Odyssey : Greek epic by Homer in 24 books. It describes the ten years of adventures of Odysseus after the Trojan War before returning home to Ithaca.
... " From these lines and the fact that both the bards in the Iliad and the Odyssey are blind, it has been suggested that Homer was most probably blind himself. By the 6th century BC, the Greeks attributed both the Iliad and the Odyssey to Homer, and it is possible that the authoritative edition of the Odyssey existed in Athens at that time. Numerous papyrus fragments of both epics exist... A bust of the epic poet Homer (2nd century BC) The Iliad Introduction The earliest examples of Greek literature are two epic poems, the Iliad and the Odyssey, which most scholars today agree to attribute to one single great poet, Homer. Both epics were written down sometime in the 8th century BC. During this period the Greeks, after a long dark... poet to tell his tales, and successive generations of trained poets learned and taught a wealth of literary material orally. In keeping with the oral tradition. Homer created the Iliad and the Odyssey by taking building blocks of material from the poets who preceded him and .reshaping them to form the foundations of his artistic creation. These blocks included various myths about the gods and about ...
... them reft their return and the daylight. Sing to us also of these things, goddess, daughter of heaven. From the artistic viewpoint the Odyssey is a particularly difficult poem to translate; for, has not Sri Aurobindo spoken of "the Odyssey and perhaps the Divina Commedia being the only exceptions" to the fact that all the great epics achieve greatness in spite of "deficiencies if not... Nikos Kazantzakis's Greek epic, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel A mild breeze blew on ringlets of a yellow brow, somewhere amid an olive tree a nightbird sighed, soft seawaves far away in the smooth shingles murmured and happy night in her first sleep mumbled in dream. Telemachus then turned to his harsh-speaking lord: 1 The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel by Nicos Kazantzakis... has come nearest to the hexameter of Homer or Virgil in English is not Friar or Lewis or Lattimore: it is H.B. Cotterill In 1911 he published his translation of the Odyssey. 1 Rejecting academic attempts to 1 Homer's Odyssey, A Line-for-line Translation in the Metre of the Original by H. B. Cotterill (London, George G. Harrap & Co.), 1911. Page 312 construct the ...
... fluctuating movement, moments of ever-changing fire. 3. The Iliad and the Odyssey: Great epic poems composed by Homer. The Iliad is the earliest written work of ancient Greece. It tells us the story of the siege of Troy. Scholars believe that Homer composed it as a young man in the middle of the 8th century BC. The Odyssey: It is believed that if the Iliad was a product of Homer's _____________... between the Asiatic and European mind. Digging into the rich soil of the epics which are at the roots of these two main lines of development, he writes: "The mind of the European is an Iliad and an Odyssey,³ fighting rudely but heroically forward, or full of a rich curiosity, wandering as an accurate and vigorous observer in landlocked seas of thought; the mind of the Asiatic is a Ramayan or a Mahabharat... that has shaped the mind of the Western world. Our third text thus is taken out of the Iliad, one of the two famous epics written by Greece's greatest poet. Homer, and which, together with the Odyssey, has probably been the most read poem for the past three thousand years. Finally to conclude this monograph, we have included an excerpt from Sri Aurobindo's long poem Ilion, inspired by the Iliad ...
... is accidental, to the principle of justice, which is in the reach of every man, marks the extraordinary moral revolution which occurs in the Odyssey and in the character of its hero... The power and excitement I find in the Odyssey stem in large measure from its testimony to the birth of civilisation in the emergence of charity and law and order out of the flux of... Greece (and Crete), conceived the last years of Odysseus in The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, the immense epic which has lately appeared, twenty-one years after its first publication in Greek, in an English translation by Kimon Friar. It is a natural, even a logical, transition from the Cantos of Ezra Pound to the modern Odyssey of Nikos Kazantzakis. Page 395 ... Savitri VI The Odysseus Theme In a perceptive essay on 'The Odyssey and the Western World', George de E Lord has tried to delineate Odysseus as a middle term between the Achilles of the Iliad and the Aeneas of Virgil's poem. Between Hamlet, father, the old-world heroic hero who smote the sledded Polacks on the ice, and Horatio the self-poised ...
... In both the Iliad and Odyssey, one feels uplifted upon the earth that belongs to a higher plane of a greater dynamic of life, and so long as we remain there, we have a greater vision in a more lustrous air and we feel ourselves raised to a semi-divine stature. Homer may be regarded as one of the most influential poets in world history, since the Iliad and Odyssey provided the basis of... -03_Homer and the Iliad.htm Homer and the Iliad A Brief Note I H omer is the name attached by the Greeks of ancient times themselves to the two great epic poems, Iliad and Odyssey. Unfortunately, not much is known of him, but there is no doubt that there was indeed an epic poet called Homer and that he played the primary part in shaping those two great poems. The text of these... stand above all the rest, although Vyasa, the author of the Mahabharta is greater in his range than Homer in the Page 11 Iliad. Similarly, Valmiki has a greater range than Homer in Odyssey. Both Vyasa and Valmiki, in their strength and in their achievement in regard to the largeness of the field are greater than the whole dramatic world of Shakespeare. According to Sri Aurobindo, both ...
