... In India where a roadside stone can be turned into an idol, it is little wonder that precious metals and gemstones as repositories of occult powers should find place in mystic-spiritual poetry. Precious stones are structurally more perfect than ordinary stones. These can be charged with consciousness. Such can also be their use in literary creations. This use can go far beyond the ideas of ornamentation... 'sapphire' at the metronymic level is a gem worn by the youth; at the metaphoric level sapphire is the insignia of his royalty. Savitri is assured the fulfilment of her mission." There are other precious stones also in Savitri and where they occur they have significant roles in the development of specific themes of the poem. Thus diamond threads signify the invincible strength that binds the lovers ...
... palace with its beautiful towers of various designs resembling auspicious assemblage of clouds and comparable to the peak of Kailāsa as well as with its pleasure houses adorned with bunches of precious stones and rising above the sky like (so many) aerial cars, the heir apparent, who was glowing with his inborn splendour entered the well known palace of his father, the foremost of (all) mansions on... in the Dandaka forest, wear matted locks and the bark of trees for seven and seven years. (37) Let Bharata rule over this earth that is owned by Daśaratha (the king of Ayodhyā) and is full of precious stones of various kinds and crowded with chariots driven by horses. (38) Overwhelmed with compassion (for you) due to this circumstance (of having granted a couple of boons in my favour), this monarch ...
... gemstones help us recall a similar poetic method, refined and upgraded to the level of a tradition, in Savitri . Sri Aurobindo has encrusted the lines of his epic with an abundance of gold and precious stones in order to translate for the common reader something of that ineffable grandeur of the higher planes of consciousness. In his book Letters On Yoga Sri Aurobindo discusses the spiritual value... The 'mystic silence' that envelops the poet prepares the right atmosphere for the descent of Mantra or the Creative Power. Although 'gold' has dominated K.D. Sethna's imagination other precious stones and gems have also graced his poems. "A Diamond Is Burning Upward" (p. 140) in the eponymous poem refers possibly to the psychic aspiration limited by the seemingly roofless but walled enclosure ...
... disturbed him during his afternoon rest, for we were rather boisterous and noisy. To keep us occupied, one day, the Mother brought us a game which She Herself had made. It was the game of ‘Precious Stones’. It had picture cards each representing a precious stone. The pictures were coloured by the Mother to show us the exact colour of the stones. Below each card She had Herself written the name of... card in his hand, he put both the cards aside. If not, he would replace the little card in the stack at the bottom. The player who finished all the cards first was the winner. List of Precious Stones It was very important for us to win because at the end the Mother always asked who had won the maximum number of games and the winner was always rewarded with a chocolate or a small gift ...
... go up at mid-day after school and wait at the top of the staircase. She evolved games that we played with her as she wanted us to develop our memory and impressions. There were occult powers in precious stones (amethyst, sapphire, ruby) and she made up cards explaining the various meaning of the stones. The same game was devised for learning the spiritual meanings and significance of flowers and plants ...
... Mother's words. She states categorically that stones hav& the power of receptivity: Perhaps they have even something resembling sensitivity. For instance, if you have a precious stone—precious stones of course have a much more perfect structure than ordinary ones, and with perfection consciousness increases—but if you take a precious stone, you can charge it with consciousness and force; ...
... Jnaneshwar gives a very glowing account in a number of places. Thus at the beginning of the eighteenth chapter he describes the Gita-Palace or the Gita-Temple as follows: Imagine a mountain of precious stones and jewels; imagine somewhere there a quarry master busy with the excavation work; imagine also a wide flat land where an imposing temple is built using the unlimited supply of this construction ...
... artificial stones to be paved from the gate to the Mother's Pavilion in gradations, because they are full of meaning. The Mother revealed many interesting things about the precious and semi-precious stones. According to her, Topaz corresponds to Jupiter, the God of benevolence. It is topmost and has tremendous power over other planets. In 1965 the Mother asked me to wear Topaz, because she ...
