INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (1711,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n	<TITLE></TITLE>\r\n	<META NAME=\"GENERATOR\" CONTENT=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CREATED\" CONTENT=\"20040107;14593500\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CHANGED\" CONTENT=\"20040110;20133100\">\r\n	<STYLE>\r\n	<!--\r\n		@page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin-left: 3.18cm; margin-right: 3.18cm; margin-top: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 2.54cm }\r\n		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }\r\n	-->\r\n	</STYLE>\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\">\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n	<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Rationalism</font></b></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.34cm; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">WHAT is Reason, the faculty that\r\nis said to be the proud privilege of man, the sovereign instrument he\r\nalone possesses for the purpose of knowing? What is the value of\r\nknowledge that Reason gives? For it is the manner of knowing, the\r\nparticular faculty or instrument by which we know, that determines\r\nthe nature and content of knowledge. Reason is the collecting of\r\navailable sense-perceptions and a certain mode of working upon them.\r\nIt has three component elements that have been defined as\r\nobservation, classification and deduction. Now, the very composition\r\nof Reason shows that it cannot be a perfect instrument of\r\nknowledge; the limitations are the inherent limitations of the\r\ncomponent elements. As regards observation there is a two-fold\r\nlimitation. First, observation is a relative term and variable\r\nquantity. One observes through the prism of one\'s own observing\r\nfaculty, through the bias of one\'s own personality and no two persons\r\ncan have absolutely the same manner of observation. So Science has recognised the necessity of personal equation and has created an\r\nimaginary observer, a &quot;mean man&quot; as the standard of\r\nreference. And this already takes us far away from the truth, from\r\nthe reality. Secondly, observation is limited by its scope. All the\r\nfacts of the world, all sense-perceptions possible and actual cannot\r\nbe included within any observation however large, however collective\r\nit may be. We have to go always upon a limited amount of data, we are\r\nable to construct only a partial and sketchy view of the surface of\r\nexistence. And then it is these few and doubtful facts that Reason\r\nseeks to arrange and classify. That classification may hold good for\r\ncertain immediate ends, for a temporary understanding of the world\r\nand its forces, either in order to satisfy our curiosity or to gain\r\nsome practical utility. For when</span></FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0.07cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=1 STYLE=\"font-size: 8pt\">Page â€“ 10</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">we\r\nwant to consider the world only in its immediate relation to us, a\r\nfew and even doubtful facts are sufficient-the more immediate the\r\nrelation, the more immaterial the doubtfulness and insufficiency of\r\nfacts. We may quite confidently go a step in darkness, but to walk a\r\nmile we do require light and certainty. Our scientific classification\r\nhas a background of uncertainty, if not, of falsity; and our\r\ndeduction also, even while correct within a very narrow range of\r\nspace and time, cannot escape the fundamental vices of observation\r\nand classification upon which it is based.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">It might be said, however, that\r\nthe guarantee or sanction of Reason does not lie in the extent of its\r\napplication, nor can its subjective nature (or ego-centric\r\npredication, as philosophers would term it) vitiate the validity of\r\nits conclusions. There is, in fact, an inherent unity and harmony\r\nbetween Reason and Reality. If we know a little of Reality, we know\r\nthe whole; if we know the subjective, we know also the objective. As\r\nin the part, so in the whole; as it is within, so it is without. If\r\nyou say that I will die, you need not wait for my actual death to\r\nhave the proof of your statement. The generalising power inherent in\r\nReason is the guarantee of the certitude to which it leads. Reason is\r\nvalid, as it does not betray us. If it were such as\r\nanti-intellectuals make it out to be, we would be making nothing but\r\nfalse steps, would always remain entangled in contradictions. The\r\nvery success of Reason is proof of its being a reliable and perfect\r\ninstrument for the knowledge of Truth and Reality. It is beside the\r\nmark to prove otherwise, simply by analysing the nature of Reason and\r\nshowing the fundamental deficiencies of that nature. It is rather to\r\nthe credit of Reason that being as it is, it is none the less a\r\nsuccessful and trustworthy agent.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">Now the question is, does Reason\r\nnever fail? Is it such a perfect instrument as intellectualists think\r\nit to be? There is ground for serious misgivings. Reason says, for\r\nexample, that the earth revolves round the sun: and reason, it is\r\nargued, is right, for we see that all the\' facts are conformable _ to\r\nit, even facts that were hitherto unknown and are now coming into our\r\nken. But the difficulty is that Reason did not say that always in the\r\npast and may not say that always in the future. The old astronomers\r\ncould explain the universe by holding quite a contrary theory and\r\ncould fit into it all their astronomical data. </span></FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0.07cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 11</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">A future scientist may come and explain the matter in quite a\r\ndifferent way from either. It is only a choice of workable theories\r\nthat Reason seems to offer; we do not know the fact itself, apart\r\nperhaps from exactly the amount that immediate sense-perception gives\r\nto each of us. Or again, if we take an example of another category,\r\nwe may ask, does God exist? A candid Rationalist would say that he\r\ndoes not know although he has his own opinion about the matter.\r\nEvidently, Reason cannot solve all the problems that it meets; it can\r\njudge only truths that are of a certain type.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">It may be answered that Reason\r\nis a faculty which gives us progressive knowledge of the reality, but\r\nas a knowing instrument it is perfect, at least it is the only\r\ninstrument at our disposal; even if it gives a false, incomplete or\r\nblurred image of the reality, it has the means and capacity of\r\ncorrecting and completing itself. It offers theories, no doubt; but\r\nwhat are theories? They are simply the gradually increasing\r\nadaptation of the knowing subject to the object to be known, the\r\nevolving revelation of reality to our perception of it. Reason is the\r\npower which carries on that process of adaptation and revelation; we\r\ncan safely rely upon Reason and trust It to carry on its work with\r\nincreasing success.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">But in knowledge it is precisely\r\nfinality that we seek for and no mere progressive, asymptotic,\r\nrapprochement ad infinitum. No less than the Practical Reason, the\r\nTheoretical Reason also demands a categorical imperative, a clean\r\naffirmation or denial. If Reason cannot do that, it must be regarded\r\nas inefficient. It is poor consolation to man that Reason is\r\ngradually finding out the truth or that it is trying to grapple with\r\nthe problems of God, Soul and Immortality and will one day pronounce\r\nits verdict. Whether we have or have not any other instrument of\r\nknowledge is a different question altogether. But in the meanwhile\r\nReason stands condemned by the evidence of its own limitation.