Vrindavana Brindaban Brindabon Brindavan : The name Vrindāvana is derived from Vrinda, another name for the sacred Tulsi (basil) plant. It was named after Vrinda Devi, one of Krishna’s consorts. Four temples were built after Akbar’s visit, namely, Madan Mohan, Govinda Deva, Gopinath, & Jugal Kishore.
... And these being saved yield them a home In their own soft, new-petalled bloom. In Brindaban anew is mirth For the restored bloom of earth. These are the season's sweet and these The essence of the spring's increase. * * * A new Brindaban I see And renewed each barren tree; New flowers are blooming, And another Spring is;... Radha in a grove (C) Sri Ramakishna's pilgrimage to Brindavan* One can find parallels between Sri Ramakrishna's pilgrimage to Brindavan (1868), and that of Sri Caitanya (1515). Both these visits had their own importance. Sri Caitanya's pilgrimage resulted in the resurrection of the dead pilgrimage centres of Brindavan and Mathura. Through his spiritual experiences, Sri Caitanya discovered... ed Sri Caitanya's discovery of Brindavan and the restoration made by the Goswa-mis. In this way, Sri Ramakrishna's pilgrimage turned into an exploration that resulted in a renewed interest in the spirit of holy Brindavan. Sparks of supreme love of God, which were almost always manifesting in Sri Ramakrishna, recharged the devotees' beliefs in the glories of Brindavan. Sri Ramakrishna visited Mathura ...
... Aphorisms Aphorism - 37 37—Some say Krishna never lived, he is a myth. They mean on earth; for if Brindavan existed nowhere, the Bhagavat 1 could not have been written. Does Brindavan exist anywhere else than on earth? The whole earth and everything it contains is a kind of concentration, a condensation of something which exists in... for the manifestation. And the importance of the manifestation will always depend on the origin of the thing manifested. In the world of the gods there is an ideal and harmonious Brindavan of which the earthly Brindavan is but a deformation and a caricature. Those who are developed inwardly, either in their senses or in their minds, perceive these realities which are invisible (to the ordinary ...
... are four very great events in history, the siege Page 62 of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan 1 created devotional religion (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanised Europe, the colloquy... considerably and has become decisive. 29 June 1960 Page 63 × The child Krishna had to take refuge at Brindavan in order to escape his uncle Kansa, the tyrant king of Mathura. ...
... Page 10 There are four very great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindavan and the colloquy with Arjuna on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindavan created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanised Europe, the colloquy at ... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Illumination, Heroism and Harmony Preface The task of preparing teaching-learning material for value-oriented education is enormous. There is, first, the idea that value-oriented education should be exploratory rather than prescriptive, and that the teaching-learning material should provide to the learners a growing experience... and unity, each is perfected by the other and creativity is endless. The principal theme of this monograph is centred on harmony; it presents the story of Sri Krishna and his manifestation in Brindavan as the sweetness and nectar of Divine Love that mysteriously binds the individual soul with the Supreme and with all the other souls and manifestations of the Supreme in the world. In the depth of ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Editorial Note Sri Krishna's life, as it is narrated in the Puranas and in several other writings, reads like a legend or even like a myth. It is sometimes argued that Sri Krishna and his life have only a symbolical value. It has also been doubted whether Sri Krishna ever lived in any historical or prehistorical time. Even the M... famous work, "The Foundations of Indian Culture". He has also explained in his writings the depth of that religion which has arisen in India from the episodes connected with Sri Krishna's exile in Brindavan. We have, therefore, thought it appropriate to present a few relevant extracts from Sri Aurobindo's "The Synthesis of Yoga" and "The Foundations of Indian Culture". We have also felt it useful... poems are translations by Page 18 Sri Aurobindo, the magic of which will undoubtedly be felt by the hearts and souls of sensitive readers. The texts concerning Sri Krishna in Brindavan, have been adapted from Srimad Bhagavata translated by Swami Tapasyananda and Srimad Bhagavata Mahapurana translated by C.L. Goswami. The texts adapted from Harivamsa Purana are from the translation ...
... love displays here has no stain in it, a stain that a more sophisticated and cultured nature contracts: it is the smiling radiance of the unspoiled limpid consciousness of a child. Yes, it is the Brindaban-lila of Love in its very human, very secular movement. Love is here of earth and of an earthy mode and yet somehow it has maintained its purity, its very spontaneity and simplicity has, as it were ...
... love with sin; when they see one who is too high for vice or virtue, they curse him and cry, "O thou breaker of bonds, thou wicked and immoral one!" Therefore Sri Krishna does not live as yet in Brindavan. 1 I would like to have an explanation of these two Aphorisms. When Christ came upon earth, he brought a message of brotherhood, love and peace. But he had to die in pain, on the cross... (for without vice there would be no virtue); they are in love with their sins and cannot tolerate anyone being free and above all error. That is why Krishna, although immortal, is not present at Brindavan in a body at this moment. 3 June 1960 × The village where Sri Krishna spent his childhood, and where he danced ...
