Panis : lords of the lower sense-mentality who steal from us the rays of the illumined consciousness, the brilliant herds of the sun, & pen them up in the caverns of the subconscient in the dense hill of matter.
... and has the light of Swar in it,—and again in IV.51.2, where there is question of the Panis, "They (the Dawns) breaking into dawn pure, purifying, opened the doors of the pen, even of the darkness," vrajasya tamaso dvārā . If in face of all these passages we insist on making a historical myth of the Cows and the Panis, it will be because we are determined to make the Veda mean that in spite of the evidence... the Cows (of the Panis); Indra of the mightiness, Indra of the works released for them the strongly closed cow-pens; when a friend with his friends the Navagwas, following on his knees the cows, when with the ten, the Dashagwas, Indra found the true Sun (or, as I render it, the Truth, the Sun,) dwelling in the darkness." The passage is conclusive; the cows are the Cows of the Panis which the Angirases... in other hymns as Navagwas and Dashagwas, and that which is found by entering the cow-pens of the Panis in the cave of the hill is not the stolen wealth of the Aryans, but "the sun dwelling in the darkness". Therefore it is established beyond question that the cows of the Veda, the cows of the Panis, the cows which are stolen, fought for, pursued, recovered, the cows which are desired by the Rishis ...
... it in a similar way to be only beyond the unknown Anitabha and the known Kubhā and Krumu as well as, of course, the Sindhu. But when the Panis are said in 10,108 to be on the farther side of the Rasā we are no longer in a geographical context. To meet the Panis, Saramā, the envoy of Indra, comes from 'afar' (verse 3) along a 'path' which 'leads far away to distant places', making 'her way o'er Rasā's... concerning Vrikadvaras can be viewed in a more natural way than as a pointer to the Bronze Age culture of Greater Iran at the beginning of the second millennium B.C. When the Aryans called the Panis 'wolf, the Panis may have taken pride in being like that devourer to the Aryans and a leader of them may have defiantly adopted the name Vrikadvaras - or else the Aryans may have coined it for him. And against... the Dāsas, Dasyus and Panis understood each other's language. The 375.P. 219. 376.Pp. 219-20. Page 349 Rgveda repeatedly refers to the enemy's reviling of Indra. A recurrent epithet of the enemy is mṛdhrá-vāc- 'contemptuously or inimically speaking'." The rejection of "noseless" suits Parpola well since the Dasyus, like the Dāsas and Panis, are to him an earlier ...
... chant the true word, the mantra ; Sarama the heavenly hound has to find out the cows in the cave of the Panis; Indra strong with the Soma wine and the Angirases, the seers, his companions, have to follow the track, enter the cave or violently break open the strong places of the hill, defeat the Panis and drive upward the delivered herds. Let us, first, take note of certain features which ought not... from them by violence, sometimes as stealing them from the Aryan who has then to discover and recover the lost wealth by the aid of the gods. The Dasyus who withhold or steal the cows are called the Panis, a word which seems originally to have meant doers, dealers or traffickers; but this significance is sometimes coloured by its further sense of "misers". Their chief is Vala, a demon whose name signifies... or "encloser", as Vritra means the opponent, obstructer or enfolding coverer. It is easy to suggest, as do the scholars who would read as much primitive history as possible into the Veda, that the Panis are the Dravidians and Vala is their chief or god. But this sense can only be upheld in isolated passages; in many hymns it is incompatible with the actual words of the Rishis and turns into a jumble ...
... Cows they protected me so that I came; depart hence, O Panis, to a better place. Depart hence, O Panis, to a better place, let the Cows ye confine go upward by the Truth, the hidden Cows whom Brihaspati finds and Soma and the pressing-stones and the illumined seers." We have the idea also of a voluntary yielding up of their store by the Panis in VI.53, a hymn addressed to the Sun as the Increaser... and his human allies with Page 234 the Dasyus most elaborately described, these Dasyus, Panis and Vritras, cannot possibly be human fighters, tribes or robbers. In this hymn of Hiranyastupa Angirasa the first ten verses clearly refer to the battle for the Cows and therefore to the Panis. "Come, let us go seeking the cows to Indra; for it is he that increases the thought in us; invincible... this is to ignore the fact that the Panis are the withholders of the wealth who keep it for themselves and give it neither to god nor man. The sense obviously is "Having thy much wealth of the delight, do not be a Pani, one who holds his possessions only for himself and keeps them from man; do not hold the delight away from us in thy superconscient as the Panis do in their subconscient secrecy." ...
... evidently the rays of the Dawn or Sun of Truth; they are the cows concealed by the Panis, the illumined thoughts, dhiyaḥ , of the bright hue, ṛtasya dhītayaḥ . All the internal evidence of the Veda wherever this image of the Panis, the Cows, the Angirases occurs establishes invariably the same conclusion. The Panis are the withholders of the thoughts of the Truth, dwellers in the darkness without... Cows won by Indra for the Aryans is the wide world of Swar, the world of the solar Illumination, the threefold luminous regions of Heaven. Therefore equally the Panis must be taken as powers of the cave of Darkness. It is quite true that the Panis are Dasyus or Dasas; they are spoken of constantly by that name, they are described as the Dasa Varna as opposed to the Arya Varna, and varṇa , colour, is the... must take as a whole all the references in the Veda to the Panis, their wealth, their characteristics, the victory of the Gods, the seers and the Aryans over them and adopt uniformly that conclusion which arises from all the passages thus taken together. When we follow this method we find that in many of these passages the idea of the Panis as human beings is absolutely impossible and that they are ...
... of the Panis, a certain type of enemy of the aspirants to Aryanism, the cult of Light. The general term for the enemies of Aryanism is Dasa-Dasyu and, as not only Sri Aurobindo but even Western authorities like A.A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith" 32 inform us, the Panis are also designated as Dasas and Dasyus in some passages. Hence what Sri Aurobindo says in connection with the Panis must hold... Ibid., I, pp. 471,472. Page 206 passages the Panis definitely appear as mythological figures, demons who withhold the cows or waters of heaven." With this fact established from non-Aurobindonian expositors about the anti-Aryans, we may quote Sri Aurobindo 36 on what the Panis must turn out to be throughout the Veda in consequence of the comprehensive method... hold throughout the Rig-veda, and Sri Aurobindo himself intends it to hold when he" writes apropos of the Panis: "It is either an uncritical or a disingenuous method to take isolated passages and give them a particular sense which will do well enough there only while ignoring the numerous other passages in which that sense is patently inapplicable." The situation which arises when we take ...
