Trishanku Trishuncou : (1) a Rishi in the Taittiriya Upanishad (2) Satyavrata, a Sūrya-vamshi king, for being guilty of three great sins. Rishi Vishwāmitra (q.v.), gratified by the assistance which Satyavrata had rendered to his family, tried to send him alive to heaven in spite of the resistance & opposition of the gods & of Vasishtha. The king was eventually fixed in the sky as a constellation.
... Vasishta's sons, forced to leave his country and wander the lands, Trishanku met sage Viswamitra, a rival of Guru Vasishta, who promised to help him instead. The yagnas (rituals) began and by the power of the great sage, King Trishanku started ascending to heaven, greatly to the chagrin of the Devas. Indra, using his divine powers, caused Trishanku to fall back to earth. The furious Vishwamithra would not accept... but could not break his own word to Trishanku about sending him to heaven, so he compromised by asking the Devas to let the King inhabit the new heaven that was created for him, though with the condition that it would not interfere with Indra's authority, to ensure which, the unfortunate Trishanku would reside upside down in his new heaven! And thus Trishanku was suspended in his own heaven as a ... head] hanging just like Trishanku 176 - neither in heaven nor on Mother's lap - but 173A long piece of cloth, mostly white, worn as a lower garment by many Indian men. It is usually tied round the waist and covers the legs. 174Being pious regarding food. 175Religious scriptures. 176The story is in the 'Bala Kanda' portion of the Valmiki Ramayana: Trishanku, a king of the Solar Dynasty ...
... Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Baroda and Bengal (Circa 1900-1909) Poems from Ahana and Other Poems Collected Poems The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou Know more > I shall not die. Although this body, when the spirit tires Of its cramped residence, shall feed the fires, My house consumes, not I. Leaving that case I find out ...
... glorious sun 182 Torn are the walls 675 Trance 548 Trance of Waiting 573 Transformation 561 Transiit, Non Periit 282 A Tree 207 The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou 215 Uloupie 163 The Universal Incarnation 607 The Unseen Infinite 618 Urvasie 65 Vain, they have said 663 Vast-winged the wind ran 651 The Vedantin's ...
... existence Page 125 surely stands out more significantly than even the mid-world which Vishwamitra, to belittle the Creator, had brought out by the power of his tapasya for the sake of Trishanku. He is certain that in the three worlds there is nothing that can bear comparison with what the saintly audience has given to the young speaker. The religious discourse praising and singing the glories ...
... life upon earth is indeed brief and one has to pass willy-nilly to the other world, cannot one possibly circumvent the experience of death and make the great transition with his body intact? King Trishanku of Indian mythology attempted to do so with the occult power of the sage Vishwamitra but failed in the end. Yudhisthira, the eldest of the Pandavas, is reputed to have bodily ascended to heaven ...
... besetting obscurity of cosmic Ignorance whose vassals we at present are. And unless this Ignorance is eliminated at its base there is not the least hope of attaining to earthly immortality. Thus, Trishanku 3 was balked in his attempt at a physical ascension to heaven, and the vessel of amṛta or the life-giving nectar is carefully shielded from the eager grasp of Asura-consciousness (amṛtam s ...
... direction so that he might gain perfect control over the instruments of purposive action that were lodged deep and veiled within. Rishi Vishvamitra is said to have created a whole new world so that King Trishuncou could sing his Hymn of Triumph: I shall not die. Although this body, when the spirit tires Of its cramped residence, shall feed the fires, My house consumes... the eternal thinker at my birth And shall be, though I die. 25 In received mythology, that was a Pyrrhic victory which wasted Vishvamitra's gains of tapas without winning for Trishuncou quite what he wanted. Neither here on earth, nor there in Indra's heaven, but in some incredible space-station in mid-air! What Sri Aurobindo strove for was something quite different: it was to change... clearly enough his future line of action. He would not attempt the establishment of a Golden Age, a Satya Yuga, a New Heaven and a New Earth, all at once; that might prove a fiasco no better than the Trishuncou-Swarga of Vishvamitra's creation. What Sri Aurobindo could do was to convey to others the lights that were the enduring gains of his Yoga and his well-grounded hopes for the supramentalisation of ...
