Rudra : Rudra is Vedic Shiva; the Rudras are also identified with the Maruts.
... addresses Rudra - the terrible and destructive aspect of the tradition al Shiva - as "most bounteous", "the good, the best among the Gods", granting "health unto our steeds, well-being to our rams and ewes, to men and women, and to kine" 19 Here Rudra is, as Ralph T.H. Griffith notes, "a gentle and beneficent deity", 20 the typical Shiva. Hymn II. 33.8 calls Rudra "fair-complexioned"... later religion, Rudra... Vishnu's constant friendliness to man and his helping gods is shadowed by an aspect of formidable 25. Dravidian Theories, pp. 137-38, 139. 26. Ibid., pp. 138-40. Page 44 violence, - 'like a terrible lion ranging in evil and difficult places' [I. 154.2], - which is spoken of in terms more ordinarily appropriate to Rudra. Rudra is the father of... embattled forces." 27 Obviously, if Vishnu has an alter ego in Rudra, one can say of the latter, as Sri Aurobindo does: "Rudra is a fierce and violent godhead with a beneficent aspect which approaches the supreme blissful reality of Vishnu." 28 And Sri Aurobindo is aware of the Rigveda's own direct picturing of Rudra in tones anticipating the character of the post-Rigvedic Shiva. He ...
... another. And in the hymn (5,42) which Parpola has picked out in his allusion to Rudra as Asura, the very verse 11 where Rudra is titled "Asura" has the word deva adjacent to this title: námobhir devám ásuram duvasya - "adore the Asura, God, with salutations." 469 What is still more curious, not only does Parpola's Rudra turn the tables on him. His Varuṇa himself, in team with his frequent companion... an Asura. Thus 5,85,5, which Parpola quotes: 401 "I shall well proclaim the great magic power of Varuṇa, the famous Asura." The same is said about Rudra "who in the Rgveda is called an Asura (5,42,11) or 'the great Asura of heaven' (2,1,6)...." 402 Rudra too, for Parpola, has his source in a separate cult of Asura deities, but the theme is not pursued further in the same context. Before examining... with whom he was leagued in that exploit must be taken to have received the same Asuraship. Or see the verse (2,1,6) from which Parpola exhibits Rudra as "great Asura of heaven". In fact, it is in a hymn to Agni. Griffith's rendering is: "Rudra art thou, the Asura of mighty heaven: thou art the Maruts' host, thou art the Lord of food, / Thou goest with red winds: bliss hast thou in thine home ...
... (Circa 1902-1912) Kena and Other Upanishads Nila Rudra Upanishad First Part Translation ॐ अपश्यं त्वावरोहन्तं दिवितः पृथिवीमवः । अपश्यमस्यन्तं रुद्रं नीलग्रीवं शिखण्डिनम् ॥१॥ 1) OM. Thee I beheld in thy descending down from the heavens to the earth, I saw Rudra, the Terrible, the azure-throated, the peacock-feathered, as he hurled. दिव उग्रो... Upanishad, a prince of the Aryan people, as we see from the fifth verse. He records a vision of Rudra descending from the heavens to the earth. अवः, down, is repeated for the sake of vividness. In the second half of the sloka the murti or image in which he beheld the Divine Manifestation is described, Rudra, the God of might and wrath, the neck and throat blue, a peacock's feather as a crest, in the... and throat. मह is strength, bulk, greatness. The manifestation is that of wrath and might. The people see Rudra as a mass of brilliance, scarlet-ringed and crested with blue, the scarlet in Yoga denoting violent passion of anger or desire, the blue sraddha, bhakti, piety or religion. 3) Rudra, whom we know as the slayer of evil, comes. The Rajarshi describes him as born of the tree that is in the ...
... Brahmanaspati that the later conception of Brahma, the Creator seems to have developed. Both Brahmanaspati and Rudra are closely connected with each other in the Veda. The upward movement of Brahmanaspati needs a special uplifting force, and Rudra supplies this force. Rudra is named in the Veda the Mighty One of heaven. He is described as the One who leads the upward evolution of the Conscious... children of Rudra, and they are not divinities superior to their fierce and Mighty father. But the number of hymns addressed to Maruts is much larger, and they are more Instantly eminent in connection with other gods; but this is because the functions they fulfilled was of a Page 83 constant and immediate importance in the Vedic discipline. On the other hand, Vishnu, Rudra, Brahmanaspati... this force of Rudra and Vishwamitra describes Agni in one hymn¹ as the One who becomes the child, Kumara, which is the prototype of the Puranic Skanda. The Maruts are vital forces which make light for themselves by violence, are Rudra's ____________________ ¹Rigveda, III.1.9.10 Page 84 children. But we also learn that this violent and mighty Rudra who breaks down ...
... later religion, Rudra. Rudra is a fierce and violent godhead with a beneficent aspect which approaches the supreme blissful reality of Vishnu; Vishnu's constant friendliness to man and his helping gods is shadowed by an aspect of formidable violence,—"like a terrible lion ranging in evil and difficult places",—which is spoken of in terms more ordinarily appropriate to Rudra. Rudra is the father of... majority of the Vedic hymns are addressed, are not greater than Vishnu and Rudra, but the functions which they fulfil in the internal and external world were the most active, dominant and directly effective for the psychological discipline of the ancient Mystics; this alone is the reason of their predominance. The Maruts, children of Rudra, are not divinities superior to their fierce and mighty Father; but... Puranic Skanda, is on earth the child of this force of Rudra. The Maruts, vital powers which make light for themselves by violence, are Rudra's children. Agni and the Maruts are the leaders of the fierce struggle upward from Rudra's first earthly, obscure creation to the heavens of thought, the luminous worlds. But this violent and mighty Rudra who breaks down all defective formations and groupings ...
... Godhead and Vishnu has a close connection with Rudra or Shiva. It is true that in the Veda larger number of hymns were devoted to Agni and Indra, but the importance of the Vedic Gods should not be measured by the number of hymns devoted to them. In fact, Agni and Indra are not greater than Vishnu and Rudra. In the Veda, Vishnu, Rudra and Brahmanaspati provide the conditions of the... smites the sinner and the enemy. Agni, Kumara, prototype of the Puranic Skanda, is on earth the child of this force of Rudra. In these and many other aspects which are described in the Veda, we have all the materials necessary for the evolution of puranic Shiva-Rudra, the Destroyer and Healer, the Auspicious and Terrible, the Master of the force that acts in the worlds and the Yogin who enjoys... the Creator by the word, and it is from this creative aspect of Brahmanaspati that the Puranic conception of Brahma, the Creator, arose. For the upward movement of Brahmanaspati's formations, Rudra supplies the force; he is named in the Veda the mighty one of heaven, but he begins his work upon the earth and gives effect to the sacrifice on the Page 96 five planes of our ascent ...
... being diminished. For the difficulty till now was that the force, the rudra shakti, of the tapas always brought with it excitement of mental wish, tapatya or tapata, and overstress, while the elimination of these brought with it also an elimination of the rudra shakti. It is now becoming possible to combine forceful will, even rudra tapas, with truth of ideality. Thought telepathy is beginning to... universal love madhurya , but deficient in virya and shakti , ῥαθυμος. The advent of the Chandi bhava, effected in accordance with lipi and other prediction on the 2d, stabilised and completed in rudra force on the 15ᵗʰ, since then undergoing modifications and vicissitudes, has brought the completion of the Devibhava, not yet altogether perfect, but firm fundamentally. It is Mahasaraswati personality... personality with the Mahakali bhava; the Mahaluxmi colour, a hidden Maheswari base ( pratishtha ). Defects still existent. (1) Occasionally the ῥαθυμɩα of the Mahasaraswati gets the better of the rudra tejas ; this is mostly when things are getting on well or when the samata in shama gets the better of the samata in tapas. This however is rare. Ordinarily samata in tapas is the temperament. (2) The ...
... in Agni-Vayu Aryaman & Bhaga, Indra concealed in Agni Vayu, Mitra & Varuna behind Aryaman-Bhaga. Vishnu & Brihaspati are one. Surya is Vishnu working as Pushan & Yama. Rudra is a bhava of Vishnu. The Maruts are the host of Agni Rudra. Lipi 1) Fierce tapas 2) disability in the telepathy is not of thought, but of the delight of others (not of the universal Anandamaya; for that is known) ... The inner & the outer life of the person & the world the play of the consciously manifested balaka Krishna (Rudra Vishnu) 6) Madhuradasya the relation between the Prakriti-Jiva & the balaka Krishna. 7) The Jiva accepts all bhoga as the slave & instrument of the victorious & rudra Lover. 8) The field of play of Krishna the five worlds working themselves out in the fifth, Bhurloka 9)... established. Krishna. These vanis represent the mental voices of the Deva & principally the operation of fusion between the Indrabhava which is still independent and the Agni-Vayu-Aryaman bhava (Rudra-Vishnu) which is predominant. Karma—Tapas In Kriti the forces of opposition still prevail and have some notable successes. In Tapas the forces of resistance that prevent full Aishwarya & ...
... Script. There is now a double perception of the Iswara as the Anandamaya & as the Lord of Light & Power. The latter has to possess Page 603 Rudra and be possessed by Krishna. Mitra & Bhaga are both seated in the luminous Deva. Only the Rudra assumption remains for the basis. Darshana The third intensity is now well fixed & normal but not yet in entire possession. Vijnana The... the action of Mahakali that is intended. That action is already pleasant in the impulse & joy of the sahitya, its isha & radhas—combined as the ratha, the chariot of the soul in its action. The same rudra energy will be extended everywhere; but it must result from the bhoga of the passive Prakriti enjoyed by the Ishwara. Page 504 It must be extended first to the vijnanasiddhi[,] to the thought... action. Not only is this to be done, but it is about to be done. It has already extended itself to the script & is preparing to extend itself to lipi & rupa & to the senses. The change to the rudra ananda of Mahakali is already being effected, organically & organised-ly—it has extended itself to all experiences & activities, but is hampered by the sense of a discord & the discomfort of the discord ...
... Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures.... No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace; the law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still un evolved mankind the law of love and oneness... or ethical sentimental-ism, that which loves to look upon Nature as love and life and beauty and good, but turns away from her grim mask of death, adoring God as Shiva but refusing to adore him as Rudra; secondly, because unless we have the honesty and courage to look existence straight in the face, we shall never arrive at any effective solution of its discords and oppositions. We must see first what... must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of mankind tormented and oppressed by the powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants ...
