... would seem to be a logical continuation of the psychic life of old age. With increasing age, contemplation and reflection, the inner images naturally play an even greater part in man's life. "Your old men shall dream dreams." That to be sure presupposes that the psyches of the old men have not become wooden or entirely petrified. In old age one begins to let memories unroll before the mind's eye, and... human's being. "Out of quarrel with the world," wrote Yeats, "we make rheto-ric, out of quarrel with ourselves, we create poetry." Old age for Yeats was a "tin-can tied to a dog's tail". In a tiny unique poem, "Politics", he actualises the inner trauma and tension of old age: Page 338 How can I, that girl standing there, My attention fix On Roman or on Russian Or on... squeezings of temporal experience in different spatial locations, under normal circumstances, time is more or less uniform, in given situations, at least its effect is uniformly spaced. Time, decay, old age and death are real for all living beings, however varied be the response to them. Consider Corneille's famous observation: "Every moment of life is a step towards death." The decay of the ...
... leaves the Ashram Playground with a fresher face and a lighter step. "Watching her, day after day, we realise that more than mere words are what she once spoke oh old age. She said, in effect: 'The coming of old age is due to two suggestions. First, the general collective suggestion - people telling you that you are getting old and can't do one thing or another. There is also the individual... As an instance of logopoeia with phanopoeic touches, here is a fit offering from one past eighty to one approaching it: Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Still batter down the glory and form of youth And animal magnificent strong ease, To... needs such a vision. I hope it will be so. In closing this letter - 1 have not at this moment the time to go in detail into the many questions you raise - may I thank you for the lines about Old Age. Are they your lines or Sri Aurobindo's? 'Spirit, dallying with transience'. Yes indeed. But peace? When there is little time left we must strive the harder, don't you find? I shall never reach ...
... is the contribution of old age. With long experience comes wisdom, with wisdom knowledge—consciousness progressing gradually becomes settled understanding. It goes without saying, that simply age does not mean wisdom, similarly simply youth does not mean progress—that is, not always or everywhere. Bankim has said, "Are years only the measure of time?" So youth or old age cannot be judged merely... merely by years. It is seen that old age has come in youth, that youth is retained in old age,—such instances are not rare. Certainly you will remember the picture drawn by the Mother—the picture of the supramental boat. There the Mother could not find the well-known old people—all there were tender or young, the old could come there only by becoming young. But one should remember that supramental... supramental youth is the youth of rich and ripe consciousness. May be that is something higher than both youth and old age. Page 115 ...
... good laugh. After this Chandradeep used to correct my Hindi from time to time. Of course it hasn't made much difference! * We were talking about old age and death. Are old age and death in human life inevitable? Will they continue forever? Page 143 Dada remarked: How can I say that? Then the ideal of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Their... has existed forever so has the desire in human mind and heart to overcome and conquer it and gain immortality. This inner yearning in man, this dream itself is proof that one day man will conquer old age and death. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother's sadhana will one day bring its realisation. On this subject I wrote an article called In Pursuit of Immortality for the eighth year's commemorative volume... end, we have put ourselves in the hands of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to help us in every sphere of life and to solve by their direct intervention all our material problems, including disease, old age and death. We have learnt from them that there is a process by which we can reach our objective or at least make an effort to tackle this problem. They have told us that first of all we must ...
... What I Have Learnt From The Mother On Old Age and Death Question : Are old age and death in human life inevitable? Will they continue forever? Answer: How can I say that? Then the ideal of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo and Their sadhana will remain incomplete! What man has eternally dreamt, yearned for, thought of, has to one day become true. This has... has existed for ever so has the desire in human mind and heart to overcome and conquer it and gain immortality. This inner yearning in man, this dream itself is proof that one day man will conquer old age and death. Sri Aurobindo and Mother's Sadhana will one day bring its realisation. On this subject, I wrote an article called In Pursuit of Immortality for the eighth year commemorative volume of... our end, we have put ourselves in the hands of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo to help us in every sphere of life and to solve by their direct intervention all our material problems, including disease, old age and death. We have learnt from them that there is a process by which we can reach our objective or at least make an effort to tackle this problem. They have told us that first of all we must discover ...
... emotion, than in Milton's more clearly intellectual poetry. Look at those verses of Milton on old age, Michael's words to Adam: So may'st thou live; till, like ripe fruit, thou drop Into thy mother's lap, or be with ease Gathered, nor harshly plucked, for death mature. This is old age; but then thou must outlive Thy youth, thy strength, thy beauty, which will change To... melancholy damp of cold and dry, To weight thy spirits down, and last consume The balm of life. 11 Now listen to the lines on old age in Love and Death: Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Still batter down the glory and form of youth ... but lost to power and greatness. Not that Milton's passage is the least bit inferior in poetic quality, nor can we regret that Milton wrote it with the temper and style characteristic of his old age. All we can say is that if he had retained, more actively than he occasionally did, the earlier double-strained soul and manner - if he had kept as a regular element the glow and grace which his s ...
... old, aged, decrepit.. bent, drooping, pale, yellow, hard-hearted, cruel. hard, solid.. ripe, mature जरठः old age. जरण old, aged, decrepit.. digestive जरणः cummin seed जरणा old age, praise जरंड decayed, old जरण्या (Vedic) old age. जरत् old, aged, decrepit, an old man. जरती, जरतिका an old woman जरतः an old man .. a buffalo... decrepitude .. digestion praise, invoking जरायु slough.. outer skin of embryo .. afterbirth uterus, womb. जरित old, decayed. जरिन् old .. an old man. जरिमन् Vd. old age, decrepitude जरूथं flesh. जरूध speaking harshly. जर्णः old, decayed.. the moon.. a tree. जर्तुः vulva .. an elephant. जूर् to hurt, injure, kill .. be angry... vacillate; hesitate, be cowardly, indolent, lax, soft, disconcerted, afflicted. taḷarchchi cowardice, idleness, relaxation, slowness; softness, flaccidity, languor, weakness, meagreness, distress; old age. taḷarttu vb. tr. to relax, loosen, undo, disband, soften, weaken. taḷarvu relaxation, tottering, decay, softening, weakness, nonchalance, loss of vigour. taḷḷamáṛu vb. to totter ...
... nothing is more fleeting than the years, but he who sows virtue reaps honour. In youth acquire that which may restore the damage of old age; and if you are mindful that old age had wisdom for its food, you will so exert yourself in youth, that your old age will not lack sustenance. While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. To the ambitious, whom... synthesize his vast talents, the results were so stupendous that they remain timeless inspirations in the search for an integral aim of life. Page 199 Auto-Portrait of Leonardo in old age Notes 1. Andrea del Verrocchio (1435-1488) was and outstanding and widely talented artist. He directed the most important workshop in Florence during Leonardo's youth. His most famous... age, thou destroyest all things and devourest all things with the hard teeth of the years little by little, in slow death. Helen, when she looked in her mirror and saw the withered wrinkles which old age had made in her face Page 202 wept and wondered why she had twice been carried away. 0 Time, consumer of all things! 0 envious age, whereby all things are consumed! ...The miserable ...
... falsehood means decay. The vital is already fairly obscure, but the body is full of falsehood. Old age and illnesses are among its most prominent falsehoods; how could what is True become old, ugly, worn-out, or ill? Truth is so obviously radiant, beautiful, luminous, and eternal. Truth is invincible. Death and old age can only attain us because of our lack of Truth. Admittedly, Death is wise for a long... other way, we can only give thanks and thanks again, and say Yes and Yes again. And we must be capable of both. Thus, the battle against the "falsehoods of the body" – illness, unconsciousness, old age – can only proceed after the transformation of the higher mental and vital levels has been secured, when the rest of the being lives in Truth and is settled in Truth. It would be a great error to presume... wearisome, deceitful little vibrations in which our cells constantly live. It would be tedious, as tedious as the work itself, to describe the countless tiny falsehoods of the body through which old age, disease, and death manage to creep in. To do each thing in the true way , as the Mother says, while there are so many false ways of doing the slightest daily gesture. To give an example, this is ...
... relatives, and stopped with them for a few days. This high-souled patriarch, Rishi Rajnarayan Bose, a pioneer nationalist and religious and social reformer of Bengal, was then passing his old age in the peaceful retreat of Deoghar. Sri Aurobindo must have felt a great affinity with him. "Rajnarayan Bose", as Bepin Chandra Pal says, - and no views carry more weight than this political stalwart's... three acquit- tals, predicted also that though death was prefixed for me in my horoscope at the age of sixty-three, I would prolong my life by Yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age." — Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on The Mother. "Khasirao Jadav's father died according to the exact date and moment found out by an astrologer." — Nirod's Notes. "Astrology? Many a... frustrate fate. Moreover, the stars often indicate several fate-possibilities; for example that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from ...
... freed from the jaws of death, his annoyance will go, he will have good sleep at night." Nachiketas went on, "It is said: there is no fear in heaven, you too are not there, nor is there the dread of old age, people live in great joy when, after crossing beyond both hunger and thirst and passing to the other shore of sorrow, they come to heaven. O Death, you know about that heavenly Fire, speak to me about... boon. The fruit of this knowledge, the gain it brings has been described. It is the winning of the heavenly world where one enjoys immortality; it is a world of delight where death itself is not, nor old age and fear and sorrow, nor hunger and thirst. And what is this Fire? Fire is the Origin of the worlds, the realms of Infinity; in Its very nature Fire is the Beginning and the Infinite, Immortality... interpretation, before succumbing to death. Nachiketas himself had achieved this feat. The heavenly world has been conceived as just another neighbourhood or abode, a world of delight where there is no old age, death, or sorrow and suffering. But it does not imply any victory gained in a battle with death, any mastery obtained over death. All that seems to happen here is that death has been pushed aside ...
... from the jaws of death, his annoyance will go, he will have good sleep at night." Nachiketas went on, "It is said: there is no fear in heaven, you too are not there, nor is there the dread of old age, people live in great joy when, after crossing beyond both hunger and thirst and passing to the other shore of sorrow, they come to heaven. O Death, you know about that heavenly Fire, speak to me about... boon. The fruit of this knowledge, the gain it brings has been described. It is the winning of the heavenly world where one enjoys immortality; it is a world of delight where death itself is not, nor old age and fear and sorrow, nor hunger and thirst. And what is this Fire? Fire is the Origin of the worlds, the realms of Infinity; in Its very nature Fire is the Beginning and the Infinite, Immortality... interpretation, before succumbing to death. Nachiketas himself had achieved this feat. The heavenly world has been conceived as just another neighbourhood or abode, a world of delight where there is no old age, death, or sorrow and suffering. But it does not imply any victory gained in a battle with death, any mastery obtained over death. All that seems to happen here is that death has been pushed aside ...
... it difficult even to take a sip of fruit juice, that she had serious heart problems and a lot more symptoms here and there in her body, well yes, that is how things are when somebody reaches a very old age, isn’t it? ‘I think — I don’t know, but this seems to be the very first time — that the instrument [she herself in her incarnation], instead of having been made to bring the “Good News,” the “Revelation... to cause the illumination, has been made to try out the realization: to do the work, the hidden labour.’ 64 According to her the advanced phases of the transformation were happening at such an old age to make her physical perils look normal to the others. The people are therefore convinced that I am always dozing, that I can’t hear any more, and so on, and of course I can hardly speak anymore —... because she saw her outward deterioration reflected in the consciousness of the persons present, she reminded them from time to time, with sweet irony, that her consciousness had not deteriorated: ‘This old age is purely physical … but from the standpoint of the perception, of the consciousness, there is no diminution; on the contrary, it is becoming ever more clear and ever more accurate.’ 82 And finally ...
... wind blows, Far-off, most secret, and inviolate Rose? Or take his blank verse: For life moves out of a red flare of dreams Into a common light of common hours Until old age bring the red flare again. A glide-anapaest is frequent in his blank verse as an aid to his Page 16 most artistic effects: A sweet, miraculous, terrifying sound... sad Rose of all my days" were such as no one before had breathed on the world's ear. Was the Early Yeats Decadent? It is most superficial to see, as Yeats himself did in his old age and some apostles of modernism do, an anaemic decadence in that verse. No doubt the languid aestheticism of the 1890s creeps into it here and there; a weakening and blurring influence is at times caught... depth as in Sailing to Byzantium ; but how far is this from the swinging wide of secret gates into a land where myth and faery and deific dream have a poignant superlife! Not that Yeats in old age stopped being occult and mystical. He aimed at an expression of the whole man — realist and romantic, flesh and spirit, intellect and intuition. His splendid aim got splendidly accomplished — but ...
