The Deliverance : D.K. Roy’s translation of Sarat Chandra’s novel Nishkriti.
... prayer, but the prayer of the Mother of the earth. It is not merely the prayer of the universe but the prayer of the Universal Mother to the Supreme Lord for the deliverance of the universe, for the re-creation of the earth—indeed, for the deliverance of herself for the re--creation of herself out of the present ignorant manifestation: 1" O Mère, douce Mère que je suis, Tu es à la fois ce qui détruit ...
... prayer, but the prayer of the Mother of the earth. It is not merely the prayer of the universe but the prayer of the Universal Mother to the Supreme Lord for the deliverance of the universe, for the re-creation of the earth – Indeed, for the deliverance of herself for the re-creation of herself out of the present ignorant manifestation: 0 Mère, douce Mère que je suis, Tu es à la fois ce qui détruit ...
... Chandra Chatterji's Nishkriti Above a typed copy of this letter, Sri Aurobindo wrote the jocular heading: "Note on the red marks in the proof of 'The Deliverance'"—Ed. I have gone carefully through the proof of the first chapters of The Deliverance , but find most of these unexplained red marks totally unintelligible; sometimes I can make a guess, but most often not even that. What, for instance ...
... recall, for comparison, the Christian doctrine of the body — in particular, St. Paul's gospel of a 'glorious body'. In the Pauline anthropology, it is not the deliverance from the body as a body that the apostle longs for, but the deliverance from the natural body of corruption and mortality. As a matter of fact, he proclaims that, at resurrection, our 'nakedness' 1 Dr. Bhagavan Das, ...
... prayer, but the prayer of the Mother of the earth. It is not merely the prayer of the universe but the prayer of the Universal Mother to the Supreme Lord for the deliverance of the universe, for the re-creation of the earth—indeed, for the deliverance of herself for the r-e-creation of herself out of the present ignorant manifestation: 0 Mere, douce Mere que je suis, Tu es a la fois ce qui detruit ...
... the call for national independence through self-help and passive resistance. Barin and his friends, with Sri Aurobindo's approval, started the vernacular daily, Yugantar, which openly urged the deliverance of the country through revolutionary means. Its leading writers were superb polemicists. 1) This life-sketch, and the reminiscences that follow it, are excerpted from Sri Aurobindo and the ...
... Incarnation Krishna declares: "Many are my lives that are past... Whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma 3 and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right, I am born from age to age" (4.5,7,8). 4 Sri Aurobindo's comment 5 runs: "We have to remark carefully ...
... complete, still there is the suffering of others, the world travail, which the great of soul cannot regard with indifference. There is a unity with all beings which something within us feels and the deliverance of others must be felt as intimate to its own deliverance. This then is the law of the manifestation, the reason of the imperfection here. True, it is a law of manifestation only and, even, ...
... harmonising the divine life with human living, of being in God and yet living in man is the very difficulty that he is set here to solve and not to shun. He has learned that the joy, the peace and the deliverance are an imperfect crown and no real possession if they do not form a state secure in itself, inalienable to the soul, not dependent on aloofness and inaction but firm in the storm and the race and ...
... It stresses emotion rather than sensation and desire, but it is not free from demand and the desire of possession. The Emergence of the True Vital It is through a change in the vital that the deliverance from the blind vital energy must come—by the emergence of the true vital which is strong, wide, at peace, a willing instrument of the Divine and of the Divine alone. Page 111 The ...
... must remember those declarations of Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita: "...whenever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then 1 loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right I am born from age to age" (IV. 7 -8). The victory of the Kauravas would have spelled the death of Dharma. U ...
... destroyed them. 56. Though all these attackers are terrible in appearance, they have not been able to do any harm to the boy. Though they came to kill him, they perished as moths in fire... The deliverance of Aghāsura The Scene in the Woods (l-ll) Śrī Śuka said: 1. One day, Śrī Krsna decided that he would have his lunch in the woodlands and not at home. So getting up very early in the ...
... which lie beyond the level of Reason. In India, there has been a tradition that philosophical conclusions, however convincing they be intellectually, must also be shown to be confirmed by the deliverance of spiritual experiences. Therefore, except for the materialistic school of Charvaka, all systems of Indian philosophy provide for a special room where philosophical conclusions are shown to be ...
... Notes and References The age of intuition appears to be too long as compared to the similar age that we find in the history of comparable cultures. This is because the deliverance of intuition that were gained during the Vedic period came to be once again reiterated and retested during the period of the Upanishads, which did not follow immediately after the age of the Vedas; ...
... her old orbit. But what has to emerge is something much more difficult and much more simple; it is a self-realized being a building of the spiritual self, and intensity and urge of the soul and the deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty, — not an egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and a vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of me Spirit over its own instruments ...
... and contours of the physical existence. The Spirit, yes and by all means, but not necessarily asceticism and monasticism. So Tagore boldly declared in those famous lines of his: Mine is not the deliverance achieved through mere renunciation. Mine rather the freedom that tastes itself in a thousand associations. 1 The spirit of the age demands this new gospel. Mankind needs and awaits a fresh ...
... cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest Page 34 status. It is ...
... that ties man down to this lower consciousness which is the domain of death, and the only antidote of egoism is love, love human or divine. Perseus the Deliverer is obviously the story of the deliverance of human soul from the siege of the emissaries of Death, the lower consciousness. It is also the legend of the destruction of a darker age of civilisation and the advent of a new age of greater ...
... than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of heaven. The Christ saw the grip of the vital forces on the money-power, and it was not any ascetic loathing of money, but a divine solicitude for the deliverance of men from the dark influence of the hostile powers that inspired the stricture. It can be safely asserted that in nine cases out often the use we make of money is an illegitimate and unspiritual ...
... nature, as of the times. The times are such in Bengal that people are incapable of listening to serious things in a serious manner. Religion, philanthropy, noble aspirations, high endeavour, the deliverance of the country, all that is serious, all that is high and noble is turned to ridicule. People want to laugh everything away. At your Brahmo school, you picked up a little of this fault. Bari ...
... how one can undo the process of death, the process of illness, the process ... That whole abominable, inexorable and mathematical cage in which we keep bumping around like blind men. Truly, the deliverance of the Earth. And it is written black on white; we don’t have the appropriate eyes, but it is there , all there , Andre, Jane, in the pages you have read. And it is not a book : it is a power ...
... mind has become the handmaiden of his lowest instincts. Man is demented. It is the time of 'little bodies unclean,' as says the Vishnu Purana. 1 The creation is rotted to its core. Time for the deliverance. Time for pralaya. Out of the apocalypse, phoenix-like, a new creation emerges. The Puranas state that the duration of each yuga is in direct proportion to the diminishing Truth. 2 As a result ...
... stand upon my own Nature and I come into birth by my self-Maya. For whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil-doers, for the enthroning of the Right I am born from age to age. He who knoweth thus in its right principles my divine birth and my divine work, when ...
... sattwic is the Universal Self in man which if realized and held fast to, answers unfailingly the call for help and incarnating in its full season brings with it light, strength and healing. "For the deliverance of the good and the destruction of evil doers, for the restoration of righteousness I am born from age to age." Chapter IV. The Place of Religion in Ethics. If the view of human development ...
... her old orbit. But what has to emerge is something much more difficult and much more simple; it is a self-realised being, a building of the spiritual self, an intensity and urge of the soul and the deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty,—not an egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments ...
... mentalised as an abstract Power of Love, Good, Beauty or Knowledge; or, as we turn our feet towards the Way, he may come to us veiled as the call of Humanity or a Will in things that drives towards the deliverance of the world from the grasp of Darkness and Falsehood and Death and Suffering—the great quaternary of the Ignorance. Then, after we have entered the path, he envelops us with his wide and mighty ...
... follows up with those two ringing famous unforgettable statements: "When so ever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the good, for the destruction of the evil- doers, for the enthroning of the Right, I am born from age to age" (IV. 7,8). It appears impossible to deny that, if not in all, at least in some ...
... and to realise and I shall concentrate on doing what I can to help people to that end. The rest lies with what rules from behind the veil. I am sorry I have not been able to proceed with the "Deliverance" these two days—the circumstances have not been favourable. If I can get some free time as on Friday on two or three nights, I shall be able to finish the book, I believe, and after that it will ...
... and notions of things, personal prejudices and preferences he must abandon. Further, and most importantly, he should simply take refuge in the supreme Being alone. Solely in it is there for him the deliverance from sin and evil and grief; in it is the Dharma of all the dharmas. This great and salutary helpful Dharma shall undoubtedly prove to him, even in the transactions of the world, most benign; it ...
... is at once much more difficult and much more simple. What is conceived in the divine superman is a self-realized being, a building of the spiritual self, an intensity and urge of the soul and the deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty. It is not egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments ...
... tradition, and we have in the renascent India a clearer diagnosis of the contemporary collective crisis and also a radical solution which can be applied, if so willed, on a very vast scale for the deliverance of humanity. The renascent spirituality of India from Maharshi Dayananda Saraswati to Sri Ramakrishna and Swami Page 109 Vivekananda and to Sri Aurobindo has two important concerns ...
... her old orbit. But what has to emerge is something much more difficult and much more simple; it is a self-realised being, a building of the spiritual self, an intensity and urge of the soul and the deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty, — not an egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments ...
... and inanimate creation, along with the hosts of gods and Rsis, were pleased with that remarkable feat of the high souled Rāma (in Page 41 the shape of the overthrow of Rāvana and the deliverance of Sīta). Honoured by all the gods, Srī Rama (thereupon) looked extremely delighted. (83 84) Having installed Vibhīsana, the chief of the rakshasas, on the throne of Lanka, Srī Rama felt ac ...