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">It may be retorted that if\r\nReason is condemned, it is condemned by itself and by no other\r\nauthority. All argumentation against Reason is a function of Reason\r\nitself. The deficiencies of Reason we find out by the rational\r\nfaculty alone. If Reason was to die, it is because it consents to\r\ncommit suicide; there is no other power that kills it. But to this\r\nour answer is that</span></FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: -0.03cm; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0.07cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 12</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">Reason </span><I><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">has </span></I><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">this\r\nmiraculous power of self-destruction; or, to put it philosophically,\r\nReason is, at best, an organ of self-criticism and perhaps the organ\r\npar excellence for that purpose. But criticism is one thing and\r\ncreation another. And whether we know or act, it is fundamentally a\r\nprocess of creation; at least, without this element of creation there\r\ncan be no knowledge, no act. In knowledge there is a luminous\r\ncreativity, Revelation or Categorical Imperative which Reason does\r\nnot and cannot supply but vaguely strains to seize. For that element\r\nwe have to search elsewhere, not in Reason.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">Does this mean that real\r\nknowledge is irrational or against Reason? Not so necessarily. There\r\nis a super-rational power for knowledge and Reason may either be a\r\nchannel or an obstacle. If we take our stand upon Reason and then\r\nproceed to know, if we take the forms and categories of Reason as the\r\ninviolable schemata of knowledge, then indeed Reason becomes an\r\nobstacle to that super-rational power. If, on the other hand, Reason\r\ndoes not offer any set-form from beforehand, does not insist upon its\r\nown conditions, is passive and simply receives and reflects what is\r\ngiven to it, then it becomes a luminous and sure channel for that\r\nhigher and real knowledge.</span></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT STYLE=\"font-size: 11pt\"><span style=\"font-size:12pt;\">The fact is that Reason is a\r\nlower manifestation of knowledge, it is an attempt to express on the\r\nmental level a power that exceeds it. It is the section of a vast and\r\nunitarian Consciousness-Power; the section may be necessary under\r\ncertain conditions and circumstances, but unless it is viewed in its\r\nrelation to the ensemble, unless it gives up its exclusive\r\nabsolutism, it will be perforce arbitrary and misleading. 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Only it\r\nhas very many avatars. One such has been the characteristic mark of\r\nthe group of philosophers (and mystics) who are nowadays making a\r\ngreat noise under the name of Existentialists. The individual\r\npersonality exists, they say, and its nature is freedom. In other\r\nwords, it chooses, as it likes, its course of life, at every step,\r\nand Creates its destiny. This freedom, however, may. lead man and\r\nwill inevitably lead him, according to one section of the group, to\r\nthe perception and realisation of God, an infinite in which the\r\nindividual finite lives and moves and has his being; according to\r\nothers, the same may lead to a very different consummation, to\r\nNothingness, the Great Void, Nihil. All existence is bounded by\r\nsomething unknown and intangible which differs according to your luck\r\nor taste, â€“ one would almost say to your line of approach, put\r\nphilosophically, according either to the positive pole or the\r\nnegative, God or Non-existence. The second alternative seems to be an\r\ninevitable corollary of the particular conception of the individual\r\nthat is entertained by some, <I>viz., </I>the individual existing\r\nonly in relation to individuals. Indeed the leader of the French\r\nschool, Jean-Paul Sartre â€“ not a <FONT FACE=\"Times New Roman\">negligible\r\nplaywright and novelist â€“ seems to conceive the individual as\r\nnothing more than the image formed in other individuals with whom he\r\ncomes in contact. Existence literally means standing out or outside\r\n</FONT><I>(ex+sistet), </I>coming out of one-self and living in\r\nother\'s consciousness â€“ as one sees one\'s exact image in another\'s\r\neye. It is not however the old-world mystic experience of finding\r\none\'s self in other selves. For here we have an exclusively level or\r\nhorizontal view of the human personality. </FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 348</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\npersonality is not seen in depth or height, but in line with the\r\nnormal phenomenal formation. It looks as though, to save personality\r\nfrom the impersonal dissolution to which all monistic idealism leads,\r\nthe present conception seeks to hinge all personalities upon each\r\nother so that they may stand by and confirm each other. But the\r\nactual result seems to have been not less calamitous. When we form\r\nand fashion each other, we are not building with anything more\r\nsubstantial than sand. Personalities are thus mere eddies in the\r\nswirl of cosmic life, they rise up and die down, separate and melt\r\ninto each other and have no consistency and no reality in the end.\r\nThe freedom too which is ascribed to such individuals, even when they\r\nfeel it so, is only a sham and a make-believe. Within Nature nothing\r\nis free, all is mechanical law â€“ Karma is supreme. The Sankhya\r\nposits indeed many Purushas, free, lodged in the midst of Prakriti,\r\nbut there the Purusha is hardly an active agent, it is only an\r\ninactive, passive, almost impotent, witness. The Existentialist, on\r\nthe contrary, seeks to make of the individual an active agent; he is\r\nnot merely <I>being, </I>imbedded or merged in the original <I>Dasein,\r\n</I>mere existence, but <I>becoming, </I>the entity that has come\r\nout, stood out in its will and consciousness, articulated itself in\r\nname and form and act. But the person that stands out as part and\r\nparcel of Prakriti, the cosmic movement, is, as we have said, only an\r\ninstrument, a mode of that universal Nature. The true person that\r\ninforms that apparent formulation is something else. .</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.41cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>To be a person, it is said, one must be apart from the\r\ncrowd. A person is the &quot;single one&quot;, one who has attained\r\nhis singularity, his individual wholeness. And the life\'s work for\r\neach individual person is to make the crowd no longer a crowd, but an\r\nassociation of single ones. But how can this be done? It is not\r\nsimply by separating oneself from the crowd, by dwelling upon oneself\r\nthat one can develop into one\'s true person. The individuals, even\r\nwhen perfect single ones, do not exist by themselves or in and\r\nthrough one another. The mystic or spiritual perception posits the\r\nSpirit or God, the All-self as the background and substance of all\r\nthe selves. Indeed, it is only when one finds and is identified with\r\nthe Divine in oneself that one is in a position to attain one\'s true\r\nselfhood and find oneself in other selves. And the re-creation of a\r\ncrowd into such</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.41cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 349</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>divine\r\nindividuals is a cosmic work in which the individual is at best a\r\ncollaborator, not the master and dispenser. Anyway, one has to come\r\nout of the human relationship, rise above the give-and-take of human\r\nindividuals â€“ however completely individual each one may be â€“ and\r\nestablish oneself in the Divine\'s consciousness which is the golden\r\nthread upon which is strung all the assembly of individuals. It is\r\nonly in and through the Divine, the Spiritual Reality and Person,\r\nthat one enters into true relation and dynamic harmony with others.