... Pale silence blossoms like a rose Deep-rooted in the soul's eternity... Where Brindavan has gone behind its God— as having come "through from the illumined mind". He added: "The lines, A voice of unattainable melody Winging in heavenly air, Came Brindavan's immortal memory, though not on the same level as the best in the poem, are yet not far below... The syllables of a prophetic tongue: "O heart disconsolate, beauty-wrung, Wanderer unsated, not in vain A voice of unattainable melody Winging in heavenly air, Came Brindavan's immortal memory And turned thy human happiness Into dim longing pain. Thy life's search is not meaningless Though Jumuna's banks are void and bare; Now too a spirit-flute... even on misery's lips fallen mute In uncompanioned throes Pale silence blossoms like a rose Deep-rooted in the soul's eternity. Rest not till thou find sanctuary Where Brindavan has gone behind its God. For there the veil shall draw aside, Which hangs between thy in-turned gaze And Him of the irradiant face: His musical tranquillity Shall once ...
... Bhakti — Sri Chaitanya decided not to go on towards Brindavan, but to return to Puri. He started for Brindavan again in the autumn of 1515. This time he took with him only two attendants (he could not travel alone, as he was constantly going into trance) and followed a route through the forests to avoid being noticed. When he finally reached Brindavan, the intensity of his bhakti was such that in every... carrying the image of Lord Jagannath. In 1514, Sri Chaitanya tried again to go to Brindavan. About five years earlier, at the time of his Sannyasa, he had sent there one of his main disciples, with the mission of reclaiming the holy city, long neglected and lost. The mission had resulted in a newly restored Brindavan. To reach there, he had to cross the territory of a ferocious Muhammadan chief, whose... Katwa 1510 (March) — Arrival at Puri. 1510(April)-1511 — Tour of South India. 1514 — First pilgrimage to Brindavan and Mathura. 1515 —Second pilgrimage to Brindavan and Mathura. 1516 (April) 1534 — Return to Puri. 1534 — Passing away in Puri. Suggestions for further ...
... PREFACE Often enough, when I sing in our temple, Indira Devi goes off into a mystic trance — samadhi — and sees Mira singing or dancing, in a Brindavan temple, in the midst of some devotees or learned sadhus who start with her a discussion or an altercation, as the case may be. After a time, when Indira Devi comes to, she relates in a half-trance—... grows husky with emotion and tears trickle down her cheeks moving even the hearts of hard-boiled sceptics and critics. I present here, in the form of a play, a few scenes she saw re-enacted in Brindavan along with a few communications she has had from Mira who comes to her daily. She used to keep a record of her talks with Mira in her diaries of old dating as far back as 1950, some of which were ...
... the, 100, 127, 152, 186, 192,397 Bois de Fontaineb1eu, 287 Book of the Dead, 133 Borodine, 427 Brahma, 208 Brahman, 3, 9-10, 22, 68, 85, 90, 92, 113, 151, 153, 204,289, 380 Brindaban, 101 Britain, 96, 198 Broad, Prof., 55 Buddha, 9, 17, 112, 150, 187, 189,232, 268,317,347 Byron, 209 CAESAR, 116,209,324,406 Chaitanya, 209 Cha1dea, 199 Christ, 64, 73, 82 ...
... inter-cyclic sleep. The Snake Ananta is the Energy of the cosmic manifestation of the Infinite in Space-Time. Krishna This is the Krishna of the Gita 1 (the boy Krishna is the Krishna of Brindavan),—Krishna bringing the spiritual knowledge, will, bhakti—and not love and bhakti alone. The eye indicates the vision of the higher spiritual consciousness and the blue expanse indicates that ... especial and significant colour, the colour of his aura when he manifests,—that is why he is called Nil Krishna ; the adjective does not mean that he was blue or dark in his physical body whether in Brindavan or Mathura or Dwarka! Violet is the radiance of Krishna's protection,—that was why, very naturally, it brought to you a sense of peace. The Mother says that she always saw it when she was in communion ...
... in their deeds. We shall leave these debates for the debaters, and we shall not allow our story of the mystery of the Divine Love that Krishna manifested in Brindavan to be diluted but allow our soul to experience what those in Gokul and Brindavan felt and knew of that playful Child, of that captivating Youth, of that Flute Player and of that Divine Lover whose charm, whose speech, whose music and whose... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Krishas the incarnation of Vishnu, sitting on the great serpent Shesha Introduction I The Avatara descends on the earth There are debates on the existence of God, and these debates will continue because God, the Invisible, does not oblige the debaters by making himself visible to them. But even ...
... Warming up ) Once, after I had left my palace to beg My way to Brindavan, a destitute, Calamities swooped down on me, alas, At every bend — I had no respite, till The light before my sore eyes was eclipsed, And an abscess on my left thigh crippled me. Limping I trudged along in deep despair; But how to wend my way to Brindavan Which seemed now all but unattainable! All hope had died ...... Chaitanya and Mira Act Two In her temple at Brindavan, on the full-moon night of Ras, Mira is seen singing before her beloved Image of Gopal. The windows on one side of the temple open on the rippling Yamuna. A number of pilgrims and devotees listen on, in rapture. On her left Ajit, a Brahmin pedant, frowns on her as she starts dancing. On... are dead. I yearn not for thy starlands where High gods of bliss and beauty reign; I only ask: Oh, grant that I Be born here time and time again In Brindavan — acclaiming all That comes my way to sing of Thee: For the night of pain for Thy sake borne, Lord, dawns into golden ecstasy. ( The song came to an end but the cadence ...
... as one becomes serious, means business, one automatically stops short, finds and sticks to his Ishta, even like the Gopis of Sri Krishna who declared unequivocally that they would not move out of Brindaban even by a single step. Page 83 ...