... temperament of the poet": 28 he is moved to reveal and idealise and thus, in a broad sense, to interpret and not merely present. "When we read the Iliad o r the Odyssey , we are not really upon this earth, but on the earth lifted into some plane of a greater dynamis of life, and so long as we remain there we have a greater... raised to a semi-divine stature." 29 Again: "... it is the adventures and trials and strength and courage of the soul of man in Odysseus which makes the greatness of the Odyssey and not merely the vivid incident and picturesque surrounding circumstance, and it is Page 22 the clash... conventional nature of the style in this age can at once be seen by taking any lines from Homer and putting them before Pope's translation of the Iliad and the Odyssey. Here are two addressed by Ulysses in surprise to Elpenor who, unknown to his leader, had fallen overboard to his death in the sea and afterwards met Ulysses in ...
... other change he casts it in lines of beauty and in divine proportions; he deals with it as Phidias dealt with the human form when he wished to create a god in marble. When we read the Iliad and the Odyssey, we are not really upon this earth, but on the earth lifted into some plane of a greater dynamis of life, and so long as we remain there we have a greater vision in a more lustrous air and we feel... important the rhythmic life and the life of the verbal arrangement are to the Homeric expression may be judged from a hexametrical translation by an Englishman named Cotterill of a phrase from the Odyssey. Cotterill has done the whole poem into accentual hexameters and off and on he achieves grand effects, but sometimes at the peak-points of Homer he fails in poetic sensitiveness, both in rhythm and... as "Saturn".) Homer is always simple even in his profundity, straightforward even in his subtlety, natural even in his majesty. A typical instance of this style is at the very beginning of the Odyssey. Odysseus has lost all his companions — most of them because they slew the oxen that were sacred to Helios, the sun-god, who in return brought about their death. Homer says, as F. L. Lucas has pointed ...
... Lectures on the Art of Reading. 58. Opus Posthumous, pp. 101,103. 59. Poetry, December 1959, p. 140. 60. Quoted from his 'Credo' in Kimon Friar's Introduction to The Odyssey, p. xxiii. 61. ibid., p.xxi. 62. Tennyson's Ulysses. 63. Kipling's fine story, "The Miracle of Purun Bhagat', is a moving tribute to this Indian tradition. ... pp. vii-viii. Cf. Virgil: And now was Aurora, leaving the saffron bed of Tithonus, Beginning to shower upon earth the light of another day (C. Day Lewis' translation). 67. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, p. 1. 68. ibid., p. 776. 69. ibid., pp. 150-1. Page 481 70. ibid., pp. 30-1. ... 72. ibid., pp. 41-2. 73. ibid., p. 44. 74. ibid., p. 31. 75. Savitri, p. 873. 76. ibid., p. 869. 77. ibid., p. 863. 78. The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, pp. 513-4. Cf. W.B. Stanford: "The Lonely One: here is the nemesis of absolute freedom...Kazantzakis sends his hero, when he has freed himself in turn from the Ego, the Race, and ...
... holocaust—wishing "only to be Thy servitor"! Nothing can reveal better the essentially sacrificial nature of the psychic love than this high-souled aspiration of the Mother. PART III THE ODYSSEY OF THE PSYCHIC BEING We have already had an understanding of the rationale of the soul's descent into material birth: it is to awaken consciousness in the giant nescience of the material existence... assumption of a new physical form does not of itself argue any modification of the psychological make-up of his being. According to Sri Aurobindo, this agency is the psychic being, and its internatal odyssey is the process by which it rings the curtain up and down upon the decisive stages of the evolution of its nature. Death is only a signal, may be an abrupt and violent signal in a majority of cases... preparative repose in its own world of peace and bliss- all these are but episodes in the long and chequered history of his soul's evolutionary progression from Matter to Spirit, its eventful odyssey. His humanity is a. shifting mask, an immaculate divinity is his eternal essence and ultimate destiny. THE PSYCHIC PREDETERMINATION When the soul or the psychic being comes out of its ...
... the story of an immense struggle between Page 85 world-powers of good and evil, the Odyssey with its magic of romance and its story of the assertion of right and of domestic and personal virtue against unbridled licence and wrong in an epic encounter between these opposite forces. The Odyssey is a battle of human will and character supported by divine power against evil men and wrathful ...
... . He obviously cannot find this truth and the means of manifesting it in the gross material reality of this world. He therefore looks for it in all the other worlds. Thus comes about Aswapati's odyssey through the various worlds of consciousness which reflects Sri Aurobindo's understanding of man's evolutionary progress. 9 The Life Divine, SABCL Vol. 19, pp. 775-76. Page 274 ... A subtle pattern of the universe. 11 The living symbols of these conscious planes, their influences and godheads have been fixed as slow-scaled degrees in our inner life. So Aswapati's odyssey is in fact a journey of the inner regions of his own consciousness. And this is what is described in the fifteen cantos of Book II. Nor are experiences of the Kingdom of the Spirit dealt with, except ...
... justification that Savitri was Sri Aurobindo's Faust, his Song of Myself and his Song of the Mother rolled into one; his Testament of Beauty and Love and his testament of truth and power; his Odyssey of self-discovery and world-discovery; his lyric of the evolving soul of humanity and his epic of the cosmos. It is not therefore surprising that, when a few days before he passed away, he dictated... of the others. Or we may approach Savitri by yet another road, passing on the way the two formidable milestones, the Cantos of Ezra Pound and Kazantzakis' 'modern sequel' to the Odyssey. The modern American- Page 457 European, the modern Cretan-Greek, the modern Hindu with an English education: all three poets—Pound, Kazantzakis and Sri Aurobindo—are masters ...