... have a reputation for being not at all practical. But actually they have occupied the region between these two extreme ways of life. Owing to this attitude they have had to dangle in the air like Trishanku many times. But that through this attitude they are going to attain to a greater synthesis, .a profounder truth, can hardly be denied. Page 214 ...
... the study and teaching of the Veda; x) Children of the children with the study and teaching of the Veda. 10. In the tenth lesson there is the declaration of self- knowledge pronounced by Trishanku: "/ am He that moves the Tree of the Universe and my glory is like the shoulders of a high-mountain. I am lofty and pure like sweet nectar in the strong, I am the shining riches of the World ...
... of a high-mountain. I am lofty and pure like sweet nectar in the strong, I am the shining riches of the world, I am the deep thinker, the deathless One who decays not from the beginning." This is Trishanku's voicing of Veda and the hymn of his self-knowledge. __________________ ¹.Or, act of procreation Page 45 When the Master has declared Veda, then he gives the commandments ...
... the study and teaching of the knowledge contained in the Veda. The culminating point of the contents of knowledge is reached when the supreme status of consciousness is described in the words of Trishanku, a sage of the Upanishadic times. In the concluding portions, the Upanishad contains the commandments of the teacher to the disciples after the completion of the program of studies. The Upanishad ...
... tempest and mountain, I am the Spirit of freedom and pride. Stark must he be and a kinsman to danger Who shares my kingdom and walks at my side. 18 In the Triumph-Song of Trishuncou, the king is not daunted by the fear of death, he is not appalled by the thought of the tomb, for he knows that he had no beginning and could have no end. What wastes and may have to be cast away ...
... of a high-mountain. I am lofty and pure like sweet nectar in the strong, I am the shining riches of the world, I am the deep thinker, the deathless One who decays not from the beginning." This is Trishanku's voicing of Veda and the hymn of his self-knowledge. Chapter XI वेदमनूच्याचार्योऽन्तेवासिनमनुशास्ति । सत्यं वद । धर्मं चर । स्वाध्यायान्मा प्रमदः । आचार्याय प्रियं धनमाहृत्य प्रजातन्तुं ...
... Gangadhar, 16, 19, 63, 189, 190, 192, 201, 206, 222, 227, 229, 235, 236, 237,262ff, 266fh, 267ff, 284,333fn, 343, 452,464,490,521,527,529 Towers, Robert Mason, 49 Triumph-Song of Trishuncou, The, 162,390 Truman, Harry S., 721,722 Tukaram, 9,280,497 Twelfth Night, 133 Tyberg, Judith (Jyotipriya), 751 Ulupy (Uloupie), 106 Upadhyaya, Bra ...
... Reminiscence, A Vision of Science, Immortal Love, A Tree, To the Sea, Revelation, Karma, Appeal, A Child's Imagination, The Sea at Night, The Vedantin's Prayer, Rebirth, The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou, Life and Death, Evening, Parabrahman, God, The Fear of Death, Seasons, The Rishi, In the Moonlight. "Ahana", a poem of 172 lines, is a revised and enlarged version of the last 160 lines ...
... Circa 1900– 1906. The Sea at Night. Circa 1900–1906. The Vedantin's Prayer . Circa 1900–1906. Rebirth . Circa 1900–1906. The Triumph-Song of Trishuncou . Circa 1900–1906. Life and Death . Circa 1900– 1906. Evening . Circa 1900–1906. Parabrahman . Circa 1900–1906. God . Circa 1900–1906. ...
... also not die. Now, I cannot believe how that faith had entered in us. People in Madras used to laugh at me when I said such things. ‘Has anyone ever become immortal? Don’t you know the story of Trishanku who tried and is neither in heaven nor on earth?’ But, you know, nothing they said could shake my faith. But then, most unexpectedly, Skanda died. It was the first death in the Ashram. What a shock ...
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