Orion : The Orion or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas was originally written by Tilak as an essay & submitted to the Ninth Oriental Congress held in London in 1892, & brought international reputation to him. Since for nearly four years prior to it, he had been convinced that by over-emphasising the philological & linguistic aspect of the antiquity of the Vedas the eminent western Orientalists had vitiated their findings, after making additions & alterations suggested to him by further thought & discussion, Tilak brought it out in book-form in 1893 under the title The Orion or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas. It is a monument to his erudition, which acquired worldwide recognition in oriental research. A few months later, Prof. M. Bloomsfield of the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, commented on it in his address at the 18th anniversary of the University on 24 Feb.1894: “...I proposed to myself to continue to turn a few leaves of the book with the amused smile of orthodoxy.... But soon the amused smile gave way [&] superficial reading was soon replaced by absorbing study, &... I confess that the author has convinced me in all essential points.... History, the chronic readjuster, shall have her hands uncommonly full to assimilate the results of Tilak’s discovery & arrange her paraphernalia in the new perspective.... [He] proves conclusively that the vernal equinox of the earliest period was in the constellation of the Orion, i.e., 4500 years ago.... Hindus like Tilak startle us & make us look to our laurels; but they are simply repeating history of thousands of years ago...” Seeing the international reputation Orion had brought Tilak, & how Tilak’s role in the Bāpat Case had also proved his own administration was above suspicion, Maharaja Sayājirao offered to pay him a few thousand rupees if he would translate an English treatise. Tilak replied: “I am not born to earn my bread by making translations for others. I am actuated with the spirit of some century-work for the age I am living in.” [S.L. Karandikar; s/a Arctic Home in the Vedas]
... Suffering is the food of our strength and torture the bliss of our entrails. We are pitiless, mighty and glad, the gods fear our laughter inhuman. Our hearts are heroic and hard; we wear the belt of Orion: Our will has the edge of the thunderbolt, our acts the claws of the lion. We rejoice in the pain we create as a man in the kiss of a woman." Page 641 "Have you seen your fate in the scales ...
... constellations glittering like so many solemn watchfires of the Eternal in the limitless silence which is no void but throbs with the presence of a single calm and tremendous existence; see there Orion with his sword and belt shining as he shone to the Aryan fathers ten thousand years ago at the beginning of the Aryan era, Sirius in his splendour, Lyra sailing billions of miles away in the ocean of ...
... Brahman. In Himself He is calm, quiescent and unmoved, in them He moves and energises. It is far and It is at the same time near. Physically near and far; the Sun and the distant constellations and Orion and Aldebaran and Lyra and whatever utmost star glitters on the outermost mesh of this network of suns and systems, all that is Brahman; and equally this earth which is our dwelling-place, and this ...
... Suffering is the food of our strength and torture the bliss of our entrails. We are pitiless, mighty and glad, the gods fear our laughter inhuman. Our hearts are heroic and hard; we wear the belt of Orion; Our will has the edge of the thunderbolt, our acts the claws of the lion. We rejoice in the pain we create as a man in the kiss of a woman.” “Have you seen your fate in the scales of God, ...
... reprinted. Nag Publication, Delhi, 1977. Sastri, Motilal, Vedasya Sarvā Vīdyāni Bhanatvam, Jaipur. The Hymns of Rig Veda, Griffith, TR., Chokhamba, 1963, Varanasi. Tilak, B.G., Orion, also the arctic home of the Vedas, New Delhi, 1984. Upadhayaya Gopal Baldev, Bhdratiya Darsana, Chokhamba, 1984, Varanasi. Wintermitz, M. History of Indian Literature (English tr.), ...
... bar. He is a great Sanskrit scholar, a powerful writer and a strong, subtle and lucid thinker. He might have filled a large place in the field of contemporary Asiatic scholarship. Even as it is, his Orion and his Arctic Home have acquired at once a world-wide recognition and left as strong a mark as can at all be imprinted on the ever-shifting sands of oriental research. His work on the Gita, no mere ...
... night preceding the busy darshan day, only one light was on — a lamp in Sri Aurobindo’s room. The heaving, roaring breakers must have crashed against the sea-wall as usual. At that time of the year Orion rises in the night-sky. Then the unexpected happened. ‘Between 2.20 and 2.30 the Mother rang the bell,’ writes A.B. Purani, who was on voluntary night duty. ‘I ran up the staircase to be told suddenly ...