... has been steadily diminishing, though it is not yet nil the hair is now exceedingly thin, shot with grey & threatening baldness above the temples. These signs of old age show no promise of reversal or dissolution." 'Signs of old age,' when he had just turned forty! Well, anyway, six months later, on 16June 1913, he was pleased to see that "the effusion of beard has been resumed after a very long... process & the bone still resists the alteration of status; still the figure has definitely changed, & in the colour, hair, feet, etc. there are slight but effective alterations. Some of the signs of old age, eg grey hairs, although no longer visibly increasing, still resist ejection." So it went on over the years. Purani had seen the result. Impressive though it was, it was but one aspect of his ...
... such sweet store." He ceased with a strange doubtful look. But swift Came back the lover's voice, like passionate rain. "O idle words! For what is mere sunlight? Who would live on into extreme old age, Burden the impatient world, a weary old man, And look back on a selfish time ill-spent Exacting out of prodigal great life Small separate pleasures like an usurer, And no rich sacrifice and no... Is stronger, nor may law of Hell or Heaven Its fierce effectual action supersede. Thy dead I yield. Yet thou bethink thee, mortal, Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Page 137 Still batter down the glory and form of youth And animal magnificent strong ease, To ...
... Questions and Answers (1929-1931) Old Age Why this joy, this gladness, when the world is forever burning? O you who are enveloped in shadows, why do you not seek the light? See then this poor decorated form, this mass of corruptible elements, of infirmities and vain desires in which nothing is lasting or stable. ... shattered bows; they grieve for their lost strength. There is one thing certain which is not clearly stated here, but which is at least as important as all the rest. It is this, that there is an old age much more dangerous and much more real than the amassing of years: the incapacity to grow and progress. As soon as you stop advancing, as soon as you stop progressing, as soon as you cease to better ...
... the Ashram Playground with a fresher face and a brisker step. Watching her, day after day, we realised that more than mere words were what she had once spoken on old age. She had said, in effect: "The coming of old age is due to two suggestions. First, the general collective suggestion - people telling you that you are getting old and can't do one thing or another. There is also ...
... escaped from or accepted in an endless series: in both cases no birth could be such as to allow absolute perfection of the mind-life-body formation. Disease and decay and deathwards-progressing old age were always inevitable: even the hathayogis who commanded extra-ordinary powers of reinforcing the ageing physical system by subtle vita) energy never claimed even as a possibility a complete... power. No so-called natural law or necessity should compel this body to suffer disease and grow aged and finally die or remain open to accident and be a victim to "crass casualty". Disease and old age and the death consequent upon them or due to sudden violent circumstance are a stamp of undivinity - they are in the body what ignorance and falsehood and obscuration are in our mental and vital ...
... happens?... This poet is an absolutist: he makes his position independent of this or that reason. He will feel and love and declare the Divine Presence in joy and sorrow, light and shadow, youth and old age, life and death. Now listen: I build Thee not on golden dreams Nor on the wide world's winsomeness; Deeper than all I set my love — A faith that is foundationless! Not only where... present secretly in all parts of the earth. The two closing lines of this stanza apply to the process of time what has been just applied to the extension of space: all periods of one's life, even old age with its infirmities, become full of the Divine's contact, the Divine's gracious action. From "the wounds of age" as "sweet enemies" the transition is made by imaginative logic to the idea of death ...
... beauty and mystery than the alliterative phrase in the poem where a young woman is told that if she remains a child of nature, grey hairs will never sadden her, Page 223 But an old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Wordsworth is particularly felicitous with names of places. As faultlessly used for poetic effect... witticism like James Stephens's apropos of the famous line in the Immortality Ode — Heaven lies about us in our infancy — "That is no reason why we should lie about Heaven in our old age." But it is impossible to take seriously any detraction of Wordsworth's far-reaching spiritual quality. He was the first Seer in English poetic literature, answering in however limited a measure to ...
... compared with Milton's born hand for it. His style too has been called Miltonic. But if we accept the term it must be with no thought-saving looseness. For, Milton who produced Paradise Lost in his old age produced also Comus in his twenty-seventh year: the styles of the two are not precisely the same. Indeed Paradise Lost is one of the world's greatest poetic achievements, yet Comus has a flexibility... —namely, Love and Death, the most finished among his early works in blank verse—holds in its short span of about a thousand lines a snatch of the power and amplitude found in the colossus of Milton's old age and also a delicate plastic splendour reminiscent of Comus. The fusion of the early Milton with the late : this may be taken in general to characterise at its best the blank verse of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... Sonnets can be found to tell us: 1. Shakespeare's idea of the number of years making up the full span of life. 2. The year at which, according to him, old age begins. 3. The year at which, according to him, old age is markedly established. 4. The several stages of advanced age at which he was composing the Sonnets. 5. To what years in his life these stages may be ...
... The Secret Splendour O This Old Age.. O this old age that makes a mockery Of Helen and Troy's fire a waste of love To Menelaus's blurred and bounded eye! Alone the poet's will—"Tine shall not move When once the flawless note is struck"—keeps bright The Swan-sired face and the reddening topless towers. Nought save his reverie ...
... activity ceases in the organism, turning it into non-living stuff. As X. Bichat has so graphically described the onset of the process of natural death: "In the death which is the effect of old age all the functions cease, because they have been successively extinguished. The vital powers abandon each organ by degrees; digestion languishes, the secretions and absorptions are finished; the ... exhibits a tendency towards flocculation. This is the colloidal theory of ageing. (A. Lumière, Marinesco) (9)A progressive induration and ossification taking place in the body are the causes of old age and natural death. (Homer Bostwick, De Lacy Evans) Page 392 (10)The intestinal contents are supposed to be full of millions of types of micro-organisms secreting toxins or poisons ...
... the precise knowledge. ( silence ) It may come... if I am given the time. Oh, it's people's thoughts that are so annoying! Everybody, everybody is constantly thinking about old age and death, and death and old age and illness... oh, they're such a nuisance! Me, I never think of it. That's not the question. The difficulty lies in the Work itself; it doesn't depend on a certain number of years ...
... the speech of Classicism had been essayed: there was even a pressure towards something more than mind, a pressure which we feel best perhaps in Vaughan whose life (1622-95) overlapped with Donne's old age as well as much of Milton's career. But in Milton we have both the liberation and the consummation of the mind's native tongue; for, in Sri Aurobindo's words, Paradise Lost "is the one supreme... overhead complexion, but this rhythm loses something of its sovereign right because there are no depths of sense behind it. It conveys nothing but the noble and dignified pathos of the blindness and old age of a great personality fallen into evil days." 1 Not that Sri Aurobindo altogether denies to Milton the substance and the expression making the large lingering _____________ 1 Ibid ...
... who left the Ashram Playground with a fresher face and a brisker step. Watching her, day after day, we realised that more than mere words were what she had once spoken on old age. She had said, in effect: "The coming of old age is due to two suggestions. First, the general collective suggestion—people telling you that you are getting old and can't do one thing or another. There is also the individual ...
... first message, known as the Dhammacakkappavattanasutta, "Setting in Motion the Wheel of Truth ".from which here is an extract: Now this, 0 monks, is the noble truth of pain: birth is painful, old age is painful, sickness is painful, death is painful. Contact with unpleasant things is painful, separation from pleasant things is painful and not getting what one wishes is also painful. In short the... ignorance of the supreme Truth. The Ego If a man holds himself dear, let him guard himself closely. The sage should watch through one of the three vigils of his existence (youth, maturity, or old age). One should begin by establishing oneself in the right path; then, one will be able to advise others. Thus the sage is above all reproach. If one puts into practice what he teaches to others ...
... chasing deer to get one into his trap. On other it is again I who must go to the market and buy it from him for a thousand rupees. In this old age I spend t running after deer. I can't go on like this anymore, t my work in heaven is also piling up. In this old age I spend my nights chasing deer from forest to forest. Please find a solution to this.' The minister replied: 'Don't be a spoilsport ...
... our deceptions, our treachery. With all Page 322 these we were throwing lots of mud upon her and she had to fight on two fronts. On one side she had to fight the onset of decay and old age and on the other she was fighting against this dirt that we were constantly throwing upon her. But I hold the failing body more responsible for what happened. Often I saw that she would try to counter... long to do this tapasya. I was very eager to know that mantra. Page 343 Then on growing up a little, I came to know that Buddha did tapasya in order to conquer disease, suffering, old age and death and after achieving Nirvana he attained his goal. But even at such a young age my mind just wouldn't accept that what he achieved could really be 'everything. I had the feeling that what ...
... common. SATYENDRA: I have also come in contact with Yogis who have lived up to an old age. One was about a hundred and two years old. He died a few years after I saw him and another died at eighty or so. That was also one or two years after my contact. SRI AUROBINDO: How is it that people who have lived up to an old age died soon after you have come in contact with them? Brahmanand who is said to have ...
... "pure," if one dare say so. And Mother was beginning to face the great problem: Oh, it's people's thoughts that are so annoying! Everybody, everybody is constantly thinking about old age and death, and death and old age and illness... oh, they're such a nuisance! 24 We do not realize it, but a thought of death is death. We are as unaware of the real movement of forces as a primate of the Paleocene ...
... after the other, each one bringing her "his quantum of disorder" and semiconscious thoughts: "Mother is going daft, Mother is getting unhinged, Mother is ill, Mother...." And each time it was as if old age and illness entered her body—it was all quickened in her body, it was part of the thousands of hypnotisms that had to be torn out, torn out of this substance. And then the suggestions of hostile voices:... current is caught or reflected in. You become a stone, a flower, a bottle of mouthwash. Instead of being caught in a body, your own body, you get caught by (or in) everything that goes by. You are the old age of one who thinks of you as old; you feel yourself die in a thought of death. These are all the little "flash-illnesses" which Mother went through constantly. Indeed, it is not a fuzzy state; it is ...
... turned into gold now.'" He "predicted also that though death was prefixed for me in my horoscope at the age of 63, I would prolong my life by Yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age." Sri Aurobindo did exactly that. Sri Aurobindo mentioned that plenty of people can prophesy and that that capacity is very common among Yogis. "When I was arrested," said Sri Aurobindo, "my maternal... indicators.... Moreover, the stars often indicate several fate-possibilities; for example that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age." He was, it would seem, referring to his own case! "Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a Page 107 certain ...
... seen mysticism in its cosmic aspect as well as in its transcendental, we have still not said the last word about Sri Aurobindo. There is yet another aspect - the individual - rendering the concept of old age inapplicable to his seventy-two years. And here he brings a mystical achievement that goes further than any spirituality known in the past. Our universe is not merely the occult omnipresence of the... his philosophy is born from his experience. By mystical realisation he moves ahead of mysticism's glorious past to the most golden lustre our time-process can enjoy - a future in which his so-called old age will prove a prelude to a radiant renovation of the physical cells in a manner we can scarcely imagine. Sri Aurobindo, therefore, is not only unlike a non-mystic advanced in years; he is also ...
... brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth, beauty," — that is all Ye know on... such that it shall survive the generation to which Keats belongs. The expression is somewhat similar to the line in the Ode to a Nightingale: No hungry generations tread thee down... When old age will take Keats's contemporaries to death, the Urn will stay unchanged. Free from precarious and frustrating life, it is free from all woe. Amidst the woe of Keats's time it stands as a Page ...
... I know that beauty and richness are present in life - yet is it not true that they are being constantly assaulted and that life ends not with beauty and richness but with ugliness and impotence, old age and death, the decrepitude of the body and the ultimate decline into dust? There is here no permanence of beauty, no continuance of richness. Although they come and cast a radiance over us, their ... themselves. If through privation we could attain to plenitude and, after suffering and frailty, reach happiness and strength on earth, then the earth-process would be a praiseworthy phenomenon. If old age and death, if the dropping of the flame of life were not the tragic finale, then Time would not be the ghastly gap that it is. All our splendours are made of fragile stuff: they carry within them ...
