About the experience of Nirvana ...
... humming around! He also reasoned that ‘great men could not have been after a chimera.’ One of the great men he met was Swami Brahmananda, Deshpande’s guru, who had an ashram on the banks of the river Narmada and was supposed to be well over a century old. ‘He was, when I met him just before his death, a man of magnificent physique showing no signs of old age except a white beard and hair, extremely tall ...
... Disciple : Ashwatthama is said to be "immortal". Sri Aurobindo : And, it seems, he has been seen by some people in Gujerat – somewhere. Disciple : It is near Surpan on the Narmada river. Sri Aurobindo : He leaves footprints twice as big as those of our friend here. Disciple : Formerly, according to an article by Mr. Hiren Dutt, there was nothing but gas on this ...
... kunda creeper मांक्ष् to wish, desire, long for. मेकः a goat मेकलः goat; a mountain मखला belt, zone; slope of a mountain; hips; sword-belt, sword-knot; horse-girth; Narmada मेखलिन् Shiva; Brahmacharin. मेखलालः Shiva. मेघः cloud; mass, multitude; a fragrant grass; one of the six Ragas. मुकंदकः onion मुकुः liberation; moksha ...
... at one time a principality ruled over by a Ksatriya clan known by the name of the Dandakas, who claimed their descent from Danda, son of Ikswāku , The tract, which was bounded on the north by the Narmada and oh the south by the Godavari, was, laid waste through a shower of dust under a curse pronounced by Sage Sukra. Page 57 speak because of grief, his father wept bitterly at the pitch ...
... Chandrasekar Aiya and Nagaratnam. 23 August. Talk on Shaw's Saint Joan . 31 August. A letter from P. M. Patel. 19 September. A letter from Dhiren. A reply dictated. 21 September. Narmada Shanker Bhatt of Lunawada met Sri Aurobindo; suggestion on the japa of gayatri . A letter from Rajani Kanta Palit. 24 September. A letter from Haradhan Baxi of Chandemagore. A reply dictated ...
... 1.The respondents were middle and senior level managers and officials from public sector organizations like Indian Oil Corporation, The State Bank of India, The Reserve Bank of India, Gujarat Narmada Fertilizer Corporation; organizations in the private sector like Telco, Jamshedpur, Associated Cement Company, Godrej and Boyce Manufacturing Company and Salora International Limited; multinationals ...
... I saw an infinitely vast Emptiness covering the universe. "Another spiritual experience occurred in Chandod where I had gone to meet the Yogi Brahmananda. This place is on the bank of the river Narmada, which is dotted with innumerable temples, big and small. I entered a Kali temple and lo! It was not a figure of stone that was there, but Mother Kali herself. It is since then that I began worshipping ...
... Beās." The people living round Balkh or Bactria are also known as the Vāhlīkas. Then there is the dynasty of three Bāhlīka rulers placed by the Purānas in the region of Mahisamati on the Narmada. The last can be rejected immediately since these rulers are to the east of the Indus and do not involve its crossing. The people living round Balkh are to be rejected too, because, as Allan ...
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