The Bard : Pindaric ode by Thomas Gray) based on a tradition current in Wales; namely, when Edward I of England conquered Wales, ordered that all the bards that fell into his hands be put to death. It is a lamentation by a Welsh bard, & a curse pronounced by him & the ghosts of his slaughtered companions on Edward’s race, whose misfortunes are foretold.
... was closely seated with his spouse. Receiving the information, Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) caused the bard, who was in the confidence of his father (Emperor Daśaratha), to be brought in the same room where he was, prompted as he was with a desire to please Sumantra. (6-7) Page 45 The bard saw Śrī Rāma , the chastiser of his foes, resplendent as Kubera (son of Visrava seated, richly adorned... Princess Sītā too, standing by his side, chowrie in hand, (even as the moon god is accompanied by Citra, the goddess presiding over an asterism of the same name). (8 -10) Like a humble petitioner, the bard, who knew the rules of decorum, greeted Śrī Rāma , a bestower of boons, who possessed the flaming splendour of an inherent light just like the sun. (11) Seeing the heir apparent with a cheerful ...
... appropriate "messages" for life's various occasions, impressed the critics with what came to be called Shakespeare's "myriad mind". And with extreme reverence he was spoken of not as a bard but as The Bard. Perhaps the one man who brought about a reversal of the common verdict on him as a thinker is that other celebrated name in the English theatre — G. Bernard Shaw. Not that Shaw can stand anywhere... eness from Shakespeare kaleidoscopic vision and organic elan. But Shaw's plays and Shaw's personal criticism threw into clear relief Shakespeare's lack of intellectuality. Picking up the title "The Bard", he coined the contemptuous term "Bardolatry" to designate the blind worship accorded to Shakespeare. Of course, Shaw never denied that the Elizabethan dramatist was a lord of language and a creator... need of the Englishman's being, and any attack on him is tantamount to an attack on Englishness itself, and on Englishness too as seen in its aspect of Godhead. Naturally, Shaw's "debunking" of the Bard was much resented, and there is indeed a touch of wrong-headedness in the importance Shaw attached to what he called the realistic and intellectual drama, the drama of social problems and their discussion ...
... Soul Prompted: A Reading of Amal Kiran's Poetry Somebody once said, and wisely was it said, that a beggar might look on a king. In addition, we have this gem from the Bard, "Now, Sir, thought is free." Encouraged by these two dicta, I have made bold to give voice to my personal observations about a very small number of Amal Kiran's poems, letting, for once, "I would" ...
... the A11-Blissful from your very teens! (29.4.1991) I am glad that, looking at the picture of me which is with you, you find my forehead as Shakespearian as yours. My resemblance to the Bard must be closer because I am far nearer than you as a woman can be to the scarcity of hair above the forehead - another characteristic of the great Elizabethan dramatist. How he got so baldish at ...
... the g of "gold"; this helps the fitting of it into the uplifted and forceful expression of the rest of the piece. The next two lines are more visual and vivid and with the mention of "Apollo" and the "bard" we are made aware of what the "realms of gold" really are. Line 5 hits off very well the character of the Homeric spirit in poetry. "Wide expanse" is what Homer's epic achievement in conception and ...
... Aurobindo's sovereign mark is his unfailing inspiration. Unconventionally modulated or no, his lines have the conquering nobility of Homer's hexameter. It is, for instance, hard to imagine anyone except the Bard of Scio in the tone of Deiphobus's query to Talthybius, beginning with Messenger, voice of Achaia, wherefore confronting the daybreak Comest thou driving thy car from the sleep of the ...
... prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and Valmiki, diffident like Nolini about the Bard (and money-lender?) of Avon. If, however, you can bring sufficiently cogent evidence, I am ready to take upon my back the offences of all the famous people in the world or any of them; but you ...
... their script on our forehead. This day, 0 Mother, all the terrestrial illuminations Weave a garland of lights that come from beyond. or this one, more mystically mystic: The Bard wheels onward in his sweeping march: He gathers in perfect the soul's obeisances, Urges secreted in the heart of the sun-flower, Hymns limned in her petalled gold! or these almost ...
... (Street) N°8! What whim prompted the Calcuttan authorities to so change the number and to rename the road? Page 119 I am no believer in random chance.... What then is the link between the Bard of Avon and Sri Aurobindo? After making all necessary arrangements for the education and lodging of his sons, and promising the Drewetts to pay £ 300 a year for the maintenance of the three boys ...
... to be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and Valmiki, diffident like X about the Bard (and moneylender?) of Avon. If, however, you can bring sufficiently cogent Page 55 evidence, I am ready to take upon my back the offences of all the famous people in the world or any of ...