... of the Catholic Church among the saints of God. Lamartine, the great French poet, says of her: "Joan of Arc, the prophetess, the heroine, and the saint of French patriotism, the glory, the deliverance, and equally the shame of her country.... Angel, maiden, warrior—she has become a fit blazon for the soldier's banner.") adapted from the chapter "Jeanne d'Arc" in 100 Great Lives, edited ...
... simple; it is a self-realised being, a building of the spiritual self, an intensity and __________________________ ¹ Ibid., 25.11.35, p. 72. Page 90 urge of the soul and the deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty,—not an egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments ...
... one might say an indispensable assistance. Yet it was whenever a big Force came in that S made a bound forward and each time on the lines indicated by the Force, first the heart's recovery, next the deliverance of the liver, third the overcoming of the hyperacid excesses. R was an obstacle as well as a help,—twice. First, in his confounded decision to encourage "yellow fever"—the bile had to be cleared ...
... have a look at this poem... [ Sri Aurobindo ] What the deuce is the meaning of "lineage" here? Lineage means ancestry. And what the greater deuce is "liege"? February 22, 1938 "The deliverance from the grave— Earth's crucifixion of the Light That is bound like passion's galley-slave—..." [After Sri Aurobindo's correction on 20.2.38:] "For thy deliverance from the grave— ...
... 17] It is not through moral precepts nor ritual observances nor through much learning nor through still meditation nor a lonely life nor by thinking. "I have attained the felicity, the Deliverance which men of the world never enjoy", that you can be a Disciple. Do not believe it, until you have achieved the total extinction of desire. Page 233 ...
... spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human type. It is this for which India lives; by losing this India loses all her reason of existence— raison d`etre —the earth and humanity too lose ...
... cosmic) and then with the Absolute (the transcendent). The lower is a reflection of the higher, the higher comes down in a diminished and hence tarnished light. The message is that of deliverance, the deliverance and reintegration of the lower soul out of its bondage of worldly ignorant life into the freedom and immortality first of its higher and then of its highest Page 367 status. It ...
... even the correct one, for those who aimed at a liberation of their own individual selves from the obscurity of the material world and the earth-consciousness. But for us who aspire for the deliverance of the entire terrestrial consciousness from falsehood and ignorance, this will not do: we have to accept our burden; we must take part in the collective effort. If one of us makes a progress, ...
... complete, still there is the suffering of others, the world-travail, which the great of soul cannot regard with indifference. There is unity with all beings which something within us feels, and the deliverance of the others must be felt as intimate to its own deliverance." Page 142 in general; but it becomes dynamically true here among us where there is a conscious effort on the part ...
... spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can bo placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human type. It is this for which India lives; by losing this India loses all her reason of existence— raison d' ê tre —the earth and humanity too lose ...
... one might say an indispensable assistance. Yet it was whenever a big Force came in that S made a bound forward and each time on the lines indicated by the Force, first the heart's recovery, next the deliverance of the liver, third the overcoming of the hyperacid excesses. R was an obstacle as well as a help, — twice. First, in his confounded decision to encourage 'yellow fever' — the bile had to be cleared ...
... spiritual living of her saints and seers and sages the invaluable treasure, the vitalising, the immortalising power of spirituality, so that it can be placed at the service of terrestrial life for the deliverance of mankind, for the transfiguration of the human type. It is this for which India lives; by losing this India loses all her reason of existence – raison d'être – the e arth and humanity too lose ...
... and contours of the physical existence. The Spirit, yes and by all means, but not necessarily asceticism and monasticism. So Tagore boldly declared in those famous lines of his: Mine is not the deliverance achieved through mere renunciation. Mine rather the freedom that tastes itself in a thousand associations.¹ The spirit of the age demands this new gospel. Mankind needs and awaits a fresh revelation ...
... complete, still there is the suffering of others, the world-travail, which the great of soul cannot regard with indifference. There is unity with all beings which something within us feels, and the deliverance of the others must be felt as intimate to its own deliverance." Page 270 collaborating in the mighty labour, however little it may be in our way, we can only bow down in thankfulness ...
... my living; I will teach in the village school. —But Nil... She took her face in her hands. —Nil, Nil... She repeated my name like a prayer. She was going to yield; it was the end, the deliverance, I was caught in a red cloud. —You'll see, we'll be together, always together... toujours ensemble. Then she drew herself up at once, she pressed her hands against the wall; she was standing ...
... nature and purpose of Avatar hood. "Many are my lives that are past.... Whensoever there is the fading of the Dharma and the uprising of unrighteousness, then I loose myself forth into birth. For the deliverance of the Right I am born from age to age." But the upholding of Law is not an all-sufficient object in itself. The Avatar comes to change the old Law. "The Avatar," wrote Sri Aurobindo ...
... around like a hare in a trap. Bound by the chains of attachment, they come again and again to sorrow. Beset by craving, men run around like a hare in a trap. Therefore, O Bhikkhu, desiring deliverance from passion, destroy your craving. One who, delivered from craving, yet runs back to it, lo, he is like a freed man who returns to bondage. What the wise call a strong bond is not made... of craving, having understood all by myself, whom shall I call my teacher? The gift of Truth excels all gifts; the savour of Truth excels all savours; delight in Truth excels all delights; deliverance from craving overcomes all suffering. Riches ruin the fool, but not one who seeks the other shore. By craving for riches, the fool ruins himself and others with him. Weeds are the bane ...
... as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look - and these have been the majority - there are well-known ways of issue, a straight-cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge- the imperfection, the evil, the suffering may be a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not... new stratum, but the highest yet remain to descend and it is by their descent that the riddle of terrestrial existence will receive its solution and not only the soul but Nature herself find her deliverance. This is the Truth which has been seen in flashes, in more and more entirety of its terms by the line of seers whom the Tantra would call the hero-seekers and the divine-seekers and which may now... itself, is not overbome by the fate they endure. If we find out this Divine within us, if we know ourselves as this spirit which is of one essence and being with the Divine, that is our gate of deliverance and in it we can emain ourselves even in the midst of this world's disharmonies, luminous, blissful and free. That much is the age-old testimony of spiritual experience. ...
... colour, symbolising the appearance of Divine Love. The “Waterfall” is a flow from the higher consciousness that dispels the hostile forces and paves the way for a “rainbow”—the sign of peace and deliverance. Finally, there is transparent golden water indicating a plane of consciousness that receives from the Supramental, ending in the appearence of a huge figure that looks after the universe. This is ...
... with thy fellow-men. Awake and progress then to thy utter divinity, live for God in thyself and in others." This gospel which was given only to the few, must now be offered to all mankind for its deliverance. Page 270 There is nothing to add. Sri Aurobindo has clearly and masterfully stated first the evil and then its remedy. All we have to do is to put into practice what he has taught ...
... on as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look—and these have been the majority—there are well-known ways of issue, a straight-cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge—the imperfection, the evil, the suffering may be a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not... new stratum, but the highest yet remain to descend and it is by their descent that the riddle of terrestrial existence will receive its solution and not only the soul but Nature herself find her deliverance. This is the Truth which has been seen in flashes, in more and more entirety of its terms by the line of seers whom the Tantra would call the hero-seekers and the divine seekers and which may now... overborne by the Page 256 fate they endure. If we find out this Divine within us, if we know ourselves as this spirit which is of one essence and being with the Divine, that is our gate of deliverance and in it we can remain ourselves even in the midst of this world's disharmonies, luminous, blissful and free. That much is the age-old testimony of spiritual experience. But still what is the ...
... Part III Sun Blossoms Deliverance I HEAR thy footfalls at my Spirits door, O Beauty, my quest is done; I seek no more. My eyes importunate dwell upon thy Face And drink a cup of ecstasy from each gaze. Bowing my head at thy immaculate feet I feel that thou controllest every beat Of my human heart by a miraculous power That grows like a young sun ...
... of obscurity. The lightning is a symbol of the dynamic force of the higher consciousness acting at intervals to enlighten the rest of the being. The rainbow is the sign of peace and deliverance. Night and Dawn The Night is the symbol of the Ignorance or Avidya in which men live just as Light is the symbol of Truth and Knowledge. Dawn always means an opening of some kind—the ...
... godheads. पातं नो रुद्रा पायुभिरुत त्रायेथां सुत्रात्रा । तुर्याम दस्यून्तनूभिः ॥३॥ Page 540 3) Protect us, O violent ones, 3 with your protectings and deliver us with a perfect deliverance. May we in our embodyings break through the Destroyers. मा कस्याद्भुतकतू यक्षं भुजेमा तनूभिः । मा शेषसा मा तनसा ॥४॥ 4) O transcendent in will-power, let us not in our embodyings suffer ...
... the first time I feel no ardour, eagerness or prayer for the 24th’s Darshan. God knows what will happen finally! Perhaps this movement may draw me away! Death appears to be preferable as a way of deliverance. I don’t feel like writing even. If this continues I will have to stop writing. Have I then stumbled upon a desert-tract? SRI AUROBINDO: It was certainly not because the Mother was different ...
... smouldering shore I wait and vainly wait Counting the green-hooded wild waves, Until some lurking Fate Hold me in its fierce dragon-claws, Or heaven's redemption white Bring here for my deliverance Its golden boat of light. Here are but tears, like silver dew And ominous whispers round, And monstrous presences in glee Dance on Deaths burning ground. A smothered sigh is the heavy air ...
... that utter relief, that delightful lightness which comes when one is free from all anxiety for oneself, for one's life and health and satisfaction, and even one's progress? This relief, this deliverance Thou hast granted to me, O Thou, Divine Master, Life of my life and Light of my light, O Thou who unceasingly teachest me love and makest me know the purpose of my existence. It is Thou who livest ...
... imperative. In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise... sense of itself, any purer source of peace, joy and deliverance. It is rather even more tortured, troubled and obscured, certainly more vague, confused and unprogressive. The individual is in this respect greater than the mass and cannot be called on to subordinate his more luminous possibilities to this darker entity. If light, peace, deliverance, a better state of existence are to come, they must ...