... the speech of Classicism had been essayed: there was even a pressure towards something more than mind, a pressure which we feel best perhaps in Vaughan whose life (1622-95) overlapped with Donne's old age as well as much of Milton's career. But in Milton we have both the liberation and the consummation of the mind's native tongue; for, in Sri Aurobindo's words, Paradise Lost "is the one supreme fruit... overhead complexion, but this rhythm loses something of its sovereign right because there are no depths of sense behind it. It conveys nothing but the noble and dignified pathos of the blindness and old age of a great personality fallen into evil days." 15 Not that Sri Aurobindo altogether denies to Milton the substance and the expression making the large lingering rhythm exercise its sovereign ...
... to write would be one that the world would not willingly let die. But he felt unprepared to venture his wings at once, nor had the right subject dawned on him. Through the years that led up to his old age he cast about for a suitable theme and was not sure whether he would produce an epic or a tragic drama. In the meantime he set himself to the task of building his own intellect and character. For,... Latin an elegy on the death of his friend Charles Diodati which nearly equals in poetic excellence the elegy over his friend Edward King's death, the marvellous Lycidas. So if in his steel-tempered old age he were to write Paradise Lost in Latin he was certain to produce a work which might stand on a level with Virgil's Aeneid and Lucretius's De Natura Rerum. Besides, the whole of Europe would ...
... the value of the transformation, if it is a change to something equally or more conscious and luminous. Well, don't you know that old men sometimes get a new or third set of teeth in their old age? And if monkey glands can renew Page 311 functionings and forces and can make hair grow on a bald head, as Voronoff has proved by living examples,—well? And mark that Science is only at... tired of life; they die because they must, not because they want to—at least, that is true of the vital; it is only a minority that tire of life and for many of these it is due to the discomforts of old age, continued ill-health, misfortune. Supposing a consciousness descended in the body that got rid of these discomforts, would people get tired of life in the same way merely because of its Page 314 ...
... You might think Words-worth was rather a contrast to Hugo. We have been accustomed to picture him as a sedate and philosophic solitary of Nature. But we must not allow our notion of him in middle or old age to colour or discolour the reality of him in his youth. Wordsworth learned his lesson in Romanticism not in England but in France. He was there just after the outbreak of the Revolution and had already... with any political party but with a very young person. Himself very young, he seems to have mixed up Romanticism with Romance. Some years ago it was discovered that the Archbishop-like Wordsworth of old age had in his youth a love-affair with a French girl named Annette Vallon and, just as Rousseau was the father of Anglo-French Romanticism, Wordsworth the Romanticist was the father of an Anglo-French ...
... Sri Aurobindo's social and political thought. I have just realised where I got the wrong idea that this was a centenary year -the book is a centenary volume, but that was, as you say, 1972. Such is old age (you see I am using that good excuse!). I never thought of maya in a negative sense; as I suppose the Buddhists do. Rather I see this world as a perpetual epiphany - theophany. Not to see it... course do 1 suppose you did, nor polo I imagine! My father too loved horses dearly, though he never placed a bet in his long life. To return to the loss of three quarters, one does, I find, in old age, become more aware of surrounding presences beyond the visible and audible spectrum. Often a friend - or my daughter - will telephone just as I was about to do so, or a letter come - nothing so concrete ...
... quiet undenied demand Of heart insisting upon heart..." Or take this burst of sublime language, like fierce rain: "For what is mere sunlight? Who would live on into extreme old age, 1 The "imaginative alchemy" of the still earlier published but unknown Urvasie, which has greater length than either of these, has been dealt with in some detail in the first part of The... Ruru when that impetuous boy offers half his life as a sacrifice to recover the snake-bitten, prematurely lost Priyumvada: "Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Still batter down the glory and form of youth And animal magnificent strong ease, To ...
... Then you have rather to make an effort to stop meditating...." Equally felicitous and striking, with a flash of originality that goes to the heart of the theme, is the opening passage on Old Age: "Old age does not come with a great number of years, but with the incapacity or Page 172 refusal to continue to grow and to progress. As soon as one wishes to ...
... doubt. March 18, 1935 K's case seems more like dengue than measles, for all symptoms are against measles. It can't be measles in that case. S's case could be a mild apoplexy from old age due to arterial degeneration, though no definite physical signs are evident. Certainly there was no arterial haemorrhage. S denies any congestion of brain—he says there was no giddiness, but describes... the supramental really make immortal a tottering old man, with all his anatomy and physiology pathological? Well, don't you know that old men sometimes get a new or third set of teeth in their old age? And if monkey glands can renew functionings and forces and even make hair grow on a bald head, as Voronoff has proved by living examples,—well? And mark that Science is only at the beginning of these ...
... examined with reference to his age which represents the state of his body depending upon the length of the time that has passed since birth. Age is broadly of three types, viz. young age, middle age and old age. Young age is again of two types, viz. (i) immature stage lasting upto 16th year of age and (ii) maturing stage lasting upto the 30th year of age. During immature stage various organs of the body... energy, manliness and valour, power of understanding, retention, memorizing, speech and analyzing facts and the qualities of all dhatus; there is the dominance of pittadosa. Thereafter during old age lasting upto 100th year of age, there is diminution of the dhatus (tissue elements), strength of sense organs, energy, manliness, valour, power of understanding, retention, memorizing, speech and ...
... of infancy, adolescence, youth and old age? While confronting changes, we do not indulge in any ado or lamentation. Then, why in the case of the last change death, we make so much row and give vent to sorrow and fear? The other side may possibly promptly retort: "The answer is simple and obvious. While undergoing the changes of adolescence, youth and old age, the continuity of my personal c ...
... down to earth. Well, it was from Chinmoy that I got the courage or the foolhardiness for an attempt of this kind. This has been of great help to me. But there was a considerable resistance born of old age, even though we are here precisely to get rid of that. The resistance comes from two sources. It is there first of all in your own individual consciousness; you have heard of the adage about getting... possibility of any kind of voluntary training. Their bodies grow and the muscles develop, naturally and inevitably, as they grow in years. And they decline as naturally and inevitably with the coming of old' age. You know the story of the animal in the fable who had lost its power to bite and scratch, galita-nakha-dantah. Man alone of all terrestrial creatures has the capacity of over-passing the limits ...
... cycle for him. He used to give me the very best. And if he disliked anyone then he would tear up the chit, even though it was from Mother, saying: "No, you can't have a cycle, go away." Even old age did not improve his short temper. He could get into a quarrel with almost anyone. One day Sudhir-da came and told me: "Just look! While marching in the evening I broke my finger trying to punch... to show off various kinds of riding tricks without holding the handlebar. Even when he grew old he used to try all sorts of tricks on his cycle and suffered many a tumble as a result. In his old age his reason was a little impaired and his health declined. So his brother and sister-in-law wanted to take him to their place. But Benjamin would not go saying: "I've lived in the Ashram. I shall ...
... know that life in plant, in animal, and man is the same thing; birth, growth, and decay are taking place in all the realms of life. In the plant also, you see childhood, growth, and then maturity and old age. Throughout the unending thread of life, infinite rungs of the ladder of life, you find the common characteristics running. The plant has in itself the essence of the force of life, and that is why... birth, growth, and decay, and also propagation of the seed, maintained by nourishment from outside. Nourishment from outside, dependence on food from outside, sleep and waking, infancy, maturity and old age, all these are characteristics of all forms of life. Infinitely varied though they might be in their expression, still the common processes are seen easily by our mind. Life that is involved, in matter ...
... dread predicament "Either - Or". In vain Yama tries to persuade Ruru to give up Priyumvada, in vain he expatiates on the privileges of old age: Yet thou bethink thee, mortal, , Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Still batter down the glory and form ...
... well I understand Sri Aurobindo who passed over to the other side. 62.132 It's peoples' thoughts that are so annoying, oh!... Everybody, everybody is constantly thinking about old age and death, and death and old age and illness, oh! But, truly, I did not fathom the depth or the extent of the negation: 69.105 There are minutes when the body feels it has escaped that law of death. But it ...
... commands the investiture of his son. For it is the last & crowning misfortune that the weary old man must bear; the master over whose youth & greatness he has watched, for whose sake he serves in his old age, with the events of whose reign all the memories of his life are bound up, is about to depart and a youthful stranger will sit in his place. With that change all meaning must go out of the old man's ...
... is passing away, ideals that have lost their charm, methods that have been found to be futile, an energy and hope once buoyant and full of life but which now live on only in a wearied and decrepit old age phantomlike, still babbling exploded generalities and dead formulas. The other comes with his face to the morning, a giant of strength and courage bearing on his unbowed shoulders the mighty burden ...
... the way to rise above the lower nature. Only so can we attain to the movement and status of the Divine, mad-bhāva , by which free from subjection to birth and death and their concomitants, decay, old age and suffering, the liberated soul shall enjoy in the end immortality and all that is eternal. But what, asks Arjuna, are the signs of such a man, what his action and how is he said even in action ...
... Thou art a river with a hundred branching streams, O Lord of Grace, in thee may I wash me clean. Swaha! As the waters of a river pour down the steep, as the months of the year hasten to the old age of days, O Lord that cherisheth, so may the Brahmacharins come to me from all the regions. Swaha! O Lord, thou art my neighbour, thou dwellest very near me. Come to me, be my light and sun. ...
... 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 showing no signs of old age except white beard and hair, extremely tall, robust, able to walk any number of miles a day and tiring out his younger disciples, walking too so swiftly that they tended to fall behind, a great head ...
... And Dr. [name] also has some ideas for replacing prisons (because we don't have prisons and you can't dump all the dishonest people on the rest of India! that wouldn't be right) Prisons and old-age "homes" would have to be replaced by something else.... That is being looked into. They've found something. It's going to be very interesting! And one last thing: a place where all the children ...
... me and my three acquittals, predicted also that though death was prefixed for me in my horoscope at the age of 63, I would prolong my life by Yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age. In fact I have got rid by Yogic pressure of a number of chronic maladies that had got settled in my body, reduced others to a vanishing minimum, brought about steadily progressing diminution of two ...
... frustrate fate. Moreover the stars often indicate several fate-possibilities; for example that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from ...
... in return. If you remain as silent as a broken gong, you have already entered Nirvana, for violence no longer abides in you. As the cowherd, with his stick, drives the herd to pasture, so old age and death drive the life out of all living beings. The fool does evil without knowing it; he is consumed and tormented by his actions as by a fire. One who does harm to one who does none ...
... enough to avoid too many difficulties in life, to marry someone who won't give you too much trouble, to have healthy children who grow up normally—again to avoid trouble—and then a quiet and happy old age, and not be too ill, again to avoid trouble. And then to pass away when one is tired of life, again because one does not want any trouble. Page 57 Indeed, this is the most widespread ideal ...
... feelings: suddenly you become aware that you have feelings which are not very desirable; then you realise you have not controlled your way of thinking at all. 25 April 1958 There is an old age much more dangerous and much more real than the amassing of years: the incapacity to grow and progress. As soon as you stop advancing, as soon as you stop progressing, as soon as you cease to better ...
... easily imagine the consequences of this power to draw at will and in all circumstances on the boundless source of an energy that is all-powerful in its luminous purity. Weariness, exhaustion, illness, old age and even death become mere obstacles on the way, which a persistent will is sure to overcome. Bulletin, August 1949 Page 262 ...
... but on the capacity to grow and progress. To grow is to increase one's potentialities, one's capacities; to progress is to make constantly more perfect the capacities that one already possesses. Old age does not come from a great number of years but from the incapacity or the refusal to continue to grow and progress. I have known old people of twenty and young people of seventy. As soon as one wants ...
... by many thousands of years than the West, but a greater length of years does not necessarily imply a more advanced age. The years which would mean only childhood to a long-lived species would bring old age and death to more ephemeral stocks. Asia is long-lived, Europe brief and ephemeral. Asia is in everything hugely-mapped, immense and grandiose in its motions, and its life-periods are measured accordingly ...
... overhead complexion, but this rhythm loses something of its sovereign right because there are no depths of sense behind it. It conveys nothing but the noble and dignified pathos of the blindness and old age of a great personality fallen into evil days. Milton's architecture of thought and verse is high and powerful and massive, but there are usually no subtle echoes there, no deep chambers: the occult ...
