... Chapter 2: Education Growing up with the Mother To Women About Their Body Sweet Mother, While handling children in the Group for Physical Education we meet certain problems with girl students. Most of these are suggestions put upon them by their friends, older girls, parents and the doctor. Please throw light on the following questions so that we may... a body, even if it is a woman’s body! Will a girl’s appearance change and become muscular like a muscular man’s and make her look ugly if she practises vigorous exercises? Weakness and fragility may look attractive in the view of a perverted mind, but it is not the truth of Nature nor the truth of the Spirit. If you have ever looked at the photos of the women gymnasts you will know what... efficiently. What attitude should a girl take towards her monthly periods? Should a girl participate in her normal programme of Physical Education during her periods? Why are some girls completely run down during their periods and suffer from pains in the lower back and abdomen while others may have slight or no inconvenience at all? How can a girl overcome her suffering and pains during ...
... a body, even if it is a woman's body! 6) Will a girl's appearance change and become muscular like a muscular man's and make her look ugly if she practises vigorous exercises? Weakness and fragility may look attractive in the view of a perverted mind, but it is not the truth of Nature nor the truth of the Spirit. If you have ever looked at the photos of the women gymnasts you will know what... certain problems with girl students. Most of these are suggestions put upon them by their friends, older girls, parents and the doctor. Please throw your light on the following questions so that we may be better equipped in our knowledge to execute our responsibilities more efficiently. 1) What attitude should a girl take towards her monthly periods? 2) Should a girl participate in her normal... during her periods? 3) Why are some girls completely run down during their periods and suffer from pains in the lower back and abdomen while others may have slight or no inconvenience at all? 4) How can a girl overcome her suffering and pains during periods? 5) Do you think there should be different types of exercises for boys and girls? Will a girl bring harm on Page 290 her ...
... for the Mother to make the girls put on shorts and shirts for the Playground exercises. She had to begin gently and gradually. In the beginning the girls learned to put on trousers; they used to do marching and exercises in trousers. Even today in the outside world, in many places in India especially, we see women, girls marching and doing the parade in saris. Our police women even today go on duty in... no respect for elderly people, no consideration for the women; they call each other merely by the name." But in reality, whatever it seemed like from outside, the consciousness, the attitude behind was different, and there were some people who felt it and appreciated it. Thus when someone in the Ashram called me by my name or an elderly woman by hers, evidently the feeling behind was full of respect... wrong use is often found in the movements of freedom outside in normal life, for example in the student movement or the women's emancipation movement. Now when women are fighting for freedom for themselves, they consider themselves as women fighting for freedom against men. "We are women, you are men; you enjoy privileges and rights, we are denied them; we want them, we claim them." In the youth movement ...
... for the Mother to make the girls put on shorts and shirts for the playground exercises. She had to begin gently and gradually. In the beginning the girls learnt to put on trousers, with trousers they used to do marching and exercises. Even today in the outside world, in many places in India specially, we see women, girls marching and doing the parade in saree. Our women-police even today are on duty... freedom of women to be equal to that of men. This was the lesson taught by the Mother. Long ago, some twenty-five years ago, a well-known leader of India, a great educationist came and saw our playground activities and made the remark: "I have travelled all over India, visited various educational institutions, seen women doing gymnastics but it is the first time that I see here in the Ashram girls doing... seen it anywhere else." Of course, it goes without saying, circus-girls are different. In other words people used to consider vaulting as a specially masculine virtue and along with it many other physical games and exercises. Today it is being gradually found that this is a superstition and the judgment is wrong. The Wimbledon women champions will bear witness. The most important thing is that you ...
... that asked for different types of education and different kinds of physical culture for boys and girls, even as she firmly discountenanced the only too common tendency of women to overemphasise their femineity and men their masculinity. For the Mother, as for Sri Aurobindo, men and women alike, boys and girls alike, were but vessels of the immortal spirit, and the whole aim of education - and of Yoga -... both in general terms about the physical education of girls and in specific terms on the particular points raised. 18 Page 438 There was little sense, the Mother felt, in the supposed boy-girl contrast being constantly projected before adolescent pupils in school or college. It would be far wiser to remember that both boys and girls were alike human beings, equally emanations of the Spirit... Nor is it necessary, in the name of the 'blessed feminine', to insulate girls from all association with boys. The organisation of separate sets of exercises for boys and girls would create more problems than it would solve, and might even congeal the superficial differences into unwholesome rigidities. Robust health in women couldn't possibly be inimical to beauty. It was but superstitious stupidity ...
... wanting to adopt another one for girls. Will a girl's appearance change and become muscular like a muscular man's and make her look ugly if she practises vigorous exercises? Weakness and fragility may look attractive in the view of a perverted mind, but it is not the truth of Nature nor the truth of the Spirit. If you have ever looked at the photos of the women gymnasts you will know what... Health exercises for Women and Girls Some answers from The Mother What should be the ideal of a woman's physical beauty? A perfect harmony in the proportions, suppleness and strength, grace and force, plasticity and endurance, and above all, an excellent health, unvarying and unchanging, which is the result of a pure soul, a happy trust in life and an... an unshakable faith in the Divine Grace. What should be the ideal of physical education for a girl from the point of view of her sex? I do not see why there should be any special ideal of physical education for girls other than for boys. Physical education has for its aim to develop all the possibilities of a human body, possibilities of harmony, strength, plasticity, cleverness, agility ...
... and in some countries, it is the young girls or young women who are taking the leading part. It has been sung by one of our poets that, so long as women are not awakened, there is no hope for India, Page 264 and I think it is for the most part true. Woman, as you know, represents the Shakti. In our Indian mythology and tradition, woman has always been considered as man's... l sense of man and woman. We must forget that. We must live in a higher consciousness where this distinction does not exist. At one time in India, I don't know how this concept originated, but there was a ban on women taking part in spiritual life. Perhaps you know the Sanskrit adage: 'Nari narakasya dwaram' - woman is the gate to hell. And 'Kamini', 'kanchan (woman and gold) have to be... further, to see that we have a woman as our Prime Minister. And you know how she is fighting tooth and nail, against the old guards who are standing in her way, for a new vision, for a new regeneration. So I may call it a new age - the Age of the Woman. Here in our Ashram, you must have noticed how a new life has been breathed into everything; how boys and girls are mixing freely and taking ...
... when he says that Savitri "recalls more the women of heroic poetry, such as Draupadi, Kunti and Vidula, than the brahmanical ideal of woman", 8 though it is doubtful whether even these, great as is their capacity to suffer and sacrifice, measure upto Savitri's incandescent purity of motive and action. If Savitri transcends the brahmanical ideal of woman because throughout she acts as a being essentially... ce that transcends all regional, sectarian or racial considerations. Savitri remains the heroine of legend to lovers of poetry, but she is also to the Hindus, to Hindu women especially, a very personal goddess, and to this day girls and wives perform the Savitri-vrata to ensure a happy married life for themselves. Rama is the hero of the Ramayana, but he is also the prince who became God to millions... shows how well she can time her actions, and her words, gestures and general strategy and particular tactics are those of an infallible General, a self-poised self-sustained Woman of Destiny. She is the darling daughter, the loving girl-wife, the solicitous daughter-in-law, no doubt; she forgets none of the duties of a daughter, of a wife, or of a daughter-in-law. Yet, even as she is ideally these, she ...
... publishing a few extracts from a brochure of Mother's entitled "To Women About Their Body". These are answers to questions on the sports education of women. The brochure opens with the following lines: For God's sake, can't you forget that you are a girl or a boy, and try to become a human being? What is the ideal for a girl, from the point of view of physical education? I don't see why... disposal of the conscious will. This programme is excellent for all human beings equally; there is no reason for wanting to have another one for girls. What part will man and woman play in the new life? What relations will they have? Why make a distinction between the two? They are both human beings trying to become fit instruments for the divine work, above questions of sex, caste, creed and nationality;... final, and absolute, then we can try to develop consciousness on another line. Unfortunately, we have noticed one thing. As the years pass and the little girls grow up into big girls, suddenly we find that they begin to remember that they are girls, that they must be pretty, they must please, must dress up in a special way, put on little affectations to attract attention―and the whole result of our ...
... the ages, Poured to the sea. Early at dawn by her ghauts the women of Mithila gathered. There they filled their gurgling jars, or gilding the Ganges Bathed in her waters and laughed as they bathed there clamouring, dashing Dew of her coolness in eyes of each other: the banks called sweetly Mad with the musical laughter of girls and joy of their crying, Low melodious cries. As when in a wood... and flitting, full of sweet clamour, Full of the wine of life, even such was the sweetness and clamour, Women bathing close by the ghauts of the radiant Ganges, Golden-limbed or white or darker than olives when ripest, Lovely of face or of mood, but all sweethearted and happy Aryan women. One there seemed of another moulding Who was aloof from the crowd and the chaos of cheerful faces. She at... 1900-1909) Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1900-1906) Collected Poems Suddenly Out from the Wonderful East Suddenly out from the wonderful East like a woman exulting Dawn stepped forth with a smile on her lips, and the glory of morning Hovered over the hills; then sweet grew air with the breezes, Sweet and keen as a wild swift virgin; the wind walked ...
... turn for lifting the elemental urge to a high level. All during his impressionable adolescence in Australia where the relations between men and women were often facile, that instinct was at play. One night, on board a ship, he found himself alone with a girl. They walked once or twice up and down the deck, and she remarked to him by way of opening the conversation: "Ain't the moon lovely?" Such a feeling... who is not keenly aware of all the defects of a lovely thing which ravishes him is but a crude critic, whose opinion hardly counts. My attitude is the same even in love. The women whom I have loved and almost worshipped are women of whose defects I have been precisely and poignantly aware. The lover who is not thus aware seems to me a crude sort of lover, scarcely even a lover at all, merely the victim... approach he knew to intimacy with a strange woman. At another time, in London, he was asked by a streetwalker to accompany her home. Out of curiosity he went. But when he found himself in her apartment he could not fulfil her expectations. Putting his money on the table he left her forthwith. Even in his long friendship with that wonderful and beautiful woman, Olive Schreiner, the author of An African ...
... e and in the formative imagination. They have to fade out. Cannot one admire the beauty of women without any special sex attraction? If one admires all beautiful things, not women only, without desire — then there would be no harm. But specially applied to women, it is a relic of the "sex appeal". Talking with the other sex, one's consciousness does not... all without any sense of sex. I was walking on the road when some local women of low class passed by near me. Immediately Page 202 I felt a vehement sexual sensation in the form of pain. By the time they had gone far the sensation too had left me. Was it due to the women? If so, how could my body come in their influence without my ever taking any interest in... of the forces, which are around them. The sexual thoughts and sensations do not spare me even when I am attending Purani's and Kanai's classes! My vital is attracted toward some girls. How is it that my sexual centre has opened so widely that anything may enter? It is rather that you have become more conscious of the things that were coming. ...
... Freedom Movement Kittur Rani Chinnamma She was the first woman independence activist of India. She stood all alone with a vibrant fiery eye against the British Empire. She did not succeed in driving them away, but she did inspire many women to rise against the British rule. She was Chennamma Queen of the princely state of Kittur in Karnataka. Today... Today she is well known as Kittur Rani Chennamma. Chennamma (1778-1829 CE ) was born at Kakati (Belgaum district) and had the proper education that the girls of the ruling class received in those times. She married Mallasarja Desai, ruler of Kittur at the age of 15. After his death, his son Shivalingarudra Sarja, who had no children, adopted a boy, Shivalingappa who was his relative. Shi... monuments and statues and also as an important archaeological site. The Kittur Chennamma Fort stands as evidence of the great freedom struggle that was led by Rani Chennamma and as a symbol of bravery and women's pride. 1 Page 40 HOME ...
... of women. I am old and grey in the council and battle. She has nothing for me; what shall I do with her boon of peace and her promptings of love and beauty? Mother, arise, Tanyth the terrible! shake the world with thy whisper, loom in the heavens, madden men's hearts with the thirst of blood, the rapture of death and the joy of the killing. We will give thee thy choice of the captives, women and... swords on the walls of our mansions. The young men have returned unhurt, the girls of Asilon cry through the corn sweet and high to the hearts of their lovers. Goddess Leda, lady of laughter, lady of bliss! in the chambers of love, in the song of the bridal, in the gardens and by the delightful streams where boy and girl look into each other's eyes, speak low to the heart, enter in. Drive out hatred... and men to fall and to bleed on thy altar. Tanyth, lady of death, queen of the battle! there is a joy in the clash of death that is more than woman's sweet embrace, a pleasure in pain that the touch of her lips cannot give us; lovelier far is the body torn by the spears than her white limbs covered with shining gems. Tanyth's skulls are more than the garland upon thy breasts, O Leda. TURIU It ...
... suddenly rose and thundered, "What the world wants today is twenty men and women who can dare to stand in the street yonder and say that they possess nothing but God. Who will go?" Another day, he was talking about the women of India, and their lack of education. He turned to Margaret and said, "I have plans for the women of my own country in which you, I think, could be of great help to me... important book Plant Response. Sister Nivedita believed that India was the land of great women and she believed that once the women of India awoke the country would rise again. In this context, it is not surprising that she wanted to tell the story of one of the most heroic and purest of Indian women, Damayanti. Page 76 Sri Aurobindo had first met Sister Nivedita in Baroda when... away from him. Slowly she learned to meditate; she learned to be humble. In a house situated opposite of that of Sarada Devi, Nivedita opened a school for girls (November 1898). She started her work earnestly. She taught the little girls reading and writing and introduced painting, clay work and sewing. The following March, bubonic plague raged in Calcutta. Swami Vivekananda immediately set his ...
... consented. Then she disclosed: "The wretched woman has vanished without paying her heavy bills. She is a great thief. Moreover, I telephoned the office in the West End where she was supposed to start her new work. They said that the woman had not turned up. She took a handsome amount from the office in advance. I also found that she had borrowed money from some girls here and never returned it." Now the pieces... me told me in his bass-tone: "Miss, hasn't she got a fabulous figure?" I smiled and nodded. This reminds me of Rodin's words on a nude: "The beauty of a naked woman is the beauty of God." I was amazed to see old men and women above sixty or seventy coming to learn art so enthusiastically. I believe that in Western countries people go on progressing regardless of their age. They never waste... But now my colleges were within walking distance, which was very convenient. I happened to meet an English woman at the YWCA. She seemed to be a bundle of nerves. She came into my room, which I did not approve. She did not budge. As I felt it was impolite to be rude to an elderly woman, I let her stay. Meanwhile I went to take my bath. It struck me in a flash of illumination that I must take ...
... naked women, pure-blooded but weak and lustful, who were being sexually assaulted by ape-like monsters. Hitler had written in Mein Kampf about the black-haired Jewish young man who lay in wait for hours to disgrace the unsuspecting Aryan girl with his blood and steal her from her Volk; and in his early speeches he kept hammering on this theme, and spoke of the pimps, “merchants of young girls”, who... lords would emanate … But popular anti-Semitic propaganda was to go one better: it fused the images of Jewish hunger for money with the lust for Aryan women. The resulting image widely used as propaganda pictured a fat Jewish banker caressing a blond woman on his knee.” 541 In his Histoire de l’antisémitisme, Léon Poliakov shows how the handling of money became, in the course of European history,... “Cargo” The literature about Nazism is abundant with instances of such absurdity – if “absurdity” is the right word. For instance, Anna Maria Sigmund, in her biographies of prominent Nazi women, quotes the father of Gerda Bormann as saying: “The Jew is not a human being. He is an element of decay. Just as the fission fungus chooses rotten wood to settle and destroys its tissue, just so the ...
... say: as usual? It must not be forgotten that if women were rare on the benches of the university, young foreign women were even more so. A master's degree in physics, a master's degree in mathematics, a fellowship in secondary education, and a study on the magnetic properties of steel, this is what had been achieved by this young woman, 29 years old, who had arrived in Paris five years earlier... little woman in a black cotton dress, with the saddest face I had ever looked upon. Her kind, patient, beautiful face had the detached expression of a scholar. Suddenly, I felt like an intruder. My timidity exceeded her own, I had been a trained interrogator for twenty years, but I could not ask a single question of this gentle woman in a black cotton dress. I tried to explain that American women were... the human mission towards which her gaze had been trained. An immense enthusiasm gave this girl of twenty-six the power to ignore the trials and privations she endured; to magnify her sordid existence into magic. At the Faculty of Sciences at the Sorbonne there were very few young women on the benches of the amphitheatre when, in 1893, Marie received first place as Master of Physics ...
... perhaps a little vainglorious of their so-called advantages, may despise the apparent weakness of women (although even this exterior weakness is not quite certain) but: "Do what he may, the superman will have to be born of woman all the same", someone said very rightly. The superman shall be born of woman, this is a big unquestionable truth; but it is not enough to be proud of this truth, we must clearly... ed—and rightly—the hopes for the future. They are the living promise of growing prosperity for the country. Therefore, the most important work assigned to women in Japan is child-making. Maternity is considered as the principal role of woman. But this is true only so long as we understand what is meant by the word maternity. For to bring children into the world as rabbits do their young—instinctively... the effect of physical environment was recognised and studied long ago. It is by surrounding women with forms of art and beauty that, little by little, the ancient Greeks created the exceptionally harmonious race that they were. Individual instances of the same fact are numerous. It is not rare to see a woman who, while pregnant, had looked at constantly and admired a beautiful picture or statue, giving ...