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.41cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The truth of the personality is not to be found in its\r\nhorizontal, but vertical dimension. The Existentialist speaks of the\r\nexistence (standing out) of the human person as a transcendence. But\r\nreal transcendence is not so much in coming out as in going up and\r\nbeyond. To be outside oneself is not always to transcend oneself: to\r\nbe above oneself is the real transcendence. Man is a true and free\r\nperson only when he is lord of Prakriti, dominating and commanding\r\nNature, when he is identified with Ishwara, the supreme Person, the\r\nMaster, and becomes an incarnate will and consciousness of His. The\r\nsoul in ignorance and in ignorant relation with others must rise and\r\nenvisage its archetype in the Supreme Divine, as a free formulation\r\nof an Idea-Force of the Infinite.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.4cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>If we do not keep in view this vertical transcendence\r\nand confuse it with immanence, we are likely to arrive at queer\r\nconclusions, as for example, one Existentialist says: polarity being\r\nan essential truth of the reality, the law of day and night is an\r\neternal and immutable law and therefore, God cannot subsist as pure\r\nlove; there must be also anger in him. In fact, God too is a becoming\r\nGod as the human being. The limitation of such a view,\r\ncharacteristically Germanic and intellectual, is evident.</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.4cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 350</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-1/_Gif_Image/house01_green.gif\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\" alt=\"house06_white.gif\"></a></P>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-62_The Sanctity of the Individual','','publish','closed','open','','62_the-sanctity-of-the-individual','','','2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/62_the-sanctity-of-the-individual/',0,'post','',0),(1713,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n	<TITLE></TITLE>\r\n	<META NAME=\"GENERATOR\" CONTENT=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CREATED\" CONTENT=\"20040204;6265500\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CHANGED\" CONTENT=\"20040218;530000\">\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en\">\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n	<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0;\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">An Age\r\nof Revolution</font></b></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>THERE\r\nhas been a revolutionary change in the scientific outlook in recent\r\ntimes. A very fundamental principle â€“ the very postulate on which\r\nthe whole edifice of physical Science has been built up â€“ is now\r\nbeing called in question. We thought that the unity and uniformity of\r\nNature is a cardinal fact and nothing can shake it. Well, it appears\r\nthat solid basis too has proved to be no more than an eidolon.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.43cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The search for a universal principle of Nature is a\r\nmeta-physical as well as a scientific preoccupation. In ancient days,\r\nfo example, we had the Water of Thales or the Fire of Heraclitus as\r\nthe one original unifying principle of this kind. With the coming of\r\nthe Renascence and the New Illumination we laughed them out and\r\ninstalled instead the mysterious Ether. For a long time this\r\n<I>universal </I>reigned supreme and now that too has gone the way of\r\nits predecessors. We thought for a time that we had found in Electric\r\nEnergy the one sovereign principle in Nature. At a time when we had a\r\nfew elements â€“ discrete, different, fundamental units â€“ that in\r\ntheir varying combinations built up the composite structure of\r\nNature, apart from the fact that they reposed finally on the ultimate\r\nunifying principle of Ether, it was found also that they all behaved\r\nin a uniform and identical and therefore predictable manner. The time\r\nand the place (and the mass) being given, everything went according\r\nto a pattern and a formula, definite, fixed, mathematically rigid.\r\nEven the discovery of one element after another till the number\r\nFeached the famous figure 92 (itself following a line of\r\nmathematically precise and inevitable development) did not materially\r\nalter the situation and caused no tribulation. For on further\r\nscrutiny a closer unity revealed itself: the supposed disparity in\r\nthe substance of the various</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.43cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 329</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>elements was found to be an illusion, for they all\r\nappeared now as different organisations or dispositions of the same\r\nelectric energy (although the identity of electric energy with\r\nradiant energy was not always very clear). Thus we could conclude\r\nthat as the substance was the same, its mode of working also would\r\nbe\' uniform and patterned. In other words, the mechanistic conception\r\nstill ruled our view\' of Nature. That means, the ultimate units, the\r\nparticles (of energy) that compose Nature are like sea-sands or\r\nwater-drops, each one is fundamentally similar to any other and all\r\nbehave similarly, reacting uniformly to the same forces that act upon\r\nthem.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.5cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Well, it is now found that they do not do so. However\r\nsame or similar constitutionally, each unit is <I>sui generis </I>and\r\nits movement cannot be predicted. That movement does not depend upon\r\nits mass or store of energy or its position in a pattern, as a wholly\r\nmechanistic conception would demand: it is something incalculable,\r\none should say even, erratic. In a radioactive substance, the\r\nparticle that is shot out, becomes active, cannot be predetermined by\r\nany calculation, even if that is due to a definitely and precisely\r\narranged bombardment. So we have come to posit a principle of\r\nuncertainty, as a very fundamental law of Nature. It practically\r\ndeclares that the ultimate particle is an autonomou unit, it is an\'\r\nindividual, almost a personality, and seems to have a will of its\r\nown. A material unit acts very much like a biological unit: it does\r\nnot obey mechanically, answer mechanically as an automaton, but seems\r\nto possess a capacity for choice, for assent or refusal, for a free\r\ndetermination. The mechanistic view presented is due to an average\r\nfunctioning. The phenomenon has been explained by a very apt image.\r\nIt is like an army. A group of soldiers, when they are on parade,\r\nlook all similar and geometrically patterned: each is just like\r\nanother and all move and march in the same identical manner. But\r\nthat\' is when you look at the whole, the collectivity, but looked\r\nindividually, each one regains his separate distinct personality,\r\neach having his own nature and character, his own unique history:\r\nthere no two are alike, each is <I>non pareil </I>and behaves\r\ndifferently, incalculably.