... outworks of the physical system, but this process is still in its initial stages. Only saundarya is slow to manifest; it does not yet succeed in getting rid of its positive contradictions, the signs of old age etc. The saundarya once in motion and the equipment to hand, the whole siddhi will be in simultaneous successful movement. 28 January 1913 Nothing definite today in the telegrams, except the ...
... the worker & fighter to raise him up to immortality. Cf IV.1.1. देवमरतिं न्येरिरे .. मर्त्येष्वा देवं जनत प्रचेतसं. जीराश्वः. जृ has three senses, 1) rapidity, 2) waste, destruction as in जरा old age, and 3) enjoyment, love, adoration as in जारः, जरिता. Sayana's rendering. The Bhrigus serving him held him in the meeting place of the waters (antariksha) in the people (the Ritwiks) of the man ...
... language. "God, the eternal being-in-itself, is, one might say, everywhere in process of formation for us." 21 These are words of Teilhard's at almost the start of his career. They are echoed in his old age: "God for himself ever complete and yet for us ever and endlessly being born." 22 The full implication of such statements should take Teilhard alongside Sri Aurobindo, and here and there we do find ...
... legends penned For solace by dim light of monkish lamps; Fictions, for ladies of their love, devised By youthful squires; adventures endless, spun By the dismantled warrior in old age, Out of the bowels of those very schemes In which his youth did first extravagate; These spread like day, and something in the shape Of these will live till man shall be no more ...
... thoroughly deserved. Never has the great oratorical gift with which Srijut Surendranath is so splendidly endowed, been displayed to such faultless advantage as in these the crowning efforts of his old age. The usual defect of his oratory, an excess of language and rhetoric over substantial force, a defect which also limited Gladstone's oratory and made it the glory of an hour instead of an abiding ...
... has laid down for May in the physical siddhi (May 5) (1) primary utthapana, to be pressed steadily and laid down in the base; (2) a distinct general advance in arogya; (3) a struggle with old age and asaundarya; (4) a complete fivefold physical ananda. All these necessarily to be only an initial movement. For today the script runs "The liberation of the ideality is to be completed ...
... Asked about the cause of Mother's departure, this is what he stated in a public speech on December 4, 1973 [in English]: Page 255 "On one side She had to fight the onset of decay and old age and on the other She was fighting against this dirt that we were constantly throwing upon Her. But more the failing body I hold responsible for what happened. Often I have seen that She was trying ...
... course. So let me switch back to Wordsworth who could never have been suspected of having died from any Critic's onslaught, for he outlived all his critics and went on into a serene and even stolid old age filled with the acclamations of a new epoch of critics and crowned with the Poet-Laureateship. Nobody could say any more that in his Lyrical Ballads there was not a word's worth of poetry! There ...
... whenever I approached Bejoykanta he would without fail raise the subject of Yoga. By Yoga, he would say, one could fly in the air, walk over water, remain free from death, be immune to disease, conquer old age, etc., etc. In addition, he said finally, one could drive away all the English feringees from India. Mention of these miracles, however, gave rise in me to other thoughts, other hopes. By Yoga ...
... their records — to find out when last he had taken a net. They then requested him to take a new one. He never asked for a servant, but later Counouma urged him to take one to help him out (in his old age). Then blew up a storm. It was a period when it was thought that Gangadhar was going round the bend. I am not sure if anyone knew what was really wrong. He shut himself up, would not eat and threw ...
... of heaven locked in a seed of light 134 O take from me 498 O the blind bellow in the pit of sleep! 310 O the dew-dipped delicious drudgery 545 O this old age that makes a mockery 625 "O thou who wast enamoured of earth's bloom 54 O vanished Face beyond the reach of thought, 450 O vastness waiting for my small heart's touch ...
... descending into the outer as well as the inner being and bringing a divine life on earth in addition to the infinite immortality of the Beyond, cannot be looked upon as passing away on account of old age and physical causes. Whatever the purely clinical picture, it must have behind it a significance integral with his highly significant and immeasurably more-than-physical life of spiritual attainment ...
... multiple and glorious personalities of the Mother – who was at one time sitting there in that simple chair on the second storey of the Ashram building, bent in the back and subject to the symptoms of old age. The great World-Mother now in her arose … A flaming warrior from the eternal peaks Empowered to force the door denied and closed Smote from Death’s visage its dumb absolute And burst ...
... result of illness and/or advanced age. In 1924 Sri Aurobindo had said that there were three causes that [then] could still bring about his death: 1. violent surprise or accident; 2. the action of old age; 3. his own choice, when finding it not possible to accomplish his [avataric] endeavour this time, i.e. establishing the supramental Consciousness on Earth, or if something would prove him that it ...
... Her Consciousness was absolutely clear, she confirmed, and she was working uninterruptedly on many levels, but this was, of course, not what one saw on the outside. On the outside there was illness, old age, decay – while the centre of what was apparently sitting there was packed with supramental Power continuously irradiating from her. What she kept repeating, in all circumstances, was Ce que Tu veux ...
... true that while the Gita insists upon the separation of the Soul from Prakriti or nature as the ultimate goal of human life in this world of ignorance, sorrow and suffering, of birth and death, of old age, disease and ultimate decay and personal salvation and escape from re-birth as the highest object of life, Sri Aurobindo, on the contrary teaches that while realisation of the Soul is the first and ...
... three acquittals, predicted also that though death was prefixed for me in my horoscope at the age of sixty-three, I would prolong my life by yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age. In fact, I have got rid by yogic pressure of a number of chronic maladies that had got settled in my body, reduced others to a vanishing minimum, brought about steadily progressing diminution of ...
... 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, robust, able to walk any number of miles a day …’ Usually when receiving pranams ‘Swami Brahmananda sat with closed eyes, but for Sri Aurobindo he made ...
... Aurobindo’s unprecedented yogic master act. In 1924 Sri Aurobindo said that there were three causes that could still bring about his death: (i) violent surprise and accident; (ii) the action of old age; (iii) his own choice, when finding it not possible to accomplish his endeavour this time, i.e. establishing the supramental Consciousness on Earth, or if something would prove to him that it was not ...
... Rejects its usual pomp in going, trees That bend down to their green companion And fruitful Mother, vaguely whispering, — these And a wide silent sea. Such hour is nearest God, — Like rich old age when the long ways have all been trod. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: Evening ============= The Divine who is absolutely perfect is at the same time absolutely humble ...
... And the result is that I always feel like sitting down and keeping still—when I can do that it is marvelous. But of course, all the suggestions from outside come in: suggestions of helplessness and old age, of wear and tear, of diminishing power, all that—and I know positively that it's false. But calm in the body is indispensable. Well, for me also Sri Aurobindo's answer is always the same: Be simple ...
... Death and Rebirth Words of the Mother - III Old Age and Death Only those years that are passed uselessly make you grow old. A year spent uselessly is a year during which no progress has been accomplished, no growth in consciousness has been achieved, no further step has been taken towards perfection. Consecrate your life to the realisation of something ...
... hero does deeds of dissimilar degrees of courage and endurance. The condition should be, on a generalised scale, akin to an artist's, who can feel beauty everywhere, in even the mud-pool and haggard old age, and depict everything with revealing line and hue, but who knows also the high notes and the low, the intensity or immensity in one manifestation of beauty more than in another. Perhaps I should say ...
... This letter in reply to 'yours has been written very gladly and without any sense of strain. Although I am confined to a wheelchair I am extremely happy at heart and psychologically feel no sign of old age. (17.4.1994) Page 263 I was glad to read your letter. There is sincerity in your search for the Divine. But I would not advise you to be over-hasty in shunning your family life ...
... his beard and advised him against being clean-shaven. About Bernard Shaw, the critic and iconoclast and humbug-hater, it was reported that his satiric temper remained unabated in his old Page 198 age and that we could suggestively declare: "The only difference between Shaw young and Shaw old is that his beard which was red with anger is now white with rage!" To go to a higher grade ...
... discussions might ensue. In later years, when André came on long visits to the Ashram I found that communication to and from the Mother could be at its clearest through him. When the Mother in old age, was a little hard of hearing, André's voice and way of speaking seemed to be on a wave-length most attuned to her. She also showed confidence in his capacity to convey her messages faithfully and ...
... her apartment: "That knee of yours is still troubling you? But you must keep in touch with athletics. Otherwise you will become incapable. Do you want to go about with a stick and, in your old age, get weak and tottering? Learn from Nolini's example. Look at what he is doing even at his age! "The trouble is not the mere fact of the knee being bad. You have to put your full consciousness ...
... Gautamīputra's 18th regnal year would be (504-18==) 486 B.C. Nāhapāna would either be killed in the wake of the ouster of his son-in-law Rishabhadatta in that year or he would have died issueless - of old age before it and Rishabhadatta's overthrow would spell the end of the Kshaharāta dynasty. We may even bring Gautamīputra's victory over Rishabhadatta closer to Nāhapāna's last inscription ...
... ordinary begetters. Their minds must have' been different from those of the common householders by the very fact that they could dandle grandsons and granddaughters on their knees at only so ripe an old age. The basis of this fact is the prolonged period of brahmacharya - sexless studentship - in the Rigvedic epoch. The period was 48 years. Old books mention several periods - 12 years, 24, 36 and finally ...
... Overhead complexion, but this rhythm loses something of its sovereign right because there are no depths of sense behind it. It conveys nothing but the noble and dignified pathos of the blindness and old age of a great personality fallen into evil days. Milton's architecture of thought and verse is high and powerful and massive, but there are usually no subtle echoes there, no deep chambers: the occult ...
... some of the Sonnets is sharply probed and the conclusions synthetized, one sees that the poems date themselves bypointing to Shakespeare's idea of the full human life-length, of the time when old age starts and of the signs characterizing the various stages of getting old. From the data thus obtained we can arrive at the period in Shakespeare's life during which the sonneteering went on. ...
... September 1960) That knee of yours is still troubling you? But you must keep in touch with athletics. Otherwise you will become incapable. Do you want to go about with a stick and, in your old age, get all weak and tottering? Learn from X’s example. Look at what he is doing even at his age! The trouble is not the mere fact of the knee being bad. You have to put your full consciousness there ...
... whenever I approached Bejoykanta he would without fail raise the subject of Yoga. By Yoga, he would say, one could fly in the air, walk over water, remain free from death, be immune to disease, conquer old age, etc., etc. In addition, he said finally, one could drive away all English "Feringhees" from India. Mention of these miracles, however, gave rise in me to other thoughts, other hopes. By Yoga ...
... leave his body and go back to its own kingdom. Mother arrested his departure for 20 more years and kept him engaged in Her work. Could he finish his assignment or owing to lack of strength in his old age his soul left the body? Whatever the reason, it seems he is always with the Mother and he feels satisfied to see his two nieces in close association with the Mother. His soul must be very happy with ...
... asked me, “Why do you sit in that way?” I replied that I could not sit otherwise; my back ached much if I sat erect. He was surprised and remarked that it was strange, for such backache comes only in old age. Things continued in this way till I came here to Mother at the age of 20. One day I told Mother of this difficulty. She told me: “Champaklal, you do what I say. Take a towel and rub your back ...
... asked me, “Why do you sit in that way?” I replied that I could not sit otherwise; my back ached much if I sat erect. He was surprised and remarked that it was strange, for such back-ache comes only in old age. Things continued in this way till I came here to Mother (at the age of twenty). One day I told Mother of this difficulty. She told me: Champaklal, you do what I say. Take a towel and rub your back ...
... frustrate fate. Moreover, the stars often indicate several fate-possibilities; for example that one may die in mid-age, but that if that determination can be overcome, one can live to a predictable old age. Finally, cases are seen in which the predictions of the horoscope fulfil themselves with great accuracy up to a certain age, then apply no more. This often happens when the subject turns away from ...
... troubled his mind so much that he decided to leave his princely life, his young wife, Yasodhara, and his new-born son, Rahula, and to search for an answer to his deep question: "Where is the way out of old age, sickness and death, what is the way to permanence? " After years of ascetic sadhana, having thus experienced extreme renunciation as well as luxury and pleasure, Siddhartha chose the Middle ...
... no fear from any quarter other than death awaits a man come into the world. (17) (Even) as a house (though supported by stout pillars) collapses on getting old, so men fallen into the clutches of old age and death breathe their last. (18) "The night that passes away does not return in any case; the Yamuna (river) meets without fail the all-sufficient ocean, abounding in water. (19) Passing days ...