... as one becomes serious, means business, one automatically stops short, finds and sticks to his Ishta, even like the Gopis of Sri Krishna who declared unequivocally that they would not move out of Brindaban even by a single step. Page 101 ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Part IV Sri Aurobindo on Integral Yoga of Divine Love (Some Extracts) The Way of Devotion Bhakti in itself is as wide as the heart-yearning of the soul for the Divine and as simple and straightforward as love and desire going straight towards their object. It cannot, therefore, be fixed down to... the Rasa of Sri Krishna. Let us read her message: Thou shalt not suffer always nor cry to me lured and forsaken: I have a snare for his footsteps, I have a chain for him taken. Come then to Brindavan, soul of the joyous; faster and faster Follow the dance I shall teach thee with Shyama for slave and for master. Follow the notes of the flute with a soul aware and exulting; Trample Delight... Then shalt thou know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Page 249 Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras and thy share of the ecstasy after. SABCL, Volume 5, page 536 * * * Sri Aurobindo on Integral Yoga of Divine ...
... Bharati, 189 Bible, the, 121, 305, 345n – Book of Job, 305n – St. John , 345n Borman, 316 Brahma, 256 Brahman, 181-2, 185, 188-9, 193, 205, 290, 299, 339, 368, 385 Brindaban, 385 Britain, 338 Buddha, 52-3, 104-6,182-3,196,221, 225,309,311, 344,349,400 CHINA, 54 Christ, 349, 379, 400 Churchill, 346 Commonwealth, 362 Confucius, 196 Czardom, 338 ...
... stumbling, maddened and thrilled to his dreadful embraces, Slaves of his rapture to Brindavan crowded with amorous faces, Luminous kine in the green glades seated, soft-eyed gazing, Flowers on the branches distressing us, moonbeams unearthly amazing, Yamuna flowing before us, laughing low with her voices, Brindavan arching o'er us where Shyama sports and rejoices. Inly the miracle trembles repeated;... touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras 1 and thy share of the ecstasy after. Page 491 × The dance-round of Krishna with the cowherdesses in the moonlit groves of Brindavan, type of the dance of Divine Delight with the... in us, might like a Titan's, bliss like an ocean, Calmness and purity born of the spirit's gaze on the Real, Rapture of his oneness embracing the soul in a clasp hymeneal. Was it not he once in Brindavan? Woods divine to our yearning, Memorable always! O flowers, O delight on the tree-tops burning, Grasses his herds have grazed and crushed by his feet in the dancing, Yamuna flowing with song, through ...
... weeding out monsters, clearing augean stables, putting a term to pests. His tranquil energy quite broke the back of the Indigo tyrants. Their master-criminals and chief indigocrats fled to Anam and Brindaban, but they were overtaken by Bankim's warrant and persuaded to come back. Fine and imprisonment meted out with a healthy severity, shattered their prestige and oppressed their brutal spirit. Khulna ...
... world to be pledged to His Brindavan Where only His Love rules and His Light reigns. Come, Pundarik, let's sing in chorus with her. ( They sang together, Mira leading the chorus ) Farewell, our dismal vale of sighs and tears! We'll wend to His far shore of blessedness. Farewell, our heart-lost land of fogs and fears ! To acclaim His Brindavan of Gleam and Grace. ... my Lord and King, in thine own land of bliss, Where every heart is a Gopi-soul, aheave thy feet to kiss. Brindavan's one Beloved! helpless Mira appeals to thee: Can one who calls himself a man thy darling minstrel be ? AJIT I have often heard this claimed in Brindavan. But is this also a part of what you call The Divine's mystic immemorial play As a human lover — the Everliving... our domain To His garden where springtide never can wane, Beyond the clutch of din and pain, We'll leave our glooms for His haven of Gleam and Grace, And wend to His Brindavan of blessedness. Where only Love Divine holds sway, Where none sustains defeat in play And the Friend presides for whom all pray, Page 157 There we'll ...
... Chaitanya and Mira Act One Full moon night of Jhulan Purnima. In Miras temple at Brindavan she is singing before her Image of Gopal. On the right of the altar her Gurudev Sri Sanatan Goswami is seated beside the temple-priest, Pundarik. On the left, four sombre, whiskered pundits are watching intently. Behind her sit, with folded hands, a motley... are pointless because their angel glances Are few and far between! We indict Heaven As heartless because none can have for the asking Its endless riches! A few do, indeed, sing Of the blissful Brindavan of selfless love They come to know through the Evergreen Lover's Grace; But nay, we must have a Grace on our own terms, Build a religion of stark power and greed And impose it as the... virgin spring; Come joy or come deep pain, We'd live and die for our King. Love-intoxicate are our eyes Which strain but for love's sunrise: We, minstrels of Brindavan, Love His Face in our soul's dream skies. We chant His one Name all day, Consigning our lives to His sway And, enthralled by His call, we dance When He starts His ...