... is waged against certain powers, the Dasyus and the Panis. Sarama, the heavenly hound runs forward and finds out the Cows in the cave of the Panis. Indra strong with the Some-wine and the Angirasas, the Rishis, who are his companions, follow the track, enter the cave or violently break open the strong places of the hill, defeat the Panis and drive upward the liberated herds. The conquest is... with an action of Panis, the sons of darkness. This concealment of light does not amount to the cancellation of light. There is no destruction of light. But there is none- theless an effective covering of light. This covering is the Night of Darkness, but there is in it a secret light, which is the cherished possession of the forces of darkness, described as Dasyus and Panis, of whom Vritra and... seeker of the Cows, 'gaveshana', and the restorer of the stolen wealth. There are several variations of this legend in the Veda. Sometimes there is no reference to Sarama or the Angirasas or the Panis. Sometimes Agni is referred to as the God who breaks up the dark cave and restores the lost radiances. Sometimes both Agni and Indra have been described as having joined together in the battle over ...
... ambiguity. In fact, in two passages the Panis appear as Dāsas 18 and in one as Dasyus. 19 We learn from the Vedic Index: "In some passages the Panis definitely appear as mythological figures, demons who withhold the cows or waters of heaven... It is difficult to be certain who a Pani was. It is, however, hardly necessary to do more than regard the Panis generally as non-worshippers of the gods... Page 112 prompts us to extend everywhere the demonhood about which we are definite in several places. And what holds for the Panis holds equally for the Dāsas and Dasyus wherever they come in. And this not only because the Panis themselves are called Dāsas and Dasyus but also because the latter, besides being unmistakably supernatural in several places, are equally set by the... represent Indra fighting, Indra destroying forts, or making his followers do so? There is hymn VI.39, where he is pitted against the Panis. The second verse runs:... panīn vachobhir abhi yodhad indrah. Sri Aurobindo translates it: "... by the words he fought against the Panis." 39 And Sri Aurobindo draws our attention to the fact that "it is not with physical weapons but with words that Indra fights ...
... came into collision in the Indus Valley were called Panis in hymns of all the books of the Rgveda. Yaska 17. Ibid., pp. 78 - 79. 18. Ibid., pp. 80-81. Page 193 (Nirukta 6.27) in his comment on Rgveda 8.66.10 says, The Panis are merchants', and in his comment on R.V. 10.108.1 (Nirukta 11.25) he calls the Panis demons. The distinction between the human and the superhuman... practised by the Rigvedics, the conclusion that the much maligned Panis were the representatives of an earlier commercial civilization seems irresistible." Chanda continues: "Among the antiquities unearthed at Mohenjo-dāro are coins with picto-graphic legends that indicate the very early development of commercial life in the Indus Valley. The Panis probably represented this prehistoric civilization of the... must take as a whole all the references in the Veda to the Panis, their wealth, their characteristics, the victory of the Gods, the seers and the Aryans over them and adopt uniformly that conclusion which arises from all the passages thus taken together. When we follow this method we find that in many of these passages the idea of the Panis as human beings is absolutely impossible and that they are ...
... Navagwas, seers of the nine cows or nine rays, who institute the search for the herds of the Sun and the march of Indra to battle with the Panis. Those who sacrifice for ten months are the Dashagwas, seers of the ten rays who enter with Indra into the cave of the Panis and recover the lost herds. The sacrifice is the giving by man of what he possesses in his being to the higher or divine nature and... ascent of the Angiras fathers to the divine world of Swar is the type. Their journey of the sacrifice is also a battle, for it is opposed by Panis, Vritras and other powers of evil and falsehood, and of this warfare the conflict of Indra and the Angirases with the Panis is a principal episode. Page 242 The principal features of sacrifice are the kindling of the divine flame, the offering of the... by Indra and the Angirases in the cave of the Panis. By the rending of that cave the herds of the divine dawn which are the rays of the Sun of Truth ascend the hill of being and the Sun itself ascends to the luminous upper ocean of the divine existence, led over it by the thinkers like a ship over the waters, till it reaches its farther shore. The Panis who conceal the herds, the masters of the nether ...
... black (void of light, like the Panis); showing the truths (the cows of truth) by the Truth he has opened all his Page 217 own doors," pra sūnṛtā diśamāna ṛtena duraś ca viśvā avṛṇod apa svāḥ ; that is to say, he opens the doors of his own world, Swar, after breaking open by his entry into our darkness ( antaḥ kṛṣṇān gāt ) the "human doors" kept closed by the Panis. Such is this remarkable... to master entirely this Vedic conception of the Truth and the discovery of the illuminations of the Dawn by the primeval Fathers; we have to fix the identity of Sarama and the exact function of the Panis, two problems of Vedic interpretation which are very closely related to each other. That Sarama is some power of the Light and probably of the Dawn is very clear; for once we know that the struggle... discovered. Let us see, however, what the Veda itself says of Sarama. Page 211 There is a verse, I.104.5, which does not mention her name, nor is the hymn itself about the Angirases or Panis, yet the line describes accurately enough the part attributed to her in the Veda:—"When this guide became visible, she went, knowing, towards the seat that is as if the home of the Dasyu," prati yat ...
... closely the release of the waters, which is the subject of the Vritra legend, is associated with the release of the cows which is the subject of the legend of the Angiras Rishis and the Panis and that both Vritra and the Panis are powers of the darkness. The cows are the light of the Truth, the true illumining sun, satyaṁ tad ... sūryam ; the waters released from the environing darkness of Vritra are called... kings. The word Indra is generally used as a name, yet we have such significant glimpses of the Vedic method as the description of Usha indratamā aṅgirastamā , "most-Indra", "most-Angiras", and of the Panis as anindrāḥ , "not-Indra", expressions which evidently are meant to convey the possession or absence of the qualities, powers or functionings represented by Indra and the Angiras. We have then to see... also a Brihaspati-power. Brihaspati is called more than once the Angirasa, as in VI.73.1, yo adribhit prathamajā ṛtāvā bṛhaspatir āṅgiraso haviṣmān , "Brihaspati, breaker of the hill (the cave of the Panis), the first-born who has the Truth, the Angirasa, he of the oblation." And in X.47.6 we have a still more significant description of Brihaspati as the Angirasa; pra saptagum ṛtadhītiṁ sumedhāṁ bṛhaspatiṁ ...