... number of vivid ideas thrown up by the response of emotion and passion to particular life-situations. The pure detached intellect is nowhere in evidence. As to the mystic seerhood attributed to the Bard, we may grant that on occasion he comes out with astonishing insights. Thus he makes Hamlet declare: There's a divinity that shapes our ends, Rough-hew them how we may. He has also that ...
... as a modern revival of the Homeric hexameter with its Olympian pace naturalised in a new language — English — may be Page 17 counted his greatest accomplishment vis-a-vis Greece the bard. * * * True, Sri Aurobindo has not devoted a special essay to either that metaphysician or that bard — and this omission may lead us to underestimate their presence in his consciousness ...
... sudden frailty either of the main actor or of other characters involved with him. If one came across the phrase out of context, one would be inclined to grope for a Shakespearean source. It is as if the Bard had raised to the intensest pitch possible to him an insight taking brief shape with some linguistic affinity to his Ancient Pistol's fluent description— cruel Fate And giddy Fortune's furious ...
... the other hand, deals often in "embryo" images and "mysterious grandeurs": nothing is evolved, nothing given a definite mental verisimilitude. Take Housman's first quotation: Hear the voice of the Bard, Who present, past and future sees; Whose ears have heard The Holy Word That walked among the ancient trees, Calling the lapsed soul And weeping in the evening dew; ...
... understand the lines - they are not meant for understanding but for "overstanding". Some-thing of what Housman calls "pure poetry" is here. He would have thought at once of Blake's "hear the voice of the bard..." Rather irrelevantly perhaps and yet with a happy thrill I remember the closing line of Hecker's "Song of the Arab Horsemen": Pale Kings of the sunset, beware! (4.12.82) Page 121 ...
... be prosecuted by her for misappropriation of personality. Alexander was too much of a torrent for me; I disclaim Milton and Virgil, am unconscious of Dante and Valmiki, diffident like Nolini about the Bard (and money-lender?) of Avon. If, however, you can bring sufficiently cogent evidence, I am ready to take upon my back the offences of all the famous people in the world or any of them; but you must ...
... their script on our forehead. This day, O Mother, all the terrestrial illuminations Weave a garland of lights that come from beyond. or this one, more mystically mystic: The Bard wheels onward in his sweeping march: He gathers in perfect the soul's obeisances, Urges secreted in the heart of the sun-flower, Hymns limned in her petalled gold! or ...
... cry of the Spaces – It spread and enveloped even our shadowy horizons: A golden vision flutters on Earth's eye-lids, As the flaming Spider weaves his luminous web around himself! The Bard wheels onward in his sweeping march: He gathers in perfect rhythm the soul's obeisances , Urges secreted in the heart of the sun-flower, Hymns limned in her petalled gold! ...
... unheeded, the cry of the Space, — It spread and enveloped even our shadowy horizons: A golden vision flutters on Earth’s eye-lids, As the flaming Spider weaves his luminous web around himself! The Bard wheels onward in his sweeping march: He gathers in perfect rhythm the soul’s obeisances, Urges secreted in the heart, of the sun-flower, Hymns limned in her petalled gold! Darkness massed on darkness ...
... dimensions quite beyond the scope of the Upakhyana. On the other hand, it will be seen, mighty though the overarching Banyan that is the epic, its seed—no bigger than an atom—is still in the old bardic poem. The bare bones of the original are Aswapati's eighteen-year long austerities followed by the birth of Savitri, the challenge of fate when Savitri marries Satyavan, Savitri's three-nights' fasting... Savitri is born; and while trying to redeem Satyavan, her husband, she brings happiness to all (sarvam) —herself, her father, her mother and all her husband's family. Re-reading the old bardic tale from a fresh angle, Sri Aurobindo invests Aswapati's tapas with a vaster significance; it is a growth in self-knowledge and world-knowledge, it brings him face to face with earth's fetters and... become more than characters, more even than 'round' characters; now they are persons, now they are gods or god-like figures, and now they are verily occult forces or symbol regions or powers. The bardic 'legend' thus becomes a yogic 'symbol', without however ceasing to be a legend, or even a romance. An American poet and critic writes (though in a different if similar context): "I take ...
... The Secret Splendour Bard The nameless dust is aureoled by his mood Of infinite reverie: the slumbrous brood Of frail terrestrial hours grow giant wings; Far-visioned with the homeless heart he sings. When his unquenchable fervour seeks the pale Tremulous brief beauty of life's yearning mouth, Omniscient raptures touch ...
