Richard : (1) Duke of Gloucester, later King Richard III in Shakespeare’s Richard III; (2) a name mentioned in The Courtship of Miles Standish by Longfellow
... spare, Richard went to see Aurobindo and discussed with him all possible topics. Although Richard was not susceptible to Aurobindo’s spiritual realizations, he had an enormous respect for his intellectual powers. Which of them was the first to moot the publication of a review that would expound Aurobindo’s views? In a letter to a disciple Sri Aurobindo later wrote that it was Paul Richard. ‘Richard proposed... Aurobindo spoke rather highly of Richard. In a letter written in April to Motilal Roy, he says: ‘Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes like myself, and in his own way works for a general renovation of the world by which the present European civilization shall be replaced by a spiritual civilization … He and Madame Richard are rare examples of European Yogins... letter he characterizes Richard as a European ‘who is practically an Indian in belief, in personal culture, in sympathies and aspirations, one of the Nivedita type.’ Did Aurobindo know who Richard essentially was, namely an incarnation of the Asura of Falsehood? Given his advanced yogic capabilities there can be no doubt that he did; also, the relationship between Mirra and Richard must soon have become ...
... Laporte and Richard. Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes like myself, and in his own way works for a general renovation of the world by which the present European civilisation shall be replaced by a spiritual civilisation. In that change the resurrection of the Asiatic races and especially of India is an essential point. He and Madame Richard are rare... for Richard; some of its communes are going to support him; some of the leaders who are themselves pledged to Bluysen have promised to tell their followers that they are free to vote for Richard if they wish; the Mahomedan leaders of Karikal are for Bluysen or rather for his money, but the mass have resolved to vote neither for Bluysen nor Lemaire, and either not to vote at all or for Richard. At ... that can be given during the next few days. If in addition Chandernagore can give a large vote for Richard, there is a chance not of carrying Richard but of preventing a decisive vote at the first election, so that there may be a second ballot. If that is done, great numbers who hesitate to vote for Richard in the idea that Bluysen must carry all before him, may pick up courage and turn the whole situation ...
... noticed that as soon as one speaks of Richard one is unwittingly led to tell lies. That's why I am so terribly careful to avoid the subject. The first issue began with The Wherefore of the Worlds (the English following the French), and in it Richard attributed the origin of the world to Desire. They were in perpetual disagreement on this subject, Richard saying, 'It is Desire,' and Sri Aurobindo... Aurobindo, 'The initial force of the Manifestation is Joy.' Then Richard would say, 'God DESIRED to know Himself,' and Sri Aurobindo, 'No, God had the Joy of knowing Himself.' And it went on and on like that! When Richard went to Japan, he sent his manuscripts to Sri Aurobindo, including The Wherefore of the Worlds and The Eternal Wisdom , and Sri Aurobindo continued to translate them into English. ... 'I had better go.' Then Richard managed to have himself sent Page 370 to Japan on business (an admirable feat!), representing certain companies. People didn't want to travel because it was dangerous—you risked being sunk to the bottom of the sea; so they were pleased when we offered and sent us to Japan. Once there (this would also make a great novel), Richard continued writing and sending ...
... refused categorically ‘to budge one inch’. Madame Richard exerted her influence on the French governor of Pondicherry, and her brother Mattéo managed to hush up the affair at the Ministry of the Colonies in Paris. The British authorities would continue keeping an eye on Sri Aurobindo till 1936. In June 1914, Sri Aurobindo and Paul and Mirra Richard decided to publish a periodical to spread Sri Aurobindo’s... painful. She knew that her place was with Sri Aurobindo, but she had promised herself that she would convert Paul Richard who, like Max Théon, was the incarnation of a great Asura ; this was particularly important in these times of transition and it was the true reason for her marriage with Richard. The moment of her full collaboration with Sri Aurobindo had not yet arrived. ‘I had left my psychic being... in India. She seized the opportunity to take the train to Pondicherry and visit Aurobindo Ghose ‘of whom friends of mine have had such a good opinion’. These friends obviously were Mirra and Paul Richard. About her visit she wrote the next day to her husband: ‘I spent two wonderful hours reviewing the ancient philosophical ideas of India with a man of rare intelligence. He belongs to that uncommon ...
... direction, Richard was involved in the electioneering excitement. Early in April, Sri Aurobindo sent Richard's electoral declaration to Motilal Roy of Chandernagore asking for his support. Richard, said Sri Aurobindo, was a friend and a Yogin, and a believer in the resurrection of the Asiatic races, and his success in the election would be a very good thing. Sri Aurobindo added: If Richard were... of Pondicherry and Karikal. Even so it was patent that Richard was fighting against odds. On 5 May Sri Aurobindo wrote to Motilal again. The election, as Page 89 expected, went against Richard. Richard's votes in Pondicherry and Karikal were got rid of "by the simple process of reading Paul Bluysen wherever Paul Richard was printed"! 43 Sri Aurobindo described the many corrupt... future are blank but rich with promise. Four years earlier, Paul Richard had returned from a visit to India and told her of his meetings with Sri Aurobindo Ghose at Pondicherry. But between Sri Aurobindo and her there had already been established occult links of deep understanding regarding their future mission on the earth. Paul Richard had decided that he would himself Page 78 contest ...
... mind, what possible motive moved Richard to compass this heartless crime or John to assist him? All that day of sorrow Richard was absent from the house, and Armand had no chance of probing him. It was late at night, about eleven, that he entered. Armand met him on his way to his room, candle in hand. "I should like a word with you, Richard," he said. Richard turned on him, laughing with a terrible... yet was not the face of Richard Lancaster. Richard immediately moved over to the door. As he neared, Armand drew away from it with the first pang of absolute terror in his heart he had ever experienced since his childhood. Richard Lancaster noted the emotion and it seemed to amuse him, for he laughed. And again there was something in the laugh that was not in the laugh of Richard Lancaster or of any human... he lay gazing at the door of Bertha Abelard's death chamber. And then a very simple explanation flashed on him. Baulked by the locked door, Richard had climbed up by the ivy from outside and effected his entry from Bertha's chamber. But Isabel was not with Richard tonight—how could he have got possession of the key? Well, conceivably, Isabel might have left her keys by oversight in her own chamber, or ...
... their initiatory rites, the cadres of the Third Republic.’ 12 Mirra and Richard grew much closer after her divorce from Morisset in March 1908. She studied law along with Richard – we are reminded of her studying mathematics together with her brother – so extensively that she ‘could have passed the examination.’ Richard obtained his law degree from the Académie de Lille in July 1908. 13 Shortly... as interpreter, for Richard had little English. This interpreter later wrote in his memoirs that the meeting went well and that Aurobindo Ghose became more and more interested in his visitor. Paul Richard, from his side, came away with a high opinion of the Indian master, but he was much more laudatory about his knowledge than about his spiritual realization, for which Richard did not possess the necessary... century old. She had continued to correspond sporadically with her former friend Mirra Richard, she addressing the Mother as Chère amie de jadis , (dear friend of yesteryear) the Mother replying with Chère amie de toujours (dear friend of always). Yes, Mirra was now Mirra Richard. She had married Paul Richard on 5 May 1911, and went to live in his house (which still exists at 9 Rue du Val-de-Grâce ...
... [April 1914] Dear M. I send you today the electoral declaration of M. Paul Richard, one of the candidates at the approaching election for the French Chamber. This election is of some importance to us; for there are two of the candidates who represent our views to a great extent, Laporte & Richard. Richard is not only a personal friend of mine and a brother in the Yoga, but he wishes, like... Page 199 B. nor Lemaire, & either not to vote at all or for Richard. At Pondicherry, Villenour has promised to declare for Richard the day before the election so as to avoid prolonged administrative pressure. Certain sections of the community e.g. the young men among the Christians and a number of the Mahomedans,—Richard is to speak at the mosque and a great number may possibly come over,—and... that can be given during the next few days. If in addition Chandernagore can give a large vote for Richard, there is a chance not of carrying Richard but of preventing a decisive vote at the first election, so that there may be a second ballot. If that is done, great numbers who hesitate to vote for Richard in the idea that Bluysen must carry all before him, may pick up courage & turn the whole situation ...
... "The following decisions in the nature of trikaladrishti rising out of telepathis were registered for observation of success or failure. "1. Both will come —i.e. Richard & Madame Richard. "N.B. Madame Richard was ill; moreover the Governor visited them at the time of their usual visit here; but they both came subsequently at 6 p.m., 2 hours later than the regular time. "2. ... has been fulfilled after a lapse of precisely three weeks due to a small difficulty which was not overcome owing to a want of energy in the search...." The house found for Madame and Monsieur Richard was 7 rue Dupleix (now 3 Nehru Street). It was in this house that Amrita first saw the Mother. Amrita sketched by Mother in 1920 It was Bejoy who had introduced Amrita... the Arya. Sri Aurobindo's grasp of the material comes through vividly in the details given in his letter. "That Page 426 attempt takes the form of a new philosophical Review with Richard and myself as Editors—the Arya, which is to be brought out in French and English, two separate editions,—one for France, one for India, England and America. In this Review my new theory of the Veda ...
... × Richard Dawkins: A Devil’s Chaplain , p. 13. × Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley (eds.): Richard Dawkins , pp. 250-1. × Richard Dawkins: op. cit., p. 13. ... on my head.” The audience had given him a standing ovation, writes Wilson, and he had proceeded with his lecture. 18 Yet, the sociobiology story was far from finished. Richard Dawkins – The Triumph of the Genes Richard Dawkins (born in 1941) is undeniably the most famous biologist alive. His books are sold in great numbers, he is a darling of the media, and he has a vocal following among ... × Richard Dawkins: op. cit., p. 189. × Jacques Monod: op. cit., pp. 208-9. × Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion , p. 191. ...
... Paul Richard received a commission to promote the export of French products in China and Japan, as the following letter dated 28 February 1916 makes clear: ‘The bearer of this letter, Mr. Paul Richard, a barrister at the Court of Appeals at Paris and a delegate of the National Union for the Export of French Products, is on his way to Japan and China. Kindly extend a warm welcome to Mr. Richard should... offering. For throughout its life, without knowing it or with some presentiment of it, it was Thou whom it was seeking …’ 2 Paul and Mirra Richard were in Paris again; they would stay there, in relative safety, till the beginning of March 1916. Paul Richard had been exempted from military service on (simulated?) medical grounds. As for Mirra, after the taxing physical and spiritual ordeal she had... The Mother , p. 191. × Paul Richard, To the Nations , p. XV. × Paul Richard, The Lord of the Nations , p. X. × ...
... excavations have brought to light in Greater Iran "a long continuous belt of many sites sharing a fairly uniform * In finalizing this Supplement I have received very valuable help from my friend Richard Hartz, an expert Sanskritist and a keen as well as meticulous mind, from the Archives and Research Department of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Page 204 culture at the end... Indo-European language is that the horse is not represented among the many realistically depicted animals of the Harappan seals and figurines. Comprehensive bone analyses by one of the best experts, Richard Meadow, have yielded the conclusion that there is no clear osteological evidence of the horse (Equus caballus) in the Indian subcontinent prior to c. 2000 B.C. Obviously the Aryans are not likely... culture makes no odds to the observed absence of the horse from the latter and to the inconsistency Parpola has committed. Horse-evidence from both outside and inside the Indus Valley Richard Meadow seems to have overshot the mark in the matter of equine evidence. Lai, though unwilling to believe that the Harappa Culture knew the horse, was not so dogmatic. He 29 refers to an area outside ...
... She was Madame Mirra Richard and she had arrived with her husband, Paul, in the sleepy colonial port that very morning. The Richards had boarded the Japanese ship Kagu Maru in Marseilles three weeks earlier, sailed through the Suez Canal up to Colombo, crossed the Palk Strait, boarded the Boat Mail at Danushkodi and arrived safely at their exotic destination. Paul Richard was a philosopher and... Pondicherry, looking for a safe haven from the British authorities who wanted to arrest him, “the most dangerous man in India”, at any cost. Richard had been deeply impressed by Aurobindo Ghose and had told his wife about him. The reason she accompanied Richard on his second visit to Pondicherry may well have been that he wished her to meet Aurobindo Ghose. Richard’s aim was to get himself elected as... After his first visit to Pondicherry, Paul Richard had brought back a photograph of Aurobindo Ghose and she, despite her advanced occult capacities, had seen only the politician in him. Therefore, while walking the mile or so from her hotel to the house where Ghose was living with a few companions, all of them Bengali revolutionaries, Madame Richard perhaps had mixed expectations. Paul had already ...
... Inside the Third Reich, p. 68. 644 Joachim Fest, op. cit., p. 284. 645 Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh: Secret Germany, p. 259. 646 Hermann Bahr quoted in Michael Ley and Julius Schoeps (ed.): Der Nationalsozialismus als politische Religion, p. 209. 647 Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, op. cit., p. 247. 648 Peter Levenda: Unholy Alliance, p. 44. 649 Thomas Freller: ... 226. 710 Hugo von Hofmannsthal, in Stefan Breur, op. cit., p. 25. 711 Ibid. 712 Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh: Secret Germany, pp. 110-11. 713 George Mosse, op. cit., p. 209. 714 Id., p. 68. 715 George Mosse, op. cit., pp. 210, 211. 716 Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, op. cit., p. 110. 717 Stefan Breuer, op. cit., p. 225. 718 Baigent and Leigh, op. cit., p. 274.... der Nazis II, p. 37. 488 Oswald Spengler, op. cit., p. 664. 489 Moritz Bassler and Hildegard Châtellier (ed.): Mystique, mysticisme et modernité en Allemagne autour de 1900, p. 172. 490 Richard Fletcher: The Conversion of Europe, p. 45. 491 Stefanie von Schnurbein and Justus Ulbricht (ed.): Völkische Religion und Krisen der Moderne, p. 170. 492 Oswald Spengler, op. cit., p. 669 ...
... A God's Labour I It was mentioned in the previous chapter (16.III) that, soon after Sri Aurobindo's arrival in 1910, he was met by M. Paul Richard who was on a visit to Pondicherry. They had two fruitful meetings, and Richard afterwards said to a Japanese audience: The hour is coming of great things, of great events, and also of great men, the divine men of Asia. All my life... communicated it instantaneously to the young men, they "walked out of the room, stiff, silent, like four robots drawn out of sight, pulled by an invisible string". 2 M. Richard had in the meantime told Madame Mirra Richard about his own meetings and how Sri Aurobindo had explained the symbolism of the lotus as the mystic opening of the bud of consciousness to the warmth of the Divine Sun. Born... David (David-Neel after her marriage). They felt that the evils of ignorance, oppression and violence must be fought and overthrown, and transformed into knowledge, freedom and peace. In 1912, Mirra Richard recorded: The general aim to be attained is the advent of a progressing universal harmony. The means for attaining this aim, in regard to the earth, is the realisation of human ...
... On The Mother CHAPTER 4 Agenda for the Future I Mirra met Paul Richard while they were fellow-seekers in the Cosmic Movement, in 1907. They were married on May 5,1911 and went to live at 9, Rue du Val de Grâce. As Mirra Richard, her outer existence had apparently entered a new phase, but deep in her being there reigned a calm that nothing could... II Paul Richard arrived in Pondicherry in mid-April 1910. He was of course busy with politics - for that was the ostensible reason for his coming - but be also kept in the forefront his inner quest, and in fact he was more at home with intellectuals and students of spiritual philosophy than with politicians and electioneering strategists. Soon after his arrival, Richard made inquiries: was... Richard's purpose! Accordingly, Zir Naidu agreed to fix up an appointment, and thus it was that Paul Richard met Sri Aurobindo, who had as yet no home of his own and was staying as a guest in Calve Shankar Chetty's house. He was in near total seclusion too, and few strangers were permitted to see him. Richard was one of the rare exceptions, and this game of Destiny was fraught with consequences which nobody ...
... ‘I have the honour of informing you of the arrival in Pondicherry of Mr. Richard, barrister … Mr. Richard, who arrives from Japan, where he had gone on a mission, is accompanied by Mrs. Myrrha [sic] Richard, his wife, and a Miss Houdgson [sic]. He seems to have settled in the colony for an indeterminate time. As Mr. Richard has long been in rather steady contact with undesirable extremist Indian... like this. The Mother, Richard and I were going somewhere. We saw Richard going down to a place from where rising was impossible. Then we found ourselves sitting in a carriage the driver of which was taking it up and down a hill a number of times. At last he stopped on the highest peak. Its significance was quite clear to us.’ 6 Somewhere in November of that year, Richard left. He went at first... Aurobindo is the incarnate Shiva], an Avatar among mortals.’ 8 Later, Richard went to the United States, taught there as a university professor and wrote, in August 1950, The Seven Steps to the New Age. During the 1957 visit of V.K. Gokak and K.R. Srinivasa Iyengar to Japan, Dr. Okawa showed them a letter Richard had written him the year before: ‘Dear Friend, I saw you in a dream the other ...
... Mirra to visit India. Paul Richard had decided to stand for a seat in the French Parliament from Pondicherry, which was a separate constituency. He had been in correspondence with Sri Aurobindo and doubtless the prospect of meeting him again was also an important consideration for Richard — certainly it was paramount with Mirra. On March 6, 1914, Paul and Mirra Richard boarded the Japanese ship ... groups and individuals, who were in search of spiritual truth and helped them to face their problems of life and work. In 1910 she married Paul Richard, a brilliant intellectual who was deeply interested in both Western and Eastern spirituality. When Richard returned to Paris after his visit to India and she first heard of Sri Aurobindo from him, she felt irresistibly drawn to that country and felt... 'Without him I exist not, without me he is unmanifest. ' Richard and Mirra took up residence at 3, rue Dupleix, not far from Sri Aurobindo's house on rue Francois Martin. Mirra used to call on Sri Aurobindo daily in the afternoon between 4 and 4.30, bringing with her some sweets she had prepared for him. Later they would be joined by Richard who was busy with his election campaign. Once a week, on ...
... recounting them. "He became a lawyer some time after we met; I learned Law along with him — I could even have passed the exam!" It was in July 1908 that Richard obtained his law degree from the University of Lille. Therefore it was Paul Richard who introduced Mirra to the leaden formulas of the Mind. It did not take her long to overpass them. And with Sri Aurobindo she was to achieve "a limitless... the Mind? Not just any middling teacher would do for her. Just as we may say that Theon was occultism personified, so may we say that Mr Mind presented himself in person. His name was Paul Antoine Richard, and he was born on 21 June 1874 at Marsillargues, southern France. "He had been a pastor at Lille, in France," Mother narrated to Satprem, "for perhaps ten years; he had practised his religion... the modern philosophy of Europe —he had a rather remarkable metaphysical brain." He even published a book-length metaphysical essay. Thus, after a thorough vital development, Mirra was led by Richard to a "mental development taken to its uppermost limit, where you can juggle with all ideas, that is to say, when the mind's development has already made you understand that all ideas are true and that ...
... departed for Japan. After a four-year stay in that country, they returned to Pondicherry in April 1920. To Paul Richard . Sri Aurobindo wrote these letters to Richard after their meeting in 1910 and before Richard returned to India in 1914. To the Mother and Paul Richard . These letters presumably were addressed both to Mirra and Paul. The one dated 31 December 1915 deals with an experience... precedent that might be set by the issuance of an extradition warrant against a French subject for a crime committed in British India. [11] April 1914. For Paul Richard, see the note to "Extracts from Letters to the Mother and Paul Richard" in Section Two below. Every four years an election was held in Pondicherry to choose a Deputy to represent the colony in the French Chamber. [12] 17 April 1914... reproduced in Letters on Yoga , volumes 28 - 31 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF S RI A UROBINDO . Page 584 Extracts from Letters to the Mother and Paul Richard, 1911 - c. 1922 . Paul Richard (1874 - 1967) was a French lawyer and writer. He came to Pondicherry in 1910 seeking election to the French Chamber of Deputies, but found that the ticket he had been promised had ...