... g works to tend the lowly, the miserable, the nearly lost. However seemingly hopeless the human lot, however apparently unavailing the appeals to Heaven, she has neither denied nor lost hope of deliverance. When she concludes her speech, however, there explodes a cry from below, the voice of the Man of Sorrows, breathing exasperation and despair, a job in his burning passion of defeat: ... indeed a "portion" that Savitri's soul has put forth "to bear the unbearable sorrow of the world"; because of her, the wretched can somehow bear their wretchedness and hope against hope for a dawn of deliverance. Savitri promises to return to the Madonna with an accession of strength that will enable them to abolish cruelty and misery forever from the earth. But, in the meantime, Savitri must continue her ...
... Hardie, to suppose that he can do anything for us is a delusion. India like other countries, must work out her salvation for herself, and the less she trusts to foreign help, the swifter will be her deliverance. Page 717 ...
... his course By obstacles so grave my I heart has fear Lest I too late should bear him succouring force, Too late if nought in heaven save truth I hear. Speed thou and by thy art deliverance teach Unto his mind: thus shalt thou bring me cheer. Beatrice am I who now thy haste beseech: Out of a place that lures me back I come - Love brought me here and love impels my speech ...
... He who adores the adorable Buddha or his disciples, such as those who have passed beyond the creation, transcended grief and falsehood, such as those who are fearless and have found deliverance, for him indeed the merits cannot be measured in counts. Page 223 ...
... सुन्दरवदनारविन्द गोविन्द ॥६॥ नारायण करुणामय सिन्धो॥ śrīpatipadāravinde bhavabhayakhedacchide vande, 2 dāmodara guṇamandira sundaravadanāravinda govinda, 6 nārāyaṇa karuṇāmaya sindho. For deliverance from the fear of the world I worship the lotus feet of the Lord of Lakshmi, Narayana the Ocean of Grace. O Damodara, O Govinda, the temple of virtues and having a sweet face, ONarayana, the Ocean ...
... n as the sole possible way of salvation. For those who perceive it so or with some kindred look and these have been the majority there are well known ways of issue, a straight cut to spiritual deliverance. But equally it may not be so but only seem so to our ignorance or to a partial knowledge the imperfection, the evil, the suffering maybe a besetting circumstance or a dolorous passage, but not the... new stratum, but the highest yet remain to descend and it is by their descent that the riddle of terrestrial existence will receive its solution and not only the soul but Nature herself find her deliverance. This is the Truth which has been seen in flashes, in more and more entirety of its terms by the line of seers whom the Tantra would call the hero seekers and the divine seekers and which may now... itself, is not overborne by the fate they endure. If we find out this Divine within us, if we know ourselves as this spirit which is of one essence and being with the Divine, that is our gate of deliverance and in it we can remain ourselves even in the midst of this world's disharmonies, luminous, blissful and free. That much is the age old testimony of spiritual experience. But still what is the ...
... lost Veda and the already existing future. Within us is all Veda and all Vedanta, within us is God & perfected humanity—two beatitudes that are the same and yet different. But to effect this great deliverance, to push aside the golden shield of our various thought from the face of Truth, to rescue the concealed Purusha, future Man, out of those waters in which he lies concealed and give him form by the ...
... one of the chosen paths over the other paths. It is, for instance, claimed by some that even when works and love are appropriate means to be adopted along with the path of knowledge, the ultimate deliverance of liberation comes only by knowledge; works may lead, it is sometimes said, to liberation but cannot give liberation; similarly, it is said that the devotion is helpful up to a certain point, up... relationship of love or devotion has ultimately to be given up in order to achieve the object of the path of knowledge. It is also found that those who consider knowledge to be the ultimate power of deliverance seem often to look down upon the path of the devotee, as if it were a thing inferior, ignorant, and good only for souls that are not yet ready Page 70 for the heights of the Truth. On... path of knowledge or works; even when they permit some place to these two powers of knowledge and will in some kind of their synthesis, the divine love is considered to be the power of ultimate deliverance. There is also a tendency among those who pursue the path of knowledge and devotion to look down upon those who follow the path of works. For there is an intensity of love, as there is an intensity ...
... go away from him. Once he did succeed in finding a guru whom he could accept and he was so happy in his devotion to the chosen guru that he wrote and published a pamphlet entitled Easy Path to Deliverance . But this devotion, too, did not last long. His desire for liberation had thus remained unfulfilled, when I was born and he had been content to lead a decent moral life and be a model teacher in... Man is a slave of his nature, prakriti . The awakened soul keenly feels this slavery and, failing in its struggle to master the prakriti , it turns towards the Lord of Mercy and prays to Him for deliverance from its slavery. In such a state of mind one day, all alone on a dark night in the school compound during the vacation, I was praying to the Lord from the depth of my heart to deliver me from the ...
... world-principle above all other things as an especial object of loathing. The body is the obscure burden that he cannot bear; its obstinate material grossness is the obsession that drives him for deliverance to the life of the ascetic. To get rid of it he has even gone so far as to deny its existence and the reality of the material universe. Most of the religions have put their curse upon Matter and... And the Buddhist attitude towards the body has been summed up as follows: (a)the body, whether of men or of higher beings, can never be the abode of anything but evil; (b)a final deliverance from all bodily life, present and to come, is the greatest of all blessings, the highest of all boons and the loftiest of all aims (Monier Williams, Buddhism). Indeed, 'the body is the ...
... manifest barbaric strength and ruthlessness and force, — rakshasic or asuric, the supramental superman is a self-realised being, a building of the spiritual self, an intensity, an urge of the soul and deliverance and sovereignty of its light and power and beauty, —not an egoistic supermanhood seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of Spirit over its own instruments, its ...
... who Page 915 can really say that his work is worthy of these heroic martyrs? Prometheus chained to the rock and gnawed by the vulture's beak endured in the strong hope of man's final deliverance from the tyrant powers of the middle-heaven who sought to keep him from his divine destiny; but the human race for whom he suffered forgot Prometheus, forgot the dazzling hope to which his life had ...
... all the Nations will be in this area. They will represent their culture and customs . I marvelled at the Mother's description According to Sri Aurobindo: Rainbow — signifies Peace and Deliverance. Square — signifies Supermind. Mountain — Ascending planes of the higher consciousness. Symbol of the embodied consciousness based upon earth but rising up towards the Divine. ...
... the Mother. Since she took interest in the case, I began to give a daily account. The patient was going downhill and suffering the agony which only cancer can inflict. She prayed for cure or for deliverance from the body’s unbearable pain. Her suffering made me so gloomy and depressed that I carried that dejection to the Mother herself. One day her warmth and sweet smile stopped. She would give me flowers... one day Page 117 the Mother resumed pouring her beatific smile. The burden was off my shoulders. The patient’s death-in-life did not now affect me so much. Every day she would pray for deliverance. The Mother was trying hard to cut off the life-cord, but it proved extremely tough and resistant. One day the Mother said, "I was with her for three hours last night." Every morning she would expect... Mother has come, the Mother has come!" "Where, where?" asked Bose. "Here, here, in my heart. Don’t you see?" With these words she passed away. The Mother was happy to hear of the soul’s blissful deliverance. That was another case of cancer to which I was an unhappy witness. I saw a frail woman dying inch by inch with nobody to look after her except her husband who nursed her till the last moment ...
... sky And sow in this dancing planet midge The moods of infinity. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: A God's Labour According to Sri Aurobindo the rainbow is: Sign of Peace and Deliverance Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sky, Weather, Night and Dawn It is quite true that falsehood reigns in this world, that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you ...
... their spiritual development. But since Sri Aurobindo's acceptance of the central spiritual aim does not imply a complete and unqualified rejection of life and its values, but rather involves their deliverance from their basic insufficiency and a fulfilment of their secret urge by a thoroughgoing and drastic spiritual transmutation of all their powers, no significant endeavour in any eld of life is left ...
... guidance, for fruition,—or if knowledge be the aim, to the Guide, Teacher, Giver of light, for the Divine is the Sun of knowledge,—or it comes in pain and suffering for relief and solace and deliverance, it may be deliverance either from the suffering itself or from the world-existence which is the habitat of the suffering or from all its inner and real causes. 1 In these things we find there is a certain ...
... and powers which might conceivably otherwise have slept imprisoned in the rigidity of the material formula. This would even so have been improbable, since their presence there implies a purpose of deliverance; but still this necessity from below is actually very much aided by a kindred superior pressure. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - I: The Ascending Series of Substance A secret continuous ...
... frame. We have seen Ramamurti break over his chest a strong iron chain tightened round his whole body and break it by the sheer force of will working through the body. India must work a similar deliverance for herself by the same inner force. It is not Page 1016 by strength of body that Ramamurti accomplishes his feats, for he is not stronger than many athletes who could never do what he ...
... y over and the whole being under the right direction and on the right way. Other difficulties are of minor importance, it is this one thing that is standing obstinately in the way of the soul's deliverance. I will put my force to pull you out—I hope I shall get the full response. 9 June 1934 Something in me is open to you and the Mother, for I can feel Peace coming into me. But I do not see ...
... is what we could term "historically" correct, it would sort of legitimize the attitude of those who get away from it. How is it that Buddha, who undeniably was an Avatar, laid so much stress on Deliverance as the conclusion of Page 329 things? He who stayed behind only to help others... to get away faster. Then that means he saw only one side of the problem?... Oh, yes! But if there ...
... a divine multitude, Out of the paths of the morning star they came Into the little room of mortal life." || 90.28 || According to Sri Aurobindo, the Rainbow signifies Peace and Deliverance Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sky, Weather, Night and Dawn Regarding the Rainbow it is said that the white colour of the rays of the Sun can be classified into seven colours—rainbow ...
