Passage to India : Whitman’s poem first published in his Leaves of Grass in 1871.
... been found — an America beyond Columbus's discovery, a country even beyond the India Columbus dreamed of reaching when he stumbled upon America, a land towards which Whitman moved when he cried "Passage to India!" but which is truly seen when we hear his deeper cry: "Passage to more than India!" For, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are leaders, from an Indian starting-point, to a Future where all earth will ...
... groups here and there, grass-roots seekers for a different reality. I've now at last finished a fourth volume of my life. No volume about any life could be conclusive but mine ends with my 'passage to India'. The India, that is, of the Imagination. Here I must stop, there is much to be done before I leave for U.S.A. Then our Temenos conference in October. There will be twelve issues. I still wish... Spiritual War... of the eternal against the temporal truths". It's indeed good news that you have at last finished a fourth volume of your life-story. When you say that it ends with your "passage to India" - the India of the Imagination a la Blake - do you not mean that it contains an account of all that your mind has mirrored and your heart echoed of the Mantra-vibrant Light which still persists ...
... The journey done, the journeyman come home, And man and art with Nature fused again... The Almighty leader now for once has signalled with his wand. And some part of his work, as in the Passage to India , opens out even into a fuller and profounder sense of its meaning. He sees it here as a new voyage of the human spirit,—"O farther sail!" Sail forth, steer for the deep waters only... For ...
... pay in those days. Sri Aurobindo now made preparations to return to India. He applied for and received the final payment of his ICS stipend. This helped him to settle his debts and book his passage to India. About his debts, there is an amusing story which Sri Aurobindo related to us. 'There was a tailor at Cambridge,' he said, 'who used to tempt me with all sorts of cloth for suits and make me ...
... the "decisive turn" in her life. She first acquired the habit of inward concentration, and learned to open herself to the psychic and the spiritual, and at last she was permitted to make the "passage to India" and join the Ashram. Sri Aurobindo gave her the name 'Nishta' ("one-pointed, fixed and steady concentration, devotion and faith in the single aim - the Divine and the Divine Realisation"), and ...
... to enable them to make the journey and to provide for a two-year stay. 4 Richard's political and humanitarian mission and Mirra's pilgrimage of the Spirit were to coalesce in their momentous passage to India, with results that perhaps even they could not have anticipated. But a Divinity does shape our ends, however little we may be aware of this; and in 1920, Mirra recalled in the course of a co ...
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