... the sun declining from our sight Begins the day with our Antipodes! And shall I die, and this unconquer è d? Lo here, my sons, are all the golden mines, Inestimable drugs and precious stones, More worth than Asia and the world beside; And from th'Antarctic Pole eastward behold As much more land which never was descried, Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright ...
... very large number of Śrī Krsna's calves, they engaged themselves in various boyish games, as the calves grazed. 4. Though their mothers had decorated them with ornaments of Kācha, red beads, precious stones, gold etc., they regaled themselves with additional decorations of fruits, tender leaves, bunches of flower, flower buds, peacock feathers and mineral powders. 5. Some of them would in play thieve ...
... reason, my mother removed this brooch and stuck it into my coat-pocket: "Keep it there, I'll take it a little later." Page 167 My mother's gold-brooch studded with pearls and precious stones was very expensive and her name was inscribed on it "Prafulla". But my mother just forgot all about it and I too did not pay any heed. When we returned home and started looking for it we found ...
... evening meditation and blessing, we took permission from Her to go and see Her for the next darshan that was to take place upstairs. I had put all the jewels in a beautiful silver box embedded with precious stones, which I was carrying with me. As soon as I found myself in front of Her, I spontaneously opened the silver box and said, "Sweet Mother, Ma and I could bring only these for you from Calcutta. They ...
... Canal at Poduke as our town was then called. A Roman emporium, a trader's town where Mediterranean wines and swords, Germanic slaves and Roman gold were exchanged for the spices and silks, precious stones, cottons and peacocks of India. The poet prince Illango, brother of the Chera King Kovalan, describes how 'Auroville' appeared in the first century. The text is translated from the original ...
... Presence. There are stones—if you know how to do it—that can accumulate forces. They can accumulate forces, keep them and transmit them. One Page 228 can take stones (what are called precious stones) and concentrate forces into them and they keep them. And these forces irradiate slowly, very gradually. But if one knows how to do it one can accumulate such a quantity as would last, so to speak ...
... you said that stones have a kind of receptivity. Yes. What kind of receptivity? Perhaps they have even something resembling sensitivity. For instance, if you have a precious stone—precious stones of course have a much more perfect structure than ordinary ones, and with perfection consciousness increases—but if you take a precious stone, you can charge it with consciousness and force; you ...
... certain of attaining what he seeks. Try not to discover this one among the men who excel and shine, for these excel and shine only in being, somewhat more perfectly, similar to their own kind. Precious stones also excel and shine among all the other stones, but the most beautiful gem is outside the series of chemical combinations from whence comes forth life. In the same way, ascending the series of ...
... not passing brave to be a king, And ride in triumph through Persepolis? Page 71 or frantically, Lo here, my sons, are all the golden mines, Inestimable drugs and precious stones, More worth than Asia and the world beside... And shall I die and this unconquered? or else piquantly: To make whole cities caper in the air. Davenant in a couple of exultantly ...
... to False Religion. He says that Satan has been "permitted... to imitate / The Eternal Great Humanity Divine": hence this False God's advent from midst of a bright Paved-work Of precious stones by Cherubim surrounded... 342 Nor is it an accident that Blake writes how "Rahab Babylon" -the delusive and cruel Religion of Rational Morality - appeared: Glorious as the ...
... different coloured lilies and lotuses, small bridges, rockeries in Japanese style with varieties of cactus. There will be only one entrance. The pavement will be decorated with precious and semi-precious stones. This area will be surrounded by a huge lake. On one side of it, there will be tall trees—they mean Unity. On the other side of the lake there will be hillocks with fir and pine trees. The Mother's ...
... I saw a woman sit upon a scarlet coloured beast, full of names of blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns. And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filth-iness of her fornication: and upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS ...