... have: it is my hell, my heaven, my misery or my joy, I know not, it is all the same; it is my great fiery rhythm, my very smallness which burns, my immensity of a single flame—where is my fall, my deliverance? There is only this fire which burns everywhere: where is the fault, the downfall? they burn; where is death? it burns; at the end there is this fire which burns, and on high also: everything is... it grows again—each time it grows again. And then... it was there, in the depths of the night: a fiery orange heaven which changes everything. Evil had never been evil, it was the secret door of deliverance; good had never been good, it was the white prison of the blind—in that, they cease and are freed one from the other. Then I turned to the left, and I did not even know that I had touched the ...
... not subject to interpolation, modification and replacement, that moth and white ant cannot destroy, that the earth cannot bury nor Time mutilate. I seek an asceticism that shall give me purity and deliverance from self and from ignorance without stultifying God and His universe. I seek a scepticism that shall question everything but shall have the patience to deny nothing that may possibly be true. I ...
... heretofore. We have only to give ourselves up in the hands of that Power, allow it to act in us and around us, recognise its action and be grateful to the Divine Providence. That is the only way to deliverance out of this present turmoil. In that way lies our utmost happiness and the supreme achievement. —Nolini Kanta Gupta Page 49 On the Brink l ...
... This restless mind and unquiet vital are not peculiar to you; they are the human nature from which every sadhak starts. What you have to get is the Mother's force and grace bringing with it deliverance, peace and Ananda which you say you from time to time experience. That in the beginning does come only for a short time, but as you persist in the path, it increases in frequency and stays longer ...
... doubt certain elements tend to exploit his nature and at times do succeed. But that is not because he is really deceived. He deliberately allows the benefit of the doubt to 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 ...
... heretofore. We have only to give ourselves up in the hands of that Power, allow it to act in us and around us - recognise its action and be grateful to the Divine Providence. That is the only way to deliverance out of this present turmoil. In that way lies our utmost happiness and the supreme achievement. There is a core of tears in mortal things, said a Roman poet. There is a core of immortality ...
... rewards Has ta’en with equal thanks – ² Hamlet thus seems to fall upon the teaching of samata – equanimit y – with which the Gita begins Arjuna's initiation into the secret of Deliverance. He has had a glimpse of the divine portals from a distance; but he did not know how to proceed in the straight and narrow path; he is diverted into an Asuric handling of the forces of lower nature ...
... end,—whether any work or what work is left for the soul after liberation and to what purpose? Equality has been seated in the nature or governs the whole nature; there has been achieved a radical deliverance from the ego-idea, from the pervading ego-sense, from all feelings and impulsions of the ego and its self-will and desires. The entire self-consecration has been made not only in thought and heart... union with the Divine is the last state of this integral Yoga of Works. The truest reason why we must seek liberation is not to be delivered, individually, from the sorrow of the world, though that deliverance too will be given to us, but that we may be one with the Divine, the Supreme, the Eternal. The truest reason why we must seek perfection, a supreme status, purity, knowledge, strength, love, capacity ...
... shape, nor diminution, nor taste nor smell, that which is eternal, and It is without end or beginning, higher than the GreatSelf, the stable; that having seen, from the mouth of death there is deliverance. 16. The man of intelligence having spoken or heard the eternal story of Nachiketas wherein Death was the speaker, grows great in the world of the Brahman. Page 56 ... Yama speaks: 1. "The unborn who is not deviousminded has a city with eleven gates: when he takes up his abode in it, he grieves not, but when he is set free from it, that is his deliverance. This is That thou seekest. Page 61 2. "Lo, the Swan whose dwelling is in the purity, He is the Vasu in the inierregions, the Sacrificer at the altar, the Guest in the vessel ...
... whither. This physical mind of inertia believes in no divinity other than its small earth-gods; it aspires perhaps to a greater fort, order, pleasure, but asks for no uplifting and no spiritual deliverance. At the centre we meet a stronger Will of life with a greater gusto, but it is a blinded Daemon, a perverted spirit and exults in the very elements that make of life a striving turmoil and an unhappy ...
... line of development in ethical philosophy came to be formulated by Kant, who discovered the presence of the Categorical Imperative in the normative part of human nature, and he derived from the deliverances of that imperative the doctrine of duty for its own sake. Kant even went farther and attempted to give formulations of the Categorical Imperative in the light of which standards of action can be ...
... As a result of this Gnostic evolution, a supreme power of self-protection will be brought into play, that will confer upon the body an absolute immunity and serenity of being and a total deliverance from all suffering and pain. "A spiritual Ananda [will] flow into the body and inundate cell and tissue; a luminous materialisation of this higher Ananda [would] of itself bring about a total ...
... take place.... The book of Rig-veda, a dead man's skull and an unsheathed sword were the articles used for the ritual — Rajnarain Bose was its high priest — there, we were all initiated into Bharat-deliverance." This, according to Tagore, "was basking in the fire of excitement." Sri Aurobindo was to become the fire. "Although gentle and humane," wrote Rabindranath about Rajnarain in his ...
... minds are obsessed by ideas of a ritual sacrifice and a material cord. We imagine perhaps the son of Atri bound as a victim in an ancient barbaric sacrifice, crying to the god of Fire for a physical deliverance! A little later the seer sings of the increasing Flame, "Agni shines wide with vast Light and makes all things manifest by his greatness." What are we to understand? Shall we suppose that the ...
... stagnant torpor and the pettiness of a life of aimless egoism. The promise for the individual is well, but the promise for the race is also needed. Our father Heaven must remain bright with the hope of deliverance, but also our mother Earth must not feel herself for ever accursed. It was necessary at one time to insist even exclusively on the idea of individual salvation so that the sense of a Beyond might ...
... superior to birth and death, the experience of the Jivatman and its unity with the supreme or universal Self brings the sense of liberation, it is this which is necessary for the supreme spiritual deliverance: but for the transformation of the life and nature the awakening of the psychic being and its rule over the nature are indispensable. The psychic being realises its oneness with the true being ...
... essence, explanation, causality and others have come to be dealt with during the last hundred years. 3 All these concepts have been scrutinized with the microscopic lens which permits only those deliverances which are ultimately warranted by physical senses. At one time, the knowledge of the phenomena was sought to be understood in the light of noumena, but this is no more Page 2 considered ...
... Mataram: "We have seen Ramamurti break over his chest a strong iron chain tightened round his whole body and break it by the sheer force of will working through the body. India must work a similar deliverance for herself by the same inner force. It is not by strength of body that Ramamurti accomplishes his feats, for he is no stronger than Page 442 many athletes who could never do what ...
... all the possibilities of intelligence, health, blossoming. Yes, there is a sublime charity, one which rises from a happy heart, from a serene soul. One who has won inner peace is a herald of deliverance Page 105 wherever he goes, a bearer of hope and joy. Is not this what poor and suffering humanity needs above all things? Yes, there are certain men whose thoughts are all love, who ...
... gathering in every place the few who were capable of the vision and waiting for the time that would surely come when oppression would begin in earnest and the people look round them for some way of deliverance. For that an absolute rule will one day begin to coerce and trample on the subject population is an inevitable law of nature which none can escape. The master with full power of life and death ...
... which Satprem treated with balm. He then told P., "But go on, say Mother's mantra!" And the moment Satprem began to recite the mantra, the whole place exploded—blown to smithereens. An instantaneous deliverance. A few months later (or it may have been a few years), P. came to see Satprem at night with a bouquet of flowers and a smile, as if to announce that he was taking on a new body. ...
... Divine itself, is not overborne by the fate they endure. If we find this Divine within us, if we know ourselves as this spirit which is of one essence and being with the Divine, that is our gate of deliverance and in it we can remain ourselves even in the midst of this world's disharmonies, luminous, blissful and free. That much is the age-old testimony of spiritual experience." On the general ...
... the strength of the self within and the light and air of its greater view where there is found not only the point of escape but the supporting calmness and power of a seated knowledge, mastery and deliverance. In the greatest art and poetry there should be something of the calm of the impersonal basing and elevating the effort and struggle of the personality, something of the largeness of the universal ...
... movement of self-transcendence and self-widening, polarised to the Supreme Being of infinite Light and Bliss and Power, the One without a second, the Omnipresent Reality, will be the greatest means of deliverance of the buddhi from the meshes of the ego. There is yet another limitation in the buddhi . When it comes to perceive something luminous and high- uplifted beyond its petty circlings and futile ...
... confines itself to the deliverances of sensuous experiences; it avoids self-criticism and tends to develop some land of dogmatism in regard to the incorrigibility of sensuous experience. Or else, if it develops self-criticism, it tends to develop fallibilism, even solipsism, or utter skepticism. Or at a more reasonable and at a more irrefutable level, it acknowledges the deliverances of scientific knowledge ...
... the man undergoing "pain, pain ever, for ever" for having defied Jupiter, grows wiser through suffering, gains knowledge of the visible as well as of the "ideal" invisible world. But deliverance would not come until he was united with his love, Asia the child of Ocean who alone could break the rest of the Voice sleeping in the unknown world. On the other hand Savitri, the child of Eternity... puppet jerked in heedless drama, while the unconscious Will, — the tragically unconscious Will, — eternally goes on "uselessly uttering existence." Hardy at close of the play has the word that "deliverance" will be offered, "consciousness the will informing;" but it is lost in the tragic immensity of the whole. Eliot, despite the saving grace of his vision of Marina and the experience of the still ...
... ly, requires no medium for its passage and cannot be interfered with by any intervening object. But they seemed to agree roughly with our experience of the man-sized world and with the familiar deliverance of our senses: they thus acquired a spurious lucidity. With the advent of Einstein this lucidity disappeared: a "curved" non-euclidian four-dimensional continuum of fused space and time is "mist ...