... about someone in my uncle's family. I mean Hatkhola Dutta's children. The girl was only thirteen when she first delivered. She got a boy, who I saw when he was thirteen or fourteen. He was very tall, healthy and handsome. The rest of the children, among them three girls, were a little shorter but all handsome. The three girls were the most beautiful I have ever seen and all the children were remarkable... is no longer plastic. SRI AUROBINDO: You mean that the girl should always be educated with a view to marriage and she should have no individuality of her own? Most women, of course, think only of marriage and in India they do not have their own individuality. NIRODBARAN: Another interesting argument against birth control is advanced by people who ask: "In cases where an illustrious son is born... meeting. Another point in favour of early marriage is that the girl being quite young can be moulded and adapted to the family and there is thus more prospect of happiness. SATYENDRA: That is a point because of the joint-family system. NIRODBARAN: No, even otherwise it tends to make the married life of the couple happy. If the girl is already grown up, she has an individuality of her own and is ...
... consciousness why one should not speak and act between men and women without the least reference to sex. You can have right relations with women only when you can forget that they are women and meet them as human beings—when you can forget sex in your feeling and action towards them. All that [ mental excitement when a man meets a woman ] happens because the vital is conscious of sex in the approach... to draw his attention and fix it on the woman, hook and draw him in a less or greater degree. The intention may not be at all conscious in the woman's mind, that is to say, it may not be clear or even present to her mind,—it may be merely instinctive or subconscious. There need be no physical sexual intention, only the vital in spontaneous movement. All women of a strongly vital temperament (and X... The correspondent asked whether there was any "basic truth" in these two ideas: first, that in a relationship the woman should surrender to the man, and second, that a man has a right to be attracted to several women at a time, whereas a woman should be devoted to one man alone.—Ed. ...
... beautiful woman fleeing, holding two children by either hand, preceded by a third—though this was not clearly seen—and followed by a little child, a girl with her cloth in her hand. All are of the female sex. In their flight they have upset a handsome & well-dressed young man, who was also fleeing across the line of their flight and now lies sprawling on his back. Behind the woman & her girls an elderly... shows that not slaughter, but prisoners & slaves are the object of the raid. The young man is evidently taken prisoner by the pursuer who has turned aside from the women to this, possibly, more valuable booty. In the third image the little girl of the first is seen captured by a young & handsome barbarian who has managed to comfort and soothe her & is persuading her to lead him to the secret refuge of... vessels. The houseboat is a houseraft & entirely different in structure from the modern houseboat; the craft in which the man & girl in another image are seen crossing the river is also a raft & not a boat. The Gandharvas, when first seen, are robed differently in the males & the women; the former have dresses like the older styles of European dress, the latter wear loose & light classical draperies—an a ...
... monthly journal, things like these were reported: From Peshawar : Two ladies taught Hindi to women and children two hours a day. Some men looked after sick people at home or in hospital, took care of cows and picked up pieces of broken glass from the road. From Moga : Two ladies taught Hindi to girls. Men fed animals and planted trees. One member of the Samaj gave free lessons to a poor working-man... Headless creatures with many arms and legs danced dreadful dances over the earth; in lakes and wells the water was turned to blood; rivers flowed upstream instead of downstream; women looked like men, and men like women. Here the poet teaches us that the suffering undergone by one being spreads through a wide, wide world. There was sympathy between the fallen king and thousands of living creatures... for no one knew how to comfort him. "Ah," he exclaimed suddenly, "I have found a way. Order my people to stop wearing red clothes unless they have need of my help. So whenever I see a man or a woman dressed in red, I shall know that it is an appeal to me; my deaf ears will hear it and I shall take care that help is given to the distressed." The kind-hearted Emperor did not cease to do his work ...
... Thy heart being spared. It was no valiant thought, No worthy escape for Swegn. Aslaug and Hertha, Remove your outer robes. SWEGN What must I see? ERIC As dancing-girls these women came to me. As dancing-girls I keep them. Thou shalt see Aslaug of Norway at her trade—to dance Before me and my courtiers. That begins, There's more behind, unless thou change thy mood. SWEGN Thou... Thou art my dancing-girl and nothing more? Assume this chain, this necklace, for thy life. Nor think it even thy price. She dashes the necklace to the ground. Thou art not subtle! ASLAUG ( agitated ) It is not so that women's hearts are wooed. ERIC Yet so I woo thee, so do all men woo Enamoured of what thou hast claimed to be. Art thou the dancing-girl of Norway still Or some... I am master of my Fate. ASLAUG Too little, who are not masters of ourselves! ERIC Art thou that dancing-woman, Aslaug, yet? ASLAUG I am the dancing-girl who sought thee, yet, Eric. ERIC It may be still the swiftest way. Let then my dancing-woman dance for me Tonight in my chambers. I will see the thing Her dancing means and tear its mystery out. ASLAUG If thou ...
... a fine portrait of the Queen as a young girl and smilingly remarked that she had a striking resemblance to that ancient Queen. The toilet-case, and particularly the comb, appeared to be strangely familiar to the Mother. About 2300 years ago, Queen Hatshepsut ascended the throne of Egypt at a time when the word 'Queen' did not exist. She was the first woman to rule over Egypt. In the hieroglyphic... Standing in front of a portrait of Queen Hatshepsut, the Mother told us the following story when she came to the Library to open an exhibition on "Ancient Egypt" in August 1954: When she was a girl of about eight or ten, she and her brother (Matteo Alfassa) were taken one day by their teacher to the famous Louvre Museum in Paris. On the ground floor are the galleries of Egyptian antiquities. As... god and no image of traditional worshipping. In this new city, Akhnaton wanted everybody to be equal: Egyptians and foreigners (many of whom were attracted there), king and common people, men and women. Artists and craftsmen received support and encouragement to express their skills fully. Money was not the sovereign ruler. Soldiers did other jobs than war. It went on for 22 years, amidst growing ...
... the worldly life and knew what love was, particularly woman's love, from direct experience. As soon as he met the destined woman he chose her at a single glance. While in the case of Savitri love met her in the wilderness, in the case of Sri Aurobindo love met him in the heart of a town from a simple girl unknown and unaccomplished, a common girl according to the father, but rich indeed in soul-quality... paper that he would marry a girl of a Hindu family according to Hindu Page 2 rites. He had already become a name in Calcutta. Sri Aurobindo's insistence on marrying a Hindu girl according to Hindu rites is worth noting. I believe that Bankim's novels which he had read soon after returning from England gave him an insight into the character of Hindu women in Bengal. For, till then, he... Sri Aurobindo set before Mrinalini, a girl of eighteen years at that time. Today this ideal has undergone a tremendous change, has turned a somersault, so to say. Woman demands equality with man. This is the Yuga-dharma. Of course, Sri Aurobindo does not mean that any and every husband has to be accepted as a god. He had Page 6 also spoken of woman being subjected to the yoke of man's tyranny ...
... Then she began to conduct music with a small and beautiful stick. There were three girls around her; one of them was playing on a harmonium and the other two on tamburas. While directing the music the Mother was also singing, but mostly in a trance. Am I right in taking those three girls as the Mother's presiding Shaktis? Yes. Page 222 Was... impressions thrown out on the vital plane. I am told by S that the people we see in our dreams are sometimes parts of our own being, and that the mind gives them the forms of men or women, with whom we are acquainted on the physical plane. Is it true? It is not parts of our own real "being" usually. It is different forces and forms of nature — whether of Page... commonplace dreams? No. It can go on behind the surface. In a dream I saw that it was night and I was sleeping on the mosquito-curtained cot. I found beside my cot some women of exquisite beauty playing. Page 225 I could not make out if they were angels or goddesses. Their bodies were filled with superhuman light. It seemed they had some ...
... table; he lay unconscious. In the meantime, what happened on the other side was a terrible railway disaster: the two women were involved in it. Page 242 The trains were smashed and all the passengers killed or mortally wounded. But, curious to say, the young woman, the fiancée, was found, living and almost unscathed, in the midst of the debris, within a sort of cover made by a... effectivity of material energy. When it needs physical conditions it creates them, as the protective vital energy of the young man created the physical disposition of objects that formed a covert for the girl. In the present case, the phenomenon happened automatically without any premeditation on the part of the persons concerned; because the sympathy between the two was so strong, other considerations... is most close to the body and almost as concrete as physical energy but much more powerful and effective. This vital power concentrated and projected out of him acted as a veritable shield over the woman. The young man himself, curious to say, bore marks of bruises upon his head as if a huge load had fallen upon it. A strong impact upon the vital can and does leave scars upon the material body: it is ...
... resting it on the table; he lay unconscious. In the meantime, what happened on the other side was a terrible railway disaster: the two women were involved in it. The trains were smashed and all passengers killed or mortally wounded. But, curious to say, the young woman, the fiancee, was found, living and almost unscathed, in the midst of the debris, within a sort of cover made by a fallen beam that... effectivity of material energy. When it needs physical conditions it creates them, as the protective vital energy of the young man created the physical disposition of objects that formed a covert for the girl. In the present case, the phenomenon happened automatically, without any premeditation on the part of the persons concerned; because the sympathy between the two was so strong, other cons... most close to the body and almost as concrete as physical energy but much more powerful and effective. This vital power concentrated and projected out of him acted as a veritable shield over the woman. The young man himself, curious to say, bore marks of bruises upon his head as if a huge load had fallen upon it. A strong impact upon the vital can and does leave scars upon the material body: it ...
... exercises without a single hitch or a single failure.... She told me that it was the Calcutta killings and the bestial abominations perpetrated on our helpless women and children that made her think of organizing the students in her schools, boys and girls, into a corps capable of self-defence. At the root is the great Vedic idea that, without a strong body, you cannot have a strong soul, undaunted in danger... exhibition of games and physical exercises by Page 462 the boys and girls of the Ashram School. I said to myself, "If all the schools were like this, won't India be unassailable by internal foes or external?" The parades were excellent. The exercises were gone through not merely efficiently but cheerfully. The girls... performed hazardous exercises like vaulting. Though there was risk of accident... non-violence of the weak? Is it not a futile experiment I am conducting? What if, when the fury bursts, not a man, woman or child is safe and every man's hand is raised against his neighbour? The Mahatma had been prophetic indeed, and on 15 August and the days following "not a man, woman or child" was safe and every man's hand was raised against his brother and his neighbour. Also, it meant a colossal ...
... in the least broken in the course of this involvement with women. Then, why did he do it? It was perhaps to show the misery of enslavement that sexuality brings to lovers and the limits to which the perversity of women can descend in their love-sports. 36-37. While the Gopis thus moved about wailing like demented people, the particular woman, taking whom Śrī Krsna had deserted the others, also became... became subject to inordinate pride. She thought: "I am the pick among women. For among all these women who have ascended Cupid's chariot, our dear one has selected me for his special favour." 38. After walking a little distance in the forest with him, that woman moved by self-conceit said to Śrī Krsna, "I cannot walk any longer. You may carry me to whichever place you want to go." 39. Śrī Krsna... great affection for his parents, but these in themselves will not be able to bring him back to Gokula, much less to us, mere country-bred girls. For Śrī Krsna's mind will be stolen away and held captive by the sweet, honey-dripping utterances of the city-bred women of Mathura as also by their bashful looks and amorous movements. 25. Surely, tomorrow shall witness a great festival for the eyes of the ...
... ‘While stalwart Elizabethan women were battling it out on the front lines of the household, Queen Elizabeth was proving that a woman was more than capable of mastering a kingdom – and showing herself to be an almighty exception to the rules that governed women’s lives.’ 44 As she once declared in front of her troops: ‘I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach... ever she did express the same it was at present, in coupling mildness with majesty as she did, and in stately stooping to the meanest sort.’ 43 But Elizabeth was a woman, and her sex was ‘an almost desperate impediment.’ Women in sixteenth-century England – and in other countries too – had no vote, few legal rights, and an extremely limited chance of ever getting an education, much less a job... seventeen years of age, at the head of an army of more than ten thousand men. And this was at a time when Catholic theologians still doubted not only whether women had a soul but whether they were human beings, and when it was considered blasphemous for women to wear men’s clothes. Joan with her army went to liberate Orléans, which was completely surrounded by English troops and about to surrender. On 29 ...
... this generous gesture achieved. Immediately after the War the women were given access to the ballot-box. What was the comment of Bernard Shaw? He said, "Thank God women are at last equal to men. I can now kick a woman with impunity." This hits us in the eye with the truth that being officially equal is not an unmitigated advantage for women and can in fact rob them of certain privileges and superiorities... Suffragettes were the women who under leaders like Mrs. Pankhurst claimed the right of suffrage, the right to vote. In the first decade of the present century Englishwomen woke up to a sense of inferiority because men could go to the polling booth and women could not. In England today women can influence elections by their votes and even sit in Parliament. In France women have had no suffrage... resolute skirted fighters for the right to vote. Demonstrations were held in public Page 49 and women brandishing their umbrellas went about clamouring for justice and equality. They would, for instance, confront a police-man and ask him if he was for granting the vote to women. If he did not say "Yes" he would get his moustaches twisted. Even the King became a target for criticism ...
... the facts that forced Maurice and Mathilde out of the country, remains unknown. Their settling down in Paris was prepared by a remarkable woman, namely Mira Ismalun née Pinto, 3 Mathilde’s mother. She was one of the very first emancipated Egyptian women and dared to travel abroad unaccompanied. She became a kind of celebrity at all the West European ‘in’ places of the period and befriended countless... the Parisian haute couture, then of quite recent origin, and of the new Parisian department stores such as La Samaritaine and Au Bon Marché, were worn and imitated wherever men, and especially women, dressed in the Western way. The French language was spoken in the upper circles of all European countries and used as the global diplomatic language. And although France had suffered a traumatic defeat... golden robe, much longer than myself; and as I rose higher, the robe would grow longer and spread out in a circle around me to form something like an immense cupola over the city. Then I would see men, women, children, old men, sick and unfortunate people coming out from everywhere; they would gather under the outspread robe, begging for help, telling of their miseries, their suffering, their hardships ...
... could not have been easy for a girl-child. How did Tara manage? What was the methodology of the Mother in educating a child? Reading this book gave me quite a few existential shocks. For forty years I have known Chachaji’s family and during all these decades I have been quoting the Mother’s answers to questions on flowers, on the ideal of woman’s beauty, on women and physical exercises, on education... would be upset if students remained dumb as if the lesson had just flown away with the wind. Tara asks a variety of questions: how to teach, how to manage exceptional children, the nagging worries a woman has about her body, the strength needed to come to terms with the physical loss of a dear one. The answers are dipped in the molten gold of Truth and hence one finds a rapier-sharpness in the replies ...
... with you." Page 10 Amid the western ocean lies a little island valued for its valuable forests. One radiant summer's day, a young girl is walking slowly in the shade of the wonderful trees. Her name is Liane and she is fair among women; her lithe body sways gracefully beneath light garments, her face, whose delicate skin seems paler for her carmine lips, is crowned with a heavy coil... won the heart of the girl—now she can love no other. Since then she has been waiting and hoping; it is to be free to dream of the handsome face seen in the night that she is walking amid the solitude of the lofty woods. The dazzling sunlight cannot pierce the thick foliage; the silence is hardly broken by the light rustle of the moss beneath the footsteps of the walking girl; all sleeps in the heavy... boat which awaits them, drawn up on the sand. Two strong oarsmen put it to sea and soon bring them alongside the vessel. Only as she sees the little island disappearing below the horizon does the girl say to her companion: "I was waiting for you, and now that you have come, I have followed you without question. We are made for each other. I feel it, I know it, and I know also that now and forever ...
... students; in 1764 a school for boys was opened in St. Petersburg, and in 1765 a school for girls; in 1764 the Smolny Monastery was transformed into the Smolny Institute for girls of the nobility — an echo of Mme. de Maintenon's St.-Cyr; Catherine was the first Russian ruler to do anything for the education of women. Baffled by the dearth of qualified teachers, she sent Russian students to study pedagogy... estimate of an English historian Catherine was "the only woman ruler who has surpassed England's Elizabeth in ability, and equaled her in the enduring significance of her work." "She was," said a German historian, "every inch a 'political being,' unmatched by anyone of her sex in modern history, and yet at the same time a thorough woman and a great lady." We may apply to her the magnanimous principle ...
... word in The mouths of men foretold That a girl's beauty was too great a burden Page 188 For one poor boat to hold. Come, make you bear, throw off your robes, each maiden; Your naked beauties bring, Lighten your bodies of their sweets o'erladen; Then I'll resume rowing. Girls, you have made me drunk with milk and sweetness, ... slave with words. O me! his eyebrows curved like bows! 0me! his panther body bright! Love from his sidelong glances goes And takes girls prisoners at sight. He speaks with little magic smiles That force a girl's heart from her breast. How many sweet ways he beguiles, 1know; they cannot be expressed. Burning he tore me from my bed And to his... Braja's girls, And I will make thee Radha then, A laughing child's face set with lovely curls. Then I will love thee and then leave; Under the Codome's boughs when thou goest by Bound to the water morn or eve, Lean on that tree fluting melodiously. Thou shalt hear me and fall at sight Under my charm; my voice shall wholly move Thy simple girl's heart to ...
... ignorance. Three women are introduced in this connection. The swarthy woman, Night; the efflorescent damsel, Dawn; and, mediating between them, Savitri, who is human as well as divine. Night is like Lankini, the demoness-deity of Ravana's Lanka. It is next to impossible to detect life in any form or cultivate consciousness of any kind in this unintelligible chaos. This woman clad in funereal... death, thus scoring a victory over the seeming inexorability of Fate, is here swathed in the robes of Vedantic metaphysics and given a poetic reincarnation. Savitri thus evokes, not only the heroic girl-wife of immemorial legend, but also our Universal Mother who bears with infinite patience and immaculate strength the trials and tribulations of mortality and succeeds in the end in vouchsafing immortality... retreating and vanishing. And Dawn heralds the Day, even as Aruna heralds Surya. This sublime picture of Dawn is verily infused with the symbolism of growth in consciousness: that is, Woman inconscient waking up from her stupor and becoming slowly transformed into the superconscient goddess. Sri Aurobindo's aim in retelling the familiar story of Savitri is to show how the mind that at ...