... The Secret Splendour Bard rhyming earth to paradise, Time-conqueror with prophet eyes. Body of upright flawless fire, Star-strewing hands that never tire— In Him at last earth-gropings reach Omniscient calm, omnipotent speech, Love omnipresent without ache! Does still a stone that cannot wake Keep hurling through your mortal ...
... The Adventure of the Apocalypse the master Bard rhyming earth to paradise, Time-conqueror with prophet eyes, Body of upright flawless fire, Star-strewing hands that never tire— In Him at last earth-groupings reach Omniscient calm, omnipotent speech, Love omnipresent without ache! Does still a stone that cannot wake Keep hurling ...
... Savitri XI Symbolism in Savitri While Sri Aurobindo found the bardic story a piece of pure and austere sublimity, he felt that it could be rendered anew in the current idiom of our century in the light of his own spiritual quests, struggles and fulfilments. His basic thesis is that Felicity, if it is to come, must come here, here on earth... p as an inescapable destiny". 62 It was an earthly paradise, a human divinity, that seemed to him the goal of the whole evolutionary process. In Sri Aurobindo's epic, as in the old bardic legend, Savitri strives by herself, but not for herself alone. In the legend, along with Satyavan regaining his life, Dyumatsena regains his eyesight and kingdom, and Aswapati has the promise of a ...
... Freedom Movement, her brave resistance to the British formed the theme of plays, songs and song stories. Folk songs or lavanis were legion and the freedom struggle got a good boost through singing bards who moved throughout the region. It is heartening news that a statue of Kittur Chennamma was installed in the Parliamentary Building premises at New Delhi on 11th September 2007. It is the most ...
... of vernacular expression, translated into action, but is the soldier to blame?" Certainly not. And as a white man, he has every right to assault the Indian who is, in the words of Kipling, the Banjo Bard of the Empire, no more than "half-devil, half-child". Belonging to a race that makes laws the soldier has Page 390 the power to take the law into his own hand when dealing with "natives" ...
... nair , Ie corps une hantise. La chair trahit et l'âme en pleure. . . . mais ces pleurs Pénètrent dans la chair qui mue en feux et fleurs ! Fuyez ces bards où tout blesse et rien ne console, Où l'on honit son âme et brise son idole ! " Où vas- tu , voyageur?" – "Mais par où tu me mènes , O Flamme mirifique ...
... meaning, which in no way cancels the validity of the human story, is equally clear, since the very names of characters carry, to people familiar with the Veda, symbolic meanings impossible to miss. The bardic story is explicit that Satyavan was so named because both his parents were given to speaking the truth; Savitri was so named because she was the gift of the Goddess Savitri. Satyavan had another name ...
... mythology, as in the Hymn to the Naiads, or Gray's earlier poems, especially the Progress of Poesy; also by dwelling on the ideas of the Celtic romantic fancy, such as ghosts, fairies, spirits as in Gray's Bard & Collins' Ode or of Norwegian mythology as in Gray's translations from the Norse. This impulse towards the supernatural is extremely marked in Gray & finds its way even into his humorous poems; & tho'... abstract handling of emotion which is peculiar to the school. In the same spirit they dealt with high & general feelings, especially the love of Liberty, which inspires Collins' Ode to Liberty, Gray's Bard & Progress of Poesy, and much of Akenside's writing. It is noticeable that Collins was a republican, Akenside had republican sympathies and Gray was a pronounced Whig. Over the personal emotions Collins ...
... caste of warriors and a world revolution to establish eternal German hegemony. “This apocalypse fused several German intellectual traditions into a millenarian vision of the new fatherland. The bards and sages of early Romanticism marched with the princes and soldiers of pre-industrial conservatism into a religious paradise, defined by such [Lanzian] neo-gnostic symbols as the Holy Grail, the electron ...
... the flame-born. Homer's Helen enslaves with her beauty Priam himself and all the Trojan elders; here, in Sri Aurobindo's poem, Savitri casts a spell on Narad the immaculate Rishi and celestial Bard! He flings on her "his vast immortal look", yet reins back knowledge and yields to the wonder of the moment: What feet of gods, what ravishing flutes of heaven Have thrilled high melodies ...
... यदीं कीस्तासो अभिद्यवो नमस्यन्त उपवोचन्त भृगवो मथ्नन्तो दाशा भृगवः । अग्निरीशे वसूनां शुचिर्यो धर्णिरेषाम् । प्रियाँ अपिधीँर्वनिषीष्ट मेधिर आ वनिषीष्ट मेधिरः ॥७॥ 7) When in his twofold strength, bards with illumination upon them, the Bhrigu-flame-seers have made obeisance and spoken to him the word, when they have churned him out by their worship,—the Flame-Seers, the Fire becomes master of the riches ...