... discovery of the Sun dwelling in the darkness is connected with the conquest or recovery of the cows of the Panis by the Angirases; why it is called the discovery of that Truth; what is meant by the footed and hoofed wealth and the field or pasture of the Cow. We begin to see what is the cave of the Panis and why that which is hidden in the lair of Vala is said also to be hidden in the waters released by... nakṣanta ratnaṁ devasya savitur iyānāḥ . It is quite clear therefore that the Angirases are travellers to the light and truth of the solar deity from which are born the luminous cows they wrest from the Panis and to the bliss which, as we always see, is founded on that light and truth. It is clear also that this journey is a growing into the godhead, into the infinite being ( aditayaḥ syāma ), said in this... these herds, gopatiḥ . The Rishi continues to describe the Thought. It is "the thought that when it is being expressed, remains wakeful in the knowledge," does not lend itself to the slumber of the Panis, ya jāgṛvir vidathe śasyamānā ; "that which is born of thee (or, for thee), O Indra, of that take knowledge." This is a constant formula in the Veda. The god, the divine, has to take cognizance of ...
... the Horses not merely the wealth of the Dravidians conquered by invading Aryan tribes, nor even merely images of the physical Dawn, its light and its swiftly moving rays and the darkness of which the Panis and Vritra are the defenders not merely the darkness of the Indian or the Arctic night. We have even been able to hazard a reasonable hypothesis by which we can disentangle the real sense of this imagery... world, that the Rishis are able to get through the ten months, but this thought once found they become assured of the protection of the gods and pass beyond the assault of the evil, the harms of the Panis and Vritras. This Swar-conquering thought is certainly the same as that seven-headed thought which was born from the Truth and discovered by Ayasya the companion of the Navagwas; for by it, we are told... months that have to be spent before the revealing hymn of the soul ( brahma ) is able to discover the seven-headed, heaven-conquering thought which finally carries us beyond the harms of Vritra and the Panis. We get the connection of the rivers and the worlds very clearly in I.62 where Indra is described as breaking the hill by the aid of the Navagwas and breaking Vala by the aid of the Dashagwas. Hymned ...
... that the gods sought and found the clarity, the ghṛtam , triply placed and hidden by the Panis in the cow, gavi . It is beyond doubt that go is used in the Veda in the double sense of Cow and Light; the Cow is the outer symbol, the inner meaning is the Light. The figure of the cows stolen and hidden by the Panis is constant in the Veda. Here it is evident that as the sea is a psychological symbol—the... symbol—the heart-ocean, samudre hṛdi ,—and the Soma is a psychological symbol and the clarified butter is a psychological symbol, the cow in which the gods find the clarified butter hidden by the Panis must also symbolise an inner illumination and not physical light. The cow is really Aditi, the infinite consciousness hidden in the subconscient, and the triple ghṛtam is the triple clarity of the liberated... of the thought-mind, Surya of the supramental light, Vena is Soma, the master of mental delight of existence, creator of the sense-mind. Page 104 We may observe also in passing that the Panis here must perforce be spiritual enemies, powers of darkness, and not Dravidian gods or Dravidian tribes or Dravidian merchants. In the next verse Vamadeva says of the streams of the ghṛtam that they ...
... preferring to reserve themselves for the sense and the lower life, are adorers not of the gods, but of the Panis, lords of the sense-consciousness, traffickers in its limited activities, they who press not the mystic wine, give not the purified offering, raise not the sacred chant. It is the Panis who steal from us the Rays of the illumined consciousness, those brilliant herds of the sun, and pen them... nt, in the dense hill of matter, corrupting even Sarama, the hound of heaven, the luminous intuition, when she comes on their track to the cave of the Panis. But the conception of this hymn belongs to a stage in our inner progress when the Panis have been exceeded and even the Vritras or Coverers who seclude from us our full powers and activities and Vala who holds back the Light, are already overpassed ...
... thunderbolt in which enter the powers of all the gods. Indra is the hero and fighter, and the battle is waged against certain powers, the Dasyus and the Panis and Vala. Sarama, the heavenly hound runs forward and finds out the cows in the cave of the Panis. Indra strong with the soma-wine and the Angirasas, the Rishis, who are his companions, follow the track. The battle with the adversaries continues... and during the tenth month, Ayasya discovers the seven-headed Thought, becomes universalised, and victory becomes possible. Entry into the cave is effected and strong places of the hill are broken, Panis are defeated and the liberated herds of cows are driven upward. The hidden light is found, the Dawn is brought to birth, the lost sun is recovered, and the luminous world of Swar in which we possess... In its search it finds that our life is a battle between the powers of Light and the powers of Darkness, between the Gods who are the immortals and adversaries of various names, Vritra, Vala and the Panis and Dasyus and their Kings. To fight successfully, the Yogi is required to seek the help of the powers and beings of light and to build the way of ascent to the goal. There are four features of ...
... behind the fortress gates of the Panis." A fierce battle ensues. The Angirasas and their divine comrades fall on the enemy with their full battle-cry. Brihaspati, the Master of the Creative Word, the chief of the Angirasas, "with his cry broke the hills," the stronghold of the Panis, the stealers, who had hidden the cows of Usha in the dark cavern-pens. The Panis who make the knot of the crookedness... Dasyus. But the road to their country was beset with peril. For this home of the Dasyus, which they themselves describe as the world of falsehood beyond the bound of things, is the stronghold of the Panis, the lair of Vala, the Titan. Who among the god kind is capable of guiding the others to the secret places of the confiners? Sarama. For she is the Intuition who "leads in the search for the radiant... companies of the robbers of the Deep are crushed in their inaccessible dwelling. The Ashwins open the doors of the strong pens that hold the kine. The Rishis and the Gods enter the cave-pen of the Panis and drive upward the liberated herds of Usha. Under the alert eyes of the Ashwins the shining cows are driven back to their Page 52 own wide field: the great, manifold and blissful ...
... the Panis; when Madhuchchhandas says to Indra, "Thou didst uncover the hole of Vala of the Cows", he means that Vala is the concealer, the withholder of the Light and it is the concealed Light that Indra restores to the sacrificer. The recovery of the lost or stolen cows is constantly spoken of in the Vedic hymns and its sense will be clear enough when we come to examine the legend of the Panis and... symbolic and a kindred significance. The image of the Cow is constantly associated in Veda with the Dawn and the Sun; it also recurs in the legend of the recovery of the lost cows from the cave of the Panis by Indra and Brihaspati with the aid of the hound Sarama and the Angirasa Rishis. The conception of the Dawn and the legend of the Angirasas are at the very heart of the Vedic cult and may almost be... horses (vital force) and of many enjoyments. The herds which Usha gives are therefore the shining troops of the Light recovered by the gods and the Angirasa Rishis from the strong places of Vala and the Panis and the wealth of cows (and horses) for which the Rishis constantly pray can be no other than a wealth of this same Light; for it is impossible to suppose that the cows which Usha is said to give in ...