... will the tide draw shoreward? Truly the spouting fountains of light, Antares, Arcturus, Tire of their flow, they sing one song but they think of silence. The striding winter giant Orion shines, and dreams darkness. And life, the flicker of men and moths and the wolf on the hill. Though furious for continuance, passionately feeding, passionately Remaking itself ...
... the OED had listed had not gone without the honour of a sequel. Webster's Third New International Dictionary (1966). Vol. I, cities one W.F. Morgan as writing; "I always confuse between him and Orion." Evidently, a wide acquaintance with modern English idiom is not all-sufficing and even a good knowledge of English literature through the ages can fall short. But, among other parts they ...
... इन्दीवरं blue lotus इन्दीवारः, इन्दंबरं इन्दिरा Lakshmi इन्दु, moon ऐन्दव one (cf एक) (इन्) इनः sun .. glorious .. the constellation Hastá (ऐन्य) इन्वकाः the stars in the head of Orion (इत्) एत dappled, shining एतः deer, antelope .. deer-hide .. variegated colour cf चएणकः, एणः = इर् इरम्मदः flash of lightning, submarine fire (therefore not speed) ऐरावती lightning ...
... expert opinion. According to J. B. Fleet, 3 originally the year started at the winter solstice, with Śiśira as the first season beginning then. P. C. Sengupta 4 assures us 1.B. G. Tilak, Orion (Bombay, 1893), p. 41. 2. Ibid., p. 30. 3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica (13th Ed), Vol. XIII, p. 493. 4."Hindu Astronomy", The Cultural Heritage of India (Sri Ramkrishna ...
... the Founder of the Maurya Empire", "Political and Social Organisation of the Maurya Empire", The Cambridge History of India, edited by E. J. Rapson, 1922, I Tilak, B. G., Orion (Bombay, 1893) Vamsatthappakāsmī, I Vedavyasa, Letter to the author, dated November 11, 1972 Venkatachalam, Pandit Kota, Chronology of Kāshmir Reconsidered ...
... "Question the volcano when it burns, chide the fire and bitumen!... We are pitiless, mighty and glad, the gods fear our laughter inhuman. Our hearts are heroic and hard; we bear the belt of Orion: Our will has the edge of the thunderbolt, our acts the claws of the lion." Aren't they afraid of divine retribution, their "fate in the scales of God"? Indeed 'No", they answer: ...
... the desire of pain that men sometimes develop in their minds is morbid and contrary to Nature. But the soul cares not for the mind and its sufferings any more than the iron-master for the pain of the ore in the furnace; it follows its own necessities and its own hunger. The Supreme Lord alone should be the Master and it is He, as a rule, whom the psychic being obeys. 24 May 1970 ...
... on throwing not one hour away: Love's life is precious only if given whole. Because a cup is earthen, trivial, bare, Moulded of moments smirched by the world's eye And no rapt ore of golden secrecy, Forget not in the least life-flow of thine That clay and gold can measure the same wine And love pour out perfection everywhere. Page 388 ...
... home, Tired of the burden of proud misery, From Palos in Moguer, with their rude reverie Drunk, daring plunderers winged through the sea-foam, Fire-eyed to gain the ripe and glittering ore That golden fabulous far Zipangu mined; But their fierce prow the heedless gale inclined Towards the western world's mysterious shore. Each night, dream-messenger of epic dawn. ...
... so fiercely at his world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts it so often into the blood-bath and the red hell-heat of the furnace? Because humanity in the mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which will not otherwise be smelted and shaped; as is his material, so is his method. Let it help to transmute itself into nobler and purer metal, his ways with it will be gentler and sweeter, much loftier... " If only the individual could consent to be spiritualised... could consent. 1 Something in him asks for it, aspires, and all the rest refuses, wants to continue to be what it is: the mixed ore which needs to be cast into the furnace. At the moment we are at a decisive turning-point in the history of the earth, once again. From every side I am asked, "What is going to happen?" Everywhere ...
... blast your fathers drew The breath that loves the desert. To them grew The Saxon dour and the hard German rude, And of that stubborn ore unbrittle, crude, God hammered Him a sword with giant strokes Upon the anvil of the Ocean rocks; His fiercest furnace piled the ore to try; Often He tempered it, often laid by Unknown of all to harden and anneal. He made it not of the fine Damasc steel Comely... brain of war and Dingaan;—there Your steel was once again in the red flare Of that strong furnace tested and annealed, And that its hard rough temper glints might yield Of fire, into its molten ore He sank The Celt's swift force and genius of the Frank: Nor in the wave-washed regions of the south Allowed your home, but to the higher drouth Scourged northward half the iron-minded brood In the ...