... de ma chambrette, j'aime écouter tes contes. Regarde, ma mère, l'averse entre par la fenêtre; dis-moi maintenant où se trouvent leg vastes landes enchantées. Au bard de quel océan, ma mère, au revers de quelle Page 308 montagne, au pays de quel roi, ma mère, au rivage de queue rivière. Où se fait-il qu'il n'y ...
... effected. Satyavan is blissfully happy; Savitri too, but her joy is marred by the uneasiness which has been caused by her knowing the approaching end—the fate of Satyavan—as warned by the celestial bard, Narad. Thus the young wife perforce leads a two-fold existence, outwardly serving her elders and preserving an angelic calm, but inwardly dreading the Day and its ominous consequences. And the Day ...
... Carlyle: "I think I am the greatest master, after Shakespeare, of the rhythmic phrase in poetry, but I have really nothing to say." I may add that Carlyle rated Tennyson highly and saw him as a mighty bard constantly "cosmicising the chaos within him". Perhaps what im-pressed Carlyle was not Tennyson's poetic speech so much as his Page 168 frequent capacity for silence. Tennyson used ...
... Smyrna. A guild of poets did exist on Chios and in his hymn to Apollo, Homer sings of: "A sightless man on stony Chios /All whose poems stand capital." From these lines and the fact that both the bards in the Iliad and the Odyssey are blind, it has been suggested that Homer was most probably blind himself. By the 6th century BC, the Greeks attributed both the Iliad and the Odyssey to ...
... declared with a certitude never to Page 97 be contested that Matter is Brahman, Tagore said with the voice of one who knows that Spirit is Brahman. Tagore is in direct line with those bards who have sung of the Spirit, who always soared high above the falsehoods and uglinesses of a merely mundane life and lived in the undecaying delights and beauties of a diviner consciousness. Spiritual ...
... which is no less poetic for not being purple and which has had a creative past not in the seventeenth century alone but also among the Elizabethans and on rare occasions in so solemn and majestic a bard as Milton, not to mention the more lyrical Blake and the more dramatic Browning. This style is perfectly defensible so long as it does not put on exclusive airs and parade as the sole poetic medium ...
... a certitude never to Page 369 be contested that Matter is Brahman, Tagore said with the voice of one who knows that Spirit is Brahman. Tagore is in direct line with those bards who have sung of the Spirit; who always soared high above the falsehoods and uglinesses of a merely mundane life and lived in the undecaying-delights and beauties of a diviner consciousness. Spiritual ...
... over the centuries. From the Vedic rishis and Moses—the first to have crossed the intangible frontier which separates Space-Time from the Eternal and Infinite—to Israel's inspired prophets, bards of planetary immortality, and to Sri Aurobindo, pioneer of the physical transformation of our species, an entire current emerges, leading us intuitively to the threshold where consciousness reverses ...
... spontaneity and it points to an enigmatic inward presence uttering its native supra-intellectual tongue, inherently magical, through the poet's personality. The ancients recognised, without any cavil, the bard's extraordinary state by speaking of his "inspiration" - of his being the mouthpiece of the "Muse" - and there is no poet who has not known in his best hours a sovereign power beyond himself, breathing ...
... in precise adherence to, the vision expressed by Sri Aurobindo when on his seventy-fifth birthday on August 15, 1947, India obtained her independence and, as Nirodbaran puts it, 4 "Sri Aurobindo's 'bardic' voice was heard once again", declaring about the partition of British India into India and Pakistan as a price of freedom: "...by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go: unity must ...
... Quand je vois la paupière humide d'un enfant Qui n'a plus son jouet – je gens que la s'effeuille Tout un rêve blemi, que c'est la Vanité Qu'y pleure assise au bard de nos mortalités! Page 116 Et cependant j'ai vu leg debris qu'amoncelle L'ouragan en furie et toute une grandeur Me semblait une fois d'espace supérieur ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Six 24 The Tamil Bard "That very first day when I was resting after lunch, a gentleman, chewing paan [betel leaf] came to Shri Achari's house" wrote Moni in his Smritikatha. "Of an average height, around the age of thirty.... Neither fair-skinned nor black—typical 'brown race.' Beard shaven, but with an impressive ...
... "unmistakably great poetry by any critical standards". I am sure many passages have supreme excellence even though they embody only one voice or another of the three. Further, we hear: "...the epic bard should never distract the listener's attention from the on-rushing flow of the narrative. Milton following the Homeric tradition also does the same thing." Well, does he? Milton is famous — or notorious... ic complexity of Homer's proverbially "simple" mind, the kind we attribute to the singer of a "primary epic". Even Homer'in several respects cuts right across the exaggerated notion of what an epic bard must do or not do. I would demur a little also to the contention that when Sri Aurobindo turns "the reader inward in order to make him debate within himself what the poetry is communicating" ...