... The great truth proclaimed under the thin guise of an eastern allegory is that a True Woman's Love is not conquered by Death. The story is known by Hindu women high and low, rich and poor in all parts of India: and on a certain night in the year millions of Hindu women celebrate a rite in honour of the woman whose love was not conquered by death. Legends like these, though they take away from... saintly woman broke my bondage worse than death, By my sins she suffers exile and misfortune's freezing breath! Does thou, sage and saintly rishi, know of wife or woman born, By such nameless sorrow smitten, by such strange misfortune tom. Hast thou in thy ancient legends heard of true and faithful wife, With a stronger wife's affection, with a sadder woman's life?"... but a woman's love is strong, With her hands upon her bosom thus she spake with quivering tongue: "More than mortal is thy glory! If a radiant god thou be, Tell me what bright name thou bearest, what thy message unto me." "Know me," thus responded Yama, "mighty monarch of the dead, Mortals leaving earthly mansion to my darksome realms are led. Since with woman's full ...
... Praxilla! women of the household! Bring out the abominable Andromeda Who brought the woe on Syria. Why should you vainly Be ripped and mangled? CRIES OF WOMEN Bring out Andromeda! Bring out the harlot's daughter, bring her out! CRIES OF MEN Andromeda! Andromeda! Andromeda! Bring out this vile Andromeda to die! Andromeda enters from the inner Palace, followed by slave-girls entreating... of Syria. ANDROMEDA - daughter of Cepheus and Cassiopea. CYDONE - mistress of Iolaus. PRAXILLA - head of the palace household in the women's apartments. DIOMEDE - a slave-girl, servant and playmate of Andromeda. BALTIS, PASITHEA - Syrian women. SCENE. - The city of Cepheus, the seashore, the temple of Poseidon on the headland and the surrounding country. Page 329 Prologue... his payment in one small white coin Mounted with gold; and more he will not ask for. CASSIOPEA Your name's Cydone, child? your face is strange. You are not of the slave-girls. CYDONE O I am! Iolaus' slave-girl, though he calls me sometimes His queen: but that is only to beguile me. ANDROMEDA Oh, mother, you must know my sweet Cydone. Page 509 I shall think you love ...
... made Woman's superior that he might control her, In strength to exact obedience and in wisdom To guide her will, in wit to keep her silent, Three Herculean labours. O were women Once loose, they would new-deluge earth with words, Sapiently base creation on its apex, Logic would be new-modelled, arithmetic Grow drunk and reason despairing abdicate. No thunderbolt could stop a woman's will,... never credit me, child, if I did not silence him with a few stale pertnesses a market-girl might have devised for her customers. A wit, truly! and not a word in his mouth bullet-head Pedro could not better. ISMENIA Distraction! What is this to Antonio? Sure, your wits are bewildered, Brigida. What said Antonio? Girl, I am on thorns. BRIGIDA I am coming to that as fast as possible. Jesus! What... protest. I have heard you. And now, my lords. LORDS Your Highness is obeyed. KING PHILIP Tell on, Antonio. Who perform the masque? BELTRAN That can I tell Your Highness; rural girls, The daughters of the soil, whom country air Has given the red-blooded health to bloom. Full of our Spanish sunlight are they, voiced Like Junos and will make our ladies pale Before them. And there's ...
... in my mouth and the Mother's! 25 November 1933 While looking at pictures of women in magazines, I sometimes feel sexual sensations. Do you want me to avoid looking or to overcome this influence? You had better get rid of the influence. It won't do not to be able to look at a woman or a picture of a woman without getting sexual sensations—you must get rid of that. 4 December 1933 I... before she can return to the spiritual. There was never any suggestion from here that the girl should come to Pondicherry; how is it that it has been raised over there? 25 April 1930 No member of the Asram can while he is a member contract a marriage whether it is spiritual or sexual or bring in a woman to be his life-companion or establish such a relation with anyone outside. This is no part... through woman, binds the soul to the earth, she replied, "Why woman? Through man as well!" Yes, man as well—but is there not something which makes woman a more convenient, capacious and dangerous tool in its hand? That is what man thinks; it is his experience. Woman's experience is that man is the dangerous animal and instrument of all her sufferings and downfalls. It is not man or woman; it is ...
... MELANDER - a sylvan poet. FORESTERS, COURTIERS. ALACIEL - the witch of Ilni. GUENDOLEN - her sister. MYRTIL, DORIS, ERMENILD - forest damsels. GIRLS OF THE FOREST. Page 751 Act I Scene I The woodlands of Ilni. Girls and youths dancing. Song Under the darkling tree Who danceth with thee, Sister say? His hair is the sweet sunlight, His eyes a starry... spirit of disdain must sleep; For subtler logic drops in simple words From woman's tongue, than phraseful orator Or fine scholastic wit may offer up. ALACIEL Sweet youth, why should I net you with deceit? Ah yet, in truth you are too beautiful! Come, you are skilled in phrases, are you not? You dice with women's hearts—they tell me 'tis A pastime much in vogue with idle youths. (The philtre... of close-heapèd thyme, A murmurous haven sailed by merchant bees, Are crumbling into fragrance and young flowers Make fat by their decay the greedy earth, While golden youths and silver feet of girls Pass fluttering as with glimpse of gorgeous hues A fleet of moths on emigrating winds. There you shall see upon the pearled grass The forest antelope, brown Ermenild, Iamblichus the honey-hearted ...
... FAREED Girl, father! such a girl! a girl of girls! Page 12 Buy me my girl! ALMUENE What girl, you leaping madcap? FAREED In the slave-market for ten thousand pieces. Such hands! such eyes! such hips! such legs! I am Impatient till my elbows meet around her. ALMUENE My amorous wagtail! What, my pretty hunchback, You have your trophies too among the girls No less... locks, my burglar? FAREED You have given me, You and my mother, such a wicked hump To walk about with, the girls jeer at me. I have only a chance with blind ones. 'Tis a shame. ALMUENE How will you make your slave-girl love you, hunch? FAREED She'll be my slave-girl and she'll have to love me. ALMUENE Whom would you marry, hunchback, for a wager? Will the King's daughter... go to them. AMEENA My son will yet be saved. Exeunt. Page 167 Scene V Bagdad. A room in the Caliph's harem. Anice, with many slave-girls attending on her. ANICE Girls, is he passing? A SLAVE-GIRL He is passing. ANICE Quick, my lute! Song The Emperor of Roum is great; The Caliph has a mighty State; But One is greater, to Whom ...
... die. Eunice works here To thwart you; she is for Antiochus. TIMOCLES All, all are for Antiochus, the crown, And Syria and men's homage, women's hearts And life and sweetness and my love. PHAYLLUS Young prince, Be more a man. Besiege the girl with gifts And graces; woo her like a queen or force her Like what she is, a slave. Be strong, be sudden, Forestalling this proud brother. ... What I shall do with my own slave-girl here In Antioch, in my palace? Queen of Syria, This was ignobly done. CLEOPATRA I know you do not love me; in your cold heart Love finds no home; but still I am your mother. You will respect me thus when you are king? ANTIOCHUS I will respect you in your place, enshrined In your apartments, governing your women, Not Syria. CLEOPATRA Leave... harlot, Thy rose-faced beauty! Thou art not Rodogune. CLEONE What is this madness? TIMOCLES Hence! leave me! I am sick Of thy gold and roses. PHAYLLUS Go, women, from the room; The King is ill. Go, girl, leave him to me. All go, Cleone reluctantly, leaving Phayllus with Timocles. TIMOCLES I will not bear it any more. Give me my love Or let me die. PHAYLLUS ...
... She did become at seventeen— seventeen!— the commander of the royal army of France, at a time in the Middle Ages when women were strictly confined to domestic chores. Indeed, difficult to believe. How could it happen? And, further, how could this totally inexperienced girl conduct herself creditably as the head of the army, to the extent of being accepted as their leader by tough, battle-tested... splendid trade of war, not old and broken men-at-arms, despairing survivors of an age-long accumulation of monotonous defeats ; but Joan of Arc, a mere child in years, ignorant, unlettered, a poor village girl unknown and without influence, found a great nation lying in chains, helpless and hopeless under an alien domination, its treasury bankrupt, its soldiers disheartened and dispersed, all spirit torpid... Arc and they will blossom in due course. Her story does evoke a mystery, the mystery of divine intervention on earth. How else to explain what happened? Nobody can explain how a young peasant-girl who hardly moved from her village could know how to place artillery most effectively, as it is said in a testimony given during the trial of her rehabilitation. It can only be that she was a transparent ...
... form groups or families consisting of a man, a woman and children. When does the mother begin to love her child? At the beginning of his life. When does the child begin to love his mother? Not at the same time. First he must learn to feel, to think and act. Then he learns to love his mother and his father as well. We are told about a little girl of seventeen months who ran Page 263 ... Lord well-pleased and well-pleasing, enter among my servants and enjoy my paradise." How sweet to the ears of Mohammed is the voice of his child! How sweet to parents are the voices of boys and girls who repeat their lessons! I shall not describe the rest of the scene of Ibrahim's death. I only wish to tell how his mother Mary watches over him lovingly, how affectionately his sister Fatimah speaks... brother for sister. But we can widen the limits of the family and include in it the dear grandparents, the uncles and aunts and cousins. We can widen it still further. I mean the men and women who are not of the same blood as the family, but who help in the house by washing, cleaning, cooking and in many other ways. I mean the servants. They also form part of the family. In ancient Rome, ...
... identifies them as "Mary Magdalene, Joanna and Mary the mother of James [the son of Zebedee] and other women that were with them". Even if - per impossibile - the mother of Jesus were taken to be there among the unnamed women in Luke, we could not imagine Jesus addressing her, for all the women were at a distance, and this point of dis-tantness is made in each of the three Synoptic Gospels. It sets... pious Jewish girl of her times (a situation that militates against a vow or resolve of virginity) or whether, by a special impulse of grace and in view of her future vocation, she broke out of the limitations of her surroundings and resolved to remain a virgin." Then Brown adds: "...most take the former alternative and think that Mary entered matrimony with the same intention as any other girl..." ... Gospels. In two of them two other Marys than Jesus' mother are specifically listed among the women at the crucifixion, "looking on afar off" (Mark 15:40) or "beholding afar off" (Matthew 27:56). The absence of Jesus' mother hits us in the eye. Luke offers no details and speaks of Jesus' "acquaintances and the women that followed him from Galilee" as standing "afar off, beholding these things" (23:49). A ...
... all rich cloths and silks with jewels lined Regal Bokhara weaves or Samarcand, Increased and gathered to Alnuman's hand And girls of glorious limb and feature he Bought for his slaves, of rose and ivory, Sweet Persians with the honey-hiding mouth And passionate Arab girls and strong-limbed youth Of Tartar maidens for his harem doors. Page 156 For now not vainly the fair child implores... wonder to behold, Marble made amorous; her body fair Seemed one with the divine, translucent air, A light within the light, a glorious treasure, A thing to hold, to kiss, to slay with pleasure. This girl was not alone, but with her watched Two shapes of beauty and of terror hatched, A strong, fierce snake, round her sweet middle twined, A tigress at her lovely feet reclined. Dreaming on those tremendous... In the sole desert void of sign or bound),— The horse that feared its dread companion not; The kingly man with brow of reaching thought And danger-hardened strength; fair as the morn, The radiant girl upon his saddle borne, Naked, a vision not of earth; the fell Serpent that twined about them, terrible With burning hues; and the fierce tigress there Page 155 Following with noiseless ...
... of me: "Well, when you marry, whom will you marry?"—"Ah! a girl from my country, naturally, they alone are beautiful...." ( Laughter ) Now, for those who are not negroes, negro beauty is a little difficult to see! And yet, this was quite spontaneous. He was fully convinced it was impossible for anyone to think otherwise.... "Only the women of my country are beautiful!" It is the same thing everywhere... the bottom, in the subconscious, and it comes back without your even noticing it, quite spontaneously, Page 329 quite naturally. Even on this very point: the woman of your race is always much more beautiful than the woman of other races—spontaneously, it is the spontaneous taste. That's what I mean. So, you must rise above that. I am not even speaking of those who find everything that's outside... all sculptured—a thousand figures seated around the central Buddha—they were there all around, the entire back wall of the temple was covered with images: small ones, big ones, fat ones, thin ones, women, men—there was everything, a whole pantheon there, formidable, and they were like gods. And then too, there were little beings down below with all kinds of forms including those of animals, and these ...
... Did you ever in the past meet, or did you hear of any woman, devoted to her husband and highly virtuous, Page 1 such a one and in such a manner as the daughter of Drupada? Markandeya said: Listen, O King Yudhishthira, the most precious fortune, which the women of noble upbringing desire and cherish, that is what Princess... conceived was a princess hailing from Malawa; in her the foetus grew, as does in the sky the Lord of the Stars in the bright half of the month. In fullness of time she gave birth to a lovely girl, lotus-eyed in look; happy about it, the noblest King duly performed all the rituals for the newly arrived. Given as she was by Savitri, who was pleased by the Savitri-oblations, the father ...
... few of the women present to join her in the walk and she thus formed what came to be known as “The Mother’s Group” or the “Ashta sakhis” [eight companions] of Mother. Over the years they used to accompany Mother whenever she left the main Ashram building to go to the playground. She started to play croquet with them — an old French game, set up “tug-of-war” teams and she put these women, who were in... atmosphere of utter femininity. She was an Indian woman in the truest sense. She had a sweetness and a loving and caring way and, at the same time, was unobtrusive in her firmness and clarity — and with a strong basis of a sort of “substance” and “focus” that, at that age, I could not understand. She was also highly educated. She was the first woman graduate of Delhi University and won a gold medal... medal in general studies. She was good at math and child psychology and became the principal of a large girls’ school in New Delhi. She was a writer of short stories in Hindi and took part in radio programs and was interested in fine arts — dance, music, classical films, etc. She also had a great love for Bengali literature. The larger setting of our family was one of great reverence for spiritual personalities ...
... might be misused to harm mankind! And then his mind travelled to Isabel and her sorrowful end slain in the supreme moment of a woman's joy by the husband she loved. What grim and inexorable Power ruling the world, Fate, Chance, Providence, had singled out for this doom a girl whose whole life had been an innocent shedding of sunshine on all who came near? Providence! He smiled. There were still fools... Stephen's room, it occurred to him that he had unconsciously carried away in his mind the impression that it was the figure of a woman. After the first disagreeable feeling had passed, he shook the absurdity from him; it must have been the dressing-gown that gave him the idea of a woman's robe. After a brief talk with Stephen, the two were pulling in silence at the cigars they had lighted, when, perhaps half... woke to find the door open." Then she paused and added with great hesitation. "And I almost felt, sir, as if I had noticed a woman in the room standing by the cradle, but I was too sleepy to understand. It wasn't Mṛṣ Sieurcaye, for I had to wake her up afterwards." A woman! And the locked door that opened! Armand groaned; he could understand nothing, but he knew what he would find even before he ...
... Yes! That's what this Italian said to me, and he added, "That Canadian and his so-called 'girl,' what does it all mean?... When I was in the Pacific I was proposed the same sort of initiation: they leave you in a hut with a girl for three days. Is it the same thing in the Ashram?" The "girl" is beginning to feel disgusted. You see, without knowing much I felt there was something going... prettify the sexual relations between man and woman are shams. I have nothing against sexual relations (God knows!), but trying to coat them with a yogic or mystic phraseology is a deceitful illusion, a self-deception. Therefore, in that sense, there is no "key" to be "recovered"—it does not exist. There is a key in the relationship between man and woman, but not in their sexual relations. The so-called... The child died "accidentally" four months later. × There were also two Indian women from the Ashram. × See Agenda 8 , October 11, 1967 . ...
... superman shall be born of a woman is a great indisputable truth 1... The true domain of women is spiritual. We forget it too often. 19 Even Tagore, who was passing through Japan, was struck by Mothers clarity of vision and invited her to organize the education in his ashram at Shantiniketan—but what interested her was the Ashram of the world. In her “Talk to the Women of Japan,” She announced in... the Women of Japan, 1917 × A Talk to the Women of Japan, 1917 × Unpublished × A Talk to the Women of Japan... She not apply an interest to? (Sometimes, we are inclined to forget that in evolution everything evolves—not only man.) But She also tried to put a little consciousness into men, or rather into the women of Japan, by urging them not only to stop bringing children into the world as rabbits do, but to make a conscious creation, 18 in other words, to deliberately form an exceptional being by surrounding ...
... but only how to pronounce them. The poor girls were bored with long hours of gibberish recitation to their papa. They must have frequently protested, but Milton was adamant. When one of his friends asked him why he had not taught them Greek and Latin properly, he tartly replied: "One tongue is sufficient for any woman." He meant, of course, that a woman makes more than enough use of even one language... Well, if Milton had been deaf and not blind, his most happy line would have been an utterance under his own roof when his women-folk got up at sunrise: O calm, calm, calm amid the uproar at dawn! In the interests of literary history I may say that Milton's women-folk must have themselves had a trying time with the poet. One of his wives is reported to have run away from him. He was not ...