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.37cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That is how we have been led almost to the threshold of\r\na will, of a life principle, of a consciousness, however rudimentary, </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.37cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 330</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>imbedded in the heart of Matter. All the facts that are now cropping\r\nup, the new discoveries that are being made and which we have to take\r\ninto cognisance lead inevitably towards such a conclusion. Without\r\nsuch a conclusion a rational co-ordination of all the data of\r\nexperience is hardly possible. A physiCal scientist may not feel\r\njustified to go beyond the purely physical data, but the implications\r\nof even such data, the demand for a fair hypothesis that can\r\nharmonise and synthesise them are compelling even a physicist to\r\nbecome a psychologist and a metaphysician.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.42cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Looked at from below with the eye of reason and sense\r\nobservation straining at it, the thing that appears only as a\r\npossibility-at best, as a probability â€“ is revealed to the eyes of\r\nvision surveying from above as a self â€“ evident reality, a reality\r\nbefore which the apparent realities posited by sense and reason\r\nbecome subsidiary and auxiliary, far-off echoes. The facts of\r\nsense-perception are indeed the branches spread out below while the\r\nroot of the tree lies above: in other words, the root-reality is\r\nconsciousness and all that exist are vibrations of that consciousness\r\nextended and concretised. This is the truth which modem science, in\r\nits farthest advances, would like to admit but dare not.</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.42cm; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0cm; padding-bottom: 0.07cm; padding-left: 0cm; padding-right: 0cm; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 331</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-1/_Gif_Image/house01_green.gif\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\"></a></P>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-56_An Age of Revolution','','publish','closed','open','','56_an-age-of-revolution','','','2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/56_an-age-of-revolution/',0,'post','',0),(1714,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	<META HTTP-EQUIV=\"CONTENT-TYPE\" CONTENT=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n	<TITLE></TITLE>\r\n	<META NAME=\"GENERATOR\" CONTENT=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CREATED\" CONTENT=\"20040107;19113000\">\r\n	<META NAME=\"CHANGED\" CONTENT=\"20040217;4133800\">\r\n	<STYLE>\r\n	<!--\r\n		@page { size: 21.59cm 27.94cm; margin-left: 1.08cm; margin-right: 2.49cm; margin-top: 2.54cm; margin-bottom: 2.54cm }\r\n		P { margin-bottom: 0.21cm }\r\n	-->\r\n	</STYLE>\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\">\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n	<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"center\" STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; page-break-after:avoid; font-weight: 700;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"> \r\n  <font size=\"4\"> \r\n  <img src=\"     \" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\">On Social Reconstruction</font></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; page-break-after:avoid; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><B>I</B></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>IT is one of the great errors of the human mind to take\r\nequality as identical with uniformity. When Rousseau started the\r\nrevolutionary slogan &quot;Men are born equal&quot;, men were carried\r\naway in the vehemence of the new spirit and thought that there was\r\nabsolutely no difference between man and man, all difference must be\r\ndue to injustice, tyranny and corruption in the social system.\r\nRousseau\'s was a necessary protest and corrective against the rank\r\ninequality that was the order of the day. All men are, however, equal\r\nnot in the sense that all material particles â€“ sea-sands or\r\nmolecules or atoms, for example â€“ may be equal, that is to say,\r\nsame in dimension and mass and energy. That is the materialistic\r\nmechanistic view, imposed by the first discoveries and conclusions of\r\nmodern Science, but which has lost much of its cogency in recent\r\ntimes even in respect of the physical world. All men are equal, not\r\nin the sense that all have the same uniform value, but that each I1as\r\nhis own value. It is the recognition of the personal worth of each\r\nindividual that gives him true equality with others and not the\r\ncasting of all into the same mould and pattern, fitting all on to the\r\nProcrustean bed, which indeed would mean just the negation of\r\nequality. This variability is the very basis of a living equality.\r\nPhysically all men have not the same height or weight or growth, even\r\nso internally too all have not the same magnitude of being or similar\r\npower of consciousness.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A social organization must have two fundamental objects.\r\nThe central purpose is to serve and help the individual. That is the\r\nfirst thing to be remembered. Organization for the sake of</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 113</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>organization\r\nis not the end. Organization for the sake of<FONT FACE=\"Arial, sans-serif\">\r\n</FONT>perpetuating a system, however laudable it may be, is not the\r\nend either. It is, as I say, by the service that an organization\r\nrenders to its individual members, and not merely by its mechanical\r\norder and efficiency that it is to be judged. This service, I have\r\nsaid, is twofold. First, each individual must find his proper\r\nvocation: the right man in the right place. The function of each man\r\nmust be in accordance with his nature and character. Secondly, each\r\nperson, while fulfilling his Dharma, (that is the right word) must be\r\ntrained, must have the opportunity to grow and increase in his being\r\nand consciousness. First of all, a prosperous, at least an\r\nadequately equipped outer life, and then as adequate a <I>lebensraum\r\n</I>for the inner personality to have its free and full play and\r\nexpression.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A totalitarian equality takes men as blocks or chunks of\r\nwood and also cuts and clips them as such whenever and wherever\r\nneeded, thrusts them indiscriminately into any nook and corner of the\r\nsocial framework for the sake of its upkeep and maintenance. It is\r\nsomething that is characteristic of a modern army â€“ thoroughly\r\nmechanised â€“ in which men are not different from the nuts and bolts\r\nof a machine, all forming a stream-lined massive unity, where persons\r\nand individuals as such have no value or consideration, they are dumb\r\nand almost dead materials and when worn out just simply to be\r\nreplaced by others. If it is to be compared to any living thing, we\r\ncan think of only the regimentation that obtains in an ant-hill or a\r\nbee-hive.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Mechanical and totalitarian equality does injustice, to\r\nsay the least, to the individual, for it does not take into account\r\nthe variable value and the particularity of each individual. It\r\nusually gives him a position and function in the society to which his\r\ninner nature and character do not at all respond. The result of such\r\nindifference to individuality is evident also in a modern society\r\nbased as it is on so-called freedom, that is to say, on open\r\ncompetition and struggle. The tragedy of a Bankim eking out his\r\nsubsistence as a bureaucratic official is not a rare spectacle but\r\nthe very rule of the social system in vogue. Indeed the so-called\r\nsteel-frame of governmental organization of our days sucks in all the\r\nbest brains and few can survive this process of &quot;evisceration,\r\ndeprivation, destitution, desiccation and evacuation&quot;, to\r\nuse the glowing and</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 114</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>graphic\r\nwords of T. S. Eliot, although in another connection; few can\r\nmaintain or express after passing through this grinding or sucking\r\nmachine their inner reality, the truth and beauty personal to them.