... bly great poetry by any critical standards". I am sure many passages have supreme excellence even though they embody only one voice or another of the three. Further, we hear: "...the epic bard should never distract the listener's attention from the on-rushing flow of the narrative. Milton following the Homeric tradition also does the same thing." Well, does he? Milton is famous - or notorious... complexity of Homer's proverbially "simple" mind, the kind we attribute to the singer of a "primary epic". Even Homer in several respects cuts right across the exaggerated notion of what an epic bard must do or not do. I would demur a little also to the contention that when Sri Aurobindo turns "the reader inward in order to make him debate within himself what the poetry is communicating" ...
... linger too near the field of battle where Krishna and Arjuna enact the dialectic of the Bhagavad Gita, and find ourselves at last in the world of Savitri wherein the old Vedic symbolism, the simple bardic story, and the dialectic of doubt and faith, inaction and right action, are brought together in terms of rich significance to s ā hrdayas and spiritual seekers alike. Other similar ...
... of our bodies. Page 262 यस्त्वा हृदा कीरिणा मन्यमानोऽमत्यँ मर्त्यो जोहवीमि । जातवेदो यशो अस्मासु धेहि प्रजाभिरग्ने अमृतत्वमश्याम् ॥१०॥ 10) I think of thee with a heart that is thy bard and mortal I call to thee immortal; O knower of all things born, establish the glory in us, by the children of my works, O Fire, may I win immortality. यस्मै त्वं सुकृते जातवेद उ लोकमग्ने कृणवः ...
... Kanchinjanga 401 At the Mother's Samadhi 635 At the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo 561 August 15—Sri Aurobindo's Birthday 52 Avatar 453 Bard 411 Beatitude 476 Beatrice Missions Virgil to Guide Dante 502 Beau Geste 542 Beauty's Parting 246 Beggar-palms 714 Beginning ...
... is a 'legend' and a 'symbol'; in blank verse, not of the ordinary, but of a special kind; and intended to be the living image of a vision, an experience, a realisation: such is Savitri. The old bardic story, as we have seen in the previous chapter, has also been conceived by Sri Aurobindo as a profound symbol, perhaps "a symbol of what can never be symbolised", 171 yet as a hint, a promise, ...
... into a bit of highfalutin'. Old Bill of Stratford, from whatever heaven to which his "poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling" may have carried him, will send Amalward a sceptical smile, and the "blind bard of Scio's rocky isle" may thunder down from his empyrean a peal of Jovian laughter on my upstart head. Your fantasy of striding life's stage - which the author of the famous speech beginning "All ...
... clothe sense and sound with strange radiances or shadowy raptures drawn from an inner mystical life lived constantly by the poet unlike the fitful dips made on rare occasions into the unknown by former bards. There will be, ultimately, a tremendous outburst of spiritual fire, poems that bear the full frenzy of that "multitudinous meditation" which is the Soul; but before the unearthly day breaks we shall ...
... instance, or Arjava (John Chad-wick), two of the poetic luminaries of our Ashram. Arjava was a professor of mathematical or symbolic logic — a mind moving among abstractions: he became a first-rate bard under Sri Aurobindo's touch. Nirodbaran was trained to be a doctor, but his aspiration was towards Apollo, not Aesculapius. He wanted to write sonnets, not prescriptions. He yearned to dispense not ...
... manifestation of Sri Aurobindo not as an Avatar, a direct conscious expression of the Divine, but as a Vibhuti, a leader of the age in whom the Divine works from the background. No wonder the two greatest bards Augustus had patronised were born again -Virgil as Nolini and Horace as Dilip - to be patronised by Sri Aurobindo. I, who as a poet was patronised by him even more than they, am still a question-mark ...
... possible objections set up in favour of alternative solutions As the Shakespeare-industry is world-wide, researchers everywhere should be interested in the light thrown in a novel manner on the Bard's life in particular and on his Sonnets in general. (3) From Here to the Beyond The Secret Splendour collected poems of K. D. Sethna (Amal Kiran). Sri Aurobindo ...
... only poet in this hive of pedants. None but yourself in this benighted town Could ever compose the lovely song you sang. ROMA ( enthusiastic ) You guessed aright, sir. Who else but our Bard Could make such a song divine? KESHAV ( curling his lip ) Impossible! The song's in flawless Sanskrit. Tell me, Gora — ROMA ( hotly ) But I am telling you: it's he... sir! Some seven years ago A famous poet came with a bunch of poems. But when he read the poems of our Lord He sighed and said: "Oh, who will read my stuff After such lyrics as these?" And then our Bard Just laughed and flung away his sheaf of songs Into the Ganga that the other might win The fame he coveted. Page 36 KESHAV But that was wrong. As said our learned poet, Kalidas: ...