... following five statements.) Sri Aurobindo writes in his Essays on the Gita: "The law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid." What does this mean? Mother, is the present situation in India like the debt which must be paid to Rudra? Here is the whole quotation which I had prepared in advance for those who would ask the wherefore of the present situation... the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still holds ...
... strength, mildness and force, saumya and raudra , the force that bears and harmonises, the force that imposes itself and compels, Vishnu and Ishana, Shiva and Rudra. The two are equally necessary to a perfect world-action. The perversions of the Rudra power in the heart are stormy passion, wrath and fierceness and harshness, hardness, brutality, cruelty, egoistic ambition and love of violence and domination... only the strength that endures or to cultivate only a heart of love, charity, tolerance, mildness, meekness and forbearance. The other side of perfection is a self-contained and calm and unegoistic Rudra-power armed with psychic force, the energy of the strong heart which is capable of supporting without shrinking an insistent, an outwardly austere or even, where need is, a violent action. An unlimited... The universal love has to be founded on the heart's sight and psychical and emotional sense of the one Divine, the one Self in all existence. All four elements will then form a unity and even the Rudra power to do battle for the right and the good proceed on the basis of a power of universal love. This is the highest and the most characteristic perfection of the heart, prema-sāmarthya . Page ...
... The abysmal night opens its secret smile And all the world cries out it is the dawn! Shiva is the One who is seated above, but it is the Rudra aspect that first appears. Although he is a child of the Dawn, Rudra is described by Sri Aurobindo as the most terrible of all the Vedic Gods - the Violent One who breaks down all defective formations. Page 408 ... suggesting some tremendous tension in the heart that hungers for release, the pyramid is able to be seen as the triangle-yantra in which the serpent power of evolution is pent up, reminding us that Rudra/Shiva is the one who leads the upward evolution of the conscious being. Shiva in his "measureless trance of truth" has his counterpart below in one who is locked in "the body's swoon of... aspiration soar upwards like winged birds to smite the cosmic sky. In the poem, no distinction is made between the Self above and the self below. They blend to a single identity, and in their union Rudra the terrible becomes Shiva of the "sweet silent face" who heals all wounds. The brain that bursts to a "hammer of heaven" is Shiva's - and it is also Earth's Roof, that is, the dome of human ...
... wrote: ) “the Signature of the Lord.” Rudra Aspect …You know, there are not many whom I usually scold; moreover, there are very few who can bear it. And no one can look directly into my eyes when the form of Rudra enters into me. No one. They will be as if petrified. It is very dangerous. It is very rare. Very, very rare that this aspect of Rudra has descended in me. I do not want it because... like a fire which burns everything. I do not get angry so easily, I have a patience which could be stretched, very long like rubber…. I remember, it was once or twice I think …. that this force of Rudra descended in me. It was a very minute part. It had descended in me partially, because at the moment I noticed it descending in me, I refused it…. I usually do not get angry, otherwise it would be ...
... 478 सप्ततिं. Here and in I.11.1. associated with wealth—वाजानां सप्ततिं पतिं 14 परि वृज्याः—cf आवृज् .. परावृज्.. I.33. V. 1. Rudra, Pita marutam, Surya 2 – 5 Rudra. 6. Vrishabha Marutwan. 7 – 11 Rudra 12.Rudra-Kumara. 13 Maruts 14 – 15 Rudra 34. 1 धारावराः not covering with showers, but probably like ऋतावर etc “अर्चिनः” not “worshipping”; probably “luminous” or else... ways or adverse, alien to us. 3 अभीतीः 4 सहूती. Probably “confusion of the offerings” 5 अवदिषीय — अवखंडयामि — पृथिक्करोमि — दो अवखंडने — ष must be as in स्तुषे, गृणीषे ऋदूदरः “बभ्रु” Rudra—elsewhere Agni. मनायै mind or wrath. Probably state of mind, evil or wrong being understood, or simply (inferior) mentality, cause of error in नमस् etc. 6 त्वक्षीयसा वयसा S. दीप्तेन “विवासेयं” ...
... earth's passion to quiver its peace into rapture. Marry, O lightning eternal, the passion of a moment-born fire! Out of thy greatness draw close to the breast of our mortal desire! Is he thy master, Rudra the mighty, Shiva ascetic? Has he denied thee his world? In his dance that they tell of, ecstatic, Slaying, creating, calm in the midst of the movement and madness, Stole there no rhythm of an earthly... form in the womb of her anger. Why are we terrified? wherefore cry out and draw back from the smiting— Blows from the hands of a lover to direr exactions exciting, Fiery points of his play! Was he Rudra only the mighty? Whose were the whispers of sweetness, whose were the murmurs of pity? Something opposes our grasp on the light and the sweetness and power, Something within us, something without... like a stream through the body. Fate shall not know; if her spies come down to our beautiful valley, They shall grow drunk with its grapes and wander in woodland and alley. There leaps the anger of Rudra? there will his lightnings immortal Circle around with their red eye of cruelty stabbing the portal? Fearless is there life's play; I shall sport with my dove from his highlands, Drinking her laughter ...
... form of our vital needs served and enlarged by our intellect, but not enlightened with a greater spiritual meaning, we are living within the law of the first cosmic formulation. It is as insistent Rudra that the unseen Power meets us there, the Master of the evolution, the Lord of Karma, the King of justice and judgment, who is easily placated with sacrifice and effort, for even to the Asura and Rakshasa... through strife and stumblings, through passioning and yearning and fierce stress of will and giant endeavour, construction and destruction, slow labour of evolution and rushing speed of revolution Rudra works out the divine purpose. When on the contrary we seek to shape our life by the Ideal, it is the severe Lord of Truth who meets us with his questioning. Then in so far as we work in the sincerity... ends, if we turn it into a lie or a convention or an outward machinery without the living soul of the truth in it, then we must pay a heavy reckoning. For as before we fell into the terrible hand of Rudra, so now we fall into the subtler more dangerous noose of Varuna. Only if we can see the Truth and live in it, shall our aspiration be satisfied. Page 620 Then it is the Master of Freedom ...
... the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still... his body, he who keeps the world always in existence, for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Page 380 Titans, who is the cyclone... this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also ...
... made the following five statements. ) Sri Aurobindo writes in his Essays on the Gita: "The law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid." What does this mean? Mother, is the present situation in India like the debt which must be paid to Rudra? Here is the whole quotation which I had prepared in advance for those who would ask the wherefore of the present situation. I am sending... the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still ...
... September 1965 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo writes in His Essays on the Gita: "The law of Vishnu cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra is paid." What does this mean? Mother, is the present situation in India 25 like the debt that must be paid to Rudra? Here is the whole quotation which I had prepared in advance for those who want to know the reason for the present situation. I am... the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone but it is Rudra who still holds ...
... do not mean the Rudra Bhava which I have had a few times." ¹ When asked: "Is Rudra Bhava something like the story of the snake related by Ramakrishna where the snake was asked to raise its hood – an appearance of anger – to keep off harmful people?", Sri Aurobindo replied: "Not at all. It is something genuine – a violent severity against something very wrong, that is, the Rudra Bhava of Shiva.... Anger one knows by its feelings and sensations; it rises from below. While Rudra Bhava – the divine manyu – rises from the heart. I will give an instance. Once X became very violent against the Mother and was shouting and showing his fists. As I heard the shouting, a violent severity came down that was absolutely uncontrollable. I went out and said: 'Who is shouting at the Mother? Who is shouting ...
... creates … he who keeps the world always in existence, for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the... this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also... first disappear out of humanity.” “Not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone. But it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of mankind tormented and oppressed by the Powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants ...
... s developing the idea of the expressions which increase Indra, the second returns to the idea of the ऊर्जः, the महीः. रुद्रियेषु—either of Rudra, or of the Maruts who are Rudras & sons of Rudra. The sense is affirmations of the God-mind apt for the Rudra-creation, the struggle of the Pranic powers in the triple world. Hence the waters or energies flow forward for Vayu, the Pranic god, Master of ...
... manifestation of being rich in content. And do ye always protect us with states of happy being. सुजिह्व recalling सुरत्न of the first verse. Hymn 46 (1) Bring ye theseWords (as offerings) to Rudra; firm is his bow (of acquired possession) & swift are his arrows (of impulsion), the god who possesses the self-state of his nature (ie who firmly holding the acquired state of being shoots from it... क्षिप्रेषवे double meaning. (2) For he awakens to knowledge by secure dwelling in the earthly birth and utter empire of the heavenly; fixed in his presence let him move to our doors that keep us; O Rudra, be free from unfriendly powers in the forms that we create. साम्राज्येन — अवन्नवंतीः or protecting to our doors that protect. जासु ? D. [Dutt] translates “do not give us disease”. (3) That... healing; do not harm to the things of our creation & the things of our extending. Page 437 परि वृणक्तु — পরিত্যাগ করুক D. स्वपिवात simply reproduced in the translation. (4) Slay us not, O Rudra, nor deliver us over; let us not be in the path of thy onset when thou art wroth. Enjoy in us in that seat of fullness which is the expression of the living creature. And do ye protect us always by ...
... movement of the higher rudra intensity of knowledge, action, ananda. Now that the Mahakali tapas is finally seated in the adhara, this loftier movement of the life & Yoga may with security establish its initial activities. Rapidity of Page 313 the rest of the siddhi is an essential factor in the rudra movement. During the rest of the month the siddhi of this rudra tapatya must be the principal ...
... and did not experience any pain. (35) Then, seizing hold of more arrows reciting sacred formulas (and thereby invoking the mystic missile sought for) and making use of the missile presided over by Rudra (the god of destruction), and stretching his bow, the valiant Śrī Rāma, who was endowed with extraordinary energy, and was seized with anger, let fly those arrows in uninterrupted succession against... part doubled his fury and in his wrath the latter, who was endowed with extraordinary splendour, forthwith proceeded to aim at Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) another fearful missile presided over by Rudra (the god of destruction) and produced by the demon Maya. (1 2) Then issued forth on all sides from his bow flaming pikes and maces as well as clubs, hard as adamant, mallets, deceptive nooses and fiery... ruler of Brahmā, Lord Śiva and Lord Vishu (the infallible)! Hail to (you) the sun god, the (spiritual) light indwelling the solar orb, the resplendent one, the devourer of all, appearing in the form of Rudra (who drives away ignorance). (19) Hail Page 215 to (you) the dispeller of darkness, the destroyer of cold, the exterminator of foes, the one whose extent is immeasurable, the destroyer of ...
... our cross." Disciple : Is Rudra Bhava something like Ramakrishna's story about the snake, where anger is to be shown without really feeling it. Sri Aurobindo : Not at all. It is something genuine, a violent severity against something very wrong. e.g. the Rudra Bhava of Shiva. Anger one knows by its feeling of sensations, it rises from below, while Rudra Bhava rises from the heart. I will ...
