Sand, George : Amandine-Aurore-Lucie Dupin, Baronne Dudevant (1804-76), French Romantic novelist & playwright. Much of her work was autobiographic.
... needed, but a limited and ignorant way of living is not likely to produce them. There may indeed be a lucky accident even in the worst circumstances—but one cannot count on accidents. A George Eliot, a George Sand, a Virginia Woolf, a Sappho, or even a Comtesse de Noailles grew up in other circumstances. 30 April 1933 What a stupidly rigid principle! 4 Can Buddhadev really write nothing except ...
... never forget, even for a moment, all we owe to Thee.” After the Mother left her body I opened up the top room. I took out the clean river sand that had been lying over Sri Aurobindo’s tomb from 1950 to 1973 and kept it in barrels. I made packets from the sand and gave them to many people and it helped them in sickness and pain and in times of trouble. What changes do you see taking place in the... went down eight feet and built a four-foot room with cement slabs. Over that the Mother instructed me to build another room also with walls, a floor and a roof. She told me to fill it with clean river sand and to put a large slab on the top. Thus was the Samadhi built. The Samadhi was built according to the same outward pattern as the flower bed that had existed there. The top consisted of a long rectangular... well-known Czechoslovakian architect and friend of Pavitra, came to the Ashram for a visit and eventually took on the project. Working with him on the Golconde project were the Japanese-American architect, George Nakashima and another Czechoslovakian architect by the name of Francicheck Sammer. The building work had already begun by 1937 when Mona and Udar joined the Ashram but they were both associated with ...
... of its masterpieces is by the famous Tristan Tzara: In your inside there are smoking lamps the swamp of blue honey cat crouched in the gold of a flemish inn boom boom lots of sand yellow bicyclist chateaument des papes manhattan there are tubs of excrement before you. mbase mbaze bazebaze mleganga garoo. Very expressive stuff, this, no doubt, but expressive... many definitions of "pure poetry". This element can be overdone. And there are many modes of overdoing it. The Symbolist and the Imagist modes are rather specialised ones. A general mode is evident in George Moore's Introduction to an anthology compiled by himself of English verse. Moore defines "pure poetry" as "born of admiration of the only permanent world, the world of things": it is poetry containing... "unsicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought", as the greatest of the phanopoeists, Shakespeare, would have put it if he had had something to do not only with Othello, the Moor of Venice, but also with George, the Moore of London. Typical instances would be Coleridge's lines on the "one red leaf" that could most easily be wind-stirred and that still hung motionless: There is not wind enough to ...
... separate functions with blood they need For what they make, we'll shape the wealth Of the dispossessed world and let those riches pour Their fertilizing river delta Across the starved sand of the peoples". The image of the wealth of the peoples as a heart feeding and nourishing all the different functions of the body social and enriching the dry starved and unproductive sands—the... Irish culture: "Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft through miles of quietness, Pillars the skies of God". — A. E. George Russel. This strain is present in more or less degree in all the writers whom we have named as precursors. The old forms of poetic speech cannot contain entirely the new spirit and they... all, in most of them, a perception of the supra-rational and a tendency to concretise, to objectivise, so to say, inner, states or spiritual experiences. Among these poets may be counted C.Day Lewis, George Barker, Stephen Spender, W. H. Auden, Peter Yeats, Walter Alien, Edith Sitwell, David Gascoyne, J.A.Chadwic alias Arjava, K.D.Sethna, Sigfried Sasson, Herbert Read, to give only a few names out of ...
... comes vividly into my memory. Immeasurable wonder drowned me. What I saw was the repetition of a marvel of many years before. Page 32 Our village. A huge sand-hill far away from the village. On the sand-hill stood rows of thick-set palm trees almost striking the sky. On the north of the hill in the lowland was a wide and deep reservoir of water. It was the village-tank. The tank... rites (sandhya-vandanam) would start from the village, cross the mango-grove, amalaki-grove, tamarind-grove, date-palm forest, etc., wade through the small stream flowing with a soft murmur, climb the sand-hill with its palm forest, get down to the bank of the tank and sit by its edge. After having performed the evening rites, Japa and Tapa, they would get up and, all of them reciting together the Vi... On the eastern bank of the tank was a small temple of Ganesh, the holy image of Eyenar at the border of the village. One evening. Darkness had just crept over the place. I was sitting on the sand-hill by the tank. I was then about 8 or 9 years old. Four or five Brahmins were still on the bank occupied with the performance of rites. In that dim darkness of the evening, just two or three stars ...