... Page 49 knew it was THAT.¹ Mother met Sri Aurobindo again the next day (30.3.1914). But this time, Richard was there. The Mother has narrated the meeting in the following words: I was sitting there on the veranda. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. Myself, I was seated at his feet, very small, with the table... the 1st of August 1914. Paul Richard was called to war, and this was the outward reason for departure from Pondicherry. While on board, the Kamo Maru, she described her terrible state in the line, 'Solitude, a harsh, intense solitude... flung headlong into a hell of darkness!'³ She could have stayed at Sri Aurobindo's side at Pondicherry, but what Paul Richard represented had to be conquered... the Force.¹ The basic reason for the Mother to go with Paul Richard to France and Japan was to convert him, and this task, too, was extremely difficult. As Mother explained much later: You know that I had taken on the conversion of the Lord of Falsehood: I tried to do it through an emanation incarnated in a physical being [Richard], and the greatest effort was made during those four years ...
... education. It is this simple but essential quest that forms the essence of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, Richard Bach's symbolic story of the search for perfection, freedom and love. 1.Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull (London: Pan, 1973), p. 92. Page 469 Richard Bach is a former US Air Force pilot and has written three books on the mystique of flying. However, celebrity... loved what it was he saw. No limits, Jonathan? he thought, and he smiled. His race to learn had begun. From Richard Bach, Jonathan Livingston Seagull, (London: Pan, 1973), ,, pp. 13-47,53-54, 55, 58-59,61,64-65,75-83, and 91-93. Page 488 Biography Richard David Bach, reportedly a direct descendant of Johann Sebastian Bach, was born in Oak Park, Illinois, USA, on June... of freedom, perfection and love. As Ernest K. Gann' says, "I suspect all of us who visit the worlds of Jonathan Seagull will never want to return. " And science fiction writer Ray Bradbury writes, "Richard Bach with this book does two things. He gives me Flight. He makes me Young. For both I am deeply grateful. " Bach's portrayal of Jonathan as a rebel in quest of that elusive perfection which ...
... The Golden Path Richard Pearson ( Teacher, Botanist, Captain and Editor of ‘Flowers and Their Messages’ ) Richard Pearson was just eleven years old when he first came to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram with his English father in 1946, after the close of World War II. He was born in the north of England on November 1, 1934 in a town called Shepley in... sheep country. As a child Richard was very close to nature and animals and used to play in the grassy fields where wild flowers bloomed and goats, sheep and other animals grazed. His grandparents were of Russian Jewish heritage and had left Russia for England. His father was born and educated in England. Both parents were nurses. Neither parent was keen on religion but Richard joined the local church... had any questions about God, they could write and ask him. Richard did so and was not satisfied with the answers. He thought he would write about God! Later, when he was in the Ashram, he showed his childhood writings to the Mother and she helped him with spellings and said, “As you grow older your ideas about God will also change.” Richard said he was a rather austere, shy young boy and somewhat fanatical ...
... of the selection.” 43 Richard Lewontin concludes: “It is not that the whole is more than the sum of its parts. It is that the properties of the parts cannot be understood except in their context in the whole.” 44 The appearance of having been designed is undeniable to anyone contemplating the intricacy and efficacy of nature, the ‘wonders’ of nature, even to Richard Dawkins, for he writes in... × Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene , p. 15 (italics added). × id., p. 13. × Richard Dawkins: River out of Eden , p. 97. ... the most vocal one was Phillip Johnson, professor of law and Christian convert, who published Darwin on Trial in 1991. The reader may remember that, by then, the sociobiologists Edward Wilson and Richard Dawkins had published their supposedly ‘arch-Darwinian’ and aggressively anti-religious, not to say anti-theistic, books. Johnson saw sociobiology in particular and scientific materialism in general ...
... 95. × Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion , p. 181. × Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley (ed.): Richard Dawkins , p. 82. × ... × Richard Lewontin: op. cit., p. 93. × Ernst Mayr: What Evolution is , p. 251. × Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker , pp. 13-4, 19, 20 (italics... enabled humanity to unveil the secrets of nature and to use this newly acquired knowledge for mastering nature. The late Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy and friend of Richard Dawkins, wrote: “The invention of the scientific method is, I’m sure we’ll all agree, the most powerful intellectual idea, the most powerful intellectual framework for thinking and investigating and ...
... slumbers. Page 972 The first man he met next morning was Richard Lancaster who greeted him with his usual shallow and cheerful cordiality. There was no trace of yesterday's disturbance in his look or demeanour. "Slept well?" asked Armand casually, but carefully watching his features. "Like a top!" answered Richard, heartily. "Didn't raise my head once from the pillow from eleven to... key? for it was, Stephen had said, with Isabel Abelard. Again, it was as if a blow struck him. For, if the key was with Isabel, only Richard Lancaster could easily have got it from her at night, only he or she could have made that nocturnal entry. And it was Richard Lancaster he had seen under the balcony when he looked out into the moonlight. Was it the heir of the house who had entered, opened the... Two daughters, Isabel and Aloÿse, survived. Stephen Abelard did not marry again; he was content that the old line should be continued through the female side, and when his daughter Isabel married Richard Lancaster, the younger son of a neighbouring country family, he stipulated that the husband should first consent to bear the name of his wife's ancestors. This attachment to the old name was the one ...
... Quo Vadis. There was the music of Richard Wagner, Camille Saint-Saëns, César Franck and Ambroise Thomas, the composer of Mignon and twenty-one other operas, and the concerts of Eugène Ysaye, the great Belgian violinist. It is probable that Mirra met Paul Richard, somewhere in 1908, through the Théons, for he too had travelled to Tlemcen to meet them. Richard was a rather ambitious humanitarian... the advent of a new world. Her vision had much in common with what Paul Richard told her about the ideas of Sri Aurobindo. Having married Richard, she consented to accompany him to Pondicherry on the second lap of his adventures there, not suspecting what was awaiting her. They arrived in Pondicherry on 29 March 1914. Richard hurried to meet his yogi from Bengal, but Mirra waited till the afternoon... Representatives in Paris. What Richard really was looking for seems to have been a yogi who could initiate him in the occult and spiritual aspects of life which interested him above all else. When soon after his arrival in the sleepy South port town he started asking around, he was told that he was in luck, for a great yogi had just arrived from the north. And this is how Paul Richard met Sri Aurobindo, by ...
... were opening before her, and she was avid forknowledge, and it was as though she was daily straining at the limits. Page 836 It was in 1907 that she met Paul Richard, a fellow seeker in Théon's Cosmic Movement. 15 Richard was a scholar with a wide-ranging knowledge of the spiritual, religious and ethical classics of the Occident and the Orient, a lawyer and an intellectual with a passion... anything by halves; she wrestled - no doubt with encouragement from Richard - with the philosophers and system-makers, the schools of meditation and inner culture. Buddhism, Vedanta, Sufism, Taoism, Zen, Shintoism, Bahaism... all was grist that came to the mill. Yet there was no real breakthrough, no storming of the Gates of Reality. Richard was in politics too, and partly a political mission and partly... World War introduced certain complications. Richard had to go back anyhow because of the war, and Mirra decided she too would go with him. Her year's stay in France, however, was punctuated with illnesses - and unexpected realisations - and then, with a sudden turn of the kaleidoscope, there was a preordained change of scene, and she went to Japan with Richard. Four years there, and as we saw, four years ...
... 1915. She would come back only five years later. Solitude, a harsh solitude ... flung headlong into a hell of darkness! 1 The outward reason was Richards mobilization, but who actually was Richard? I have never been inclined to complain and even now I am not inclined to speak in more detail, She wrote to her son ten years later. 2 Mother was not one to meet just anyone; her whole life was... "transforming the world", if one is unable of transforming what is right next to one? To a certain extent, She had transformed, or neutralized, Theon and the rather formidable power he represented, but Richard was more elusive—a thunderbolt can be caught, but who can catch an octopus? The mental octopus with its thousands of tentacles slithering into everything. She could have stayed very comfortably near... “pioneers” are those who come to show us the ever-existing gold: to render things obvious. In March 1916, Mother embarked from London on the last boat bound for the East—the next one would be sunk. Richard, who was definitely an expert in marvelous pretexts, managed to get himself demobilized and sent to Japan. Why, we do not know. But this, too, was a pretext, like the electoral campaign in Pondicherry—an ...
... to his contact with the Théons. Richard was awarded his law degree in 1908 and shortly afterwards became a barrister at the Paris Court of Appeals. In 1910, Richard journeyed to Pondicherry to campaign in the elections there for the French House of Representatives. Pondicherry ( Pondichéry ) was French territory and had two elected representatives in Paris. Richard had probably been sent there by... Masonic influence)’. 10 Richard was a freemason, and it was his mission to support the election campaign of a certain Bluysen. However, Richard was also interested in meeting an authentic Indian yogi. He was in luck, for he was told that a very great yogi had just arrived from Bengal and that his name was Aurobindo Ghose. In 1910 Aurobindo consented to receive him. Richard was very impressed by the... to stay a few seconds in the air. The legal divorce from Henri Morisset took place in 1908. In that same year Mirra met Paul Richard, who also was very interested in occultism, and who had come into contact with Théon and Alma by reading the Revue cosmique. Paul Richard had received theological training, and had been a minister of the Reformed Church of France in Lille for about ten years. He had ...
... × Richard Dawkins: The God Delusion , p. 55. × Stephen Jay Gould: Rock of Ages , pp. 4, 6. × Richard Dawkins: River out of Eden , p. 37. ... Delusion , p. 150. × Richard Dawkins: Climbing Mount Improbable , p. 68. × Richard Dawkins: The Greatest Show on Earth , p. 354. × ... The Western God “I am attacking God, all gods, anything and everything supernatural, wherever and whenever they have been or will be invented.” It is remarkable that these passionate words of Richard Dawkins, already quoted previously, are from a man who considers himself a scientist, and whose name is now often conjoined with the name of Charles Darwin. “I have never heard such hardline, aggressive ...
... cit., p. 8. × Richard Lewontin: The Triple Helix , p. 115 (italics added). × Richard Dawkins: The Selfish Gene , pp. 266, 28. × ... the way from Darwin’s ignorance of the hereditary process to the triumph of the genes, called “DNA mysticism” and “DNA mania” by André Pichot. The triumphalism of the genes reached its zenith with Richard Dawkins in his book The Selfish Gene : “The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by our genes.” All life on Earth and in the universe, Dawkins proclaims, is... molecular biology, Walter Gilbert, that, when we have the complete sequence of the human genome, ‘we will know what it is to be human’.” 32 Such were the claims and the expectations a decade ago. Richard Dawkins, not to be outdone, wrote: “I conjecture that an embryologist of 2050 will feed the genome of an unknown animal into a computer, and the computer will simulate an embryology that will cumulate ...
... pen and writes with it. Also moves up and down a train in her vital body. But 'having satisfied herself that it was possible' does not develop this occult faculty any further. Meets Paul Antoine Richard (1874-1967), a theologian and socialist, then a member of Théon's group. Later describes him as a 'Vibhuti' of the Lord of Falsehood, one of the four original Asuras. 1907 Jan Meets a revolutionary... ' take off. -Apr 4 Sri Aurobindo arrives in Pondicherry, his 'cave of Tapasya', and begins an intense sadhana with Sri Krishna as his Master of Yoga. Page 848 - Apr-May Paul Richard meets Sri Aurobindo. He returns to France with a photograph of Sri Aurobindo and a feeling that he has the Knowledge, but fails to recognise Sri Aurobindo as the Avatar. 1911-14 Contributes to... begins around this time. Both the diaries continue with some regularity from late 1912 to around 1920, with maximum entries in 1914. 1911 May 5 Goes through the formalities of marriage with Paul Richard, as it was the best way to accomplish the occult work she had to do on him. Shifts to his residence at 9, rue du Val de Grace, where 1'Idee, her group of seekers, continues to meet. 1912-14 ...
... Aurobindo by Richard, Sri Aurobindo is reported to have given an interpretation which completely satisfied the Mother when Richard conveyed it to her on his return to Paris. Unfortunately this fascinating tale has turned out to be mythical. When a biography of Sri Aurobindo was being prepared by A. B. Purani in 1957, the Mother was asked to consider the statement: "Mother had given Richard some... connection with Richard and the subject of gambling. Then I shall correct a report which has been going round for years and years as authoritative about his first meeting with Sri Aurobindo in 1910. The gambling story has for its scene the boat on which the Mother was coming to India from France. She told it to me with the introductory words: "I have gambled only once." Richard played cards... before this amusing incident Richard had arrived in Pondicherry on a political mission. Through a person named Zir Naidu who happened to know Sri Aurobindo Page 79 he got the chance to have interviews with Sri Aurobindo on two successive days for two or three hours each time. The tale is current in the Ashram that the Mother had asked Richard to find out from some Yogi in ...
... the Ashram donkey. Now who was to look after it? Richard was a young boy then aged about thirteen or fourteen and had just arrived from England. Richard was put in charge of the donkey. Richard was young and so was the donkey and both grew up together. Slowly Richard became very friendly with the whole community of donkeys. Once Richard got to know that a donkey had been found on the road... how he began to be called 'Richard the Donkey-Hearted'. July 14th is the French national day. In Pondicherry, the festivities start on the previous day. They used to also organise a donkey-race. Richard appeared for the race with his donkey. The rule for the race was that each rider must ride on his donkey and race till the finishing line. Richard got ready on his donkey. It... was running ahead of the others but Page 105 a couple of yards before the finishing line it suddenly stopped and stayed put and no one could make it move. At this impasse Richard got off its back and literally pushed it across the finishing line. And this is how he won the race. In this context I remember an incident about Babloo. He was a sort of half-demented whimsical ...
... January 1939: I myself had suggestion after suggestion that it [this Yoga] wouldn't succeed. But I always remember the vision the Mother had. It was like this: The Mother, Richard and I were going somewhere. We saw Richard going down to a place from which rising was impossible. Then we found ourselves sitting in a carriage the driver of which was taking it up and down a hill a number of times. At... was in contact, the 'Lord of the Nations', was the same with whom Paul Richard too had established a communion much earlier, and under whose influence he had written the book, The Lord of the Nations: ... the plans and methods he has written of in the book are the same as those carried out now [by Hitler] .... He [Richard] said there that the present civilisation was to be destroyed, but really... way of helping others. Then came the Mother and with her help I found the necessary method. 2 There is a divinity indeed that shapes our ends, and answering its veiled dictates, Mirra and Paul Richard as also Dorothy Hodgson finally decided to leave Japan for Pondicherry in the early months of 1920. For Mirra, the four years in Japan had on the whole been a period of quietude and sadhana, a time ...
... Excellency Mr. Mind thus presented himself one day in the form of Paul Richard, whom She met around 1908 at Montmorency, at the house of Morisset s sisters, to whom She had entrusted her son. She often went there to visit those kind sisters, with whom She was on the best of terms, and She played tennis, which was her old passion. Paul Richard also played tennis. He was a quite remarkably intelligent man, a... funniest ones, if considered from the large perspective of the world, Paul Richard had to go to Pondicherry ... to participate in the electoral campaign of a certain Bluysen, a noted member, or rather aspiring member of the French National Assembly—and would meet Sri Aurobindo, who had just arrived there. It was thanks to Richard, and in his company, that Mirra would come to meet Sri Aurobindo in 1914... same Paul Richard, who, understanding the extraordinary newness of Sri Aurobindo’s experiences, would urge Him to put them down black on white, in the form of “philosophy.” Thus the Arya was founded in 1914, a periodical into which, day after day, Sri Aurobindo would come to pour some 6,000 pages of writing, with sometimes four or five works under way at once, that Mirra and Paul Richard would then ...
... × Richard Dawkins: Unweaving the Rainbow , p. 202. × Richard Dawkins: The Blind Watchmaker , p. 311. × Richard Dawkins: River out of Eden , p. 97 (italics... Gould’s side there were Richard Lewontin, Steven Rose, and many of the younger scientists who had grown up during the turbulent years of the Vietnam War and leaned towards the left. These were “more ecumenically atheist. They do not even believe in science as an expression of religious yearning … The fact remains that the parties do exist, and that Stephen Jay Gould and Richard Dawkins are not only their... Another curious aspect of the theory of evolution is that everybody thinks he understands it. Jacques Monod Stephen Gould and Punctuated Equilibrium Stephen Jay Gould (1941-2002) and Richard Dawkins had much in common. Gould “filled the same role for North America as Dawkins does for Britain.” 1 Both were evolutionary biologists, deeply involved as students, researchers and teachers ...
... Vidyasagar Street, Calcutta." This year Paul Richard came to Pondicherry on behalf of M. Paul Bluyson for election to the French Chamber. Bluyson was elected. Richard came to know that Sri Aurobindo had come to Pondicherry and was doing yoga. An interview was arranged, most probably by Zir Naidu, a friend of Richard's, between Sri Aurobindo and Richard. It was in Shanker Chetty's house that they met... met two days for two or three hours each day. Richard asked Sri Aurobindo many questions, one of which related to the symbolic character of the lotus. Sri Aurobindo explained that the lotus stands for the opening of the consciousness to the Divine. It can be seen on any of the subtle planes of consciousness. Some years later (probably 1918) Richard gave a speech, published in his book, The Dawn over... Saurin went to Bengal in February 1914. They returned in September. On 29 March 1914 at 3.30 p.m., the Mother met Sri Aurobindo at 10, Rue Francois Martin. Her age at that time was 37. She and Paul Richard, her husband, remained in Pondicherry. Sri Aurobindo was persuaded to start a philosophical magazine in order to give to the world his grand synthesis of knowledge and yogic experience in terms of ...
... Hitlers München Lebert, Norbert and Stephan: Denn Du trägst meinen Namen Leeb, Johannes (ed.): Wir waren Hitlers Eliteschüler Leigh, Michael Baigent and Richard: Secret Germany Leigh, Michael Baigent and Richard: The Elixir and the Stone Levenda, Peter: Unholy Alliance Ley, Michael: Der Nationalsozialismus als politische Religion Ley, Michael: Apokalypse und Moderne... with Sri Aurobindo Nirodbaran: Talks with Sri Aurobindo Nirodbaran: Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo Noll, Richard: The Jung Cult – Origins of a Charismatic Movement Odone, Patrick: Dunkirk 1940 Orzechowski, Peter: Schwarze Magie - Braune Macht Overy, Richard: Interrogations Padfield, Peter: Himmler – Reichsführer-SS Pagels, Elaine: The Origin of Satan Paxton... Fest, Joachim: The Face of the Third Reich Fischer, Fritz: Griff nach der Weltmacht Fischer, Fritz: Hitler war kein Betriebsunfall Fischer, Fritz: Krieg der Illusionen Fletcher, Richard: The Conversion of Europe François-Poncet, André: Souvenirs d’une ambassade à Berlin Freller, Thomas: Cagliostro – Die dunkle Seite der Aufklärung Friedrich, Otto: Before the Deluge ...