... sternward Bore us out onward with bellying canvas, Circe's this craft, the trim-coifed goddess. A voyage, then; Odysseus, obviously; and there is Circe, too. Is it the Odyssey again in a Poundian version, perhaps in all the four Dantean Page 388 senses, the literal, the allegorical, the analogical, the ethical? We return to Odysseus from time to... knowledge Knowing less than drugged beasts... To the cave art thou called, Odysseus,... 43 Allen Tate guardedly writes: "Mr. Pound's world is the scene of a great Odyssey, and everywhere he lands it is the shore of Circe, where men 'lose all companions' and are turned into swine. It would not do to push this hint too far, but I will risk one further point: Mr. Pound ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Soul's Odyssey Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar: Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come From God, who is our home... Matthew Arnold's characterisation of Wordsworth's genius at its best, it is then Nature herself that takes up the pen and writes for the poet. The deep spiritual truth we are referring to is the Odyssey of the human soul. And it is also an occult phenomenon happening in the world of the inner reality. The Soul's own home is in God, is God; for it is part and parcel of the divine consciousness, it ...
... Death collapse and germinate new seeds of the future governed by Life. Page 25 Whatever we may have done, or would be able to do, we should understand that a limit has been set on our odyssey. We can thus imagine an entirely different history for our race, can go so far as to model it on a living allegory of virtue, or of vice (improbable in this sphere of duality), the end of the world... revealed in us and always elevating us to greater knowledge, we shall move unfailingly towards what yet remains unknown to us, but which that force knows to be the truth of things. In the course of this odyssey, we are shaped in such a way as to become sensitive to what it wants to give us. Or rather, the voyage itself is such as to continuously refine the material from which it has drawn us. Thus consciousness ...
... purpose of chronicling the course of my odyssey towards the Supreme Goal?" As you are a born writer, it won't be a bad idea to record your day-to-day observations on your own spiritual wanderings, which may hopefully mean at times the noting down of Those thoughts that wander through Eternity. Page 104 Your choice of the word "odyssey" is apt. For this "man many-counselled" ...
... John Horgan: The End of Science , p. 125. × http://homepage.eircom.net/odyssey/quotes/life/science/evolution.html × Christopher Hitchens: God is not Great , p. 109. ... Charles Darwin: op. cit., pp. 450, 124. × http://homepage.eircom.net/odyssey/quotes/life/science/evolution.html × William Dembski (ed.): Uncommon Dissent , p. 292. ...
... in which the Olympic Games were founded in honour of Zeus. But this was by no means the beginning of Greek athletics. We know from Homer, the author of the two famous epics the Iliad and the Odyssey, that the events of the Games had been practised in the Greek world many centuries before the Trojan War. In the Iliad, right in the middle of that war, the great hero "swift-footed Achilles" organises... cart-horse strength. If it is used, in a general context, of a man it will connote excellence in the ways in which a man can be excel lent — morally, intellectually, physically. Thus the hero of the Odyssey is a great fighter, a wily schemer, a ready speaker, a man of stout heart and broad wisdom who knows that he must endure without too much complaining what the gods send; and he can both build and sail ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 3 XII The Soul's Odyssey Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting; The Soul that rises with us, our Life's Star, Hath had elsewhere its setting, And cometh from afar; Not in entire forgetfulness, And not in utter nakedness, But trailing clouds of glory do we come ... Matthew Arnold's characterisation of Wordsworth's genius at its best, it is then Nature herself that takes up the pen and writes for the poet. The deep spiritual truth we are referring to is the Odyssey of the human soul. And it is also an occult phenomenon happening in the world of the inner reality. The Soul's own home is in God, is God; for it is part and parcel of the divine consciousness, it ...
... epics, the so-called communal or folk epics, the epics of tradition, on the one hand, and the more deliberate compositions, on the other, of a later day. Among the former are the Iliad and the Odyssey, the Song of Roland, Beowulf and the Asiatic Gilgamesh; and among the latter, the Aeneid, the Divina Commedia (if it could be called an epic), Camoens' Os Lusiadas, Paradise Lost, and Mah... Faust or Hardy's The Dynasts} The Cantos of Ezra Pound sets a similar problem: is it an epic, too, an epic still in progress? And we have, above all, Nikos Kazantzakis' colossal epic The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel 8 and Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. It cannot be the truth that the days of the epic are over. An epic of our time cannot be exactly modelled on an Iliad or a ...
... should have filled him with creative purpose for the rest of his life. One result, and indeed for us the chief result, of Kazantzakis' mystic experience is this stupendous 'Modern Sequel' to the Odyssey. Like its Homeric model, Kazantzakis' poem too is an epic narrative in XXIV Books, but being 33,333 lines long, thrice as voluminous as the original. The metrical pattern too is... looks at the poem, whether the original or the translation, the experience (mystical and otherwise) that went into its making or the energy of the art that has made it what it is, this modern Odyssey should be adjudged a remarkable performance; "for its size and splendour and ambition alone", 64 it should claim and secure a place among the indubitable poetic triumphs of our time, taking a ...
... Challenge' Three such poems as the Cantos, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel and Savitri are certainly a triple challenge to those who hold the view that the days of the long poem are gone. The Cantos, now numbering 109, probably make a bulk of nearly 800 pages; in the standard edition, Savitri too takes up 814 pages; and The Odyssey, with its 33,333 lines, is surely the longest and the ...