... evening?" "Yes, Mother," I replied and taking this opportunity, I asked, "Did you like the film?" "No, I don’t like Chopin’s music; it makes me sick. His music is too vital." "What about George Sand, Mother?" "She is like that; she is well-known for such things. She had many lovers and left one for another. Musset, I think, fared at her hands in the same way. But," she added with a smile... so bad as all that," (as was depicted in the film). "Who was the other musician?" Page 51 "Oh, he is the famous musician, Lizst. It is he who made Chopin’s success." "Have you read Sand, Mother?" "Oh yes, her novels are very interesting. She has written a lot. I have read most of it. She is an occultist. Her two books. La Croix Rouge and another one are occult." Then again with ...
... spiritual point of view, earth is the concentrated symbol of the universe. … For the convenience and necessity of the work, the whole universe has been concentrated and condensed symbolically in a grain of sand which is called the earth. And therefore it is the symbol of all: all that is to be changed, all that is to be transformed, all that is to be converted is here. This means that if one concentrates on... religion and spirituality remain not only alive, they also spread, carried by the necessity of scientific education or training, throughout our technological world. In this situation the words of George Tyrell are worth remembering: “One has to pass through atheism to faith; the old God must be pulverized and forgotten before the new can reveal himself to us.” 10 “Knocking Man off his Pedestal”... 3 to 4 billion years ago, and we know from stellar evolution that our Sun will expand and burn up the Earth in another 3 to 4 billion years, putting an end to everything,” writes Richard Lewontin. George Smoot is even more explicit: “Coraggio, domani sará peggio! (Be courageous, tomorrow will be worse!) … The long-term future is bleak: entropy will continue to increase … Every physical process in the ...
... psychological and physiological problems, compounded with a sense of social insecurity. The teacher ponders: "Why did all the sweet dreams of my early youth rudely founder in the morass of desert sand? Is it due to my own past Karma? Is it caused by my ineluctable fate?" (5)'F' is a sprightly youngman in his late teens, possessing high abilities in sports. In particular, he shows great talent... now consider the reverse case and take the hypothetical situation of a so-called good deed, and investigate its 'karmaphal'. To make the point clear let us refer to the example cited by the writer George Feuerstein in his book Yoga: Technology of Ecstasy. Suppose a kind-hearted gentleman, a philanthropist by disposition, donates a few lacs of rupees to build a charitable dispensary to cater ...
... easily appreciate what it is like to be without them. I do not mean in such obvious realms as that FDR could never take a hike, kick a football, dance, climb a fence, skate, or play with his toes in the sand. So long as he lived, he was never able to climb a stair more than two or three inches high, lean deeply to kiss a child, crouch to catch an object, scuff with his feet, squat on the grass, tap a foot... the family during this period are models of clarity, courage, and cool restraint. In New York Roosevelt was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital on Park Avenue, and one of Lovett's associates, Dr. George Draper, a brilliant young specialist who had known FDR well at school, became his doctor and took charge of the case. Through all the agony that followed, Draper and Mrs. Roosevelt were the closest... adjacent warm pool should exist at Warm Springs, Georgia; (b) Dr. Lovett should have found that swimming in warm water helped some of his patients; (c) Roosevelt became a friend of a New York banker named George Foster Peabody; (d) Peabody bought the Warm Springs resort and leased it to a friend, Tom Loyless, a former editor of the Atlanta Constitution; (e). Loyless wrote Peabody that a Southern lad named ...
