... poetic word, — its sound, its its music is discovered by the poet somewhere in the high regions of Truth, beyond the limits of the poet's individuality. This is why it is regarded as apaurusheya, even though that word may have been coloured by the heart and the mind through which that original word travels before it is brought to the surface. As the Veda puts it, the rhythmic word or speech, the mantra... of the seer and from distant home of the Truth. The word or speech which is born from the -Truth combines three intensities, — intensity of style, intensity of rhythm, and intensity of vision. And when these three intensities reach their climax and are combined together, the resultant is what the Veda calls mantra, the inevitable word or the expression that vibrates with the vision of the truth... sublime and powerful poetic creation. It is in its form and speech no barbaric production. The Vedic poets are masters of a consummate technique, their rhythms are carved like chariots of the gods and borne on divine and ample wings of sound, and are at once concentrated and wide-waved, great in movement and subtle in modulation, their speech lyric by intensity and epic by elevation, an utterance of ...
... by the Word a form or presentation of himself in the objects of sense and consciousness which constitute the universe, just as the human word expresses a mental image of those objects. That Word is creative in a deeper and more original sense than human speech and with a power of which the utmost creativeness of human speech can be only a far-off and feeble analogy. Page 29 The word used... V The Supreme Word The Upanishad, reversing the usual order of our logical thought which would put Mind and Sense first or Life first and Speech last as a subordinate function, begins its negative description of Brahman with an explanation of the very striking phrase. Speech of our speech. And we can see that it means a Speech beyond ours, an absolute expression of which... very soul of movement. Speech, a lesser thing, creates, expresses, but is itself only a creation and expression. Brahman is not expressed by speech, but speech is itself expressed by Brahman. And that which expresses speech in us, brings it up out of our Page 32 consciousness with its strivings to raise up the truth of things to our mind, is Brahman himself as the Word, a Thing that is in ...
... And the listener seems to be that other vaster and yet identical eternal spirit whom the Upanishad speaks of as the ear of the ear, he who listens to all hearings; "behind the instabilities of word and speech" it is the profound inevitable harmonies of his own thought and vision for which he is listening. Page 24 ... Chapter III Rhythm and Movement The mantra, poetic expression of the deepest spiritual reality, is only possible when three highest intensities of poetic speech meet and become indissolubly one, a highest intensity of rhythmic movement, a highest intensity of interwoven verbal form and thought-substance, of style, and a highest intensity of the soul's vision... form, it was not merely to aid the memory,—they were able to memorise huge prose Brahmanas quite as accurately as the Vedic hymnal or the metrical Upanishads,—but because they perceived that metrical speech has in itself not only an easier durability, but a greater natural power than Page 20 unmetrical, not only an intenser value of sound, but a force to compel language and sense to heighten ...
... since then the visits of green spring Have blessed the hillsides with fresh blossoming And four times has the winter chilled the brooks, Since sole I dwell with my rude father cheered By no low-worded speech or sunny looks. Yet are we rich enough, fruitful our herd And yields us brimming pails, and store we still Numberless baskets with white cheese and fill Our cave with fruits for winter, and... buds upon the blossoming lawn. But ah, today some happy soft unrest Aspires and pants in my unquiet breast, As if some light were from the day withdrawn, As if the flitting Zephyr knew a lovelier word Than it had spoken yet, and flower and bird Kept still some grace that yet is left to bloom, Had still a note I never yet have heard, That, blossoming, would the wide air more illume, That, spoken ...
... Below, the boarhound and the boar Pursue their pattern as before But reconciled among the stars.¹ The Word was made flesh and the Word was made Poetry. To express the supreme Word in life, that is the work of the sage, the Rishi. To express the Word in speech, that is the labour of the Poet. Eliot undertook this double function of the poet and the sage and he found the task difficult... and more facile inspiration tempts the poet and he often speaks with a raucous voice, even as the Arch-tempter sought to lure the Divine Word Jl1ade flesh: ... Shrieking voices Scolding, mocking, or merely chattering, Always assail them. The Word in the desert Is most attacked by voices of temptation,4 Our poet is too self-conscious, he himself feels that he has not... difficult. The poet has to utter the unutterable, if he is to clothe in words the mystic experience of the sage in him. That is Eliot's ambition: .... Words, after speech, reach Into the silence. Only by the form, the pattern, Can words or music reach The stillness, as a Chinese jar still Moves perpetually in its stillness. ² But, alas! .... Words strain ...