... Brahmalaya and Vrisha in the Ramayana, 113 and Gilgamesh's voyage through darkness in quest of immortality. 114 More recently, the Greek poet, Nikos Kazantzakis, in his colossal epic, The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, has made his hero's travels symbolic of an upward movement spiralling towards increasing perfectibility. The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Little Life and of the Greater Life,... there is an integration, a spiritual transformation. Page 330 In Savitri we have a double demonstration of the dynamics of spiritual awakening: Aswapati's odyssey of the occult worlds and Savitri's exploration of the countries of the soul, and the latter is as important as the former. Aswapati's occult and spiritual itinerary is at least remotely paralleled ...
... Know more > One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by a disordered ...
... obviously emerges in a strong and single and natural speech and action. And yet it is the adventures and trials and strength and courage of the soul of man in Odysseus which makes the greatness of the Odyssey and not merely the vivid incident and picturesque surrounding circumstance, and it is the clash of great and strong spirits with the gods leaning Page 243 down to participate in their struggle ...
... beauty—not of the scope of their work as a whole, for there are poets greater in their range. The Mahabharata is from that point of view a far greater creation than the Iliad, the Ramayana than the Odyssey, and either spreads its strength and its achievement over a larger field than the whole dramatic world of Shakespeare; both are built on an almost cosmic vastness of plan and take all human life (the ...
... pretty, pleasant and melodious with a beautiful idea in it would serve our turn; a song of Anacreon or a plaint of Mimnermus would be as satisfying to the poetic sense as the Oedipus, Agamemnon or Odyssey, for from this point of view they might well strike us as equally and even, one might contend, more perfect in their light but exquisite unity and brevity. Pleasure, certainly, we expect from poetry ...
... hill by his rays", vi gobhir adrim airayat . 1 But at the same time, the rays of Surya are the herds of the Sun, the kine Page 124 of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the enemy Vala, by the Panis; when Madhuchchhandas says to Indra, "Thou didst uncover the hole ...
... been a great poet but he would not have ranked among the dozen greatest; it is Paradise Lost that gives him that place. There are deficiencies if not failures in almost all the great epics, the Odyssey and perhaps the Divina Commedia being the only exceptions, but still they are throughout in spite of them great epics. So too is Paradise Lost . The grandeur of his verse and language is constant ...
... again and again on long compa-risons which are themselves complete pictures — small dramatic scenes inset into the main visual reconstruction: the Iliad contains 180 full-length similes and the Odyssey 40. Virgil, Dante and Milton also paint such pictures, but perhaps the best versions of the Homeric comparison outside Homer are in Matthew Arnold's blank-verse narratives — particularly his Sohrab ...
... through which he went for twenty years after the fall of Troy before returning home to Ithaca. The passage has a very dramatic effect, as of prophecy, for all who remember the subject of Homer's Odyssey. The line, put into the mouth of Briseis, in The Book of the Woman, Stronger there by love as thou than I here, O Achilles, sounds a little strange in construction until we ...
... Nishikanto Roy Chowdhury (Kobi) (A man who walked in his shadow) He ceas’d; but left so pleasing on the ear His voice, that list’ning still they seemed to hear. Homer (Odyssey; Translation: Pope) He is an exception to the series of “Among the Not So Great”. For, long before I thought of writing on him, he was great and well-known. He was commented upon by our Lord ...
... devoted to the same pursuit of life. Thus mankind will be linked together with divine ties, and wake up into a millennium of peace and happiness in the quest of which man has been engaged in an eternal odyssey. "All men are brothers" will not then be a mere pedantic quotation but a fact of life. The Ishopanishad says: "All that lives is full of God." In this world He has set up an experiment of pro ...
... Ring and the Book of Browning with its 21,116 to the place of runner-up: in fact it is the longest in any European language old or new, with the exception of Nicos Kazantzakis's recently published Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, written originally in present-day Greek and running into 33,333 lines. Among epics which can be compared with it in general poetic quality, only the Shah-Nameh, the Ramayana ...
... company of those topmost four. So Sri Aurobindo's admiration for Dante could never have been of the extreme order. Though, among the world's epics, he put the Divine Comedy alongside of the Odyssey as least sinking in poetic quality throughout its great length, he could not but be aware of their difference in elemental creativity. And it is also this difference that should be one of the factors ...
... not have ranked among the dozen greatest; it is Page 22 Paradise Lost that gives him that place. There are deficiencies if not failures in almost all the great epics, the Odyssey and perhaps the Divina Commedia being the only exceptions, but still they are throughout in spite of them great epics. So too is Paradise Lost. The grandeur of his verse and language is constant ...
... down as his own daughter. Thus Aswapati's eighteen-year tapasya presented in Vyasa's brief narrative, already full of spiritual glow, becomes in Sri Aurobindo a glorious and laurel-crowned Odyssey of mounting the mighty steep World-Stair that rises from Matter's inconscient base to the splendours of the superconscient Spirit. He goes yet beyond, crossing the triple Glory. Even as he approaches ...
... the ray of that Truth. In the Vedas the Sun has been called the Lord of Truth, "...the rays of Surya are the herds of the Sun, the kine of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the enemy Vala, by the Panis ...' ,63 In modem imagery we would speak of the rays of Truth covered ...