... point of view, the Earth is the concentrated symbol of the universe. … For the convenience and necessity of the work, the whole universe has been concentrated and condensed symbolically in a grain of sand which is called the Earth. And therefore it is the symbol of all – all that is to be changed, all that is to be transformed, all that is to be converted is here.” At the time she said this, this sort... Paul Davies and John Gribbin: The Matter Myth , pp. 8 and 229. × See Georges Van Vrekhem: The Mother – The Story of Her Life , chapter 14. × Sri Aurobindo: On Himself , p. ...
... satellites, or whatever.” 35 Later the Mother repeated this and added: “For the convenience and necessity of the Work, the whole universe was concentrated and condensed symbolically in a grain of sand which is called the Earth. On it there is the symbol of everything. Everything that is to be changed, everything that is to be transformed, everything that is to be converted, is here. This means that... editor. “Preposterous as it sounds, and despite the statistical evidence against it, the pre-Copernican idea that we are the centre of the universe has regained popularity. Proposed by cosmologist George Ellis of the University of Cape Town, the theory is unacceptably anthropocentric, yet, surprisingly, it does not violate current astronomical observations … Curiously enough, just when (or because ...
... K.D. Sethna, The Mother – Past, Present, Future , 83. × The Playground was a sand-covered courtyard, enclosed on three sides by buildings and on the fourth by a wall with a big permanent filmscreen. × ... kind of loose shirt worn by the women in North-India. Salwar-kamiz is trousers and shirt. × See Georges Van Vrekhem, The Mother’s Vision – Selections from Questions and Answers , published by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. ...
... this and in many previous lives; they had been together with her, or with Sri Aurobindo, or with both, in India, Babylonia, Egypt, Europe, Japan, and who knows how many places more, some now covered by sand or water – but they did not remember. She did, though, and to some she told about when and where they had been together. But then she stopped telling them, for few are the humans who can bear the memory... Elizabeth’s reign became England’s Golden Age. It was the age of the playwrights Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson; of the poets John Donne, Edmund Spenser, Philip Sidney, Georges Chapman; of the musicians Thomas Tallis and William Byrd; of the seafarers and explorers Francis Drake, Walter Raleigh, Martin Frobisher, John Davies and John Hawkins; of the philosopher Francis Bacon;... × Regine Pernoud, Jeanne d’Arc , p. 44. × Georges and Andrée Duby, Le procès de Jeanne d’Arc , p. 17. × Louis Pauwels and Guy Breton, Histoires magiques ...
... at Sri Aurobindo's feet, comes vividly into my memory. Immeasurable wonder drowned me. What I saw was the repetition of a marvel of many years before. Our village. A huge sand-hill far away from the village. On the sand-hill stood rows of thick-set palm trees almost striking the sky. On the north of the hill in the lowland was a wide and deep reservoir of water. It was the village-tank. The... On the eastern bank of the tank was a small temple of Ganesh, the holy image of Eyenar at the border of the village. One evening. Darkness had just crept over the place. I was sitting on the sand-hill by the tank. I was then about 8 or 9 years old. Four or five Brahmins were still on the bank occupied with the performance of rites. In that dim darkness of the evening, just two or three... arrangements to borrow books in his own name from the Madras University Library and Connemera Library for Sri Aurobindo! He is no more—he died a few years ago. In Madras I passed four years in George Town, in the house No. 14 at the corner of Baker Street, opposite to the Law College. Madras was' not so crowded between 1915 and 1919 as it is at present. I would go after 5 p.m. to the vast maidan ...
... of progressive fulfilment. I recall an Urdu ghazal which I once translated and often sang to describe this: Thou wok'st my heart to thy memory And mad'st the world parched, pale as sand : How shall I sing thy diamond gifts Or Limn thy Bounty's wonderland? My prayer was given before I prayed: The jewels of thy skies were mine. The past became a scroll on waves... with the pathetic delusion that quoting wisdom is nearly as good as growing into it. (Sri Aurobindo wrote to me once: "Perhaps X had come to believe it himself— that he had become a superman — as George IV came to believe that he had won the battle of Waterloo by dint of repeatedly saying so ".) But in return I will willingly wish them the joy of gloating over my deep discomfiture by furnishing them ...