... the world and therefore utterly pitiless. She called the Yatudhani in her to her aid and summoned up the Rakshasi. The Yatudhani is the delight of destruction, the fury of slaughter, Rudra in the Universal Being, Rudra, the bhuta, the criminal, the lord of the animal in man, the lord of the demoniac, Pashupati, Pramathanatha. The Rakshasi is the unbridled, licentious self-assertion of the ego which ...
... stronger feeling. There are finally certain gods who stand behind these planets. Behind the Sun & Moon is Vishnu, behind Mangal and Shani Rudra, behind Shukra, Rahou & Ketou is Kali, behind Budha Lakshmi, and behind Brihaspati Durga. Vishnu gives royalty & victory, Rudra force and fortune, Kali subversive genius & destructive energy, Lakshmi wealth & ease, Durga wisdom, protection and glory. Page 764 ...
... fruits of our trees and flowers of our meadows. Art thou an angel of God in His heavens that they vaunt of, His sages? Skies of monotonous calm and His stillness filling the ages? Is He thy master, Rudra the mighty, Shiva ascetic? Page 504 Has He denied thee his worlds? In His dance that they tell of, ecstatic, Slaying, creating, calm in the midst of His movement and madness, Was there... not that Eden. Planting and spoiling, "This is the garden," we say, "lo, the trees! and this is the river." Vainly! Redeemers come, but none yet availed to deliver. Is it not all His play? Is He Rudra only, the mighty? Whose are the whispers of sweetness? Whence are the murmurs of pity? Why are we terrified then, cry out and draw back from the smiting? Blows of a lover, perhaps, intended for fiercer ...
... connection is the thirty-first of the third Mandala, by Vishwamitra. "Agni (the Divine Force) is born quivering with his flame of the offering for sacrifice to the great Sons of the Shining One (the Deva, Rudra); great is the child of them, a vast birth; there is a great movement of the Driver of the shining steeds (Indra, the Divine Mind) by the sacrifices. The conquering (dawns) cleave to him in his struggle... one, with the ghṛta , they held the sacrificial names and set moving (to the supreme heaven) forms well born. They had knowledge of the vast heaven and earth and bore them forward, they the sons of Rudra, the lords of the sacrifice; the mortal awoke to vision and found Agni standing in the seat supreme. Knowing perfectly (or in harmony) they kneeled down to him; they with their wives (the female energies ...
... Nasatya & to earth? Or what didst thou declare, O Agni, to Rudra the slayer of men? परिज्मन्. Sy. परितो गंत्रे. I take it = capacious, Rt जम्. Page 655 7) कथा महे पुष्टिंभराय पूष्णे कद्रुद्राय सुमखाय हविर्दे । कद्विष्णव उरुगायाय रेतो ब्रवः कदग्ने शरवे बृहत्यै ॥ How to Pushan great, bringing increase or what to Rudra the good sacrificer, the giver of the oblation? what offence ...
... the forty-third hymn we find indeed the actual expression, parasmin dhámann ritasya, the most high seat of the Truth. The forty-third hymn is addressed to Rudra & Soma,Mitra & Varuna are mentioned casually only in a single verse along with Rudra. It is in the last of the three closing riks devoted to Soma that we come across this great & illuminating expression and it meets us in a passage where the ...
... definite interpretation has begun. Kamánanda, often obstructed and suspended, always return[s]; ahaituka tivra has established itself as a recurrent intensity, like ahaituka kamananda; ahaituka rudra now promises to do the same. Rupa is infrequent & crude in the jagrat. Samadhi is still attempting to organise itself, but the definite movement has not taken place. Lipi, though easily active if supported... nature is therewith assuming a more perfect & all-pervading anandamaya nati to the Ishwara. Last night prayer, to which the nature has been long much opposed & then indifferent, was twice used to the Rudra-Vishnu as the helper & healer & yet the cause of the affliction. In the afternoon there was again trouble owing to the obstinate obstruction of the vijnana & the attempt of the unillumined pranic ...
... There is also an incipient movement of more complete ritam. The bhava in the Ishwara is entirely confirmed; it is now being perfected in the Balaram-Aniruddha type, preparatory to the Sri Krishna-Rudra (the Asura). The habit of relapse in the Krishnadarshana is being attacked. Kamananda these two days has been constant with intermittences, but not continuous. This evening it has once more... movement is assured, but has not yet the final definite completeness. Personal relation of Ishwara & the jiva (prakriti) is now complete though not yet forceful in its central characteristic (rudra-bhava). The ritam of telepathy-trikaldrishti-tapas has now to be fixed. Lipi— 1) 12 2) 13 3) great results. Strong emergence of the shuddhananda involved in the ...
... occasionally left to incoherence. Increasing force of rupadrishya; present also, but more successfully resisted in antardarshi. The obstruction to samadhi is obstinate and strong. 18 March 1917 The rudra energy which has long been attempting to seize the system, has now laid hold. Lipi "Do not limit the rapidity possible to the Shakti." "Do not admit defeat." The last means obviously... insistence, but an illumined insistence" Script. "From today the third chatusthaya has to be pushed on, the denials of the first and second energetically refused. "Today the foundation of the rudra energy has been successfully laid and the Maheshwari in Mahakali once dominated (taken in as pratistha) will be perfected." The Maheshwari already taken in as pratistha was Maheshwari in Mahasaraswati ...
... capable of stability. This is already developing. The vani strongly anandamaya, first of the vijnanamaya ananda, then of the others, reappears full of the Vishnu or Pradyumna personality, taking into it Rudra (Balarama), Page 72 Shiva (Mahavira) and Aniruddha (Kama). The definite personality of the Master in his personal relations to this Yoga and the Jiva in the Yoga has to develop out of the... chitra formed by the hairs). Satisfaction to Brihaspati, not yet to the other deities. Satisfaction to Bala (due). N.B. Bala is the Titanic force from the Mahat which must eventually conquer & replace Rudra, though conquered by him in the Buddha, because descending into the Buddha he becomes a Daitya disturbing evolution by a premature effort towards perfection. The same is true of all the greater Daityas ...
... must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the time-spirit in man is ready can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra 47 who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of mankind tormented and oppressed by the Powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants... × The Mother: Questions and Answers 1953, 2 September. × Rudra is the terrible aspect of Shiva. × Sri Aurobindo: Essays on the Gita , p. 386. ...
... on against the Ashram and you and Mother.... Why not use your Rudra power Guru, and let us verify and enjoy this noble vision of a yogic auto-da-fe ?... Page 178 The pathetic last conversation between Harin and Subho is truly amusing. But I fear there is no chance of the auto-dafe. I have dropped using the Rudra power—its effects used to be too catastrophic and now from a long ...
... rules of his play; his denials came to lure farther. 33 Suffering too is the grace of Grace, it is the hammer of God raining refining blows on the anvil, beating us to the desired shape. If Rudra is mighty and fierce and ruthless, Shiva whispers in his tenderness his murmurs of understanding and pity. Wherefore are we afraid, then? Of whom are we afraid? Time was when, in the Garden... gorgeous in their golden raiment, might then freely fraternise with us, bringing with them "life-giving garlands plucked by the fountains of Paradise". Fate would then diminish into unimportance, Rudra would cast aside his ferocity, and "life in our limbs shall grow deathless" and heaven and earth shall marry and mingle and endure for ever. Are these only dreams, idle dreams? But the dream shall come ...
... and it is a folly to fight shy of it and zealously try to keep one's hands clean. Ancient spirituality imaged Shiva, the beneficent God of kindness and Page 27 compassion, as also Rudra, the terrible Godhead of destructive violence and scourging wrath. It is this truth that Sri Krishna taught Arjuna while exhorting him to fight—"Fight, but with the fever of thy soul gone",—"Fight... unfailing strength to those who engage in such a dharma yuddha— a battle for the safeguarding or salvaging of the spiritual and cultural heritage of humanity. The Kshatriya element, the aspect of Rudra and Mahakali, has its undeniable truth and function, at least in the present economy of the world, and a willful ignoring of it can only lead to chaos and confusion Page 28 and untold ...
... h Mukhopadhyaya (later Swami Pratyagatmananda) has also recorded his memories of those times: When he started his work in the heaving politics of Bengal, it was the blazing, fiery aspect of Rudra that stood out in front. But those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure, glowing with a mellow lustre. Page 252 These two aspects were fused into one... value depends on the position of the decimal point, and the power of words likewise depends on the man who speaks them. Sri Aurobindo's exhortation powerfully affected his audience because he (Rudra-Shiva) was the speaker, and Rudra's action had preceded Shiva's words. National service was a mission Sri Aurobindo had assumed since childhood, he had known all along that there would be danger ...
... एधि। āvirāvīrma edhi. O Luminous One, Thyself manifest to me. Aitteriya Upanishad Shantivacanam रुद्र यत्ते दक्षिणं मुखम् । तेन मां पाहि नित्यम् ॥८॥ rudra yatte dakṣiṇaṁ mukham, tena māṁ pāhi nityam.8 O Rudra, O thou Terrible, Thou hast that other kind and smiling face, with that sweet smile protect me. Swetaswatara Upanishad 4.21 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo ...
... oppress the hills, And at the vision of His burning eyes The hearts of men grew faint with dread surmise Of sin and punishment. Their cry was loud, "O master of the stormwind and the cloud, Spare, Rudra, spare! Show us that other form Auspicious, not incarnate wrath and storm." The God of Force, the God of Love are one; Not least He loves whom most He smites. Alone Who towers above fear and plays... mortal breath, Grief, pain, resentment, terror pass away. He feels the joy of the immortal play; He has the silence and the unflinching force, He knows the oneness and the eternal course. He too is Rudra and thunder and the Fire, He Shiva and the white Light no shadows tire, The Strength that rides abroad on Time's wide wings, The Calm in the heart of all immortal things. ...
... ।।१।। (1) Sayana पांतं = पालनशीलं पातव्यं वा रघुमन्यवो = लघुक्रोधा यज्ञं = यागसाधनं असुरस्य = असुराणां निरसितुः (कर्मणि षष्ठी) मीळ्हुषे = फलस्य वर्षित्रे Rendering—Offer perfectly to Rudra, rainer of the fruit, the protective sacrificial food, O light in anger (priests); I praise theMaruts in the two firmaments & the driver out from heaven of the Asura with his heroes by means of the... swift मन्यु = ϴνμóς, mind, passion, soul. मीळ्हुषे = kindly, friendly अस्तोषि = I stood firm, was established. Bring forward the substance, O ye who are swift in impetuous passion, a sacrifice for Rudra who hath befriended even that which maintaineth you; by the strengths of the mighty One I sit established in heaven, O Maruts, yea in the two firmaments, as an arrow in a quiver. पत्नीव पूर्वहूतिं ...