... Keat's famous dictum at the end of his Ode ("...that is all/We know on earth and all we need to know") this statement is a non-sequitur in its anticipation, repeating briefly an earlier deliverance" on the Sonnets: "We do not know for certain whom he wrote them to, or exactly when he wrote them, and unless new evidence should turn up, which is unlikely, we never shall." The pessimistic ...
... means which is at once Her weapon and Her armour: LOVE. With sheer Love, She has come into this world of hate and falsehood to front the Enemy in his own fief. Unknown to man, for whose deliverance She has come, She developed Her physical embodiment into a live mould for the Earth's aspiration and when She stepped on the scene, it was Sri Aurobindo, the Seer sempiternal, who proclaimed Her ...
... the psychic's post-liberation progress in the material world. And this, indeed, is its raison d'être. Its mission is bound up with the earth. Its presence in the world is a pledge of the earth's deliverance and transformation, of the establishment of Light in the kingdom of darkness, of unity and harmony in the hurtling arena of divisions and discord, of blissful immortality in this undisputed empire ...
... condition which no disturbance can affect—it is a less negative condition than quiet. Peace is a still more positive condition; it carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance. Silence is a state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness which no surface movement can pierce or alter. Quiet is rather negative—it is the ...
... This I would regard as the highest perception, mental or supramental." Now we know how far-removed Nair is from the Aurobindonian universe of discourse and how little he has cared to penetrate the deliverances of the Master of the Integral Yoga. His own insensitivity to shades of meaning lead Nair to convict Sri Aurobindo of misjudgment and contradiction in the above issue. The charge of contradiction ...
... tapadaṁ tyaktvā svadehe kālasātkṛte, viśatyadeha-muktatvam": Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha, II.9 14). "When he takes up his abode in it, he grieves not, but when he is set free from it, that is his deliverance" 1 ("anuṣṭhāya na śocati vimuktaśca vimucyate" : Kaṭha-Upani ṣ ad, V.I.). "The Jivanmukta, even while he is still alive, has in reality no body at all" ("jīvato'pi aśariratvaṁ siddham": ...
... but also a "red icon of might". He unifies in himself both the gentle and the violent aspects of the Creator, and is as ruthless in destruction as generous and com- passionate in protection and deliverance. He has transcended for ever the egoistic leaping and shrinkings of human emotions. "An absolute high-seated immortal rapture" claims the jīvan-mukta for its own. He lives immersed in the ...
... प्रतीक्षमाणान्यभयं जनन्याः ॥४९॥ Crowded with glorious faces of the future, I beheld now the creator Brahma in the shape of a cloud whence looked forth a thousand eyes that foresaw the Mother’s deliverance from fear. द्विकोटिभास्वद्वरसूर्यभासं ज्योतिस्तदा सौम्यमरातिनाशि। नारीशरीरं रमणीयकान्ति दूरादुदीच्यामुदियाय शुभ्रम् ॥५०॥ Then, far off in the north, there arose, gracious, annihilating all... त्रिशूलिनीं त्वामभयं वहन्तीम्। त्वामम्ब सावित्रि शुभे त्रिनेत्रे शुक्लाङ्गवस्त्रां वृषरूढकान्तिम् ॥८९॥ Two-armed in thy gracious aspect I bow to thee, and again with trident uplifted bringing deliverance from fear; to thee I bow, O Mother, O radiant Savitri, O three-eyed one, thy white-limbed, white-robed loveliness mounted on a bull. दशायुधाढ्या दशदिक्ष्वगम्या पातासि मातर्दशबाहुरार्यान्। सह ...
... containing the world in itself and exceeding it; it is not like the divided mental being normally bound to a consciousness that feels itself contained in the world and a part of it. It follows that a deliverance from the limiting and imprisoning ego is the first elementary step towards the being of the gnosis; for so long as we live in the ego, it is idle to hope for this higher reality, this vast self- ...
... an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakenings — Matter awakening into life, life awakening into mind and mind now seeking to awaken into ...
... an involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakenings—Matter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into something ...
... involution of the Spirit through Mind and Life into Matter; evolution is a movement backward, a return journey from Matter towards the Spirit: it is the unravelling, the gradual disclosure and deliverance of the Spirit, the ascension and revelation of the involved consciousness through a series of awakenings – Matter awakening into Life, Life awakening into Mind and Mind now seeking to awaken into ...
... imperative. In human egoism and its satisfaction there can be no divine culmination and deliverance. A certain purification from egoism is the condition even of ethical progress and elevation, for social good and perfection; much more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to ...
... But now, at length, art thou discovered, thou builder of this house of flesh. No longer shalt thou rear a house for me. Rafters and beams are shattered, and with the extinction of tanha 1 deliverance from repeated life is gained at last." 2 Yes, even if we do not go so far as to assert with Buddhism that a transcendental Nirvana or Extinction should be the ultimate goal of Sadhana ...
... house, however clean and con- genial it may be. Ethics is only a stage in the evolution of human consciousness, and to cling to a stage is to forfeit the power and privilege of the final fulfilment. Deliverance for him lies in a sincere seeking for and an unconditional surrender to a higher light and a plastic following of its guidance. Religion Unlike morality, religion has its roots in the ...
... its horns—that Farce which really wills you joy, which comes to compel you to joy, which falls upon you in order to shake off your chains (for Destiny is really the other face of the Angel of Deliverance), if in that second of light, you have the courage to seize the Force and to say “yes” and change your suffering into joy, then you live. It is a new life. We die because we can no longer contain ...
... transcendences from which it is a descent, and through its perfect self-opening to a truth and a law that exceed its own conventions,—a truth that shall be its fulfilment and a law that shall be its deliverance. Its goal must Page 59 be the abolition of those values which are the creations of the egoistic view of things; its crown must be the transcendence of limitation, ignorance, death, suffering ...
... shape, nor diminution, nor taste, nor smell, that which is eternal, and It is without end or beginning, higher than the Great-Self and stable,—that having seen, from the mouth of death there is deliverance. नाचिकेतमुपाख्यानं मृत्युप्रोक्तं सनातनम् । उक्त्वा श्रुत्वा च मेधावी ब्रह्मलोके महीयते ॥१६॥ 16) The man of intelligence having spoken or heard the eternal story of Nachiketas wherein Death... तत् ॥१॥ Yama said: 1) The Unborn who is not devious-minded hath a city with eleven gates; when He taketh up his abode in it, He grieveth not, but when He is set free from it, that is His deliverance. This is the thing thou seekest. हंसः शुचिषद् वसुरन्तरिक्षसद्धोता वेदिषदतिथिर्दुरोणसत् । नृषद्वरसदृतसद् वयोमसदब्जा गोजा ऋतजा अद्रिजा ऋतं बृहत् ॥२॥ 2) Lo, the Swan whose dwelling is in the ...
... this closeness and intimacy of oneness with him in all the parts of our conscious existence imposed as the condition and law of our perfection or of whom this divine intervention and protection and deliverance are the promise. It is a Master of our works, a Friend and Lover of our soul, an intimate Spirit of our life, an indwelling and overdwelling Lord of all our personal and impersonal self and nature... "Abandon all dharmas, give thyself to the Divine alone, to the supreme Godhead above and around and within thee: that is all that thou needest, that is the truest and greatest way, that is the real deliverance." The Master of the worlds in the form of the divine Charioteer and Teacher of Kurukshetra has revealed to man the magnificent realities of God and Self and Spirit and the nature of the complex world ...
... future. As for the religions, most of them have based their power of action on the fact of death and they assert that God wanted man to die since he created him mortal. Many of them make death a deliverance, a liberation, sometimes even a reward. Their injunction is: submit to the will of the Highest, accept without revolt the idea of death and you shall have peace and happiness. In spite of all this ...
... world-principle above all other things as an especial object of loathing. The body is the obscure burden that he cannot bear; its obstinate material grossness is the obsession that drives him for deliverance to the life of the ascetic. To get rid of it he has even gone so far as to deny its existence and the reality of the material universe. Most of the religions have put their curse upon Matter and ...
... guided at all times and don't care for a physical Guru are frequently lured by the unacknowledged realisation that such a Guru can be a damned nuisance - ready to contradict the often convenient deliverances of the exclusively inward guide! I know from experience what a wonderful help, both prescriptive and restrictive, the embodied Guru can be. But, of course, Yoga can go on in the absence of a living ...
... appear as the only rationale of all action. It is for this reason that even his best ethical actions fail to give him full satisfaction, but trail a dull discontent. But this discontent is his deliverance. It points to something infinitely Page 129 higher than humanitarianism, altruism, even religious service, to the ultimate rationale of all universal and individual action—the fulfilment ...
... face and front of the Transcendent walking the earth for its ¹ Compare the words of Jesus Christ, "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved." Page 96 deliverance and transformation. It is an embodiment, instinct with the force and radiant with the glory of the Supreme, on the one hand, and stamped with the utmost sacrifice of a redeeming love and compassion ...
... superior to birth and death, the experience of the Jivatman and its unity with the supreme or universal Self brings the sense of liberation, it is this which is necessary for the supreme spiritual deliverance: but for the transformation of the life and nature the awakening of the psychic being and its rule over the nature are indispensable. Letters on Yoga, pp. 282-83 The soul or psyche ...
... though telling periods and unforgettable flashes of poetic vision are frequent he could not be said to have mobilised fully the fine energy and prophet-passion that was in him and that had not found deliverance in the intonations of his usual mood. He will, therefore, take his place in the poetic pantheon as a pioneer of yogic art mainly for his ability to cast brief exquisite Spirit-spells. A ...
... idea or dependent on a stumbling uncertain logic and the petty support of the senses, but self-sure, authentic, all-penetrating, all-comprehending; a boundless bliss and peace, not dependent on deliverance from the hampered strenuousness of creative energy and dynamic action, not constituted by a Page 240 few limited felicities but self-existent and all-including, pour into ever-enlarging ...