... order that the race may mount to greater heights of the spirit's life. An early poetry therefore is much occupied with a simple, natural, straightforward, external presentation of life. A primitive epic bard like Homer thinks only by the way and seems to be carried constantly forward in the stream of his strenuous action and to cast out as he goes only so much of surface thought and character and feeling ...
... and myself. (54) Let (all) the three worlds (earth, heaven and the intermediate region) including the Gandharvas (celestial musicians), gods, Rsis (the seers of Vedic Mantras) and Cāranas (celestial bards) behold (with their own eyes) today the Rāmahood of Rāma in the course of my combat. (55) I shall accomplish today a feat Page 197 which people in the world including all living beings,... chariot down to the seat of the chariot, Rāvana struck Indra's horses as well with a series of arrows. Seeing Śrī Rāma afflicted, the gods, Gandharvas (celestial musicians) and Cāranas (celestial bards) along with the devils as also the Siddhas (a class of demigods endowed with mystic powers by virtue of their very birth) and the foremost Rsis be came despondent; while monkey chiefs along with... Raghu) was distinctly heard in the heavens. (29) The fierce Rāvana, the terror of all the worlds, having been killed, a great joy filled (the heart of) the gods including the Cāranas (the celestial bards). (30) Rejoiced on having dispatched the foremost of the Rākshasas, Śrī Rāma (a scion of Raghu) then fulfilled the desire of Sugrīva, Ahgada and Vibhīsana (by seeing and felicitating them on the fall ...
... proper to the physical mind, vital mind, intellectual mind: that is the reason for considering the significance of Romantic poetry paramount. In this poetry both the content and the form, such as the bardic urge throughout its history Page 186 has secretly been driving towards, are pioneered in some mass. So it opens, even if intermittently, to the poetic art not only the largest territory ...
... smithy 14 — and that by growing in us, they increase the earth and heaven 15 (that is, the capacities of our physical and mental existence). "Let the gods be in all our homes!" exclaims the Vedic bard (IV.1.18). Thus it is our turn to create the gods, after they created us, for the original cause is also the eventual outcome : "Rescue thy father, in thy knowledge keep him safe, thy father who becomes ...
... experience of perusing a book has again been transformed by Keats in his famous sonnet On First Looking into Chapman's Homer. Here a book becomes a realm of gold, a state and kingdom Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. Spelling his way through this duty and musty volume, he felt the exhilaration of breathing in "pure serene of a wide expanse" and the two magnificent similes in the ...
... lines - with the very best in English poetry." No mean praise, coming from so high a source! One more of Amal's poems, this time on Sri Aurobindo, titled The Master: Bard rhyming earth to paradise, Time-conqueror with prophet eyes, Body of upright flawless fire, Star-strewing hands that never tire — In Him at last earth-gropings reach ...
... larger community. In India, after the age of the Veda and the Upanishad, came the age of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata which was pre-eminently an age of Kshatriya-hood. In Europe too it was the bards and minstrels, sages and soothsayers who originally created, preserved and propagated the cultural movement: next came the epoch of the Arthurian legends, the age of chivalry, of knights and templars ...
... larger community. In India, after the age of the Veda and the Upanishad, came the age of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata which was pre-eminently an age of Kshatriya-hood. In Europe too it was the bards and minstrels, sages and soothsayers who originally created, preserved and propagated the cultural movement: next came the epoch of the Arthurian legends, the age of chivalry, of knights and templars ...
... conversations with Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. The one is a skilful thinker at the same time that he is an intuitive poet and the other a profound philosopher plus an illumined Yogi and an inspired bard. Towards Tagore, Roy is drawn by the seeker in him of the Ideal through love and beauty. That seeker is affined to the artistic aspirant who went to Rolland - but with one difference. What drew ...
... the conversations with Tagore and Sri Aurobindo. The one is a skilful thinker at the same time that he is an intuitive poet and the other a profound philosopher plus an illumined Yogi and an inspired bard. Towards Tagore, Roy is drawn by the seeker in him of the Ideal through love and beauty. That seeker is affined to the artistic aspirant who went to Rolland - but with one difference. What drew him ...
... climb God's steep?" 370 At last the unfading Rose— 651 At sight of thee upon thy blissful path. 403 "Ayesha" I'll call you when the day resounds 415 Bard rhyming earth to paradise. 297 Because You never claim of us a tear, 459 Behind the broken world is the shattered self— 529 Between the brief heart-beats small silences— ...