\r\nThe poet* regrets:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Perhaps in this neglected spot is laid</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Some heart once pregnant with celestial fire;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>but why, why is it so? Because</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Chill Penury repressâ€™d their noble rage</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And froze the genial current of the soul.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The&quot;\r\nchill penury&quot; was nothing else than the uncongenial atmosphere\r\nwhich did not favour the growth of the soul, allow it to follow its\r\nown line of development and fulfilment.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>At times a remedy was tried: the social pattern was\r\nsought to be constructed upon the principle of &quot;Career open to\r\ntalents&quot;; this was a motto which the great Napoleon endeavoured\r\nto carry out in practice. Instead of claims of birth, age or\r\nposition, he looked for real merit as the &quot;Open Sesame&quot; to\r\nthe highest ranks involving the gravest. duties and responsibilities.\r\nEven he, however, could not preserve or carry out fully his good\r\nintentions. The Imperator (the First Consul) tried the experiment,\r\nbut the Emperor already slipped off from the ideal.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But to tell the truth, this remedy, even if successful,\r\nis not enough. Something radical is needed. Indeed, it is because the\r\nradical cure is not sought and attempted that the disease continues\r\nor reappears even if held in abeyance for a time.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We have said individual or personal worth should be the\r\nchief concern of the social governance, to bring it to birth, to\r\nmaintain and foster. it is its principal function. This means\r\nnaturally freedom, but not the freedom that is demanded by the\r\nindividualist as against the socialist or the collectivist. For there\r\nfreedom means freedom for competition and rivalry, freedom for the\r\negos, for selfish interests to fight and battle and survive who can.\r\nThat is the motto of the competitive society in which we have been\r\nliving for some time past. That system has become intolerable and\r\nhence all the seismic</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>-------------------</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>*Thomas Gray</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 115</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>troubles\r\nin society today. What is needed is real freedom. For it is easy to\r\nsee that under the competitive system the apparent freedom is only\r\napparent, a make-believe. It is not freedom, that is to say, free\r\nchoice and initiation that can work here, it is the pressure from\r\nrivals, the impact of adverse circumstances that determine one\'s will\r\nand choice. In the second place, it is not the deeper urges or\r\ncapacities that are touched and awakened in this way, it is the\r\nsuperficial impulses and preoccupations that find a vent. Man is here\r\nonly a link in a chain of reactions over which he has hardly any real\r\ncontrol: one\'s decision is limited by conditions beyond one\'s reach,\r\none\'s hands are forced, as the common phrase goes.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The problem then is this: how to arrive at the inner\r\nfreedom, how to contact the inner man, the true person and\r\npersonality? For we are aiming at nothing less than the Soul, the\r\nSelf, the Divine in man, God\'s purpose in the Individual, the\r\nIndividual as God\'s instrument. That is the <I>beau ideal, </I>so to\r\nsay, in the human personality which all schemes of social\r\nreconstruction must have constantly in view.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The question now is to devise ways and means of\r\nmaterialising this ideal. Circumstanced as man is, in doubt and\r\ndarkness with regard to his inner nature, one most often does not\r\nknow one\'s true vocation; those who do know their minds and are sure\r\nof their &quot;mission in life&quot; are the fortunate few, and very\r\nfew indeed they are. Of the vast majority, some discover themselves\r\nonly at the fag-end of their life or when they are already far too\r\ncommitted and in harness in alien fields and among alien faces;\r\nothers do not discover themselves at all, they need no such\r\nrevelation: these form the general mass in which the individuals have\r\nnot developed so far as to come out into any bold relief, they are\r\ncast into the stereotype mould, moved more or less by the same\r\ngeneral forces of nature and are indistinguishable from each other.\r\nIt is upon this mass of uniformity that the totalitarian\r\nregimentation bases itself easily and naturally.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Still even if human nature in the mass is like this,\r\nwhat the totalitarian system does is to fix and eternise the mould.\r\nTo admit Nature as it is and leave it at that, to arrange and\r\norganize things within that given framework, is, to say the least,\r\nonly another form of the old <I>laissez-faire </I>system. Take</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 116</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Nature\r\nas it is, but go farther and beyond. That is the problem of all human\r\nendeavour.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>In ancient times too there were conscious attempts to\r\nbuild and remould human society. The Rishis were not merely spiritual\r\nseers, but creators of the social order also. They saw by their\r\nvision the inner truths of things, they found principles and laws,\r\nright principles and correct laws which establish peace and\r\nstability, on the one hand, no doubt, but on the other hand serve\r\nalso as the frame for the growth and fulfilment of the\r\nindividual being. The king with his executive body was there to see\r\nthat the laws were observed and honoured. The later law-givers (the\r\nmakers of codes, <I>smritis) </I>had not the direct and large vision\r\nof the Rishis, but they tried their best to maintain the laws as they\r\nunderstood them, elaborate them, change or modify wherever possible\r\nor needed under given circumstances. In ancient Europe too, it was\r\nPlato who envisaged the ideal Republic, a government of philosophers\r\nâ€“ the wise who are not actively engaged in the turmoil of life, but\r\nstand aloof and detached and can see more of the game and accordingly\r\nlegislate all the better. In modern times also the rise of a Feuhrer\r\nor a Dictator seems to have been a psychological necessity: the mass\r\nconsciousness is in sore need of a guide, and as the right guide is\r\nnot easily available, the way of the false prophet is smooth and\r\nwide open. As a protection and antidote against such a calamity, we\r\ntried here and there to found and organise a government of all\r\ntalents.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But again, who are the talents and where are they? For a\r\nmodern society produces at best clever politicians, but very few\r\ngreat souls if at all, who can inspire, guide and create. Not a\r\nsystem or organization, but such centres of forces, with creative\r\nvision and power, it is that that mankind sorely needs at this hour.\r\nSystem and organization come after, they can only be the embodiment\r\nof a creative vision.