... praised thee first with my speech; with my spear I would answer. Yet for thy haughty scorn who deeming of me as some Hellene Or as a woman weak of these plains fit but for the distaff, Promises! capture in war and fame as thy slave-girl in Phithia, — Surely I think that death today will reply to that promise, — Now I will give thee my answer and warn thee ere we encounter... well brought out in Ilion in the Book of the Woman, where Breseis "the fatal and beautiful captive," for whom the body of Achilles is her entire world, addresses him. Just when Achilles was striding forth to the battle, Breseis, who has already the premonition through her visions of the previous night that she would no more see him again, pours out her woman's heart and reveals her own image of the heroic... the end my might shall prevail and for ever Shatter the moulds that men make to imprison their limitless spirits." 4 And let us listen to the direction that Zeus gives to Athene: "Girl, thou shalt rule with the Greek and the Saxon, the Frank and the Roman. Worker and fighter and builder and thinker, light of the reason, Men shall leave all temples to crowd in thy courts, ...
... of millions, a considerable wealth, which he has always collected from women—he has a power over women. Has he received more? Yes, he has received another hundred million Swiss francs from a banker's widow. Is this man old? I have his photo here. Oh, show it. Page 280 He is in fact with the woman who has just given him a hundred million. That's amusing!... ( Mother... then plunges in ) Z is propagandizing people to take them away from here. From here! Yes, a child who wrote to me. Yesterday or the day before, I got a note in which she tells me (it's a girl), "Z wants me to go to the Swiss school with her children, and suddenly," she says, "I am no longer happy here." It was the exact opposite before.... Mother, I have a certain influence over Z because ...
... I shudder, I know it is with rapture, at the thought Of women's arms, and yet I dare not pluck The joy. I think, because desire's so sweet That the mere joy might seem quite crude and poor And spoil the sweetness. My father, is it so? YOUGUNDHARAYAN Perhaps. Thou hast desire for women then? VUTHSA It is for every woman and for none. YOUGUNDHARAYAN One day perhaps thou shalt... blind and clamorous heart. VASAVADUTTA My duty to my country and my sire Shall lead me. MAHASEGN I will not teach thy woman's brain How thou shalt mould this youth, nor warn thy will Against the passions of the blood. The heart And senses over common women rule; Thou hast a mind. VASAVADUTTA Father, this is my pride, Page 667 That thou ennoblest me to be the engine... 726 Scene III Vasavadutta's apartments. Mahasegn, Ungarica, Umba bound, armed women. MAHASEGN She is not here. O treachery! If thou Wert privy to this, thou shalt die impaled Or cloven in many pieces. UMBA I am resigned. UNGARICA Thou'lt stain thy soul with a woman's murder, King? MAHASEGN 'Tis truth; she is too slight a thing to crush. Are not the gardens ...
... front. Someone climbed up that staircase and went and stood on the covered terrace on the first floor. Over the sands some people appeared, streaming in groups of young and old, boys and girls, men and women, children, a lot of army men too dressed in their battle fatigues, all walking towards this house. Each one of them held the Indian flag. Some people were coming by boat, some were walking... she is holding a leather noose. There is a European man standing behind. He is looking furiously at the European woman as if he is against her idea. His look is one of anger at the woman. Neither of them, however, says anything. For a long time both of them stood near my bed. The woman holding a noose in her hand with her back towards me and the man glaring at her. They remained in this way... goes on weeping. A woman before me stretched her hand to give me some kind of an envelope. I stretched my arm to take it but she immediately withdrew her hand. Then she stretched her arm out again with the envelope. Once again just as I was about to take it she withdrew it. The third time just as I caught the envelope it disappeared in my hand. The woman and that dark man also ...
... love, please! Don't trick your ears that you're going to hear a love story. No, this story took place when I was seventeen or eighteen, so love was out of the question. At that time, men and women, boys and girls had no chance of being together as you do, so where was the question of love? Love had to be born in marriage or out of marriage; outside marriage was impossible, so it was always in marriage... That reminds me again of a young sadhak who asked Sri Aurobindo (the thing has been published, so it is not private), "Is there any harm in looking at girls?" Sri Aurobindo said, in His usual manner, "No, no harm; only when one looks at a girl and one feels like swallowing her like a fruit!" Of course, I had no such temptation; it was only an academic issue at that time. Anyhow, I asked Sunil, "What... 36 mother. I had some relatives, my guardians there; of course, you see, there was a talk of marriage. Before I went to England, my guardians said, I must be tied down. But luckily for the girl or luckily for me, the marriage fell through. So there was no chance of lovemaking or love-breaking; no chance of coming together as, fortunately or unfortunately, you do. To make the story short, the ...
... - and rightly - the hopes for the future. They are the living promise of growing prosperity for the country. Therefore, the most important work assigned to women in Japan is child-making. Maternity is considered as the principle role of woman. But this is true only so long as we understand what is meant by the word maternity. For to bring children into the world as rabbits do their young - instinctively... environment was recognised and studied long ago. It is by surrounding women with forms of art and beauty that, little by little, the ancient Greeks created the exceptionally harmonious race that they were. Page 8 Page 9 Individual instances of the same fact are numerous. It is not rare to see a woman who, while pregnant, had looked at constantly and admired a beautiful... beautiful picture or statue, giving birth t a child after the perfect likeness of this picture or statue. I met several of these instances myself. Among them, I remember very clearly two little girls; they were twins and perfectly beautiful. But the most astonishing was how little like their parents they were. They reminded me of a very famous picture painted by the English artist Reynolds. One day I made ...
... were about twelve or thirteen of us including Bijoy Nag, Roti Nag, Rajani, Monibabu, Upen, etc.— with whom the Mother would sit in meditation. There were then only two Gujarati girls, I happened to be the only Bengali girl. One night I dreamt that I was floating in the air while an elephant, hoping to catch me, was prowling below. All the time Upen was as it were pushing me up. I seemed to roam... her. Lord, I wish I were independent and could learn many languages and move about freely from place to place. Make me a man. I have no wish to stay a woman any longer." He smiled and said: "Very well. What's the worry? You'll be free, men and women will become equal. What is there to be afraid of?" "Let me go now," I said. "What will you do when you go down?" "Oh, someone becomes angry. He says ...
... teacher names—like a whirlwind; and then off he goes! And one day he went into the Playground; he's such a maniac that he's not allowed there, but he sneaked in, and there were some girls and Page 171 women doing exercises on the ground—he started running around on their stomachs! ( Laughter ) It was a scandal. Oh, what a circus! But that's the atmosphere. Anyway, we're getting s... I think the main reason is that you have no desire to—it's no fun for you! ( Satprem laughs in complete agreement ) Page 170 I was brought up by an ascetic, a stoic; my mother was a woman like an iron bar, you know. When my brother and I were small she spent her time telling us over and over that we weren't on earth to have fun; that it's constant hell, but you have to put up with it ...
... Great Mother. He repeated his confirmation several times in later years, mostly in answer to questions of Indian disciples who had problems in accepting an Avatar who was not only a woman, but a twice-married French woman to boot! ‘It was in 1914 that the identification with the Universal Mother took place, the identification of the physical consciousness with Her. Of course, I knew before that I was... legends around her. Undoubtedly much more has happened than what she has confided from time to time to the people around her. Most interesting, however, was the great Presence in that lightly bronzed girl, whom all of us probably would have passed by without noticing anything at all, as we are wont to do. ‘Between 11 and 13 a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me not only the existence... magnificent golden robe, much longer than myself; and as I rose higher, the robe would stretch, spreading out in a circle around me to form a kind of immense roof over the city. Then I would see men, women, children, old men, the sick, the unfortunate coming out from every side; they would gather under the outspread robe, begging for help, telling of their miseries, their sufferings, their hardships. ...
... as if splashed with crimson fire, Just as of old. COMOL O it is Spring, and this Is Dongurh. ISHANY Girls, we must not linger long. Page 868 Our Scythian, missing us, may take the hills. NIRMOL Purse-cheeks? Oh, he has lifted Mera the servant-girl to his saddle-bow by now and is garlanding her Queen of Cashmere. I wish I were there to be bridesmaid. COMOL ... bearers. NIRMOL It is too late. She's taken. Enter Kodal and Bheels. KODAL Whoever wants an arrow through his skull, let him move his shanks. Women, you are my brother Bappa's prisoners; we have need of some Rajpoot slave-girls for his kitchen. Take them, my children, and tie them. ISHANY Stab any who comes; let not these lumps of dirt Insult your Rajpoot bodies with their fingers... can trust Not to betray me. Come, girls, make we ready For this planned fateful journey. COOMOOD Let them keep Our palanquins together. One fate for both, Sweetheart. COMOL If we must marry Toraman, Coomood, it shall be in that shadowy country. NIRMOL Where, I hope, justice will have set right the balance between his nose and his cheeks. Girls, we are the prizes of this handicap ...
... But now I am old And the girls they grow cold And my heartstrings, they ache At the faces they make, And my dancing is turned into dolour. 34 And as for the women, "they are splendid". In Prema Nandakumar's words, "Doonya's sparkle and Anice's sweetness make the play a legend of likeable women. Indeed, it is a legend of good women as well, for the other ladies too... Thou my ambassador to win his mind And thou my viceroy over his subject will. 78 I'll not teach thy woman's tact How it should mould this youth nor warn thy will Against the passions of the blood. The heart And senses over common women rule; Thou hast a mind. 79 He is sure his daughter will not let him down, that she will be all brain and calculation... out whether Aslaug is but a dancing-girl or whether she is really someone with a nobler lineage who has come to his Court with a deeper intention than appears on the surface. And there is a siege of contraries - love and hate - in Aslaug's heart. After a sudden unexpected gesture of independence from her, Eric exclaims: "This was not spoken like a dancing girl!" 59 At first she merely spurns with ...
... capacity of analysis and synthesis.’ 29 A few years later Mirra would say to the women of Japan: ‘The true domain of women is spiritual.’ 30 And many years later the Mother would say that it is only women who can establish the connection between the old world and the new one in the making, and that only women know how to use the Power deriving from service to Truth. 31 Mirra also met... orchestrating music – ‘it’s like higher mathematics’ – that other composers had their orchestrations done by him. Thomas had visited India and taken a youthful, good-looking Indian girl with him as the nanny of his children. This girl was clairvoyant and excelled at palmistry, so much so that she was engaged at the Moulin Rouge, where she performed under the guise of – what else? – an Indian ‘maharani.’... discover soon. She talked, obviously, about the inanity of ‘the perpetual oppositions between men and women’ and stressed the inner fact of the union of ‘those two complementary halves of humanity’ that should now find its expression in the outer forms of society and in its laws. But she also said: ‘If women want to take the place they claim in the government of the nations, they must still make much more ...
... conscious of each one individually with what one might describe as a kind of spiritual contact. I noticed at once that she was a very good-looking woman; but what impressed me more was that she did not follow the fashion of so many learned women of that time by dressing in a somewhat masculine style. Her attire, though simple, retained an elegant and feminine touch. In that opening lecture... the little girl whom I had been watching —being in some doubt as to the accuracy other latest sum — had left her work and had come to ask the assistant-directress to help her. The latter, seeing her amongst all the other little ones crowding round her holding their hands up for sweets, and thinking she had come for the same purpose, placed a bon-bon in the child's hand. The little girl's expression... the old methods had been employed, she would have been so wedded to the old system that she would have found it next to impossible to carry out Montessori's directions. Montessori did not train these girls: "I laid no restriction on the mistress, gave her no special duties; I merely taught her how to use the apparatus so that she could present it accurately to the children." 4 Prologue It ...
... unnecessary lying. It is of the unpardonable sins, it is the way to Jahannam. But I pray thee what is the young lady to thee, my son? Nureddene: She is my slave-girl. Ibrahim: Ah, ah! thy slave-girl? Ah, ah! a slave-girl! ah! Page 251 Anice-Aljalice: Drink, my lord. Nureddene (drinking): By the Lord, but I am sleepy. I will even rest my head in thy sweet lap... the constant prodding by his cousin Basil. Then Basil offers to teach Antonio how to woo a young girl. Antonio challenges Basil to show the efficacy of his teaching by actual demonstration and Basil picks up the gauntlet. At that very moment enters on the scene Brigida, a smart and witty girl, with a love-letter written by Ismenia and addressed to Antonio. Now Antonio invites his cousin Basil... spoken by Cireas (a servant in the temple of Poseidon) and by Perissus (a citizen butcher) is enlivened with a rich touch of humour. Some conversations of Praxilla (head of the palace household in the women's apartments) and Diomede (a servant and playmate of Andromeda) are equally humorous in tone. In Rodogune there is very little humour apart from some sarcasm in the words of Phayllus, the Chancellor ...
... tradition was imperative, and sometimes the girls of highborn, wealthy or learned families received special instruction in philosophy or mathematics. Some indeed seem to have pursued a life of philosophic learning either as virgins or widows; but such instances were in preBuddhistic times very rare; the normal Hindu feeling has always been that the sphere of woman is in the home and her life incomplete... rogue of a tiring-woman" Nipounica, sly & smooth-tongued, though with no real harm in her beyond a delight in her own slyness and a fine sense of exhilaration in the midst of a family row, pleasantly brings up the rear of these slighter feminine personalities. The masculine sketches are drawn in more unobtrusive outlines and, after Kalidasa's manner, less individualized than his women. The Charioteer... generally bad women, the Clytaemnestras, Vittoria Corombonas, Beatrice Joannas. The women of Vyasa & of Sophocles have all a family resemblance; all possess a quiet or commanding masculine strength of character which reveals their parentage. Other poets we see succeeding in a single feminine character & often repeating it but failing or not succeeding eminently in the rest. Otherwise women in poetry are ...
... she returned to the Ashram, and stayed on; and on the 17th the Mother gave her the name "Huta" (The Offered One). 5 Like Huta, others too - men and women following different professions, men and women of the old world and the new, men and women of various races and climes - heard the call from Pondicherry, found it irresistible, and felt compelled to make their way to the Ashram and the protective... strains of Bande Mataram sung by Ashram singers. Seated by the side of the Mother, Nehru followed with sustained interest the programme which included recitations, Swedish rhythmic ball drill by the girls, gymnastic marching, physical culture display, the whole programme concluding with Jana gana mana. This was a time of animated relaxation for the Prime Minister, and what he saw may have roused in... things that others did, she breathed and walked and bathed and talked and smiled - and even played tennis! But one had to pierce through the appearance - one had to see the Mother behind the gracious woman - one had to open one's inner eye and see how divinely human - how truly divine - she was. Thus K.D. Sethna on her tennis: She seems but playing tennis - The whole world is in that game!... ...
... The hon our of a woman is its own best guard. Let her not be angered against one who is consumed with grief. Noble women are ever faithful, ever true to their own lords, and, whether treated well or ill, they will forgive one who is deprived of every joy!" As he ended, the King could no longer restrain himself, but bury his head in his arms, gave way to his sorrow; and the girl, seeing this, stole... then he said, 'She should not be angry with one whose garment was carried off by birds, when he was trying to procure food for both! The honour of a woman is its own best guard. Let her not be angered against one who is consumed with grief. Noble women are ever faithful, ever true to their own lords, an<d whether treated well or ill, they will forgive one who has Host all he loved!' Hearing this, O... among kings, will wipe away thy weariness?" Page 44 At that time, some hunter who was roaming through the deep forest, heard her bewailing and approached rapidly. Seeing a woman with long eyes, caught by that snake, he came running. With a sharp weapon he tore the head of the snake. Having killed the animal who now was inert, the hunter freed Damayanti. She washed her body ...
... things who were touched by your book—all kinds of people, obviously French, or Westerners in any case ... women, men. There was even one woman (she must have been an actress or a singer or ... anyway, someone whose life was ... she was even dressed for the stage, with some kind of tights—a beautiful girl!) and she said to someone, 'Ah, it has even given me a taste for the spiritual life!' It was extremely ...
... escape, and in it there lay a woman, bound. Sturge knew those strange faces very well and remembered how he had lain dead on that sward. It was strange to see it all again in this drawing-room with the fateful modern ebony-faced timepiece seen through the green of Mediterranean trees! But it was going to end very differently this time. Then the voice of the woman rang out, cold, strong, like the... gates of Hyde Park, traversed in a sure and straight line of advance the fogbound invisible open, passed through the Marble Arch, and in Oxford Street, for the first time, hesitated. There were two women who were dear to him, either of whom by her death could desolate half his existence. To whom should he go? Then his mind, or something within it, decided for him. These speculations were otiose. He... square and the house in which she lived, Page 957 opened the door with one of the latchkeys in his pocket, divested himself of his coat and hat, and directed his steps to the drawing-room. A girl of nineteen or twenty rose, calm and pale, fronting the open doorway. The clutch of her hand on the chair, the rigid forward impulse in her frame were the index of a great emotion and an intense expectation ...
... we desire. SUKTA 32 (1) Forward move the streams of the Joy raining ecstasy full of plenitude giving us the Inspiration pressed out in the Knowledge. (2) With the stones of the pressing the girls of Trita send coursing the brilliant lord of sweetness for the Power in the mind to drink. (3) As the Swan that seeks the flock it yearns after the mentality in every man, as speed of the vital force... O Bliss, all our aspirations are in thee. (6) The daughter of the Sun purifies thy wine with her desirable and eternal body. (7) Thee in the mighty labour the subtle Energies seize upon, the Women ten, sisters in the heaven that man must transcend. (8) Thee the advancing streams of Life impel and they swell out (or forge) the [ ], the triple honey. (9) This is the Child whom brightly... from above on the heaven of mind, on the body’s earth like a beast that is spurred thou hastenest on to take thy seat in the womb of the Truth. (5) The brilliant Herds yearn after thee like [a] woman for a beloved paramour, that they may attain an action that helps the soul. (6) In us confirm luminous and victorious energy, in the masters of plenitude and in myself, when thought-power and inspiration ...