... of both St. Petersburg and Moscow with delightful palaces, country houses and parks. She also had a mania for collecting works of art, paintings, statues, carpets, gold and ebony work, coins, precious stones and so forth; her busy agents, recruited from among the best in Europe, literally stripped the private collections of France, England and Italy. She was also to become an enlightened Maecena ...
... the Rāghavas, you as such ought not to violate today the time honoured practice of your House. Like your father, highly illustrious as you are, rule the Page 145 earth abounding in precious stones and consisting of numerous dominions." (37) Canto CXI Having spoken to Śrī Rāma (as aforesaid) on that occasion, the said Vasistha, the family-priest of the king, addressed (to him) ...
... for themselves? PHILOSOPHER. Natural science explains the principles of natural phenomena, and the properties of matter; it is concerned with the nature of the elements, metals, minerals, precious stones, plants, and animals, and teaches us the causes of meteors, rainbows, will-o'-the-wisp, comets, lightning, thunder and thunderbolts, rain, snow, hail, tempests, and whirlwinds. MR JOURDAIN ...
... splendid than the arrangement of domes and arches. The marble columns number over five hundred. The famous Pala d'Oro — a magnificent block of fine, hammered gold, enamelled and inlaid with precious stones —is above the main altar. In a word, as said Mother, "a marvellous place, of great beauty." The cathedrals in Venice are "so beautiful, oh, so magnificent!" But let us return to Mother's story ...
... meditations (“Do not live to be happy, live to serve the Divine, and the happiness you enjoy will exceed all expectation”) in the notebook which Tara carried around, by playing “The Magic Circle” or “Precious Stones” with the Ashram children. Growing Up with The Mother thus turns out to be the Book of Beginnings for aspirants in the world of Aurobindonian Yoga. We realise that it is also an Ananda yoga ...
... no nivāsī nīlādrau nihitacaraṇo'nantaśirasi, rasānando rādhāsarasavapurāliṅganasukho jagannāthaḥ svāmī nayanapathagāmī bhavatu me.6 I do not want Kingdom, nor wealth of Gold and precious stones. I do not want a wife who is desirable to everybody. Please manifest Thyself within my sight, O the Lord of the universe, whose sport is ever sung by Siva. O Who is the Crown of Brahma ...
... The Game of Flowers Finally, She brought us the ‘Game of Flowers’, in which She took great interest. The game was played exactly in the same way as the ‘Precious Stones Game’ with two sets of cards. One set was the picture of the flower and its spiritual significance. It also had the botanical and common names written underneath but which had no importance for ...
... though in the form you have made, at the centre there were a little precious Page 228 stone which you had placed there and wanted to cover with successive forms. You transfer your little precious stone from one form to another—and the comparison is still incomplete, for the precious stone becomes more and more precious as it passes from one object to another—and it would be as though, by ...
... given to the depth by an adjective made from the name of a precious stone: not merely redness is here but a Page 285 tangible object saving the depth from striking us as an abstraction artificially daubed over with a colour-epithet. Justice is done to the substantiality of spiritual experience. Thirdly, the ruby is a precious stone found not on earth's surface but far underground: in addition ...
... “To Mr Adolf Hitler, my dear Armanen-brother”. The Armanen were Guido von List’s present-day Edelmenschen, or supermen. “Logapore, wodan wigiponare” was an inscription in old Germanic on a precious stone found at Nordendorf, in Bavaria, and meant: “Logapore and Wotan, give divine protection”. Babette Steininger has been identified as one of the first members of the NSDAP in Munich. 1012 “That ...
... can take what you call a precious stone and concentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate afterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to do it, you can accumulate a Page 38 quantity of force to last almost indefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union, stones that serve as accumulators... inertia—of the stone, for example—can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence. There is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually called inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what is there high above and although it cannot express it, it feels the thing and that affects it although in different ways. In the stone, in things and... rs of energy and stones that may serve as foretellers of circumstances, they may carry messages. Therefore, as they can serve as accumulators, it means that they carry in themselves the source of the Force itself, otherwise they would not be receptive. It is a force of this kind that is the origin of the phenomenon of crystallisation. Crystals gather together in matter, it is already a ...