... only three times in European literature before Milton a world-cry has emerged with an equal penetration from the picture of a limited and local situation. There is the sublime phrase in Homer's Odyssey: Zenos men pais ea Kronīonos autar oixun Eikhon apeiresien... This may be hexametricised in English: Son of Saturnine Zeus was I, yet have I suffered Infinite pain... ...
... Orpheus: A History of Religions, New York,1909 and 1930; Lynn Thorndike, Short History of Civilization, New York, 1926. 2 Homer, Iliad, translation by W. C. Bryant, Boston, I898' Homer, Odyssey, text and translation by A. T. Murray, Loeb Library. 3 Murray, G., Five stages of Greek Religion, Oxford, I930. 4 Harrison, G. E., Prolegomena to the Study of Greek Religion, Cambridge ...
... contains a great number of later interpolations. Dayananda Saraswati remarked that it resembles a camel to whose burden people kept adding.* Thus the epic is seven-fold greater in bulk than the Iliad and Odyssey taken together. Vyasa is said to have taught the poem to one of his pupils, Vaishampayana. Vaishampayana, in his turn, recited the epic to Janamejaya, grand-son of Abhimanyu. It would be ...
... with the beauty of their voices to better devour them when their vessels shipwrecked on their rocky islands. They were represented with the head and bust of a woman and the body of a bird. In the Odyssey, when Odysseus is about to leave Circe on whose island he and his companions have been stranded for a year, she warns him of the dangers ahead; "First thou shalt arrive where the enchanter sirens ...
... Surreal Science One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A brain by ...
... her husband for sacrificing their daughter in return for gaining fair winds for sailing. Most famous of the returning heroes is Odysseus, whose travels and eventual homecoming are recounted in the Odyssey, the other of Homer's two great epics. Page 52 Achilles: the archetypal Greek hero The Greek conception of a hero does not always run parallel to our modern or yogic conceptions ...
... additions, then, relate to Aswapati's Yoga in Part I (Books I-III) and Savitri's Yoga (Book VII). The piece d'resistance in the whole poem is Book II, with its fifteen cantos, in which Aswapati's 'odyssey' through the 'worlds' is described. In 1938 Sri Aurobindo took up the 'Worlds' seriously, and by 1946 "the small passage about Aswapati and the other worlds" became an enormous Book ...
... the Traveller of the Worlds), has a similar scheme, and can almost be detached from the rest of Savitri, though of course it is also integral to the total scheme of the epic. The occult-spiritual odyssey of Aswapati ends in the fourth canto of Book III (The Book of the Divine Mother), where he has the 'beatific vision' of the Mother who gives her consenting voice to his prayer on behalf of humanity ...
... 176 Nath, Rabindra, 179 Nath, Amba Nanda, 155 Nirodbaran, 188-9 Nepal , 254 Nishikanta, 195-6 Nripendrakrishna, 190-1 ODYSSEY, 22 PADMA,287 Palit, Labanya, 169 Panchatantra, 77 Panis, 272 Paraclete, 23 Parasurama, 148 Parvati, 152, 154 ...
... of remembering the past, remembering, that is to say, what is worth remembering, is to go into the psychic being, possess the psychic consciousness. There one has the whole panorama of the soul's odyssey revealed. Any other way leads only to imagination, conjecture and delusion. 2 The passage between death and the arrival at final rest in the psychic world is a most difficult and dangerous ordeal ...
... SCIENCE One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right ...
... touch of whimsy: One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right, A brain ...
... ss make the nerves morbid and excited.... It is the same with everything else"; 71 matra or measure is most important. The long hours of sleep are not all a period of 'rest' but make a nightly Odyssey for a brief return to Ithaca where Penelope is waiting, waiting, and in one letter Sri Aurobindo shows how modern medical theory corroborates occult-spiritual experiences: A long unbroken ...
... 730 Nivedita, Sister, 63, 221, 235, 266, 282, 287, 338-39, 346, 348, 359, 367, 368, 391 No Compromise, 190, 208 Norton, Eardley, 312, 313ff, 324, 326, 327, 343 Odyssey, 71 Okakura, Baron, 62 Olsson, Eva, 445 O'Malley, L.S.S.,11 Omar Khayyam, 415 O'Neill, Eugene, 640 Pal, Bepin Chandra, 201, 217, 218, 219, 221, 223, 235, ...
... Bidyapati; Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Volume 9 — The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART. Volume 10 — The Secret of the Veda: The Secret of the Veda; Selected Hymns; Hymns of the Atris; ...
... satirical terms: One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right. A ...
... From her "searching gaze mysticism shrank out-mystified." 1 One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet . . . A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light . . . A brain by a disordered stomach driven Thundered through Europe, conquered, ruled and ...
... over from one life to another, by organising its own evolution and development itself. 12 These are succinct accounts of what Sri Aurobindo calls tie "invisible process of soul evolution", the Odyssey of the stages of the Spirit. In the next talk, the Mother mentions the mastery of fire, the power of articulate speech and the faculty of writing as the three marks of man', superiority over the animal ...
... your children - It clouds your consciousness and spoils their character." VI In the meantime, the Mother's sadhana of the body was following its own unpredictable course. The whole odyssey is not known, and will never be known, for we have only random samplings in the records of some of her conversations with a disciple. Page 765 On 13 March 1968, the Mother had a very ...