... Truth one must put each thing in its place in the harmony of the All which Page 480 is for us the expression of the Supreme. The answer to the question [ whether the Krishna of Brindavan and the stories of his lila are literally true or merely symbols of deep spiritual realities ] depends on what value one attaches to spiritual experience and to mystic and occult experience, that... but in my view there is much more than that in it and I have always regarded the incarnation as a fact and accepted the historicity of Krishna as I accept the historicity of Christ. The story of Brindavan is another matter; it does not enter into the main story of the Mahabharata and has a Puranic origin and it could be maintained that it was intended all along to have a symbolic character. At one... it, may even embody itself there. The lila of the Gopis seems to be conceived as something which is always going on in a divine Gokul and which projected itself in Page 483 an earthly Brindavan and can always be realised and its meaning made actual in the soul. It is to be presumed that the writers of the Puranas took it as having been actually projected on earth in the life of the incarnate ...
... lost in His mighty jaws, to be mangled between His gnashing teeth. In the līlā of the Eternal there are movements that are terrible as well as movements that are sweet and beautiful. The dance of Brindaban is not complete without the death-dance of Kurukshetra; for each is a part of that great Page 30 harmonic movement of the world which progresses from discord to accord, from hatred and ...
... great calm and peace. Things like that [with X] mustn't be able to disturb you, make you sick and so forth. Only on that condition can you get what you want. A flash, yes... (you had it once at Brindaban, 6 you had an experience there); a flash is possible. But you want something permanent. All right ( silence ) That, you know, was what I was always striving for: a sudden surge into the... × Conversations with the Mother , 1929. × Brindaban: known as the city of Krishna, where he grew up and played with the Gopis (cowherds and milkmaids). ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Part II On Puranic Literature A few extracts from Sri Aurobindo's "The Foundations of Indian Culture" The Puranas are essentially a true religious poetry, an art of aesthetic presentation of religious truth. All the bulk of the eighteen Puranas does not indeed take a high rank in this kind: there is much waste substance ...
... partaking not of the corruptions of the flesh and heart. Besides, all love, even the most flawed, provokes "a whisper of divinity". Nor is ideal love unrealisable on earth. Hasn't there been a Lord of Brindavan: One who came love and lover and beloved Eternal, built himself a wondrous field And wove the measures of a marvellous dance....? 34 Satyavan and she ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan III The Vrajvasis leave Gokula* One day, most handsome Śrī Krsna said to his brother, Balarāma, "My dear brother, I think it is not good to play in this forest any more. We, the cowherd boys, have spoiled the beauty of this forest by using it recklessly. There is no more grass left for the cows, and no more dry wood for cooking ...
... more than that in it and I have always regarded the incarnation as a fact and accepted the historicity of Krishna as I accept the historicity of Christ. Page 189 The story of Brindavan is another matter; it does not enter into the main story of the Mahabharata and has a Puranic origin and it could be maintained that it was intended all along to have a symbolic character.... influence upon it may even embody itself there. The lila of the Gopis seems to be conceived as something which is always going on in a divine Gokul and which projected itself in an earthly Brindavan and can always be realised and its meaning made actual in the soul. It is to be presumed that the writers of the Puranas took it as having been actually projected on earth in the life of the incarnate... by the contact, or felt the presence within him, all such questions have only an outer and superficial interest. Page 190 So also, to one who has had contact with the inner Brindavan and the lila of the Gopis, made the surrender and undergone the spell of the joy and the beauty or even only turned to the sound of the flute, the rest hardly matters. But from another point ...
... Pale silence blossoms like a rose Deep-rooted in the soul's eternity... Where Brindavan has gone behind its God— as having come "through from the illumined mind". He added: "The lines, A voice of unattainable melody Winging in heavenly air, Came Brindavan's immotal memory, though not on the same level as the best in the poem, are yet not far... despair The syllables of a prophetic tongue: "O heart disconsolate, beauty-wrung, Wanderer unsated, not in vain A voice of unattainable melody Winging in heavenly air, Came Brindavan's immortal memory And turned thy human happiness Into dim longing pain. Thy life's search is not meaningless Though Jumuna's banks are void and bare; Now too a spirit-flute ... That even on misery's lips fallen mute In uncompanioned throes Pale silence blossoms like a rose Deep-rooted in the soul's eternity. Rest not till thou find sanctuary Where Brindavan has gore behind its God. For there the veil shall draw aside, Which hangs between thy in-turned gaze And Him of the irradiant face: His musical tranquillity Shall once more in ...
... touch Him, kiss and embrace Him. All India's vaunted spirituality would amount to little or nothing if not for the divine cowherd with his entrancing flute, who had once inundated the groves of Brindavan in, to use a line from Savitri, "A violent Ecstasy, a Sweetness dire". Yamuna's flowing blue waters themselves had seemed to merge in an immense ocean of incredible rapture. Sri Aurobindo... one!) reeling in intoxication: Thou shalt not suffer always nor cry to me lured and forsaken: I have a snare for his footsteps, I have a chain for him taken. Come then to Brindavan, soul of the joyous; faster and faster Follow the dance I shall teach thee with Shyama for slave and for master. Follow the notes of the flute with a soul aware and exulting; ... a sweetness insulting. Then shalt thou know what the dance meant, fathom the song and the singer, Hear behind thunder its rhymes, touched by lightning thrill to his finger, Brindavan's rustle shalt understand and Yamuna's laughter, Take thy place in the Ras and thy share of the ecstasy after. No piece on Amal would be complete without reference to his wit and humour ...
... from you which you had written from up there, when you were traveling. From Benares? Not Benares, the other place? Page 238 Brindavan... no, I don't know. A famous place, a place of Krishna, I think. Then maybe it's Brindavan. From there, you wrote to me. You wrote me a letter, and in that letter, mon petit, you told me, "I have just had an experience." And you had ...
