Tulsidas : (1532/43-1623) wrote his Rāmacharita-mānasa in Awadhi the popular language of his time. It is his version of Vālmiki’s Rāmāyana.
... later poets arrived at a vividly living recreation of the ancient story and succeeded in producing a supreme masterpiece, Kamban, the Tamil poet who makes of his subject a great original epic, and Tulsidas whose famed Hindi Ramayana combines with a singular mastery lyric intensity, romantic richness and the sublimity of the epic imagination and is at once a story of the divine Avatar and a long chant... claimed for Tulsidas's poem superiority to the epic of Valmiki: that is an exaggeration and, whatever the merits, there cannot be a greater than the greatest, but that such claims can be made for Tulsidas and Kamban is evidence at least of the power of the poets and a proof that the creative genius of the Indian mind has not declined even in the narrowing of the range of its culture and knowledge.... s, and the philosophic and devotional lyrics are not the creation or meant for the appreciation of a cultivated class, but with few exceptions the expression of a popular culture. The Ramayana of Tulsidas, the songs of Ramprasad and of the Bauls, the wandering Vaishnava devotees, the poetry of Ramdas and Tukaram, the sentences of Tiruvalluvar and the poetess Avvai and the inspired lyrics of the southern ...
... lesson that my father taught me through a doha of the saint-poet Tulsidas has had a lasting effect on my life. In a very melodious voice he would sing: Kahān kahoon chhabi āpaki, bhale bane ho Nāth; Tulasī mastak tab name, dhanushaban jab hāth. Explaining this he said, “God appeared in front of Tulsidas as Sri Krishna and Tulsidas told Him, 'Lord, I have no words to describe Your Beauty; but ...
... you to answer the question, "Is there any effect of repeating a sacred Name and doing Kirtan even unconsciously or unwillingly?" Tulsidas says there is. SRI AUROBINDO: If it had been so easy, it would have been delightful. Here we all cited stories in support of Tulsidas. Satyendra narrated Ajamil's story. NIRODBARAN: What is the upshot then? SRI AUROBINDO: It all depends on the psychic being ...
... more irregular Page 460 in diction and metre, but more full of humanity, strength and the rough and natural touch of the soil. In no case can our Ramayan compare with the great epic of Tulsidas, that mine of poetry, strong and beautiful thought and description and deep spiritual force and sweetness. But it must have been greater in its original form than in its modern dress. The great ...
... the Ramayana, Kalidasa and Bhavabhuti and Bhartrihari and Jayadeva and the other rich creations of classical Indian drama and poetry and romance, the Dhammapada and the Jatakas, the Panchatantra, Tulsidas, Vidyapati and Chandidas and Ramprasad, Ramdas and Tukaram, Tiruvalluvar and Kamban and the songs of Nanak and Kabir and Mirabai and the southern Shaiva saints and the Alwars,—to name only the best-known ...
... mendicant in the name of Lord Krishna and went to Vrind- avan to her Guru. She left her body at Dwarka. She composed songs which have become very popular and are sung every- where in India. Tulsidas (1532-1623): a Hindi poet and saint who lived in Benares. He wrote the famous Ramacharitamanasa which is a Hindi version of the Ramayana. Surdas (1478-1581): A medieval poet and singer who was ...
... mystic, spiritual purpose. 5 February 1932 Page 100 Spiritual Poetry in India But what a change in India. Once religious or spiritual poetry held the first place (Tukaram, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Surdas, the Tamil Alwars and Shaiva poets, and a number of others)—and now spiritual poetry is not poetry, altogether অচল But luckily things are সচল and the movability may bring back an older and ...
... Exercises to be recommended: Repeated study and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita. Vow of the Buddha Selected Psalms Islamic prayers Selected portions from Tulsidas Songs ofMirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and ofher saints Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Page 234 Class X I. Sciences and Values: 1. Our knowledge regarding ...
... account of India (ii) Beginnings of Sikhism: Guru Nanak (iii) Akbar (iv) Abul Fazal, Faizi and Tansen (v) Jahangir, Shahjahan and Aurangzeb (vi) Great Saints: Narsi Mehta, Tulsidas, Meerabai, Surdas, Chaitanya, Tukaram (vii) Establishment ofKhalsa: Guru Gobind Singh (viii) Vijay Nagar (ix) Annals of Rajputana (x) Rana Pratap (xi) The rise of Maratha ...