... ss, Father and Mother of the Worlds and their inhabitants, he is also their Son and ours: for he is the Divine Child born into the Worlds who manifests himself in the growth of the creature. He is Rudra and Vishnu, Prajapati and Hiranyagarbha, Surya, Agni, Indra, Vayu, Soma, Brihaspati,—Varuna and Mitra and Bhaga and Aryaman, all the gods. He is the wise, mighty and liberating Son born from our works... Creator; by the word, by his cry he creates,—that is to say, he expresses, he brings out all existence and conscious knowledge and movement of life and eventual forms from the darkness of the Inconscient. Rudra, the Violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, presides over the struggle of life to affirm itself; he is the armed, wrathful and beneficent Power of God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all ...
... into udasinata & then into the Maheshwari dhairya, shama & calm. Ahaituka kamananda is frequent, daily, but is seldom intense & never long continued. The sahaituka anandas Page 151 (tivra, rudra, kama, vishaya) are there, but not always or even usually intense; vaidyuta is still undeveloped, although ahaituka vaidyuta is now, as I write, beginning to act with intensity. It comes as a blissful... field imperfectly, slowly or irregularly effective. Samadhi has not been regularised. Ananda (kama) is occasionally intense on a moderate estimate of intensity. It is that is to say tivra, but not rudra, not even tivratara Page 167 or tivratama. It occurs, tivra or kuntha, daily & often frequently in the day and is in that sense permanent. But it is not continuous in its permanence or constant ...
... Savitri when the latent power that had lain coiled at her base (the Muladhara) begins to climb upwards, undoing the knots (also centres imaged as lotuses), of Vishnu-granthi, Brahma-granthi and Rudra-granthi, and meets at the thousand-petalled Sahasrara at the crown, receive the nectarian powers there only to pour through the cleared channels of the body all these powers readied for the strike... centre in her brow Where the mind's Lord in his control-room sits. 61 The Mother has thus entered the twin-petalled Anjna Chakra, in the Sushumna, between the brows. Thrusting through the Rudra-granthi to reach to the Sahasrara, the energy spreads all over the cosmic figure, indicating the triumphal movement of the Kundalini: It poured into a navel's lotus depth, Lodged in ...
... i is rendered by modern scholars "red-pathed", an epithet supposed to be well-suited to stars and they instance the parallel phrase, hiraṇyavartani , having a golden or shining path. Certainly, rudra must have meant at one time, "shining, deep-coloured, red" like the roots ruṣ and ruś, rudhira , "blood", "red", the Latin ruber, rutilus, rufus , all meaning red. Rodasī , the dual Vedic word... sense of injury and violence is equally inherent in this family of words and is almost universal in the various roots which form it. "Fierce" or "violent" is therefore likely to be as good a sense for rudra as "red". The Ashwins are both hiraṇyavartanī and rudravartanī , because they are both powers of Light and of nervous force; in the former aspect they have a bright gold movement, in the latter ...
... bright in colours and numerous in forms and groups, mostly crude, in the prana akasha; this was under stimulus. In the afternoon the depression of the tejas parted and the Krishna Kali emerged with the Rudra personality of Krishna; the kamananda more continuous & persistent while walking. There is a throwback in the saundarya. The continuity and intensity of sharira Page 276 ananda are predicted... easily expulsive of shadows of doubt and despondency was established. The continued uncertainty of result and confirmation due to the surviving imperfections of knowledge & force alone prevent the rudra tejas & the avegamaya sraddha from taking possession of the system. They occur in it from time to time, sometimes baffled, but no longer rebuked. (2) Ananda overcomes the obstacle to continuity and ...
... Good, the all-pervading, to the lord of the journey, to the earth? What, O Fire, to Rudra the slayer of men? कथा महे पुष्टिंभराय पूष्णे कद् रुद्राय सुमखाय हविर्दे । कद् विष्णव उरुगायाय रेतो ब्रवः कदग्ने शरवे बृहत्यै ॥७॥ 7) How wilt thou speak of us to Pushan, the mighty bringer of increase, what to Rudra great in sacrifice, giver of the offering? What seed of things to wide-striding Vishnu ...
... of the gods in their higher existences in the worlds above Bhu. The Manus manifested in the Manoloka of Bhu bring pressure to bear upon the earth for the manifestation of life and mind. Prajapati as Rudra then begins to form life upon earth, first in vegetable, then in animal forms. Man already exists but as a god or demigod in Bhuvarloka of Bhu, not as a man upon earth. There he is Deva, Asura, Rakshasa... appearance of man; for the fourteen Manus enjoy each a reign of seven chaturyugas of varying lengths and the first & last of the hundred belong not to any Manu but the opening chaturyuga to Brahma & Rudra, the closing to Kalki & to Shiva. Man in the first appears only tentatively at the end, in the last only as a survival at the beginning. The third image is that of a bear leaping on a smaller animal ...
... not so—the calm spiritual strength is a hundred times stronger; it does not blaze up and sink again—but is steady and unshakable and perpetually dynamic. 21 November 1933 Rudra Power I have dropped using the Rudra power—its effects used to be too catastrophic and now from a long disuse the inclination to use it has become rusty. Not that I am a convert to Satyagraha and Ahimsa,—but Himsa too ...
... the debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still ...
... cannot be contaminated by any evil. 31. But insignificant man should not imitate them in this respect even mentally. If he behaves like that stupidly, it would be like one who is without the power of Rudra but drinks poison, following Rudra's example. Death is the sure consequence that would befall him. 32. The teachings of great ones are true and fit to be followed by all. This is so in regard to some... 53-54. He was being glorified through praises expressive of divergent sentiments by attendants, the foremost of whom were Sunanda and Nanda; by Sanaka and other sages; by Divinities like Brahmā and Rudra; and by the nine Brāhmana sages (Marīci, Atri, Angiras, Pulastya, Pulaha, Kratu, Bhrigu, Va-sishtha and Daksha); and by great Bhāgavatottamas like Prah-lada, Nārada, Vasu and others. 55. He was being ...
... debt to Rudra is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still ...
... of knowledge and truth, he is strength and force. He has to resist the evil in the name of the Lord, he has to raise his arm to strike. He is the instrument of Rudra and Mahakali. Does not the mighty goddess declare - I draw the bow for Rudra, I hurl the arrow to slay the hater of the truth"?³ If the Kshatriya does not follow his own dharma, but seeks to imitate the Brahmin, he brings about a confusion ...
... of knowledge and truth, he is strength and force. He has to resist the evil in the name of the Lord, he has to raise his arm to strike. He is the instrument of Rudra and Mahakali. Does not the mighty goddess declare—"I draw the bow for Rudra, I hurl the arrow to slay the hater of the truth"? If the Kshatriya does not follow his own dharma, but seeks to imitate the Brahmin, he brings about a confusion ...
... beginning I sought to recognise in Sri Aurobindo the Vedic Agni in its dual aspect - the blazing force of Rudra and the serene force of the Brahmic consciousness, radiant with supernal knowledge. When he started his work in the heaving politics of Bengal, it was the blazing, fiery aspect of Rudra that stood out in front. But those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure ...
... what a difference! This is the very incandescence of poetry truly wrought by a cosmic consciousness; we see the tiger poised in its terrible beauty, and dread and wonder strive for mastery; isn't he Rudra the fierce, or is he only the God's great creation? In quick short gasps the frenzy of fascination finds self-expression: And what shoulder, and what art, Could twist the... What the anvil? What dread grasp Dare its deadly terrors clasp? The questions inevitably lead to the climactic "Did he who made the Lamb make thee?"—is Rudra the fierce also Shiva the serene and auspicious? The last lines but feebly echo the first; as in Thompson's The Hound of Heaven, here too the chase of discovery is over; the wheel has come full ...
... ruthless Grace. My body and being overflowed with gratitude for this deliverance from unbearable pain and I bowed at the Mother’s Feet. Now I understand why the Mother puts on this terrible form of Rudra. It would be untrue to say that I was not scared but now I feel Her profound Compassion behind it. Days went by. And then suddenly once again unbearable pain returned! This time to my head. After... even sit. After hesitating for a long time I was forced to tell the Mother about the problem. The Mother blew up once again: “Je dis: Non, Non!” (I say: No, No!) And once again on seeing this Rudra form I was confident that I was cured of my boil. In the evening when She came to the Playground to take the salute at the March Past in front of the map of India, She once again said very loudly: ...
... then, is this god Agni to whom language of so mystic a fervour is addressed, to whom functions so vast and profound are ascribed?" 25 In one Hymn (II.i), Agni is addressed as Indra, Vishnu, Brahma, Rudra, Varuna, Twashtri, Pushan, Savitri, Bhaga, Ribhu, Aditi, Bharati, Ila and Saraswati! In another, again, there is this multiple-identification: Thou art Varuna, O Fire, when thou art born, thou... the secret names of the gods make rich our offerings. 27 And a few more Riks at random: O Fire, companioning the shining ones bring to us Indra, companioning the Rudras bring vast Rudra, with the Adityas bring the boundless and universal Mother, with those who have the illumined word bring the master of the word in whom are all desirable things... 28 Found for us felicity of ...
... dare not speak of too loudly at a time when spiritual pygmies reign. No real peace can be till the heart of man deserves peace; the law of Vishnu [the god of love] cannot prevail till the debt to Rudra [the god of destruction] is paid. To turn aside then and preach to a still unevolved mankind the law of love and oneness? Teachers of the law of love and oneness there must be, for by that way must... must come the ultimate salvation. But not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone, but it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labor of mankind tormented and oppressed by the powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants ...
... smallest of insects, Victory be to the dust-particle of those beautiful feet. Mukundamalastotram 19 या ते रुद्र शिवा तनूरघोरा पापनाशिनी। तया नस्तन्वा शंतमया गिरिशन्ताभिचाकशत्॥८॥ yā te rudra śivā tanūraghorā pāpanāśinī, tayā nastanvā śantamayā giriśantābhicākaśat.8 That thy body, O terrible One, which is fair and full of kindness and destroyeth sin, not thy shape of terror, in that... that thy body full of peace, O mountaineer, thou art wont to be seen among our folk. Nilarudra Upanishad 1.8 Translation by Sri Aurobindo Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: Nila Rudra Upanishad ततः परं ब्रह्म परं बृहन्तं यथानिकायं सर्वभूतेषु गूढम् ॥ tataḥ paraṁ brahma paraṁ bṛhantaṁ yathānikāyaṁ sarvabhūteṣu gūḍham, Thereafter, the great and Supreme Brahman is concealed ...