... in this regard: Page 30 Athavā kritavāgdvāre variśe asminpūrvasūribhih Manau vajrasamutkīrne sutrasyevasti me gatih Or to this race to which ancient bards have opened the doorway of Speech, I may get access even as a thread may pierce a diamond perforated gem. — Canto 1.4. There is therefore, no question of the great poet Kālidāsa ...
... some poems of mine sent by D.K. Roy: "Many lines show a talent for rhythm which is remarkable, since the poet is not Writing in his native but in a learned language." (6.1.1932) Bard 'Yes, it is good poetry. The fourth line and the opening of the last verse seem to me very striking and felicitous in thought and phrase. The rhythm is very good throughout." (March 1932) ...
... if he arrives at some vision of an inner spiritual truth, he puts even that into forms and figures of the physical life and physical Nature". 20 "A primitive epic bard like Homer," Sri Aurobindo has said, "thinks only by the way and seems to be carried constantly forward in the stream of his strenuous action and to cast out ...
... mind men were essentially manu, thinkers, the original father of the race was the first Thinker, and the Vedic poets in the idea of their contemporaries not merely priests or sacred singers or wise bards but much more characteristically manishis & rishis, thinkers & sages?We can conceive with difficulty such ideas as belonging to that undeveloped psychological condition of the semi-savage to which ... powers and functions. But there is also a river Saraswati or several rivers of that name. Therefore, the doubt suggests itself: In any given passage may it not be the Aryan river, Saraswati, which the bards are chanting? even if they sing of her or cry to her as a goddess, may it not still be the River, so dear, sacred & beneficent to them, that they worship? Or even where she is clearly a goddess of speech ...
... given for a whole year without consulting any book or even notes. We know of a similar phenomenon when he was invited by the Annamalai University to give talks on Shakespeare in the year of the Bard's quatercentenary. They are not learned dissertations but, combined with free distribution of humour they make poetry indeed a rasa. Amal Kiran as a Critic I shall take ...
... original Vyasa with his strong, bare, terse, direct style of vivid ideative illumination. He is overlaid by another poet who is more' romantic and decorative, a sort of secondary Valmiki -a good competent bard. Then we have a third layer -somebody continuing the trend of the Valmikiesque inspiration but with less poetic power and a more and more elaborative and decorative movement. This triple division holds ...
... (1) "Let men of good conduct offer worship to their family deities as well as at all the temples in the city with fragrant flowers and to the accompaniment of (various) musical instruments. (2) Let bards well-versed in singing praises as well as in the Puranas (containing ancient legends, cosmogony, etc.,) as also minstrels, all those proficient in the use of musical instruments as well as courtesans ...
... abstract about these planes is concretised through the use of "crystal"; witness, for instance, The inner planes uncovered their crystal doors. 92 Our doors are invariably opaque and of bard substance to scare the thieves away. In the inner planes the crystal doors invite the aspirant to gaze through them and see the treasures beyond. 89 Savitri., p. 579. 90 Ibid , p. 588. ...
... three lines of imagery shift entirely to the left of their lines with images of transient Time ("cycles," "daily," "instant's") earthly Nature ("earthly day," "burden") and Darkness ("common light," "barded," "unforeseeing"). These variations in the pattern and density of images throughout the poem help to explain some of the marvellous poetic effects achieved by the poet. Sri Aurobindo varies ...
... tradition to regard the ancient hymns as sacred, the early thinkers, it is thought, began to seek an escape from this impasse by reading mystic & esoteric meanings into the simple text of the sacrificial bards; so by speculations sometimes entirely sublime, sometimes grievously silly & childish, they developed Vedanta. This theory, simple, trenchant and attractive, supported to the European mind by parallels ...
... Cabinet Mission: confusion, calamity, partition, blood-bath, etc., and the belated recognition of the colossal blunder. Then when the partition had been accepted as a settled fact, Sri Aurobindo's "bardic" voice was heard once again, "But by whatever means, in whatever way, the division must go; unity must and will be achieved, for it is necessary for the greatness of India's future." Past events have ...
... accommodate thought in its substance and in its dignity for it to deepen and strengthen those very feelings of the song. The coming of the calamitous event is made known quite cheerfully and quite bardically; to adapt a couplet from the above-quoted passage, we could say: Ho! Ho! It is decreed on high, Soon this ill-fated prince will die! Not only are the reserves of sound absent ...