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; page-break-after:avoid; font-weight: medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>II</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The economic status is not the only or even the chief or\r\nreal status of man in the society. This should be an obvious truth. </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:-0.03cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 117</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>To reform or rebuild the society it is not enough to\r\nfind a new economic basis, however more equitable and efficient. A\r\nman\'s value does not depend upon his wages nor even upon his\r\nwageearning capacity. A man\'s worth is not the function of his\r\n<I>labour. </I>To equate the two has been the capital error of &quot;Das\r\nKapital&quot;. That is not the Copernican revolution that is needed\r\nin the social body today.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Money was always a power and those who had money were\r\nalways powerful in all ages and countries. Poverty annuls the entire\r\nhost of good qualities you may have, says the Sanskrit proverb. Only\r\nthis money power has been shifted from class to class or section to\r\nsection in a society. In the modern age the demand and tendency is\r\nthat those who are the first and immediate agents in the chain\r\nof the production of wealth should be given all the profit and all\r\nthe advantage (barring of course the State itself which has the prior\r\nand major claim so long as it exists). The rest are considered as\r\nmere parasites. Those who do not thus directly produce or help in\r\nproducing wealth are a burden upon the society and they have no\r\njustifiable place there: either they should change their vocation,\r\ndeclass themselves and become labourers or they must go to the wall,\r\nsubsist somewhere somehow till they finally pass out of existence.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>This theory of money power, in spite of its factual or\r\npractical truth, is not the whole truth. This is, I should say, the\r\nvery old I Ptolemaic social system, in a new garb, which turns round\r\nman as an economic â€“ and physical being. The Copernican system\r\nwould view man chiefly as a psychological centre. A truly rational\r\neconomic system can be based upon such an inner view of the\r\nsituation. A merely economic view would take man as nothing more than\r\na wage-earning machine and that will give the society and its\r\ngovernment a mechanistic pattern. It will forget this simple truism\r\nthat a man\'s worth is not and need not be always commensurate with\r\nhis wage-earning capacity or even his <I>usefulness </I>as a citizen\r\n(in the way the atom-bomb Scientists are proving useful today).</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Personal value will mean then not productive value, but\r\ncreative value, that is to say, the capacity to create values, that\r\nmeans the consideration of the psychological and moral makeup of the\r\nindividual.</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.34cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 118</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>What is the thing in human society which makes it\r\nvaluable, worthy of humanity, gives it a place of honour and the\r\nright to live and continue to live? It is its culture and\r\ncivilisation, as everyone knows. Greece or Rome, China or India did\r\nnot attain, at least according to modern conceptions, a high stage in\r\neconomic evolution: the production and distribution of wealth, the\r\nclassification and organization of producers and consumers, their\r\nrelation and functions were, in many respects, what is called\r\nprimitive. An American of today would laugh at their uncouth\r\nsimplicity. And yet America has to bow down to those creators of\r\nother values that are truly valuable. And the values are the\r\ncreations of the great poets, artists, philosophers, law-givers;\r\nsages and seers. It is they who made the glory that was Greece or\r\nRome or China or India or Egypt. Indeed they are the builders of\r\nCulture, culture which is the inner life of a civilisation. The\r\ndecline of culture and civilisation means precisely the displacement\r\nof the &quot;cultured&quot; man by the economic man. In the present\r\nage when economic values have been grossly exaggerated holding the\r\nentire social fabric in its stifling grip, the culture spirit has\r\nbeen pushed into the background and made subservient to economic and\r\nother cruder forces. That was what Julien Benda, the famous French\r\ncritic and moralist, once stigmatised as &quot;La Trahison des\r\nClercs&quot;; only, the &quot;clercs&quot; did not voluntarily\r\nbetray, but circumstanced as they were they could do no better. The\r\nprocess reached its climax â€“ perhaps one should say the very nadir\r\nâ€“ in the Nazi experiment and something of it still continues\r\nin the Russian dispensation. There the intellectuals or the\r\nintelligentsia are totally harnessed to the political machine,\r\ntheir capacities are prostituted in the service of a socio-economic\r\nplan. Poets and artists and thinkers are made to be protagonists and\r\npropagandists of the new order. It is a significant sign of the times\r\nhow almost the whole body of scientists â€“ the entire Brain Trust of\r\nmankind today, one might say â€“ have been mobilised for the\r\nfabrication of the Atom Bomb. Otherwise they cannot subsist, they\r\nlose all economic status.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>In the older order, however, a kindlier treatment was\r\nmeted out to this class, this class of the creators of values. They\r\nhad patrons who looked after their physical well-being. They had the\r\nnecessary freedom and leisure to follow their own bent </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:-0.03cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 119</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>and urge of creativity. Kings and princes, the court and\r\nthe nobility, in spite of all the evils ascribed to them, and often\r\nvery justly, have nevertheless been the nursery of art and culture,\r\nof all the art and culture of the ancient times. One remembers\r\nShakespeare reading or enacting his drama before the Great Queen, or\r\nthe poignant scene of Leonardo dying in the arms of Francis the\r\nFirst. Those were the truly great classical ages, and art or man\'s\r\ncreative genius hardly ever rose to that height ever since. The\r\ndownward curve started with the advent and growth of the bourgeoisie\r\nwhen the artist or the creative genius lost their supporters and had\r\nto earn their own living by the sweat of their brow. Indeed the\r\ngreatest tragedies of frustration because of want and privation,\r\noccur, not as much among the &quot;lowest&quot; classes who are\r\nusually considered as the poorest and the most miserable in society,\r\nbut in that section from where come the intellectuals, &quot;men of\r\nlight and leading,&quot; to use the epithet they are honoured with.\r\nFor very few of this group are free to follow their inner trend and\r\nurge, but have either to coerce and suppress them or stultify them in\r\nthe service of lesser alien duties, which mean &quot;forced labour.&quot;\r\nThe punishment for refusing to be drawn away and to falsify oneself\r\nis not unoften the withdrawal of the bare necessities of life,\r\nin certain cases sheer destitution. A Keats wasting his energies in a\r\nwork that has no relation to his inner life and light, or a\r\nMadhusudan dying in a hospital as a pauper, are examples significant\r\nof the nature of the social structure man lives in.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>It is one of the great illusions â€“ or perhaps a show\r\nplank for propaganda â€“ to think or say that the so-called poorer\r\nclasses are the poorest and the most miserable. It is not so in fact.