... dominant European nations, wanted its own “place in the sun” – but then a rather ample one. Its industry consumed vast amounts of iron ore and coal, of which it had only limited reserves; therefore its industrialists and military planners cast a greedy eye on the iron ore mines and coal fields in Belgium and northern France. The myth of the lack of “living space”, launched at that time of a rapid population ...
... a territory nearly as large as Austria-Hungary and Turkey combined, with 56 000 000 inhabitants, or 32 per cent of her whole population; a third of her railway mileage, 73 per cent of her total iron ore, 89 per cent of her total coal production; and more than 5000 factories and industrial plants.” 264 But Brest-Litovsk is “the forgotten treaty”, though it was not forgotten by Hitler who, as an army... province; 4. Some of the French colonies and most of the Belgian Congo would fall to Germany; 5. To the above should be added the necessary conquests which would give Germany access to the wheat fields and ore basins of Russia and to the oil fields in the Middle East, a war aim prefigured in the peacetime construction of the Berlin-Baghdad railway. 266 This was the minimum programme the German leadership ...
... undivine. But that is an error. We do not regard love, even human love, as an error but a power, a force and energy. Love, even human love, is not to be amputated or rooted out but like gold as ore, it has to be purified. The work is hard but it is worth the trouble. As a matter of fact, however, all the divine qualities— supernals as they have been sometimes called—are of that nature, that ...
... as undivine. But that is an error. We do not regard love, even human love, as an error but a power, a force and energy. Love, even human love, is not to be amputated or rooted out but like gold as ore, it has to be purified. The work is hard but it is worth the trouble. As a matter of fact, however, all the divine qualities – supernals as they have been sometimes called – are of that nature, that ...
... so fiercely at his world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts it so often into the blood-bath and the red hell-heat of the furnace? Because humanity in the mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which will not otherwise be smelted and shaped: as is his material, so is his method. Let it help to transmute itself into nobler and purer metal, his ways with it will be gentler and sweeter, much loftier ...
... attributes, its signs and signals? The light is in one's own consciousness, one has simply to become aware of it. It is mixed p with darkness, imbedded in obscurity, as diamond or gold lies concealed in its ore. But, as I have said, light carries its own authenticity. One cannot fail to recognise it, provided – and that is the sole arid sufficient provision – one is genuinely willing to recognise. A sincere ...
... is the one thing that we envisage and create. Life as it 'is in its own substance and truth, as it lives and moves in its own rhythm, life in its stark naturalness, albeit raw and crude, the living ore found in the earth's vein, unpolished but utterly authentic: this is the supreme secret of which we of the modern age are worshippers. Thus life has come to mean today the life exclusively of the ...
... spiritual realisations are so much imbedded behind, covered so much with the mist of mind's struggle and tension and imaginative construction that it is not always easy to disengage the pure metal from the ore. We shall take the case of one such philosopher and try to illustrate our point. We are thinking of Whitehead. The character of European philosophical mind is well exemplified in this remarkable ...
... belongs to the world of gods, something celestial and divine, something that meets and satisfies man's deepest longing and aspiration. I have been laying special stress upon this aspect of Tag ore's genius, because humanity is in great need of it 'today, because all has gone wrong with the modern world since it lost touch with its soul and was beguiled into a path lighted by false glimmers and ...
... bring us into accord with the laws of order in the universe. I knew an old sage who used to compare men to minerals that were more or less crude, more or less rich, but all containing gold. Let this ore undergo the purifying flames of spiritualisation and at the bottom of the crucible will be found an ingot which is more or less heavy, but always of pure gold. We must therefore seek to release from ...
... of seas (As down the years the splendour voyages From some long-ruined and night-submerged star), And in thy subject sovereign's havening heart Anchor the freightage of its virgin ore; Adding its wasteful more To his own overflowing treasury. So through his river mine shall reach the sea. Here is diction multiply-wrought in the extreme to a little masterpiece, effect ...