... the constant upward aspiration in his ethical aim he in the end gets rid of the obscuration of sin which is the obscuration of rajasic desire and passion and acquires a purified nature capable of deliverance from the rule of the triple Maya. By virtue alone man cannot attain to the highest, but by virtue 1 he can develop a first capacity for attaining to it, adhikāra . For the crude rajasic or the ...
... and powers which might conceivably otherwise have slept imprisoned in the rigidity of the material formula. This would even so have been improbable, since their presence there implies a purpose of deliverance; but still this necessity from below is actually very much aided by a kindred superior pressure. Nor can this evolution end with the first meagre formulation of life, mind, supermind, spirit conceded ...
... idea or dependent on a stumbling uncertain logic and the petty support of the senses, but self-sure, authentic, all-penetrating, all-comprehending, a boundless bliss and peace, not dependent on deliverance from the hampered strenuousness of creative energy and dynamic action, not constituted by a few limited felicities but self-existent and all-including, pour into ever-enlarging fields and through ...
... a God whose true being also it has not seen and Page 94 whose cosmic purpose it does not understand. My Yoga will deliver you from the great fear and even a little of it will bring deliverance. When you have once set out on this path, you will find that no step is lost; every least movement will be a gain; you will find there no obstacle that can baulk you of your advance. A bold and absolute ...
... tendencies of the past and the yet inchoate tendencies of the future. And it will be too all that can best help as liberating and combining forces, best make for adaptation and adjustment and for deliverance of the hidden sense of the great Mother in her strivings. But success in this struggle is worst and not best served by military violence or political pressure. German culture for good or ill was ...
... Chapter IX Equality and the Annihilation of Ego An entire self-consecration, a complete equality, an unsparing effacement of the ego, a transforming deliverance of the nature from its ignorant modes of action are the steps by which the surrender of all the being and nature to the Divine Will can be prepared and achieved,—a self-giving true, total and without ...
... neither living nor dying. I suppose the negative experience has to be gone through first, but if you understand it to be a blessing in disguise the "transition" to an entry into the aura of the great deliverance with its two-sided blissful beyond will not be "long" and whatever span of time will occur will be faintly tinged with the psychic silver or the spiritual gold or, by their blend, a mystic platinum ...
... according to its merits and its faults and after a certain time incarnated again. As in India, there was a belief in the indestructibility of the soul, condemned to transmigrate until its final deliverance. 10. Dionysus: Etymologically Dionysus means "The Zeus of Nisa." And he seems by several similarities of legend and function to be the Greek form of the Vedic god Soma. It is normally accepted ...
... everything melts; everything drops away, that ultimate royalty of giving, that end of all roads, that orange unravelling in which one bathes oneself as in a fire of tenderness, as in a love-song, that deliverance of going forward without anything, without expectation, without hope, like a dead man who has already died so many times that he has nothing more. to fear, nothing more to lose, like a living being... all heavens, all hells, he had wandered everywhere, known all riches, all miseries, what could he still expect? There was that song at the end, that tenderness for nothing, for everything, that deliverance of laying one's forehead on the great sacrificial table, of opening one's hands and giving back one's note. There was only that small image beneath a great gaze, there was my brother of light, my ...
... moral values and divinely ordained hierarchies. Those, more numerous, who look beyond to the hope of a larger idealism and higher spirituality, proclaim in its decline and passing away a fortunate deliverance for the human spirit. World-wide strife and competition have been, it is said, its fruits, war and the holocaust of terrible sacrifice in which mankind has been squandering its strength, blood, treasure ...
... form to his followers. These nocturnal and private gatherings continued for some time. But as already indicated, the professed mission of Nimai's life was to preach Samkirtana as the only means of deliverance in the age of Kali. 3 He could not, therefore, confine his devotional activities to the limited circle of his friends, and it did not take him long to organize Samkirtanan parties and processions ...
... Indra strong with the soma-wine and the Angirasas, the Rishis, who are his companions, follow the track. The battle with the adversaries continues for nine Page 4 months but there is no deliverance from the attacks of the adversaries. Ayasya joins the company of the Angirasas, and during the tenth month, Ayasya discovers the seven-headed Thought, becomes universalised, and victory becomes possible ...
... shame The winds with swiftness or like mounting flame Strive all thy days in my imprisoning arms, Couldst burn thyself no exit. With alarms Menace and shapes of death; call on the flood For thy deliverance on these sands to intrude And lead thee to its jealous waters rude; But hands that have flung back the swallowing sea Shall stay and chastise and habituate thee To service due." He said and with ...
... Woodhouse and Dilke. Nowhere in these versions which are the earliest, the most foundational, are there any inverted commas. The whole statement after "say'st" is one piece, evidently the Urn's deliverance. Also, when in January 1820 the poem appeared in Annals of the Fine Arts XV, they are absent: the only difference from the unprinted text is that a new sentence begins with "That is all..." The ...
... from the West. All may find great difficulties in their personal or common human nature; but it is not their physical origin or their racial temperament that can be an insuperable obstacle to their deliverance. I am not sure about the last matter. 1 After all India with her mentality and method has done a hundred times more in the spiritual field than Europe with her intellectual doubts and ...
... amount to getting rid of the betrayer. Further, if the betrayer's eyes have a brightness that can even outdazzle day and lead it astray like one blinded, how should the cheated person hope for deliverance? The extreme loveliness of the cheat makes the victim's cry an impossible demand. It is this impossibility that is driven home by the puzzling fancy about the eyes. Somewhat akin to this fancy ...
... whither. This physical mind of inertia believes in no divinity other than its own small earth-gods; it aspires perhaps to a greater comfort, order, pleasure, but asks for no uplifting and no spiritual deliverance. At the centre we meet a stronger Will of life with a greater gusto, but it is a blinded Daemon, a perverted spirit and exults in the very elements that make of life a striving turmoil and an unhappy... manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the Page 179 heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from ...
... circumstances under the conditions of mental illusion,—Avidya, mother of limitation & death. This image not only consummates this passage but opens a door of escape from that which is to follow. Deliverance from the dominion of Ashanaya Mrityu is possible because of this circumstance that the sea of divine being is bandhu, kin & friend to the Horse. The aparardha proves to be of the same essential nature ...
... which had already begun to govern thought before the two formulas inextricably locked together lit up and flung themselves on the lurid pyre of the world-war. The vital élan has brought us no deliverance, but only used the machinery already created with a more feverish insistence, a vehement attempt to live more rapidly, more intensely, an inordinate will to act and to succeed, to enlarge the mere ...
... content of faith. The adventure of faith has as much claim on the philosopher's attention as the adventure of ideas. The philosopher's task will be not to provide a logical foundation to the deliverances of faith. Faith does not need the ministration of logic. It is a misunderstanding of the nature of Reason itself to attempt to provide a rational preamble to the act of faith. Our task as ...
... perfection by the omnipresent plenum of the Mother's living Presence, and to surrender all himself with an unstinted joy and generosity to Her Force, which is at once Light and Love, is man's deliverance, and his first decisive step towards knowledge. Page 103 THE TRIPLE SURRENDER Man is composed of body, life, soul and mind. Of these four components, the soul, which is made ...
... than I thought. From below, going over it by eye, I supposed it would require 5 rest stops. Meanwhile it has become 8 or 9 and I am still not on top. There, where it becomes flatter, something like deliverance awaits me. I don't want to sit down until I am over the rounded top. While climbing I watch only the foot making the step. Otherwise there is nothing. The air tastes empty, not stale... In spite of the enormous strain which each step upwards requires, I am Page 544 still convinced that 1 shall get to the top, which I experience now in a ort of anticipation, like a deliverance. The knowledge of being half-way there in itself soothes me, gives strength, drives me on. Often I am near the end of my tether. After a dozen paces everything in me screams to stop, sit, breathe ...
... e to take up the burden of the Ignorance and its consequences, to intervene as the Avatar and the Vibhuti walking between the double sign of the Cross and the Victory towards the fulfilment and deliverance. A too imagined rendering of the inexpressible Truth? But without images how to present to the intellect a mystery far beyond it? It is only when one has crossed the barrier of the limited intelligence ...
... scene and cause of the resistance. There is the same necessity for reminding the reader that the 'tread' of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it." I have cited Sri Aurobindo's observation in full in order precisely to bring out the apparent opposition of the "lonely splendour" (which you attribute to the Dawn) and the "Divine ...
... Griffiths flouts the scholarly consensus. But I won't dwell overmuch on these things lest I should convey to you a wrong impression of my attitude to him. I should like to turn to his scientific deliverances. But here there is a danger of my being carried away by the fascination of the subject. Already my letter has lengthened out inordinately. The new discussion must be reserved for some other ...
... towards Truth, and the force that uplifts us from our limitations by renunciation, purification and right enjoyment. This aspiration, when it reaches its acme, is what brings to us the victory — deliverance from falsehood into Truth, from darkness into Light, from death into immortality. One of the great discoveries of the Vedic Rishis was the knowledge of the hierarchy of the various worlds and ...
... congregation, how she had herself the form of living gold bigger than the universe and faced a giant golden door separating the world from the Divine, how she had known and willed the moment of deliverance and struck a blow with a mighty gold hammer at the huge and massive door, and how the door had broken into fragments when the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness "rushed down upon earth ...
... that “dream” which I never told Björn, that was almost as abominable as the rest: I was wandering in a forest looking for someone—someone I had absolutely to find again, who was my salvation, my deliverance—I don't know who, but it was “she”, and I was searching and calling, it was a terrible distress. And then... no one. And then I was going to hang myself. —You dreamed it. —Perhaps. But if it ...