... way for the work of the Divine Mother.... Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: The Guru and the Avatar 25.8.1935 Bharat Brahmachari got an adesh in 1925-26 to go to Brindavan to invoke the Mother. He of his own volition never went anywhere, but since it was Her adesh, he went. He reached a lonely place and prayed and practised austerities. The Mother gave him Darshan. ...
... great sin! Why, it will mean eternal sojourn in hell! Don't you know it?" One and all, the gods declined. So then the demigod Narada descended from gods' heaven to men's earth. He landed in Brindaban, for he knew the genuine love of the Gopis for their Playmate. Bethinking himself of Radha, he went straight to her. He made no attempt to hide anything from her and spoke about the failure of his ...
... there. And hearing it there I found that Yoga was not at all an unusual thing to do. However young you may be, you can always get in touch with the Divine's luminous presence. And indeed the story of Brindavan where Sri Krishna lived and fluted is a story of young people. Sri Krishna himself was very, very young and young too were those who went after him. Most of them were girls. When I look around now ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan II Some incidents of Krsna's early boyhood* Boyhood Pranks of Śrī Krsna (21-28) 21. In course of time, Rāma and Śrī Krsna began to move about together playfully on their knees and hands. 22. They dragged themselves through slushy regions in Vraja to the accompaniment of the tinkling sound of their anklets and girdles. ...
... but he is also the prince who became God to millions of devoted Hindus; Krishna is the protagonist of the Bhagavata and Arjuna's friend and charioteer in the Mahabharata, but he is the Lord of Brindavan too, the bhagavan who indites the Gita, to his numberless devotees. Likewise, Savitri is the goddess of virgin purity and married fruitfulness, of goodness and truth and faithfulness and strength ...
... Krishna with this Yoga, is not true. There is not and cannot be any such incompatibility. Otherwise we would not have encouraged you in your aspiration. You can seek for him quite as well here as in Brindaban. It is not at all a fact that your nature is incapable of love and bhakti: on the contrary that is the right way for you. Meditation is all right, but it will be most profitable for you ...
... story. Some of you might know it. I'm talking of the story of Mirabai. 247 You know that she left her palace, her husband, her friends, the world, for the love of her Lord, and made a pilgrimage to Brindavan. I'm not quite sure which place this incident occurred at, but it is a true story. She went all alone - you have seen in the film, 248 I suppose, haven't you? Her laborious journey took her through... through the desert and other strange places. Remember that she was a princess! All kinds of travails and hardships she had to bear, many adversities she had to face till at last she reached Brindavan. There, the priest would not allow her entry into the temple. When he'd heard that it was Prakriti or a woman who had come to have the Darshan of the Lord, he'd said, "No! No Prakriti is allowed here ...
... SATYENDRA: I have seen many instances of Bhakti and Knowledge combined. SRI AUROBINDO: I am not speaking of exceptions. SATYENDRA: We have heard that you had guidance from Sri Krishna. Was it the Brindavan Krishna or the Kurukshetra Krishna? SRI AUROBINDO: I should think it was the Kurkshetra Krishna. I had an experience of Krishna-Kali in Alipore Jail. It was a very powerful vision. PURANI: These ...
... people did not believe this and continue to put their own interpretation on his movements. The least offensive was what his friend Shyamsundar once said [comparing Sri Aurobindo to the cowherd of Brindaban] - "My Kanai has gone to Mathura and put on a royal head-gear." Let that be. I found my Kanu again in 1940. He was wearing the divine peacock feather on his head. But, as I have stated already... release a year later, saying, "You have now got your own Govindaji, Dada!" And, truly, Govinda had become mine definitely. There is no doubt about it. The beautiful face of the blue boy of Brindaban, with Page 161 his bewitching smile, is ever present in my heart. I am not a learned man; in all probability, I am not even a true lover of learning; the God of ...
... universal. He was born out of a victorious harmony. His qualities join pure and Page 152 gracious hands and link themselves together naturally and with delight as in the pastoral round of Brindavan, divine Krishna dominating and holding together its perfect circles. To evolve in the sense of the God is to grow in intuition, in light, in joy, in love, in happy mastery; to serve by rule and to ...
... in the Chhandogya Upanishad. In the Mahabharata he is depicted fully as a human being who is the Divine Incarnate. Even in the Brindavan story the substratum of reality is clear in the midst of the poetry and the symbolism. And why does Griffiths sidetrack to the Brindavan-context the phrase quoted from Chapter XVIII.65 of the Bhagavad Gita and declared to have been spoken on the battlefield of Ku ...
... human life must now steer towards other horizons. Perhaps the Flute-Player of Brindavan gives us the clue to the secret; didn't the Divine and the devotees - God, man and all nature - achieve a perfect harmony, an absolute bliss? Earth-life met the Eternal "with close breast", and glory assumed a million faces in Brindavan's woodlands. There life acquired a "deeper power than heaven", realised a more... the moment has almost come! In the second Part, following a further pull of irresistible prayer from the "Voice of the sensuous mortal", Ahana descends at last, and prepares to guide Man anew to Brindavan. The first Part is riotously magnificent as poetry and is very little weighted with philosophy; it is more like Tagore's Urvasi, and Ahana is invoked tantalisingly as Woman and Goddess, as Beauty... more integral truth, and experienced a more valued joy than elsewhere attainable. But Brindavan too has passed away, though it fitfully returns to us in our dreams as we hear Krishna's song, and "all our being goes back as a bride of his bliss to the Giver". The heart yearns, the soul is in an anguish of expectation, and in our auspicious dreams, as if a trap-door has opened above, the miracle ...