... shore And fronted as the morn. Upon his kingly head the crown Was eloquent of Iran's gold Dropping fine threads of glory down Upon the turban's fold. His eyes were drops of smelted ore That in a foundry chase: His lips a cruel promise wore, A marble pride his face. As shows thro' gold caparison Laburnum dusky-stemmed, Thro' silks in Persian harem spun His gorgeous ...
... how to explain the conversion of a profligate and dilettante like Augustine, or of a rebel like Paul, or of scamps like Jagai-Madhai. Often the purest Page 22 gold hides in the basest ore, the diamond is coal turned, as it were, inside out. This, one would say, is the Divine Grace that blows where it lists—makes of the dumb a prattler, of the lame a mountain-climber. Yes, but what is ...
... St. Paul, 9-10, 108 Stalin, 267 Stalinism, 262 Stendha1, 88 Supervielle, Jules, 198 -"Alter Ego", 199-200 -"Lui Seul", 201 -"Saisir", 201 Surya,166 Syria, 284 TAG ORE, RABINDRANATH, 53, 62n., 64, 66, 97-102, 222-3, 226-30, 288 -Balaka, 228 -Gitanjali, 99n -"The Golden Boat", 64n -"Salutation", 266n Tantras, the, 28-9, 165 Terence, 239n ...
... or capacity. Otherwise how to explain the conversion of a profligate and dilettante like Augustine, or of a rebel like Paul, or of scamps like Jagai-Madhai. Often the purest gold hides in the basest ore, the diamond is coal turned, as it were, inside out. This, one would say, is the Divine Grace that blows where it lists – makes of the dumb a prattler, .of the lame a mountain-climber. Yet, but what ...
... well, I lived with him. He wasn't at all an ordinary man who accepted life like most people who are comfortable in life. No, but he was a "dramatizer." Not at all. He is a man of action and an ore prospector. That's the appearance. He is a very simple and rough type. He never used to exhibit anything, never used to say anything, and when he was sensitive to something, outwardly he would ...
... Sh uchanto Agnim vavṛidhanta Indram, úrvam gavyam parishadanto agman. Perfect in action, perfect in light, desiring the godhead, they, grown gods, working out the births as one works the iron ore, making Agni pure-bright, increasing Indra, they went on their way & made their [home] in all the wideness that is the world of the Light (of the Herds). शुचंतो, not merely दीपयंतः; the repeated ...
... ordinary flow of poetry cannot give us." 2 Here we may touch on another side of the perfecting of the poet's means. Keats, adapting Spenser, used in a letter Of his the phrase: "fill every rift with ore." This implies an enriching of every step of the poetic expression — enriching not in the sense of a glaring ornamentation but of picking and choosing one's words with a view to bringing out the finest ...
... IV That Savitri was the great upākhyāna or tale imbedded in the Mahabharata, now being rendered anew in the light of the Aurobindonian vision and packed in its every rift with the ore of his own spiritual experiences, made the poem important enough. Some had a shrewd notion that Savitri as yogic poetry was complementary to the spiritual philosophy of The Life Divine and the ...
... Archipelago; Indian religions conquered China and Japan and spread westwards as far as Palestine and Alexandria. In the ancient architecture, sculpture and art, India laboured to fill every rift with ore, Page 445 occupy every inch with plenty. This was because of the necessity of India's super-abundance of life, of the teeming of the infinite of the Indian soul. Intellectuality is ...
... Matter is not the Evil, nor made up of Evil; it contains or harbours evil under the present circumstances, even as dross is mixed up, inextricably as it appears, with the noble metal in the natural ore; but the dross can be eradicated and the free metal brought out, pure- and noble in its own true nature. It is, as Rumi, the Persian mystic, says in his famous Page 280 ...
... chemical properties of the unknown substance, but only that it emits rays, it was by these rays that we had to search. We first undertook the analysis of pitchblende from St. Joachimsthal. Analyzing this ore by the usual chemical methods, we added an examination of its different parts for radioactivity, by the use of our delicate electrical apparatus. This was the foundation of a new method of chemical analysis... quantities. We had still to separate them as pure elements. On this work we now started. We were very poorly equipped with facilities for this purpose. It was necessary to subject large quantities of ore to careful chemical treatment. We had no money, no suitable laboratory, and no personal help for our great and difficult undertaking. It was like creating something out of nothing, and if my earlier... valueless, and used them for extraction of radium. How glad I was when the sacks arrived, with the brown dust mixed with pine needles, and when the activity proved even greater than that of the primitive ore! It was a stroke of luck that the residues had not been thrown far away or disposed of in some way, but left in a heap in the pine wood near the plant. Some time later, the Austrian government, on the ...