... others. II The 29 March meeting between Sri Aurobindo and Mirra became a fresh start for both of them, although in a truer sense it was but a new phase of their preordained spiritual odyssey on the earth. Sri Aurobindo had realised, as he told Dilip Kumar Roy in 1924, that the transformation of a single individual was not enough; humanity had to ripen too, and be ready for the desired ...
... of the Reality creating a world, a plane, at every downward step. Man, the mental being, is transitional. He has yet to ascend to a Higher Consciousness beyond mind. This is the great spiritual Odyssey that is now to be consciously undertaken by man. If material science lays open before man a practically unlimited Page 50 field of adventure and research and experience ...
... and becomes the focal point of the fructifying fiat, so that the inital step of the intended departure may be securely and irrevocably taken, and a definite direction and lead given to the Godward Odyssey of mankind. Her individual noise in the material world is an imperative demand of the logic of physical transformation and divine life. Besides, the aim of the Integral Yoga being the supra- mental ...
... In the Mother's Light The Odyssey of the Psychic THE Mother has many interesting and unconventional things to say about rebirth. She dispels the obscurity which surrounds this important subject, exposes the fraud or self-deception of those who retail entertaining stories of past lives, and gives a clear account of what happens to the soul after it has departed ...
... seemed so utterly frivolous, but sometimes it is necessary to cast a bottle to the open sea. Yet, during these seven years – and who knows how many more? – I have kept a journal of that perilous Odyssey, as I felt the necessity to leave some traces. I call it my “Notebooks”; Notebooks of an Apocalypse . The Greeks knew, as did John of Patmos, that this famed “Apocalypse,” which has elicited so ...
... Sweetest, oldest, musicalest. If at end of forward striving These, Life's first, proved also best? 8 Far more ambitious is the translation of over 50 lines from Book I of the Odyssey. This was probably done several years later, when Sri Aurobindo was experimenting with quantitative metres, especially the Hexameter; and perhaps it should be studied along with the more ambitious ...
... before November 1912. He was working on Ilion at this time, but these lines do not seem to belong to that poem. Neither do they appear to be a translation of lines from the Iliad , the Odyssey or any other classical text. Sole in the meadows of Thebes . No title in the manuscript. 1913.Written on the same manuscript page as the following poem, at around the same time ...
... [ideas and] having mastered an idea works round it in a circle; the other [masters ideas] unerringly [........] but stumbles among facts and applications. The mind of the European is an Iliad or an Odyssey, fighting rudely but heroically forward, or, full of a rich curiosity, wandering as an accurate and vigorous observer in landlocked seas of thought; the mind of the Asiatic is a Ramayan or a Mahabharat ...
... reaches individually, in its own time according to its flow — some stagnate, are muddy or clear, some flow fast within the banks, yet some flood their banks and lose their way to return later. Each Odyssey is over only when all the streams reach The Ocean . ...
... Not So Great Bheeshmadev Chatterjee He ceased; but left so pleasing on the ear His voice, that listening still they seemed to hear. The Odyssey, Homer Bheeshmadev was known to many of us of the older lot of ashramites, but many probably never gave him a second thought, nor did know something about him. He was just another “one” of ...
... Divine; it is to manifest the perfection of the Divine in the world. He was looking for the one who would enable him to accomplish this unique task. That was the purpose of his long extraordinary odyssey described in 210 pages of the epic. These are the incredible experiences of Aswapati which become the foundation for the Divine to descend, to come as the power of grace to transform mortality. Aswapati ...
... sensibility. Homer possessed of a vision as wide as the world of his day, a sympathy as deep as the heart itself and a vast interpretative sense created, like a demiurge, in his Iliad and Odyssey, a world of his own: a whole human world of terror and pity and passion; the battlefield's blood-thirstiness, the tenderness of the heart, and the all-ruling majesty of calm, — a human world which ...
... and the Book of Browning with its 21,116 to the place of runner-up: in fact it is the longest in any European language old or new, with the exception of Nicos Kazantzakis's recently published Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, written originally in present-day Greek and running into 33,333 lines. Among epics which can be compared with it in general poetic quality, only the Shah Nameh, the Ramayana ...
... gods.—Empedocles. Body-Mind: tanū-manas . Page 22 Canto Twenty-One Into luminous emptiness he entered And even the world's yearning which he carried In his high-intended Odyssey disappeared. A potent universe without galaxies, Without streams, mountains, beasts or birds or men Withheld in its formlessness the epiphanic. Behind sachchidaananda was the quiescent ...
... The story is supposed to have taken place in what has been termed the 'heroic age' in which hot racial elements and nascent cultural trends are brought out boldly and simply. While in the Iliad, Odyssey and in the Niebelungenlied, the subject matter concerns a great fight which has stamped itself indelibly on the memory of the race, in Dante's The Divine Comedy there is no story at all in that ...
... which we are now subject. One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean’s brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and the eightfold Path all right … 19 “Western ...
... Indian epos Mahabharata , is one of the great creations of the human spirit, if not the greatest. Indeed, when compared with the most brilliant passages of the Gilgamesh epic, Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey , the works of the Greek tragedians, Dante’s Divina Commedia or the best of Shakespeare, the Gita soars above them all because of its philosophical and spiritual depth, its representative significance ...