... Panini, Attain the skies save on the wings of learning. SRI CHAITANYA But I love Mother Earth more than the skies: It's here my Krishna lived and not in the clouds. So I will now to Brindavan whose dust Is hallowed by the touch of His feet divine. KESHAV ( smiling superiorly ) But this is spurious, sentimental gush. For Krishna could at will defy the skies And span the void... 'tis in this true wisdom I offer to initiate you, my son! SRI CHAITANYA Your Grace is overwhelming sir, I own. But I regret 'tis too late now: tonight I leave my home and all for Brindavan, A mendicant in His name. ROMA ( stifling a cry ) What! You, my Lord! MURARI It is incredible, Gora! For you are The only pledge of sun in our deep night, The only thrill... senseless, This ideal, long outmoded, of leaving all One's given by God Himself for God! My boy, I adjure you not to barter away the real For mere moonshine. Besides, where would you go? To Brindavan? For what? Sri Krishna's Light? Page 41 But as a God He must pervade all space: How could He live a prisoner king in one Small hamlet? Come, a householder must keep His own ...
... love, adoration. I have used the word Raasa which Sri Aurobindo explains in a footnote to his famous poem Ahana: "The dance-round of Krishna with the cowherdesses in the moonlit groves of Brindavan, type of the dance of Divine Deligit with the souls of men liberated in the world of Bliss secret within us-") Dilip, I hive just finished hearing the Second Act of your drama on Sri ...
... Krishna with this Yoga, is not true. There is not and cannot be any such incompatibility. Otherwise we would not have encouraged you in your aspiration. You can seek for him quite as well here as in Brindaban. As regards Krishna and devotion, I think I have already answered more than once. I have no objection at all to the worship of Krishna or the Vaishnava form of devotion, nor is there any i... Chapter VIII Bhakti Yoga and Vaishnavism The Vaishnava Theory and Sadhana They [ the Vaishnavas ] accept the world as a Lila, but the true Lila is elsewhere in the eternal Brindavan. All the religions which believe in the personal Godhead accept the universe as a reality, a Lila or a creation made by the will of God, but temporal and not eternal. The aim is the eternal status ...
... Krishna, the Overmind divinity incarnate, who declared in the Gita his own transcendent Godhead no less than his universal form and his individual Mastership, and who in the self-disclosure at Brindavan let loose the intensest power of the soul's love for and surrender to the Supreme Beauty and Bliss in terms of the very body's sensation — this Krishna is called by Sri Aurobindo "the guide of... the disciple wrote of Krishna by name. There is no letter of his in which, naming Krishna, he has allowed the impression that he could have been somebody else when the magical flute-player of Brindavan and the majestic charioteer of Kurukshetra was in the midst of men, the glorious figure about whose "historicity" Sri Aurobindo² has said that if we accept it "there is this great spiritual gain ...
... Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Arguments for the Existence of God Taittiriya Upanishad Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation ...
... on of the Krishna figure." In another long letter he wrote to me on 2.12.46 (in answer to a question posed by a very dear friend of mine, Sri Sanjiv Rao, who had asked me "whether the Krishna of Brindaban and the details of His lila, divine play, are to be accepted as literally true or merely as beautiful symbols of deep spiritual realities"): "These questions and the speculations to which they give... had his whole consciousness changed by the contact, or felt His presence within him, all such questions have only an outer and superficial interest. So also one who has had contact with the inner Brindaban and the lila of the Gopis, made the surrender and undergone the spell of the joy and the beauty or even only turned to the sound of the flute, the rest hardly matters. But from another point of ...
... a single movement like that of the Vaishnava sadhana; for this Yoga is more ample and contains, but is not confined to, what is essential in the Vaishnava sadhana. Whether you visit the physical Brindavan or not does not matter; what is necessary is to find the inner union through love and bhakti. As for weeping, there is nothing against the tears that come from the inner aspiration; it is only ...
... Yoga, Turn as often as I may my ears to the song of the sirens, my face has been pulled away again and again in the opposite direction by the strains of a far flute throbbing in earth's air from Brindavan's woods thousands of years ago. I am amazed at this phenomenon. Not that I am materially minded in contrast to the spiritual temper. 1 am no worshipper of shekels but, as I have often declared ...
... Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Taittiriya Upanishad Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation The Aim of Life The Good Teacher and the ...
... Ptanab was also physically very strong. 124Mace-bearer. 125Mace. 126Spinning metal disc with serrated edge: the mighty weapon or Lord Krishna. 127 The gopis at milkmaids of Brindavan were all in love with Lord Krishna the cowherd, Page 86 etc. So passersby were attracted by the kirtans. One of these passersby - a very ordinary man of the village - came and ...
... Drama Chatterjee, Promode K. Whom God Protects (1969) Lidchi, Maggi. Earthman (1967) Roy, Dilip Kumar. The Upward Spiral (1949); Sri Chaitanya (1960); Mira in Brindavan (1961) Satprem. L'orpailleur("The Gold-Digger'), (1960) Yvonne. The Golden Journey (1960) Poetry Amrita. Visions and Voices (1929) Arjava. Poems (1939) ...