... forms of Alexandros and Alexandreia are, according to Sanskrit phonetics, Alakshandrah and Alakshandrā. In the vernacular, Alakkhandā or Alashanda are the forms expected." In Kautilya's 1.Richard N. Frye. The Heritage of Persia, p. 72. 2.Brāhmanda Purāna, XX. 71 f; Agni Purāna, 119.21. 3. The Age of Imperial Unity, p. 144, fn. 1. 4. Mahābharata (Critical Edition by S. K... 3. The Classical Accounts of India, p. 379, note 8. 4.XXV, 51; XXVIII, 4. See The Vedic Index, Vol. I, p. 39. Page 278 lents have been convincingly suggested. Richard N. Frye 1 refers to the name of the first Kushāna ruler in India:"Kujula Kadphises, the etymology of which is most uncertain." There are also names accepted as Indian and as belonging to historical... "bows" (or "archers") and starts inquiring what length it connoted. But have we at all a length-unit here? Dupont-Sommer is unaware of the origin and history of the word and of its significance. Richard N. Frye, the authority on Persia, has an illuminating passage: "The Achaemenids, by establishing colonies of soldiers in conquered lands and by giving land to civil and military servants, favoured ...
... stay at Shankara Chettiar's house M. Paul Richard, a distinguished French intellectual visited him. Richard had come to Pondicherry to help a friend in his political campaign. Through Zir Naidu, a leading citizen of Pondicherry, Richard met Sri Aurobindo and they had wide-ranging discussions on two occasions. These meetings had a profound impact on Richard. Some years later when he went to Japan, he... Arya commenced publication and through its pages Sri Aurobindo gave to the world a part of the Knowledge gained from his Yoga. There was another event of momentous significance: on March 29 Mirra Richard arrived in Pondicherry for the first time and met Sri Aurobindo. This was the beginning of a spiritual collaboration of utmost consequence. ...
... the sky already ablaze. He started to talk with Richard about the war; He already knew in March that the war was going to break out (it would break out in August). He knew a lot of things in his silent pacing up and down—the mind’s small limitations were no longer there. I was sitting there on the verandah. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking... Mother would stay in Pondicherry almost one year, until February 1915, before leaving once again for Europe, where She would spend one last year, followed by a long four-year detour to Japan with Richard—the years of hell—before returning for good to Sri Aurobindo in 1920. I have often wondered why She did not stay with Him immediately and avoid this long circuit of pain. But Mother is One who exhausts... Supramental Such was the life they led until Mother’s arrival. He was forty-two years old, She was thirty-six. The day after their first meeting, She returned to see him, but this time with Richard. She again climbed the stairs, holding a veil over her long, flowing hair. He was waiting for her on the large veranda upstairs. There was only a microscopic little table, less than three feet wide ...
... 'mental' gymnastics of metaphysical philosophy, comparative studies, and systems of law and sociology. And if with Theon, Mother had touched death, with Paul Richard she would touch the world's Falsehood. It was in about 1908 that Mother met Paul Richard at Montmorency in the house of the sisters of the artist Henri Morisset (whom she had married in 1897). It was to these sisters that she had entrusted her... at work. The second [the Asura of Suffering] annulled himself in the Supreme. The third was the Lord of Death (that was Theon). And the fourth, the Master of the world, was the Lord of Falsehood; Richard was an emanation, a vibhuti, as they say in India, of this Asura. Theon was the vibhuti of the Lord of Death. It's a wonderful story, a real novel, which will perhaps be told one day..... who was born in 1898. _________________________ ¹'Some Talks of Sri Aurobindo' in Mother India, May, 1974. Page 38 In 1908, there was divorce from Henri Morisset. Paul Richard was a theologian and a philosopher. He was also a lawyer and a brilliant orator. In Mother's words: He was a pastor at Lille, in France, for perhaps ten years; he was quite a practising Christian ...
... Chamber, the Sénat, the other in the Lower House, the Chambre des Deputes.... "The first time he (Mon. Paul Richard) had come, he was alone. The next time the Mother came with him. To all outward appearances, they came here to canvass support for the election, though M. Richard did not in the end get many votes. But this provided an occasion for the Mother to meet Sri Aurobindo and attach a... Sri Aurobindo Ashram, came into contact with Sri Aurobindo as early as 1913, when he was a school boy. Page 350 Chetty's house, a distinguished French thinker and scholar, Paul Richard, came to Pondicherry in connection with Mon. Paul Blusion's election to the French Chamber. Though the ostensible reason for his coming was the election, he had something much more important up his... sketch of a Yogachakra (a mystic symbol) saying that its interpreter was to be found in India and that he who would interpret it was her master and guide in yoga. On landing at Pondicherry, Paul Richard enquired whether there was any Yogi in the town. He was told of Sri Aurobindo, and as an interview was not an easy affair, he took the help of his friend, Zir Naidu, who was a prominent leader in ...
... subjective. The following decisions in the nature of trikaldrishti rising out of telepathies were registered for observation of success or failure. 1) Both will come —ie Richard & Madame Richard. N.B. Madame Richard was ill; moreover the Governor visited them at the time of their usual visit here; but they both came subsequently at 6 pm, 2 hours later than the regular time. 2) The house... somewhat incoherent & distorted & coloured by present associations. 27 April 1914 Aishwarya in connection with the elections has been successful in all except the central point—the vote for Rd [Richard] where it has failed entirely. Knowledge has been clouded owing to the subservience to the suggestions of others. Lipis 1) Apoplexy—epilogue 2) Distinguish the ideality 3) Brilliant... vani, conversion of tapasic into luminous movements; (3) the definite faith in the power of dharma-karma; (4) the cessation of the dominance of relapse in the subjectivity, examples Br. [Biren,] Richard, X 5 etc. Trikaldrishti— (Script) 1) Inevitably tomorrow sahitya will be resumed, afterwards it will be arranged. 2) Work in the evening will be resumed Continued action & tendency ...
... music in the house of a Countess in Nice, was probably attended by an acquaintance of Paul Richard, who went to see Dilip the next day in his hotel. Dilip knew him from hearsay, mostly from Rabindranath Tagore who had met the Richards in Japan and had spoken in great praise of Paul. To Dilip’s amazement, Paul Richard confessed ‘in the revealing stillness of midnight’ that he often thought of committing... Her return to Pondicherry was ‘the tangible sign of the Victory over the hostile forces,’ the Mother would later write about herself. She has not expanded on the meaning of these words, but Paul Richard, an incarnation of the Asura of Falsehood, whom she had been unable to convert despite her promise, certainly had something to do with it. The few times she mentioned in passing their stay in Japan... become a lot less problematical, but by her own attitude towards Sri Aurobindo she showed his young companions who he actually was. She must have done this very tactfully, for they knew her as Madame Richard, and although Sri Aurobindo had made them understand that she was far advanced in occultism and spirituality, to them she was a twice-married woman nevertheless. As K.D. Sethna writes: ‘Even in regard ...
... But this other thing was always there in the background of the consciousness. Then when Richard came here he met Sri Aurobindo (he was haunted by the idea of meeting the 'Master,' the Guru, the 'Great Teacher'). Sri Aurobindo was in hiding, seeing no one, but when Richard insisted, he met him, and Richard returned with a photograph. It was one of those early photos, with nothing in it. It was empty... from God could become so bad, but anyway, better not be too logical! it's a fall. The creation is a fall. And that's why they are far more easily convinced by Buddhism. I saw this particularly with Richard, whose education was entirely in European philosophy, with Christian and positivist influences; under these two influences, when he came into contact with Theon's 'cosmic philosophy' and later Sri... photograph I felt, 'He's the one!' Not at all. He impressed me as being a very interesting man, but no more. I came here.... But something in me wanted to meet Sri Aurobindo all alone the first time. Richard went to him in the morning and I had an appointment for the afternoon. He was living in the house that's now part of the second dormitory, the old Guest House . 5 I climbed up the stairway and ...
... were in Pondicherry. In 1910 Paul Richard had come to French India for electioneering. He was a friend of Paul Bluysen's, a candidate. Mother told us that after becoming a lawyer, Richard entered politics. "He was a first-class orator who fired his audiences with enthusiasm." That is why Bluysen sent him to Pondicherry to canvass for him. "And since Richard was interested in occultism and spirituality... himself in politics, the first thing Richard did upon arrival was to make known that he was seeking a yogi. Mother went on, "Someone told him, 'You are incredibly lucky! The Yogi has just arrived." Sri Aurobindo was not particularly pleased when asked to meet the Frenchman, "but the coincidence seemed rather interesting, so he received him." In 1914 Paul Richard was himself a candidate for the French... members which always won the elections. The election of May 1906 was an exception. Now the 1914 election to the Chamber of Deputies was once again upon the people of French India. That is when Paul Richard came, ostensibly to stand for election. He was to stand as a nominee of the Hindu Party. The polling was due to take place on 26 April 1914. And Sri Aurobindo was there. Page 408 ...
... altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondi-cherry - I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher. How I managed to do it and why? First, because Richard proposed to me to cooperate in a philosophical review - and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the war... poetry straight away, saying he'd been reading a poem of mine which he liked, but added 'there are too many words performing no useful function'. He then went on to describe a former session with Richard Aldington, who had brought him a longish poem, and together they had gone through the poem taking out all words performing no useful function, and, Ezra concluded, 'at the end we had just two-and-a-half... about translating poetry. Sri Aurobindo's comment on the rendering was: "This is a fine translation and it keeps, I think, much of the inner atmosphere of the original." I have seen the attempt of Richard Wilbur and Allen Tate to english the same sonnet. The former's version of Baudelaire's Vaste comme la nuit et comme la clarte is: Huge as the night and as the light of day, which is ...
... session of the Indian National Congress. Sri Aurobindo's reply turning down this offer is dated 30 August 1920. Mirra Richard (The Mother) and Paul Richard participated in some if not all the sessions. (See especially item [9].) They returned to Pondicherry from Japan on 24 April 1920. Richard left Pondicherry in December of the same year. A PPENDIX . M ATERIAL FROM D ISCIPLES ' N OTEBOOKS... 1410), and Sri Aurobindo used the word "script" for writings that were produced in se ́ ances with others (see for example the Record of 17 July 1914, where he writes: "Today excellent script with R [Richard] 1511 & Madame R.") In these examples, "script" is used as a generic term to cover all forms of written communication from other sources. "The Scribblings", c. 1907 ...
... n, and has at the most a vague and secondary apprehension of unity and infinity – for though it can synthesize its divisions, it cannot arrive at a true totality.” 8 Nonetheless the biologist Richard Lewontin warns: “Whatever the faults of reductionism, we have accomplished a great deal by employing reductionism as a methodological strategy.” It is, after all, reductionist science that has made... tenuous species [ Homo sapiens ], arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher’ answer – but none exists.” And Richard Dawkins, whose name is now often associated in importance with the name of Darwin, wrote in The Selfish Gene : “The argument of this book is that we, and all other animals, are machines created by... earth in the order of 3 to 4 billion years ago, and we know from stellar evolution that our Sun will expand and burn up the Earth in another 3 to 4 billion years, putting an end to everything,” writes Richard Lewontin. George Smoot is even more explicit: “Coraggio, domani sará peggio! (Be courageous, tomorrow will be worse!) … The long-term future is bleak: entropy will continue to increase … Every physical ...
... No 2, (December 1986), p. 150. See also Supplement to the Revised Edition of Savitri, pp. 112-13. charged with occult-spiritual power have unhappily remained unused. Recently Richard Hartz has made an elaborate and painstaking study of the several drafts of Savitri and indicated the manner in which a reasonably faithful text of the epic could be edited. In his introduction... to bring into discussion the contextual aspect; it cannot have validity or acceptability in any absolute sense. Otherwise we shall simply prove ourselves to be like Newton's famous contemporary Richard Bentley, the classical scholar. He was five when Paradise Lost was published in 1667. Later Bentley rewrote the poem entirely to his taste, thinking that it was the printer who had made all those... absence of I and II anywhere, perhaps a doubt had arisen in the mind of the typist, Nolini Kanta Gupta, and he must have sought clarification from Sri Aurobindo. The double tick mark is 77 Richard Hartz, Mother India, November 1999, p. 1072. 78 Ibid., August, 2000, p. . undoubtedly a confirmation of what Sri Aurobindo had originally dictated to Nirodbaran, that it is meant ...
... writer, Paul Richard, came to Pondicherry, met Sri Aurobindo, and was so impressed by the breadth of his views that he made a second trip to see him in 1914, this time urging him to put his thoughts into written form. A bilingual review was founded, with Richard in charge of the French section. Thus the Arya , or Review of the Great Synthesis , would be born. But the war broke out, Richard was called... altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry – I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher. How I managed to do it and why? First, because Paul Richard proposed to me to cooperate in a philosophic review – and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the war ...
... Madame Mirra Richard (the Mother) meets Sri Aurobindo and recognises him as the Krishna of her visions and spiritual experiences, the Guru she had been seeking all her life. 15 August 1914 Arya, a monthly journal devoted to "a systematic study of the highest problems of existence", was launched on Sri Aurobindo's forty-third birthday. Madame Richard and Paul Richard collaborated... journal fell upon Sri Aurobindo, who wrote most of it. After regularly appearing for about six and a half years, the journal ceased publication in 1921. 24 April 1920 Madame Richard came again, after a residence of some years in Japan, and now stayed on. The circle around Sri Aurobindo gradually Page 14 grew. Arya had spread the Aurobindonian message ...
... vision." 15 When it was decided to stop the French edition, its subscribers were indulgent enough to consent to receive future the English edition instead. The unavoidable withdrawal of Paul Richard meant the termination also of his sequence entitled, The Wherefore of the Worlds. But, as Sri Aurobindo commented: Happily, we have been able to bring it to a point where the writer's central... spiritual realisations that could sustain a new world-view, and partly because the Richards had wanted him to share his visions of future possibility with thinking people all over the world. But Richard had to go, and Mirra, freeing herself however reluctantly from her editorial and managerial cares, had also to go, leaving Sri Aurobindo to carry the whole burden alone. Years later, Sri Aurobindo... me tell you in confidence that I never, never, never was a philosopher - although I have written philosophy which is another story altogether. ... How I managed to do it and why? First, because Richard proposed to me to co-operate in a philosophical review - and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the ...
... regular visitor to Val de Grace. "After my father and mother divorced, Mother married Paul Richard, and they came to live on Rue du Val de Grace." Andre was around twelve. "I used to go and have lunch with them every Sunday. After lunch, specially when the weather was bad, we would go to the studio. Paul Richard stretched out on a couch, lit his pipe, and they started working. That is, my mother wrote... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 27 Val de Grâce "When Richard finished his work," Mother continued her narrative, "he returned with a poor photograph of Sri Aurobindo, and a completely superficial impression of him; yet with the feeling that Sri Aurobindo KNEW. He hadn't at all understood the man; he didn't sense it was an Avatar; but... standpoint he didn't have many realizations! Nonsense of that kind — similar to Romain Rolland's." Mother exchanged a glance of understanding with Satprem. "Well, you see, my relationship with Richard was on an occult plane, and it's difficult to touch upon it. You know, what happened here was far more Page 292 exciting than any novel imaginable!" We shall see how true that is ...
... but in a few words." To next day's meeting with Sri Aurobindo she went with Paul Richard. "He saw me the next day for half an hour. I sat down, it was on the verandah of the Guest House; I was sitting there on the verandah." She sat on the floor near Sri Aurobindo. "There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. I myself was seated at his feet... feet, very small, with the table just in front of me, it came up to my forehead, giving me a little protection." Sri Aurobindo was seated in a chair as was Richard across the table. "Then I sat down near him and he began talking with Richard, about the world, Yoga, the future, all kinds of things: what was going to happen—he already knew the war would break out. Page 20 All... outwardly to be fully engrossed in his conversation about this and that and what was going to happen in the world........" Mirra was sitting quietly at Sri Aurobindo's feet while he talked with Richard. She heard the sound of their conversation, Page 25 without paying much heed. "This lasted about half an hour," said Mother. "And then when I got up, I no longer knew anything, I no ...
... 5 May 1914. "My present position is that I have exhausted all my money along with Rs. 60 Richard forced on me and am still in debt for the Rs. 130 due for the old rent. I 1 Mother's Chronicles Book II, ch. 6, 'Illnesses.' Page 420 do not like to take more money from Richard, for he has sold one fourth of his wife's fortune (a very small one) in order to be able... go! "I'd had the FULL spiritual experience of the Himalayas. "It was a grace given to me—a gift." This was Mother's first visit to India. On 7 March 1914 Mirra and Paul Richard had boarded the Japanese liner Kaga Maru at Marseille. After a few halts here and there, the ship arrived at Colombo port on 27 March. In Ceylon (Sri Lanka) they spent the whole day. They met a Buddhist... social sphere "the power is not yet ripe for organised action. "Veda 11.23, 24, 25, 26—completed today. This shows a great advance in sustained energy." For election work, on April 13 Paul Richard had gone to Karikal with Mirra. Nolini records, "In this connection the Mother had to pay a' visit to Karikal once. This was her first direct experience of actual India, that is, what it is in its ...
... incarnated emanation of the Asura of Death and Paul Richard of the Asura of Falsehood. As Sri Aurobindo himself remarked, Paul Richard has even written an unpublished book entitled Le Seigneur des Nations (The Lord of the Nations), in which he accurately expounded the aim and methods of that Being. The Mother did everything possible to convert Richard; this was the reason why she had married him and... and the cause of the hell their relation had been for her all along, also in Japan and during their last months together in Pondicherry. Richard knew very well who Mirra essentially was, and despite his appreciation of Sri Aurobindo, he himself wanted to be recognized by her as the Avatar! All this makes us understand better his depressions and suicidal thoughts which he confided in 1928 during a nocturnal ...
... intense struggle for existence which was bound to favour the preservation by natural selection of beneficial variations.” 24 “Never were so many facts explained by so few assumptions,” marvels Richard Dawkins, 25 who labels himself an “arch-Darwinist.” Pichot is less impressed and finds “Darwin’s thesis rather clumsy and hardly coherent.” 26 Claude Allègre concurs: “Darwin’s book proves indeed... period.” 37 At that time there were still enormous gaps in the fossil record. “During the 1850s, orang-utans, chimpanzees and gorillas were beginning to emerge from their jungle obscurity, and Richard Owen [one of Darwin’s adversaries] dissected their bodies and studied their skeletons.” 38 The following paragraph from a science magazine dated March 1859 gives a glimpse of the situation in... anti-religious evolutionists use Darwin as the epitome of materialism and atheism. This is evident in the mordant attack several proponents of ‘Darwinian’ evolution have recently been waging on religion, Richard Dawkins in The God Delusion and Daniel Dennett in Breaking the Spell among others . They rightly point to Darwin as their inspiration. Apparently hesitant and “agnostic,” it doubtlessly was Darwin’s ...
... of the inferior mentality. These are evolutions necessary for the last stage of the vijnana and necessary even in the interests of the rapidity. Vijnana — Today excellent script with R. [Richard] & Madame R. 9 Page 557 Dense & developed stable rupa appeared at night, but none were perfect; perfect rupas are still unstable. Script — The totality of the vijnana therefore... to the tamasic nidra. Dream also does not advance. Arogya. Continued reaction. Utthapana fails to reestablish itself. Karma The Synthesis of Yoga. Strong opposition to Dharma in R [Richard]. 23 July 1914 Script. The opposition, apparently successful, covers a continual advance. 1) The tapasic trikaldrishti is beginning slowly to justify itself; it is no longer only the... kriti. Faith in Yoga did not fail, but faith in the kriti was temporarily interrupted; there was depression, but sama ananda survived— 1) Eloignement of friendship & support. 2) Cloud with R [Richard] 3) Reverses in Kriti Samadhi—at night. Great richness of rupa & scenes; continual stability of both; lipi, but not always connected; power of rupa even in antardarshi. Shabda for some time ...