... Angiras, on the unity of the nine-rayed and the ten-rayed seers who by the utter thought of the soul, by the word that illumines broke open the fortified pens, "pens of the darkness" in which the Panis, misers and traffickers of the Night, had shut up the Sun's radiant herds. Her rays are as loosings forth of these shining ones; the Dawns themselves are as if the Page 483 released upward... Truth; let horses bring thee that are well-governed, golden of hue, wide in their strength." Like all the leaders of the Path, she is a destroyer of enemies. While the Aryan wakes in the dawn, the Panis, misers of Life and Light, sleep unawakening in the heart of the darkness where there are not her varied rays of knowledge. Like an armed hero she drives away our enemies and dispels the darkness like... companion of our felicity. The return of the night of ignorance which intervenes between the successive dawns is imaged as the loss of the radiant herds of the Sun frequently stolen from the seer by the Panis and sometimes as the loss of the Sun itself hidden by them again in their tenebrous cavern of the subconscient. The increase which Pushan gives depends on the recovery of these disappearing illuminations ...
... sense the significant legends and figures on which they constantly return, the conquest over Vritra and the battle with the Vritras, his powers, the recovery of the Sun, the Waters, the Cows, from the Panis or other Dasyus, the whole Rig Veda reveals itself as a body of doctrine and practice, esoteric, occult, spiritual, such as might have been given by the mystics in any ancient country but which actually... giving in return the horses of power, the Page 12 herds of light, the heroes of Strength to be his retinue, winning for him victory in his battle with the hosts of Darkness, Vritras, Dasyus, Panis. When the Rishi says, "Let us become conscious whether by the War-Horse or by the Word of a Strength beyond men", his words have either a mystic significance or they have no coherent meaning at all... walking in front, he is asking for a great body of spiritual power led by the light or, as we may translate it, "with the Ray-Cow walking in its front". 3 As one hymn describes the recovery from the Panis of the mass of the rays (the cows,—the shining herds, gavyam ), so another hymn asks Agni for amass or abundance or power of the horse— aśvyam . So too the Rishi asks sometimes for the heroes or fighting ...
... Who were the enemies "overpowered and slain" and lying "shattered all around Vailasthāna"? 133 Vala is the chief of the Dasa-Dasyu demons named Panis 133 The Panis are Vala's followers when they withhold the cows and Vritra's when they withhold the waters 133 Indra is named both "Vala-slayer" and "Vritra-slayer" ... and opposed both to the Gods and the Gods' followers 111 Dasa-Dasyus called "non-men" 111-112 "Non-men" no mere hyperbole for "inhuman" 112 Panis as Dasa-Dasyus 112 All Dasa-Dasyus characterized as non-worshippers 113 The true sense of anas and kṛiṣṇa-tvāch 113 Macdonell and Keith on... 133 Close resemblance here with Burrow's verse about "enemies overpowered and slain", and the pens of cows conjure up "Mahāvailastha" 133 The inimical Panis who lie shattered around "Vailasthāna" seem to be of the same company as the evil spirits and demons there: both are non-human 133 The cows appear to be symbolic, associated as ...
... who withhold or steal the cows," says Sri Aurobindo, "are called the Panis, a word which seems originally to have meant doers, dealers or traffickers; but this significance is sometimes coloured by its further sense of 'misers'. Their chief is Vala..." 25 We may recall what Macdonell and Keith observes "In some passages the Panis definitely appear as mythological figures, demons who withhold the cows... "enemies... overpowered and slain", we may note Brihaspati who, "overpowering unfriends", "slays the foes". Again we may put "Mahāvailastha" along with "great pens... full of the kine". The inimical Panis who lie shattered around Vailasthāna seem to be of the same company as the evil spirits and demons: both are non-human. And the kine appear to be 25. The Secret of the Veda, p. 134. 26. The ...
... the Vedic Sarama and that of her abductor Paris is not so very different from the Vedic Pani. It may be noted that in the Vedic story Sarama is not the sister of the Aswins and is not abducted by the Panis and that there is no other resemblance between the Vedic legend & the Greek tradition. So by more recent speculation even Yudhishthira and his brothers and the famous dog of theMahabharat are raised... heaven. It is evident that these combinations are merely an ingenious play of fancy & prove absolutely nothing. Hercules may be the Sun but it is not proved. Helen & Paris may be Sarama & one of the Panis, but itis not proved. Yudhishthira & his brothers may be an astronomical myth, but it is not proved. For the rest, the unsubstantiality & rash presumption of the Sun myth theory has not failed to give... moment refer to the Dravidian races,—I am, indeed, disposed to doubt whether there was ever any such entity in India as a separate Aryan or a separate Dravidian race,—but always to Vritra, Vala & the Panis and other, primarily non-human, opponents of the gods and their worshippers. The new interpretations given to Vedic words & riks seem to me sometimes right & well grounded, often arbitrary & unfounded ...
... amṛtatvāya gātum ; that the vision ( ketu ) of the Dawn, the Day won by the Angirases, is the vision proper to the Truth-consciousness; that the luminous cows of the Sun and Dawn wrested from the Panis are the illuminations of this truth-consciousness which help to form the thought of the Truth, ṛtasya dhītiḥ , complete in the seven-headed thought of Ayasya; that the Night of the Veda is the obscured... downflowing earthward of the seven rivers must be the outstreaming action of the sevenfold principle of our being as it is formulated in the Truth of the divine or immortal existence. Equally then must the Panis be the powers that prevent the Truth from emerging out of the subconscient condition and that constantly strive to steal its illuminations from man and throw him back into the Night, and Vritra must... offspring, that is in divine works and their results and this is to be effected through the conquest of all the riches held in itself by our divided mortal being but kept from us by the Vritras and Panis and through the holding of them in the infinite divine being. The latter is to be in us protected from the ordinary tendency of our human existence, from subjection to the sons of Danu or Diti. The ...