... Life Divine (Centenary Edition), p. 843. 2 Ibid ., pp. 3-4. 3 Ibid. , p. 847. can be the rejection of embodied existence upon earth and a final escape or deliverance into some supraterrestrial plane of existence and experience otherwise termed 'heaven', or perhaps a dissolution into some utter and ineffable Nirvana. Sri Aurobindo has discussed in ...
... even then, a farther step remains to be taken. It is realized that the truest reason why one must seek liberation is not to be delivered, individually, from the sorrow of the world, though that deliverance too will be given to us, but that we may be dynamically one with the Divine, the Supreme, the Eternal. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "The truest reason why we must seek perfection, a supreme ...
... infinite Compassion and Grace had dissipated all the obstacles in a flash. How true it is then, My life is filled with Her 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 ...
... life of Jesus upon earth, and now he goes on to tell the story of the Christian Church." But if Luke is the writer of both the volumes, we should expect nothing in the second to run counter to the deliverances of the first. Least of all should Acts miss any opportunity offered for the feature which most distinguishes his Gospel along with Matthew's, a feature found only in these two documents out of the ...
... will towards Truth, and the force that uplifts us from our limitations by renunciation, purification and right enjoyment. This aspiration, when it reaches its acme, is what brings to us the victory—deliverance from falsehood into Truth, from darkness into Light, from death into immortality. One of the great discoveries of the Vedic Rishis was the knowledge of the hierarchy of the various worlds and ...
... the century. Not a Chinese or a Russian Revolution, but a revolution of Consciousness. And all revolutions are meant to precipitate that one revolution. All miseries exist only to hasten that one deliverance. All falsehoods exist solely to force out that one Truth. Everyone is going there and everyone is working for it, whether they like it or not, in black or white, true or false, it is all the same ...
... convinced that had they created the world, they would never have made all the blunders God made ! 18 Mother exclaimed with her delightful humor. And finally, no one has the lever of either power or deliverance. What is that evil, that great Evil of the world? We create religions, philosophies, systems, yet we are nothing but so-called "higher” mammals in Nature's great crucible. Nature has no philosophy: ...
... The Paschal Lamb At the time of Jesus, a most revered and essential sacrifice was the one offered by devour' Israelites on Passover, and known as the Paschal Lamb. It commemorated God's deliverance of the Jews from Egyptian Bondage (see Appendix). Many Jews would each bring a lamb to the Temple in Jerusalem, and give it to a priest, who would slaughter the animal, sprinkle its blood upon the ...
... to the domain of religion or of the supra rational against which Reason had declared an open revolt at the very commencement of its march into the modern age. Or else, it may be argued that the deliverances of the supra rational create for the mental thought antinomies which are insoluble and therefore unacceptable. We, therefore, hear the cacophony of declarations that the supra rational is non existent ...
... Adversary but, instead, keep his faith firm that however dark is the present night, however grievous his present trouble, the divine Grace is there in action and is surely leading him to light and deliverance through all the unexpected twists and turns of his life. The sadhaka of the Integral Yoga, whenever he is confronted with a puzzling situation like what is depicted above, should immediately recall ...
... method does not work at all; for the theory is not based on psychological facts of human nature. Instead of being purified, one gets still more engrossed in the impulse and weakness, making a future deliverance much more difficult. No, instead of indulging in the weakness even for once, what the sadhaka has to do is to take a very firm resolve on the very first occasion itself and say to oneself: ...
... at our feet and entangles them inexorably; And the eternal viper remains coiled fast into the darkness of our entrails. . . . The march of aeons has brought us none the nearer to Light or Deliverance. Ah, Soul, we have indeed progressed into obscurity, Into a deeper and deeper gloom have we entered - Yet who is this intrepid voyager that has dared the other Unknown, the nether ...
... Mental beings, souls throned in mind, it is in mind our centre not in matter which is to us a mere case, circumference and result of mind, that we should seek our secret of bondage and our means of deliverance. All outward material action is in itself Maya, a thing without self-existent reality. Action is effected only as the outflow and physical symbol of mind; it has no inherent moral or spiritual value ...
... potential force for spiritual largeness and unity and freedom. But it must be a love which is one with God-knowledge. There is a devotion which seeks God in suffering for consolation and succour and deliverance; there is a devotion which seeks him for his gifts, for divine aid and protection and as a fountain of the satisfaction of desire; there is a devotion that, still ignorant, turns to him for light ...
... Inconscience which is the scene and cause of the resistance,—explains the poet. Similarly the "tread" of the Divine Mother was "an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it." 28 Hence the phrase "vacant Vast" has been used. "The same reasoning applies to the other passages." 29 The symbol of Dawn is not "a logical chain of figures or a classical monotone." ...
... of the plays, in one form or another; captive nations, captive princes, captive princesses, captive merchants, captive slaves! And the varieties of deliverance from captivity! But out of the shocks of struggle and captivity, and captivity and deliverance, out of such shocks alone revolutionary changes and great leaps forward seem to be possible.91 And the role of the blessed Feminine is another recurrent ...
... soul with thy fellow-men. Awake & progress then to thy utter divinity, live for God in thyself & in others." This gospel which was given only to the few, must now be offered to all mankind for its deliverance. 202) The human race always progresses most when most it asserts its importance to Nature, its freedom & its universality. 203) Animal man is the obscure starting-point, the present natural ...
... a condition of sthirat ā Quiet, calm and peace can all be described as tranquillity. Peace is the still more positive condition; it carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance. It is a state of śā nti. Silence is a state in which either there is no movement of the mind or vital or else a great stillness in which no-surface movement can pierce or enter. It is the state ...
... spiritual and supramental can be established in our nature. In the transition there may well be a period in which we take up all life and action and offer them to the Divine for purification, change and deliverance of the truth within them, another period in which we draw back and build a spiritual wall around us admitting through its gates only such activities as consent to undergo the law of the spiritual ...
... veritable life-and-death struggle involving meditation and penance. He was his own teacher and his own pupil. The solitude of this struggle was relieved by the fellowship of five mendicants, who desired deliverance and attached themselves to him as his disciples. One of the most common beliefs of those times was the efficacy of penance as a means to gain superhuman powers and insights. Siddhartha decided ...
... a mass evacuation by sea from Dunkirk and more than 300,000 British and allied troops were safely landed in England. Vast quantities of war material had to be left behind but it was a miraculous deliverance for the men who were to form the hard core of the British armies later to fight Hitler with success. As the war took this critical turn, Sri Aurobindo followed the developments with close attention ...
... age is like a drawn knife with butchers for kings; and righteousness has taken wings; in this dark night of total falsehood, the Moon of Truth isn't visible.... How shall deliverance be secured? (Var Majh, 145) This distinguishes the Kali age: the tyrant is readily approved.... (Ramkali, 902) In language so familiar to Indian thought, the country was getting ...
... movement, the Power does not as yet prevail. Fixed tendency, generally, is still an imperfectly mastered obstacle. Rupa & samadhi are again active; the first in the crude with an imperfect deliverance of the form & a difficulty of the quadruped form, but with a greater hold on the akasha; the second imperfectly organised in rupa & vishaya, fluctuating in lipi, but perfect in thought, vangmaya... faithfully the ritam even when not illumined, but this movement is as yet unsuccessful except in moments of concentration. The struggle in the Arogya continues. There is nowhere complete deliverance, but there is an increasing effectivity of the Will on the body in respect of Roga. In Utthapana & Saundarya the Will is depressed, held down and sometimes overcome. There is a general repression ...
... scene and cause of the resistance. There is the same necessity for reminding the reader that the "tread" of the Divine Mother was an intrusion on the vacancy of the Inconscience and the herald of deliverance from it. The same reasoning applies to the other passages. As for the occurrence of the phrases in the same place each in its line, that is a rhythmic turn helpful, one might say necessary to bring ...
... Overman 3: Turning Towards the Earth Our father Heaven must remain bright with the hope of deliverance, but also our mother Earth must not feel herself for ever accursed. 1 – Sri Aurobindo The contents of the previous chapter may seem unusual, bizarre, esoteric, or simply outlandish to a mind conditioned by the present-day Western “consensus ...
... can never be reached by any deductive argument; and there is truth in the trenchant words of the late Professor James: "The attempt to demonstrate by purely intellectual processes the truth of the deliverances of direct religious experience is absolutely hopeless." 15 Unfortunately, it took men a long time to discover this. But though these Proofs are in principle unsound, they are not on that account ...
... tranquillity which nothing troubles or can trouble, then we say that calm is established. Peace is a still more positive condition; it carries with it a sense of settled and harmonious rest and deliverance. ... Peace is a calm deepened into something that is very positive amounting almost to a tranquil waveless Ananda. 32 ... Peace is more positive than calm ... something positive bringing not merely ...
... of light, his peaceful immensity who watches over the journey across eternal hills; he, my tenacious discoverer, my pilgrim with the dark lantern, my great bonfire on the revealed heights; I, his deliverance; he, the deliverer of my abysses. He hardly spoke again; he even pretended not to see me, as if I were a passenger sitting beside him by chance, and when I wanted to attract his attention ...
... It is by our coup de maître that they were on opposite sides. This is divine diplomacy. It is very successful." (Laughter) But the world does not know that a Supreme Force had worked for its deliverance. "A Power worked, but none knew whence it came." (Savitri) It will be interesting to note here how the Mother helped people even individually in her occult manner during the War. I have ...
... your mind. In these occult workings fear is a great drawback and handicap; it gives strength to the attack and weakens your resistance. Have faith in the help of the Divine and your ultimate deliverance and throw away fear whenever it tries to come. If you do that you will become stronger and be more able to endure till there is victory. The physical pain and suffering inflicted by him ...
... us. The characteristic of the anti-bacchius (- - ⌣) is a massing without any curbed or thickened effect. If spondees had been used, the line would have lost all its joint sense of vastness and deliverance. Neither dactyls nor trochees Page 52 would have done the necessary massing which the two anti-bacchiuses carry out in their own dissimilar ways. The anti-bacchius of "shadowy" indicates ...