... possession. This Self is not the ego, it is beyond ego, it is not the kind of self-hood that Shakespeare Page 58 depicts in King Richard where the King, deprived of everything, left all alone in the whole world, exclaims: "Richard loves Richard; that is, I am I"¹, for it is not a separative I-ness; the other I's are dissolved as well as the one I that I am, and all become one person... realise this truth, you can love everyone equally, not merely love but be one with all, because you are all and all are you. That universal Self, your own true Self ¹ Shakespeare: Richard the Third, Act V, Scene 3. Page 59 you have to find, you have to know, you have to become. That is the golden rule as the ideal. How to attain, how to realise ...
... with Sri Aurobindo.! 7 * A more unusual visitor was M. Paul Richard who had come to Pondicherry in mid-1910 on a mission of political campaigning on behalf of his friend Paul Bluysen. He was anxious to meet a Yogi, and accordingly a meeting with Sri Aurobindo was probably arranged by Zir Naidu a friend of Richard. Richard and Sri Aurobindo met twice, and held long conversations, he was requested... explain the symbolic character of the lotus, and Sri Aurobindo pointed out that the lotus stood for the opening of the consciousness to the Divine. He must have made a tremendous impression upon M. Richard, for in his book. The Dawn over Asia, he described Sri Aurobindo as the greatest of the great men or divine men of Asia, "the leader, the hero of tomorrow". One interesting event during ...
... facilitate the enrolment of subscribers. It was decided that the first issue should come out on Sri Aurobindo's forty-second birthday, 15 August. All the three names - Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul and Mirra Richard - were to appear on the cover-page as Editors, and the journals were to be published from 41, Rue François Martin, Pondicherry. Writing to Motilal Roy in July, Sri Aurobindo expressed the fear that... ... The integral divine harmony within, but as its result a changed earth and a nobler and happier humanity.³ And in the section on "The Spirit of Synthesis" in The Eternal Wisdom , Paul Richard cited some revealing affirmations: Wouldst thou penetrate the infinite? Advance, then, on all sides of the finite. (Goethe) There is one height of truth and there are those who approach... huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast," said Sri Aurobindo in The Synthesis of Yoga with an obvious reference to the current world situation, while in The Eternal Wisdom , Paul Richard brought together "in a homogeneous continuity" the finest thoughts from the sages of all times grouped under "The Song of Wisdom" and "Wisdom and the Religions" - a veritable universal congress of ...
... Morisset 29 house in Paris 29, 32, 34, 44, 50, 71-2 meets a Russian revolutionary 32ff launching a Women's Association 36 her Gayatri 38 plays the organ in an Italian Church 44-5 marries Paul Richard 46 agenda for the future 51ff, 103-6 begins her spiritual diary 63 who is addressing whom 64-6, 69, 82, 98-100, 104, 118, 146-8, 196 incarnates earth-consciousness 69 journey to Pondicherry... 189 arrogant ignorant Man refuses her gift 196-7 integral liberation 198 as Mahasaraswati 201-2, 211, 294-5 returns to Pondicherry 201ff, 243 experiences Sri Aurobindo's aura 202 vision of Richard going down 207-8 moves to Sri Aurobindo's house 210 managing the household 210-1, 215, 217-8, 223 (also 78) as Mahalakshmi 211, 225, 296, 529 tackles black magic (stone throwing) 213-4 begins... Ramana Maharishi, Sri 257 Ramanuja, Sri 180 Rarnanujachari, M.V. 483 Page 916 Rai, Pratap Chandra 483 Rainer Maria Rilke 59 Rassendran, J. 131 Reddy, C.R. 462 Richard, Paul 46ff, 78ff, 86, 89-90, 100ff, 107,119,126, 150,153,183, 201ff, 207-8 Rikiu (Zen Master) 194 Rishabhchand 63, 255, 277-8, 498, 691 Robi Gupta 723 Roger Anger 726, 744, 756, 778 ...
... Part I — Recollections and Diary Notes Champaklal Speaks Paul Richard and Champaklal When Paul Richard¹ visited Gujarat [in 1921], he made our ashram in Patan his headquarters. He visited other places from there. He became like one of our family. The first thing he would ask us when we met him in the morning was, “Did you have a good sleep? Did you... letters to me calling me to join him. I was to wire to him if I wished to go. Though I wanted to live in the Himalayas, it never materialised because I was destined to come to Pondicherry. Just as Paul Richard invited me to the Himalayas, Sri Aurobindo asked me to come to him. Pondicherry is not Himalayas, but for me it is the best place in the world. By Sri Aurobindo's infinite Grace I was fortunate to ...
... then that Madame Richard, née Mirra Alfassa, thirty-six years of age, was sitting in meditation near the window of a house in Dupleix Street in Pondicherry, a small French port with some surrounding territory on the Coromandel coast in South India. The Parisian Madame Richard, was an accomplished occultist and advanced in spirituality. She had accompanied her second husband, Paul Richard, to Pondicherry ...
... Richard Eggenberger and his colleagues were also busy taking the slides of the Savitri paintings. The Mother wrote to me on 24.3.1971: Huta, Here is the copy of what I have written to Richard. Do not worry, things will surely be well arranged and well done. With all my love and blessings . Richard, If it is possible for you to keep ...
... will not be there any more. I pray to You to consider these two points and kindly answer to Richard if You please. Love Your child, Huta She responded: It is what we have arranged together that must be done—No intrusion of anything else. Here is the Mother's answer to Richard Eggenberger's letter: Concerning Savitri nothing of all this useless fancy must be done. I have... the background music which is going to play throughout your recitations. The important thing is Your recitations. Arun and I are recording exactly according to them. In this letter of his, Richard wishes to insert photographs and the paintings of other artists along with Savitri paintings while projecting the Savitri slides. I feel that if he is allowed to do so, then the truth behind the ...
... or something else? The day the child was born, there came a telegram from America (dating from the day before) announcing the death of Paul Richard. The two things came together. I was surprised. I must admit I said, "Well, well!..." Because Paul Richard (unless he fell into complete stupor after I left him, I don't know!), I had given him much occult Page 211 knowledge, including the... That is to say the news of his death was no surprise to me. But what I found interesting was this: the coincidence of the telegram and the birth. The ( child's ) present form cannot reflect it ( Richard ): it's something that will develop in that direction little by little. We'll see. For the moment, he is really his father's and mother's son! Interesting children, those that are born now. ...
... looked at each other, and I said, "Well, well!" That's all. The next day, the whole Ashram knew that Paul Richard had reincarnated in R.! Someone even wrote to me, "I hear you have reincarnated Richard..." "Oh," I said, "enough, enough!" ( Mother laughs ) There. So the result is... Paul Richard had a quite unhealthy sexual side, not at all healthy, far from it. He had much mental knowledge (a great ...
... floods/flood theory, 185, 187, 188, 199 forts, 197, 206, 282-3, 297-313, 325-9, 351-3 various epithets applied to, 197-8, 300, 304-5 Francfort, 307 Frye, Richard N., 269, 271, 272, 318, 319, 323-4 Gamkrelidze, Thomas V., 274-6 Ganga/Ganges/Gangetic valley, 163, 221, 236, 238, 250, 279, 283 gārhapatya, 230 Gathas, 237, 271, 272... Harappān language, 215, 223 Harappān religion, 178 Harappān seals, see seals Harappān sites, 179, 180, 181, 183, 198, 224, 237, 246 Harmatta, J., 278 Hartz, Richard, 204 fn., 268, 298 fn., 320, 337-38 fn. Haryana, 239, 240, 268 haššu, 368 Haumavarga/Haumawarga, 209, 313-25 hearths, ritual, 254 hemione (see also... Massagetai, 321 Mausala Parva (of MahaBhārata), 200 maya, 195, 369, 370, 371, 383-91, 396, 408 Mayrhofer, Manfred, 253, 282, 296 mazda-, 402 Meadow, Richard H., 215, 216, 220, 221, 244, 250, 265, 279 The Meaning of Pur in Vedic Literature, by W. Rau, 299 fn., 302-5 Page 428 Mediterranean civ ...
... synthesis has to be made, and that there is something luminous and true beyond the synthesis. In her philosophic studies, she was accompanied by Paul Richard who, in his visit to Pondicherry in 1910, had met Sri Aurobindo. In 1914, Mother accompanied Paul Richard to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo on 29th March. In her very first meeting, both Sri Aurobindo and Mother, felt, at exactly the same moment,... other in perfecting the sadhana. What is known as Sri Aurobindo and the Mother? 1 After the outbreak of the World War I in August, 1914, the Mother had to return to France along with Paul Richard and then she spent four years in Japan; but she returned for good to Pondicherry in 1920 in order to work with Sri Aurobindo. On 24th November 1926, Sri Aurobindo attained to a decisive stage and ...
... synthesis has to be made, and that there is something luminous and true beyond the synthesis. In her philosophic studies, she was accompanied by Paul Richard who, in his visit to Pondicherry 1910, had met Sri Aurobindo. In 1914, Mother accompanied Paul Richard to Pondicherry and met Sri Aurobindo on 29th March. In her very first meeting, both Sri Aurobindo and Mother, felt, at exactly the same moment, "now... Page 140 Mother. (Sri Aurobindo: On Himself, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 26, p. 459) After the outbreak of the World War I in August, 1914, the Mother had to return to France along with Paul Richard and then she spent four years in Japan; but she returned for good to Pondicherry in 1920 in order to work with Sri Aurobindo. On 24th November 1926, Sri Aurobindo attained to a decisive stage ...
... some sort of inevitability in the judicious use and arrangement of the words and phrases employed. Even a little gaucherie in this matter will spoil the whole effect. It is not without reason that Richard Brinsley Sheridan, the great Irish wit of the eighteenth century, once wittily remarked about a gentleman: "I can laugh at his malice - but not at his wit." The story is told that one Lord Lauderdale... object as in others. Sri Aurobindo's wit and humour have always been of this second kind. Here is an instance of this sort of kindly wit as recorded in Jerrold's A book of Famous Wits: When Richard Bentley who prided himself on being a wit started his periodical "Miscellany", he said that he had first thought of calling it "The Wit's Miscellany" but on second thought changed it to "Bentley's... Have you done so, sir?" "No, sir," replied Jekyll imperturbably; "I never said you were a pettifogger or a scoundrel, but I did say you were little Else." 4 (3) A tit for tat: Richard Whately, the Archbishop of Dublin, was one of the wittiest of divines. One day a young and vain aide-de-camp, observing a Roman Catholic dignitary wearing a large cross, asked Whately what the difference ...
... All Ages XI: Beginnings of the Ashram (1920-1926) ON APRIL 24, 1920, the Mother arrived at Pondicherry for the second time, never to depart again. Paul Richard came with her and she was also accompanied by Miss Dorothy Hodgson, an English lady who had known the Mother in France and had stayed with her in Japan. Dorothy later came to be known as 'Dana', shortened... rented house at 1, rue St. Martin, called the 'Bayoud House'. Sri Aurobindo was still residing at the 'Guest House' in rue Francois Martin. Soon the relationship resumed the pattern of 1914-1915. Richard and Mirra would visit Sri Aurobindo in the afternoon or evening, while Sri Aurobindo with his young men called on the Richards every Sunday evening and dined with them. When she came to the Guest House... you know, he took it up with all his vital being and in an egoistic way. So the vital forces found their chance. They tried to take possession of the work and the workers.' Like Motilal Roy, Paul Richard found himself unable to bear the pressures of sadhana and take the path of complete self-surrender. Perhaps his approach was too mental or vitalistic. In any case, he decided that he could not stay ...
... something was Sri Aurobindo's own symbol—in the form of a diagram, known as Solomon's Seal. Needless to add, after this proof of identity, steps were taken to facilitate her coming. Monsieur Paul Richard was at that time much interested in spiritual thought and practice and he could find an opportunity for coming here: he wanted to find out if he could get elected as one of the Representatives of... first time he came here for canvassing, he was alone. The Mother accompanied him the next time. To all r out-ward appearances they arrived here to canvass support for the elections, although M. Richard did not in the end get very many votes. But this provided the occasion for the Mother to meet Sri Aurobindo and gather a few trusted friends and devotees. In this connection the Mother had to pay... in her own hand the list of subscribers, maintained the accounts herself: perhaps those papers might be still available. And afterwards, it was she herself who helped M. Page 76 Richard in his translation of the writings of Sri Aurobindo into French for the French edition of the Arya. The ground floor of Dupleix House was used as the stack room and the office was on the ground ...
... exclusively your own possession. This Self is not the ego, it is beyond ego, it is not the kind of self-hood that Shakespeare depicts in King Richard where the King, deprived of everything, left all alone in the whole world, exclaims: "Richard loves Richard, that is, I am I"; for it is not a separative I-ness; the other I's are dissolved as well as the one I that I am, and all become one person or ...
... Lizelle, 339 Reddy, C. R.,55,521,715-16, 718 Renaissance in India, The, 510-11 Revue de la Grande Synthèse, 399 Richardson, Dorothy M., 17 Richard, Mirra, see "The Mother" Richard, Paul, 380, 395ff, 404, 414, 525 Riddle of This World, The, 598 Rig Veda, 4,448,455 Rilke, R.M., 691-92 Rishabhchand, 577, 744 Rishi... Hindu, 377; failure of force and fraud against, 378; with Tamil revolutionaries, 378; rejection of offer of asylum, 378; period of silent Yoga, 361,379,391,393, 470; "Uttara Yogi", 380; visit of Paul Richard, 380,395; 23-day fast, 380; change of residence, 381, 382; teacher of Latin, Greek, French & Italian, 381; financial stringency, 382; early (1911) letters on his Yoga, 572ff; move under Aliens Act ...
... and then constantly has to he done all over again. ” Then I gave him my personal impression: “It will be like that until we touch bottom.” 16 Indeed, Mother had just had a vivid experience with Richard in Japan: the Mind is a perfect eel, or perhaps a chameleon; it takes on whatever color we wish, depending on taste or circumstances—actually, in a way it is right, for the Mind is made for whatever... the physical. 21 Apparently nothing had changed, except that Mother's arrival had begun to introduce a little order and well-being into the bohemian life of the Guest House. “Paul and Mirra Richard came to see Sri Aurobindo every evening,” writes Barin, Sri Aurobindo’s younger brother, "to talk of Yoga and discuss the great future, when man will be capable of bridging the gulf between matter... seaside house She was living in was threatened with collapse, Sri Aurobindo asked Her to move in with them and, from that day on, She never left him again. It was the 24th of November, 1920. Paul Richard, “incapable of accepting this life of self-surrender,” as Barin expressed it, would soon disappear. Two years later, Sri Aurobindo and Mother would move a short distance away to the present Ashram ...
... * * * 29.3.72 Robert, the dentist at Aspiration, informs Mother that he was Page 142 asked to look after the teeth of the children at the Aspiration School. Richard and Therese have agreed that he could use their chamber at Pondicherry once a week until the dental chamber comes up at Aspiration Mother has no objection. Regarding his wish to go to France... said, "It is better that he comes like this without being called." * * * 2.4.72 Huta's letter for blessings for Anne, who will project the Savitri slides tomorrow instead of Richard who is ill, was read. Mother gave her photo for Anne as blessings and flowers for Huta. Huta had presented me a copy of 'About Savitri' and wished that I get it touched by Mother. Mother wrote... Auroville has received Rs 50000. It will go for a part of the day to day expenses. Informed Mother of the work done yesterday at Madras. Huta has written asking Mother to give the name Narad to Richard Eggenberger. Mother said, "Oh, Narad! One has to wait." Marjorie's letter was read. Mother gives her a chance. The names of two D's at Auroville came up. Marjorie says that when ...
... as it were. . Now a halt to digression, however fruitful. When Paul Richard was in Pondy during his second visit, accompanied by his wife who was then known as Mirra, an early bone of intellectual contention with Sri Aurobindo was: "Did the world originate in Ananda (Bliss) or in Desire?" Richard argued for Desire. This is in essence the view of Buddha. The Buddhist term is tanha... be made of the old Upanishadic insight that from bliss the world was bom, by bliss it is supported and into bliss it shall merge. With the Supermind secretly haloing him Sri Aurobindo could oppose Richard. So, to employ your term, the world is an "entertainment" for God, but not in any light-hearted way unless we understand "light-hearted" as meaning a way in which the heart is full of light ...
... picture at all. Now I have been proved wrong but in an unexpected sense - in favour of my distrust of "twixt". Wondering whether Nolini would really have been involved and rejected, I asked Richard Hartz, one of the editors of the Critical Edition, who has ready access to all the materials connected with Savitri, to examine whatever related to the question in hand. He has kindly supplied a... focusing on all particulars though his eyes might have been moving up and down the page for some reason or other? Highly relevant here is the earlier report on the page concerned, submitted by Richard Hartz to the group examining the data for the Critical Edition. It had been suggested that Sri Aurobindo must have inserted "twixt" with a cool deliberate eye to each item in the passage. Hartz wrote:... here which we have surmised -a looking up and down the page with mixed results while being somewhat inattentive as though one were in a hurry. In such circumstances I cannot but agree with Richard about retaining "in". The footnote to it might be phrased thus: Page 361 As in the numerous versions before the final which reads "twixt". If, out of rigid piety, we go ...
... at Allahdino III (Papers of the Allahdino Expedition, N.Y., 1977). The Roots of Ancient India: the archaeology of early Indian civilization (Allen & Unwin, London, 1971). Frye, Richard N., The Heritage of Persia (Mentor, N.Y., 1966). Gamkrelidze, Thomas V and Ivanov, V.V., "The Early History of Indo-European Languages", in Scientific American (March 1990). ... Survey of India Vol. 9 no. 2 (July 1960) Memorandum no. 9. Jairazbhoy, R.A., Foreign Influence in Ancient India (Asia, Bombay, 1963). Jarrige, Jean-François and Meadow, Richard, "The Antecedents of Civilization in the Indus Valley", in Scientific American (August 1980). Joshi, J.P., "Exploration in Kutch and Excavation at Surkotada and new light on Harappān Migration"... An Advanced History of India (Macmillan, London, 1953). Mallory, J.P., In Search of the Indo-Europeans: language, archaeology and myth (Thames & Hudson, London, 1989). Meadow, Richard with Jean-François Jarrige, "The Antecedents of Civilization in the Indus Valley", in Scientific American (August 1980). Mirza, Hormazdyer K., "Observations on Ancient Iranian TrAditīon" ...
... a remarkable Frenchman and his wife, Paul and Mirra Richard. They had for years been in search of a Master.... [ Altered to: ] ... with a remarkable Frenchman and his wife, Paul Richard and she who is now known as Sri Mira Devi. They had for years been in search of a Master in whom they could recognize a World-Teacher.... Mirra Richard was no less overwhelmed by this vision—this reality—of ...
... Blessings. 6 March 1963 Mother, You had told me that you do not want your name to be associated with the name of Paul Richard in any way. X is writing about the early days of the Ashram, where he speaks of your arrival. There he says that you came with Richard who had come for electioneering, etc. This has been published in English and Bengali. It has now come for publication in the Hindi... military posts, but then withdrew. × "That" refers to the information that the Mother "came with Richard who had come for electioneering". From that phrase the Mother drew a line down to her reply, thus connecting them. × ...