\r\nReally poor are those who have a standard of life commensurate with\r\ntheir inner nature and consciousness â€“ of beauty and orderliness\r\nand material sufficiency and yet their actual status and function in\r\nsociety do not provide them with the necessary where-withals and\r\nresources. No amount of philanthropic sentimentalising can suppress\r\nor wipe off the fact that the poor do not feel the pinch of poverty\r\nso much as do those who are poor and yet are to live and move as not\r\npoor. It all depends upon one\'s standard. One is truly rich or poor\r\nnot in proportion- to one\'s income, but&quot; in accordance with\r\none\'s</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 120</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>needs\r\nand the means to meet them. And all do not have the same needs and\r\nrequirements. This does not mean that the needs of the princes, the\r\naristocrats, the magnates are greater than those of the mere\r\ncommoner. No, it means that there are people, there is a section of\r\nhumanity found more or less in all these classes, but mostly in less\r\nfortunate classes, whose needs are intrinsically greater and they\r\nrequire preferential treatment. There should be none poor or\r\nmiserable in society, well and good. But this should not mean that\r\nall the economic resources of the society must be requisitioned only\r\nto enrich â€“ to pamper â€“ the poor. For there is a pampering\r\npossible in this matter. We know the <I>nouveaux<FONT FACE=\"Arial Narrow, sans-serif\">\r\n</FONT>riches<FONT FACE=\"Arial Narrow, sans-serif\">, </FONT></I>the\r\n<I>parvenus </I>and the kind of life they lead with their fair share\r\nboldly seized. A levelling, a formal equalisation of the economic\r\nstatus, although it may mean uplift in certain cases, may involve\r\ngross injustice to others. The ideal is not equal distribution but\r\nrational distribution of wealth, and that distribution should\r\nnot depend upon any material function, but upon psychological\r\ndemands. Is this bourgeois economics? Even if it is so, the truth has\r\nto be faced and recognised. You can call truth by the name bourgeois\r\nand hang it, but it will revive all the same, like the Phoenix out of\r\nthe ashes.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>If it is said that the proletarian â€“ the manual\r\nlabourer â€“ is given economic freedom not for the sake of that\r\nfreedom merely, but for the sake of the cultural opportunity also\r\nthat he will have in that way. None can demur to this noble and\r\ngenerous ideal, but- what must not be forgotten in that\r\npreoccupation is the fact that there exists already a culturally\r\npredisposed class in the present society who also require\r\nimmediate care and nourishment so that they may grow and flourish as\r\nthey should. In our eagerness to take up the enterprise and adventure\r\nof reclaiming deserts and heaths and moorlands, there is a chance of\r\nour losing sight of the precious fertile lands, rich in possibilities\r\nthat we already possess. The economic status has to be improved for\r\nall who are adversely placed in the modern system, certainly; but for\r\na real improvement based upon just and true needs, for an adjustment\r\nthat will make for the highest good of the society, what is first\r\nrequired is to ascertain the psychological status which should alone,\r\nat least chiefly, determine the economic status. </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.34cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 121</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>In the old Indian social organisation there was at the\r\nbasis such a psychological pattern and that must have been the reason\r\nwhy the structure lasted through millenniums. It was a hierarchical\r\nsystem but based upon living psychological forces. Each group or\r\nsection or class in it had inevitably its appropriate function and an\r\nassured economic status. The Four Orders â€“ the Brahmin (those whose\r\npursuit was knowledge â€“ acquiring and giving knowledge), the\r\nKshattriya (the fighters, whose business it was to give physical\r\nprotection), the Vaishya (traders and farmers who were in charge of\r\nthe wealth of the society, its production and distribution) and the\r\nSudra (servants and mere labourers ) â€“ are a natural division or\r\nstratification of the social body based upon the nature and function\r\nof its different members. In the original and essential pattern there\r\nis no sinister mark of inferiority branded upon what are usually\r\ntermed as the lower orders, especially the lowest order. If some are\r\nconsidered higher and are honoured and respected as such, it meant\r\nsimply that the functions and qualities they stand for constitute in\r\nsome way higher values, it did not mean that the others have no value\r\nor are to be spurned or neglected. The brain must be given a higher\r\nplace than the stomach, although all its support and nourishment come\r\nfrom there. Hierarchy means, in modern terms, that the essential\r\nservices must pass first, should have certain priorities. And\r\naccording to the older view-point, the Brahmin, being the emblem and\r\nrepository of knowledge, was considered as the head of the social\r\nbody. He is the fount and origin of a culture, the creator of a\r\ncivilisation; the others protect, nourish and serve, although all are\r\nequally necessary for the common welfare.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Fundamentally all human society is built upon this\r\npattern which is psychological and which seems to be Nature\'s own\r\nlife-plan. There is always this fourfold stratification or\r\nclassification of members in any collective human grouping: the\r\nIntellectual (taken in the&quot; broadest sense) or the\r\nIntelligentsia, the Military, the Trader and the Labourer. In the\r\nearlier civilisations â€“ when civilisation was being formed â€“\r\nespecially in the East, it ,was the first class. that took precedence\r\nover the rest and was especially honoured; for it is they who give\r\nthe tone and temper and frame of life in the society. In later</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:-0.03cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 122</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:-0.03cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>epochs, in the mediaeval age for example, the age of\r\nconquerors and conquistadors, and of Digvijaya, man as the warrior,\r\nthe Kshattriya, the Samurai or the Chivalry was given the place of\r\nhonour. Next came the age of traders and merchants, and the\r\nindustrial age with the invention of machines. Today the labourer is\r\nrising in his turn to take the prime place. As we have said, a\r\nnormally healthy society is a harmonious welding of these four\r\nelements. A society becomes diseased when only one member gets\r\ninflated and all-powerful at the expense of others or whenever there\r\nis an unholy alliance of some against the rest. Priest-craft, the\r\nChurch militant, Fanaticism (religious or ideological), Inquisition\r\nare corruptions that show themselves when the first principle,\r\nthe principle of Brahminhood, becomes exclusive and brings in\r\narrogance and ignorance. Similarly colonisation and imperialism\r\nof the type only too familiar to us are aberrations of the spirit\r\nthat the second principle embodies â€“ the spirit of the Kshattriya.\r\nLikewise financial cartels, the industrial magnates, the profiteer,\r\nthe <I>arriviste </I>are diseased growths in the economic body of a\r\nmodern society which has forgotten the true Vaishya spirit that seeks\r\nto produce wealth in order to share and distribute fairly and\r\nequitably. The remedy of these ills society has suffered from is not\r\nthe introduction of a fourth evil, the tyranny of the Fourth Estate\r\nof the proletariate. The Fourth was reduced, it is true, to a state\r\nof slavery and serfdom, of untouchability, at its <I>reductio ad\r\nabsurdum. </I>The cure, we say, is not in blind revolt and an\r\ninauguration of the same evil under a new name and form, which means\r\nits perpetuation, but in the creation of a new life and soul, that\r\ncan happen only with the creation of a new head and front Zeus-like\r\nthat would give birth to the goddess of light and knowledge, inspirer\r\nof a true Brahminhood.