... Truth into the ineffable wideness. It is described also as a battle against individual enemies or groups of enemies, a Vritra, the Coverer, a Vala, the wall of concealment who fences in the Light, Panis, lords of sense-activity who intercept the herds of the divine Rays & pen them up in the obscure cavern of our unexpressed being behind this outward material life—or the battle is, generally, against... the adhara, this nine-gated city of ours in which we guard our gettings and enjoy our felicity; धिः is holding, supporting. Always attacked by spiritual enemies, Dasyus, Rakshasas, Daityas, Vritras, Panis, it has to be maintained and upheld by the strength of the gods, Indra first, Indra always, Indra foremost. यस्य संस्थे न वृण्वते हरी समस्तु शत्रवः । तस्मा इन्द्राय गायत ।।४।। Sing to that Indra ...
... there comes the effective sacrifice. By the sacrifice the Dawn itself and the lost Sun are constantly conquered out of the returning Night and the luminous herds rescued from the darkling cave of the Panis; by the sacrifice the rain of the abundance of heaven is poured out for us and the sevenfold waters of the higher existence descend impetuously upon our earth because the coils of the obscuring Python... enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail, each with his proper evil. Then there are Vala and the Panis, miser traffickers in the sense-life, stealers and concealers of the higher Light and its illuminations which they can only darken and misuse,—an impious host who are jealous of their store and will ...
... and Panis to give to man are the herds, the waters and the Sun or the solar world, gā apaḥ svaḥ . The question is whether these references are to the rains of heaven, the rivers of Northern India possessed or assailed by the Dravidians—the Vritras being sometimes the Dravidians and sometimes their gods, the herds possessed or robbed from the Aryan settlers by the indigenous "robbers",—the Panis who ...
... Dhrishnave . S. “for the conqueror”. But dhrishnu , the violent one is a constant epithet and quality of Indra and his action. The wealth is won by Indra in the battle with the Vritras and Panis and given by him to the Aryan sacrificer. × Mada-chyutâ . S. “overthrowing the pride of the enemy”... [ ] × वेदः possession, getting, having, from विद् to find, and knowledge, from विद् to know. The Panis keep the herds of light in their cave, Vritra the waters of the Truth in his cloud, he is, as the old commentators suggested, the Coverer who hides and withholds all desirable things from man. What ...
... record in our cells, Sāvitrī, Book II, Canto 5. Page 16 (8) (a) They who are conscious of the much falsehood in the world... Rig Veda, VII. 60-5 (b) Panis who make the knot of the crookedness, who have not the will to works, spoilers of speech who have no faith—He has broken down by his blows the walls that limit. Rig Veda, VII. 6-3. (9)... inspired speech for scythe And plundered the Unknowable's vast estate." Sāvitrī, Book I, Canto 3. This recalls the vedic image of Brihaspati and Angirasa breaking open the hill of the Panis by the inspired word. (17) (a) "Their cry heated all the earth and heaven". Rig Veda, III. 36-10. (b) "Severing the hill of heaven by die words" Rig Veda, V. 45-1 ...
... even more Sri Aurobindo than Mother in this occurrence, as if He said in His irrefutable tone: This is enough). We will see how it develops, but we are sure to have to face all sorts of obscure “panis” and “dasyus” rising out of their caves. 47 And when the full Work — sacrificial Work — concretizes in Matter under the form of a book, we will see a lot of things happen. What is being played... 46 The official Bulletin of the Ashram, which I was editing. × 47 In the Rig-Veda, panis and dasyus are the beings of darkness who hide in their caves the “herds of lightâ€� that they have stolen. × ...
... jangling discords of human nature into the unity and .harmony and light and bliss of the supramental nature. It is this supreme Force alone that can send its shafts of light into the caves of the panis ¹ , the obscure subterranean regions of our being, and release from there the penned cows, gāvdh, the radiances of the submerged Spirit, and turn all darkness into light, all inertia into conscious... and use them for Her divine ends, imparting to knowledge "a conquering might" and to beauty and harmony "a high and mounting movement"; Mahālaksmī will turn its parts of emotion ¹ The Panis, according to the Veda, are the lords of the senseconsciousness who steal from us the brilliant herds (rays) of the sun and pen them up in the caverns of the subconscient and the dense hill (adrī) ...
... favourable to the development of immortality. This is the process of Yajna, called often Yoga when applied exclusively to the subjective movements & adhwara when applied to the objective. The Vritras, Panis etc of the Bhuvarloka who are constantly preventing man’s growth & throwing back his development, have to be attacked and slain by the gods, for they are not entirely immortal. The sacrifice is largely... as well as the outer struggles of life, the battle with the jealous forces of Nature, with Vala, the grudging guardian of light, with the great obscuring dragon Vritra & his hosts, with the thieving Panis, with all the many forces that oppose man’s evolution & support limitation and evil. A great many of the words for sacrifice, mean also war Page 58 and battle, in Sanscrit or in its kindred ...
... not vajavad, but working without foundation, in a void, like secondhand glimpses of Sat in nothingness, in vacuum, in Asat; and, therefore, easily impaired, easily lost hold of, easily stolen by the Panis or the Vritras. All these defects Madhuchchhanda has noticed in his own experience; his prayer is for an inspired knowledge which shall be full & free & perfect, not marred even in a small degree by... luminous? Does gomat mean the fellow who has the cows & is Vala a demon of cloud or darkness afflicted with the cow-stealing propensities, the Titanic bovi-kleptomania attributed by tradition to the Panis? He is, I suggest, one of the Titans who deny a higher ascent to man, a Titan who possesses but withholds & hides the luminous realms of ideal truth from man,—interposing the hiranmayam patram of the ...
... This is of interest, because I realized that what I had seen the other day (I told you about it) and then what I saw yesterday—that whole domain—was connected to what the Vedas call the dasyus —the panis and the dasyus 4 —the enemies of the Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power like Indra's 5 (though something far, far greater), and at war with darkness everywhere, like this... yesterday [January 26] that I perceived this, and it was quite interesting.' × In the Vedas, the panis and dasyus represent beings or forces hidden in subterranean caves who have stolen the 'Riches' or the 'Lights', symbolized by herds of cows. With the help of the gods, the Aryan warrior must recover ...
... power of intuition of the Rishis plays an important role. Sarama represents the power of intuition. Sarama encounters the panis, who are the enemies of light-seekers (cow-seekers) and who have stolen and concealed the light in the cave of the hill. Sarama threatens the panis with the coming of the Rishi Ayasya and the Navagwa Amgirasas. 32 Indra plays a decisive role. In Rig Veda, 33 we find a ...