... life, it is not the whole; that we are listening only to a love episode in some high epic. This impression again is skilfully aided by brief but telling touches in each Act, such as the song of the Bards, for example, which remind us of the King of Kings, the toiling administrator & the great warrior; in not a single Act are these necessary strokes omitted & the art with which they are introduced naturally ...
... poeta: Honour the Poet of Highest Eminence, honour the Ultimate Poet! 79 K.R. SRINIVASA IYENGAR 79 Cf. the American poet D.R. Cameron's tribute to Savitri: ...the mantra's bard Silvers a way over almighty abysms To epic a world behind the soul's paroxysms. The words are stars shooting across a mind More vast than galaxies of the blind Who may touch ...
... offerings? lively, active, cheerful मखस्यु Vd. wishing for wealth or sacrifice; lively, cheerful मखः a sacrificial rite. मगः a Magian; a priest of the Sun मगधः Magadha; bard, minstrel मगधा town of Magadha; long pepper. Page 691 मगध्यति to surround; serve, be slave; attend upon. मग्न मघः one of the Dwipas; a country; a drug or medicine;... decorate, adorn. मंकिलः a forest conflagration मंकुरः a mirror. मंक्षणम् greaves. मंक्षु immediately, quickly; exceedingly, very much; truly; really. मंखः a royal bard; a mendicant. मंग् to go, move. मंगल auspicious, lucky; fortunate, prosperous; brave. मंगलं auspiciousness; good fortune, felicity; well-being, welfare, good; good omen, blessing; ...
... He is not described elsewhere as a judge of the dead. 44 Orpheus is no doubt mentioned not as a singer and poet but as the founder of Orphism. 45 Musaeus was a bard like Orpheus, but his benefactions consisted in giving oracles and instruction for the curing of disease 46 Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia was the first didactic poet; he was generally ...
... and rise, Of death, birth, greatness, ruin? The time may come When Eric shall not be remembered! Yes, But there's a script, there are archives that endure. Before a throne in some superior world Bards with undying lips and eyes still young After the ages sing of all the past And the immortal Children hear. Somewhere In this gigantic world of which one grain of dust Is all our field, Eternal Memory ...
... is not described elsewhere as a judge of the dead. Page 92 Orpheus is no doubt mentioned not as a singer and poet but as the founder of Orphism. Musaeus was a bard like Orpheus, but his benefactions consisted in giving oracles and- instruction for the curing of disease. Hesiod of Ascra in Boeotia was the first didactic poet; he was generally ranked ...
... Virgil in Dante's poem Onorate l'altissimo peota : Honour of Highest Eminence, honour the Ultimate Poet!* * Cf. the American poet D.R. Cameron's tribute to Savitri: ...the mantra's bard Silvers a way over almighty abysms To epic a world behind the soul's paroxysms. The words are stars shooting across a mind More vast than galaxies of the blind ...
... and the * The reader is referred, for a fuller discussion, to the present writer's article on Ahana in the Sri Aurobindo Circle, Third Number (1947) Page 619 futurist bard of Savitri. The poem included in this collected edition is a revised and enlarged version of what had appeared in 1915, and it has received an accession of new light and weight of thought that sets ...
... in me responding to the inspiration of fellow poets. Something in the secret places of your heart appears to come close to the work that is near my own heart in the realms of gold... Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold. But how can that be? The outer KR has been often at loggerheads with me. Could the inner KR be less headstrong? And here arises as if with a natural affinity the picture ...
... 86 because of his Valakhilya separation at the end of Book 8. 431. Ibid., p. 156, fn. 86. Page 376 Seventh Mandala." He 432 has the broad comment: "Continuity of hieratic or bardic tradition preserves many old forms and in religious texts antique forms are generally preferred." His acute survey 433 of the whole question is worth reproducing: The chief ground for taking... stics must also be considered as of late date. But the converse of this proposition is not necessarily true. It is possible that even in later ages unbroken family traditions enabled the priestly bards to compose hymns in antique form. In fact, there are several indications to show that this actually happened. Consequently, there must be some hymns in the Rgveda-Saṁhitā which, though early in form... probably not among the very latest in the RV. To be excluded from only "the very latest" and that, too, "probably" is enough for our purpose. Here is technical lateness sufficient to show that the bardic attempt to clothe lateness of thought in a traditional antiqueness of style may sometimes slip up a little. Indra as Asura All things considered, Parpola's assigning to Indra (and ...
... enlighten us as to the profound meaning of our fate, and whose lives and teachings have given rise to our great religions, without our having yet understood that they were above all the pioneers and bards of a purely solar consciousness which must pervade us and gradually lead to our transformation. What should we expect of these beings whom we shall engender? Having arisen of us, and thus like ...
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