... male-female implications of the Purusha-Prakriti concept, and how she was against providing different courses of physical education for boys and girls. Reality is one, the human race is one, for the indwelling Divine makes no difference between man and woman, and hence all these forged discriminations and sedulously cultivated attitudes were at once mischievous and foolish: ...until this notion... studies alongside of English, Sanskrit and the modern Indian languages. The Mother also contributed to the April 1955 number of the Bulletin a brief article on "The Problem of Woman" 10 . The most womanly of women, the incarnate Blessed Feminine indeed, the Mother was also the embodiment of Shakti, the divine Strength and Power. At all times she had a wholesome distrust, if not detestation, of... no one can put an end to the misunderstanding that divides the human species into two opposite camps, and the problem will not be solved. What, after all, is the current position? Both men and women have become slaves of received notions and appetites and conventions: Yes, slaves; for so long as one has desires, preferences and attachments, one is a slave of these things and of the people ...
... Die and be born to life again As Nanda's son, the joy of Braja's girls, And I will make thee Radha then... Then I will love thee and then leave... Then shalt thou know the bitterness of love. 14 Page 73 Vidyapati is often uninhibitedly sensuous, scattering references to the wealth of woman's physical charms: her breasts are first plums of light, then golden oranges... the contrary, is an "unwomanly woman" in the Shavian sense; she addresses Page 86 spirited words to her son so unmanly, trying to rouse him to manliness and action. Death is preferable to slavery; death on the battlefield is to be preferred to eating one's heart out in the supposed security of one's, (Kafkaesque) burrow of abject retreat. Vidula, woman though she is, is for toil aid... passages or pieces from Latin or Greek into English. Hecuba from the Greek was liked by Laurence Binyon, who thought that it revealed a poetic talent that deserved to be cultivated. A Rose of Women Page 70 from Meleager was included in Songs to Myrtilla [Now in Translations (Volume 8 of the Centenary Edition)]: Now lilies blow upon the windy height, Now flowers the ...
... breathes, there is an eruption. Erinnys: One of the Furies (Erinnyes), spirits of vengeance and punishment. The Erinnyes, older than Zeus and Olympian gods, are commonly represented as winged women with snakes about them. Page 115 Eryx: The modern Erice, a town on top of Monte San Giuliano in northwest Sicily. Its ancient temple to Aphrodite was famous through the Mediterranean... Zeus and Leda, who was the wife of Tyndareus, king of Sparta; Helen was wife of Menelaus, Tyndareus' successor by their marriage, but was carried off to Troy by Paris. She was the most beautiful of women. As she had many suitors, Tyndareus had each of them take an oath swearing to come to the aid of the man chosen as her husband. It was this oath that brought many Greek princes and their armies... as his special manifestations in Nature thunder, lightning and tempest. He is regarded as the universal father, though mythology makes him the actual father (by a variety of goddesses and mortal women besides his consort Hera) of only some of the gods and certain extraordinary human beings such as Helen, Sarpedon and Dardanus. The fall of Troy is the inscrutable will of Zeus which even the gods ...
... met the boys —all grown and 1. For the amusement of our readers, here is an advertisement found in The Bengali Directory (1878) : "DARJEELING LORETTO HOUSE (Boarding and day-school for girls and little boys.) Lady Superioress, Mrs. M. J. Hogan, assisted by twenty-nine religious sisters. Chaplain and spiritual director, Rev. Father Accurius, O. C." (From Sunil Bandopadhyay's Kabita, Niswanga... stamp on the ground, her eyes emitting sparks of fire." Rajnarain hastily fled. But despite her short temper, the same year in November, Annette Akroyd did start a school for the higher education of women in Bengal. Later she married a district judge named Henry Beveridge. When he was posted at Rangpur, she often called on Swarnalata and met the three boys. Swarnalata, however, had begun to show... pleased to see me I think but all were quite silent except for an extorted yes! or not I am going to see them again soon." Which she did. And several days later she had "Dr. G's boys to tea." She was woman enough to ask her husband, "Meantime please let the doctor hear this." She added that the ladies of the school asked her "if Dr. Ghose were a Christian and also Mrs. Ghose." Of Darjeeling "Sri ...
... method of teaching. In the first story, the Buddha's teaching is addressed to a woman named Kisagautami whose child has just died and who wants the Buddha to bring him back to life. The fact that the Buddha teaches a woman is quite revolutionary at the time, because although in the old Vedic tradition women had a place of honour, when the Buddha came in the sixth century BC, society had become... The talk, then, of these Brahmins turns out to be ridiculous, mere words, vain and empty. Vasettha, if a man should say, 'I long for and love the most beautiful woman in this land,' People should ask him, 'Well, friend, this most beautiful woman for whom you are longing, do you know her name, or her family name, whether she Page 87 is tall or short, dark or of medium complexion, black or fair... respect and taught everyone, not according to rank or caste, but according to the person's understanding and sincerity. He spoke to kings and children, to rich merchants and poor peasants, to dacoits and women. He adapted his teachings, telling stories or parables to the simple folk, or expounding the deepest psychological theories or the most profound practices of meditation to the more advanced disciples ...
... like a rich purple mass of ground collyrium; girls with their smiling faces and lovelit eyes are like "evenings beautifully jewelled with the moon"; the fires burning in the forest look far-off like clear drops of vermilion; the new blades of grass are like pieces of split emerald; rivers embracing and tearing down the trees on their banks are like evil women distracted with passion slaying their lovers... borrowed, but in the wording and most of all in the economy of phrase expressing a lavish and ingenious fancy. Still more is this apparent in the sensuous and elaborate comparison of things in Nature to women in ornamental attire,—rivers, autumn, the night, the pale priyungou creeper. Most decisive of all are the strokes of vivid description that give the poem its main greatness and fulfil its purpose... Kalidasian simile, a little superficial as yet and self-conscious, but for all that Kalidasian. When again he speaks of the moon towards dawn growing pale with shame at the lovelier brightness of a woman's face, of the rains coming like the pomp of some great king all blazing with lights, huge clouds moving along like elephants, the lightning like a streaming banner and the thunder like a peal of drums ...
... timid, feminine soul By the pathetic prospect of dire baldness? Fancy, a woman whose long flowing hair Rippling even as a sable waterfall, Is envied of the Apsaras in Heaven — Page 25 ROMA ( blushing ) Pray laugh not at a girl. For it's, I tell you, No laughing matter — but a dread nightmare For a woman to be bald in hell or heaven. KESHAV ( chuckling) I like... 'twas my Guru Gouranga who has taught me this and all I know, although 'tis little I have learned. But what can a woman like me ever imbibe Through her uneducated understanding? I only know of one thing, my good sirs And that's enough for a girl born ill-equipped, Page 28 Who never was by fortune favoured, nor Marked from her infancy by any gift ... spaces, Rustling to leaves and irised hues to rainbows, Bloom to wild flowers and innocence to children. ( She warms up ) No wonder he's hailed by those to whom he comes: Lone men and women robbed of joy by Fate, For 'tis with such souls he consorts, our great Lord of divine compassion, who will not bow To the pride and pomp of haughty royalty. And so he shunned not me, my King of ...
... कुमारयति to play, sport. parrot. कुमारकः child .. pupil of the eye. कुमारयु prince कुमारिका, कुमारी girl.. virgin.. Durga. large cardamoms name of several plants. कुमारिक, कुमारिन् abounding in girls. कुमुद् white waterlily colour red lotus colour. unfriendly.. avaricious कुमुदः, -दं white waterlily .... festivity. कौमोदी, कौमोदकी Vishnu’s mace. +कौमार youthful.. maidenly.. soft, tender .. +कौमारं childhood.. maidenhood कौमारकं +कौमारिकः father of girls +कौमारिकेयः son of unmarried woman. कूमं pond, pool कोमल soft, tender, delicate please — play or substance handsome, beautiful कोमलं water Substance. clay. कोमलकं... seven year old girl, Durga at Durga festival; Durga; celestial Ganges; name of a metre, of a river, of Bibhishana’s mother; of Draupadi at Virat’s court. मालेयः florist. मालयः relating to garland. माल्यं garland; flower. माल्यवत् wreathed; name of a mountain; maternal uncle of Ravana. मालिन्यं foulness; affliction. मालुः a creeper; woman. मालुधानः ...
... days I when no man or animal lived on this earth of ours. As we read on we shall see the" first animals appear and later more and more animals. And then will come man and woman, but they will be very different from the men and women we see today. They will be savages not very different from animals. Gradually they will gather experience and begin to think. The power of thought will make them really different... Prison does not provide a library. So I am afraid it is not possible for me to give you any connected account of world history, much as I should have liked to have done so. I dislike very much boys and girls learning the history of just one country, and that, too, very often through learning by heart some dates and a few facts. But history is one connected whole and you cannot understand even the history... to a good pupil. In 1973, in her introductory notes to Letters from a Father to His Daughter, she wrote: "I was full of questions and this enabled him to tell me about the world, and the men and women who inhabited it and who have moved others by their ideas and actions, and through literature and art.... The letters in this book, written when I was eight or nine, deal with the beginnings of the ...
... scream rang out through all Troy: "Come, look down, you men of Troy, you Trojan women! Behold Hector now — if you ever once rejoiced to see him striding home, home alive from battle! He was the greatest joy Page 43 of Troy and all our people!" Her cries plunged Troy into uncontrollable grief and not a man or woman was left inside the walls. They streamed out at the gates to meet Priam bringing... realm of Troy and now not a single one is left, I tell you. Fifty sons I had when the sons of Achaea came, nineteen born to me Page 36 from a single mother's womb and the rest by other women in the palace. Many, most of them violent Ares cut the knees from under. But one, one was left me, to guard my walls, my people — the one you killed the other day, defending his fatherland, my Hector... lifted the priceless ransom brought for Hector's corpse, but they left behind two capes and a finely woven shirt to shroud the body well when Priam bore him home. Then Achilles called the serving-women out: "Bathe and anoint the body — bear it aside first. Priam must not see his Achilles and Ajax playing a game of dice (black figure amphora by Exekias, 540530 BC) Page 39 ...
... clean life. There was no irregularity anywhere. When I started the physical culture activities after forming the Page 49 groups, Usha was one of the girls of the first batch. She then became a captain. Among the many women-captains, Usha was one of them. This is a deadly disease. It is difficult to predict when or where it will strike. And it has become very widespread now. ... very happy. Everyone was so happy that even the gods could not equal human happiness. So one day the Creator got a little jealous. He then separated man and woman from one body. So they remained half each. From then on every man and woman has been looking for the other half during their life. Nobody is able to find the other half that corresponds and so each one is unhappy. If the corresponding... there is a buzzing sound in the ear.' 'Be very careful. Never poke anything into the ear. Don't they say, "don't put anything into your ear smaller than your elbow"?' As soon as Jog left a girl arrived. She used to study at the Ashram. After finishing her studies she now lives in Madras with her husband. 'So how are things with you? Are you fine?' Dada asked with a smile. 'I'm ...
... n from Meleager, A Rose of Women, which is worth comparing with F. L. Lucas's rendering. Sri Aurobindo writes : Now lilies blow upon the windy height, Now flowers the pansy kissed by tender rain, Narcissus builds his house of self-delight And Love's own fairest flower blooms again; Vainly your gems, O meadows, you recall; One simple girl breathes sweeter than you all... pictures, trivial incidents Of that old life before her delicate face Had lived for him, dumbly distinct like thoughts Of men that die, kept with long pomps his mind Excluding the dead girl. So still he was, The birds flashed by him with their swift small wings, Fanning him. Then he moved, then rigorous Memory through all his body shuddering Awoke, and he looked up... with bruiséd head. Vainly, since Fate's immeasurable wheel Could parley with a straw. A weakling sped Page 62 The bullet when to custom's usual night We fell because a woman's faith was light. The opening lines telescope two incidents of classical legend. Apollo is called Pythian because he slew the serpent Python which was tormenting the god's mother Latona, while ...
... lying. What an atmosphere it creates!... It's palpable ( Mother fingers the air ). I had a woman here with me who was born among these people. She had been adopted by Thomas (the French musician who Page 44 composed the comic-opera, Mignon ). They had come to India and found this little girl who at the time was very young; she was only thirteen, quite pretty and nice. So they took her... when I went upstairs to walk, 1 a couple of things occurred—not personal, but of a general nature— Page 38 concerning, for instance, certain old-fashioned conventions having to do with women and their particular nature (not psychological, physical)—old ideas like that which had always seemed utterly stupid to me suddenly provoked a kind of reprobation completely out of proportion to the... forces. Perhaps once everything has been transformed it will disappear—I don't know when. In any case, I really tried my best, with all the power I had, all the knowledge I had, because I liked this girl a lot, it wasn't at all a question of charity, I found her very interesting. But I watched—with a kind of horror, really—as this past repossessed her more and more, more and more each day, until we ...
... than Europe. I knew Frenchmen — not one, but hundreds—who used to say: in the world you'll not find women more beautiful than French women! I also knew a Negro who did all his studies in France, and when asked who the most beautiful woman is, he would say, 'No woman is more beautiful than a Negress.' It was quite spontaneous, you see." That is how it goes when we are wrapped up... married?' 'Ah! With a girl of my country, naturally; only they are beautiful. . . .' " We —most of those listening were Indians —laughed. "Now," Mother said pointedly, "for people who are not Negroes, it's difficult to see Negro beauty! And yet it was absolutely spontaneous. He was fully convinced that there were no two ways of thinking about it, impossible. . . ! 'The only beautiful women are from my country... related this incident to Satprem with these opening words: "I asked myself the question this morning: Is money truly controlled by Nature?" Now, several years before, a young girl had put a question to Mother. (When this girl ran across the tennis court chasing a ball, she looked exactly like a gazelle in motion!) To the girlish question: "It is often said in fairy tales that treasure is guarded by ...
... right, in the means as in the goal. The visitor felt moved, and felt persuaded as well; he was happy that a woman like Mirra was taking a lead in such matters, hastening the advent of better days. In fact, when overstrained by his secret work he had become half-blind, it was a woman who had, out of pity for him, come to his help, reading to him, writing to his dictation, following him to Paris... Suddenly she had "a kind of illumination, because there was a woman walking in front of me and truly she knew how to walk. How lovely it was! Her movement was magnificent!" And Mirra was reminded of the splendours of ancient Greece.41 Wasn't it one of the archetypes of Beauty materialised below? A vestige of the Divine incarnated in a woman? A fresh affirmation of the Divine omnipresence? It was as... creepers of aspiration and the first flowers of realisation. Like the parables, these causeries also are addressed to spiritual seekers. "On Thought" was a causerie, a thinking-aloud, in a Women's Association, L'Union de Pensée Féminine, which Mirra had started in 1911. "Thought ... is a very vast subject"; thoughts are sometimes the fruits of our sensations, and sometimes they clearly ...
... topped With summer houses for the joy of girls, Like some proud city in heaven.Without a gap On either side as far as eye could reach Mass upon serried mass the houses rose, Seven-storied architectures metrical Upon a level base, and made sublime. Splendid Ayodhya octagonally built, The mother of beautiful women and of gems A world. Large granaries of rice... Therefore full many unlovely words that strove To break the suffering heart had I to hear From wives of my husband, I the Queen and highest, From lesser women. Ah, what greater pain Than this can women have who mourn on earth, Than this my grief and infinite lament? ________ 1. Ayodhya Kanda, Sarga 20, 36-55. Page 297 0 Rama, even at thy... Great Junac's daughter. Princess Mithilan, Her woman's pride of love all wounded, shook From her the solace of his touch and weeping Assailed indignantly her mighty lord. "Surely my father erred, great Mithila Who rules and the Videhas, that he chose Thee with his line to mate, Rama unworthy, No man but woman in a male disguise. What casts thee down, wherefore ...
... the quarrels which took place in the women's apartments to infect the whole kingdom, and led to bitter clashes and accusations between father and son. This breach was widened by Olympias, a woman of a jealous and vindictive temper, who incited Alexander to oppose his father. Their quarrel was brought to a head on the occasion of the wedding of Cleopatra, a girl with whom Philip had fallen in love and... never tolerate being governed by a woman. For these reasons he now sent Nearchus back to sea: his plan was to carry the war into the provinces which bordered the coast, while he himself would march down from Upper Asia and punish those of his officers who had abused their powers. (...) One of his first acts when he reached Persis was to distribute money to the women: in this he was following the... exercises. Alexander was delighted with their progress, but the Macedonians were disheartened and deeply disturbed for their own future, because \ ________________ 1 Matron: a married woman, esp. a middle-aged woman with children. 2 Cyrus the Great was a conqueror who founded the Acheamenian Empire. The figure of Cyrus has survived throughout history more than as a man who founded an empire. He ...
... seeker's path' - tightened the noose around women. So the injunction of the Scriptures came to be that in childhood a girl should be governed by her father, as a woman by her husband, in old age by her son. As you know, in India, the word of the Scriptures has always been Page 47 accepted with unquestioning obedience, with the result that women have remained helpless and weak. "But the... means?" "Well, the story goes that earlier the woman used to live there with her mother-in-law. The latter fell very ill, and when the woman who was very young then, a girl really, saw this, she was terrified. She wouldn't go near the old woman, not even to give her a drink, although the mother-in-law was calling out for water. So the old woman died, her thirst unquenched, and then came back as... is the land where women are downtrodden. The Divine Mother comes upon earth from time to time to break such bonds. This time she has come down as the Mother herself in all her Power. All of you children live here together, with one common ideal before you, don't you? Boys and girls work and play and study in friendship and the old strict conventions are starting to crumble. The girls must really forget ...