... boon, Nachiketas asked for the second boon. He said: "There is a higher world in which there is no fear,. in which death cannot enter, and where one does not become old and one has no terrors of old age. It is said that such a heaven exists, and one can cross over to that heaven by crossing hunger and thirst, and one can overcome all sorrows. By entering into the heaven, one gains joy forever. But ...
... connective tissues. ** Pithy: adj. Having substance, concise. *** Apophthegm: n. Aphorism; concise statement of a principle. Page 18 youth, the Odyssey arose out of his old age. It describes the ten-year long and difficult journey back to the home of Odysseus, one of the heroes in the Iliad. It is primarily a superb adventure story and, contrary to the Iliad which remains ...
... deliberately taken to the path of spiritual sadhana forget about our goal after some time or, losing all ardour in our will, we become prone to relegate the fulfillment of our primary aim to a later old age of our life. We start living a routine existence and fail to remember for all practical purposes why we are here upon earth and what is expected of us as sadhakas of the Integral Path. As a matter ...
... to myself who am permitted to look upon you ! I give glory to Allah for your beauty, O people of Paradise! Nureddene (smiling): Rather give glory to Him because he has given thee a fine old age and this long silvery beard. But are we permitted in this garden? The gate was not bolted. Ibrahim: This garden? My garden? Yes, my son; yes, my daughter. It is the fairer for your feet; ...
... reality. All these kings of men for whose approaching death thou hast the sorrow, have lived before, they will live again in the human body; for as a soul passes physically through childhood, youth and old age, so it passes on to the changing of the body. The wise man looks beyond the apparent facts of the lives of the body and senses to the real fact of his being and rises beyond the emotional and physical ...
... Aurobindo would be seriously ill at the age of 63 but he had also mentioned Page 13 that by his yogic action, Sri Aurobindo could overcome that danger and then he would live up to a ripe old age. "So, you see, I am still alive", he said smiling. He accepted nothing as predetermined and fixed in this world-field. Everything, in his view, is a play of possibilities and a Yogi can change these ...
... inner channel that is the secret. If that opens or is opened up, then the infant can grow old in a day. Here you are illegitimately changing the metaphor. What has a channel to do with infancy and old age? You are doing in prose what you don't want J to do in poetry. J, you know, was no better than an infant and she ran equal with me in poetry, didn't she? All of a sudden see where she is! Because ...
... I have enjoyed this Sherbat immensely, Lilavati." Rightly did I bestow the name of Tyagarajan on him, that evening! Many stories have been told of Sri Aurobindo's wonderful memory in his old age - especially those that we have heard from Nirod in connection with his literary work. 230Sri Aurobindo is being addressed in this manner, because he was a born yogi and all the signs of re ...
... Priam. His men marveled too, trading startled glances. But Priam prayed his heart out to Achilles: "Remember your own father, great godlike Achilles — as old as I am, past the threshold of deadly old age! No doubt the countrymen round about him plague him now, with no one there to defend him, beat away disaster. No one — but at least he hears you're still alive and his old heart rejoices, hopes rising ...
... place with all the inconveniences necessary for spiritual life, but disappointing to a lover of case and comfort.' Sadguru Omkar passed away on 4th March in his Ashram at the Nandi Hills at the ripe old age of 89. The Case of the Train Murder: Ashe Murder Case Those were the days when the seeds of the struggle for freedom, sown during the Indian Sepoy Mutiny of 1857, had begun to sprout ...
... fall silent even like a broken gong, then you have attained Nirvana. Violence no longer abides in you. [7] As the cowherd with his baton drives his herd out to the pasture, even so old age and death drive out the life of living creatures. [8] The fool knows not when he does an evil deed. One with a wrong mind is consumed by his own deeds as though by fire. ...
... in the East, in India. It was thus an Age of Transition, the beginning of a New Age in the history of mankind. A remarkable thing about these ancients is that almost all of them lived to a ripe old age. They had such an abundance Page 66 of vital force that they retained their capacity to work undiminished till the last days of their life. Sophocles went on writing plays till his ...
... sage and the king. Is she not married yet, asks Narad, and Aswapati, in answer, directs Savitri to speak. She first describes the misfortunes of Dyumatsena, the Shalwa King, who had lost his sight in old age, and so lost his kingdom as well, for it was seized by an enemy neighbour; Dyumatsena had been thus driven to take refuge in the forest with his wife and infant son. Savitri concludes by saying that ...
... sea-surrounded, free/Building, unbuilding", and now he is ready to go; he will become a ghost himself and haunt the places he has held dear. The prototypical picture of the heroic hero dying in ripe old age full of honour and years! But this is not how Nikos Kazantzakis, the great poet of modern Greece (and Crete), conceived the last years of Odysseus in The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel, the immense ...
... tied God to the gallows, the gallows became the Cross." ¹ There are two varieties of beauty: beauty of essence – the sap of truth – and beauty of form. Youth is beautiful, for it is handsome. Old age too has a beauty of its own, because it is the expression of a ripe and mellow experience, a long view and a large detachment. The beauty of the heavens consists in the beauty of form. The Rig Veda ...
... conscious of it and offers you the opportunity to cultivate your capacities and bring them to fruition. Now in a general way children all over the world are a privileged class. They possess what old age, even mature age, does not possess or has lost. I mention two essential qualities pre-eminently belonging to the green age or the "salad days". Happiness—a child is ever happy in spite of occasional ...
... resurgence. Again both saw in the year 1914 a momentous period marked by events of epochal importance, one of which was the First World War. For Tagore it was "yuga-sandhi, the dying of the old age of Night to the dawning of a new with its Page 91 blood-red sunrise emerging through the travail of death, sorrow and pain". For Sri Aurobindo it was a cataclysm intended by Nature ...
... endure, to survive? If life had no other meaning than mere living, then the best thing would have been to drop the body as soon as it is badly damaged or incapacitated, through illness, accident or old age. Instead, why this attempt to prolong it, to refuse to accept the present difficulties and disadvantages? The reason is that life requires time to grow in consciousness, to acquire experiences, to ...
... the tactics Germany applied was to capture the generals by means of tanks so that the troops might get disorganised. NIRODBARAN: And at this late hour England is calling up the twenty-nine-year-old age-group. People who are twenty-nine years old are quite strong and able-bodied; they could have been called up long ago. SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. I suppose they wanted to keep men for commerce, a ...
... progress. Hence even an immaturity, a certain slowness in pubescence, a longer adolescence signifies a more enduring plasticity, that is to say, the capacity for change and progress. A quick leap into old age and fixity, as is the rule with the lower animals, means Page 296 arrest of all growth and sooner or later decay and dissolution. Even if such a life-form continues to exist, the existence ...
... nationalist resurgence. Again both saw in the year 1914 a momentous period marked by events of epochal importance, one of which was the First World War. For Tagore it was "Juga-sandhi, the dying of the old age of Night to the dawning of a new with its blood-red sunrise emerging through the travail of death, sorrow and pain". For Sri Aurobindo it was a cataclysm intended by Nature to effect a first break ...
... and the strain of pregnancy will tell on her health, and that the children born will also be unhealthy. But in ancient India early marriage was the custom and yet people seem to have lived to a ripe old age. SRI AUROBINDO: The long life was due to the early state of mankind. . . PURANI: There was no economic struggle then. SRI AUROBINDO: Apart from that, their habits were vigorous and natural ...
... Brahmachari's life rather puzzles me. He wanted to see by the actual sex-act if he had really conquered the sex-impulse. He found that he had and his lack of sex-impulse was not due to any incapacity of old age because he saw that his reactions were quite normal. Now why should a realised man test himself in that way? SRI AUROBINDO: Realisation is a vast field. Unless one knows what this man has realised ...
... saw, something which I had never seen till now. What was it ? I saw that Her face had become young. A youngish face like one of yours. There was no crease, there was no wrinkle, there was no sign of old age on Her face. She was very young indeed - an unearthly tinge was there. The colour was something mellow, something sweet, not at all earthly. I can't describe it. She was human, yet not human - She ...
... spiritual seeker's path' - tightened the noose around women. So the injunction of the Scriptures came to be that in childhood a girl should be governed by her father, as a woman by her husband, in old age by her son. As you know, in India, the word of the Scriptures has always been Page 47 accepted with unquestioning obedience, with the result that women have remained helpless and weak. ...
... of Calcutta, about him had all come true, except the one about a serious illness at the age of 63. But that too, it was said, would be overcome by his yogic force, and he would live up to a ripe old age. Sri Aurobindo writes in Savitri , Nature and Fate compel his free-will's choice. But greater spirits this balance can reverse And make the soul the artist of its fate. 2 The latest ...
... vanities, yet the Lord of the world, captured not only Dr. Becharlal's heart but ours as well. Dr. Becharlal would be full of peace and rapture in his presence but could not stay long because of his old-age infirmities. Dr. Manilal remarked to Sri Aurobindo that among all of us Dr. Becharlal profited most from his association with Sri Aurobindo. Coming as a sharp contrast to Dr. Becharlal, Dr. Manilal ...
... you conscious of it, offers you the opportunity to cultivate and develop and bring it to fruition. Now in a general way children all over the world are a privileged class. They possess what old age, even mature age does not possess or has lost. I mention two essential qualities pre-eminently belonging to the green age or to the "salad days": Happiness – a child is ever happy – in spite of its ...
... But you are the Saviour of the worlds – ever kind to the destitute. Now my whole trust lies in you alone. Half of my life I spent in sleep, The rest in infancy and old age And with women in pleasure-groves; I had no time to give to you. Countless are the Gods who die and pass! But you have no beginning, nor end: All are born in you and ...
... capacity to grow and to progress: to grow - that is to increase one's potentialities, one's capacities; to progress - that is to perfect without halting the capacities that one already possesses. Old age does not come with a great number of years, but with the incapacity or refusal to continue to grow and to progress. 16 But whether old or young, the problem was the same: to carry the work ...
... bright surmise Visible to mortal eyes... Someone of the heavenly rout From behind the veil ran out. 12 A golden evening... Such hour is nearest God, - Like rich old age when the long ways have all been trod. 13 First impressions and the last wisdom merge into one another, and poetry comes to be charged with something akin to apocalyptic power. Man no ...
... punishment after death, but through the development of a new sense of beauty, a thirst for truth and light.... One must rise up and widen - rise up... and widen." The verses in the canto on "Old Age" occasion the enunciation by the Mother of her own robust philosophy. It is not simply a matter of years, but of cessation of growth: As soon as you stop advancing, as soon as you stop progressing ...
... me and my three acquittals, predicted also that though death was prefixed for me in my horoscope at the age of 63, I would prolong my life by Yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age. In fact, I have got rid by Yogic pressure of a number of chronic maladies that had got settled in my body. 5 8-12-1949 I can say little about the method X speaks of for getting rid of dead ...
... it may seem rational enough, but go tell a dying body that its death is "rational"! She really had to have solid nerves. When you do not know that it is a process, you simply ask yourself: is it "old age," the signs of the "end"? Precisely what all the specimens around her were beginning to mutter under their breath—except that the specimens were no longer "around her," they were perfectly within, ...
... invisible earthly concentration camp, and within that concentration camp (very much alive for us), we witness a phenomenon we call “death,” which we blame on typhus, the heart, the liver, cancer, old age, exhaustion, the viciousness of a mean neighbor, a car accident, or what have you. But that isn't so! It isn't illness, age, or any physiological data that causes death. It is the WALLS of the ...
... if this last stage goes far enough without any arrest of its course towards decadence, it may perish, - even so all the older peoples and nations except India and China perished, - as a man dies of old age". 51 But, then, if there are possibilities of decay and death, there are also possibilities of renewal and growth. A people or a race that learnt the art of living, "not solely in its physical and ...
... he arrived there, he was already in appearance at the age when maturity turns toward over ripeness. He was, when I met him just before his death, a man of magnificent physique showing no signs of old age except white beard and hair, extremely tall, robust, able to walk any number of miles a day and tiring out his younger disciples, walking too so swiftly that they tended to fall behind, a great head ...