... towards the ignoble, mean, obscure, rude, cruel or false, was termed un-Aryan. There is no word in human speech that has a nobler history. Page 441 In the early days of comparative Philology, when the scholars sought in the history of words for the prehistoric history of peoples, it was supposed that the word Arya came from the root ar , to plough, and that the Vedic Aryans were so called when... according to the temperament. Indians know the word, but it has lost for them the significance which it bore to their forefathers. Western Philology has converted it into a racial term, an unknown ethnological quantity on which different speculations fix different values. Now, even among the philologists, some are beginning to recognise that the word in its original use expressed not a difference of... the godhead. All the highest aspirations of the early human race, its noblest religious temper, its most idealistic velleities of thought are summed up in this single vocable. In later times, the word Arya expressed a particular ethical and social ideal, an ideal of well-governed life, candour, courtesy, nobility, straight dealing, courage, gentleness, purity, humanity, compassion, protection of ...
... Existence is a representation of ineffable Being. Being is neither eternal nor temporary, neither infinite nor limited, neither one nor many; it is nothing that any word of our speech can describe nor any thought of our mentality can conceive. The word existence unduly limits it; eternity & infinity are too petty conceptions; the term Being is an x representing not an unknown but an unknowable value. All values... true of all things. What we have not renounced, has no worth. Sacrifice is the great revealer of values. As all words come out of the Silence, so all forms come out of the Infinite. When the word goes back into the silence is it extinct for ever or does it dwell in the eternal harmony? When a soul goes back to God is it blotted out from existence or does it know and enjoy that into which it ...
... all cosmos? And is it not beyond all cosmos that the only true reality exists? Is it not this only true reality and not the Mind of our mind, the Sense of our sense, the Life of our life, the Word behind our speech, which we have to know and possess? As we must go behind all effects to the Cause, must we not equally go beyond the Cause to that in which neither cause nor effects exist? Is not even the... put to itself the question in this form and language which only became possible when Nihilistic Buddhism and Vedantic Illusionism had passed over the face of our thought and modified philosophical speech and concepts. But it knows of the ineffable Absolute which is the utter reality and absoluteness of the Lord even as the Lord is the absolute of all that is in the cosmos. Of That it proceeds to speak... know the utterly Unknowable would be without any sense or practical meaning. Not that That is a Nihil, a pure Negative, but it cannot either be described by any of the positives of which our mind, speech or perception is capable, nor even can it be indicated by any of them. It is only a little that we know; it is only in the terms of the little that we can put the forms of our knowledge. Even when ...
... greatest to the essence of that which they are, the one Godhead which they represent. By the mentality opening itself to the Mind of our mind, the sense and speech also will open themselves to the Sense of our sense and to the Word behind our speech and the life to the Life of our life. The Upanishad proceeds to develop this consequence of its central suggestion by a striking parable or apologue. The... Matter which has built up the universe; it is he who has made life and mind possible and developed them in the material universe where he is the greatest deity. Especially he is the primary impeller of speech of which Vayu is the medium and Indra the lord. This heat of conscious force in Matter is Agni Jatavedas, the knower of all births; of all things born, of every cosmic phenomenon he knows the law, ...
... movement”. And he shows how during the Nazi period the word “fanatic” is no longer defined as “passionately zealous” but as “filled with an idea, enthusiastic”. 516 This brings us straight back to Hitler who in Mein Kampf repeatedly pressed for a “fanatical” faith in the National-Socialist movement, and who used fanatisch as a key-word in many speeches. No true Nazi who did not have the Glaube, the... of the forebears.” Sünner quotes a description of such a feast from The Book of the Wandervögel : “They assembled in silence around the pile of wood. The tarred torch is lit. ‘Arise, o flame!’ Not a word is heard when the last sounds of the song fade away. One man steps forward from the circle and speaks, turned towards the fire, of the true liberation, of the purifying blaze of the new ideals … Who ...