... passions Painting Time with the red of our hearts on the web they have woven, How on the Ocean's bosom she hid thee in vine-tangled Scyros Clothed like a girl among girls with the daughters of King Lycomedes,— Art thou not fairer than woman's beauty, yet great as Apollo?— Fearing Paris' shafts and the anger of Delian Phoebus. Now in the night has a vision three times besieged me from heaven. Over... smiling and whispering, saying, «This is the woman who fought with the Greeks, overthrowing their heroes; This is the slayer of Ajax, this is the slave of Achilles."'" Then with her musical laughter the fearless Penthesilea: "Well do I hope that Achilles enslaved shall taste of that glory Or on the Phrygian fields lie slain by the spear of a woman." But to the herald Achaian the Priamid, leader... greatness Rage like a fire unquenchable burning the world and creating, Nor till humanity dies will they sink in the ashes of Nature. All is injustice of love or all is injustice of battle. Man over woman, woman o'er man, over lover and foeman Wrestling we strive to expand in our souls, to be wide, to be happy. If thou wouldst only be just, then wherefore at all shouldst thou conquer? Not to be just ...
... was written in 1917, published in 1921, and became “a phenomenal best-seller”. The novel “depicts a rich Jew who violates an innocent Aryan girl, polluting her blood. A volkist, Dinter believed that intercourse with a Jew destroyed the capacity of Aryan women to reproduce anything but racially polluted offspring”, 500 a theme which will be repeated ad nauseam by Julius Streicher. Dinter became ... field of everyday life. They still gibe for a while or mock for a while what the foreign god has told them; soon it is forgotten. They bring back the old gods from their hiding places, the wise old woman and the shepherd who knows the good old magic formulas. And they work according to the ten commandments of the Lord of their forefathers.” 491 “The piety of the countryman in the present day is older ...
... has been spoiled and has gone down. It is full of vital desires. ii)It should be so arranged that the boy does not go to the girl. Page 117 iii)I hope these things do not occur in our class rooms. iv)If names of such boys and girls are given to me I will not see them on their birthdays. I will not know them. v)If they do not get cured completely they... letter from USA from a young girl of about 16 who wanted to come to Auroville for a while. Mother asked, "Can she come without the consent of her parents? She is too young." Page 171 "No, Mother." A small piece of brooch sent by her was given to Mother. She touched it throughout with care and smilingly. * * * A request from an American woman to come to Auroville was... that? Roger: For instance, the other day (I use this example, Mother, because for me it was a real problem), there was a girl who was on drugs and who had been expelled from Auroville; she asked Shyam Sunder to be allowed to come back. And we... Mother A girl? Roger: Yes, Mother. Shyam Sunder and I were against it, but you said, 'She must be given one more chance'. Mother: ...
... vision. Page 159 18 Atoms Thus time passed. Life brought its thousand and one riches to the growing child. The child was now a girl. The girl was now a woman. Mirra was now in her late teens. Matteo had entered the Polytechnique. The nineteenth century was drawing to its close. Mirra was finding the life she was... say and send me packing." But what Mirra heartily detested was to be like a "public place," to be at the mercy of every passing breeze. Mother put it squarely to us, the Ashram boys and girls, men and women: "At any rate, I find it preferable to be the master than the slave. To feel oneself pulled by strings is a pretty unpleasant sensation. It's very annoying. Well, I don't know, but I, for one... At the age of twenty she embarked for Italy, a daring act if we recall the situation of women in the Middle East more than a century ago. "I spoke only Arabic, wore my Egyptian dress and travelled alone with my two children and a governess, while my husband remained in Egypt. I was the first Egyptian woman to venture out of Egypt in this manner.... I was found positively ravishing," she notes all ...
... 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." Then Mirabai sent back the answer, "I thought that there is only one Purusha [God] and all the rest of us are Prakritis" When the priest heard that answer from the mouth of this girl, he was completely stunned. "Here is an exceptional woman," he realised, and he opened... graduate and was preparing for M.A., but she had to give up her college studies. Then, she said, with her studies Page 193 over, "I then got married!" And she smiled. Then I said, "Yes, women, whether they become doctors, lawyers, or teachers, all end up getting married! All these roads lead to marriage!" Then she said, "After a time, my married life became unhappy." I smiled! (Laughter)... in my attempt at meditation and the result was - no sleep. Then I said, "O Lord, thou hast helped too 247The famous sixteenth-century Rajput Princess, married to a Rajasthani Prince, was a woman saint who worshipped only Lord Krishna. Her famous, inimitably passionate bhajans (devotional songs) are being sung all over India even today, after 400 years or more. 248Film on the life of ...
... the responsibility of the State to remove all obstacles Page 12 to the advancement of girls' education. Awareness and social pressure must be applied to persuade parents to send their girl children to school. Resources of the society should be harnessed to promote education of the girl-child through adoption or sponsorship. III. Basic Thrust of the Agenda — Character ... implement the latest proposals that have been made to remedy this situation. 3. Care and Education of the Girl-Child The needs of the girl-child in the process of fostering education at all levels must be given pre-eminent importance so -chat every girl and eventually every woman in our country finds her- self well equipped to make her best contributions in the integral development of... It should be the duty of the State to provide adequate incentives for the education of the girl-child, — including provision for free uniforms, toilet facilities, mid-day meals, sibling care and hostel facilities, in harmony with the local requirements and culture. The Government should ensure that all the girls from pre- school age up to fourteen years are sent to the balwadis and schools and are not ...
... to massacre the garrison and the inhabitants of captured cities without pity or compunction—yes, even to the harmless women and children sometimes. There are neighbours all about you who well remember the unspeakable atrocities which Charles the Bold inflicted upon the men and women and children of Dinant when he took that place some years ago. It was a unique and kindly grace which Joan offered that... victory, we had trouble to find her; and when we did find her, she was off by herself, sitting among a ruck of corpses, with her face in her hands, crying—for she was a young girl, you know, and her hero-heart was a young girl's heart too, with the pity and the tenderness that are natural to it. She was thinking of the mothers of those dead friends and enemies. Among the prisoners were a number... it a hundred thousand times. 'Welcome to our Maid!' some of them worded it. No other girl in all history has ever reached such a summit of glory as Joan of Arc reached that day. And do you think it turned her head, and that she sat up to enjoy that delicious music of homage and applause? No; another girl would have done that, but not this one. That was the greatest heart and the simplest that ...
... past and his present. It is he who is today and it is he who shall be tomorrow. This is the thing thou seekest." Again, there is the enchanting statement about the Brahman: "Thou art man and woman, boy and girl; old and worn thou walkest bent over a staff; thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet-eyed." Aren't Blake's "minute particulars" here with a vengeance? The same multiple message... continued 'where you read black where I read white', to go back to Blake. Doesn't Yeats complain that all Indian writers wrote of 'beauteous maidens' where he writes of 'pretty girls'? 'What shall I do for pretty girls / Now my old bawd is dead?' I'm afraid I find in the passage about Priyumvada the sort of rather nauseous sentimentalizing of a romantic situation that Yeats's Crazy Jane would... the blowing seed, The hearth, the steadfast land, the wandering sea, Not beautiful or rare in every part, But like yourself, as they were meant to be. Or Tagore's Bengali peasant girls; or Kunti, like a wreath of faded lotuses' pleading with her disowned son Radheya; or the fiery Draupadi; or the Savitri of the Mahabharata rather than Aurobindo's superwoman. It's unimaginative (in ...
... looked good in it. Smiling very shyly she said to him: 'Dada, all the girls at school decided to wear a sari to-day.' Page 104 It suits you fine. The sari is a beautiful dress but it restraint free movement. A salwar-kameez is so much more convenient for work. It is the Muslims who brought it to our country. The Muslim women came to India on horseback, you see In our country stitched... intercede on his behalf. He saw that She was busy teaching maths to a young girl. Motakaka told the Mother: 'You refused to see the general saying you had no time and here you are teaching maths to this young girl. This can be done by any other teacher, can't it?' The Mother said: 'No, another teacher can't. This girl isterrorised by maths. I am trying to rid her of this fear by teaching... teaching her maths. For me this is much more important. T, general of yours who wants to come is probably doing to increase the glamour around him. There will be no other gain. Trying to teach this girl some maths is much more important.' Motakaka couldn't say anything else after this. Page 108 The Mother with Pranab, Motakaka (Charupada) and others. A view ...
... heaven Have their rich prototypes. So on that day Before a divine audience there was staged The Choice of Luxmie. Urvasie enacted The goddess, Ocean's child, and Ménaca Was Varunie, and other girls of heaven Assembled the august desiring Gods. Full strangely sweet those delicate mimics were; Moonbeam faces imitated the strength And silence of great spirits battle-worn, And little hands the... added To the surrounding hush sat motionless, Gazing towards the dim unfathomed gorge. Six days he sat and on the seventh they came Through the dumb gorge, a breath of heaven, a stir, Then Eden's girls stepping with moonbeam feet Page 82 Over the barren rocks and dazzling snows, That grew less dazzling, their tresses half unbound And delicate raiment girdled enchantingly. Silent the... is in soulless woods and waves? But I would go into the homes of men, Hear the great sound of cities, watch the eager Faces tending to hall and mart, and talk Page 87 With the bright girls of earth, and kiss the eyes Of little children, feel smooth floors of stone Under my feet and the restraint of walls, And eat earth's food from vessels made and drink Earth's water cool from jars ...
... persons only five or six are extraordinary, and out of these five or six one succeeds. Then Sri Aurobindo states as a self-evident fact that "it is very unfortunate for a woman to be married to a mad man; for all the hopes of women are limited to the joys and the agonies in the family. A mad man would not bring happiness to his wife - he would only inflict suffering". This is the stalemate in the r... This was not the kind of life that a beautiful young girl still in her teens and brought up in the sophistication of a Brahmo School would have expected. He had to be separated from her frequently, and at times for fairly long periods, and the range and altitude of his interests and preoccupations were unfortunately inaccessible to the simple girl full of tender human qualities who had come to share... no answer to say that, being but a simple woman lacking intelligence and will power, she cannot possibly keep step with him. "There is a simple solution for it - take refuge in the Divine, step on to the path of God-realisation." Giving up all fear, putting her implicit trust in God in a mood of absolute self-surrender, she, even she an apparently weak woman, can dare and achieve much. Together they ...
... talk of a scarlet and sinful character and of a white and innocent character and of a neutral and drab-coloured character, and assign various colours to various women and call one woman a splendid carnation, for we are fond of comparing women to flowers and another a beautiful and gorgeous rose, and a third a pure and sinless lily and yet another a modest violet betraying herself only by her fragrance... of cruelty appearing in the coarse fibre of man as crude and inartistic barbarity, but in the sweet and delicate soul of woman as a refined and beautiful playfulness and the inseparable correlative of a gentle and suave disposition. Wilson —But I am inclined to credit the girl with the purpose of giving a keener relish to the gratified desire by enhancing the difficulty of attainment, and in that... indeed be more bitterly disappointed than he, if any accident precluded her from making him happy? Wilson —Yes, I know, some women are like that. Keshav —If you had said most women were like that, you would have hit the truth more nearly. And this trait in women we impute to feminine insincerity and to maiden coyness and to everything but the real motive, and that is the primitive and eternal ...
... which do more for demonstrating the ultimate value of the modern Olympics than any argument that one may think of. Olympic history is replete with stories of handicapped men and women who became champions, men and women who saw themselves not as what they were but as what they could become. They are the soul and the spirit of the Olympic movement, and it is this spirit which every four years rivets... himself to shoot with his left hand and regained his place in the national side for the London Olympics at the age of 38. Four years later he retained his title. In Melbourne in 1956 there was a girl who once could barely move a muscle in her body after a severe bout of polio; but there she was, standing on top of the Olympic rostrum receiving her gold medal with tears running down her cheeks. Anyone... also wished to have the Games in his own country at the end of his Presidentship. This time, it was a success. 44 nations were represented (against 29 in 1920) with 3092 competitors, including 136 women. Six world records were set and fifteen existing records were equalled or broken. At last it was clear that the Olympic Games would continue, even without their founder. In fact, the Paris Games were ...
... ashram where men and women lived together on equal terms. It was also the only ashram where children formed an integral part of its life – and where physical education formed an integral part of life. South India can be blisteringly hot. Then how does one dress for the physical exercises? For the boys there was no problem, but what about the girls? We turn to Nirodbaran again: ‘The [girls’] exercises were... together with Indira Devi, the woman who had become the centre of his life and whom Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had saved from a certain death. 98 The Mother kept his apartment in the Ashram available for him till 1970. Pandit Nehru came for a first visit to the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on 16 January 1955. ‘The Ashram accorded him a cordial welcome. The Ashram boys and girls, beginning with the youths... Playground, I found the gate closed. The gatekeeper told me that the Mother did not want anyone except the group-members to enter the Playground. When it was thrown open we found, to our surprise, that the girls were doing exercises in shorts!’ 18 What was the reaction to this ‘drastic step,’ Nirodbaran asks? He answers the question himself: ‘Some, particularly old people, were shocked to see their ...
... Black dreary mosses covered and perceived A dim and level plain without one flower. Over it paced a multitude immense With gentle faces occupied by pain; Strong men were there and grieving mothers, girls With early beauty in their limbs and young Sad children of their childlike faces robbed. Naked they paced with falling hair and gaze Drooping upon their bosoms, weak as flowers That die for want... One shuddering motion of raised faces; then They streamed towards him without sound and caught With desperate hands his robe or touched his hair Or strove to feel upon them living breath. Pale girls and quiet children came and knelt And with large sorrowful eyes into his looked. Yet with their silent passion the cold hush Moved not; but Ruru's human heart half burst With burden of so many sorrows;... Anguished, importunate, and in its waves Page 132 The drifting ghosts their agony endured. There Ruru saw pale faces float of kings And grandiose victors and revered high priests And famous women. Now rose from the wave A golden shuddering arm and now a face. Torn piteous sides were seen and breasts that quailed. Over them moaned the penal waters on, And had no joy of their fierce cruelty ...
... he saw you here? —I have forgotten everything. —And if I made you my mistress? She blushed to the roots of her hair. Evidently, here one did not throw girls into the sea, nor speak to them in that tone. Besides, they are not “girls”; they always look as if they had just come out of a temple, carrying with them three centuries of contemplation. —Then why did you drag me here? To put me in... go of hers. The meeting had lasted three minutes. She looked at me: —As for me, I love, and I have forgotten everything. I love, I love... they all have that word in their mouths—priests, women, idiots—and then they find themselves with a lot of little brats on their hands, good for war, and love was yesterday. —Well, I don't love. —You are a brute. — Oui, libre ... Yes, free. ... is like a fête . Her breast was soft against mine, her bronze skin was glowing in the sun. Yes, Moni, yes, I like you to be ruby-red and umber; to-night we shall have a fête . Umber, oui ; women were always a return to half-light and oblivion. —I have taken out the Kashmiri carpets. We will walk on a forest of blue cedars. I have already lost myself in your forest. —Nil, my beloved ...
... Mother designed the type of shorts and shirts sadhikas were to wear in the Playground. Similarly, Mother put an end to the practice of segregating men and women in the Dining Room. In the School, she forbade any distinction between boys and girls. That radical transformation by Mother in Ashram activities was too difficult for many sadhaks fixed in the grooves of traditional Ashramite-hood, and their... The next time he came to their house, in 1922, he stayed for two months. The ideal of womanhood was then still exemplified by Tara, Savitri, Ahalya, Mandodari, Sita, Kunti, Draupadi — married women solemnly worshipped these seven Satees every morning. (No wonder then, that Amma could never understand the "love" which now forms the criteria par excellence of our pre-marital, marital and e... and Y were also housed (the latter had come as a seeker’s companion, not for Yoga). Their English education and social accomplishments had convinced them of all-round superiority over these Tamil women. Disregarding the rule that inmates must not interact without Mother’s permission, they took to ordering Amma to go to the market and buy whatever they needed. After a time, Amma realised that to ...
... . He consults a soothsayer and then in public assembly tries to persuade his king to follow the prescribed advice, i.e. to return the captured slave girl to her father, Apollo's priest. The king replies by asking Achilles to give up his own slave girl to replace the one that will have to be returned. The modern reader must understand the extent to which this is insulting behavior on the part of the... their fellow Greeks and opened the gates for them to Page 51 The Trojan Horse (painting by Tiepolo) enter. The Greeks stormed the city killing many of the men and capturing the women and children. Priam was stabbed to death by Achilles' son. The only Trojan hero to escape was Aeneas, who later, according to legend, went on to found Rome. The princes of Greece sailed away, each... educated by Chiron, the elder centaur known for his deep wisdom. An oracle in his father's court predicted that Achilles would die fighting in Troy. To escape this prophecy his mother disguised him as a girl and sent him to live with the daughters of a neighboring king. However, another soothsayer pro-claimed that Troy could not be taken without Achilles' help, so the Greeks sent wily Odysseus to search ...
... humiliating ritual of bullying and ridicule all newcomers were subjected to. 5 However, women were not admitted at the Beaux-Arts before 1897 – and Mirra was not interested in an artistic career, but in the practice, mastery and enjoyment of art itself. The Julian Academy, ‘the only serious art school for women,’ was founded by the painter Rodolphe Julian in 1868 and had several branches in Paris... Part One: Convergent Roads The Mother (biography) 2: Artist among the Artists It was not becoming for a girl of the better classes to take up art as a career. It would have been tolerated that she did water colours or painted fans and screens, but not paintings on canvas! This was not included in the catalogue of the conventions of the higher bourgeoisie... were the models, too expensive to be hired in private – probably on the usual basis as at the Académie Suisse: for three weeks (older) men would pose as mythological and biblical figures, for one week women as Venuses and Virgins. How did Mirra come to meet Henri Morisset, who was eight years older than she? It was grandmother Mira, who had known Henri’s father, Edouard Morisset, for many years, who ...