... poets than Homer and Shakespeare, I was thinking of their essential poetic force and beauty—not of their work as a whole. The Mahabharata is a greater creation than the Iliad, the Ramayana than the Odyssey, and either reigns over a larger field than the whole dramatic world of Shakespeare—both are built on an almost cosmic greatness of plan and take all human life (the Mahabharata all human thought as ...
... SCIENCE One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. ____________ 1 Mr. Lal, for some reason, has a new name: One Dreamed and Saw. Page 150 A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal ...
... Greece and Rome. Ilion seems to present once for all the authentically inspired model in English of that august measure. A Homerophile like H. B. Cotterill might deem his own translation of the Odyssey a truer equivalent. But the equivalence goes a very little way in reality. The unstressed long syllable which Professor Gilbert Murray considers one of the characteristics of the ancient hexameter ...
... though their mental value is not as high. They appropriately follow on the heels of that with Rolland because next to being a natural artist Roy was a lover of India when he set out on his life's odyssey. In the minds of many people during the twenties and thirties Gandhi was a symbol of India, and our author's sympathy with him came all the easier for the latter's keen enjoyment of music. The ...
... other change he casts it in lines of beauty and in divine proportions; he deals with it as Phidias dealt with the human form when he wished to create a god in marble. When we read the Iliad and the Odyssey, we are not really upon this earth, but on the earth lifted into some plane of a greater dynamis of life, and so long as we remain there we have a greater vision in a more lustrous air and we feel ...
... Ring and the Book of Browning with its 21,116 to the place of runner-up: in fact it is the longest in any European language old or new, with the exception of Nicos Kazantzakis's recently published Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, written originally in present-day Greek and running into 33,333 lines. Among epics which can be compared with it in general poetic quality, only the Sh ā h-N ā meh, the R ā m ...
... and again on long comparisons which are complete pictures in their own right—small dramatic scenes inset into the main visual reconstruction: the Iliad contains 180 full-length similes and the Odyssey 40. Virgil, Dante and Milton also paint such pictures, but perhaps the best versions of the Homeric comparison outside Homer are in Matthew Arnold's blank-verse narratives—particularly his Sohrab ...
... last-named but it need not show itself openly. You can hardly trace image and symbol in the lines that occur to me at the moment from various literatures. I may start with that snatch from the Odyssey: Zenos men pais ea Kronlonos autar oixun Eikhon apeiresien, which I may approximate in English with: I was the child of Zeus Cronion, yet have I suffered Infinite pain. ...
... though not poetically inferior scale, Stephen Phillips conjuring up the story of Marpessa, Idas and Apollo? In our own day, Kazantzakis has written at a gigantic length (33,333 lines) a sequel to the Odyssey and in a form loosely reminiscent of Homer's. The only pertinent questions are: "Does the adopted form come alive and move with the true gait of poetry? Does the subject weave a significant design ...
... A subtilisation and elevation of the sheer physical on its own level, rather than a sweeping condensation of the pure spiritual without any loss, is the genius animating the Iliad and the Odyssey. The typical mark of the passages quoted from Sri Aurobindo is the general overhead atmosphere breathing one or another level beyond the mind, either distinctly or in combination, and everywhere ...
... though their mental value is not as high. They appropriately follow on the heels of that with Rolland because next to being a natural artist Roy was a lover of India when he set out on his life's odyssey. In the minds of many people during the twenties and thirties Gandhi was a symbol of India, and our author's sympathy with him came all the easier for the latter's keen enjoyment of music. The "Mahatma" ...
... rather than the wine-cup. But he refuses to draw any too sharp line between the Romantic writer and the Classical. "Romanticism," he 6 says, "is indeed as old as European literature - as old as the Odyssey. It is even older." He considers the legends of Greek mythology highly Romantic, nor does Greek Romanticism end for him with the fabulous and the fantastic in Homer: imagination breaks bounds ...
... Athens, where Socrates stayed for one month before his execution. 31 Sphettus and Cephisia were "demes" or parishes in Attica. 32 from a tree or from a rock: Odyssey XiX 163. This proverbial expression, implying "so you must have some parents" is used by Penelope in encouraging the disguised Odysseus to reveal his name and family. 33 sons: Lamprocles ...
... State prison at Athens, where Socrates stayed for one month before his execution. Sphettus and Cephisia were "demes" or parishes in Attica. from a tree or from a rock: Odyssey XiX 163. This proverbial expression, implying "so you must have some parents" is used by Penelope in encouraging the disguised Odysseus to reveal his name and family. sons: Lamprocles ...
... but the shadows". The Greek word alethes (true) carries an implication of genuineness, and some translators render it here as "real". 3. Or "more real". 4. Or "true", "genuine". 5. Odyssey, XI, 489. 6. I.e. the similes of the Sun and the Line. The detailed relations between the three similes have been much disputed, as has the meaning of the word here translated "connected". Some ...
... of remembering the past, remembering, that is to say, what is worth remembering, is to go into the psychic being, possess the psychic consciousness. There one has the whole panorama of the soul's odyssey revealed. Any other way leads only to imagination, conjecture and delusion. Page 64 II The passage between death and the arrival at final rest in the psychic world is a most ...
... The story is supposed to have taken place in what has been termed the 'heroic age' in which hot racial elements and nascent cultural trends are brought out boldly and simply. While in the 'Iliad', Odyssey and in the Niebelungenlied, the subject matter concerns a great fight which has stamped itself indelibly on the memory of the race, in Dante's Divine Comedy there is no story at all in that sense. ...