... when Time began. - It's thine, all thine, I give thee all the keys For thou hast broken all the iron chains, And crossed the streams of falsehood, sorrow, death, And brought deliverance to my world and me From the long aeonic binding in the Night. Page 76 - And now, O Goddess, who hast gathered us Unto thy wondrous Love and Grace divine, I give to thee my ...
... challenge to their own time. If they spoke about the future, it was in broad terms of what would happen if the challenge was accepted or rejected. While they sometimes preached a 'messianic' deliverance (i.e. deliverance through one anointed as God's representative, thus a reigning king or even a priest), there is no evidence that they foresaw with precision even a single detail in the life of Jesus of... line of our passage is: " 'This life' has become for Christians a state from which life in Christ, through the resurrection, will deliver them. If there is no resurrection, they have lost their deliverance. Note that the possibility of the soul's immortality without the resurrection of the body is not considered." As a gloss on this gloss we may hark back to some words 141 in the long note we have ...
... frame. We have seen Ramamurti break over his chest a strong iron chain tightened round his whole body and break it by the sheer force of will working through the body. India must work a similar deliverance for herself by the same inner force. It is not by strength of body that Ramamurti accomplishes his feats, for he is not stronger than many athletes who could never do what he does daily, but by ...
... 69 of the last sentence: " 'This life' has become for Christians a state from which life in Christ, through the resurrection, will deliver them. If there is no resurrection, they have lost their deliverance. Note that the possibility of the soul's immortality without the resurrection of the body is not considered." Simply because the soul's immortality in its own right is not under consideration ...
... extending wide over earth. Go forth, ye lovers of God and meet these hosts divine; with right minds serve them and live. 7.The Gods that ye fix in your minds, in His name do they grant you deliverance. Even thus to immortality did the sage Mar-kanda attain. I mean no offence to any, but there is no other God but Krishna. And let all your sacrifices be to them who are but His forms. 8.His ...
... so-called 'laughing gas'; (b)by the automatic reflex-imitation of others' laughter; (c)by a nervous relaxation; (d)by joy and exultation of any sort; (e)by a sense of escape or deliverance; (f)by what M. Dupreel has called "social welcoming" or "social exclusion"; (g)by what Profs. A. Stern and C. Lalo have characterised as the negative tendency to devalue and denigrate ...
... what was and what shall be. Purusha takes up its abode in a city with eleven gates (the human body); when it takes up its abode in it, he grieves not but when he is set free from it that is his deliverance. The Purusha is a Swan whose dwelling is in the purity, he is the Vasu (indestructible Page 36 substance to be found in the inter-regions), and he is the Sacrificer at the altar of ...
... potential force for spiritual largeness and unity and freedom. But it must be a love which is one with God-knowledge. There is a devotion which seeks God in suffering for consolation and succor and deliverance; there is a devotion which seeks him for his gifts, for divine aid and protection and as a fountain of the satisfaction of desire; there is a devotion that, still ignorant, turns to him for light ...
... that utter relief, that delightful lightness which comes when one is free from all anxiety for oneself, for one’s life and health and satisfaction, and even one’s progress? This relief, this deliverance Thou hast granted to me, O Thou, Divine Master, Life of my life and Light of my light, O Thou who unceasingly teachest me love and makest me know the purpose of my existence…. The second ...
... site of a supreme conquest and a supreme deliverance, and that the heaven of the Sun of Truth is carved out on earth and in our body every minute by our adherence to or refusal of the light, by our choice, minute by minute, between our self of light and our self of death. The supramental being is one forever delivered from death and, through his deliverance, the earth will be delivered, compelled... torn body, the catastrophe is avoided at the last minute, the best slowly comes out of the worst, consciousness awakens, and our stumbling steps take us despite themselves to the ultimate gate of deliverance. Such is the formidable Harmony, the imperative Power that the seeker discovers step by step and in his own substance. We have therefore come to a new change of power. A new power such as there ...
... Vedic gods are no mere physical Nature-powers, but the psychic conscious forces behind and within all cosmic things, is made clear enough by the connection between their cosmic character and this deliverance from sin and falsehood, "Since ye are they who rule over the world by the power of their mind of knowledge, thinkers of all that is stable and mobile, therefore, O gods, carry us beyond the sin of ...
... evolution at a certain stage must bring about a completeness of this reversal and of this power of self-protection which will fulfil the claim of the body for immunity and serenity of its being and for deliverance from suffering and build in it a power for the total delight of existence. A spiritual Ananda can flow into the body and inundate cell and tissue; a luminous materialisation of this higher Ananda ...
... the vow before their God to live and work for the day when the punishment of the Nationalist shall be impossible, when Nationalism shall be the only passport to glory, honour, worship, the only deliverance from death? 34 With the Moderates reforming their forces, the bureaucracy on the offensive, the hooligans on the rampage, many Nationalists dispirited by the wave of repression and many spirited ...
... the NT is unavoidable and fundamental. In making it one does not become a mere historical scholar with no touch on the deliverances of the Holy Spirit. Historical scholarship can rightly start only after those deliverances have been attended to. What are the deliverances about the Virgin Birth? A couple of short phrases in just two out of twenty-seven books of the NT. Even the Gospels that... the same as that of St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Thomas Aquinas, Pascal, Newman and Teilhard de Chardin, to name typical representatives through the centuries." I am acquainted with the deliverances of all of them and have a special psychological affinity with Augustine and Teilhard -except where Augustine, as R. C. Zaehner" has pointed out, lent his full weight to the persecution of "heretics"... role to play, but in view of what we can gather about the earliest Christianity it could not have been an all-pervading power: otherwise how could it have ignored this Christianity's clear-cut deliverance on the subject we have been discussing? With best wishes, Yours sincerely, K. D. SETHNA P.S. I'll be shortly posting you the offprints of my review. Please let me know ...
... in physics and the recent statistically measured :evidence for telepathy and precognition. Taking biology as our sole domain, we shall deal exclusively with the living organism and examine the deliverances of science concerning it Such a procedure of independent examination, by set- up more stringent conditions, will not definitively demonstrate materialism in the biological field if the other domains ...
... Shelley's One whom, seen nowhere, I feel everywhere and The One remains, the Many change and pass; Heaven's light for ever shines, earth's shadows fly and many other deliverances of the English Romantic poets to whom a supra-intellectual light beckoned from some ether of being in which Platonic and Plotinian presences mingled with 'Asiatic immensities' which were a little ...
... describes his own crisis in the following words: — "One morning, while I was walking in a solitary place as usual, I at once saw that all my contrivances and projects to effect or procure deliverance and salvation for myself were utterly in vain; I was brought quite to a stand, as finding myself totally lost. I saw that it was forever impossible for me to do anything towards helping or delivering ...
... 485. Page 580 imagines those scriptures to be "archaising" - for no reason he can provide. The interplay of all these testimonies among themselves and with the Arthaśāstra's deliverances in the religious field creates clearly the broad impression of an antique period appreciably prior to .the epoch of Megasthenes and also different in religious climate from the Mauryan epoch which ...
... I heard a lecture of Swami Abhedananda, a direct disciple of Sri Ramakrishna. He spoke among other things of vairdgya mevabhayam and explained forcefully why turning away from life must mean deliverance from fear and bondage. I approached him and he kindly agreed to give me diksa – that is, initiation. But a friend of mine, a quondam disciple of Sri Aurobindo, intervened at the psychological ...
... she who is fairer than the fairest and lovelier than infinite beauty, has had to come down and enter into the dirt and muck of human life; how else could we, helpless mortals, have a chance of deliverance? "When. it was known that such a great lady was going to come and live close to us, we were faced with a problem: Page 392 What should be our conduct and deportment towards ...
... rescue, emancipation; death; falling off; loosening, unbinding; shedding, discharging; scattering; payment; end of eclipse; a tree. मोक्षक delivering; deliverer. मोक्षणं liberating, deliverance, loosening; resigning; shedding, squandering, discharging. मोक्षिन् desirous of emancipation, emancipated. मोघ vain, useless; aimless; left, abandoned; idle. मोघः fence, enclosure ...
... mother can be seen with the naked eye. We see the womb of the woman fill out and know from experience when she will give birth. But, there is no comparable experience for humanity and the hour of its deliverance. And then, the mother gives birth to a being similar to herself and the members of her species, whereas humanity must bring forth a race which will bear no such resemblance. Upon reflection ...
... The Purānas and the Mahāvamsa-like Figures To ascertain this alternative correctly we must resort to the Mahāvarhsa, the most substantial of the Pali Chronicles, and see what its deliverances are. The usual count claimed from it is: 24 years for Chandragupta, 27 (or 28) for Bindusāra and 37 for Aśoka, 1 as against the Purānas' 24, 25 and 36 respectively. But actually 24 for the ...
... him to explain it to me. He said, "One can write a volume on this question. But let me make a brief remark. Ethical life is governed by ideas of good and right in terms of utility, duty or deliverances of conscience or categorical imperative. The criteria of judgment here fluctuate between various extremes of the social good and the individual good and of the harmony or compromise between the ...
... of the godhead in man, a Birth that has to be delivered out of the envelope of the human consciousness." Whether or not we fully penetrate the significance of all these variously modulated deliverances of the ancient wisdom, the loftiness of their import is undeniable. They set the concept of Māyā and that of Asura far above mere magic, the conjuring craft, the sorcerer's skill and its practitioners ...
... untouched by all the mud flung at it. It is the earth that must be saved, because it is overburdened; it is life that must be saved, because it is dying. Where is the seed that can perform that Deliverance? Where is the Power that will deliver? Where is the world's true salvation? The spiritualists are right in wanting us to taste the supreme lightness of the soul, but so too are the materialists, ...
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