... beginning I sought to recognize in Sri Aurobindo the Vedic Agni in its dual aspect —the blazing force of Rudra and the serene force of the Brahmic consciousness, radiant with supernal knowledge. When he started his work in the heaving politics of Bengal, it was the blazing, fiery aspect of Rudra that stood out in front. But those who associated with him in the National College saw his serene figure ...
... he is force, he is capacity; he is the second power of God, wrath, strength, grandeur, rushing impetuosity, overbearing courage, the avalanche, the thunderbolt; he is Balaram, he is Jehovah, he is Rudra. As such we may admire and study him. But the vibhuti, though he takes self-gratification and enjoyment on his way, never comes for self-gratification and enjoyment. He comes for work, to help ...
... realistic, ritualistic, semi-barbarous, a sacrificial worship of material Nature-powers, henotheistic at their highest, Pagan, joyous and self-indulgent. Brahma & Shiva do not exist for the Veda; Vishnu & Rudra are minor, younger & unimportant deities. Many more discoveries of a startling nature, but now familiar to the most ignorant, have been successfully imposed on our intellects. The Vedas, it seems, were ...
... idea of Indian religion which attributes each of these qualities respectively to one member of the cosmic Trinity, sattwa to the preserver Vishnu, rajas to the creator Brahma, tamas to the destroyer Rudra. Looking behind this idea for the rationale of the triple ascription, we might define the three modes or qualities in terms of the motion of the universal Energy as Nature's three concomitant and i ...
... form enshrines and signifies. Nothing has real need to fear except that which is to be destroyed, the evil, the ignorance, the veilers in Night, the Rakshasa powers. All the movement and action of Rudra the Terrible is towards perfection and divine light and completeness. For this Spirit, this Divine is only in outward form the Destroyer, Time who undoes all these finite forms: but in himself he ...
... happenings, whether to us they seem good or bad, acceptable or inacceptable, fortunate or adverse. The Infinite creates and is Brahma; it preserves and is Vishnu; it destroys or takes to itself and is Rudra or Shiva. The supreme Energy beneficent in upholding and protection is or else formulates itself as the Mother of the worlds, Luxmi or Durga. Or beneficent even in the mask of destruction, it is Chandi ...
... of, 140 -141 spiritual, 129 Rig-Veda, see under Veda Rishis, 26, 49, 89, 98({11), 116, 12 1, 158 Rolland, Roma in, 193 Rome (ancient), 80 , 119, 137 Ro th, Prof. von, 116 Roy, Motilal, 105 Rudra , 123, 144 Russel , Bertrand, 193 Russia , 193, 225 , 252 Russia ns, 176, 2 17 S samata , 206 Samurai, 29 , 44 Sanaana dharma, 49-50, 5 1, 69 , 93, 94, 145 see also Hinduism Sannyasin ...
... tells us. In fact, it is a prayer: Be wide in me, O Varuna; Be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; Page 376 Be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; Be strong and bold, O Aryama; Be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; Be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and ...
... perhaps wiselier than he knew; for from stray glimpses I have sometimes thought there is a Hell where our souls suffer aeons of intolerable ecstasy and wallow as if for ever in the utter embrace of Rudra, the sweet and terrible. Page 343 The divine splendours are too marvellous for human littleness, which finds it hard to bear them, and an eternity of delight may well be intolerable for ...
... mind the Lord of the house and the Spouse. तव श्रिये मरुतो मर्जयन्त रुद्र यत् ते जनिम चारु चित्रम् । पदं यद् विष्णोरुपमं निधायि तेन पासि गुह्यं नाम गोनाम् ॥३॥ 3) For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the life-powers make bright thy birth into a richly manifold beauty. When that highest step 1 of Vishnu is founded within, thou guardest by it the secret name of the Ray-cows. Page 258 ...
... the bad temper and the stomach will be more at ease. For some sex is more difficult [ to conquer than anger ], for some greed. It [ the equivalent of anger in the higher nature ] is a rudra power of severity and indignation (in the deepest sense of the word) against what should not be—the warrior force of Mahakali in combating the Asura. Yes, certainly. Infinite peace, universal ...
... Devāḥ ) and especially of the four great luminous Kings, Varuna, Mitra, Bhaga, Aryaman. Indra and the Maruts and the Ribhus, Vayu, Agni, Soma and the Ashwins are indeed the principal agents; Vishnu, Rudra, Brahmanaspati, the future mighty Triad, preside over the indispensable conditions,—for the one paces out the vast framework of the inner worlds in which our soul-action takes place, the other in his ...
... although in their origin they seem to be as much powers of Vayu as of Indra, are more important to the Rishis than Vayu himself and even in their dynamic aspect are more closely associated with Agni Rudra than with the natural chief of the legions of the Air. The present hymn, the forty-eighth of the Mandala, is the last of three in which Vamadeva invokes Indra and Vayu for the drinking of the Soma-wine ...
... external character and for higher purposes gave place to a new pantheon. They had to give precedence to Puranic deities who developed out of the early company but assumed larger cosmic functions, Vishnu, Rudra, Brahma—developing from the Vedic Brihaspati, or Brahmanaspati,—Shiva, Lakshmi, Durga. Thus in India the change in the gods was less complete, the earlier deities became the inferior divinities of the ...
... Creator; by the word, by his cry he creates—that is to say he expresses, he brings out all existence and conscious knowledge and movement of life and eventual forms from the darkness of the Inconscient. Rudra, the Violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, presides over the struggle of life to affirm itself; he is the armed, wrathful and beneficent Power of God who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all ...
... will take its place, not a suffering sympathy, but a power which, itself delivered, is strong to sustain, to help, to liberate. To the free spirit wrath and hatred are impossible, but not the strong Rudra energy of the Divine which can battle without hatred and destroy without wrath because all the time aware of the things it destroys as parts of itself, its own manifestations and unaltered therefore ...
... determination, or a strong outward or inward resistance, opposition and action against the forces that are impelled to stand in the way of the decreed movement. And there may be even the rush of the Rudra energy forcefully working upon or shattering the human or other obstacle, because that is necessary both for him and for the world purpose. But the essence of the equal inmost attitude is not altered ...
... realise this, our reader has only to study - among other things - my own article The Passing of Sri Aurobindo, Nirodbaran's Sri Aurobindo: "I am Here! I am Here!" and "Synergist's" The Debt to Rudra. A passage from Nirodbaran may be quoted: "As the disease was taking a bad turn we repeatedly asked him to use his spiritual Force to cure it... But each time we questioned him, we met with an enigmatic ...
... leading to heaven. एको गतासोरपि रुद्रशत्रोर्धत्ते करः पावकगर्भमस्त्रम्। प्लुष्टश्च चीर्णश्च तथापि दग्धानसून् भवान्यां क्षिपतीव दैत्यः ॥७०॥ Though his life has departed, one hand of this enemy of Rudra still holds a fire-spitting weapon. Charred and mangled, it is as if the demon yet hurls at Bhavani his burnt life-force. स्रोतांसि पश्यामि महायुधास्यादुद्गीर्यमाणानि हुताशनस्य। धृष्टोऽप्यसौ नालभते ...
... Record of Yoga Undated Notes, c. January 1927 Amrita— Moses, Brihaspati, Hermes, Michael Angelo, Rudra, Pythagoras. Bijoy Child Krishna, St Jean, Kartikeya, child Vishnu Barin Nefdi. Apollo-Aryaman St Hilaire— Ramakrishna—(The Four) Kshitish Narada—Bach-Isaie Kanai Sukadeva—One of the Vital Four Tirupati ...
... outworks of the system, vibrations not belonging to the system, but imposed from outside, also asraddha not in the Ishwara, but in the siddhi of the ideality. This has been expelled by a resort to rudra tapas of rajasic anger in the Shakti. Both the relapse and this resort have been recently predicted in the trik. and the lipi, the latter almost daily in an insistent lipi. The result has been unexpectedly ...
... deprive it of its immortalising faculty? 56) Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night ...
... omniscient Providence reveals itself in the fall of the sparrow and the death of the ant as well as in the earthquake that destroys great cities and the floods that make thousands destitute and homeless. Rudra and Page 61 Shiva reveal themselves as one. The Yogin sees God in all things, not only in all beings but in all events. He is the flood, He is the earthquake, He is Death that leads to a ...
... austerity to find at last the lotus of the heart dulled and fading—happy if its more divine faculties are not already atrophied—and ourselves standing impotent with our science while the thunders of Rudra crash through and devastate the world we have organised so well by our victorious and clear-minded efficiency. Or we run after a vague and mechanical zero we call unity and when we have sterilised our ...
... others, sees some good or deliverance coming to them through whatever apparent evil. All of us know he will not suffer fools and knaves for a moment; they call out his wrath in an ample measure. But Rudra soon yields to Shiva. He feels immediately sorry for his temper and makes up for it abundantly and gracefully. Like a child, bālavat, he will tell you how anger has been his curse, how he cannot help ...
... Sri Aurobindo had already written: “Not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone. But it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of mankind, tormented and oppressed by the Powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants ...
... questions on Sri Aurobindo's Aphorisms. ) 55—Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night ...
... am intentionally refusing to conjecture. ( Then Mother gathers the texts that will make up the next "Bulletin," among which is Sri Aurobindo's quotation from "Essays on the Gita": "...It is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand...." See conversation of August 25 ) You see, I told you! You asked me, "Do you see anything?" ( Laughing ) I told you, "We'll see." Whatever ...
... the Rigveda), 163, 187, 396-7, 413-14 Rjisvan, 329, 370 Rolle, Renate, 317 Ropar, 182-3 Ross, E.J., 248, 249 Royce, Keith, 220 Rudhikra(s), 330, 332 Rudra, 299, 367, 368, 390, 392, 394, 399, 405, 415 Rupen Sandar, 201 Russia, 157, 270, 321, 323 s>h, 267-70 Śabaras, 296 Sahni, M.R., 190-91 ...
... Bhaga. There are many other gods as Vayu, the master of life-energy, Brihaspati, the power of the soul; Ashwins, the lords of bliss; Vishnu, the all-pervading godhead; and Shiva and Rudra, the mighty, who breaks down all defective formations and who is also the supreme healer. There are also female energies, among whom Aditi, infinite mother of the gods, comes first, and there ...