... something was Sri Aurobindo's own symbol – in the form of a diagram, known as Solomon's Seal. Needless to add, after this proof of identity, steps were taken to facilitate her coming. Monsieur Paul Richard was at that time much interested in spiritual thought and practice and he could Page 494 I find an opportunity for coming here: he wanted to find out if he could get elected as... The first time he came here for canvassing, he was alone. The Mother accompanied him the next time. To all outward appearances they arrived here to canvass support for the election, although M. Richard did not in the end get very many votes. But this provided the occasion for the Mother to meet Sri Aurobindo and gather a few trusted friends and devotees. In this connection the Mother had to pay a... arrangements. She wrote out in her own hand the list of subscribers, maintained the accounts herself: perhaps those papers might be still available. And afterwards, it was she herself who helped M. Richard in his translation of the writings of Sri Aurobindo into French for the French edition of the Arya. The ground floor of Dupleix House was used as the stack room and the office was on the ground floor ...
... Arnold, Sir Edwin 335 Arnold, Matthew 292,311,312,412 Arya 14 , 15,31,328,359,416 Atkinson,WilliamC.382 Aurobindo, Sri Tagore on, 3-5; Paul Richard on, 5; life-sketch, 6-16; Sri Aurobindo's yoga, 19-26; his politics, 27-30; his philosophy, 30-39; his poetry, 39-55; the call of Savitri, 55-57; Sri Aurobindo on the recasting of Aswapati's travels... 4,281 Milton, John 7, 142, 214, 243, 265, 309, 336, 356, 362, 371, 377, 378, 381-386, 461,462 Mirandola, Pico Delia 332 Morgan, Charles 316 Mother, The (Madame Mirra Richard) 9, 14-18,20,28, 262, 289, 294,334,338, 416, 420,426,438,458; 459 Mukerjea, S.V. 253 Muller,Max267 . Munshi,K.M.17 Murray, D.L. 5 ... Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, Sri 4 Ramayana 45, 56, 160, 330, 336, 341, 375, 418-420,445,447,458,461 Read, Herbert 267,306,383 Reddy,C.R.9,16,17 Richard, Paul 5,14 Richards, I.A. 410 Richardson, Dorothy M. 35 Richardson, Jack 268 Rishabhchand 20 Robinson, Edwin Arlington 314 Rodogune 47-49 ...
... beleaguered France, Mirra and Richard had their separate roles to play although they also kept in touch with Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry. Mirra had especially her sadhana to do for ailing and tortured earth, and she made quite a few explorations into the Unknown, and spiritual conquests as well, and these were duly recorded in her prayers and meditations. Richard had now to visit Japan on an ... spiritual quest when he visited Pondicherry, now also he hoped and planned to continue his inquiries. The Orient had always fascinated the Richards: India certainly, but also China and Japan. Was Richard interested in observing Zen Buddhism at close quarters? Was he intrigued by the 'still-sitting' movement? For Mirra too, this was an invitation to new horizons. And so they boarded the Kamo Maru ...
... taken a keen interest in Turkey then; for reasons I have not been able to piece together. Mirra accompanied Paul Richard to Pondicherry. He came ostensibly for election work. We will be returning to this point shortly. From 1910 Sri Aurobindo had been in touch with Richard, so he knew that they were coming. As the time drew near for their arrival, he may have felt somewhat uneasy to receive... 48 The Guest House "He already knew the war would break out," Mother explained to Satprem in 1962. Sri Aurobindo was talking with Richard, "about the world, Yoga, the future ... he already knew the war would break out. This was 1914, war broke out in August, and he already knew it towards the end of March or early April." In actual fact ...
... them off if he would; they are not the naked essential man. The fundamental Pururavus is not the king and the hero but the poet & lover. The poet on a throne has been the theme of Shakespeare in his Richard II and of Renan in his Antéchrist; and from these two great studies we can realise the European view of the phenomenon. To the European mind the meeting of poet & king in one man wears always the ... his chariot and the scenic splendour of the crumbling thunderclouds flying up like dust beneath it, all the poet in him breaks out into glories of speech. Surely no king before or after, not even Richard II, had such a royal gift of language as this grandson of the Sun & Moon. It is peculiar to him in the play. Others, especially those who habitually move near him, Manavaca, the Chamberlain, the Huntsman ...
... that the actual via mystica at its height sets doctrinal demarcations at nought and realises the so-called converse forms as merely variants of the same God-experience. The Scholastic theologian Richard of St. Victor (12th century) tells us of the third degree of love in which "the mind of man...passes out completely into God" 47 and in this exalted state, we learn from Walter Hilton, "God and... Jerusalem Bible, p. 108. The Birth of the Messiah, p. 109. The Jerusalem Bible, p. 110. [bid., p. 111. Ibid., col. l,h. 112. Ibid., p. 113.Richard Falkenberg, History of Modern Philosophy (Calcutta, 1953), pp. 471-2. 114. The Dictionary of Philosophy, ed. by Dagobert D. Runes (Jaico Books, Bombay, 1957), "Panentheism". 115. ...
... then in Algeria, got also into touch with Pondicherry — initially through one who came there in connection with French politics. A little before Paul Richard arrived in the capital of French India, Sri Aurobindo had already made his home there. Richard spoke to him of Mirra, as the Mother's name then was. Sri Aurobindo is reported to have said that when the time would be ripe he would get in touch with ...
... ” 11 “Darwin’s whole theory of evolution by natural selection bears an uncanny resemblance to the political economic theory of early capitalism as developed by the Scottish economists,” writes Richard Lewontin, the best known exponent of that school being Adam Smith (1723-90). And he adds: “What Darwin did was take early-nineteenth-century political economy and expand it to include all of natural... × André Pichot: La société pure, p. 77. × Richard Lewontin: The Doctrine of DNA , p. 10. × Edward Larson: op. cit., p. 70. ...
... a mystical love of nature and a Social Darwinism which was so typical of much radical thought. This transformation from scientist to radical racist was catalyzed by his encounter with the work of Richard Wagner … He provided the New Romanticism [völkisch and therefore racist] with a scientific base and thus lent the tone and the goals of science to his racial theories.” 439 This is a risky undertaking... Jesus was a Jew was either being stupid or telling a lie.” 444 This irrefutable argument was duly repeated after Chamberlain by countless German Christians, while he himself was only repeating what Richard Wagner had said on the subject, who in his turn may have referred to Schopenhauer and Fichte. The Germans were not only the purest Aryans, they were the foremost in every field, also the religious ...
... an arrest warrant was issued against Aurobindo Ghose and the publisher and printer of the Karmayogin, but Aurobindo would have to be tried in absentia. We have seen how Aurobindo met Paul Richard shortly after his arrival. Pondicherry was a haven for many Nationalists, especially from the south, and they had their own paper in the Tamil language, India. When he felt somewhat safer in his... a conversation with a Hindu about whom I have never spoken to you, since I have not been in correspondence with him, but know him only through the good opinion of friends [no doubt Mirra and Paul Richard]. I spent two wonderful hours reviewing the ancient philosophical ideas of India with a man of rare intelligence. He belongs to that uncommon category that I so much admire, the reasonable mystics ...
... the Ashram doctor just mentioned. Nirodbaran had obtained his medical degree in Edinburgh, as had Sri Aurobindo’s father. Coincidentally he ran into Dilip K. Roy in Paris (around the time Roy met Richard in Nice); Roy went to visit Nirodbaran and the latter’s niece in Edinburgh and talked to them about Sri Aurobindo and his own intention to become a member of his Ashram. It seems that it was actually... near the bottom of the staircase. Later Tagore asked Nolini: “Who was that lady sitting near Sri Aurobindo? Is she his secretary?” Nolini answered: “She is the Mother.” Tagore exclaimed: “Oh, Mirra Richard? I could not recognize her.”’ ...
... The Spirit of Auroville I wrote a letter to the Mother on 25.7.72: My dearest Mother A few months back Richard Eggenberger wrote to me this: "Always I have watched the western disciples around me and have seen them receive new names from the Mother. I have never asked for a name because I have always felt that if some day all in me might be purified... "NARADA—He who sings Savitri ". Mother, his birthday is on the 29th of this month. Since he has wished for this particular name, I pray to you to give him this name if you find it proper. Indeed, Richard has collaborated wonderfully in the work of the Savitri slides. Also, it is he who will project the slides in Auroville when Shyamsunder will arrange the shows of the Savitri slides there. I ...
... The Spirit of Auroville I received a letter dated 26.7.72 from Richard Eggenberger, about the first show of the slides of the paintings inspired by Sri Aurobindo's poems: Dear Huta It was for me an experience of moving from light to more light. The brilliance of the colours, the depth and power and revelation of each painting together with your clear... and sensitive reading, ever profound, calm and yet intense, made a remarkable end to this first showing and I hope for all an-other beginning to Sri Aurobindo's poetry. With love in Her Light, Richard ...
... only that, the invasion resumed and the work had to be done all over again. That's all I had told him (not in great detail, in a few words). Then I sat down near him and he began talking with Richard, about the world, yoga, the future—all kinds of things—what was going to happen (he already knew the war would break out; this was 1914, war broke out in August, and he knew it towards the end of March... I didn't listen. All these things belonged to the past, I had seen it all (I too had had my visions and revelations). I was simply sitting beside him on the floor (he was sitting in a chair with Richard facing him across a table, and they were talking). I was just sitting there, not listening. I don't know how long they went on, but all at once I felt a great Force come into me—a peace, a silence ...
... time afterwards — to be exact. On 15 July the same year — I sent her the letter: "There is a story current here that into the body of Auroson you have put the soul of Paul Richard! Apart from anything else, I believe Paul Richard is still alive. Or have you put him to sleep in order to give his soul a better embodiment? The story strikes me as rather fantastic — but one never knows until ...
... from France met Sri Aurobindo in secret. His name was Paul Richard. He was sent from France by Mira — she whom we now know as the Mother. She handed over to him the sketch of a yogachakra, saying that its interpreter was to be found in India; and he who could interpret it would alone be her helper and master on the path of yoga. Paul Richard received the meaning of the symbol from Sri Aurobindo, and ...
... France met Sri Aurobindo in secret. His name was Paul Richard. He was sent from France by Mira — she whom we now know as the Mother. She handed over to him the sketch of a yogachakra, saying that its interpreter was to be found in India; and he who could interpret it would alone be her helper and master on the path of yoga. Paul Richard received the meaning of the symbol from Sri Aurobindo ...
... (1997), has been reprinted in the tenth impression (2000) of the fourth edition of Savitri. * Representative facsimiles of Savitri belonging to different periods of drafting are presented in Richard Hartz's article at the end of this volume. Page 359 and reordering, to lines that now come in Book Eleven at the climax of the epic. In 1916, Sri Aurobindo had written them as follows:... recovered on a higher plane of spiritual vision. Through Sri Aurobindo's genius and untiring labour, Savitri grew into the prophetic poem, not only of a future India, but of a future humanity. RICHARD HARTZ Page 372 ...
... The stanchion was not of deficient steel. Fool that I am, I tested it (my hand is still numb) and no posterity will see my work because it isn't there. A recent book on kung fu by David Chow and Richard Spangler includes several photographs of outstanding feats which they observed. One shows an 82-year old Chinese Ch'i Kung master who drove an eight-inch nail through four inches of board with his... more outside the reach of the mind than one's muscles. The literature suggests that a few individuals who are able to per form mind-boggling feats view reality in just this way. Baseball enthusiast Richard Grossinger observes: Page 696 Pitchers have torn muscles, broken bones, been operated on, had ligaments grafted; they have altered everything about their delivery and rhythm that made them ...
... Madame Richard (the Mother of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram), and the launching of the monthly journal, Arya, in which, during the next six years and a half, appeared the monumental philosophical sequence, The Life Divine, wherein Sri Aurobindo argued out with overwhelming force the possibility of the supramentalisation—the divinisation—of man and Nature and the earth. In 1920 Madame Richard returned ...
... (L'Arabie), 1I8 Arcturus, 297 Arjuna, 38, 68, 112 Asura, 148,272 Aswins, the, 144 Ashram (Sri Aurobindo), Iin., 63, 70-1 BACH, Richard, 82n. –Jonathan Livingston Seagull, 82n. Bajula, 280 Bali , 148-9 Baroda , 10-11 Bengal , 11, 164-5, 281 Bhade,280 Bhaskara, Guru, 151 Bhasunaka... 12 Pulastya, 149 RADHA, 307 Ramakrishna, 106 Ramprasad, 159-61 Raoutu,283 Ravana, 148 Reminiscences, 11 Richard, King, 59 Roy, Dilip, 189 Rudras, the, 144-5 SAGAR, 56 St. Helena , 22 Saraha, 273, 278, 281-2 Sarama, 271 Saraswati, ...
... resistance of the hostile forces. I myself had suggestion after suggestion that I wouldn't succeed. But I always remember the vision the Mother had. It was like this. The Mother, Richard and I were going somewhere. We saw Richard going down to a place from which rising was impossible. Then we found ourselves sitting in a carriage. The driver was taking it up and down a hill a number of times; at last he ...
... end today's session by telling you about a great French scholar whose name was Paul Richard. He had come to Pondicherry from France on a political mission, but he started looking for a Yogi as soon as he came. And when he heard of me he wished to see me immediately. It was from him that I heard about the Mother. Richard was the person who established my link with her. Later, when he returned here with ...
... a better world. Reminiscing about his earlier years, Dr. Okhawa told us that, as a student, he had studied Indian philosophy at the Imperial University, Tokyo, and was later impressed when Paul Richard in the Course of a speech he delivered in Japan referred to Sri Aurobindo as the greatest of the divine men of the world, "the leader, the hero of tomorrow". In answer to a pointed question as... photographs of the annual gatherings of her still-sitting group, and also copies of the monthly journal she was editing. There were besides a couple of photographs of herself with Mirra and Paul Richard. While in Kyoto, Mirra had done a sketch of Madame Kobayashi in colour, and this we saw too, an excellent likeness that seemed to bring out "the eager inquiry, the innocence, the candour, the ...
... could not do more than thirty kilometres per hour! It was a Richard-Brasier, so we heard. A friend of mine went to a lot of trouble and gleaned the following facts: This make of cars came into the market in 1902; ; the production stopped in 1905 when the partnership was dissolved; in between, for two years running —in 1904 and 1905 —the Richard-Brasier cars won the Gordon-Bennett Cup, thus winning the ...
... finality. What were the shaping events behind the scenes which this wonderful prayer unmistakably reflects? As early as 5 May 1914 Sri Aurobindo had written to Motilal Roy intimating that Paul Richard, although unsuccessful in the election, was trying to start an association of the young men of Pondicherry and Karikal "as a sort of training ground from which men can be chosen for the Page... and had a branch at Karikal. Possibly on 1 June, it was decided to launch the monthly philosophical view, Review, Arya, under the joint editorship of Sri Aurobindo, and Mirra and Paul Richard. The idea was set forth in some detail in Sri Aurobindo's letter to Motilal Roy, to which a reference has already been made. The Arya was to be in English with a simultaneous French edition. "In ...
... closed floodgates? 10 She carried this question, this call, everywhere She went, as if the very call would force the answer to spring forth (perhaps it was already this call that had brought Richard to her side and would lead her to Sri Aurobindo). Yet a few strange phenomena were starting to happen everywhere, on the bus, the tram, in a thousand ordinary places: children who suddenly tore themselves... had to exhaust all the solutions before being driven to the right door, as if her very quest created the circumstances that would put her on the boat to Pondicherry ... for the electoral campaign of Richard, who this time had decided to become himself the representative of French India (he was to be pitifully beaten). She who did not believe in democracy, even before 1914! This was another door She found ...
... Nolini, Bejoy, Moni, Va Ra, Saurin, Amrita, who were in attendance whenever necessary; there were occasional visitors. Paul Richard, Madame Alexandera David-Neel, K.V. Rangaswami Aiyengar, Motilal Roy, Khasirao Jadhav; and there was the all-important visit of Mirra Richard on 29 March 1914. When the Arya was launched, thought-power and revealing light were the nectarean merchandise that the monthly ...
... dictating the comments. After taking down Her words, I would read them out to Her for verification. After working with the Mother in the evening I typed out the day’s work and passed it on to Richard Pearson and Richard Eggenberger who were working on the botanical and common names of the flowers for the book. Any question that we had during this work would also be taken to the Mother the next day for c ...
... naked though locked up in steel Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted, we cannot but feel that we are listening to the same poetic voice as in Richard III shadows tonight Have struck more terror to the soul of Richard Than can the substance of ten thousand soldiers Armed in proof and led by shallow Richmond. or in Julius Caesar The evil that men do lives after ...
... enjoying it. I dare say some of the girls were ahead of most of the boys. Pushpa, Kumud, Mridula and Bhavatarini were terrific with the sickle. All these girls and some of us, Pratip, Prabir, Narayan, Richard and I naturally gravitated around Birenda — it was a nice group. Birenda is gone, but his pioneering spirit has broken quite a few frontiers. I believe it was he, with our batch of boys, who started... The New Bindery was opened with him in charge. He was older now — yet strong, active and enthusiastic enough. He did some good work there. He went every morning up to the Mother (at about 6 a.m.). Richard and I had the good fortune to accompany him up, first as his crutches (He had his leg in a plaster-cast) and later independently, as just Her children. She wrote a message in his Report-Diary. (These ...
... Baba, and when he returned, I asked him about this date. He said, “The will of the Universe has changed and things have been partially decided.” In December 1969, in Auroville, I first met Narad [Richard Eggenberger], who had asked Nolini, the secretary to the Mother and someone recognized in the Ashram as a yogi of great spiritual attainment, about this date. Surprisingly he answered in almost exactly... Maggie, very clear and unambiguous, was, “It is better for him to remain there in Auroville. He can do what he wants there (dedicate his life), I know it .” I stopped asking. In December 1969 I met Richard Eggenberger, later to be given the name “Narad” by the Mother, on the Auroville bus. He told me that the Mother had given him the work of designing all the gardens that were to surround the Matrimandir ...
... Neville Chamberlain; he was educated in France, became a qualified biologist, and chose Germany as his second fatherland. He wrote (sometimes in trance) in German, and married Eva, the daughter of Richard Wagner, thereby becoming the master of Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth, where the composer had spent the last years of his life and were he lay buried. Georges Mosse calls Chamberlain “the most influential... the air of a sort of consecration. As religious believers go on a pilgrimage before making an important decision, so Hitler went to obtain the blessings of Chamberlain and of the deceased master, Richard Wagner.” 404 By then Chamberlain was a bedridden man who could only hold Hitler’s hand and mumble some hardly understandable words. But afterwards he still managed to write a letter to Hitler in ...
... This rough outline of the intensifying anti-Semitism before the First World War would remain incomplete without drawing the attention to one of the most potent inductors of the anti-Jewish sentiment, Richard Wagner (1813-83). His influence as a composer was enormous, not only in Germany but everywhere in Europe, especially in France. But, as so often happens, the everyday personality of the artist did... that they grew up with Wagner’s music in their ears at every important public or political manifestation. Hitler had made Wagner into the official composer of the Third Reich; living composers, like Richard Strauss, only moved in Wagner’s shadow. The reason was that Wagner and his music had played such an important role in Hitler’s own life. From his years in Linz onwards, he had eaten and drunk Wagner ...