... There is in them a union or rather fusion of high severity of speech with exaltation and both with a pervading incense sweet-ness which it is almost impossible to transfer bodily without loss into another language. There is no word in excess, none that could have been added or changed without spoiling the expression, every word just the right revelatory one - no colour, no ornamentation, but... beyond the visible, must reveal, must show us something that is hidden." "So poetry arrives at the indication of infinite meanings beyond the finite intellectual meaning the word carries." "Poetical speech is the spiritual excitement of a rhythmic voyage of self-discovery among the magic islands of form and name in these inner and outer worlds." "The aim of poetry... canvas is in low tones. So the light appears radiant by contrast. English is a great language but it has very few words relating to spiritual ideas. For example the word Karma in Sanskrit embodies a philosophy. There is no word in English embodying the same idea. There are many words in Sanskrit charged with meanings which have no counterpart in Page 188 English: ...
... beginning and out of which the existent was bom." The mind, heart, will and the senses register no movement, for there are no formations in them at all. And everything is done in and by the Void—all word, speech and act. An unknown unfelt energy kept the body intact or it was impelled by the momentum gathered in the past, by Nature. Perhaps she bore made conscious in her breast The miraculous... Cast lightning flashes of a thought not ours, Crossing the immobile silence of her mind: In its might of irresponsible sovereignty It seized on speech to give those flamings shape, Made beat the heart of wisdom in a word And spoke immoral things through mortal lips. Or, listening to the sages of the woods, In question and in answer broke from her High strange... miraculous Nihil, origin of our souls And source and sum of the vast world's events, The womb and grave of thought, a cipher of God, A zero circle of being's totality. It used her speech and acted in her acts, It was beauty in her limbs, life in her breath; The original Mystery wrote her human face. *N.B. All Savitri quotations in this article are from The Book of Yoga ...
... Indra his two bright steeds that are yoked by Speech, and they enjoy the sacrifice by their accomplishing of the work." Free movement of the luminous mind of Indra is a necessary condition for accomplishing immortalizing works. The free movement is indicated by horses; but horses are to be united, controlled and guided by knowledge, by the Word and by Speech. As a result, the horses are fashioned by... Saraswati, are also brought forth. These two sister Puissances can be identified with drsti, the truth-vision, and ś ruti, truth-audition or inspiration which expresses itself with truth-bearing Word. These two powers characterize the Rishi or the Kavi. It has, therefore, been suggested that Saraswati represents the truth-audition or inspiration and Ila represents truth-vision or revelation. ... great ocean, maho arnah; but Sarama is a traveller and seeker on its path who does not herself possess Page 37 but rather finds that which is lost. Sarama is not Ila; Ila is a plenary word of revelation; Sarama seeks and finds by direct suggestiveness of truth and consciousness. Sarama does not possess the truth as Saraswati and Ila; even when what is sought and found, Sarama does not ...
... discovering this fundamental power of knowledge the Kena Upanishad says, "By whom missioned falls the mind shot to its mark?.. That which is hearing behind the hearing, mind of the mind, the word behind the speech, that too is life of the life-breath, sight behind the sight."¹ The faculty of knowledge of the Rishis was based on this ¹ Translated by Sri Aurobindo. Page 84 ... 69 same word has been used at different places to convey different meanings without any justification, and also at times the commentators have been constrained to keep silent or to confess that they could make neither head nor tail of a passage, a sentence or a word. For instance, the word ghrta (clarified butter) has been explained as jala (water) and the word water has been used for... systematic and plausible interpretation of the whole of the Veda. The great Max Müller is a striking example of the failure of this method. He had translated the word 'Paramahansa,' by "the great goose"! It is quite inevitable that such a word-for-word literal translation of the Veda would bring about no solution. Sayana has given a ceremonial interpretation of the Veda. Nevertheless, he has not forbidden ...