... consciousness and all that transcends the cosmic consciousness. The conquest of immortality, the Vedic Rishis discovered, involved also a long and difficult battle with formidable powers, Dasyus, Panis, Vritra; and the courage and heroism required in this battle imparted to the Vedic Rishis intimate knowledge of the intricacies of the web of the world as also of the knowledge of inner means by which... knowledge and they also aim at inspiring increasing number of people to apply that knowledge in fighting battles of life. As the Veda is an account of the inner battle of life with Vritra Vala and Panis, even so Puranas give an account of the battle between Gods, Devas and their enemies Asuras, Rakshasas and Pishachas. As the Veda speaks of immortality as the goal, even so Puranas speak of the ...
... This is of interest, because I realized that what I had seen the other day (I told you about it) and then what I saw yesterday—that whole domain—was connected to what the Vedas call the dasyus— the panis and the dasyus ² — the enemies of the Light. And this Force that came was very clearly a power _______________________________________ ¹. A few days later, Mother rectified: 'I have looked... vanished civilization and the Indian civilization which grew out of the Vedic Age. It was g yesterday [January 26] that I perceived this, and it was quite interesting.' " ². In the Vedas, the panis and dasyus represent beings or forces hidden in subterranean caves who have stolen the 'Riches' or the 'Lights', symbolized by herds of cows. 'with the help of the gods, the Aryan warrior must recover ...
... He often behaves in a manner which to the ordinary mind may appear to be cruel. But the attitude is quite different. Thus, in the Vedas, the Panis steal the cows of heaven – the Sun – and conceal them in the caves. When the Panis are conquered the cows are released and rise heavenward. Disciple : So, can one say that the Higher Power sends hostile forces to the Sadhaka ? ...
... gods, working in man for his attainment to Immortality. They are the sages who received the strong divine vision, nṛcakṣasaḥ , the Truth-vision by which they were able to find the Cows hidden by the Panis and to pass beyond the bounds of the Rodasi, the mental and physical consciousness, to the Superconscient, the Vast Truth and the Bliss (R.V. I.36.7, IV.1.13-18, IV.2.15-18 etc.). Soma is the Gandharva ...
... satyam is used elsewhere in the Veda to mean "that truth" and is applied to the hidden sun or imprisoned light which the Angirases find as the result of their sacrifice & seeking in the cave of the Panis. Here too in connection with the same phrase tat satyam , Agni is described as the Angiras. The coincidence can hardly be fortuitous. Now the Angiras of the Veda, we shall find, is precisely the s ...
... completely manifested, the base of sacrifice in the soul includes all the various planes of our being.The Divine Force, the Angiras, the puissance of Seer Will and the Son of Strength overpowering the Panis and Vritras, effects this completeness. 6) He is the envoy & effects the great commerce between earth & heaven, bringing the gods down from the higher planes so that they may be manifested in man ...
... nt physical. It is there that habitual movements, mental and vital, are stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge. No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep in dreams. It is only when they are cleared out of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by ...
... Oxford History of India, The, 4fn. Oxus, 77 Painted Grey Ware (PGW), 5, 6, 57, 98 Paippalada version, 87 Pali, 89, 103 Pandit, P.B., 50fn. Pānini, 91, 103 Panis, 110, 116, 133 Pānchāla, 15 Pariśishṭa, 44 Parnians, 116 Parpola, Asko, 50fn. Parsis, 16, 17 Paruṣṇī, 126 Passek, 74 Paśupati, 42 Pataliputra, 103 ...
... division and limitation, Coverers, Tearers, Devourers, Confiners, Dualisers, Obstructers, as their names indicate, powers that work against the free and unified integrality of the being. These Vritras, Panis, Atris, Rakshasas, Sambara, Vala, Namuchi, are not Dravidian kings and gods, as the modern mind with its exaggerated historic sense would like them to be; they represent a more antique idea better suited ...
... powers by the luminous and flaming descent of the suns of the Supermind and the release of the eighth Sun of Truth hidden in the Earth, in the darkness of the Inconscience, in the cavern of Vala and his Panis, this is the first step towards the restoration of the Earth Mother to her own divinity and the earth-existence to its native light, truth, life and bliss of immaculate Ananda. Page 1340 ...
... as a giving and worship, a battle and a journey. It was the centre of a battle between the Gods aided by Aryan men on one side and the Titans or destroyers on the opposite faction, Dasyus, Vritras, Panis, Rakshasas, later called Daityas and Asuras, between the powers of the Truth or Light and the powers of falsehood, division, darkness. It was a journey, because the sacrifice travelled from earth to ...
... have been shut on you; these two at least act one and the other without striving or effort, the two which Brahmanaspati has revealed. (6) They who journey to him, enjoy the supreme treasure of the Panis, the lords of active sense, which is hidden in the secret places of being, they get the knowledge, they distinguish by their gaze all untruths and to the place whence they came, they go up again till ...
... subconscient physical. It is there that habitual movements, mental and vital, are stored and from there they come up into the waking mind. Driven out of the upper consciousness, it is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge. No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they come up in sleep as dreams. It is only when they are cleared out of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by the ...
... the downward way. 6 Thus begins the quest for the 'lost sun,' the long 'pilgrimage' of descent into the inconscient and the merciless fight against the dark forces, the 'thieves of the sun,' the panis and vritras , pythons and giants, hidden in the 'dark lair' with the whole cohort of usurpers: the dualizers, the confiners, the tearers, the COVERERS. But the 'divine worker,' Agni , is helped by ...
... only—you will be able to discern, from time to time, from place to place, an "intuition" that something else is possible: in the Vedas, for instance (the injunction to descend deep into the cave of the Panis ); in the Tantras also ... a little light burning. I may add that you could adopt as motto for your first project this quotation of Sri Aurobindo: "We do not belong to the past dawns, but to ...
... "milk" had been confined by irreligious powers. In the Rigveda (X. 108.6) we have actually the expression sahasā daivyena about the heavenly Sara-ma who comes pressing upon the dark powers named the Panis to let the hidden Cows go upward to the Truth. Or else there might have been a reference to Prithu's most memorable work and the phrase put forth: Dohanēśa, meaning either "Lord of the Milking" ...
... Pāndya country, 95 'Pāndyakavāta', 380 Pānini: Ashtādhyāyi; Ganapātha 248-54, 344, 345, 262.288. 325, 326, 344, 385, 395-6, 425.455, 498. 568.578. 581, 582, 583, 592, 594-5 Panis, 90 Pannavana Sūtra. 257 Parades, 530 Paramakambojas, 289 Paramayonas, 289 Paramesvara, 4 Paranavitana. A. P., 34, 35, 37. 231, 363, 370, 371 Parasāra ...