... not meet the demand I make on life and yoga,” he declared, but also: “It is true that I want the supramental not for myself but for the earth and souls born on the earth.” 4 When in 1914 Paul Richard proposed the publication of a monthly review to make their new worldview known, Sri Aurobindo had his material ready. The main concepts in which his vision was formulated filled the notebooks whose... accepted by every student in any academic institution. Religion and spirituality have not (yet) found the arguments to counter the physical arguments of science, and scientists like Stephen Hawking, Richard Dawkins and Steven Weinberg launch their pronouncements from the peaks of their popular fame. “A few years ago, Stephen Hawking summed up the scientists’ prevailing attitude to the status of life in ...
... Hitler visited Haus Wahnfried in Bayreuth for the first time on 1 October 1922, a month before the putsch. All present were touched by his solemn first contact with the place where the revered Richard Wagner had lived, worked, and lay buried. “It is certain that Hitler told the Wagners also about the planned putsch”, asserts Hamann. “He had obviously planned his visit to Wahnfried with great care... something like a consecration. As religious people go on a pilgrimage before making an important decision, thus Hitler went to obtain the blessings of [Houston] Chamberlain and of the departed Master, Richard Wagner.” 218 Rumours were abroad, plans were made, the tail coat was rented, and the whole affair turned into a resounding fiasco – which made Hitler a figure of national importance. ...
... both in Germany and France. The French branch received little support and never really flourished. It was not really popular in Germany either, but there it received the wholehearted support of the Richard Wagner circle, of which Schemann was a member. In addition, Schemann, active on the board of the Pan-Germans, was able to obtain the support of this significant conservative group for the cause of... events as sketched here by Mosse has to be somewhat adjusted. According to Cosima Wagner, Gobineau, a very cultured and widely-travelled man, had obtained access into the circle around her husband, Richard Wagner, and had found compensation in the composer’s “enthusiastic response” for the general neglect of his racial theory. “It was thanks to Wagner that the Frenchman became the inspirational source ...
... The Spirit of Auroville I received a letter from Richard Eggenberger dated 23.3.72: Dear Huta I read your note again and again. Could you tell me how Mother's voice sounded when she said: "He can't afford to be sick"? The words she spoke gave me the strength the other night. The Force was so strong. Huta, the other night Kireet missed mentioning... leaped from the screen, all sat in meditative silence and Mother's Voice resounded through the theatre with an indescribable power. I too am so grateful for our collaboration. In their Light Richard Shraddhavan gave me a booklet, Invocation published by Savitri Bhavan Auroville, in it I read the wonderful words of the Mother: Savitri is a Mantra for the Transformation of the World. ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Hostile forces played their cards to upset the sacred things. Richard Eggenberger took suddenly ill. It was he who was projecting the series of Savitri slide-shows. The Mother was informed on 2.4.72. She sent her photographs and blessing packets, which I handed over to his wife Annie for him. The next day he performed the show... and has since poured in many countless blessings upon me. All my being rises to her in gratitude and I shall also never forget your selfless love and generosity. With love, At Her Feet, Richard The Mother also wished the slides of our paintings inspired by Sri Aurobindo's poems to be shown. During this period her voice was not up to the mark. So, according to her wish, late at night I ...
... The Spirit of Auroville I received a letter dated 5.5.72 from Richard Eggenberger: Dear Huta, I somehow wish to convey to you how great a moment I have experienced during this evening's showing of Savitri . My words are quite inadequate to the task but I felt everything in a new way. For example I didn't feel as if I am helping to project the slides... have not been able to convey much but I hope you will feel my joy and my gratitude to be one of those chosen to play a small part in the showing of Savitri in this great year 1972. With love Richard ...
... Species , Goyal Publishers, 1992 Davis, Paul: God and the New Physics , Penguin Books, 1983 — The Mind of God , Penguin Books, 1993 — The Origin of Life , Penguin Books, 1999 Dawkins, Richard: A Devil’s Chaplain , Phoenix, 2004 — Climbing Mount Improbable , Penguin Books, 2006 — River out of Eden , Phoenix, 1999 — The Blind Watchmaker , Penguin Books, 1988 — The God Delusion... Nazism , New York University Press, 1994 Gould, Stephen Jay: Punctuated Equilibrium , The Belknap Press (HUP), 2007 — Rocks of Ages , Ballantine Books, 1999 Grafen, Alan, and others (ed.): Richard Dawkins , Oxford University Press, 2006 Greenspan, Louis, and others: Russell on Religion , Routledge, 1999 Gribbin, John: The Fellowship , Penguin Books, 2006 Gribbin, Mary and John: Being ...
... between the two is not yet quite understood. Its reason will be made clearer soon. Karma Fresh proofs of effective Karma through subjectivity in surroundings; formerly C.S & R2 [Richard and Madame Richard], now difficulties in the house righted. Sharira In Sharira (except Ananda) the surface movement has been today contrary rather than helpful. There are one or two weak signs in ...
... of pure philosophy", was launched in August 1914 and ran until January 1921. Almost all its contents were written by Sri Aurobindo, particularly after the departure of his co-editors Paul Richard and Mirra Richard (the Mother) in February 1915. We reproduce here facsimiles of the front cover of the first issue of the Arya and the note printed inside the cover of every issue. This note undoubtedly ...
... send to you to distribute. The address of the Review will be 7 Rue Dupleix & subscriptions should be sent to the Manager, Arya at that address. This is the house that has been found for M & Madame Richard; they have not occupied it yet but will do so within a week or so. It is Martin's house over on the other side of the street just near to the Governor's. It is also to be the headquarters of the Review... old rent, we could just go on for a year even without the Rs 1000 arrangement yearly or other money. But Rs 150 is the real minimum sum needed, especially if we keep this house after Nagen goes, as Richard wishes. If the Review succeeds, the problem will be solved; for with 500 subscribers abroad & 1500 in India, we could run the Review, pay the assistants & keep a sufficient sum for the two Editors ...
... might take objection to your publishing a translation without his permission. M. Richard himself would no doubt give the permission at my request, but I do not know whether he has kept the right in his own hands. Please therefore do not publish that at present, but let me know the name of the translator. M. Richard is expected here at any time during the next month or two; but even if he does not ...
... following topic. CHAMPAKLAL: Paul Richard used to say that a stain on the clothes means a stain on the soul. If he saw any stain on his clothes—a dhobi stain even—he would be very angry and consider it a stain on his soul. SRI AUROBINDO (laughing): If it was a dhobi stain, it would be a stain on the washerman's soul. (Laughter) That was one thing Richard believed in—signs, emblems, omens, etc ...
... myself and I am myself are two ways of saying the same thing. We imagine Shakespeare expressed the experience graphically and poetically when he made his character say: Page 337 Richard loves Richard, that is I am I. In seeking to disvalue the principle of identity as a fundamental element in knowing, Prof. Das brings in to witness on his side the logical copula. Some logicians ...
... . Logical difficulties were pointed out in the theory of transfinite numbers, various paradoxes were proposed, notably by Burali Forti in Italy, Bertrand Russell in England, Koenig in Germany and Richard in France. The subject of transfinite numbers is so enthralling that one is tempted to treat it in some detail. But space forbidding, we content ourselves with a bare mention of the fact that faced... that they seem like different drafts of the same composition." 20 Finally, we witness in the closing years of the last century the independent formulation of the principle of continuum both by Richard Dedekind and Moritz Cantor. We leave it to our readers to offer an adequate explanation of this striking fact and pass on to the consideration of an ideal which is almost the life-breath of ...
... recall in this connection Lewis Carrol's 'brillig' which meant 'brilliant twilight', or 'galumping' which is a compound of 'galloping' and 'leaping', and the ingenious name 'Rilchiam' to combine 'Richard and William'. Example 1: "Lord North's daughter - Lady Charlotte Lindsay - arriving late for dinner at Holland House apologized to her hostess saying, T am exceedingly sorry, but really the... ready wit, engaged to do so. The friend considered a moment and then said: "Well, I'm sure you can't pun on the Zodiac." "By Gemini, I Can-cer," came the prompt reply. 64 3. Pun conundrum: Richard Whately, one of the wittiest of divines, devised the following ingenious conundrum based on clever punning: Q. "Why can a man never starve in the Great Desert?" A. "Because he can eat the ...
... Glass Bead Game. This game lies at the heart of Castalian society. Although never clearly 1. The word "Knecht" in German means "servant". 2. Hermann Hesse, Magister Ludi, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Bantam, 1972), p. 107. Page 456 described, the reader comes to understand it as a kind of imaginative intellectual play in which contraries are first explored... proud and fiery boy's heart there stirred an inkling that to belong to this kind of nobility, and to serve it, might be a duty and honor for him... From Hermarm Hesse, Magister Ludi, trans. Richard and Clara Winston (New York: Bantam, 1972), (pp. 41-44, 68-69, 107-08, 218-19, 238-39, 256-57 and 387) References 1. Fugue', a polyphonic composition in which a short melodic theme ...
... from France met Sri Aurobindo in secret. His name was Paul Richard. He was sent from France by Mira—she whom we now know as the Mother. She handed over to him the sketch of a yogachakra, saying that its interpreter was to be found in India; and he who could interpret it would alone be her helper and master on the path of yoga. Paul Richard received the meaning of the symbol from Sri Aurobindo, and ...
... Literature (Jonathan Cape, London, 1953). Whitman, Walt. Leaves of Grass (Everyman's Edition, Dent 8c Sons, London, 1949). Wilhelm, Richard. (Tr.) The Secret of the Golden Flower. A Chinese Book of Life. Translated & explained by Richard Wilhelm; with a European commentary by C.G.Jung; translated into English by Cary F. Baynes (Kegan Paul, London, 1932). Williams ...
... the Lord as Narayana, as Vasudeva, in the Alipore Jail. 101 But there is no hint of a 'Savitri' in these experiences. We have to wait till 1914 for the first definite clue. In that year Madame Mira Richard, who had been seeking the Divine for years, came to Pondicherry, and under date 30 March she recorded: It matters not if there are hundreds of beings plunged in the densest ignorance... My adoration surpasses all words and my reverence is silent. 102 On this passage Iyengar comments as follows: "This 'marvel', 'he whom we saw yesterday', was Sri Aurobindo." 103 Madame Richard presently became Sri Aurobindo's spiritual collaborator, and for about thirty years they were jointly the spiritual directors of the thousands of disciples who gathered around them in the Sri Aurobindo ...
... Vaughan. Cf. Sri Aurobindo: I saw the spirit of the cosmic Ignorance; I felt its power besiege my gloried fields of trance. (Quoted in Iyengar, Sri Aurohindo, p. 309). 121. Richard Crashaw. 122. See The Renaissance Philosophy of Man, ed. by Cassirer, tr. by Forbes (University of Chicago Press). 123. Sir John Woodroffe, Is India Civilised?, P . 33. ... Time and Deity, Vol. II, p. 345. 138. Quoted in Johnson, The Imprisoned Splendour, p. 148. 139. My Philosophy, p. 21. 140. The Secret of the Golden Flower, ed. by Richard Wihelm and C.G. Jung, p. 99. 141. ibid.,?. 93. 142. See Stoudt, Sunrise to Eternity, p. 230. 143. Quoted in Johnson's The Imprisoned Splendour, pp. 403-4. ...
... that of the future, that tireless quest to find the Secret, track down the old tricks; and Tlemcen, the great blue Note bursting forth, the world exploding like impressionist pictures. And Theon, Richard, all the dangers She went through with a laugh, all the phantoms She pierced through to reach the Reality of the earth. Then Sri Aurobindo like a minute of eternity: alone in front of that coffin... present individuals or what people will say or think of it — wrest it from its present, tiny reality, in order to change it into a great Symbol of the transformation of the Earth. Yes, there is Theon, Richard, Pranab, the great shadows of Death, all that resists and refuses or only wants the old way, the whole old species thrashing about. No, She is not a saint, She is a great Adventuress and hers is ...
... the supramental jungle. Except for bits and pieces, we do not really know what He was doing. He who wrote so much, thousands of letters and pages, and who did not refuse to speak abundantly with Richard or the first nucleus of disciples, never said anything about the body’s practical secrets—perhaps because no one would have understood him, or rather, because there is no use “explaining.” At the level... from within, in all those who are ready. In short, He set into motion Matter’s truth so that Matter itself would do the work—which is precisely what happened while Sri Aurobindo was speaking with Richard; without his even trying, through the simple, material radiance of his presence, silence was established in Mother from within. He did not apply any special concentration or special willpower as all ...
... altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry — I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher. How I managed to do it and why? First, because Paul Richard proposed to me to co-operate in a philosophical review — and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the war... automatically. But that is not being a philosopher!" The Arya first appeared on 15 August 1914. Its last issue was on January 1921. That makes six years and six months of publication. Of course, Richard was there for the first seven months, and then he left in the last week of February 1915. We don't know whether he helped any after his return from Japan towards the end of April 1920. That leaves ...
... July to October -Second visit to Tlemcen. 1908 -Mirra lives in 49 Rue de Levis. 1908,March -Divorce from H. Morisset. 1910,April -Paul Richard meets Sri Aurobindo in Pondicherry. 1911,5 May -MIRRA marries PAUL RICHARD. They live in N°9 Rue du Val de Grace. 1911-1913 -Mother's second group, L 'Union des Pensees Féminities. 1912,November -Beginning of Prayers ...
... of Bassora is "Nur al-Din Ali and the Damsel Anis al-Jalis", a story told in the Arabian Nights (thirty-fourth to thirty-eighth nights). Sri Aurobindo owned in Baroda a multi-volume edition of Richard Burton's translation of the Arabic text (London, 1894), which he considered "as much a classic as the original". Rodogune. Two complete, independent versions of this play exist. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Early Letters on Yoga and the Spiritual Life (1911-1928) Autobiographical Notes To the Mother and Paul Richard [1] All is always for [the] best, but it is sometimes from the external point of view an awkward best. I had one of my etheric writings, "Build desolated Europe into a city of God". I give it [ to ] you for what it is worth. Perhaps ...
... Early Letters on Yoga and the Spiritual Life (1911-1928) Autobiographical Notes To Paul Richard [1] I need some place of refuge in which I can complete my Yoga unassailed and build up other souls around me. It seems to me that Pondicherry is the place appointed by those who are Beyond, but you know how much effort is needed to establish the thing ...
... the Mahomedan hooligans who, for the present, are the good friends, allies and brothers-in-arms of Anglo-India in its fight against Swadeshi. A certain Mr. Garth, said to be a son of the late Sir Richard Garth, Chief Justice and one of the cheap and numerous tribe of "Friends of India", was the oratorical hero of the occasion. This gentleman was delivered in Mango Lane on Monday of a speech which runs ...
... some six-foot dactylic rhythm resembling a sort of measured prose recitative— Then he arose from his bed and heard what the people were saying, Joined in the talk at the door with Stephen and Richard and Gilbert, Joined in the morning prayer and in the reading of Scripture. 1 And yet even the accentual (or perhaps one should say the stress) hexameter is capable of better things. Clough ...
... outside the system. Sattwic activity is being eliminated from the vijnanamay trigunatita activity, but here the remnants are still not altogether void of obstructive substance. Letter from P.R. [Paul Richard] Safety assured though not absolute. The lipi & thought fulfilled. Walking & short standing from 7.45 to 10.45. No failure of utthapana, but the accumulative effect of adhogati is not yet removed ...
... sources narrate, "the Sae, Sai or Sek (Śaka) dwelling in the plains on the northern bank...of the Jaxartes..." 2 We must be careful to avoid mixing up the two tribes. "It is now generally accepted," Richard N. Frye' tells us, "that we are not to identify the Yue-chih with the Śakas", and India was quite aware of the difference as we know from the name given to the Kushānas in its literature. Sircar ...
... Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit भवानी भारती English translation by Richard Hartz सुखे निमग्नः शयने यदासं मधोश्च रथ्यासु मनश्चचार । स चिन्तयामास कुलानि काव्यं दारांश्च भोगांश्च सुखं धनानि ॥१॥ As I lay sunk in the comfort of my couch and my mind wandered on the roads of spring, I thought of my people, of poetry, of wife and enjoyments, pleasure and ...
... stood in his place and got him to eat the food we had brought. So the night passed. I returned early the next morning and went up to the Mother at 5.30 a.m. — my usual time to see Her, along with Richard and Biren-da (Chunder), and gave Her the whole “story”. She said “Ah! Louis cannot force them to any terms. It would be illegal. Moreover, just because they have gone down in their consciousness, we ...
... brother Kanad came and sat beside me and asked for blessings. I thought it would be very interesting for him to know what had happened just before he came. Here is the account written by our brother Richard who was also present: “When we came back, we met the friendly dog (female) who, seeing us, began to wag her tail. Then we sat on the lawn in a circle. Behind, in the verandah, the Mother's photograph ...
... would spare Sodom if only ten just men could be found in the city, I also have reason to hope that, for our sake, he will not destroy Germany.” “According to some accounts”, write Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh, “[Major-General Henning von] Tresckow walked from his headquarters to the front line and there shot himself. According to others, he simply strode out amid an artillery barrage into the no- ...
... Newton. As the result of a 1936 auction at Sotheby’s in London “scholars were enabled, for the first time, to assess the magnitude and scale of Newton’s Hermetic interests”, write Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. “It came as a startling revelation. The first commentator to publish the hitherto suppressed work was John Maynard Keynes, who concluded that Newton’s ‘deepest instincts were occult, esoteric ...
... Nuremberg, material relating to the influence of esoteric thought on National Socialism and the Nazi hierarchy was deliberately suppressed, and has been lost to the record”, write Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh. “According to one of the British prosecutors, the late Airey Neave, large bodies of existing evidence were too bizarre to be admitted; they would have permitted too many high-ranking Nazi Party ...
... Burton Guttman: Evolution , p. 141. × Alan Grafen and Mark Ridley (ed.): Richard Dawkins , p. 259. ...
... gone away since then, and that it has remained the keystone of the whole evolutionary edifice.” 19 All great persons seem to have a nemesis. For Newton it was Leibniz, for Darwin it will be Richard Owen – and for Lamarck it was Georges Cuvier (1769-1832). Cuvier was one of the great French naturalists and throughout his life much honoured in his country, for in his photographs his chest is bedecked ...
... relevant points should be borne in mind. Notable Westerners have believed in reincarnation: Pythagoras, Plato, Leonardo da Vinci, Leibniz, Benjamin Franklin, Goethe, Shelley, Victor Hugo, Balzac, Richard Wagner, Walt Whitman, Nietzsche, Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Gauguin, Strindberg, Mondriaan, Jung, H. G. Wells. It was the great composer and director Gustave Mahler who wrote: ‘We all return; it is ...
... continent ‘the most dangerous place in the world’ because no less than three times it has been on the verge of a nuclear war and at the present time tensions are once more being raised. They quote Richard Kerr, deputy director of the CIA during the last Indo-Pakistan crisis, ‘It was the most dangerous nuclear situation we have faced since I have been in the US government. It may be as close as we have ...
... flowers, and mostly communicated her knowledge orally, sometimes in English, more often in French. But Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had “the same path from the beginning”. In 1920, when Mirra Richard and her husband Paul returned from Japan to India, “the Yoga was waiting for the Mother to continue”, wrote Sri Aurobindo. It was on the Mother’s advice that he and she descended from the supramentalised ...
... the earth using his mental ability. This is because we are making our brains smarter by establishing new links and allowing the neurons to chat in a language that gives meaning to our actions.” Richard Dawkins, the leading proponent of sociobiology and author of some best-selling books like The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker , writes in River out of Eden (1995): “The universe we observe ...