... the eternal word under a new form adapted to its present mentality. It will be the synthesis of all human knowledge.’ This is equivalent to what Sri Aurobindo too considered an essential part of his mission, ‘the intellectual side of my work for the world.’ As he had said in his speech at Uttarpara: ‘He [the Divine] has given me a word to speak and a work to do.’ 11 ‘The eternal word,’ the sanatana... priest] and the Kshatriya [the knight]. Everything that departed from this ideal, everything that tended towards the ignoble, mean, obscure, rude, cruel or false, was termed un-Aryan. There is no word in human speech that has a nobler history.’ 16 And so it made itself heard, that mighty voice at the beginning of the century. ‘The earliest preoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it... elections were to be held on 26 April, less than a month later. Trying to make an impact so that he would have a chance of being elected, Paul Richard must have had a hectic schedule of travelling and speeches, for voting was to take place not only in Pondicherry, but also in Karikal (where the Richards went to canvass) and in the other French comptoirs such as Chandernagore. (A.G. wrote to Motilal Roy ...
... Bengali. There is in them a union or rather fusion of high severity of speech with exaltation and both with a pervading intense sweetness which it is almost impossible to transfer bodily without loss into another language. There is no word in excess, none that could have been added or changed without spoiling the expression, every word just the right revelatory one — no colour, no ornamentation, but a... ____________________ * See Chapter 'Poet-Maker' Ch. IX Page 286 "So poetry arrives at the indication of infinite meanings beyond the finite intellectual meaning the word carries." "Poetical speech is the spiritual excitement of a rhythmic voyage of self-discovery among the magic islands of form and name in these inner and outer worlds." 'The aim of poetry, as of all true art... his canvas is in low tones. So the light appears radiant by contrast. English is a great language but it has very few words relating to spiritual ideas. For example the word Karma in Sanskrit embodies a philosophy. There is no word in English embodying the same idea. There are many words in Sanskrit charged with meanings which have no counterpart in English: Dhyani, Sushupti, Turiya, etc., and I ...
... she stands aloft over them all as the vision of immortality." She is herself that which shines out widely as the Eye, and like her lover the Sun she gives not only the vision, but also the word; "she finds speech for every thinker," she creates expression for the thought in the soul. To those who saw only a little she gives wide vision and brings out into expression for them all the worlds. For she... as it journeys towards it. It is the supreme creation in which the goddess undivided and infinite speaks out her Word and the all-ruling kings Varuna, Mitra and Aryaman; to that consummation the power of all these godheads turns with a united acceptance. That divine word is the word of the Truth; for a superconscient Truth lies concealed and is the basis of the infinite being which stands revealed... comes from a root which meant originally Page 509 to contain with compression and so to embrace and has given us the ordinary Sanskrit word for friend, mitra , as well as the archaic Vedic word for bliss, mayas . Upon the current sense of the word mitra , the Friend, the Vedic poets continually rely for their covert key to the psychological function of this apparent sungod. When the other ...
... towards the ignoble, mean, obscure, rude, cruel or false, was termed un-Aryan. There is no word in human speech that has a nobler history. "In the early days of comparative Philology, when the scholars sought in the history of words for the prehistoric history of peoples, it was supposed that the word Arya came from the root Ar, to plough, and that the Vedic Aryans were so called when they... reply to a question on the significance of the word Arya, Sri Aurobindo wrote in the September, 1914 issue of the Arya: "The question has been put from more than one point of view. To most European readers the name 32 figuring on our cover is likely to be a hieroglyph which attracts or repels according to the temperament. Indians know the word, but it has lost for them the significance which... beginning to recognise that the word in its original use expressed not a difference of race, but a difference of culture. For in the Veda the Aryan peoples are those who had accepted a particular type of self-culture, of inward and outward practice, of ideality, of aspiration. The Aryan gods were the supra-physical powers who assisted the mortal 32. Referring to the word "Arya" written in Devanagari ...
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