... until the whole world understands Him, until Sri Krishna who has now hid Himself in Gokul, who is now among the poor and despised of the earth, who is now among Page 831 the cow-herds of Brindaban, will reveal Himself, will declare the Godhead, and the whole nation will rise, the whole people of this great country will rise, filled with divine power, filled with the inspiration of the Almighty ...
... your action and the experiences of others. Ordinarily I would take it that she is Mirabai, the Rajput queen liberated by a sort of salokya mukti and living with Krishna in Goloka or a divine Brindavan and able to accompany in any manifestation he chose to make of himself through the subtle physical to any of us in the human world. That, I think, would be a satisfactory occult explanation ...
... You see the idea is not difficult. The Vaishnavas 56 had this conception out of bhakti? 57 out of devotion for the Lord. Sri Krishna playing the flute, playing with the Gopis, the cowgirls of Brindavan... all out of utter devotion. [Reading out the whole poem again:] I paused beside the cabin door and saw the King of Kings at play, Tumbled upon the grass I spied the little heavenly ...
... Bharat Brahmachari’s words came flooding back. All indications given to him seemed to fit in. There in front of him sat the universal Mother of Bharat Brahmachari’s vision — a vision given to him in Brindavan, in 1926, of a ‘white’ form of the Mother! Jogdananda wanted at once to stay as a permanent member, to live with the Mother and Sri Aurobindo as his Gurus, to start a new life here, taking up the ...
... also relegated to the world of myth. Krishna is obviously historical in the Chhandogya Upanishad. In the Mahabharata he is depicted fully as a human being who is the Divine Incarnate. Even in the Brindavan story the substratum of reality is clear in the midst of the poetry and the symbolism. And why does Griffiths sidetrack to the Brinda-van-context the phrases quoted from Chapter XVIII. 65 of the Bhagavad ...
... spirit. But here in India where the voice of the Vedic Rishis is still vibrant and "Ever we hear in the heart of the peril a flute go before us" -the flute of Sri Krishna sounding from an eternal Brindavan in the collective consciousness - and the revelatory rhythms of Sri Aurobindo's message, "Sight's sound-waves breaking from the soul's great deeps", are about us stronger than the titan roar of the ...
... idea of beauty was not sufficiently catholic and too much attached to a fastidious purity of form and outline and restraint, but because they were deficient in love. God as beauty, Srikrishna in Brindavan, Shyamasundara, is not only Beauty, He is also Love, and without perfect love there cannot be perfect beauty, and without perfect beauty there cannot be perfect delight. The aesthetic motive in conduct ...
... Divine. If it were not so, there would not have been great spiritual men like Janaka or Vidura in India and even there would have been no Krishna or else Krishna would have been not the Lord of Brindavan and Mathura and Dwarka or a prince and warrior or the charioteer of Kurukshetra, but only one more great anchorite. The Indian scriptures and Indian tradition, in the Mahabharata and elsewhere ...
... Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men — Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Arguments for the Existence of God Taittiriya Upanishad Selected Episodes from Raghuvarhsam of Kalidasa Other titles published ...
... the Divine. If it were not so, there would not have been great spiritual men like Janaka or Vidura in India and even there would have been no Krishna or else Krishna would have been not the Lord of Brindavan and Mathura and Dwarka or a prince and warrior or the charioteer of Kurukshetra, but only one more great anchorite. The Indian scriptures and Indian tradition, in the Mahabharata and elsewhere, make ...
... Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men -Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Sri Rama The beloved and victorious Hero Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation ________________________________ The Aim of Life The Good Teacher and the ...
... than Maya. Lila includes the idea of Maya and exceeds it; nor has it that association of the vanity of all things, useless to you who have elected to remain and play with Sri Krishna in Mathura and Brindavan. God is one but he is not bounded by his unity. We see him here as one who is always manifesting as many, not because he cannot help it, but because he so wills, and outside manifestation he is ...
... Sri Krishna In Brindavan Part I Exile of Sri Krishna in Brindavan Krishna and companions (Pahari miniature) The Vrajavāsīs arrive in Vrndāvana* Gradually, the caravan of Vrajavāsīs arrived at the beautiful forest of Vrndāvana. They built their residences over a vast area, for the benefit of the cows. The bullock... thus, Akrūra drove his chariot, and arrived at Mathura with Rama and Śrī Krsna at the decline of day. * * * Page 148 With the arrival at Mathura Sri Krishna's exile to Brindavan came to an end. A new chapter of glory began. The major event that occurred in that chapter was Sri Krishna's killing of Kamsa and the liberation of Vasudeva and Devaki from prison. The chapters of... and in the great story of the Mahabharata. How can that great story of the life of Sri Krishna be contained in this small monograph, the purpose of which is only to depict Sri Krishna's exile to Brindavan? That episode of Sri Krishna's life gave birth to the Path of Divine Love. That Path has stirred millions to seek in their hearts, the unutterable love of the gopis and of Radha, and to strive to ...
... demolition of India's aeonic tradition of master-disciple relationship and particularly her beauty-haunted love-enchanted Yoga of Devotion, her cult of the rapturous inner dance with the flute-player of Brindavan, her profound pull towards the many-sided word of wisdom and dynamism and compassion enshrined in the Gila with the towering figure behind it of the Divine Driver of Arjuna's Page 179 ... rejecting the lopsidedness that was due to the peculiar conditions of a past age. The India of spiritual history is best summed up in the figure of Krishna, at once the ravishing flute-player of the Brindavan legends and the master-charioteer of men's lives emerging from the Bhagavad Gita and, in general, the Mahabharata story. I am glad you feel him to be a unique all-synthesising culmination of the ...