... doesn't invalidate the prologue; it is often the prologue that offers the real key to the text. A myth like the legendary story of Savitri redeeming Satyavan from the clutches of Yama or of angered Rudra reducing Kama the God of love to a handful of ashes is, in its own sovereign right, an utter rendering of reality, "an ideal interpretation in which the phenomena are digested and transmuted into human ...
... the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy coiled up in Matter and forging ahead towards a progressive evolution in light and consciousness. That is what Savitri, the universal Divine Grace become material and human, finds at the ...
... —the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy coiled up in Matter and forging ahead towards a progressive evolution in light and consciousness. That is what Savitri, the universal Divine Grace become material and human, finds at the ...
... manifestation—the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects —the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations. 1 Brihadaranyaka 1.4. Page 363 Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations—the eleven ...
... incantation of the left-wing tantriks. The ancient poets took to the Vedantic and the right-wing of the Tantra as the best. Yat te daksina-mukham tena mam pahi nityam. (Protect me, O Rudra, by your right aspect.) Page 142 ...
... the Page 217 Delight-Power of God, dominates the heart of Bengal more. And that is why we see Siva lying down at the Feet of Sivani, his own Power when he acts in the form of Rudra. If we want our nature to blossom and be fruitful, if human life has to be purified and moulded into the image of a greater truth, then we must worship Prakriti or Nature by committing ourselves ...
... Beyond the little voices and lesser forms, The Mother of absolutes - This the Void that has devoured all And still lies vacant! November 16, 1936 XLVI FIRE Red - the red wrath of Rudra that burns the dead mass of earth, melts and consumes it into tongues of leaping ardour that cry out for Beatitudes beyond. Sun Red at dying eve - the breath of a god sweeping over ...
... the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy coiled up in Matter and forging ahead towards a progressive evolution in light and consciousness. That is what Savitri, the universal Divine Grace become material and human, finds at the ...
... harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Page 207 Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) must have given birth to and inspired the Ribhus, who are artisans of divinity. The Puranic trinity – Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva – with ...
... Himself with bliss and called it pain.² To humanise the Divine, that is what we all wish to do; for the Divine is too lofty for us and we cannot look full into his face. We cry and supplicate to Rudra, "O dire Lord, show us that other form of thine that is benign and humane". All earthly imageries we lavish upon the Divine so that he may appear to us not as something far and distant and foreign, ...
... this world in His being and that so He has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra 135 forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver ...
... gods were Page 165 seated, Mahadeva 1 began his great song. Over the still face came a quiver and a colour of crimson flame. Listening with his whole being to the song of Rudra 1 the Destroyer, Vishnu entered the diamond heart wherein the undraped fires burn. In that brazier of gold he melted. Brahma had sat there watching the proceedings, unable to fathom the Destroyer's ...
... between the Gods and the Asuras represented in the Puranas very realistic even for our times, because, generally the Gods used to get beaten by Asuras and run for protection either to Mahakali or to Rudra or to Vishnu. Sri Aurobindo : It is the intervention of the Divine that can become effective, and in this German and Stalin affair it is the question of the descent of the whole vital world ...
... we aim at in the Integral Yoga. The silent, immutable Impersonal of the, orthodox Vedântin gives us no foothold on our upward march, nor reciprocates our feelings of love and devotion, The dreadful Rudra does not satisfy our heart's hankering for sweetness and tenderness, and our physical being's thirst for perfection in its life-expression. All these aspects have to be harmonised in a global sovereignty ...
... overwhelmed by a whole shower as in - Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night ...
... till then unsuspected, the outside world went its weary, dreary, unprofitable, even sanguinary way - on the national as well as world theatre of action. After the tāndava-dance of the wrath of Rudra that had devastated many countries, the armistice had brought an uneasy hush, followed soon by the bickerings of the Peace Conference, the devilish flourish of the weapons of blockade and reparations ...
... of the nations"; and Sri Aurobindo concludes that it is not human reason or human science but a greater spirit that is the sūtradhara behind the blood-stained scenes: It is the wrath of Rudra that has swept over the earth and the track of his foot-prints can be seen in these ruins. There has come as a result upon the race the sense of having lived in many falsehoods and the need of building ...
... four terribly sanguinary years of total warfare, the Armistice was signed at last, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the Arya in December 1918 under the heading "The Unseen Power": It is the wrath of Rudra that has swept over the earth and the track of his foot prints can be seen in these ruins. There has come as a result upon the race the sense of having lived in many falsehoods and the need of building ...
... Narmada. It is one of the biggest rivers of India. Starting from the Amarkantak hills and after a long westward flow, it meets the Bay of Cambay. The Narmada is said to have issued from the body of Rudra. She is specially Page 180 View from Parvati Hill near Poona at the beginning of the century invoked for the cure of snake bites. In 1939 Sri Aurobindo described ...
... anger. At a certain period of the Yoga it rose in me like a volcano and I had to take a long time eliminating it Must have come from universal Nature." He clarified that that anger was not rudra-bhava which, naturally, he had also experienced. Rudrabhava is a violent severity against something very wrong. It rises from the heart. In the jail, said Sri Aurobindo, "My views on illness ...
... uses His might under the guidance of the Knowledge. Balarama is the Kshatriya. He allows Srikrishna in Him to guide His strength and wrath, but He does not guide them Himself, He enjoys them. He is Rudra. Pradyumna is the Vaishya. He is for dana, prema, karuna. He gives Himself to men and buys their love in exchange. He is the universal philanthropist. He is the sweet and throbbing heart in things. ...
... not this of me, Meek silence and a pale imprisoned soul Made colourless of its humanity; Ask not the heart that quakes, the hand that spares. What strength can give, not weakness, that demand. O Rudra, O eternal Mahádev, Thou too art fierce and mighty, wrathful, bold, Snuffing Thy winds for blood of sacrifice, And angrily Thou rul'st a prostrate world. O Rákshasa Almighty, look on me, Page ...
... must have failed Before a great thing can be done on earth, And who shall say then that he is the man? One age has seen the dreams another lives. GOPALACA Look up towards the hills where Rudra stands, His dreadful war-lance pointing to the east. Is not thy spirit that uplifted spear? MAHASEGN It has been turned by Vishnu's careless hand! GOPALACA Fear not the obstacles the ...
... make thee to shine with the radiances (the cows, gobhiḥ ) as Mitra well-established when Page 353 thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and his consort. For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the Maruts brighten by their pressure that which is the brilliant and varied birth of thee. That which is the highest seat of Vishnu, by that thou protectest the secret Name of the radiances (the cows ...
... nor does our beneficence hold back the sword when it is necessary that it should strike—for sometimes to strike is the highest beneficence, as those only can thoroughly realise who know that God is Rudra as well as Shiva, Chamunda Kali with the necklace of skulls no less than Durga, the protectress & Gauri, the wife & mother. Our courage does not bind itself by the ostentations of the fighter, but knows ...
... Athurvan among the sons of Ungirus. इन्द्रस्त्वं प्राण तेजसा रुद्रोऽसि परिरक्षिता । त्वमन्तरिक्षे चरसि सूर्यस्त्वं ज्योतिषां पतिः ॥९॥ 9) "'Thou art Indra, O Breath, by thy splendour and energy and Rudra because thou preservest; thou walkest in the welkin as the Sun, that imperial lustre. यदा त्वमभिवर्षस्यथेमाः प्राण ते प्रजाः । आनन्दरुपास्तिष्ठन्ति कामायान्नं भविष्यतीति ॥१०॥ 10) "'When thou ...
... sound forms which we are accustomed to perceive and understand. Brahman-Brahma as Thought Creative in Shakespeare brings them forth, Brahman-Vishnu as Thought Preservative in us maintains them, Brahman-Rudra as Thought Destructive or Oblivion will one day destroy them; but in all these operations Brahman is one, Thought is one, even as all the Oceans are one. Shakespeare's world is in every way a parable ...
... the basis of the Adwaita philosophy. Page 401 But where in all this is there any room for religion, for the spirit of man, for any idea of God? Who is the Lord, Isha, Maheshwar, Vishnu, Rudra, Indra, the Lord of the Illusion, the Ruler, the Mighty One of which all the Upanishads speak? Who is this triple Prajna-Hiranyagarbha-Virat? Who is this twofold Purusha-Prakriti, God & Nature, without ...
... commentary in English is followed by a commentary in Sanskrit, which is published in Writings in Bengali and Sanskrit , volume 9 of T HE C OMPLETE W ORKS OF S RI A UROBINDO . Nila Rudra Upanishad . Sri Aurobindo translated the first of the three parts of this Upanishad, with a commentary on the first five verses, in Pondicherry around 1912. It was first published in The Upanishads ...
... religious or ethical sentimentalism, that which loves to look upon Nature as love and life and beauty and good, but turns away from her grim mask of death, adoring God as Shiva but refusing to adore him as Rudra; secondly, because unless we have the honesty and courage to look existence straight in the face, we shall never arrive at any effective solution of its discords and oppositions. We must see first what ...
... supporting and helping presence, an eternal greatness and calm or love or Delight behind; the very goddess of destruction is at the same time the compassionate and loving Mother; the austere Maheshwara, Rudra, is also Shiva, the auspicious, Ashutosha, the refuge of men. The Indian thinking and religious mind looks with calm, without shrinking or repulsion, with an understanding born of its agelong effort ...
... Sri Aurobindo had already written: “Not till the Time-Spirit in man is ready, can the inner and ultimate prevail over the outer and immediate reality. Christ and Buddha have come and gone. But it is Rudra who still holds the world in the hollow of his hand. And meanwhile the fierce forward labour of mankind tormented and oppressed by the Powers that are profiteers of egoistic force and their servants ...
... 90-94, 95-6, 98-121, 132 Riks, The Riks, Roth, 41, 110, 115 Roux, Georges, 31fn., 89fn. Royal Tombs of Ur, 54 Roychowdhuri, Ajit, iii Rudra, 41, 43-5 Russian conference, i, iii Sambara, 110 Sandrocottus, 86, 103 Sanjan, 17 Sankalia, H.D., 2fn., 5, 9, 20, 22, 38, 47, 53, 56, 59, 62-4, 68 ...
... divine names and figures, but also in part by the same obscure process that we observe in the evolution of Greek mythology. The river Saraswati has become the Muse and Goddess of Learning; Vishnu and Rudra of the Vedas are now the supreme Godhead, members of a divine Triad and expressive separately of conservative and destructive process in the cosmos. In the Isha Upanishad we find an appeal to Surya ...