... Williams is very good too. Of the moderns, Ezra Pound and Nikos Kazantzakis challenge comparison with Sri Aurobindo as epic poets. I have therefore made an attempt to see both the Cantos and The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, in relation to Savitri. Last to be written was the first chapter on Sri Aurobindo's life and work: while writing it I was conscious of what I had already written in the later chapters ...
... Splendour (Hodder & Stoughton, London, 1954). Jones, Phyllis M. (Ed.) English Critical Essays, XX Century (Oxford University Press, London, 1933). Kazantzakis, Nikos. The Odyssey : A Modern Sequel, translated into English verse, with Introduction, Synopsis and Notes by Kimon Friar (Seeker & Warburg, London, 1958). Kellett, E.E. Reconsiderations (Cambridge University ...
... 468-471; claims of Savitri as a cosmic epic, 473-474; Paradise Lost compared to, 385; possible influence of other poets in, 386-387; Song of Myself 'and, 388-389; Cantos and, 389-394; The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel compared to, 403-408; the Mother's role in the writing of,415-416; the Commedia and, 416-420; The Life Divine and, 417; scheme of, 420; Urvasie and Love and Death compared ...
... necessary stage in the journey, but not the final one; one must pass that milestone too, and reach the beckoning goal of the Everlasting Yea. This neither Odysseus nor Kazantzakis does, and so The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel can only be called an incomplete or arrested revelation of the total cosmic drama. Neither in its total sweep of Space and Time nor in its insight into the real nature of the evolutionary ...
... Bande Mataram (Hymn to the Mother); thirteen chapters from Anandamath (Bankim Chandra Chatterji's novel); etc. From Tamil: 'opening of The Kural, etc. From Greek and Latin: opening of the Odyssey, etc. Page 413 Volume 9 The Future Poetry AND LETTERS ON POETRY, LITERATURE AND ART. Volume 10 The Secret of the Veda ...
... truly than any combat in a champclos the perennial strangeness, the adventurousness, and the sinuous forward movement of the inner life." 134 It is not true in all cases that an Odyssey is better than an Iliad, a Pilgrim's Progress better than a Holy War. Besides, as Dr E.M.W. Tillyard points out, by way of retort, "the pilgrimage subject encourages diffuseness and endless ...
... One dreamed and saw a gland write Hamlet, drink At the Mermaid, capture immortality; A committee of hormones on the Aegean's brink Composed the Iliad and the Odyssey. A thyroid, meditating almost nude Under the Bo-tree, saw the eternal Light And, rising from its mighty solitude, Spoke of the Wheel and eightfold Path all right ...
... this reflected the imponderables of the inner man, the granite strength of the Himalayas of his mind, the sheer infinitudes of his spirit? Born in Calcutta thirty-seven years earlier, his Odyssey ad covered many places, many climes: Darjeeling, Manchester, London, Cambridge, Baroda - and with the return to Calcutta in 1906, the wheel had come full circle. Chandernagore was almost a new start ...
... s and ordeals — I understand a lot of things now. November 6-7, 1981 Vision The crossing of the sewer. November 8, 1981 The second of the condemned man. Scenario: the Odyssey of a cell? November 10, 1981 Departure from Land's End. Exploration of Ceylon. November 23, 1981 End of Ceylon's exploration. Sujata: Kerala or Pacific? Decision: Kerala ...
... of peace, all the time (at Pondicherry) the opening chapter of The Life Divine and the other contributions were being set up and the proofs were being read, all the time Mirra continued her inner odyssey, her morning musings, and her mystic recordations. Thus on 1 July: We bow down before Thee, we unite with Thee, O Lord, in a love that is limitless and full of an inexpressible beatitude. ...
... mist presently lifted, and there was Light again. And so the metrical instruments constantly fashioned and refashioned to his purpose seem like the pointer-readings of Sri Aurobindo's spiritual odyssey during the years. In "Musa Spiritus", for example, he invoked the Descent from "the upper fire" to redeem and reclaim the "seals of Matter's sleep": All make tranquil, all make free. ...
... Divine Mother Consciousness. "The Yoga of the Soul's Release" is the subject of this Canto. Here for the first time it becomes clear that this great epic deals with the spiritual odyssey of the soul. The poet here openly discloses himself as the poet of divine life by beginning in this Canto the song of the soul's liberation. The whole poem becomes the song par excellence of man's ...
... be the truer Truth? Without viveka, without the power of right discrimination, the purblind race of miserable men must continue to take the false for true and the true for false, and forge whole odysseys of defeat for themselves. In another letter to Huta, dated 22 January, the Mother spells out this rule for sorting out Truth from all varieties of falsehood that may mask themselves: ...at the ...
... in the meantime further sensitised and perfected his own ā dh ā ra in the matter of invoking the supramental power to take root here on the earth. Mirra too, with her own background of occult odysseys and explorations, understood that they were no substitute for the spiritual power of the Supermind. The suspension or virtual abandonment of political and revolutionary activity on Sri Aurobindo's ...
... been moulding people's thought for ages. It is to little purpose to apply Aristotelean criteria to the structure or action or characters of these enormous poems; these are national epics, odysseys of the soul, reports of the Battle of Dharma, and the chief characters are not just human beings but apocalyptic projections of spiritual visions and psychic ecstasies. Great substance is wedded to ...
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