... The Role of Women Towarnicki: Mother seems to have been one of the first women in the world to play that role. Generally, one finds men, gurus – Yes. Page 151 Towarnicki: – initiates, or so-called initiates. Did Mother see a specific role for women? Oh, absolutely! First of all, the woman is the base. The woman is truly the realizer. "Realizer"... made it possible to exist on the physical plane. Towarnicki: Did she speak of the special role of woman? Sri Aurobindo spoke of Mother. That's one thing. But as for women in general, well, what can I say? I don't know. Towarnicki: What about the story of the root-woman and the vine-woman? (Laughing) Yes. Towarnicki: That's what I wanted you to explain. In fact, how did you come... 153 Whereas the root-women remain very close to a man, which enables the man to grow toward the sun, toward the light, as it were, as a tree extends its branches. I am just quoting from memory. (Laughing) That's it. Towarnicki: And what did Mother say about the special role of woman? Well, yes, he [Satprem] can tell you. Satprem: The woman is the one who has courage, far ...
... jealousy and vanity 378, 652 justice and evil-doers 401 Ahimsa 401 hypnotism 402 Churchill 416 Cripps' mission 425-6 War and her disciples 428 need for malleability 432 women's care of their body 438-9 New Woman's ideal of Beauty 440 Atomic bomb 442 sports and yoga 469 'modern' art 473 yogic discipline and destiny 479 things to cherish and defend 486 meditation and concentration... The Supreme Discovery 42-3 Page 914 Prayers and Meditations 63ff, 126,136,142,195-7,299,301, 344ff, 370,383,479, 548-9, 555, 701 Radha's Prayer 93, 535 Talk to the Women of Japan 178ff Women and the War 178fn, 438 Conversations 297ff, 301ff, 370, 385, 506, 524.-5, 550, 600 Words of the Mother 297ff, 301ff, 506, 550ff, 710 Some Answers by the Mother 375 Youth... The Mother opens the School 432-3 interest in the children 432-4, 507-8, 529-30, 668-9 opens the playgrounds 434-6, 531 plays table-tennis and tennis 436, 590 chooses uniform for girls 437-8 launching the Bulletin 466, 676 staging her play Towards the Future 470 the main inspiration 508ff, 676-7 on education 508ff, 728 a sacerdocy 506, 520 its goal 510, 516-7, 733 ...
... noises of men. So the dark-browed Poseidon Came to his coral halls and the sapphire stables of Nereus Ever where champ their bits the harnessed steeds of the Ocean Watched by foam-white girls in the caverns of still Amphitrite. There was his chariot yoked by the Tritons, drawn by his coursers Born of the fleeing sea-spray and shod with the north-wind .who journey Black like... to his gaze; in the moonlit orchards there wandered Lovers dreaming of love that endures till the moment of treason; Helped by the anxious joy of their kindred supported their anguish Women with travail racked for the child who shall rack them with sorrow. Hopes that were confident, fates that sprang dire from the seed of a moment, Yearning that claimed all time for its date... the unborn hearts of the future. Page 71 Troubled kingdoms of men he beheld, the hind in the furrow, Lords of the glebe and the serf subdued to the yoke of his fortunes, Slave-girls tending the fire and herdsmen driving the cattle, Artisans labouring long for a little hire in men's cities, Labour long and the meagre reward for a toil that is priceless. Kings in their ...
... exist in Europe, women taking each other's hands and dancing as they sing, generally in a circle; to express this in English, so as to create the same picture as the Sanscrit conveys, it was necessary to add "in lovely dances". The word Kinnaries presents a serious initial difficulty. The Purana mythologising partly from false etymology has turned these Kinnars into men & women with horse-faces &... most unpretentious & admirable prose in Sanscrit literature; it is perfectly simple, easy in pitch & natural in tone with a shining, smiling, rippling lucidity, a soft, carolling gait like a little girl running along in a meadow & smiling back at you as she goes. There is the true image of it; a quiet English meadow with wild flowers on a bright summer morning, breezes abroad, the smell of hay in the... ungainly elements of the idea, often preserving it only in an epithet, and bring into prominence all the elements of beauty. Here the horse-faces are entirely suppressed & the picture offered is that of women singing with unearthly voices on the mountain-tops. The use of the word Kinnarie here would have no poetic propriety; to the uninstructed it would mean nothing and to the instructed would suggest only ...
... Then one day we received a letter from a woman who said that she wanted to get a boat and to come on the boat with a group of people, for 1972. I answered her, then she sent her photo — and I saw she was the person whom I had seen so often, with whom I was in touch! And she's a woman who seems to have some authority over there (she seems to be a rich woman): she has some authority, she knows people... wants to do - [the director of education] told me they were ENTHUSIASTIC, that they had said, "At last we've found what we were looking for!" And then one of them (they're twenty, twenty-two year old girls) said to her, "Give me the number of your bank account so I can send you my contribution." [The director of education] had Page 126 never dared hope for such a thing; she said, "Can you... November 22, 1969 AM X-479 ... I saw that for the majority of people who Have children almost without wanting to, "like that," for them it's a sort of... (of course there are many women who want to have children but without even knowing what it means), but for the IMMENSE majority of those who have been educated, that is, whose heads have been stuffed with .a ll the defects one shouldn't ...
... positively evil, with a terrible vibration! I asked her to leave it with me overnight to be placed by Mother’s photo. The next day it was normal. The Mother had absorbed the violence from it. I advised the girl not to keep it but to place it in the Smithsonian Museum. This was not done. They kept the stone and it absorbed the bad vibration again. The family continues to experience bad luck to this day. ... activities. There were small, thin Tamil men in bullock carts, beggars, pigs, goats, hungry, wild-looking dogs with exposed rib bones, motorbikes, mopeds, rickshaws, bicycles, naked babies and dark skinned women and children in brightly colored clothing. Pondicherry was then and still is, an ongoing festival of sights and sounds and smells. I conducted the interview in Anurakta’s Puja room where all his... the Arunachala mountains, sacred to Lord Shiva, every stone picked up there is blazing with light and energy. The Samadhi also radiates these kinds of power waves to transform the earth. An Ashram woman has been helping me with this research. We kept stones in different colored boxes, each stone vibrated differently. We came to realize that the surface of the stone changes but its core remains the ...
... ages, She makes the forest flow with a sudden outburst of flamboyant rapture. Immobile on the face of a sage unconscious in Her embrace, She gambols among the golden curls of a little girl out in the fields. Dancing with the foaming angry waves threatening the ship of Fate, With a mad abandon She rushes into the welcome wide-open jaws of Death. Without Thy sustaining... smiling Face. I am always in you as you are in Me, there is none but Myself anywhere. Play your music, let it flow through the golden cord of Love and Felicity To million hearts in agony, men, women, children, victims of hunger and violence. I will dance to your music with a garland of rose-petals on My breast, Whirl around the world on invisible waves of Light across all borders, Wake... shop windows on the beach of time Vanish like low-lying mud islands swept away by Thy tidal grandeur. Thy existence is more real and concrete to my perception than my own being, Than the woman I kiss or the child I hold in my arms. The basalt and the granite appear thinner than the morning mist In the massive all-pervading presence of Thy Reality. These names and images shine for ...
... could not have children without her husband. So Yama was tricked into restoring life to Satyavan. Savitri's is a cherished name in India. Women observe fasts in her honour and pray for long life for their husbands. But as with all accomplished women in India, it is only her 'Pativrata' aspect that gets highlighted. This does not do justice to Savitri's many-sided personality. She had... They meditated on Goddess Savitri. The goddess was pleased with Ashvapati's devotion, but out of the sacrificial fire came not the son he had hoped for, but a lustrous girl child. Ashvapati named her Savitri. This girl was to be the redeemer of two households—her father's as well her father-in-law's. When Savitri grew up, so great was her beauty, wisdom and accomplishment, that no... approaches the Father-Creator Brahma to grant a son to him. But he is to get the gift of a radiant daughter and he is told not to have any uneasy feeling in accepting what has been sanctioned. When a baby-girl was bom, she was appropriately named Savitri, given to him as she was by the Goddess Savitri herself. In course of time she enters into youthful maidenhood but, because of her fiery splendour, no ...
... dealing with things spiritual and mystic should not bind a poet's creation. Well? Well and if a poet is a spiritual seeker what does Tagore want hilt to write about? Dancing girls? Amal has done that. Wine and women? Hafez has done that. But he can only use them as symbols as a rule. Must he write about politics,—communism, for instance, like modernist poets? Why should he describe the outer aspects... rather an important and interesting phenomenon. My impression was that I had written much more—but that is probably an adhyaropa 197 from the copiousness of my other reply on the feminine woman. Anyhow I have added a little to the rather stumpy note. You can type and give a copy to Ishwarbhai. [Sri Aurobindo's revised version of the letter of 2.5.38] There is always a drawing of vital ...
... son. They meditated on Goddess Savitri. The goddess was pleased with Ashvapati's devotion, but out of the sacrificial fire came not the son he had hoped for, but a lustrous girl child. Ashvapati named her Savitri. This girl was to be the redeemer of two house holds her father's as well as her father-in-law's. When Savitri grew up, so great was her beauty, wisdom and accomplishment, that no man... she could not have children without her husband. So Yama was tricked into restoring life to Satyavan. Savitri's is a cherished name in India. Women observe fasts in her honour and pray for long life for their husbands. But as with all accomplished women in India, it is only her 'Pativrata' aspect that gets highlighted. This does not do justice to Savitri's many-sided personality. She had the... Brahma to grant a son to him. But he is to get the gift of a radiant daughter and he is told not to have any uneasy feeling in accepting what has been sanctioned. Page 92 When a baby-girl was born, she was appropriately named Savitri, given to him as she was by the Goddess Savitri herself. In course of time she enters into youthful maidenhood but, because of her fiery splendour, no ...
... on your side, integral justice, not only as to the goal but also as to means.’ – ‘I am glad, madame, to see that a woman shows concern about these kind of problems. Women can do so much to hasten the coming of better days.’ On taking leave, he said that even in Paris he and the woman who helped him get around – he had serious trouble with his eyesight – did not feel safe, because the police suspected... trances she could talk freely [something Mirra would learn too] and she used to narrate what she saw.’ 23 Her narrations were noted down by Teresa (who had been Alma’s friend since their years at a girls’ boarding school in England) and formed the bulk of the texts in the Revue cosmique . Théon usually dressed in a long red, purple or white robe, tied up with a cord around the waist, while Alma wore... would later know of the occult heritage of India, the more she would appreciate what Théon actually knew. And for his wife she had nothing but the highest praise: ‘She had unheard of faculties, that woman, unheard of!’ Max and Alma stayed in France for a year and a half, and then moved on to Algeria, where they built a villa on the outskirts of Tlemcen, a town at the foot of the Atlas mountains. There ...
... that always wants a girl to meet his mother. I mean if a girl gets to know what kind of a mother a gentleman's mother is like, she really knows more what kind of a conversation to use on a gentleman's mother when she meets her. Because a girl like I is really always on the verge of meeting gentlemen's mothers. But such an unrefined girl as Dorothy is really not the kind of girl that ever meets gentlemen's... half-formed wish in my mind." 29 9.Metathesis: A metathesis is the transposition and recombination of letters within a single word. Example: Someone reported that "The young girl's hair was decked with robins" when he wanted to convey that "Her hair was decked with ribbons."' 0 10.Syllepsis: The phenomenon of syllepsis arises when we employ in our sentence-construction... before daylight comes and who go home at night when the light has faded from the sky and give their life, their strength, their toil to make others rich and great. I appeal to you in the name of those women who are offering up their lives to this modern god of gold, and I appeal to you in the name of those little children, the living and the unborn," etc., etc. 77 Page 54 Prof. Irving M ...
... Was it because he made me pass Thee by? But how could I help that? O Thou who, knowing The deepest trends of the woman's doting heart, Must know why when she loves she will forget The whole world for the one who makes her world. Man is a hunter butterfly chasing flowers: Woman's a lotus affianced to one sun. Madest Thou not this heart of hers Thyself? Why then wouldst Thou now punish it for... with me. ROMA ( stingingly ) Oh I know that: Hell knows that Heaven wants to heal all pain. MADHAI ( with a growl ) Shut up — or you will know what's hell, my girl! ( he turns to Keshav ) You did your friend, the sycophant, a good turn. For he would have learnt a lesson he badly needs. ( Meanwhile the hum behind grows louder and he turns ... him cruel For ordaining such a horrible fate for me! But how dare they judge the high Omniscient — They, who fail so pitifully everytime To take the measure of pigmy men and women? How can they render unto the vast Divine What is due to Him when they cannot even render The little that they owe to His puny creatures? Page 77 Can those who never have ...
... 26 April 1933 Now I have something else to ask of you. Would you please write that I should never under any circumstance touch women nor allow them to touch me. Since you feel that you are weak in regard to women, never touch a woman. Never allow a woman to touch you. 4 May 1933 This morning I felt some weakness. But in the afternoon, on the contrary, I felt joyful; all my anxiety... becomes lasting. 11 June 1934 It seems that women have a power of attraction which they throw upon men—a natural movement—and that men are caught like fish in a net and often unable to escape. Is this true? What is the way to avoid being touched by this power, or what must we do to escape from it? I think it is a mutual effect—and women complain that men do the same thing to them. The remedy... seventeen or eighteen, and yet I behaved towards You as if I were Your child. But I doubt very much whether this young girl I called Mother was anything more than a being taking on Your form. It is not at all impossible that I should appear in various forms, even in the form of a young girl. 1 August 1934 I don't understand, Mother, why I so often see scorpions and snakes in my dreams. They ...
... and laugh and weep, enjoy, Fight and shout, King, lord and beggar, tender girl and boy, Foemen, friends; So to His creatures God's poetic mind A substance lends. 48 In his plays, Sri Aurobindo's own "vast and labouring mind" has brought out worlds of living men and women. And in many a poem, rhythm and phrase are seen to fuse again and again into the splendour... tender flower on some grey stone portal To sweeten and flush with childhood immortal The ageing earth. 10 It is a new kind of seeing, a new gift of vision, and anything seen - a woman sleeping in her garden, someone leaping from the rocks and running away, the hushed hour of evening - becomes the take-off point to lose oneself in Eternity: The wind walked softly; silent moved... close embrace, "sin" must needs be born into the world. And Sirioth describes the beautiful and terrible vision: And I beheld as in a dream Leaping from out thy brain and into mine A woman beautiful, of grandiose mien, Yet terrible, alarming and instinct With nameless menace. And the world was full With clashing and with cries. It seemed to me Angels and Gods ...
... the two is both remote and infrequent. This situation needs to be corrected. During these very years, the number and proportion of girl students has been increasing. In the case of co-educational colleges, girls feel isolated by and large. In the case of girls' colleges, a sense of kinship does grow and that is helpful. This dimension of the problem also needs to be noted and taken care of. ... personality that has been described as the style of the man/woman. Value education is necessary to support the value consolidation from value conflicts. Let us take just one example. Article 51A of Indian Constitution charges every citizen to "renounce practices derogatory to dignity of women (Article 51A (e)"; in other words, upholding dignity of women is a fundamental duty of every Indian citizen. If we... group is given about four trucks (one to each sub-group), each fitted with a wire-less set. Another group prepares the food early in the morning in large sheds. The teachers and the girl students of Anantapur campus and girls section of the High School pack the food thus prepared into small packets. The food packets and the Clothes (Saris, Dhotis, stationery material, etc.) are counted and loaded into ...
... "You see," the girl began at once with her ready volubility, "it's quite true. Brother-in-law says you are not to step into this side of the house and tomorrow the—all the—what, Mother?" Page 562 "Property and things," prom ted Digambari. "Yes, property and things are going to be divided and—and—what else, Mother?" Digambari frowned. "You silly girl! The oath, the oath... where they met a young woman unable to cross the current alone. One of the monks picked her up in his arms and set her safely on her feet on the other side and the two monks continued on their travels. The monk who had crossed the river alone could finally restrain himself no longer and began to rebuke his brother, "Do you not know it is against our rules to touch a young woman? You have broken the holy... there is no answer to the unanswerable. Narayani tried to follow up her advantage, but her voice quavered. She bit her lip and then said, in a husky voice, "I had just turned thirteen—an age when most girls still play with dolls— when your mother died after putting me in charge of this household she had grown to love so much. She can judge from where she is how I have acquitted myself. You know I have ...
... lines; but the second is more elaborate: O master of delicious words! the bloom Of chompuk and the breath of king-perfume v Have made each musical sentence with the noise Of women's ornaments and sweet household joys... All nature in a page, no pleasing show But men more real than the friends we know.... His nature kingly was and as a god In large serenity... life. The scanty external facts that we happen to know do not seem to tell the whole story: they even give a confused, or perversely blurred, picture. Mrinalini came to Sri Aurobindo as a beautiful girl, steeped in the Hindu tradition of unswerving wifely devotion to one's husband and willing and eager to play her appointed role. After three or four years, they seem to have somewhat drifted apart... and deeper, in the meshes of politics, especially the organisation of secret revolutionary activity, and he was also feeling drawn towards Yoga. Mrinalini, on the other hand, was still no more than a girl, she had been used to the ordinary comforts and sense of security in a middle-class Bengali home, she was no diamond-edged intellectual, and no god-intoxicated bhakta either; and notwithstanding ...