... being's life, the life of the society passes through a cycle of birth, growth, youth, ripeness and decline. "If we let it go unchecked, the course towards decadence will make it perish, as a man dies of old age." "But," said Sri Aurobindo, "the collective being has too the capacity of renewing itself, of a recovery and a new cycle." What is India going to do? Renew herself and begin a new cycle ...
... Rejects its usual pomp in going, trees That bend down to their green companion And fruitful mother, vaguely whispering,—these And a wide silent sea. Such hour is nearest God,— Rich like old age when the long ways have all been trod. ...
... Glory to myself who am permitted to look upon you! I give glory to Allah for your beauty, O people of Paradise! NUREDDENE ( smiling ) Rather give glory to Him because he has given thee a fine old age and this long silvery beard. But are we permitted in this garden? The gate was not bolted. IBRAHIM This garden? My garden? Yes, my son; yes, my daughter. It is the fairer for your feet; never ...
... eruption does much detriment To youth and bodes no good to waning years. When I was young, I ruled my dancing blood, Abstained from brabbles, women, verses, wine, And now you see me bask in hale old age, Mid Autumn's gilded ruin one green leaf. Life's palate dulls with much intemperance, And whoso breaks the law, the law shall break. Love is a specious angler— MELANDER Dotard, off! Confide ...
... , the attempt to stifle Indian aspirations by sheer force and put back the clock of progress from the nineteenth century into the Middle Ages, could not find a fitter heaven in which to spend his old age than the House of Lords. If anything could add to the just felicity of his translation, it is that there will be no Cottons and Rutherfords to vex his honest soul with irreverent questions. Om Shantih ...
... inevitable struggle is due. The Labour party is now predominatingly Socialistic and is purging itself of the old individualistic leaven which looked forward to no higher ideal than an eight-hours day, Old Age pensions and Trade Union politics. The Labour members, Messrs. Burt and Fenwick, who represent this old-world element, have received notice to quit from the Labour organisations which helped them into ...
... to the felicity of heaven. The man who in his youth lived in imminent deadly peril from the swords of his countrymen because he dared to move forward by new paths to his God-given task, dies in his old age by a foreign hand because, at the expense of justice and a nation's freedom, he still moved forward in the path of his duty. It is a difficult choice that is given to men of action in a world where ...
... break up, digest; जृम्भ्, to yawn, gape, burst open, manifest; जूर, to hurt, kill, be angry; grow old; जै, जुर्, to decay, grow old; जीर:, a sword; जार, a ravisher; जि, to overcome, conquer; जरा, old age, decay etc. The meaning is to shatter, break to pieces, wear down, consume. त्वाम् । त्वा, accusative of तु (cf Greek περɩχλέα etc) with the definitive particle अम् as in त्वम्, अहम्, वयम्, etc ...
... entanglement and profuse loss of hair has been steadily diminishing, though it is not yet nil & the hair is now exceedingly thin, shot with grey & threatening baldness above the temples. These signs of old age show no promise of reversal or dissolution. The equipment also does not appear to be near, since there is nothing beyond the already existing amount except a trifling sum sufficient to fill the remaining ...
... " स्वर्गे लोके न भयं किंचनास्ति न तत्र त्वं न जरया बिभेति । उभे तीर्त्वाशनायापिपासे शोकातिगो मोदते स्वर्गलोके ॥१२॥ 12) "In heaven fear is not at all, in heaven, O Death, thou art not, nor old age and its terrors; crossing over hunger and thirst as over two rivers, leaving sorrow behind the soul in heaven rejoices. स त्वमग्निं स्वर्ग्यमध्येषि मृत्यो प्रब्रूहि त्वं श्रद्दधानाय मह्यम् । ...
... and if this last stage goes far enough without any arrest of its course towards decadence, it may perish,—even so all the older peoples and nations except India and China perished,—as a man dies of old age. But the collective being has too the capacity of renewing itself, of a recovery and a new cycle. For in each people there is a soul idea or life idea at work, less mortal than its body, and if this ...
... 546 O Lovers 638 "O Moslem Men..." 311 O Pygmy of Perfection!... 347 O Silent Love... 459 O the Rare Fall... 369 0 This Old Age... 625 O Vastness 301 O Voiceful Words 446 O Waste Me Not 739 O When 482 O Who shall Tame the Tarpan? 344 O Wound of Splendour ...
... deeper meaning the Mother infused into the word "young". What she meant by asking us to remain young comes out in the sentence following this command" "Never stop striving towards perfection." Old age, according to her, arrives when we sit back either content that we have done enough or too tired to attempt anything more. As long as we are prepared to launch on a new adventure of the soul or ...
... as the greatest English poet of our age. What does his poetry consist of? In his youth, a good amount of the most exquisite love-lyricism woven into patterns of Irish myth and mystic symbol; in his old age, a vigorous utterance on the one hand of a zest-ful, inquisitive, flesh-accepting, death-confronting realism touched by what seems a scientific attitude, and on the other hand of an occult and esoteric ...
... . He already looked an old man in 1945. He conformed to a picture-book idea of a grandfather with a large pinch of aristocracy added on. Dadoo was not a very large man — may be a bit heavy due to old age. When young he must have been quite smart, energetic, bright and handsome (purely my guesswork and extrapolation backwards). He was always neatly attired in short trousers (above ankles), bush shirt ...
... an undiminished devotion persisting over decades of some of these old timers would seem unattainable nowadays. Another observable phenomenon is that when one of them passes away or has to retire (old age), two or three are needed to replace him — Rajangam, Bula-da, Khirod-da, some such old timers etc.) A few minutes before 11 p.m. or 4.30 a.m. one could hear him coming down the stairs, his wooden sandals ...
... (Shall I give you a slap?) I would turn my bare back to him and say: “Yes, please give me one.” He would swing his hand, and gently lay it on my back. Tinkori-da retired from school, I think, due to old age. Later he took ill, and his mind too wandered a bit. One evening someone told me, “Tinkori-da is missing.” It was around 8 p.m. I hopped onto my bicycle and went zigzag down one road and up the next ...
... recollect.) What Kaala could not change was the real Sitaram. He remained steadfastly “Sitaram” — never a word of complaint or very probably never an unnecessary word. Yet the body moved towards ‘Old Age’ without fuss or fretting. His eyes troubled him. One developed a problem — the retina dried. His friend (late) Dr. Venkataswamy Naidu did take him to Madurai, did whatever was possible — yet the eye ...
... in 1870. Thus, the first year of Sesostris Ill's reign, 1878, coincides with Joseph's appointment. Working backwards from this, Sethna fixes that Jacob was 92 when Joseph was born ("the son of his old age" says the Bible), that Joseph was 30 when he became vizier, and Jacob entered Egypt at the age of 130. Depending on the introduction of horse and chariot by the Hyksos, Albright fixes Joseph ...
... continents the identity and individuality are lost in the masses; add to it the authoritarianism of the states which rule and govern the people. People are in dread of poverty, war, destitution, old age, sickness and death. However, the consciousness as to one's existence, one's being and life after death has waned. People have become mere numbers on various charts and lists; the names have disappeared ...
... lasts a few seconds and, phhht, it is gone, again replaced by the old habit. ‘You see, we can only think of things that are changing from one into the other — one becomes young again, all signs of old age disappear, and so on. That is old hat, it is not like that. It is not like that!’ 93 11 August 1964: ‘During two hours the experience of the Omnipotence, the Omnipotence of the Lord — during ...
... Chawalla) Gautam Chawalla's Correspondence with The Mother 5 October 1966 Even those who have been here for a very long time become strange in their old age. Is it because consciousness depends on one’s health? In no way. Consciousness is eternal and nothing can affect it. But the physical body is rarely infused with consciousness, and, even when it ...
... if it asked these cells for what reason they wanted to keep this combination, if one can call it so, or this conglomerate. 95 They were made to understand or feel the difficulties resulting from old age, the wear and tear of the body, the external difficulties – in sum, all the deterioration caused by friction and usage. All that seemed to them totally unimportant. Their answer was rather interesting ...
... benefit from the Mother's acceptance of death tends to be as follows. Because of allowing unrestrictedly, for the first time in human history, the Superrnind's tremendous action in her body during old age, the Mother had reached a dire physical state from which there appeared to be no real turn for the better, though she would persist for whatever small amelioration could be obtained for a time. Furthermore ...
... of liberty. If Wordsworth had not been a pantheist he would still have written: We must be free or die who speak the tongue That Shakespeare spake... No amount of conservatism in his old age made him abjure the gospel of true liberty as distinguished from thoughtless license. Those who remained liberals to their dying day can be suspected even less of desiring to be tyrannised over or ...
... affectionate form you like. I don't mind being "uncle". But along with it use my original name or my Ashram appellation without any honorific suffix: please don't append "ji" or "da". Don't let my ripe old age misguide you into making me ridiculously venerable. Rather than be considered venerable with "ji" or "da", I wouldn't mind the invariable malapropism of my erstwhile Bombay landlord, the late Ardaser ...
... brede Of marble men and maidens overwrought, With forest branches and the trodden weed; Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' - that is all Ye know on ...
... who can get the rasa, the enjoying taste, of the tragic and the terrible by his touch on the Divine's delight in all possibilities. Rembrandt's portrait of his mother in which wrinkled dejected old age is caught in a perfection of pose and pattern and pigment - Picasso's delineation of the manifold composite harmony of war's cut and slash and gruesome grotesquerie which we witness in his "Guernica": ...
... over, And flight's at an end, On the outcast majesty They lean as a friend. The seeds of this modulated simplicity, like those of the variegated richness of other poems of AE's old age, were not absent in his period of youthful sowing, but they were less perceivable because the tendency then was towards transfiguring by sheer subtlety and depth of feeling a steady run of iambics ...
... surely not lacking in "sensational potency" with such words as: I have lived long enough: my way of life Is fall'n into the sere, the yellow leaf: And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead, Curses, not loud, but deep, mouth-honour, breath... or — leading on to a line already ...
... adventure I will pass to a more dangerous liberty - a slight modification in a passage that has become famous. I refer to the grand finale of Keats's Ode on a Grecian Urn: Cold Pastoral! When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou say'st, "Beauty is truth, truth beauty", - that is all Ye know on earth ...
... standpoint of the pure intellect which has to preserve a calm dispassionate centre amidst the whirl of personality. A certain intolerant heat and a leaning towards Fascism were characteristic of Yeats in old age. The latter came from a confusion of Fascism with aristocracy and the superman's strength, the former from that strain in him which developed as a reaction against his early dreaminess and which insisted ...
... Supramental Body already poised on the subtle-physical plane and then the short yet decisive experience of the exteriorised Supermind. On the other, as we learn from her attendants, there was infirm old age but also an ever-resisting youthfulness of attitude, both of which were linked with her stance as an Evolutionary Avatar representing all Nature's upward travail. It was the Evolutionary Avatar who ...
... past. The very Avatars of old have walked under their shadow to some extent, for they did not incarnate the plenary Supermind. If death necessarily took toll of the Mother as it does with all infirm old age, if it was not chosen by her for reasons of her own, then the Mother was not what Sri Aurobindo had visioned and proclaimed her to be. Are we prepared to believe that? As to what her reasons for ...
... certain shades of old aspects with a new emphasis. Difficulty is a thing no lover of Milton can shirk without being false to the Miltonic spirit, the spirit of one who, blind and lonely in his old age, amidst a political regime hostile to him and his hopes, kept on fashioning the greatest poetic work by any Englishman, outside the dramas of Shakespeare. The quintessence of this spirit are the ...
... life. Courageous in their convictions and faith, they were severely put to the test by the sight of that stooped and tortured body, apparently increasinly suffering of the pitiful symptoms of very old age. This was the fundamental mistake. We have seen how the Mother underwent even the harshest suffering with a cry of pain and simultaneously of ecstasy. ‘This is no longer a body in a skin,’ she said ...
... heart while living righteously in the time he had left. ‘And yet’, said the Buddha, ‘surely all reliable messages carry the news that such a mountain is rolling remorselessly towards us for is not old-age and death approaching, and are not all barriers ineffective?’ Wide-awake now to the reality of life and death, King Pasenadi realised fully the fleeting nature of his existence and saw just how ...
... of our action or wanting it to be like this or like that, little by little we get detached and prepare ourselves progressively for a truly restful death. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Old Age and Death In fact, if you do not expect any satisfaction from physical life, you are no more tied to it and get above all sorrow. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Material Desires ...