... every phrase is laden with descriptive matter: there is much more poetic information. Only one is laxly built: "Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find". Hood's style does not so "load every rift with ore" (Keats's advice to Shelley): he is occasionally content with more or less conventional language. Compare "The sweets of summer in their luscious cells" with "For Summer has o'erbrimmed their ...
... Archipelago; Indian religions conquered China and Japan and spread westwards as far as Palestine and Alexandria. In the ancient architecture, sculpture and art, India laboured to fill every rift with ore, occupy every inch with plenty. This was because of the necessity of India's super-abundance of life, of the teeming of the infinite of the Indian soul. Page 72 Intellectuality is also ...
... sempiternal person, or even to conceive and have the experience of the highest spiritual reality as Non-Being. Differences of credal belief carne to be perceived by the Indian religion as nothing ore than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead page - 65 in all. What came to unite the plurality of religions was the emphasis on the dynamic praxis of the highest spiritual truth and ...
... built, breaks men and the very structures it had itself erected, shatters Intelligence, shatters the Spirit, shatters even Desire, whenever they tie it to a stake, casts and recasts its terrestrial ore until it has found its own secret—it is Shakti, the Moving Force of the worlds, the Realization, and without Her none lives and none aspires. She is the Fire in the atom and the Fire of the yogi. She... herself naked and continues her very structures it had itself erected, shatters Intelligence, shatters the Spirit, shatters even Desire, whenever they tie it to a stake, casts and recasts its terrestrial ore until it has found its own secret—it is Shakti, the Moving Force of the worlds, the Realization, and without Her none lives and none aspires. She is the Fire in the atom and the Fire of the yogi. She ...
... seas (As down the years the splendour voyages From some long ruined and night-submerg è d star), And in thy subject sovereign's havening heart Anchor the freightage of its virgin ore; Adding its wasteful more To his own overflowing treasury. So through his river mine shall reach the sea... In all these quotations there are several phrases that have a ring of... Trellised with intertwining charities; Page 82 Leaving mine isl è d self behind it far; And in thy subject sovereign's havening heart Anchor the freightage of its virgin ore. In these mixed moments, the Thompson-note has something of Keats — a strain which is more marked when Shelley's is quite subdued, as in the description of the rose and the "vexed gnats", Thompson ...
... energy of life. European critics complain that in her ancient architecture, sculpture and art there is no reticence, no holding back of riches, no blank spaces, that she labours to fill every rift with ore, occupy every inch with Page 23 She creates and creates and is not satisfied and is not tired... plenty. Well, but defect or no, that is the necessity ...
... energy of life. European critics complain that in her ancient architecture, sculpture and art there is no reticence, no holding back of riches, no blank spaces, that she labours to fill every rift with ore, occupy every inch with plenty. Well, but defect or no, that is the necessity of her superabundance of life, of the teeming of the infinite within her. She lavishes her riches because she must, as the ...
... according to the nature of Your subject. The sails resistant to the strong winds of Your grace Take the vessel to its destination through a contrary process. Baptism of fire purifies the ore, transmutes the sordid into sublime. Weak with the weakling, subtle with the cunning, comedian with the fool, Lover with the beloved, Master with the servant, Teacher with the disciple, ...
... even by otherwise sympathetic judges that there is an overloading of ornament and detail which, however beautiful or splendid in itself, stands in the way of unity, an attempt to load every rift with ore, an absence of calm, no unfilled spaces, no relief to the eye. Mr. Archer as usual carries up the adverse criticism to its extreme clamorous top notes; his heavily shotted phrases are all a continuous ...
... the desire of pain that men sometimes develop in their minds is morbid and contrary to Nature. But the soul cares not for the mind & its sufferings any more than the iron-master for the pain of the ore in the furnace; it follows its own necessities and its own hunger. Page 496 524) Pity is sometimes a good substitute for love; but it is always no more than a substitute. 525) Self-pity ...
... crystal clear — is due to his writing of things which are not familiar to the physical mind and writing them with fidelity instead of accommodating them to the latter." Even then, the pantheon — Ore, Los, Urizen, Enitharmon, Tharmas, Enion, a dozen of them, and their sons and daughters — that he has created is a little cumbersome to an English reader, although the gods conceived are unmistakably ...