... had noted down a few months before the departure may still have been with her when the Kaga Maru sailed through the Suez Canal, where the desert on both sides made it seem that they glided through sand: ‘In my outer being, my surface consciousness, I no longer have the least feeling of being in my own home and the owner of anything here: I am a stranger in a strange land … I am a visitor here as elsewhere... Sri Aurobindo Archives and Research, December 1988, p. 199. × Georges Duby and Robert Mandrou, Histoire de la civilisation française II, p. 311. × See Sujata Nahar, ...
... o' and the transi-toriness of all earthly things. It is the task of the poet to reveal such things, the daily miracle and mystery. As Blake did when he was able To sec a world in a grain of sand And a heaven in a wild flower, Hold infinity in the palm of your hand And eternity in an hour. That to me is visionary poetry, not Aurobindo's super-bird in superland. Or Blake's... an American and I find it hard to believe that any American can write a 'greatest hook on Yeats's poetry'. But there again I MAY BE WRONG. I have not in this case read the book. I have just received George Mills Harper's 'monumental' two volumes on the Making of Yeats's A Vision. I have not yet looked at it very closely. At my age one must be Page 111 clear about priorities. Like Yeats ...
... Out of Inconscience, tearing the black Mask's giant resistance;... High on the summits of being ponders immobile and single, Penetrates atom and cell as the tide drenches sand-grain and shingle. 39 As when a stream from a highland plateau green mid the mountains Draws through broad lakes of delight the gracious sweep of its fountains, Life from... fullness of the delineation and the gorgeousness of the imagery. In attempting a continuation of the Iliad of Homer, Sri Aurobindo was taking no small risk, but it was also an irresistible challenge. George Steiner has described the Iliad as "the primer of tragic art", for the Western sense of the "tragic" has been woven out of its motifs and images: "the shortness of heroic life, the exposure of man ...
... are needed, or one or other of them, but the purdah is not likely to produce them, though there may be a lucky accident in the worst circumstances, but one can't count on accidents. A George Eliot, a George Sand, a Virginia Woolf, a Sappho, or even a Comtesse de Noailles grew up in other circumstances. May 1933? It is true that the removal of the sex-impulse in all its forms ...
... give to the true work. We have just put Mother's symbol on the pediment — symbol? Of what? Tomorrow, we will fit the door of the machine room. I am dazed. Money is running through our fingers like sand, I don't even know how to keep count anymore. On Friday, at last, they will all have left. There will be silence. We will be waiting for the generator mechanic. Kafka is charming. But all the same... things must be annulled and dissolved automatically. (...) All those around you should understand and feel what I am saying here. There is no consoling ourselves or burying our heads in the sand by saying: Well, it will come out a little later and we are going to patch-up Jaigu's broadcast — the time was missed. This volume III, and our every movement, are part of an immense chessboard... plane, it is not true that Sri Aurobindo and Mr. Guruprasad [a Secretary of the S.A.S.] are equally divine. It is also true, on the supramental plane that everything is equal in the Divine, a grain of sand or Alexander's exploits; but on the material plane, it is not true that the coolie and an Einstein are worth the same. It is true on the supramental plane that everything is one and fraternal, ...
... Tambapannī as a district, with a town of that very name as its capital. "From these facts," observes Barua, "one cannot but be led to think that Tāmraparnī (better Tamravarni from having copper-coloured sand-beaches), which was originally a riverine region in the southernmost part of South India,... came to denote afterwards, probably in about Maurya time, also the north-western sea-coast of Ceylon between... R. S. Whitehead's study 2 of the last-named coins may be summed up: "Sophytes and his coins belong to the Oxus region: they are probably earlier than 320 B.C., the date given to them by Sir George Macdonald. Sophytes must have been a local satrap who asserted his independence on the fall of the Persian empire." In a more recent article than Whitehead's A.K. Narain 3 has discussed with expert... are epigraphically 1. India as Known to Pānini, p. 146. 2. A History of Syria (London, 1957), p. 168. 3. Ibid. 4. Ibid., p. 162. Page 327 attested. Here Georges Roux has a lot of information to provide. "Tukulti-Ninurta I (1244-1208 B.C.) claims that he conquered... 'the mountains of the Ahlamû'." 1 "Shalmanesar I (1274-1245 B.C.)... attacked Shatuara ...