... of the Earth, if not the planet as a whole, looked, acted and was as vulnerable as a living being. Initially Lovelock’s hypothesis was stridently attacked by the Neo-Darwinists, especially by Richard Dawkins, the firebrand among them. They dismissed the Gaia hypothesis as “vitalist,” thereby declaring it anathema in serious, academic, materialist science. After Lovelock had pruned his hypothesis ...
... fingernails by the Gestapo in Paris – only those did know . Yet, as all this is an aspect of the capabilities of the species to which one belongs, one could read books like Masters of Death by Richard Rhodes, The German Trauma by Gitta Sereny, Soldiers of Evil by Tom Segev, Orte des Grauens (places of horror) by Gerd Überschär, Annus Mundi by Wieslaw Kielar, Léon Poliakov’s Bréviaire de ...
... Death is Birth." (Francis Thomson: "Ode to the Setting Sun") (v)"Life and Death — two companions who relieve one another in the leading of the soul to its journey's end." (Paul Richard) 1 Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. VI, No. 1, pp. 65-67. (Italics ours) Page 377 (vi) "Life [is] a figure of death and Death of life." (Sri Aurobindo ...
... charming . Perfection: Psychological Perfection: here is not one psychological perfection but five. They are: sincerity, faith, devotion, aspiration and surrender . The Mother told Richard and Annie, his first wife, on December 18, 1969, that she wanted the first design to begin around the Banyan Tree, which is to be the Garden of Unity. She said: I have chosen all the flowers . ...
... collaborators. The Mother touched the tin with a smile I prayed to the Mother for her Victory, because everything was arranged by her in the occasion of the forthcoming Birth Centenary of Sri Aurobindo. Richard Eggenburger and his colleagues were performing the shows with the Mother's special blessings. Everyone enjoyed the slide-shows of the Savitri paintings. The Mother did not want me to attend the ...
... The Mother wanted these slides to be shown in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram Theatre during Sri Aurobindo's Birth Centenary Year 1972. Her will was fulfilled. Richard Eggenberger and his assistants finished taking slides of all of the Savitri paintings on 27.9.1971. ...
... The Spirit of Auroville On 29th July it was Richard's birthday. The Mother gave him a beautiful card. In it she wrote: 29.7.72 To Richard NARAD with LOVE Bonne fete Blessings . So now we call him "Narad' ...
... 1971 My Savitri work with the Mother 27 September 1971 Richard Eggenberger completed his work on 27th September 1971. The Mother was very happy. The Mother wished to know the exact date and time for showing in the Ashram theatre the slides of the Meditations on Savitri paintings along with her own organ music and her recitations, recorded by me, of ...
... ago—quite convenient! He saw me the next day for half an hour. I sat down—it was on the verandah of the 'Guest House', I was sitting there on the verandah. There was a table in front of him, and Richard was on the other side facing him. They began talking. Myself, I was seated at his feet, very small, with the table just in front of me Page 421 —it came to my forehead, which gave me a little ...
... Inspiration 345 God, Europe vs. Asia 30 God of Love 24 God-realisation 5,315 Gods 253 Goethe 1,22,57,205 Gokak, Dr. V.K. 333 golden lid 307 Gray 234 H Hartz, Richard 356,360,362 higher and lower hemispheres 306 Hiranyagarbha 99 Homer 132,186,205,213,258 horse 310 hostile forces 303 Housman,A.E. 26,265 hrdaye guhāyām 165 ...
... details... and, above all, at his sheer imagination." The Times 2 hailed this novel as "a delight" and the Manchester Guardian 3 as "masterly". But Durrell is far indeed from writing a plain hand. Richard Mayne, 4 in the Sunday Times , declares: "His prose beguiles us with marvels of virtuosity." And even Pamela Hansford Johnson, 5 who finds the book wanting in a centre, criticises it by saying ...
... Spear, p. 34. 5. Op. cit. (see fn. 1), p. 403, col. 2 and p. 323, col. 2. The comparative study was done at first hand from the Safdarjung collection at New Delhi. The chronology derives from Richard H. Meadow et. al., "Problems in the Culture History of Baluchistan and South-eastern Iran" (cyclostyled copy). Page 461 Subsequent stratified excavations at Bampur in Sistan and ...
... said, due to this fast, his energy increased many times. It was again in Shankar Chetty’s house that a distinguished scholar and savant from France met Sri Aurobindo in secret. His name was Paul Richard. While returning to France he said to Sri Aurobindo that Mira and he could come in the year 1914. Accordingly, they sailed from France, disembarked at Dhanushkoti, took the train and reached Pondicherry ...
... to be made of the Savitri paintings, so that they could be shown at the Ashram theatre as part of the celebrations during Sri Aurobindo's Birth Centenary Year, 1972. With the Mother's blessings Richard Eggenberger took up the work of preparing the slides from early 1971 onwards. He and his assistants finished taking slides of all of the Savitri paintings on 27.9.1971. * These are now at ...
... and Spanish which he had taught them to pronounce without understanding a single word: he caustically remarked that "one tongue was more than enough for any woman". About Paradise Lost itself John Richard Green has said: "Its scheme is the problem with which the Puritan wrestled in hours of gloom and darkness - the problem of sin and redemption, of the world-wide struggle of evil against good. The intense ...
... is pervasive in the Overhead.planes; that need not be explicitly there in the overhead poetic expression or in the substance of any given 1 Quoting from memory, Sri Aurobindo has modified Richard Baxter's first line which in the original was: I preached as never sure to preach again! A wider poignancy, an elemental cry, has come in to ...
... Chatterjee came to bless him. Toured Europe giving lectures on music. At Nice (France), he met Madame Calve, a famous prima donna who had found solace in Swami Vivekananda, and the philosopher Paul Richard, who gave him a final impetus towards Sri Aurobindo; a profound feeling of vairāgya gripped him and he returned to India cancelling his journey to the USA. 22 Nov. 1928 Beginning ...
... have a style and a good one but their prose is not quoted as a model and they are remembered not for that but as creators. You speak of Meredith, and if Meredith had always written as he did in Richard Feverel he might have figured chiefly as a master of language, but the creator got the better of the stylist in the bulk of his work. I was writing of prose styles and what was in my mind was those ...
... the creation account in the Book of Genesis have seized upon "intelligent design" (I.D.) to show that the blanks in the evolutionary narrative are meaningful. (Vide an account of a debate between Richard Dawkins, who holds the view that on the basis of the physical evidence that we possess today of the universe, evolution should lead towards atheism, and Francis Collins, who holds the view that material ...
... Mother, too. As she said in the Agenda: During the last war [World War II] I had some dealings with him [the Asura of Falsehood, who called himself The Lord of Nations'] again, but not through Richard—directly. The being who used to appear to Hitler was the Lord of Nations. An incredible story!... And I knew when they were going to meet... and on one ________________________________________________ ...
... guidance; his beatific vision of Narayana the Omnipresent God in the Alipore Jail; his experience of the besieging of his fields of trance by the cosmic ignorance; his spiritual association with Madame Richard, the Mother from 1914 onwards; his rendezvous with Night; his vision of the Paraclete, Thought, and of the ecstasy-laden Rose of God; and other experiences too, both before and after the climactic ...
... wanting to convert all. Already there are signs. SRI AUROBINDO: But I have never wanted to start a religion, I have said nothing new in philosophy. In fact, I am not a philosopher by temperament. Richard came and said, "Let us have a synthesis of knowledge." I said, "All right. Let us synthesise." I have written everything not from thought but from experience as it developed in my practice of Yoga ...
... their own progress or control their own future. And the Community itself is only a stage on the way to the organized world of tomorrow. Taken from Jean Monnet, Memoirs, translation by Richard Mayne, (Doubleday, NewYork:1978) Page 128 ...
... "careless". SRI AUROBINDO: It's certainly not careless. If he doesn't like it, he can say so, but he can't attribute it to carelessness. Who is the reviewer? NIRODBARAN: He is another poet, Richard Church. SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, these are all fads of different poets! NIRODBARAN: In the review Church says that Yeats was very enthusiastic over Turner's poetry. In his adventure through modern ...
... of light with its diamond sheen, its material body itself a packet of intense and yet controlled radiating energy. ¹ A re-creation of the story of Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach, published by Turnstone Press Ltd, London, 1972. Page 82 ...
... screen. As early as 1912 - and before she had met Sri Aurobindo, before there was any such formal institution as Sri Aurobindo Ashram, and before the first world war - the Mother, then Mirra Richard, had jotted down certain notes prefiguring the lines of ideal development for man in a world that shall have banished war and fear and want and ignorance. "The general aim to be attained," she wrote ...
... sannyasis are not excluded either. If the admission of women itself might have struck people as a dangerous novelty, at Pondicherry Sri Aurobindo not only admitted early two European ladies - Mirra Richard and Miss Dorothy Hodgson - as sadhaks, but installed the former in charge of the Ashram as the Mother and gave the latter the spiritual name of 'Vasavadutta' ('one who has given herself) or simply ...
... 161 30. Ibid. 31. D. K. Roy, Among the Great (Jaico edn.), pp. 219-20 32. Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 5, p. 85 Chapter 17: Arya: A God's Labour 1. P. Richard, The Dawn over Asia 2. From -a report of an interview by Prithwindra Mukherjee, published in the Sunday Standard, 15 June 1969. 3. Collected Works of the Mother, Vol ...
... Ray, P. C. The Life and Times of C. R. DOS (1927) Raymond, Lizelle. The Dedicated (1953) Reddy, V. Madhusudan. Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy of Evolution (1966) Richard, Paul. The Dawn over Asia Roy, Anilbaran. Sri Aurobindo and the New Age (1965) Rishabchand, and Shyamsundar Jhunjhunwala. The Destiny of Man (1969) Rishabchand. In the ...
... reply. This was just two months before the outbreak of the First World War. August I5: Started the monthly philosophical review Arya in joint editorship with Mother and Paul Richard. 1915 February 2I: Celebration of Mother' s birthday for the first time in Pondicherry. February 22: Mother left Pondicherry for France. ...
... ation due to a multiple fracture of his right femur that the editing work could be undertaken. My thanks are also due to vi Sunjoy Bhatt, Ganapati Pattegar, Aloka Ghosh, Robert Zwicker, Richard Hartz and Patricia Frick of the Archives and Research, and S. Ravi of the Centre of Education, who together made the final 'copy' as flawless as humanly possible. Sunjoy of course was not a little ...
... after consulting a Professor. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but the Professor is an Indian. He is not an Englishman. It is these people who have learnt the language that want to use current phrases. As Richard Stephenson said, "English language is like a woman who loves you for taking liberty with her." Once Sir D.-V. sent me one of his books and on every page I found 40 such worn out expressions, what they ...
... its blackness, and then growing to white heat, it becomes like unto the fire itself. And lastly, it grows liquid, and losing its nature is transmuted into an utterly different quality of being." —Richard of St. Victor. ²"O soul, before the world was I longed for thee: and I shall still long for thee, and thou for Me. Therefore, when our two desires unite. Love shall be fulfilled."—The Divine to ...
... e God." Here again we find almost a paraphrase of the Upanishadic saying. The same mystic says again elsewhere: "...the union takes place in God through grace and our homeward turning love..." Richard Rolle, another great Western mystic, confirms Ruysbroeck's words when he says : "Contemplative sweetness not without full great labour is gotten, and with joy untold it is possessed. Forsooth, it ...
... English readers. Pururavas is a warrior and king, but in the play itself it is the lover and the poet that is in the foreground. "Surely no king before or after," says Sri Aurobindo, "not even Richard II, had such a royal gift of language as this grand-son of the Sun and Moon. It is peculiar to him in the play."68 It is predestined that such a Hero as he should fall for and win such a nonpareil ...
... ce: that couldn't be; only, it had now become part of the larger problem of human destiny itself - the triple problem of man's individual, his social and his racial destiny. Before Mirra Richard (the Mother) came to Pondicherry to meet Sri Aurobindo in March 1914, she had already traversed - as we saw earlier - a similar spiritual path, and she had recorded in 1912 that the aim to be attained ...
... It was on Sunday the 29 th of March, 1914, at 3:30 in the afternoon, at N°41 rue Francois Martin. "I came here.... But something in me wanted to meet Sri Aurobindo all alone the first time. Richard went to him in the morning and I had an appointment for the afternoon. He was living in the old Guest House. I climbed up the staircase and he was standing there, waiting for me at the top of the stairs ...
... out around five in the evening, stroll up and down the pier for an hour or so, meet and talk with some local acquaintances, then return home. As a rule they did not have foreign visitors. Paul Richard was an exception. He met Sri Aurobindo twice. They talked long together, for two to three hours each time. But local revolutionaries dropped in of an evening. Subramania Bharati was a daily visitor ...
... gentleman's sister in Pondicherry basked lifelong in the sunshine of Mother's kindness. Talk of the divine quality of gratitude? Well, Mother certainly had it. On 6 March 1914, Mirra and Paul Richard were in Geneva. Why did they go there? Mother speaks of 'suffering' and of 'grief.' "Certainly this sentimental and physical attachment which produces a wrench when the bodies separate, is childish ...
... prosecution in accordance with law.... In the meanwhile Arabindo is in Pondicherry where he seems to have formed some undesirable French connections and will probably sail for France." A reference to Paul Richard, no doubt. To Minto's letter of 26 May Morley answered on 15 June. Page 174 "You say you cannot in the least understand my hope that you won't get a conviction against the r ...
... a conversation with a Hindu, about whom I don't think I ever spoke to you because we never corresponded, but knew him only through friends who spoke highly of him." The friends were Paul and Mirra Richard. "I passed two very beautiful hours exploring the ancient philosophical ideas of India with an interlocutor of rare intelligence, belonging to that uncommon tribe that I like so much (for which I have ...
... Thee in an irresistible appeal; wouldst Thou not grant that I may become Thyself in my integral consciousness, since in fact I am Thou and Thou art I?" On May 8 Sri Aurobindo noted that "Madame Richard was ill." On May 9 Mirra penned: "Just at the moment when I felt the imperious need for the regular resumption of these notes to come out of this invading mental inertia, my physical organism ...
... up for pathos, too eloquent and full of unchildlike sentimentality & posing. Children are fond of posing and children are sentimental, but not in that way. As for the Princes in King Henry VI and Richard III no real lover of children could endure them; one feels almost thankful to the crookback for mercifully putting them out of the way. Nor is Constance a sympathetic figure; her shrieking, her rant ...
... to win this scholarship, candidates had to take twelve papers over the course of a week. One of the papers required contestants to provide a Greek translation of the following poem by Richard Carlton (born circa 1558), an English madrigal composer: The witless boy that blind is to behold Yet blinded sees what in our fancy lies With smiling looks and hairs of curled ...
... subject is treated, a subject which should have given rise to a piercing and mighty yet unpretentious splendour. Surely, episodes occur where the language and attitude escape being hectic. Whenever Richard Wagner is introduced, we at once catch something genuine. The picture of him alive or in a faint or in the sleep of death is always impressive: somehow he seems to be the undeclared hero of Page ...
... Saurin’s absence. It is with great pleasure that we shall meet you once more. Will you please present to A.G. the enclosed photographs with our most loving greetings. Very sincerely Mirra P. Richard 7 November 1919 × A.G. = Aurobindo Ghose. Sri Aurobindo was known as “A.G.” up till the end of 1926. ...
... agricultural settlements more than 3000 years older than Mohenjo-daro and there... dating back to the fifth millennium B.C. some seeds of cotton ( Gossypium ) have been found. Jean-Francois Jarrige and Richard H. Meadow write: 4 "...Their presence in association with the seeds of other cultivated plants near a structure apparently used for storage, however, suggests that cotton was indeed cultivated by ...
... earlier. 4. Op. cit. (see fn. 1), p. 403, col. 2 and p. 323, col. 2. The comparative study was done at first hand from the Safdarjung collection at New Delhi. The chronology derives from Richard H. Meadow et. al., "Problems in the Culture History of Baluchistan and South-eastern Iran" (cyclostyled copy). Page 5 Sankalia tells us that the Harappā Culture is placed in the ...
... was dictated continuously without any previous draft. The dictated passage begins on p. 702 with "Descend to life..." and ends on p. 710 with "This earthly life become the life divine." — RICHARD HARTZ Page 582 1. An early version of the opening of "Savithri", a narrative poem in two books (1916-17). Page 583 2. The meeting of ...
... "cantos" and I am sincerely thankful to them all. I would particularly like to mention the names of Jugal Kishore Mukherji, Georges van Vrekhem, Shyam Sunder Jhunjhunwala, Asoka K. Ganguli, Ravi, and Richard Hartz. One of my friends suggested that for the benefit of a general reader, who has not always the right resources at his disposal, I must provide the relevant material. Although the addition of ...
... the revisions taking place at every stage; it cannot have any other validity or acceptability in an absolute sense. Otherwise we shall simply prove ourselves to be like Newton’s famous contemporary Richard Bentley, the classical scholar. He was five when Paradise Lost was published, in 1667. Later Bentley rewrote the poem entirely to his taste, thinking that it was the printer who had made all those ...
... Man-handling of Savitri Of “has left” and “had left” In February 2004 issue of Mother India Richard Hartz writes: Here is an instance, "has left" was emended in 1970 to "had left" in lines in Book Three, Canto Three, which were printed in the following form in The Advent , the 1947 fascicle and the 1950 and 1954 editions: Although the afflicted Nature ...
... altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry — I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher! How I managed to do it and why? First, because Paul Richard proposed to me to co-operate in a philosophical review — and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his head to anything, I could not very well refuse: and then he had to go to war and ...
... Copernicus had long been accepted, Galileo had discovered new heavenly bodies, and Newton’s laws suggested a universe hardly compatible with the Biblical stories of creation. Besides, scholars like Richard Simon had shown that the Bible, when philologically examined like any other literary document, proved to be a much less consistent document than could be expected of the Word of God. England, the ...
... that you’ve pinched my own clothes and not given me any new ones, with the result that I’d feel a right fool if I walked out of here naked, you could keep your Christ and your reach me downs, too!” (Richard Fletcher: The Conversion of Europe , p. 224-25.) × Sri Aurobindo: The Human Cycle, p. 157. ...
... about it, and the things we say about it, are made. One of the main themes of postmodern thought is that language is deeply involved in the social construction of reality. [The American philosopher Richard] Rorty says: ‘We need to make a distinction between the claim that the world is out there and the claim that truth is out there. To say that the world is out there, that it is not our creation, is ...
... individuals striving for greatness, not of races struggling for a momentary superiority on earth. Another important tie of Nietzsche with the period in which he lived was his relationship with Richard Wagner. “His identity was so bound up with Wagner that it might collapse if they separated”, writes Carl Pletsch. 692 When Wagner died, Nietzsche wrote in a letter: “Wagner was by far the fullest man ...
... convinced that “the old Aryan culture, under the leadership of Nordic man, would experience a rebirth”. Moreover, Spengler made himself unpopular in Bayreuth because of his critical remarks about Richard Wagner, and was there henceforth referred to only as “the Decline”. 778 Hitler thought of himself as the prophet of “an entirely new Weltanschauung ”, a word which may be translated as “world vision” ...
... force produces evolutionary change in Darwin’s world: the unconscious struggle among individual organisms to promote their own personal reproductive success – nothing else, and nothing higher.” And Richard Dawkins made his famous proclamation: “It is absolutely safe to say that, if you meet somebody who claims not to believe in evolution [meant is Darwinian evolution], that person is ignorant, stupid ...