... with hindsight was usually discernible here and there in their previous reports, till the concretization of a certain line of development became inevitable, as it were, like a subterranean vein of ore suddenly appears on the surface because of a rift in the terrain. The same kind of consideration is applicable to the Mother’s realization of the supramental body. It is very instructive to follow this ...
... produce more steel because it is necessary, but in the process of producing it the higher values evolved by our culture should not suffer. Let us not produce steel at the expense of the precious golden ore of the human material." ____________________________ 23 The Life Divine, P. 763. 24 The Foundations of Indian Culture, P. 22 Page 47 Man, today, is trying to overcome the limits ...
... closest to us in the declarations of Gods and Goddesses when Zeus summons them together in Book VIII. Apropos of Zeus himself Sri Aurobindo says: Page 129 Red, intolerable, anguish of ore that is fused in the hell-heat, Shrink and yearn for coolness and peace and condemn all the labour? Rather look to the purity coming, the steel in its beauty, Rather rejoice with the ...
... :he outer structures and organisations and means of physical and vital satisfactions, on the one hand, and the neglect of the ethical and spiritual dimensions of human life, on the other. One, there ore, hears of the crisis of character, crisis of values and crisis of spiritual evolution. Gripped as we are in this crisis, we are bound to look for the knowledge of ethics and spirituality, of values and ...
... Kalidasa's theme, far exceeds the Sanskrit play in poetic merit. Considering the age at which it was penned, it is more astonishing than even Love and Death. The latter is maturer, more loaded with ore and moulded with a finer grip on the medium, but when we remember that it was in his early twenties Sri Aurobindo tackled the theme of King Pururavus, a mortal hero, making Urvasie, a nymph of heaven ...
... almost every page of Sri Aurobindo's writings is going to bring to them some flash of humour. No, humour is not the key to the habitual mode of his writing. It was rather "to be gotten, like mineral ore, under auspicious conditions, from a wealthy soil." 5 And we have already seen in one of our earlier chapters ("The Disciples' Humour") that what, in Sri Aurobindo's case, served as this "auspicious ...
... fashionable today that even the Ministry of Education has now come to be called the Ministry of Human Resource Development, as if human beings are merely can and fodder, merely a resource like iron ore and other mineral resources. He pointed out that education cannot accept human beings as mere resources; it must look upon human beings as ultimate ends. It is in this context, he said, that human values ...
... White-colour of the pearl reposing in the womb of the mother-of-pearl - Innocence of a little heart, delicate and fine and strong in trust. White - colour of the diamond, miracle of the black-souled ore transfigured - The immaculate consciousness of the Mother, the Mother yet of a sin-bred earth! White-colour of the snow piled on wind-swept peaks grim and bare - Naked and frigid austerity ...
... cultivate a conscious artistry keen enough to make it a prelude to some Macbeth from his own pen! * A conscious artistry careful of every sound and syllable, loading each rift with ore according to Keat's famous advice, is, however, fruitful only when the self-critical mind succeeds in drawing down a new corrective inspiration where the old creative inspiration has left hiatuses. Otherwise ...
... chance are equivalent to the odds against correctly guessing the birthdays of twelve people in succession. In short, though we can never completely eliminate the possibility that the results may be no "ore than a gigantic coincidence, the probability is so small ' The description is: "runs in which the agent merely touched the back of • card without looking at it." Page 195 that ...
... succeeded", so says Sri Aurobindo. But the task was not at all easy Page 207 in all cases. Apart from the psychological resistance that operated against a successful "opening", the raw ore one had to start with offered often to Sri Aurobindo a daunting task. The would-be poet could not become overnight a flawless writer of verse. Also, "inspirations were often mixed up, attenuated in transit ...
... long poems have no true value and are mainly composed of padding and baggage and all that matters are the few perfect lines and passages which shine like jewels among a mass of inferior half worked ore. In that case, the "great" poets ought to be debunked and the world's poetic production valued only for a few lyrics, rare superb passages and scattered lines that we can rescue from the laborious mass ...
... alone the mind in its trouble God beholds, but the spirit behind that has joy of the torture. Might not our human gaze on the smoke of a furnace, the burning Red, intolerable, anguish of ore that is fused in the hell-heat, Shrink and yearn for coolness and peace and condemn all the labour? Rather look to the purity coming, the steel in its beauty, Rather rejoice with the master ...