... career as a teacher and winning recognition for his services, he retired from service. Against the twenty-five years of active service, he lived for thirty years in retirement and died at the ripe old age of eighty-five. My father inculcated in me a deep love for morality and religion and sent me for my secondary education to the famous Dadabhai Naoroji High School in Anand, where I was put up in ...
... which the individual, deprived again of his freedom in his own interest and that of humanity, must have his whole life and action determined for him at every step and in every point from birth to old age by the well-ordered mechanism of the State. 1 We might then have a curious new version, with very important differences, of the old Asiatic or even of the old Indian order of society. In place of ...
... tedious process & the bone still resists alteration of status; still the figure has definitely changed, & in the colour, hair, feet, etc there are slight but effective alterations. Some of the signs of old age, eg grey hairs, although no longer visibly increasing, still resist ejection. The other chatusthayas have all been commenced, but the fifth is as yet active only in slow movements and petty degrees ...
... जरिम्णेऽग्ने मर्तानमर्त्यस्त्वं नः ॥२१॥ 21) From behind and from in front, from below and from above, a seer by thy seer-wisdom protect us, O king; a friend protect thy friend, ageless protect from old age, immortal protect us who are mortals, O Fire. परि त्वाग्ने पुरं वयं विप्रं सहस्य धीमहि । धृषद्वर्णं दिवेदिवे हन्तारं भङ्गुरावताम् ॥२२॥ 22) O forceful Fire, let us think of thee, the illumined ...
... triumphant. Page 645 Sharira— Arogya The Yogagnimaya Sharira was more developed in Calcutta than now. Since then there has been a reaction. Mrityur va prabhavati . The signs of old age, disease, death, not only persist, but sometimes prevail and the force of the Arogya has to bear them as an irremovable, though not definitely overpowering burden. The Saundarya no longer ...
... All else that promises to come are only glimpses of things that would intervene and take the great seat if they could or else flashes that mislead. The new age promises always, but is always the old age in another dress. This only can be the thing that is truly new born and the birth of a new humanity. One who has come near because some of the ways are opened. Page 1411 Not the highest ...
... advocates. The Gita, however, admits and makes room for this movement; it allows as a recoiling starting-point the perception of the defects of the world-existence, birth and disease and death and old age and sorrow, the historic starting-point of the Buddha, janma-mṛtyu-jarā-vyādhi-duḥkha-doṣānudarśanam , and it accepts the effort of those whose self-discipline is motived by a desire for release ...
... rivers and haze-purpled hills, a scene of unimaginable beauty where forms moved that had not lost the pristine beauty of man before the clutch stiffened on him of early decay & death, of grief and old age, where hearts beat that had not lost the pulsations of our ancient immortality and were not yet attuned to the broken rhythms of pain & grief. The impression of such an atmosphere & background remains ...
... On an Article by Ramchandra Majumdar In his reply to Suresh Chakravarty's article my old friend Ramchandra Majumdar congratulates himself on the strength of his memory in old age. 1 His memory is indeed so strong that he not only recollects, very inaccurately, what actually happened, but recalls also and gives body to what never happened at all. His account is so heavily ...
... Ego If a man holds himself dear, let him guard himself closely. The sage should watch through one of the three vigils of his existence (youth, maturity, or old age). One should begin by establishing oneself in the right path; then, one will be able to advise others. Thus the sage is above all reproach. If one puts into practice what he teaches to others ...
... Fifteenth Seminar: 28 April 196 1) How to remain young? 16 2) What is the secret of perpetual progress? 17 1) Since the process of decline and disintegration which brings old age is really the beginning of death, is it possible to prevent getting old without conquering death? Is it possible to keep the body constantly young without complete transformation of its material ...
... if he had not allowed it to superficialise itself into inane sentimentalism and a habit of uttering platitudes with a pensive air. Swinburne fared better, yet lived through most of his manhood and old age in a condition of lop-sided growth: his expansive power kept developing beautiful intricacies of rhythm whereas the faculty to brood and concentrate and delve deep went numb, waking up at rare intervals ...
... at an end, On the outcast majesty They lean as a friend. Page 40 The seeds of this modulated simplicity, like those of the variegated richness of other poems of AE's old age, were not absent in his period of youthful sowing, but they were less perceivable because the tendency then was towards transfiguring by sheer subtlety and depth of feeling a steady run of iambics ...
... and place them exactly within Mother's reach, then we used to have very good rallies. Mother loved tennis and She Page 66 used to say that tennis is a game which one can play even in old age. Age has no boundary for tennis. Tennis taught us alertness, body fitness and concentration. Once during the year 1957 or 1958, Mother had not called me to play with Her for months. I was sad ...
... always that question of age... In everybody, everybody, without even their noticing it, there is always in the background (for the slightest thing, at the slightest opportunity), always the idea of old age, of going downhill, of decrepitude. And it comes a thousand times a day! ( Mother laughs ) So here too, I say to the Lord, "Listen, am I really going downhill?" Then He shows me one or two things. ...
... reflective and the philosophical in that snatch from Love and Death which strikes out a super-Ciceronian De Senectute: Not as a tedious evil nor to be Lightly rejected gave the gods old age, But tranquil, but august, but making easy The steep ascent to God. Therefore must Time Still batter down the glory and form of youth And animal magnificent strong ease, To ...
... of Hector: Then the voice of Priam spoke and was raised in entreaty: "O Achilles, like to the gods, remember your father, Whose years are even as mine, on the grievous tread of his old age; Haply now the dwellers about are treating him badly, Harming him, now there is none for his shield from ruin and evil. Yet whenever he hears of you and knows you are living. Then ...
... the story of the invasion of India by Dionysus he (ibid.) mentions Dionysus as not leaving the country after his achievements but as reigning over the whole of India for 52 years and then dying of old age while his sons succeeded to the government and transmitted the sceptre in unbroken succession to their posterity. (Evidently, Diodorus has mixed up the length of Spatembas's reign with that of Dionysus's: ...
... the life spiritual lived for its own sake. This experience, for Sri Aurobindo, proved to be both. He who dallied with "the sweet-lipped rain" knew that the passing of the years, from youth towards old age, were meant To warn the earthward man that he is spirit Dallying with transience... And with the growth of time the imaginative faculty, gatherer of the many into a single significance ...
... tracts of splendour and enriched all hues. Take now this burst of emotion, in which my ear traces a Shakespearian elan: For what is mere sunlight? Who would live on into extreme old age, Burden the impatient world, a weary old man, And look back on a selfish time ill-spent Exacting out of prodigal great life Small separate pleasures like a usurer, And no rich ...
... first time with cases of destitution, decrepitude, disease and death. Buddha's contemplation led him to assert the uncompromising principle that 'to exist itself is to suffer'; not only sickness, old age and death are forms of misery, birth and being alike are in themselves wretchedness. To cease to exist, to withdraw from the field of Becoming is thus the ultimate goal of the aspirant. Did not Gautama ...
... discovered that the aging of the body as a whole is dependent on either the activity or the failure of the sexual glands, per se.... The effects were temporary and did not offset the slow decline of old age. Indeed, some danger is involved in such a one-sided stimulation of the senile since the organism as a whole may not be physically constituted to withstand the sudden and abnormal stress.... The ...
... uncertain. According to a famous legend, Bhartrihari was a great king who loved his queen Pingala intensely. One day a visiting yogin offered to him a fruit which had special quality of eliminating old age and death. The king offered it to his beloved queen. The queen was, however, in love with somebody else, and she gave the fruit to him. He was, however, in love with another woman. He, therefore ...
... not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." affairs of state to keep in touch with his mentor, on hearing that Anaxagoras was struggling with old age and starvation, hastened to make amends and with great humility heard him as he chided, "those who have occasion for the lamp supply it with oil." Pericles was driven by a superhuman zeal to ...
... up to only one quarter of that student's knowledge. A quarter he derives from his own personal interest, and from hard work; a quarter comes from God's blessing, and the final quarter comes in his old age from his own personal experiences. " Page 662 Finally, the Master spoke of the moral responsibility of a trained student of kalaripayit: "We must forgive our enemy. Also, it ...
... there. Another monk, named Otsuka, did a 100-day term over the course in 1970 or 1971, and Sakai began his effort to permanently reestablish the Imuro Valley course in 1975. Hakozaki was then too old (age eighty-two ) to take Sakai around the course, so Otsuka and Miyamoto Ichijo, who had . been entrusted with Hakozaki's maps and charts, went over the route with him. Sakai was forced to make a few ...
... his passion shall pass away from him, having seen thee from death's jaws delivered." Nachiketas speaks: 12. "In heaven fear is not at all, in heaven, 0 Death, thou art not, nor old age and its terrors; crossing over hunger and thirst as over two rivers, leaving sorrow behind the soul in heaven rejoices. 13. "Therefore that heavenly Flame2 which thou, 0 Death, studiest ...
... spoken to him of his happy ideal married life. SRI AUROBINDO: I suppose it is like wanting to have vriddasya taruni barya2 though the wife may not be barya. You know Maeterlinck did the same. In his old age he took up a beautiful young girl who was not at all intellectual and he forsook the wife who had inspired all his earlier works. He brought the girl home. The wife didn't object—but ultimately the ...
... meat, and therefore harmful. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't agree. PURANI: It depends on the person. Some people can digest it, others can't. Just like wine—some can drink any amount and live up to an old age. SRI AUROBINDO: Rajen Mitra, the antiquarian, used to drink one bottle of brandy every day and yet he lived up to the age of eighty. ...
... Gandhi and Tagore will get stronger now. You know that it was through Gandhi that Tagore got Rs 60,000 for his Shantiniketan. When Gandhi went to Delhi and saw that Tagore had come there at such an old age to collect money, he said to him, "You go back. I will arrange for the money." And he asked Birla to pay the sum. In America people generously donate money for such public things. SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... Faust is character throughout the first part of Goethe's poem. Only in the second part does he become an idea. And the two parts are really two separate books. Goethe wrote the second part in his old age. It is entirely different from the first, just as Milton's Paradise Regained is different from his Paradise Lost . Keats also has two versions of his Hyperion : in the later version Hyperion tends ...
... Page 131 SLEEP AND DREAMS Is six hours of sleep at night enough? Seven would be better at your age. Six is the minimum, at any time except in old age. The ordinary period of sleep most people give themselves is 8 hours. In bad health (I am not speaking of acute illness) it can extend to 9. 12 hours is excessive unless one is seriously ...
... regret; we did it whole-heartedly. We were young; and our movements were whole and entire. It may be said that that was an age of unthinking innocence; but in the attempt to gain the arid richness of an old-age consciousness, we have lost the simplicity, the spontaneity and the integrality of our non-age. Yes, we have eaten of the fruit of knowledge and our. youth is the price that we have paid. With our ...
... Shadow' 1 permeating the whole fabric of manifested existence. Was not Gautama, the prince of Kapilavastu, awakened to a consciousness of anguish and sorrow by the universal sight of disease, old age, death and other miseries, to which man in his embodied existence is subject? Gautama considered within himself the ineluctable facts of disease, decay and death until he determined to escape them ...
... between the transformist doctrine and the doctrine of the fixity of species. The whole of the scientific world of the epoch reverberated with the echoes of these polemics. Goethe, then of the ripe old age of eighty-one, took the keenest interest in this battle of ideas and, in fact, dedicated to this debate his last work completed in 1832 soon before his death. But, alas, traditionalism triumphed again; ...
... silkworm coming out, a winged moth, clad in the colours of the rainbow, from its cocoon wherein it lay as in a grave to all appearances dead? Has he not heard of the phoenix, the fabulous bird, that in old age surrounds itself with spices and sets light to them, soaring aloft, rejuvenescent from the aromatic fire? Straightway, man's love for the indefinite continuity of personal existence and his protest ...
... author of 'Lapsus Calamf, is reputed to have made the neat remark: "It has been said that heaven lies about us in our infancy -but that is no reason why we should lie about heaven in our old age." 27 7. Circumlocution (Periphrasis): Circumlocution is the expression in a roundabout way of something which could be very well said in a much simpler manner. Example: "He brought ...