... (Bertrand Russell) “The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.” (Richard Dawkins) “Omnipotence raises some awkward theological questions. Is God free to prevent evil? If he is omnipotent, yes. Why then does he fail to do so? This devastating argument was deployed by [the ...
... Toland ‘Hitler’s place of inspiration.’ Hitler was a tool of the ‘Lord of the Nations,’ who, in fact, is the Lord of Falsehood. This Asura, whom the Mother failed to convert in the person of Paul Richard, is already known to us. The important role he played throughout her life and that of Sri Aurobindo, and throughout the history of the twentieth century, becomes increasingly clear. The crux of everything ...
... André was mostly brought up in Beaugency with his father’s sisters, his grandfather Edouard and his nanny. ‘What struck me most were the visits which my parents paid to me in their motor car. It was a Richard-Brasier [a short-lived model from the beginning of the century] and didn’t have to bear a number plate because it could not do more than thirty kilometres per hour … My parents used to carry with them ...
... another story altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry—I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher! How I managed to do it? First, because Richard proposed to me to co-operate in a philosophical review—and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse; and then he had to go to the war ...
... John (1572 - 1631). Dean of St. Paul's; preacher and metaphysical poet; author of satires, epistles and elegies. Vaughan, Henry (1622 - 1695). A Welsh metaphysical poet and mystic. Crashaw, Richard (1613 -1649). English poet of metaphysical inspiration. Francis Thompson (1859 - 1907): English poet, author of "Hound of Heaven". 54. Blake, William (1757 -1827). English poet, painter ...
... disciple. Luchi: a kind of small and thin saucer-shaped bread fried in ghee. Hasi or Uma Bose (22.1.1921-22.1.1942): A 'lovely singer', sang like a nightingale. Wilhelm Richard Wagner (1813-83). Celebrated German composer of operas: "The Ring of the Nibelungen', Tristan and Isolde7, 'Parsifal', etc. Giuseppe Fortunino Francesco (1813-1901), Italian composer of ...
... food-packets all during their trying days. Two novels I remember having enjoyed in the far past for their sensitive perceptions are The City of Beautiful Nonsense by E. Temple Thurston, and Richard Aldington's All Men are Enemies . Aldington is known most for his war-books, but this is a most charmingly yet most unostentatiously written document of the inmost heart of young love. It is indeed ...
... the artist with the lines of her face, turning the preceding expression of peace to a hint of delicate Page 15 delight at the subtle sight of the Divine Mother. I remember calling Richard Hartz's attention to this sweet change. The other experience was caught from a large picture of the Mother hanging behind the bed on which Lalita had been laid. This picture is now in my own room, ...
... the Sufi element (which in the language current in the New-Testament period would be called "Gnostic") is most prominent in the words put into his mouth by John's Gospel: "I and my Father are one." Richard Burton, the famous nine- teenth-century translator of the unexpurgated Arabian Nights which he entitled A Thousand Nights and a Night, a version Sri Aurobindo intensely admired, wrote a long poem ...
... pantheistic sense into the more subtle and complex thought of the ancient Vedanta". And Sri Aurobindo's remark gets an added relevance from the fact that the home of this more subtle and 42.Richard Falckenberg, History of Modern Philosophy (Calcutta, 1953), pp. 471-72. 43.The Dictionary of Philosophy, edited by Dagobert D. Runes (]aico Books, Bombay, 1957), p. 223, "Panentheism". ...
... Maruts, 41, 45, 66 Maruttash, 66 Page 147 Marya, 32 Maryanni, 2, 32, 67, 85-7, 88, 89 Mattiwaza, 31, 86, 87, 88 Meadow, Richard H., 5fn. Mediterranean, Miditerranids, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23 Megasthenes, 86, 103 Mehi, 38 Mesopotamia, 32, 35, 54, 68, 73, 74 Mirza, Hormazdyer K., 83 Mitanni ...
... marked by a unifying that differentiates. Not only Meister Eckhart, who is never quite in good odour among his fellow-Catholics, but other Catholic mystics have themselves a non-Teilhardian suggestion. Richard of St. Victor (as far back as the 12th century) says in his treatise. Of the Four Degrees of Passionate Charity: "The third degree of love is when the mind of man is ravished into the abyss of ...
... when Hitler failed his entrance examination to the Academy of Fine Arts for the second time and disappeared into the anonymity of the metropolis. Hitler read about the subjects that interested him: Richard Wagner, the theatre, the technical aspects of stagecraft, architecture, military equipment and war, German history, and the political background of the events he witnessed in Vienna. But another and ...
... Outburst around the Turn of the Century”. “German utopianism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries almost always meant a return to pre-Christian, pagan spirituality in some form”, declares Richard Noll. “Goethe exemplified this trend in the romantic movement by suggesting replacing the fairy tale of Christ-worship with sun worship. The romantic revival of the Greek gods in Germany also led to ...
... over and again: demonstration of the power of the Christian God meant conversion. Miracles, wonders, exorcisms, temple-scorching and shrine-smashing were in themselves acts of evangelization”, writes Richard Fletcher in his *Conversion of Europe.* 490 It had to be demonstrated to the barbarians that the Christian God was more powerful than their gods. The Christian God could command the weather, restore ...
... wanted these varieties of Hibiscus in all these gardens, ranging from white to multicoloured, small to big, single to double or multiple petals. In fact she loved all flowers. So by early 1970, Richard and his helpers had started a Nursery, close to the Matrimandir, to start preparing all the plants for the future gardens. But he was also deeply interested in music, and was a lover of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... good one but their prose is not quoted as a model and they are remembered not for that but as creators. You speak of Meredith, and if Meredith had always written with as pure a mastery as he did in Richard Feverel he might have figured as a pre-eminent master of language, but the creator and the thinker played many tricks on the stylist in the bulk of his work. I was writing of prose styles and what ...
... there is no fusion of the idea with the emotion that ought to be there—and isn't. Still, the writer is evidently a poet and the sonnet very imperfect but by no means negligible. 12 June 1931 Richard Hughes ... The air stands still: the very roots Of all the trees lie still and cold: —What is it gallops in the dark? Gallops around that chapel old? "We are those limber horses That ...
... world, has yet, though carried on under serious difficulties, completed its first year. We have been obliged unfortunately to discontinue the French edition from February last as our director M. Paul Richard was then recalled to join his class of the Reserve Army in France. We have to thank the indulgence of our French subscribers who have consented to receive the English edition in its stead. We have ...
... The French Book L'Ether Vivant Many of the questions asked in your letter about the condition after death are dealt with in the French book L'Ether Vivant . This book was written by Paul Richard, but all the substance was taken by him from the Mother, as he himself had no knowledge about these things. You can send the book to the Mother and she will mark the passages. You should also read ...
... more from the wish of the sadhaks who desired to entrust their whole inner and outer life to the Mother than from any intention or plan of hers or of Sri Aurobindo. In the meantime, Mirra Richard, after her recent visit to France, returned to Pondicherry on the 24th April, 1920. The number of disciples now showed a tendency to increase rather rapidly and Sri Aurobindo decided to entrust Mirra ...
... another story altogether. I knew precious little about philosophy before I did the Yoga and came to Pondicherry—I was a poet and a politician, not a philosopher! How I managed to do it? First, because Richard proposed to me to cooperate in a philosophical review—and as my theory was that a Yogi ought to be able to turn his hand to anything, I could not very well refuse: and then he had to go to the War ...
... Reminiscences and Remarks on Events in His Outer Life Letters on Himself and the Ashram Outer Life in Pondicherry (1910-1950) Meeting Paul Richard I would like to know the mystery behind M. Paul Richard's meeting with Sri Aurobindo. I have heard that when he started for Pondicherry you [i.e. the Mother] gave him some signs or some questions to be solved ...
... Sri Aurobindo Ashram Sri Aurobindo was living in Pondicherry with four or five disciples from 1910 to 1920. In 1914 the Mother 1 came from France (with Paul Richard) and Sri Aurobindo began to edit the Arya , which continued up to January 1920. In April 1920 the Mother came back from Japan and gradually, as the number of people increased, the Ashram was founded ...
... and asked him if he wanted to enter into contact with the earth. It's worth mentioning that Théon himself was an incarnation of the Lord of Death—I've had good company in my life! And the other one [Richard] was an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood—but it was only partial. With Théon too it was partial. But with Satan it was the central being; of course, he had millions of emanations in the world, ...
... consists in, but it is doubtful whether any such mentally constructed definition could be always applicable. You speak, for instance, of the 1 Quoting from memory, Sri Aurobindo has modified Richard Baxter's first line which in the original was: I preached as never sure to preach again! A wider poignancy, an elemental cry, has come in to replace the somewhat restricted though ...
... the "vital mind" in constant movement, making all sorts of formations. × This was in France with Richard, at the start of the war, after the return from Pondicherry. × I have given thee thy awful shape ...
... Cartier-Bresson had photographed Sri Aurobindo in 1950. × The famous scene of the strangling with Richard. × Who had seen a "false Mother" with dark spots all over her—her sincerity made her see the spots ...
... Asiatic Society, London, 1911 Frisk, Hjalmar, Le Périplus de la mer Érythrée suivi d'une étude sur la tradition et la langue (Goteberg Hogskole Arsskrift, XXIII, 1927, 1) Frye, Richard N., The Heritage of Persia (A Mentor Book, The New American Library, New York, 1963) Ganguli, D. C, In Indian Historical Quarterly, XIV (1938) Geiger, Wilhelm, ...
... next time I see R.... It's a "coincidence"—but is there such a thing as a "coincidence" in the world? I don't believe in... In the past (I don't know what became of him afterwards), but in the past Richard had some occult knowledge, that is I had given him enough occult knowledge for him to be able to leave his body and enter another. So did he try to do it?... I know he wanted to come back here; especially ...
... stable support. And yet it is this fixity of the form that made death inevitable. (Conversations of the Mother, p. 58) How could that escape death which lives by death? (Paul Richard, The Scourge of Christ, p. 186) A. First Factor: The Part against the Whole The individual life, emerging as a finite and ephemeral wave in the bosom of the 'All-Force' that ...
... from B. Russel and spoken of the Brazilian educationist Paulo Fteire. We took extracts from Magister Ludi, the beautiful and thoughtful book by Herman Hesse. We have also presented extracts from Richard Bach's book, Jonathan Seagull Livingstone; and text from Moliere which gives counter-example as to how teaching ought not to be. And also The Little Prince, Saint-Exupery. We took Letters from a ...
... permission of the Division of Education and Ministry. It is expected that, in accord with normal scholarly etiquette, use of such materials in publications, etc., will be acknowledged appropriately. Richard L. Goerwitz Richard_Goerwitz@Brown.EDU http://etext.virginia.edu/rsv.browse.html for the entire RSV as etext. Page 10 ...
... from time to time and sees what kind of work is going on. Q: It knows that the work here is against its own interests? Sri Aurobindo (laughing): Of course!... It is a very powerful Being. Paul Richard was in communion with this Being and the plans and methods he has written of in his book Lord of the Nations , are the same as carried out now. He has said there that the present civilisation is to ...
... with any of Sri Aurobindo's writings, in the odd position of those of the sixteenth century Elizabethan England who reacted in a funny way to the very appearance of Tarlton, the comic actor. Richard Tarlton, be it noted, was a comic actor whose skill in extemporizing humorous replies through the medium of easy verses was so great that in course of time the very trick of extemporizing came to be ...
... clarified. Sri Aurobindo: Which diabolical point was that? Some point of a pin on which the whole universe can stand? 76 XIX. Break-up of a word to create a humorous effect: We know when Richard Bentley started his periodical "Miscellany" the famous wit Theodore Hook commented: "An ominous title - Miss-sell-any." Here is a piece from Sri Aurobindo: Dr. NB: A has finished 3 Takadiastase ...
... a complete loss in addressing the army's (and the government's) needs for timely military intelligence. Through the late 1960s and into the 1970s, the ISI worked in tandem with the CIA, under the Richard Nixon administration, to provide aid and support to the Khalistan movement in Punjab.13 In addition, the CIA and the ISI collaborated to discredit then-Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's granting ...
... with their eyes fixed on his face. Page 76 (64) A nother peculiarly amusing character was Benjamin. The year Mother came to Pondicherry for the first time with Paul Richard, a few local young lads were attracted to Mother and became attached to her. Benjamin was a local Christian boy. In the beginning the local Christians nursed a lot of hatred for the Ashram. ...
... knows all the possibilities connected with the war. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, they are known as possibilities. We do not accept anything as absolutely certain. On the 17th (curiously enough Richard Paul’s birth day) Petain proposed an armistice and all thought that France was lost. Sri Aurobindo : All these heroes of the last war – how could they propose a truce? How can they expect ...
... only gives indications, gives to the mind some side of itself, some aspect. Disciple : But you have written philosophy in the Arya . Sri Aurobindo : Arya was written because of Richard. After starting it he went away and left me alone to fill 64 pages per month. The Life Divine is not philosophy but fact. It contains what I have realised and seen. I think many people would object ...
... of X to myself. He always said that I was unpractical because I used to upset all his plans that were most likely to succeed. 14-4-1926 – 22-5-1926 Cosmic Consciousness by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke (Madras 1923) Précis of the general points discussed. ["There are three forms or grades of consciousness : 1. Simple consciousness which is possessed by the upper half ...
... classes. Unfortunately Marie-Amelie had to return to France just a few days after this and, consequently, my singing lessons also came to a halt. After quite a long gap, another choir conductor named Richard Eggenberger (Narad) arrived in the Ashram. Some of us took classes with him as well. With Narad too, we had sung for the Mother in front of Dyuman-bha's room and She came and sat by the first floor ...
... prevents the results from being isolated and only partially effective. 36 XI Suddenly things began to move. As though it was all preordained, in the early months of 1914, Mirra and Paul Richard arrived in Pondicherry, L'Idée Nouvelle was established on 1 June, and the Arya was launched on 15 August - all this against overwhelming odds like financial scarcity, police surveillance and ...
... was performed a long time ago in the Playground and had liked it very much. Besides, as this programme was to be put up on 15 th August, we informed the Mother. She was happy with the idea. Manoj, Richard and Jhumur read the lines from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Sahana-di recited the Bengali poems from Rabindranath. The programme was put up on the beach, in the Gandhi Square, under a large pandal ...
... more important journals are mentioned below, many of them issuing from Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry. Arya A Monthly Philosophical Review, edited by Sri Aurobindo Ghose, Paul and Mirra Richard, (1914-21). Photographically reproduced in 7 volumes by All India Press, Pondicherry, 1990 Sri Aurobindo Mandir Annual, Calcutta, since 1942 The Advent (Quarterly) since 1944 Sri ...
... She was the hurricane that wants to knock down everything in its path. She saw this planet suffering, She saw these people slaughtered here and there, this sordid Falsehood everywhere, right down to Richard with his noble philosophies, and She had touched, felt, seen the Secret of the Cure, here in this very Matter: The formidable omnipotence of Thy Force which is here, ready for manifestation, waiting ...
... February, Sri Aurobindo escapes to Chandernagor, in French India. April 4, Sri Aurobindo takes refuge in Pondicherry. April, Paul Richard’s first visit to Pondicherry. Mirra marries Paul Richard, 7-9 rue du Vai de Grace. 1911 Beginning of Prayers and Meditations. 1914 March 7, Mother embarks for India aboard the Kaga Maru. March 29, meeting of Mother and Sri Aurobindo. ...
... Shair Siddhar now in Chandernagore, who came to me and whom I had to see and sound. He is a queer sort of fool with something of the knave, but he had possibilities which I had to sound. There is Richard who is to know nothing about Tantricism. There are a host of possible young men whom I must meet and handle, but who may not turn out well. It is obviously impossible for me to do this work, if the ...
... leading (spirit). That ___________ * August 15th happens to be the birthday of Sri Aurobindo . Page 263 being has often come here to see what was being done. Did you read Richard's book "The Lord of the Nations"? Disciple : No. I read only "To the nation". Sri Aurobindo : The book was never published, but he wrote it at a time when he was in communication ...
... his laboratory. The Ashram was Sri Aurobindo's and Mother's laboratory. All creatures great and small were part of it. Yes, not only humans. Cats and dogs, cows and bullocks, Blackie the crow, Richard's donkey, none were left out. That is why I have tried to give a short bio-data of the person whose name, however insignificant, has cropped up. Well, it has been difficult to procure a reliable ...
... own interests? SRI AUROBINDO ( laughing ): Of course. PURANI: Is it only one Being or a troop? SRI AUROBINDO: There are more than one, but this is a very powerful Being. Have you read Paul Richard's Lord of the Nations ? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: I believe it was not published. He was in communion with this Being and the plans and methods he has written of in the book are the same as ...
... first idea was to get hold of the north of France so as to control the Channel ports. NIRODBARAN: The 20th of June is not very far away; today is the 18th. SRI AUROBINDO: Yesterday was Paul Richard's birthday. You know what he used to say? PURANI: No. SRI AUROBINDO: That his ideas would be fulfilled on his birthdays. NIRODBARAN: France can still retrieve her honour if she accepts England's ...
... the Japanese, was so horrified to see the present day Japan that she at once went back. That the Japanese are not a distinctly spiritual race can be shown from an example. Hirasawa, a friend of Richard's and the Mother's, was a great patriot but he did not like the modern tendencies of Japan; so he used to say, "My soul has become a traitor." PURANI: Have you read Noguchi's letters to Tagore defending ...
... × That was the time when, in France, Mother spent nights walking through gardens full of snakes (Richard's atmosphere). ...
... slow opposite or wheeling flight into a sudden & long-continued rush in the direction imposed. Still the atmosphere & habit of resistance still remains. The afternoon & evening taken up by R's [Richard's] visit, Bh's [Bharati's] & translation of Rigveda II. 23 & 24. Bh. has fresh Yogic experiences,—this time of the voice of God & miraculous cure. Aiswarya operated today consecutively & with small... ie Forces of Action & Delight are to be combined and constitute the Ananda of perfect self-expressions in the material life. Trikaldrishti of Time is beginning vaguely to arrange itself, eg Richard's arrival on the 29ᵗʰ, not as had been arranged on the 28ᵗʰ, his visit on the same day, & less clearly in the afternoon. But the mind has as yet no confidence in this action of the trikaldrishti. Moreover... tendencies, and one seeking to know not only tendencies but eventualities & to guide the action towards & through the eventualities. As yet nothing clear has emerged. 2 April 1914 Doubt as to R's [Richard's] theories which are assailing the mind, eg. theory of kama and ego as the seed of the world. Promise of a sortilege in reply. Sortilege. (1)मनसैवेदमाप्तव्यं नेह नानास्ति किचंन । मृत्योः स मृत्युं ...
... poker and pontoon when the Mother opened my eyes. Apropos of playing cards, the Mother recounted to me an occasion when she had gambled. I shall tell the story later when I touch on Paul Richard's role in the Mother's life; for, her gambling experiment took place in connection with him. My friendship with Udar, which was not only on the gambler's level, drew him more and more towards ...
... to be a pure record of fact and experience, we do not know whether it was meant for publication. How did it then get published? By the way, would the Mother have approved the publication of Paul Richard’s photo in an Ashram journal, Sri Aurobindo: Archives and Research , December 1988? Knowing her remarks about him, it can be said that she would not have allowed its publication. And, significantly ...
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