... (After all, we are at the beginning of the century. Abd-el-Kader’s shadow is not so far away, and Abd-el-Krim is nearby, stirring up his conspiracies with William II. All the same, Mirra did not like women to be veiled, any more than Mathilde liked the khedive's tutelage.) And Theon held forth: "This so-called civilization, whose leaders themselves are ignorant of life’s depths, whose mystics without... Around 1906, a little corner of the Atlas Mountains saw the strange encounter between a forgotten Vedic experience, lost beneath the incomprehension of "more evolved" millennia, and a materialist girl from Paris who believed only what She could “see and touch.” While over there, six thousand miles away (perhaps at the very moment of His first arrest for "sedition”), a young Bengali named Aurobindo... taking refuge in Zarif, after being expelled from Egypt for some mysterious reason perhaps not unrelated to his excessive indulgence in thunderbolts. How did he happen to meet Alma, this soft English woman from the Isle of Wight—by what inscrutably circuitous route? Truly, the meetings of beings through time and space make up a strange geography; we are still unaware of the invisible little beacons that ...
... adjectives: I know not why it is I must be fighting, For ever fighting, when the slaying of men Is a more weary and aimless thing to me Than most men think it... and most women too. There is a woman here who grieves she loves me, And she too must be fighting me for ever With her dim ravenous unsated mind. This is from King Lear's Wife; possibly the tone is meant to... in Shakespeare, though Lear mad seems to have been inspired, and, when sober, just puerile. But even in Bottomley's best play, Gruach, which is conceived as a prelude to Macbeth, showing what kind of girl Lady Macbeth must have been when she first met her husband, and is admirable for its dramatic structure, live characterisation, thrilled atmosphere of forces seen and unseen — even Gruach is not a perfect ...
... the mind, the taste for association also develops, with all the deformations that go with it. People who make very strict distinctions between man and woman (I don't know why, for one is as good as the other), say that man is mental and vital and woman physical and psychic. There is some truth in it. But naturally it involves all possible exceptions and complications. These are arbitrary simplifications... cat which repeated more than fifty times the same movement to teach her young one how to jump from a wall on to a window, and I may add, with a care, an intelligence, a skill which many uneducated women do not have. And why is it thus?—because there was no mental intervention. It was altogether spontaneous instinct. But what is instinct?—it is the presence of the Divine in the genus of the species... develop and manifest, quite unexpectedly, things one could not do at all before and which one didn't think were in one's nature. Of this too I have had numerous examples.... I used to know a young girl who was born in a very ordinary environment, who had not received much education and wrote rather clumsy French, who had not developed her imagination and had absolutely no literary sense: that seemed ...
... Kaliyuga; a war of great historic importance. 2) A dancing girl of the same age, strong aquiline face, in loose transparent draperies. This seems to be a Roman period of the Kali. A handsome & imperial race, but already weakening in type. The bhava is that of men doomed to defeat. Page 409 3) Images of the opposite nation, a man & a woman, ugly, strong, fierce, Pisacha-Pramatha in type; the face... stable for a second or two with a slight interval or tendency to interval of momentary obscuration, eg a shadowy hand clear, though not complete in detail, with a coat-sleeve & white cuff, figures of women, men on horseback, some of them entirely complete & clear. Gandha & rasadrishti once more emerged, stronger & freer than before. Gandhas 1) Of wine (no wine anywhere near) 2) Of cooked... seen) in the bridge for the river to pass through; on the bridge, first one man, then others passing across, the first hastening, Page 403 the others slow; beyond the bridge on the river a girl & a man crossing the river in a sort of raft; [a] 14 lamppostlike erection in the river, the nature & object of which are not clear yet. Beyond a hill with houses upon it. Connected with the Pas ...
... irrevocably. Even more symbolic, I think, is the story of this young girl from Ashram Press, named Antu, who sent Pranab a letter of several pages to protest against the oppression — she even had her letter duplicated. There, too, things are secretly moving. That a girl takes the first step does not surprise me. The other woman in Delhi is surrounded by her huge mafia, but there is a Will in her... American.... We found the whole Boul'Mich and New York there, and the big woman with a fig leaf on her genitals and her hanging belly, who distributed buns to the crows while her husband took photos of this eternal instant, as in Venice among the pigeons. And how many dollars do you have? Cupidity everywhere, organized robbery, girls and boys selling themselves to the tourists. A terrifying pollution... fall to the emerald green lawn. Unfortunately, it is destructive man who reigns outside. Whether they are old or young, trees are cut down every day. Blows and more blows that we hear, women and more women whom we see. To the west side and to the south side. Twenty, thirty trees on every side. Day after day. And several times a day. Where there was no visible path, we can now see hills or villages ...
... Disciple : Kalidas we know as one who is not particular about morality. His Malvikagnimitra depicts the king Agnimitra falling in love with a dancing girl who turns out to be a princess. So also, in his other poems like Rati Vilap he mentions women in the state of drunkenness and is not shocked. Sri Aurobindo : He is one who is attracted by beauty, even when he is attracted by a thought or... The ideal relation between man and woman in this yoga you cannot at present understand. You have, first, to make yourself fit for it. Your own ideas of married life and Shastra etc. are dangerous and if you follow these ideas there is every chance of your fall from the yoga. All of them are mental constructions. The first thing in a case where both man and woman are aspirants is to help each other... – pavitra. In it there is no trace of vital lust and physical craving. There is also possible a relation of Purusha and Shakti between man and woman. But that relation is not social, it is not ordinary. Because one is married to a certain woman it does not follow that his wife is necessarily his Shakti. So long as these relations are not understood and experienced by you another possible ...
... successful. Not to speak of success, I have not yet even entirely entered my field of work. There is nothing then for you but to consider me mad. And it is an evil thing for a woman to fall into the hands of a mad fellow. For woman's expectations are all bound up in worldly happiness and sorrow. A madman will not make his wife happy, he can only make her miserable. The founders of the Hindu religion... told the woman, "Know that the only mantra for womankind is this: 'The husband is the supreme guru.’ ¹ The wife shares the Dharma [law of conduct] of her husband. She must help him, counsel him, encourage him in whatever work he accepts as his Dharma. She should regard him as her god, take joy in his joy, and feel sorrow in his unhappiness. It is for a man to choose his work; the woman's part is... blind king who played the part of a blind woman by putting a bandage across her eyes? For all your education in a Brahmo ¹.Up to this point the translation follows an early version by Barindra Kumar Ghose which was seen and revised lightly by Sri Aurobindo. The rest of the translation is new. Page 80 school, you are still a woman from a Hindu home. The blood of Hindu ancestors ...
... have heard "0" and "Da" and "Fa". MRS JOURDAIN. What on earth is all this rigmarole? NICOLE. And what good is it going to be to anybody? MR JOURDAIN. It exasperates me to see how ignorant women can be! MRS JOURDAIN. Oh get off with you! You ought to send all these fellows packing with their ridiculous tomfoolery. NICOLE. And especially that great lump of a fencing master who fills... supposed to give him the necessary knowledge and savoir-faire to hold his own. Mr. Jourdain wants to marry his daughter into the nobility, contrary to her wishes. A trick is played upon him in which the girl's real lover is introduced to him as the son of the "Great Turk", and Mr. Jourdain is only too pleased to accept him as his son-in-law. This occasions a hilarious mixture of ballet and farce in a mock... would not seem natural for princes or ordinary folk for that matter, to be indulging their passions in song. Page 187 MR JOURDAIN. Very well. Let's hear them. TRIO FIRST SINGER [woman]. Who gives her heart in loving To a thousand cares is bound; Men speak of love and wooing As one continual round Of rapture. — Not for me! No, not for me! I keep my fancy free ...
... energy to the right doer, the right giver (who perfectly effects his aims); Page 232 yea, all things here they bring to the sacrificer who expresses the Soma bliss. (4) Like a dancing-girl she lays bare her clear forms of beauty, like a Paramour she opens her breast casting aside its defences creating Light for the whole world. The radiant herds have left their pen; Dawn has uncovered... delicious food. Vishnu in his mighty violence took by force all that was made ready and shooting his arrows pierced the Boar across the mountain. Page 219 (8) To him, to him, to Indra, the Women, the wives of the gods, have woven a song of light in the slaying of the Serpent. He put on for his robe the wide earth and heaven, but they could not encircle his greatness. (9) His was the greatness... brought us armour of light for our happy journey to felicity. (3) He who has the vision of the knowledge of himself is sweeping down, is sweeping down from the tops the foam on the water. The two women beloved of Kuyava bathe in the sweet curd of the waves; let them lie slain in the rapids of the Shipha. (4) The navel has been set of the higher being and the Hero moves on and shines there with ...
... Peter and James "the Lord's brother" - namely Paul? Not only does Paul, when he has the chance to speak of Mary, mention her anonymously and make her out to be just a woman like any other and giving birth to Jesus in the way all women do to their children. He also shows thereby that neither Peter nor James, who could have known of the virginal conception if there had been one, ever breathed a word... embellishment in the tradition will be apparent at once to a reader who will examine in turn the accounts of the. visit of the women to the tomb in Mark and in Matthew. In Mark the miracle is implied but not described. The story is told in utter simplicity. The women arrive wondering who will move the stone so that they may enter. They see that the stone is no longer there. They enter. The tomb... humanity and was missioned by God to appear in our world exactly like any one of us - "born of a woman, born a subject to the Law" - so that by his complete equality and organic unity with us he might communicate to us and evoke in us an image of his own origin from the Supreme. The words - "born of a woman" - provide just another facet of the same condition as is hit off in the words "born a subject ...
... Therefore, a gray elephant is a gray animal. Similarly, an elephant is an animal. Therefore, a small elephant is a small animal. 3 Ex. 3: A youngman is trying to convince a young girl that she indeed loves him. His argument, in the words of J.G. Vivian, is as follows: I love you; therefore I am a lover. All the world loves a lover; and you are all the world to me.... of Sri Aurobindo's humour enlivening matters 'logical', but there is first of all a short introduction to it. After the Sri Aurobindo Ashram was formally established in 1926, many young men and women started flocking to Pondi-cherry with the aspiration to lead a higher life and to do spiritual sadhana under the guidance of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Apart from using more potent inner spiritual... their hand at constructing a few of their own. 1.I am righteously indignant. You are annoyed. He is making a fuss about nothing. 2.I am fastidious. You are fussy. He is an old woman. 3.I have reconsidered it. You have changed your mind. He has gone back on his word. In Logic there is a particular type of fallacy which goes by the name of "Fallacy of Many ...
... have friendship between man and man or between woman and woman than between man and woman, because there the sexual intrusion can be easily absent. In the friendship between man and woman the sexual turn can at any moment come in in a subtle or a direct way and produce perturbations. But there is no impossibility of friendship between man and woman pure of this element; Page 124 ... to the Divine, that is a counsel of perfection for those who want to go fast and far and so don't care to carry any baggage. But otherwise friendship whether between man and man or man and woman or woman and woman is not forbidden—provided it is the true thing and sex does not come in and also provided it does not turn one away from the goal. If the central aim is strong, that is sufficient. Page... and rapture of this love. It is not the heart of the devotee but the mind of the observer that questions how it is that the Gopis were called and responded at once and others—the Brahmin women, for instance—were not called or did not respond at once. Once the mind puts the question, there are two possible answers, the mere will of Krishna without any reason, what the mind would call his ...
... Two Ashram girls, about sixteen or seventeen years old, were there, waiting to go upstairs to see “mother.” When I heard that, I was seized by a sense of great danger. Because I knew that You weren’t there. So I began to give instructions to the two girls, whom I knew, in fact, one especially. I don’t remember what I told them but it was a matter of will — of life and death. The girl who knew... eight Western hostages killed on board the aircraft, which landed in Kuwait: “The commandoes started beating one of the women hostages in front of the microphone and announced to the control tower in Athens: ‘You can hear — this woman is going to die.’ Suddenly, they dragged a woman to the microphone and she began screaming, says a spokesman for Lufthansa.”) (Satprem to Sujata:) Things have begun... I felt that if that false Mother could lay her hands on me once, I would never come out alive. Whereas if I could go out of that place, I might find a way to save the life of at least one of the girls. So before my absence was noticed, I started downstairs. The staircase has become narrow. The door is shut and a dark-looking guard is there. He is surprised to see me and does not want to let me ...
... wrists of his compatriots with the sacred thread, rakhi, in token of brotherly love and unity. Extremists and Moderates, Hindus and Muslims, young men and old, the rich and the poor, married women and young girls, all rose, as if from a long sleep, to greet the dawn of national awakening. A new life flowed, full and fast, through the province, like a torrent of fire. The skies were rent with the cries... Devi advocated Charkha in the industrial Conference. 95 She said: 'If we could not utilise the leisure of our women, which is now uselessly frittered away, in some small industries, assuming that Charkha cannot compete with machinery, it will yet give food to millions of starving women and find some useful work for those who have, for want thereof, to fritter away their leisure hours' '...then again... thousands and thousands of Indians rub dust or ashes on their foreheads; at dawn they bathe in silence as at a sacred fast; no meals are eaten; the shops in cities and the village bazaars are shut; women refuse to cook; they lay aside their ornaments; men bind each other's wrists with a yellow string as a sign that they will never forget the shame; and the whole day is passed in resentment, mourning ...
... street & house, with succession of moving images; men & women walking, riding, driving in carriages. Especially at end a carriage (motor?) driving at immense speed, seen continuously for almost a minute. Tejomay & varnamaya. In the afternoon. All sorts of images in small, behind a thick but transparent mist of pranic akasha; all crude: women, men, men on horseback, animals, birds, houses, objects... Figures etc connected with the war. Antardrishta The development here is slower; all sorts of crude forms come but not complete & except in a few cases not stable. Groups also come, eg a girl rocking in a low chair and another sitting facing her & holding her hand. Lipi. 1) Godhead. 2) subtlety— Rupa At night, farther progress, the old stable ghana forms & unstable... previously seen.—the eyes of a cat (in the pranakasha); a richly coloured butterfly, first seen in mental akasha of Earth, then in its pranakasha. Landscapes in Akasha now appear distinctly, crude.—women on a hill, scattered houses, trees. The fourfooted animal form tends still to be fugitive. Vijnana Vijnana is attempting its fuller movement of ritam. Page 768 Script ...
... from having had any success in my field of action, I have not been able to enter it. So, you may consider me a mad man. It is very unfortunate, indeed, for a woman to have her lot cast in with a mad man; for, all the hopes and desires of women are confined to the joys and sorrows of the family. A mad man cannot make his wife happy, rather he causes her no end of trouble and suffering. The founders... disciple of Usha and practise the cult of worship of the Europeans? Will you lessen the power of your husband, or double it by your sympathy and encouragement? You may say: "What can an ordinary girl like me do in such 40. 41. 42. Italics are ours. Page 41 great matters? I lack mental strength, I lack intelligence; I am afraid even to think of these things." There is an... high regard for all extraordinary men, whether great or insane. But what remedy is there for the pitiable misery of the wife in such a case? The Rishis prescribed the following remedy: They said to women: Your only mantram (a formula embodying the guiding principle of life) should be that the husband alone is the supreme Guru (spiritual master) of his wife. The wife is the partner of his spiritual ...
... hunt, it is in a kind of Bacchic procession, surrounded by women who form a circle... some of the women are in chariots, some on horseback, some on elephants, fully armed as in war." Mookerji then remarks: "It is interesting to note that there is a representation of a procession in a Bharhut Sculpture (c. 2nd century B.C.) of the figure of a woman riding a horse fully caparisoned and carrying a standard... several features which, like the realistic treatment of the animals on its seals, are unusual for an art so early. Basham 3 himself has the following comment on the striking bronze "dancing girl": "this young woman has an air of lively pertness, quite unlike anything in the work of other ancient civilizations." He 4 also writes: "The red sandstone torso of a man is particularly impressive for its realism... such as the Western tribe whom Herodotus called the Royal Scythians and reported to have proceeded westwards after their defeat in Asia by the Massagetae. This particular is the position of women among them. The women of the Massagetae stood very high. Haskins 1 writes: "We are explicitly told [Herodotus, I. 214] that they were led in battle by a queen." Now let us glance at the battle given by the Assakenoi ...
... austere. On the other hand, there can be a very real spirit and power of underlying austerity behind a considerable wealth and richness of expression. Arnold in one of his poems gives the image of a girl beautiful, rich and sumptuous in apparel on whose body, killed in an accident, was found beneath the sumptuousness, next to the skin, an under-robe of sackcloth. If that is admitted, then Milton can... 1932 1932 The German translation of your poem is very well done. As for Frau Füllöp Miller 1 whose judgement on men is as unanswerable as yours on European women. We will follow the profound Asquithian policy which is good throughout the ages: "Wait and see". 1932 ? ... PS. Did you read Cromnur Byng's compliments on my poems (I had sent... karā jāy. Je meye tār pranayeer janye ghar tyāg korlo se, bolbe nā ô tui khete dibi ne? Ami tor buker opor boshe khābo" [You can dernand from the Divine only when you can leave everything for Him. The woman who has left her home for her lover has the right to say, "Won't you provide for me? I shall make you provide for me"?] Page 154 the inner life. Krishna did great things and was very ...
... elements, and only different atomic arrangements account for the different features (this is the physical counterpart to the spiritual truth of the world's divine Oneness: "Thou art man and woman, boy and girl, old and worn thou walkest bent over a staff; thou art the blue bird and the green and the scarlet-eyed"); 360 and second, that the solar fire in Matter is the material counterpart of the... upon some Himalayan peak. Except for the main building, where the Mother lived and where Sri Aurobindo's monument is located, the 1,200-odd disciples of all nationalities and all social classes (men, women and four to five hundred children) were scattered throughout the city of Pondicherry in more than three hundred different houses. There were no protective walls in the Ashram, except for one's own inner... poetry or music through the conscious manipulation of higher vibrations, we would create masterpieces endowed with initiatory powers. Instead of a poetry that is a fantasy of the intellect and a nautch-girl of the mind, 201 as Sri Aurobindo put it, we would create a mantric music or poetry to bring the gods into our life. 202 For true poetry is action; it opens little inlets in the consciousness ...
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