... 'ninety-nine steeds' (4,48,5), 'ninety-nine Vrtras' (7,84,13), 'ninety-nine thou- 232.P. 212. 233. Op. cit., p. 219, col. 1. 234.P. 210. 235.P. 213, fn. 145. Page 303 sand wagon-loads' (10,98,10). Here there can be no question of the concentric or the triple. With a scholar's straightforwardness Parpola has presented Burrow as making "a pertinent point", but I fear... horse in the Indus valley" though "they declared that they had recovered a few metacarpals of the domestic Ass". Then Dr. Alur brings to light a little-known riposte to that report: "Dr. J.C. George of the M.S. University of Baroda stated that the study of the above table of comparative measurements shows beyond doubt that the metacarpals recorded by Prasad are definitely not of the domestic Ass... antiquity on a par with that of those two sites. Bharadwaj 38 supplies a chronological table. Lai gives the span of Harappan Kalibangan as 2200-1700 B.C., while Thapar's figure is 2300-1750 B.C. George F. Dales 39 corrects the former to 2700-1900 and the latter to 2850-1950 B.C. E.K. Ralph, H.N. Michael and M. Han 40 have the corrections: 2630/2670-2060 and 2850/2870-2110 B.C. So the central Indo-Aryan ...
... spiritual life.] Our view is that the normal thing is in Yoga for the entire flame of the nature to turn towards the Divine and the rest must wait for the true basis : to build higher things on the sand and mire of the ordinary consciousness is not safe. That does not necessarily exclude friendships or comradeships, but these must be subordinate altogether to the central fire. If anyone makes meanwhile... generally made himself a vigorous nuisance to Baldwin and Co. Hence they took the first opportunity to put him in the dilemma "Be a puppet or go". It is very probable. Anyhow it seems that the new George will suit them very well. So all is for the best in the best possible of all possible Baldwinian worlds and there is nothing to be in a ferment over. December 15,1936 Anilkumar... world-famous astrologer Cheiro published in 1925. He did make some astonishing prophecies. To quote only one, as I am sending up the book to you so that you may read the others: he writes anent King George VI. "In his case it is remarkable that the regal sign of Jupiter increases as the years advance.” And then of the Prince of Wales: "His astrological chart shows perplexing and baffling influences ...
... consciousness too, was fully wakeful—I was in no condition of devotional fervour or trance—in fact I was conscious of everything, e.g. of somebody—Bula—passing behind me and sitting down to meditate on the sand. Then I lay down, closed my eyes and, opening them after a short meditation, concentrated on a star in the zenith. The first time I didn't see anything and was disappointed. Why should only Venus ... more palate-exploding spices—and these we can't put because there are so many livers and stomachs that go wrong with these spices [?]. February 11,1932 This poem ["Warning" by A. E. or George Russell] I liked so much because i t tallied so surprisingly with yogic aspiration. I have perhaps been forced to make it a little free in consequence ? But hope not too free ? Page 169 ...
... starts with human beings and says: "If we wish to discern the phenomenon of spirit in its entirety, we must educate our eyes to perceiving collective realities.... Like drops of water scattered in the sand and subjected to the same pressure, that of the layer to which they belong; like electrical charges distributed along a single conductor and subjected to the same potential; so conscious beings are... Teilhard himself always hold to it as if it were a vital component of his Weltanschauung. Mooney has quoted from Comment je vols (1948), but even this document seems to show a different face to George A. Maloney 10 who says that here Teilhard distinguishes "between the pre-existing Word on the one hand and the historical, incarnate Man-Jesus on the other". Maloney adds: "Between these two aspects ...
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