... It has enormous burning eyes; it has mouths that gape to devour, terrible with many tusks of destruction; it has faces like the fires of Death and Time. She labours to fill every rift with ore, occupy every inch and plenty. Knowledge waits seated beyond mind and intellectual reasoning, throned in the luminous vast of illimitable self-vision. The sword has a joy in the b ...
... whichever direction Rāvana mooted and the arms of the Rākshasas were clasped as it were (even) as they struck. (25) Fallen before Rāvana, the rays of the sun appeared coppery, yellow, white and dark like ores on a mountain. (26) Beholding the angry mien of Rāvana and vomiting fire from their mouths, she jackals, followed by vultures, uttered sinister howls. (27) The wind blew raising clouds of dust over ...
... the image of God who dwells in darkness of Africa, "And thou art fall'n to give me life in regions of dark death." 201 It is also notable that in America Blake, speaking of Ore, brings in verbal turns that send us twice back to the stars' mishap in The Tyger and in The Four Zoas, as well as to the furnace in the former. There are two lines describing Orc: Intense... brain from a furnace. Again, we are told how "the Demon red" who is Orc "burnt... rejoicing in its terrors,... & gath'ring thick / In flames as of a furnace..." 203 On the other hand, we learn that Ore's enemies sent up a howl Of anguish, threw their swords & muskets to the earth & ran From their encampments and dark castles, seeking where to hide From the grim flames, and ...
... so fiercely at his world, tramples and kneads it like dough, casts it so often into the blood-bath and the red hell-heat of the furnace? Because humanity in the mass is still a hard, crude and vile ore which will not otherwise be smelted and shaped; as is his material, so is his method. Let it help to transmute itself into nobler and purer metal, his ways with it will be gentler and sweeter, much loftier ...
... moonstone, transparent quartz beads and bangle shells, dating back to the second century B.C. More important still is the discovery of what appears to be the earliest iron foundry for melting iron from iron ore along with precision instruments used by the artisans. Archaeologists of various countries had already narrowed down to South India the source of supply of innumerable iron pieces found by them from ...
... creates... European critics complain that in her ancient architecture, sculpture and art there is no reticence, no holding back of riches, no blank spaces, that she labours to fill every rift with ore, occupy every inch with plenty. Well, but defect or no, that is the necessity of her superabundance of life, of the teeming of the infinite within her. She lavishes her riches because she must, as the ...
... The powers of the earth have kissed my feet In deep submission, and they yield me tribute, Olives and corn and all fruit-bearing trees, And silver from the bowels of the hills, Marble and iron ore. Fire is my servant. But thou, Poseidon, with thy kindred gods And the wild wings of air resist me. I come To set my feet upon thy azure locks, O shaker of the cliffs. Adore thy sovereign. POSEIDON ...
... town, in the corner of a newspaper or a magazine, or on a piece of an improvised poster, they will act beyond all comprehension, at the most unexpected levels, like a radioactive ore. It might well be the New World Ore. So, get a grip on yourselves and take to action. A grain of heart has unexpected results. By giving all to others, you will receive all yourself. And finally we will all find ourselves ...
... misery of their present position in the constitution 127. New Lamps for Old, March 6, 1894. 128 "Strike off thy fetters! Bonds that bind thee down, Of shining gold, or darker, baser ore... Know, slave is slave, caressed or whipped, not free.” — Vivekananda Page 102 of their State. Their sense of the disabilities and disadvantages of British despotism is ...
... rejoiced. Not alone the mind in its trouble God beholds, but the spirit behind that has joy of the torture. Might not our human gaze on the smoke of a furnace, the burning Red, intolerable, anguish of ore that is fused in the hell-heat, Shrink and yearn for coolness and peace and condemn all the labour? Rather look to the purity coming, the steel in its beauty, Rather rejoice with the master who stands ...
... stand on the same footing in essence as the relation of mind to vital and it is not so easy or primary a matter as Augustine would have it. This puts the problem on another footing with the causes ore clear and, if we are prepared to go far enough, it suggests the way out, the way of Yoga. P.S. All this is quite apart from the contributing and very important factor of plural personality of which ...
... than all that: it is Mother's body. It is her living Force to transform the world. Without it, there is no Auroville. Without it, there is no new world. It is not a book. It is a powerful radioactive ore. You can read it and understand, or not understand, or understand a little what is in it, but it does not really matter; what matters is that you touch this book, that you touch this Force and ...
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