... experiences. Those who do not give the delight in them as an offering to the divine Powers, preferring to reserve themselves for the sense and the lower life, are adorers not of the gods, but of the Panis, lords of the sense-consciousness, traffickers in its limited activities, they who press not the mystic wine, give not the purified offering, raise not the sacred chant." It is because of the spiritual ...
... 230 Mussolini, 274 NACHIKETAS, 19-20, 32-3, 35, 105 Naidu, Sarojini, 62n Nazism, 262 Newton, 300 Nietzsche, 126, 243, 297 North Pole, 27 Norway, 175 PAKISTAN, 267 Panis, 13 Parasara, 162 Pascal, Blaise, 107-13 -Le Pari, 110 -Les Provinciales, 112 Pasternak, Boris; 185-90 -Dr. Zhivago, 185 -"Earth", 190n -"Encounter", 189n ...
... happiness from above and hides them in the underground darkness. No spiritual realisation can come and stay unless this nibbling enemy is tracked and brought to light. The Veda gives a similar image. The panis, the dark Asuras seize even the sun and store it away in their secret caverns. Indra, the lord of the Divine Mind, has to come and with his fulgurating thunderbolt pierce the hills – the earth-built ...
... Vedic Rishis pray to them f or Power and Bliss and f or the vision of the Sun.¹ There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer. My suggestion is that the dog is a symbol of the keen sight of Intuition, the unfailing perception of direct knowledge. ...
... obscure occult machinery, Captured the mystic Morse whose measured lilt Transmits the messages of the cosmic Force." (ibid.) The first part of this refers to the cave-dwelling Panis of the Veda and the latter deals with the mystic Morse code which transmits the messages of the cosmic Force. As for mathematics, there is— "Necessity's logarithmic table" and "the calculus of destiny" ...
... One, most full of light". Dirghatamas, " One, who is, or was, long in darkness ". Vrita " One who covers "; Vrika " One who tears "; Vishwamitra "The friend of all " " Universal friend; " Panis " The trafficker "; Dhenu " One who nourishes. "³ Sacrifice-yajna-" , in the Veda is symbolic. Sacrifice really is a means of interchange between men and the gods. Sacrifice in the ...
... law of thy actions, O God. The Ribhus are the "artisans of Immortality", Vishnu is the all-pervading godhead, Soma is Lord of delight and also the divine food. As for the conquest of the Panis or the Dasyus by the Aryans, "it is clear that these Pani dasyus are crooked powers of the falsehood and ignorance who set their false knowledge, their false strength, will and works against the true ...
... on the downward path. Thus begins the quest for the "lost sun," the long "pilgrimage" of the descent into the inconscient, and the merciless fight against the dark forces—the "thieves of the sun," panis and vritras . pythons and giants hidden in the "dark lair" with the whole cohort of the usurpers : the dualizers, obstructors, tearers, and COVERERS. But the "divine worker," Agni , is aided by the ...
... increasing of our dhanáni, the yoga, s áti & vriddhi, are the gods; the powers which oppose & labour to rob us of this wealth are our enemies & plunderers, dasyus, and appear under various names, Vritras, Panis, Daityas, Rakshasas, Yatudhanas. The wealth itself may be the substance of mental light and knowledge or of vital health, delight & longevity or of material strength & beauty or it may be external ...
... Our life is a battle between the powers of Light and Truth, the Gods who are the Immortals and the powers of Darkness. These are spoken of under various names as Vritra and Vritras, Vala and the Panis, the Dasyus and their kings. We have to call in the aid of the Gods to destroy the opposition of these powers of Darkness who conceal the Light** from us or rob us of it, who obstruct the flowing of ...
... only—you will be able to discern, from time to time, from place to place, an 'intuition' that something else is possible; in the Vedas, for instance (the injunction to descend deep into the cave of the Panis); in the Tantras also... a little light is burning. 3 31 March 1967 Sri Aurobindo does not belong to the past nor to history. Sri Aurobindo is the Future advancing towards its realisation ...
... Greek and Sanskrit names and the ingenious discovery that Heracles' pyre is Page 28 an image of the setting sun or that Paris and Helen are Greek corruptions of the Vedic Sarama and the Panis make an interesting diversion for an imaginative mind, but can by themselves lead to no serious result, even if they should prove to be correct. Nor is their correctness beyond serious doubt, for it ...
... Sankhya ]—this plane was spoken of more as inconscient than subconscient—it is practically the indiscriminate or jaḍa prakṛti , perhaps—or the seed state. In the Veda it is symbolised by the cave of the Panis. Perhaps by looking through books like the Yogavasishtha one could find something about the subconscient in fact though not in express terms. You had asked the other day about the subconscient ...
... The seven Angiras seers, sons of the Flame, discovered, says the Veda, that Truth, the sun that was lodged in the darkness. This inconscient darkness is figured as the cave of the Panis; Indra and the Angiras seers enter and find the shining cows of the Dawn, the Dawn herself, the Day, the Sun, the vision of knowledge and man's path to immortality. This is the day said in the next ...
... , bound in the body—"the Bull roars aloud; great is the Divinity that has entered into mortals." For the "ghritam", the clear light of the mentality reflecting the Truth, has been hidden by the Panis, the lords of the lower sense-activity, and shut up in the subconscient; in our thoughts, in our desires, in our physical consciousness the Light and the Ananda have been triply established, but they ...
... enemies arise out of him. Shushna afflicts us with his impure and ineffective force, Namuchi fights man by his weaknesses, and others too assail, each with his proper evil. Then there are Vala and the Panis, miser traffickers in the sense-life, stealers and concealers of the higher Light and its illuminations which they can only darken and misuse,—an impious host who are jealous of their store and will ...
... passing we may note here that there is a curious and at the same time brilliant mixture of two images, the first being that of troglodytes or cave-dwellers which reminds us of the Vedic figure of Panis who penned in the divine cows in their subconscient cave, and the second is that of the Morse code. But this is not all, for even one of the most prosaic of all persons, the newspaper reporter is ...
... Page 429 Pakthuns, 357 pana (= price), 194 Pānchāla, 239 Panchmukhi, R.S., 219 Pānini, 268 Pani (etymology), 207, 292-3, 346-9 Panis, 206, 207, 284, 285, 291-3, 295-7, 305, 340-50, 359, 362-3, 365, 397 Panjab, see Punjāb Paravatas, 291 Parna Tree (Butea frondosa), 293 parna, 292 Parṇáya ...