... goal (of fullness) and by thy wise seers hold it safe. जराबोध तद् विविडि्ढ विशेविशे यज्ञियाय । स्तोमं रुद्राय दृशीकम् ॥१०॥ 10) O thou who awakenest to thy wooers, do thou pervade towards Rudra to whom one doeth all sacrifice, for each and every people, a hymn full of vision. स नो महाँ अनिमानो धूमकेतुः पुरुश्चन्द्रः । धिये वाजाय हिन्वतु ॥११॥ 11) May he be to us great and boundless ...
... सजोषा रुद्रं रुद्रेभिरा वहा बृहन्तम् । आदित्येभिरदितिं विश्वजन्यां बृहस्पतिमृक्वभिर्विश्ववारम् ॥४॥ 4) O Fire, companioning the shining ones bring to us Indra, companioning the Rudras bring vast Rudra, with the Adityas bring the boundless and universal Mother, with those who have the illumined word bring the master of the word in whom are all desirable things. मन्द्रं होतारमुशिजो यविष्ठमग्निं ...
... of our being and enemies of its divine progress, the sons of Limitation and Ignorance. × Rudras. Rudra is the Divine as the master of our evolution by violence and battle, smiting and destroying the Sons of Darkness and the evil they create in man. Varuna and Mitra as helpers in the upward struggle against ...
... and great is the multitude of thy riches. त्वमग्ने रुद्रो असुरो महो विवस्त्वं शर्षो मारुतं पृक्ष ईशिषे । त्वं वातैररुणैर्यासि शंगयस्त्वं पूषा विधतः पासि नु त्मना ॥६॥ 6) O Fire, thou art Rudra, the mighty one of the great Heaven and thou art the army of the Life-Gods and hast power over all that fills desire. Thou journeyest with dawn-red winds to bear thee and thine is the house of bliss; ...
... I see three forms of light; one is white with a blue radiance around it & out of it fierce red lustres occasionally pour, another is white. No another day— Page 1408 It is a force of Rudra who destroys—I find a difficulty in writing—I should not begin it apparently at least not now. If he can speak let him do so—Which is which? How, you have seen, it is you who must say—Is there any symbolism ...
... things and replace the guardians of the old order. That is part of the process of the great crises of evolution. He would either be taken up into some higher part of the being and form an element of Rudra force in the totality without being any longer active as a separate element of the personality, or else, if he remained as a separate part of the personality, he would be a sort of enlightened and passive ...
... this institution and were understood by the vulgar as ritual chants in praise of the Nature-gods, Indra, Agni, Surya Savitri, Varuna, Mitra and Bhaga, the Aswins, Ribhus, Page 677 Maruts, Rudra, Vishnu, Saraswati, with the object of provoking by the sacrifice the gifts of the gods,—cows, horses, gold and other forms of wealth of a pastoral people, victory over enemies, safety in travel, sons ...
... Godhead in its divided subjective and lower cosmic aspects, Page 276 sattwic, rajasic and tamasic. It is a cosmic veil which the Godhead has spun around our understanding; Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra have woven its complex threads; the Shakti, the Supreme Nature is there at its base and is hidden in its every tissue. We have to work out this web in ourselves and turn through it and from it leaving ...
... wrote perhaps wiselier than he knew; for from stray glimpses I have sometimes thought there is a Hell where our souls suffer aeons of intolerable ecstasy & wallow as if for ever in the utter embrace of Rudra, the sweet & terrible. 475) Discipleship to God the Teacher, sonship to God the Father, tenderness of God the Mother, clasp of the hand of the divine Friend, laughter and sport with our Comrade and ...
... The dappled Cow, mental Nature, mother of the thought-gods by her light. × Rudra, the dread Master of Life, the terrible and easily-angered Compeller of the ascending evolution, father of the upward storming thought-powers by his nervous impulsions. ...
... hazardous guesses; it is not explained why the Aswins particularly more than other gods, should have this distinctive epithet of śubhaspatí, as peculiar to them in the Veda as is sahasaspati to Agni; rudra in the sense of red is a novel & conjectural significance; vrisharatha interpreted consistently as bull-charioted in connection with Taurus, would make hopeless ravages in the sense of other passages ...
... nature knows always the perfection towards which it moves and the greatness of which it is capable. Circumstance and force and external necessity and past nature may still be too strong for us, the Rudra powers still govern our destinies and the Lords of truth and justice and the Lords of love have to wait for their reign, but if the light of the ideal is kept burning in its flame of knowledge and its ...
... Aphorism - 55 55—Be wide in me, O Varuna; be mighty in me, O Indra; O Sun, be very bright and luminous; O Moon, be full of charm and sweetness. Be fierce and terrible, O Rudra; be impetuous and swift, O Maruts; be strong and bold, O Aryama; be voluptuous and pleasurable, O Bhaga; be tender and kind and loving and passionate, O Mitra. Be bright and revealing, O Dawn; O Night ...
... this world in his being and that so he has made it. We have to see that Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also ...
... party said could be a good occasion for a mirthquake! Besides, south-east Mexico seems far too out of the range of immediately meaningful places in the Aurobindonian world-vision. And to think of Rudra Pralaya, the world-destructive dance of Shiva, commencing in El Chinchonal is quite a fantasy. The present manifestation, which is to culminate in a supramentalisation of earth-life, has been said by ...
... the faithful who serve them with flowers and incense and sandal and water. 10.In all these rising worlds they have thronged and wide they spread, those beauteous forms of Krishna — the unclad Rudra, is there, Indra, Brahma, all. The Iron Age shall cease to be — do ye but unite and serve these. * * * Page 166 Love-Mad* The poetic image used in the following verses ...
... very first of all the Vasus (a class of gods) Rtadhama (the seat of Truth). You are the self existent Creator of all the three worlds and the Lord and Master of all the people. (7) You are the eighth Rudra (Mahadeva) of the (eleven) Rudras and the fifth (VTryavan by name) among the Sadhyas (a particular class of celestial beings). The twin Aswins (the physicians of the gods) are your ears and the sun ...
... not? DR. MANILAL: We know of the Divine as protective, kind and benevolent. SRI AUROBINDO: That is Vishnu. There is also Shiva. DR. MANILAL: Shiva is Bholanath.2 SRI AUROBINDO: He is also Rudra.3 DR. MANILAL: But he can't be vindictive to a Bhakta for such things. SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on the mood the Divine is in. NIRODBARAN (to Dr. Manilal) : What do you mean by the expression ...
... his body, he who keeps the world always in existence, for he is the guardian of the eternal laws, but who is always too destroying in order that he may new-create, who is Time, who is Death, who is Rudra the Dancer of the calm and awful dance, who is Kali with her garland of skulls trampling naked in battle and flecked with the blood of the slaughtered Titans, who is the cyclone and the fire and the ...
... bearest the secret name of the Virgins. They make thee to shine with the radiances as Mitra well-established when thou makest of one mind the Lord of the house and his consort. For the glory of thee, O Rudra, the Maruts brighten by the pressure that which is the brilliant and very birth of thee. That which is the highest seat of Vishnu, by that thou protectest secret Name of the radiances. By thy glory ...
... creates by the word, by his cry, ravena, and who brings out all existence and conscious knowledge and movement of life and eventual forms from the darkness of the Inconscient, tamas. We realise Rudra, Page 15 the violent and Merciful, the Mighty One, who presides over the struggle of life and who lifts forcibly the creation upward, smites all that opposes, scourges all that errs and ...
... …Again you are looking at me in that way? Mother, I am not… challenging You. It is my natural way of looking. My child, I know, I do understand; ( in a jovial mood ) you know, if a portion of Rudra expressed itself through my eyes, you would be dissolved. You would not exist anymore. You would not be able to bear that look. So do not make me do it or else you will have such consequences that you ...
... Rochefoucau1d, 108 Roerich, Nicholas, 150-3 Romains, Jules, 186 Romanticism, 87-8 Romantics, the, 87, 186 Rome, 117 Romeo, 176 Rousseau, 186, 274 -The Social Contract, 274 Rudra(s), 28, 30, 56,339 Rudriyas, 31 Russell, Bertrand, 114 Russia, 253, 294, 298 Ruysbroeck, 114 SADHYAS,28-9 Sainte Beuve, 62 Samain, Albert, 65n -Au Flanes du Vase, 65n ...
... Raghus, the, 214 Rakshasas, 46 Rama, 58 Ramakrishna, 116, 128, 141, 160, 243, 247,383 Raphael, 210 Ravana, 58 Ravel, 427 Red Sea, 324 Ribhus, the, 208 Rome, 199,421 Rudra, 160, 163, 208 Russell, Bertrand, 56 Russo-Japanese War, 213 SAHARA,324 St. Augustine, 73 St. Francis of Assisi, 243 St. (}enevieve, 199 St. Matthew, 186 St. Paul, 73 ...
... manifestation-the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects -the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be termed the first or primary emanations. ¹ Brihadaranyaka 1.4. Page 30 Now, each one of them in its turn has its own emanations – the eleven ...
... is the lord of love and harmony, evidently an emanation of Pradyumna (or Mahalakshmi). Other gods of the same category are Bhaga and Soma. The Balarama or Mahakali aspect is manifested in Aryaman: Rudra being another form of the same. And Mahasaraswati (or Aniruddha) must have given birth to and inspired the Ribhus, who are artisans of divinity. The Puranic trinity —Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva—with Indra ...
... enter Lanka while she lay asleep? Oh! the irony of Fate! the unconquerable race Is conquered at last in a petty skirmish! Petty man is victorious in Titan's land! I could understand, if Rudra with his trident rushed in, His Cosmic might teeming with demi-gods and demons And for days and nights and centuries battled and battered and broke through And at last, Providence aiding ...
... understand Vrindavan, You have not understood the killing of Kamsa, you have not understood the war of Kurukshetra. You are a perfect Vaishnava, you chant hymns to Buddha. But Vishnu and Rudra are one body, they are only different limbs ― Have you forgotten it? Have you forgotten that the very fount of kindness Page 188 And the cruel slayer Kalki are one and the same I ...
... lands of bones, carried tridents tucked in their waistbands and daggers and staffs in their hands. They rushed in shouting 'Hara, Hara, Thikarji!' They were a sect of Kapaliks that belonged to the Rudra-Bhairav group, addicted to liquor and who lived on what they got from their raids. The first thing they did was search the bag of the Bengali sadhu but they found nothing except a little sago and a ...
... call one fellow who had a strong imagination, "Hiranya-garbha," that is to say, the man of strong dream. Then I showed him the two references S. V. III. 2, in which Hiranya-garbha is derived from Rudra; and S. V. II. 4, in which "Kopila" is said to be Hiranya-garbha – both of these Sri Aurobindo said were not clear in their meaning of Hiranya-garbha and they were quite different in their sense from ...