... universe? These things are perfect and absolute and there can be nothing more perfect or more greatly absolute. Life and mind cannot surpass them; they are enough in themselves and to themselves: Brindavan would have been perfect even if Krishna had never trod there. It is the same with Life: the lion in its majesty and strength, the tiger in its splendid and formidable energy, the antelope in its grace ...
... t godhead, Paramatma, Para-brahma, Purushottama, the cosmic Deity, master of the universe, Vasudeva who is all, the immanent in the heart of all creatures, or the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realised identity? All that is not to me something philosophical or mental but a matter of daily and hourly realisation ...
... Godhead, Paramatma, Parabrahma, Purushottama, the cosmic Deity, master of the universe, Vasudeva who is all, the immanent in the heart of all creatures, or the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realised identity? All that is not to me something philosophical or mental but a matter of daily and hourly realisation ...
... Index Abercrombie, Lascelles, 177 Agastya, 384 Ahana, 69, 71,169, 619; earlier version, The Descent of Ahana, 620; dramatic cast, 620; the Divine Charter, 622; Eden and Brindavan, 623ff; a dream and a vision, 624; handling of the hexameter, 626ff Ahmed, Asanuddin, 259 Aiyar, S. Doraiswami, 530, 579, 706 Aiyar, V. Krishnaswami, 221 Aiyar, Nagaswami, 378 Aiyar ...
... even romantic. Not only poetry but every art perhaps. Then the statue of the Buddha carved in a rocky mountain loses itself and becomes some infinity of calm, as does the marble Radha-Krishna in the Brindavan of Bliss. Monet's painting of his dead wife still in the bed also greatly belongs to this superior class. Page 123 But the niskāmabhāva of Vyasa is altogether of a different quality ...
... romantic. Not only poetry but every art perhaps. Then the statue of the Buddha carved in a rocky mountain loses itself and becomes some infinity of calm, as does the marble Radha-Krishna in the Brindavan of Bliss. Monet's painting of his dead wife still in the bed also greatly belongs to this superior class. But the niṣkāmabhāva of Vyasa is altogether of a different quality than that of ...
... Aurobindo, speaking of the various modes of Krishna's being, first mentions the many-sided supreme reality that is Krishna of the Gita and then describes him as "the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realised identity".³Side by side with this "identity" we may observe how Sri Aurobindo concludes his explanation of... and so represents the spiritual or divine consciousness which it is her work to establish so that it may reign upon earth." 4 Once more the Master, the Mother, and the Godhead incarnate at Brindavan, Dwarka and Kurukshetra merge. From their personal oneness as well as the oneness of their work so repeatedly expressed, we should find it easy to equate with the Victory proper to Sri ...
... 30. ibid., p. 683. 31. ibid., p. 685. 32. ibid., p. 687. 33. ibid.., p. 611. 34. ibid., p. 689. Cf. Sri Aurobindo's Ahana: Brindavan arching o'er us where Shyama sports and rejoices. Inly the miracle trembles repeated; mistwalls are broken Hiding that country of God... ( Collected ...
... Good Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of Human Body Parvati's Tapasya Nachiketas Taittiriya Upanishad Sri Rama Sri Krishna in Brindavan Nala and Damayanti Raghuvamsham of Kalidasa Svapna Vasavadattam The Siege of Troy Gods & the World Homer and the Iliad -Sri Aurobindo and Ilion ...
... the Iliad — Sri Aurobindo and Ilion Catherine the Great Uniting Men —Jean Monnet Gods and the World Joan of Arc The Crucifixion Nachiketas Socrates Sri Krishna in Brindavan Other titles published by SAIIER and Shubhra Ketu Foundation ______________________________ The Aim of Life The Good Teacher and the Good Pupil Mystery and Excellence of ...
... transcendent Godhead, Paramatma, Parabrahma, Purushottama, the cosmic Deity, Master of the universe, Vasudeva who is all, the Immanent in the heart of all creatures, or the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realised identity?³ 25-2-1945 But what strange ideas again! – that I was born with a supramental temperament ...
... the only results. Moreover, even if on Kurukshetra’s field Krishna was weaponless, on other occasions he was by no means so. What can I say in the end but as Brahma said to Krishna in Brindaban, “Let those who know, know: what can I say save that your powers are beyond the range of my body, mind and speech. Page 94 “ All I know is that there is truth in the principle ...
... and significant colour, the colour of his aura when he manifests, —that is why he is called N ī l Krishna; the adjective does not mean that he was blue or dark in his physical body whether in Brindavan or Mathura or Dwarka! Violet is the radiance of Krishna's protection—that is why it brought to you a sense of peace. The Mother says that she always saw it when she was in communion with Krishna and ...
... I needed to touch something TRUER than all that. Towarnicki: What regions of India did you visit? Bengal, primarily. And I... well, I traveled all over India. I went up through Benaras, Brindavan, into the Himalayas. Not much in western India. But mostly the east and northeast. Towarnicki: For several months? It was very short. Very concentrated. Because I was really led immediately ...
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