... the kine of Helios slain by the companions of Odysseus in the Odyssey, stolen by Hermes from his brother Apollo in the Homeric hymn to Hermes. They are the cows concealed by the enemy Vala, by the Panis ...' ,63 In modem imagery we would speak of the rays of Truth covered by the coat of falsehood, the rays of Light shrouded by the dense mantle of Darkness, coming out of their covering. This uncovering ...
... and a more or less complete union with the One and Divine or full emergence of the individual soul in the Absolute. The Vedic idea of the battle between gods and their adversaries, Vritra, Panis, and Dasyus is retained m the Purano-Tantric system, although names are different and the stories and legends of their battles as also their victories are varied and described in great detail. ...
... What is this battle? In the Veda you find the great story of the forces of Light and the forces of Darkness. The forces of Light are called the Gods. The forces of Darkness are called Dasyus, Panis, Pishachas, Rakshasas, Asuras. There is a great battle between the two. If you want to fight the battle, this battle can be fought, and it can be fought systematically. This is the yoga of the Veda: ...
... Cabbala are full of their accounts. Zoroaster of ancient Persia specifically warned the aspirants of the spiritual path about the clever ploys of these hostile beings. The Vedas of India called them the Panis who like nocturnal robbers plunder the sadhakas of their truth-light, rt am Page 328 jyotih, hiranyam jyotih. Devi Saptashati, commonly known as the Chandi, held in equal reverence ...
... The Vedic Rishis pray to them for Power and Bliss and for the vision of the Sun.1 There is also the Hound of Heaven, Sarama, who comes down and discovers the luminous cows stolen and hidden by the Panis in their dark caves; she is the path-finder for Indra, the deliverer. My suggestion is that the dog is a symbol of the keen sight of Intuition, the unfailing perception of direct knowledge. With ...
... Nepal , 254 Nishikanta, 195-6 Nripendrakrishna, 190-1 ODYSSEY, 22 PADMA,287 Palit, Labanya, 169 Panchatantra, 77 Panis, 272 Paraclete, 23 Parasurama, 148 Parvati, 152, 154 Pondicherry , 11n., 12 Pulastya, 149 RADHA, 307 Ramakrishna, 106 ...
... pointed tusks. Thus with his indomitable power Vivekananda upheld India before the world and awakened her to establish herself in the assembly of nations. Or he is, as it were, the Indra of the Vedas. Panis had, removed the Sun and concealed him in a cave. Indra cleaved through the rocks and rescued him from the robbers and raised him from the darkness to the heavens above. So runs the mythological story ...
... action of the physical plane". Angirasa , in the Veda at least, means Page 242 the power of Agni which releases the cows – the Light – from the cave of darkness of the panis with the help of the Word and Indra and the other gods. Disciple : There is a description of the vital and its function. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, vyān is the right side ; ap ān is the ...
... And how it came out! It had to come out of its hiding place there, in that animal filth around the cells, so that the “other thing” could come out—it was the very sign of the operation. The famous panis of the Vedic Rishis, the wolves, devourers and gnomes of all sorts hidden in the “cave” and who were impeding the “dawn,” the breaking out of the “sun in the obscurity,” the forcing open of the “mountain ...
... ugliness of it all. Cruelty and corruption have taken Page 379 the place of justice and purity in men's hearts. It is horrid to see the degradation of humans. Unimaginable. As though the Panis had taken over the Earth. Everything is twisted out of recognition. Where is the truth? The Divine and the undivine Forces battle it out, destroy everything, everything is called into question. "The ...
... connected with the universal both by direct contact and through the mind, vital and body." Page 317 seems also to have no bottom." In the Veda it is symbolized by the cave of the Panis, Sri Aurobindo clarified. You do remember, don't you, how Mother could go from sheath 1 to sheath till she arrived at the threshold of the Formless? She had learned to do that from the Théons ...
... leads towards the light and the high fulfilment. In the meanwhile, the task is not easy. The divine sweetness and solicitude lights upon this hardened divinity: but the inertia of the Inconscient, the 'Pani', hides still the light within its rocky cave and would not deliver it. The Divine Grace, mellow with all the tears of love and sympathy and tenderness she has gathered for the labouring godhead, has ...
... 282-3n., 285n., 289n., 291n., 336 Mozart, 427 Mysteries, 192 -Orphic, 192 -Eleusinian, 192 NAPOLEON, 116,209,406 OFFERTORY, the, 82 Olympians, 46, 253 PANDAVAS, the, 76 Pani, the, 164 Pantheon, 299 Paris, 242, 287, 356, 376 Pashu, the, 80 Petrarch, 209 Pharaohs, the, 200 Pishacha, the, 80,213 Plato, 34, 120, 134, 178 Plotinus, 34, 40 Pondicherry ...
... "The liberation that one gains at the fall of the body is indeed the highest one, for this liberation cannot be negatived any more" ("piṇḍapātena yā muktiḥ sa muktirna tu hanyate": Yogaśikho-pani ṣ ad, 1.163). "At the fall of his body the Yogi merges in his supreme self-being, just as the space inside an earthen pot vanishes in the great cosmic Space, when the pot is broken and gone" ...
... It was like a risk, an involuntary risk. But then there are the risks you take voluntarily, not knowing what will happen. And for that we have a beautiful saying: Jin khoja tin paiyan gahare pani paith. Mein bauri dooban dari, rahi kinaare baith The ancestors have said that if you want to get something you have to jump into deep waters. Those who seek, they get, and for ...
... in enjoyment. Today & not later the Ananda will begin. More force is needed. The normal writing must improve. Force cannot come, because the enemy makes use of it,—not Indra, not Vritra, not even Pani, but the Rakshasa,—Rakshaswi. Therefore only the calm stable or even regular force comes. But Rudrani needs a powerful and rushing force for her work, not merely a swift, even and unfailing force. It ...
... of the Knowledge of the Truth: "The Angirasas held the supreme manifestation (of the Truth), they who had lit the fire, by perfect accomplishment of the work; they gained the whole enjoyment of the Pani, its herds of the cows and the horses. Atharvan first formed the Path, thereafter, Surya was born as the protector of the Law and the Blissful One, tatah sūryo vratapā vena ājani. Ushanas Kavya ...
... the beacon ( praketa ) is there furnished by "a message ... ablaze upon creation's quivering edge." One of the most significant of Vedic myths was that of the cows stolen by the robbers ( pani ) who kept them hidden in dark rocky caves. The cows were found by Sarama, the divine hound and liberated by Indra. Sri Aurobindo has analysed the myth and brought out the rich spiritual significance ...
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