... call a precious stone and concentrate a force or forces in it. It retains them. These forces radiate afterwards very slowly, but increasingly, progressively. And if you know how to do it, you can charge it with a quantity of force quite enough to last almost indefinitely so to say. There are stones that serve as intermediaries of union, stones that serve as accumulators of energy and stones that may... inertia – of the stone, for example – can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence. There is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually called inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what is there high above and although it cannot express it, it feels the thing and that affects it although in different ways. In the stone, in things and... otherwise they would not be receptive. It is a force of this kind that is the origin of the phenomenon of crystallisation. Crystals gather together in matter, it is already a movement of love. Stones that crystallise, rock crystals, for Page 132 example, form wonderful designs, so magnificent in their absolute harmony; that comes because of only one thing – the Force of Love ...
... window that is as if a niche, a recess, to hold a statue, and she looks like a statue moulded by some Greek or Roman sculptor. Poised she still is, but there is a lamp in her hand, a lamp made of a precious stone, a lamp which may be fancied as catching for human guidance the brilliance beyond the window. And for this semi-enigmatic figure the one word that breaks on the poet's mind from the antiquity to ...
... concreteness given to the depth by an adjective made from the name of a precious stone: not merely redness is here but a tangible object saving the depth from striking us as an abstraction arti-ficially daubed over with a colour-epithet. Justice is done to the substantiality of spiritual experience. Thirdly, the ruby is a pre-cious stone found not on earth's surface but far underground: in addition to an ...
... Ragas. मुकंदकः onion मुकुः liberation; moksha. मुकुटं crown, tiara; crest, peak, point. मुकुती cracking the fingers. मुकुन्दः Vishnu; quicksilver; a precious stone; a kind of drum; one of the nine treasures. मुकुन्दकः a kind of grain; onion. मुकुरः mirror, looking-glass; bud; handle of a potter’s wheel; Bakula tree; mallika creeper. मुकुलः... a blue stone used as a collyrium colour कुलहंडकः eddy कुलहंडकः, कूलहुंडकः कुलांक्षुता bitch कौलेयकः dog, hound कुलाभिः treasure कुलायं nest.. body.. place, spot.. contain a case, receptacle web कुलायिका dovecot, aviary कुलालिका contain कुलालः potter wild cock.. owl sound कुलाली blue stone कुलं, कुलत्थिका... loins ककुन्दरः hollow mooring stake .. mast.. rock or tree in midst of river (Subst) projection funeral pile. (Subst) heap boat. hollow, contain कूपिका stone or rock in mid stream. कूप्य in a well or hole कूपारः ocean कूवारः: (cf कुपिन्दः & कूविन्दः) cover or curve, roll — cf χῦμα कूपूषं bladder. substance (swelled) ...
... they grew progressively bigger too. Finally, once it continued up to midnight. The stones fell, making a big noise, on the kitchen roof, the courtyard and elsewhere. We had to inform the police. The police came. Suddenly, while a constable was looking carefully around the place a stone shot out from between his legs. Frightened out of his wits, the poor man ran for his life. So then we began to examine... young boy working for us. That link had to be cut and if the boy could be given a job elsewhere, then the stone-throwing would stop. So he was sent to work in another house. "The Mother told me, 'We'll see what it is.' She went into meditation and gave a call, 'Let us see, who is throwing stones at us now? You must come and tell us.' The Mother saw three little vital entities which have no strength... Tagore's lines where he makes the Brahmin say to Sanatana: 'That nameless treasure I beg of thee which makes all earthly gems dim and pale. Thus saying, on the sandy river-bank he cast away his precious stone.' "This is absolutely true. Now for your next question. It is not that we cannot lighten your burden of pain and misery; in fact, we do it and I am sure some of you must have experienced this ...
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