... tensorial law. 10th January, 1940 Disciple : In a publication of the Gita Press the writer is trying to prove the efficacy of repeating Divine name and of the Kirtan. He cites Tulsidas in support of his contention. Sri Aurobindo : If it was so easy it would have been delightful. Disciple : There is a story of Ajamil in the Puranas to support the efficacy of repeating ...
... other words, one would be satisfied even if there were no such spiritual inspiration in the country as breathed and lived in a Vasishtha or a Yajnavalkya, a Chaitanya or a Mirabai, a Tukaram or a Tulsidas, a Ramakrishna or a Vivekananda - provided there were no scheduled classes! One may inquire what sort of life would there be on earth without the rishis, the saints, the mystics, the yogis. Man would ...
... Suryamukhi qua poetry—please note. I am very glad of it. Yes, it is very welcome. But what a change in India. Once religious or spiritual poetry held the first place (Tukaram, Mirabai, Tulsidas, Surdas, the Tamil Alvars and Shaiva poets and a number of others) 6 3 and now spiritual poetry is not poetry, altogether achal [static]! But luckily things are sachal [mobile] and this ...
... Exercises to be recommended: Repeated study and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita Vow of the Buddha Selected Psalms Islamic prayers Selected portions from Tulsidas Songs of Mirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and other saints Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Class X Science and Values Our knowledge regarding man: Man in evolution ...
... Exercises to be recommended: -Repeated study and contemplation of Chapter XI of the Bhagavad Gita -Vow of the Buddha -Selected Psalms -Islamic prayers -Selected portions from Tulsidas -Songs of Mirabai, Surdas, Tukaram, Ramprasad, and other saints -Prayer of Swami Vivekananda Class X I. Sciences and Values 1. Our knowledge regarding man: (a) Man ...
... the power of harmony and the deep power of joy we see into the life of things" (Tintern Abbey) This vision of "the life of things" endows the forms with universal beauty. Tulsidas, the great Hindi poet, describes the love at first sight between Rama and Sita thus: "Lochan maga Ramahi ura ani Dine palaka kapata sayani "Bringing Rama to her heart along the ...
... "while with an eye made quiet by the power of harmony and the deep power of joy we see into the life of things."10 This vision of "the life of things" endows the forms with universal beauty. Tulsidas describes the love at first sight between Rama and Sita thus: "Lochan Maga Ramahi Ura Ani Dine Palaka Kapata Sayani" "Bringing Rama to her heart along the path of the sight, Sita ...
... lines. This is a common enough experience, illustrated in the lives of many great men, such as St. Paul, St. Augustine, St. Francis of Assisi, Luther, and Kant (among the Westerners); and Valmiki, Tulsidas, Vivekananda, to name only a few, among the Indians. This proves that there is nothing permanent and sacrosanct about our mental structures, which are but ephemeral things, constructed out of a medley ...
... endurance, equality and selflessness which nothing else in life can inspire and induce to an equal extent No materialist creed can ever hope to make out of common clay a St. Paul or a St. Francis, a Tulsidas, a Mirabai, or a Suso. The power that produces this miracle is no illusion or fiction; rather it is a pitiable self-delusion in modern man, enclosed in the dim cell of his reason, to deny the eternal ...
... period of Tamil literature was contemporary with the classical Sanskrit age, and there is brief mention of Tiruvalluvar, Avvai, the Vaishnava and Saiva saint-singers, the great epics of Kamban and Tulsidas, and the proliferation of the Bhakti poetry including that of Nanak and the other Sikh Gurus. Of the poetry of the Radha-Krishna cult, Sri Aurobindo writes: The desire of the soul for God ...
... was somebody—Sridhar—who has written something like an epic. I hear Jnanadev wrote brilliantly but he died at an early age: twenty-one. And jnaneshwar wrote his Gita at fifteen. PURANI: They say Tulsidas's Manas is a recognised epic in Hindi. SRI AUROBINDO: The South Indians say that Kamban's is a great epic. I remember somebody trying to prove that Kamban the world's greatest poet. (Looking ...
... 1 came out once." Do you have this story in the complete American text before you? If Brook had staged it, it might have been quite a hit. Perhaps it does not belong to Vyasa's version but to Tulsidas's Hindi retelling or else it figures in some popular Vaishnava evocation of the scene? You have indicated the nationality of some of the cast in Brook's masterpiece - a Korean as Kunti, an Englishman ...
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