... few people feel that talking about their good health could provoke the fall of the Damocles' sword of ill-health upon them. Another example is the feeling of beating the odds to remain healthy in old age, as if the norm was to expect bad health to prevail sooner or later. One finds in quite many people a fatalistic element in their perception of health which nearly turns it into a twin sister of destiny ...
... reality. All these kings of men for whose approaching death thou hast the sorrow, have lived before, they will live again in the human body; for as a soul passes physically through childhood, youth and old age, so it passes on to the changing of the body. The wise man Page 25 looks beyond the apparent facts of the lives of the body and senses to the real fact of his being and rises beyond the ...
... endowed with firm faculties and live full span of our life devoted to the divine welfare." 65 "Hundred autumns are assigned to us by the divine in this fleeting existence of bodies, subject to old age and decay. May we have no affliction or infirmities in the midst of our life-span." 66 There are, in the Yajurveda, six verses 67 which are devoted to a prayer for the mind to be filled with ...
... 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 no signs of old age except white beard and hair, extremely tall, robust, able to walk any number of miles a day and tiring out his younger disciples, walking WO so swiftly that they tended to fall behind, a great head ...
... don't see how it can be ulcers, if nothing was shown. More likely nerves. My boil seems to have subsided, but the blessed legs are aching terribly: can't walk after my athletic exercises at this old age, Sir. System won't bear it, it seems. Give some embrocation, please. You have been doing Olympic sports? What an idea! July 9, 1937 This boil paining all the time. Please do something ...
... progress. Hence even an immaturity, a certain slowness in pubescence, a longer adolescence signifies a more enduring plasticity, that is to say, the capacity for change and progress. A quick leap into old age and fixity, as is the rule with the lower animals, means Page 91 arrest of all growth and sooner or later decay and dissolution. Even if such a life-form continues to exist, the existence ...
... a joy also to serve one's father. And it is a joy to follow the path of the Bhikkus, it is a joy to follow the path of the Brahmin. [14] It is a joy to lead a pure life till old age, it is a joy to possess a firmly established faith, it is a joy to acquire wisdom and it is a joy not to do evil. Page 240 ...
... then does it not imply in the end the survival of the few? Whatever the size or the integrality of those few, it still remains only a portion of the whole. It is true that sorrow and suffering, old age and death are facts of an earlier part, that is to say, the first stage of the evolutionary process. When in the beginning of things darkness was enveloped in darkness, tamo asit tamasa gudham agre ...
... endure, to survive? If life had no other meaning than mere living, then the best thing would have been to drop the body as soon as it is badly damaged or incapacitated, through illness, accident or old age. Instead, why this attempt Page 215 to prolong it, to refuse to accept the present difficulties and disadvantages? The reason is that life requires time to grow in consciousness ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 Old Age [1] Why this laughter? Why this merriment? When there is always this fire that consumes you are enveloped by darkness and you do not seek the light. [2] Look at this decorated image, the body full of sores, a heaped mass, diseased, full of ...
... Of the Self [1] If you consider the self dear to you, guard it well and protect it. In one or other of the three vigils, (youth, ripe age, old age), keep awake. [2] Establish yourself first in the right way, then you may instruct others. Thus the wise one will avoid all blame. [3] One must ...
... the ultimate essence of sin? Nobody likes to grow old. Eternal youth should be the aim of all. The gods have eternal youth. But, for that reason, are we to say that there is no truth or beauty in old age? Or are we to depict the picture of an old man in such a way that men may have disrespect and hatred for years and feel more attracted to the youthful than to the aged?" The art of an artist is ...
... earth men, mortals, live by their own inner nature and outer need (self-nature and food). May that wide earth establish in us the vital force and a long span of life. May Earth grace me with a ripe old age. (20) The aroma, O Earth, that rises out of thee, that which the healing plants and that which the waters carry, that which delights the heavenly beings and the celestial nymphs, with that ...
... this drug I've lost half my years." "Is that so? But father? Where is he? Hasn't he come?" "This little boy in my arms is your father," replied the lady showing the little boy. "In his old age he was longing to become a little boy. And so without telling me he took three or four doses of that drug. And that's why he has become a baby!" The baby-boy took the feeding bottle out and ...
... earth. Well, it was from Chinmoy that I got the courage or the fool hardiness for an attempt of this kind. This has been of great help to me. But there was a considerable resistance born of old age, even though we are here precisely to get rid of that. The resistance comes from two sources. It is there first of all in your own individual consciousness; you have heard of the adage about getting ...
... nationalist resurgence. Again both saw in the year 1914 a momentous period marked by events of epochal importance, one of which was the First World War. For Tagore it was "yuga-sandhi, the dying of the old age of Night to the dawning of a new with its blood-red sunrise emerging through the travail of death, sorrow and pain". For Sri Aurobindo it was a cataclysm intended by Nature to effect a first break ...
... whenever I approached Bejoykanta he would without fail raise the subject of Yoga. By Yoga, he would say, one could fly in the air, walk over water, remain free from death, be immune to disease, conquer old age, etc., etc. In addition, he said finally, one could drive away all English "Ferin-ghees" from India. Mention of these miracles, however, gave rise in me to other thoughts, other hopes. By Yoga ...
... living a life of austerity. But between the two I saw a greater change in Aravind Babu. He was never as free with me as he used to be before. He looked serene and calm with the gravity of a man of ripe old age. I always found him alone in his own room in a contemplative mood or closeted with his friends Deshpande and Jadhav. One evening I saw Barindra going with the planchette into the room where all the ...
... of a divine body was familiar to the seers in the past. 1 . " When the five-fold quality of yoga has been produced; 2 , Arising from earth, water, fire, air and space; 3 . No sickness, no old age, no death has he; 4 . Who has obtained a body made out of the fire of yoga." 7 ____________________________ 6.The Life Divine, Ch. 26P. 239 A few quotations from Sri ...
... think (I am sure) that besides their poisoned atmosphere, there was something else directly and cleverly, if I may say so, directed at me. It created a kind of constant weariness, like a cape of old age on my shoulders. How many times did Mother tell me that her stooped shoulders had no physical origin. I cannot think that these people did something deliberately, it seems to me so ... I don’t know ...
... is a sudden cry that broke from her lips at the end of this gala jouney, as though all limits were unacceptable to her, including those of death: "Frankly speaking, at seventy-six I scarcely like old age, life is still beautiful to me . . . and I proclaim with Goethe, 'Beyond the tombs, forward!' " From such seed came Mother. Page 25 2 Mathilde and Barine ...
... next day, he referred to Narayan Jyotishi, a Calcutta astrologer, who had made the prediction that Sri Aurobindo would prolong his life "by Yogic power for a very long period and arrive at a full old age", and added as if in corroboration: "In fact, I have got rid by Yogic pressure of a number of chronic maladies that had got settled in my body." 68 In other words, it appeared as though the length ...
... Nile, is that a sudden cry escaped her at the end of this eventful journey, as if all limits seemed unacceptable to her, including those of death: "Truly speaking, at seventy-six, I scarcely like old age; I still find life beautiful... and, with Goethe, I exclaim, 'Beyond the tombs, forward!’” There was a seed there. Mirra among the Materialists With Mother, it is another rhythm, profound ...
... Bhavan. Page 228 "The other day I had the rare privilege of meeting Sri Aurobindo. I had seen him last in 1908 at Bombay. Now, however, I saw something different; the most beautiful old age imaginable in an atmosphere of inspiring serenity. He sat enthroned on an upholstered chair with a quiet, unaggressive dignity. His thin white beard and well-brushed, long hair framed a radiant face ...
... rivers and haze-purpled hills, a scene of unimaginable beauty where forms moved that had not lost the pristine beauty of man before the clutch stiffened on him of early decay and death, of grief and old age, where hearts beat that had not lost the pulsations of our ancient immortality and were not yet attuned to the broken rhythms of pain and grief... ."- There are many things hidden in time that ...
... there's a way. Do you want me to make a list for you? Yes, make me a list. I'll see if the Light shines on one of them. I see.... I see.... They gave it to some old fellow to read, you see—I don't mean old in age, I mean old in intelligence. But they're all like that! 6 No, all are not like that. But some just don't care a hoot about it—he's one of them. ( silence ) Perhaps ...
... inspection tour and then sit in the room. He sat there silent and pensive and some sort of serenity would pervade the place. He, Kamal, could not and dared not speak and break that pervasion. One old and aged worker resided on the premises. He, on an occasion, for some (misguided) reason, took 4 or 5 casuarina poles, without asking (either one of the K’s) and kept them in his hut. This, we would normally... Among the Not So Great Kalyan-Da (A Sparkling Vintage Wine) Whatever a man’s age, he can reduce it several years by putting a bright coloured flower in his button hole. Mark Twain Kalyan Chaudhury or simply Kalyan-da was a man in a class by himself. Born into an aristocratic family — father a well known shikari (hunter)... the Sundarbans, without hosting mosquitoes, by this simple (pleasant) ruse. This was the Kalyan-da we actually saw, talked to and played with. At 80 he moved and drove around like a man half his age. The smile too never left his face, nor the mind and heart their warmth and ebullience. One may wonder why and how he was all that he was. Let us now go back in time to delve a little deeper into his ...
... growth have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of tools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such cycles or ages: (1) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze Age and (4) the Iron Age. In the first age, which is by far the longest period, a period of slow and difficult preparation, man had his first lessons in a conscious and victorious dealing... one conscious and objective, the other automatic and subjective. The first is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the old-world mythopoeic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido – desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind... man's mentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it had emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a rigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the biological antecedent. In other words, it can be said that the older humanity was intuitive and instinctive, while modern humanity is rationalistic. Now it has been ...
... have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of tools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such cycles or ages: (i) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze Age and (4) the Iron Age. In the first age, which is by far the longest period, a period of slow and difficult preparation, man had his first lessons in a conscious and victorious dealing... the other automatic and subjective. The first Page 19 is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the old-world mythopoeic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido —desire-soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind... mentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it had emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a rigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the biological antecedent. In other words it can be said that the older humanity was intuitive and instinctive, while modern humanity is rationalistic. Now it has been ...
... have, in consequence, been marked off by the type of tools used. As we all know, anthropologists tell us, there have been four such cycles or ages: (1) the Old Stone Age, (2) the New Stone Age, (3) the Bronze Age and (4) the Iron Age. In the first age, which is by far the longest period, a period of slow and difficult preparation, man had his first lessons in a conscious and victorious dealing... one conscious and objective, the other automatic and subjective. The first is the modern or scientific thinking, the second the old-world mythoposic thinking. These two lines of mental movement mark off two definite stages in the cultural history of man. Down to the Middle Ages man's mental life was moved and coloured by his libido— desire soul; it is with the Renascence that he began to free his mind... mentality was coloured and modulated by his biological make-up out of which it had emerged; the age of modernism and scientism began with the development of a rigorous rationalism which means a severance and transcendence of the biological antecedent. In other words, it can be said that the older humanity was intuitive and instinctive, while modern humanity is rationalistic. Now it has been ...
... at the right psychological moment, expressed the precise mood of revolutionary France wanting to be a republic, and on its magnificent flood an entire country swept to liberation from century-old bond age. It is also intensely inspired every word rings authentic and carries the high passion that filled both philosopher and commoner, the passion for man 's erect and unobstructed growth. We cannot ...
... Therefore the idea of wanting to universalize the body is directly in opposition to our habitual, physically egocentric manner of living. At this point too the sadhana of the Mother clashed with age-old habits, age-old ‘laws’. But the supramental does not care about the rationality and the habits of homo sapiens , and the Mother advanced undaunted into the unknown. Undaunted but not unshaken. By an exercise ...
... weaklings, to show that "Immortality" is not "a plaything to be given lightly to a child," nor "the divine life a prize without effort or the crown for a weakling." 7 The legend is an old one, even older in age than the Ramayana since in this first epic of India Sita makes mention of Savitri and says to Rama: "Know me as flawlessly faithful to you even as Savitri was to Satyavan, the son of Dyumatsen... term of the Ascending Consciousness: This strange irrational product of the mire, This compromise between the beast and God, Is not the crown of thy miraculous world.... Even as of old man came behind the beast This high divine successor surely shall come Behind man's inefficient mortal pace, Behind his vain labour, sweat and blood and tears.... 14 And as a destined ...
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