... between Israel and Egypt)* Ma douce Mère, The war in the Middle East is perhaps a direct result of the resistance to the Supramental working. It seems, in Sri Aurobindo's words, that "Rudra still holds the world in the hollow of his hands." In this connection I would like to know what attitude one should keep with regard to this developing Arab-Israel war. Whether our thoughts should ...
... within the Mother. And unknowingly we would all feel a little of the different aspects of the Mother. When one is close to the fire, one cannot but be touched by its warmth. The Mother kept the Rudra aspect of Mahakali always under control but in spite of that sometimes this terrible aspect of hers did come through. I remember an incident. One day a young man of about 23 was talking very excitedly ...
... track. The Mother firmly held the hull of our boat and there was no way we could go off-course. We did everything according to Her instructions. And if ever we went awry the Mother would unveil Her Rudra aspect. There is no child of Hers who has not received Her scolding. Quite clearly I am talking here of the young. This scolding was not necessarily expressed in words. She could make us feel without ...
... helps him with Life and Death, Until he knows. Then freed from mortal breath He feels the joy of the immortal play; Grief, pain, resentment, terror pass away. He too grows Rudra fierce, august and dire, And Shiva, sweet fulfiller of desire. 45 VII Apart from The Ideal of the Karmayogin group of essays, the paper also published some other sequences of ...
... functioning. Will mankind let slip that moment of divine opportunity? In the Hour of God - in the hour of the big change - His breath might come with a terrific force, and also as Divine Grace. He was Rudra, he was Shiva too! And what was the response expected of mankind? As a message for 24 April 1969, the Mother had recalled Sri Aurobindo's words: The best possible way is to allow the Divine Grace ...
... for Mahālaksmi, as we have already seen. But there must not go with this sweetness and grace any emotional weakness or limpness, any flaccid or florid sentimentality. There must be an abounding Rudra-power in the heart, a high strength and force "capable of supporting without shrinking an insistent; an outwardly austere, or even where need is, a violent" action." This is tejas. It is the flaming ...
... started up from their sleep. A new dawn greeted their eyes. A glorious dawn, breaking the gloom of centuries, bathed their Mother in a golden-rose light. The loud trumpet of thunder was the music of Rudra. Its blare infused strength into their souls. "I am the Spirit of freedom and pride," pealed the Voice. "The pride in our past, the pain in our present, the passion for the future are the trunk ...
... देवेभ्यो हव्यवाहन । आदित्यै रुद्रैर्वसुभिर्न आ गहि मृळीकाय न आ गहि ॥१॥ 1) Already kindled thou art kindled again for the gods, O carrier of the offering, come along with the sons of Aditi and with the Rudras and with the Shining Ones, come to us for grace. इमं यज्ञमिदं वचो जुजुषाण उपागहि । मर्तासस्त्वा समिधान हवामहे मृळीकाय हवामहे ॥२॥ 2) Accepting this sacrifice, this word come to us, we who ...
... bhuvanānu viśvotāmūṁ dyāṁ varṣmaṇopa spṛśāmi. 7 ahameva vāta iva pra vāmyārabhamāṇā bhuvanāni viśvā, paro divā para enā pṛthivyaitāvatī mahinā saṁ babhūva. 8 Rig Veda 10.125 6 , 7 , 8 Rudra's bow I bend for him to slay the fierce enemies of the Truth: I am in the battle for the sake of the peoples, I have entered into heaven and earth. ( 6 ) I have given birth to the Father, whose head ...
... pilgrim-rite demands of thee the office of the messenger. Page 386 आग्ने याहि मरुत्सखा रुद्रेभिः सोमपीतये । सोभर्या उप सुष्टुतिं मादयस्व स्वर्णरे ॥१४॥ 14) Come, O Fire, with the Rudras, comrade of the life-gods for the drinking of the Soma wine, to the laud of Sobhari and take thy rapture in the godhead of the Sun-world. Page 387 ...
... 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, 138 Satyavan, 26-30 Savitri, 27-31 ...
... रुद्राँ आदित्याँ इह हुवे ॥५॥ 5) Dadhikravan I call here, and the Fire, and the divine dawn, Brihaspati and the god Savitri, the two riders of the horse, and Mitra and Varuna and Bhaga, the Vasus, the Rudras, the Adityas. SUKTA 21 इमं नो यज्ञममृतेषु धेहीमा हव्या जातवेदो जुषस्व । स्तोकानामग्ने मेदसो घृतस्य होतः प्राशान प्रथमो निषद्य ॥१॥ 1) Found this our sacrifice in the immortals, accept these ...
... thunder the peak of heaven. काणा रुद्रेभिर्वसुभिः पुरोहितो होता निषत्तो रयिषाळमर्त्यः । रथो न विक्ष्वृञ्जसान आयुषु व्यानुषग् वार्या देव ऋण्वति ॥३॥ 3) He is the doer of the work with the Rudras and the Vasus, the vicar of sacrifice and seated offering priest, the Immortal, the conqueror of treasures. The godhead shining among the peoples of these living beings is like our chariot and moves ...
... Men established the line of Non-Being and knew it the Supreme. Others, on the contrary, recognise the Being and follow that line of theirs. (22) There all the Adityas ¹ , all the Rudras ² and all those born of Indra ³ are lodged. There what was, what will be and all the worlds are established. Of the Great Pillar speak which one indeed is it? (23) It is one whose wealth ...
... Secret of Veda is now fixed & exact confirmations occur frequently. "December 13. Today's experience has thrown a clear light on many expressions in the Veda especially in relation to Indra and the Rudras." Sri Aurobindo did not note in his Yoga diary all the various literary work he was simultaneously doing. Bhagavat Purana, for instance, which he was translating into English. But those ...
... crestfallen and resembling faded flowers: Varuna's noose droops in his hand, Yama aimlessly scrapes the ground with his rod as if with a wooden stick, Indra's thunderbolt has its edges blunted and the Rudras hang their head from where the crescent moons dangle. The attributes that one associates usually with divine powers, here are part of a description of a psychological state and therefore are brought ...
... before giving him the revealing vision of His universal form: "Thou shalt see my hundreds and thou- sands of divine forms, various in kind, various in shape and hue; thou shalt see the Adityas and the Rudras and the Maruts and the Aswins; thou shalt see many wonders that none has beheld; thou shalt see today the whole world related and unified in my body and whatever else thou wiliest to behold."¹ Sri ...
... effective. To the uninstructed Aryan worshipper, the Maruts were powers of wind, storm and rain; it is the images of the tempest that are most commonly applied to them and they are spoken of as the Rudras, the fierce, impetuous ones,—a name that they share with the god of Force, Agni. Although Indra is described sometimes as the eldest of the Maruts,— indrajyeṣṭho Page 268 marudgaṇaḥ,—yet ...
... granted to us, May we become master of all delights. [10] HYMN OF THE SUPREME GODDESS (Rig-Veda – Mandala X, Sukta 125) I move with the Rudras and the Vasus, with the Adityas, yea, with all the gods. I bear both Mitra and Varuna, both Indra and Agni and the twin Aswins. [1] I bear the Soma that is to be pressed, I bear the Fashioner... what I tell you. [4] I utter here that which is adored by the gods and by men. The one I choose, I make him supreme and he knows the Word and possesses the Knowledge. [5] Rudra's bow I bend for him to slay the fierce enemies of the Truth; I am in the battle for the sake of the peoples, I have entered into heaven and earth. [6] I have given birth to the Father, ...
... motion that went beyond the three worlds of beings; others entered around that illumination. Vastly he stood within the worlds, purifying and resplendent he entered into [ ] (15) Mother of the Rudras is she, daughter of the Vasus, sister Page 324 of the Adityas, periphery of the Truth. Now do I speak to that man who hath the perception; hurt not the Light that is without stain of evil ...
... the world and let my love be restored to me." (5) Knowing the intention of Śrī Rāma, all the great gods, came for the oath-taking of Sītā. (6) Having Brahma at their head, the Ādityas, Vasus, Rudras, Viśvadevas, the hosts of Maruts, all the Sadhya gods, all great sages, the Nāgas, Suparnas and the Siddhas, all came joyfully. (7-8) Seeing all the gods and sages, who had come for the oath-taking ...
... powers and objects, the chief, the head, the greatest in quality of each class is a special power of the becoming of the Godhead. I am, says the Godhead, Vishnu among the Adityas, Shiva among the Rudras, Indra among the gods, Prahlada among the Titans, Brihaspati the chief of the high priests of the world, Skanda the war-god, leader of the leaders of battle, Marichi ...
... , enjoyments & strengths of perfected being, to the Aswins the youth of the soul & its raptures & swiftnesses, to Daksha & Saraswati, Ila, Sarama & Mahi the activities of the Truth & Right, to the Rudras, Maruts & Adityas, the play of Page 704 physical, vital, mental & ideative activities. Agni has stood up in the dawning illumination high uplifted in the pure mentality, úrdhwa, with a ...
... people , praised among yajamanas !! ऋजसानः स्तूयमानः वार्याणि.संभजनीयानि धनानि or वरणीयानि हवींषि. विशेषेण प्रापयति स्वयं or प्राप्नोति. आनुषक्. आनुषक्त यथा. The doer set in front by (or with) Rudras & Vasus, the priest seated within conquering felicity, immortal, the god in human creatures shining (or moving) like a chariot bears abroad (or brings) uninterruptedly desired blessings. (4) अतसेषु ...
... mind, the words that come into being in me in the births of knowledge. (2) They are born, the swift Bulls of heaven, Rudra’s strong smiters, the sinless Mighty Ones. Purifying are they and pure and bright like Suns, dire bodies like rushing warriors. (3) Young, unageing, Rudras, violent ones, slayers, of those take Page 223 not joy, irresistible rays, they drive like moving mountains ...
... it is that eye that Sri Krishna was to give to him. Sri Krishna told Arjuna that he was to see hundreds and thousands of divine forms of Sri Krishna, the Avatar, that he was to see the Adityas, the Rudras, the Maruts, and the Ashwins, — all the great symbolic figures of the Veda, — and that he was to see Page 104 many wonders and the whole world related and unified in the body of Sri Krishna ...
... n in order to sweep away whatever is obstructing the influx of the new Light. Many innocent lives will inevitably perish in this dreadful holocaust. She has to destroy in order to new-create. The Rudra's wrath precedes the benignant smile of Shiva. 26.04.65 * * * There are parts and elements in our complex nature of which we are not normally conscious, and which may oppose a stubborn ...
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