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We repeat a fair and sure economic basis has to be found\r\nfor the down-trodden, proletarian or other. For the proletariate is\r\nnot the only unfortunate in the human society. There are whole groups\r\nof the unfortunate in the three other Estates also. Or perhaps <I>if\r\n</I>we like we can extend the meaning of the term &quot;proletariate&quot;\r\nand include in it all the less favoured sections of all the Four\r\nOrders</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>As already stated, the remedy is to be sought in the\r\nsalvage </FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 123</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>of\r\nthe individual. The present trend of social forces is towards\r\nmovements in the mass. That was necessary perhaps; for larger, wider,\r\nindeed world-wide unities have to be found and established for the\r\nunification of the whole of humanity. But in the drive towards\r\nthat-goal Nature seems to have overlooked for the moment the case of\r\nthe individual, and naturally, man has been blind and one-sided in\r\nhis attempts to reform and rebuild society and the world. This\r\nneglected thread has to be taken up again and put back into the web\r\nof social life. The value of the individual, the worth and speciality\r\nof each person has to be found and recognised; indeed it is round\r\nthat centre that society can best be reformed and remade. And this\r\ncan only be done by a spiritual outlook. For, the true individual is\r\nfounded in the spirit, the spiritual consciousness; so long as man is\r\nlimited to his body, life and mind, and his functions are solely\r\ndetermined by his earthly nature, so long he must needs be taken as a\r\nmere element in the mass, the cosmic mass. The true individual or\r\nperson emerges only when something of man\'s spiritual being finds\r\nexpression in these lower elements of his nature. And when man\r\ntotally transcends his inferior sphere of existence and rises into\r\nhis divine status where things are marshalled and organised through\r\neach individual truth-centre, then only there is the chance of a\r\nperfect social system descending upon earthly life.</FONT></P>\r\n			<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.34cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Perhaps this is a far cry from the level of our normal\r\nhumanity. But things have to be regarded and moulded from the highest\r\nheights; otherwise there will be no real solution, there can be only\r\na temporary make-believe and a final frustration.</FONT><BR>\r\n			</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.34cm; padding-top:0cm; padding-right:0cm; padding-bottom:0.07cm; padding-left:0cm; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Page â€“ 124</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Gif_Image/house01_green.gif\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\" alt=\"house06_white.gif\"></a></P>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n			</td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-25_On Social Reconstruction','','publish','closed','open','','25_on-social-reconstruction','','','2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/25_on-social-reconstruction/',0,'post','',0),(1715,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN\">\r\n<html>\r\n<head>\r\n<title>f.htm</title>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html;charset=windows-1252\">\r\n</head>\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n	<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n		<tr>\r\n			<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<b>\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"4\">Evolution or Special Creation </font></b>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n&nbsp;<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">THE point is still being debated and, it seems, is still debatable\r\nwhether evolution is truly the fact behind the origin of species.\r\nor is it special creation. The latter, we know, was the old-\r\nworld pre-Copernican theory advocated by theologians and\r\nreligious minds. It was thoroughly discredited and demolished\r\nby the new illumination that Science brought in with the\r\nnineteenth century. Till lately it was considered as a pure\r\nsuperstition and to be its advocate would be nothing but\r\nblind bigotry. But evidently things in Nature are not so simple; what at one time is brushed aside as a meaningless futility\r\ncomes back later with a meaning and suggestiveness and\r\ntruth of reality. We were once laughing at the corpuscular\r\ntheory of light advocated by the great Newton and putting on a patronising air at the frailty of an otherwise mighty intelligence.&nbsp; But the tables are now turned and we accept it as an undoubted fact when Planck says today that a light ray\r\nconsists also of particles <i>{quanta)</i> of light. Similarly if in some\r\nscientific quarter a doubt has arisen as to the absolute and\r\nexclusive truth of the principle of evolution and if the old conception of \r\nspecial creation is exhumed for fresh consideration,&nbsp; well, one should not be astonished at the turn over. </font>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">The most serious lacuna in the concept of evolution, at\r\nleast in the Darwinian form of it, is, as is well known, the\r\nmissing link. The transition stage between one form of life\r\nand another, between one species and its higher evolute is\r\nalways absent, has left no trace of any kind and it is a matter\r\nof any man\'s guess. So the theory of mutation, <i>saltum,</i> sudden\r\nchange, has been advanced. But that only restates the fact,\r\nclinches the matter, but does not explain it. If a sudden and\r\nthorough change is possible, if one object can be transformed </font>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">Page - 356</font><hr align=\"justify\">\r\n\r\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">into something quite different and unpredictable, one can \r\nas well call it special creation. That would, some might say, be facing the fact squarely. </font>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">According to the Yogic or occult view of things, however,\r\nthe two conceptions that human mind sets against each other\r\nneed not be and are not contradictory. Indeed both are true\r\nand both are factors working out the progress of life. Evolution\r\nis a movement upward, the urge of consciousness to grow and\r\nexpand and rise to a higher and greater articulation: the\r\nchange follows a scale of degrees. But there comes a point in\r\nthe progressive march when a change of degree means a\r\nchange of kind and the phenomenon presents itself as a sudden,\r\nunforeseen mutation. This is due to the fact that there happens\r\nat the moment, in answer to a last call as it were from below,\r\na descent of consciousness from the higher into the lower.\r\nAll the grades of being or consciousness are always there in\r\nthe cosmic infinity, only it is a matter of gradual manifestation in the \r\nphysical world. The higher scales are kept in the background,&nbsp; the march of life starts from the lowest, the material \r\nrung. One by one they manifest or descend, formulate themselves&nbsp; in the lower as these grow and rise and get ready to\r\nreceive the descent. The gap or missing link means the irruption&nbsp; of a new principle or mode of consciousness, the bursting\r\nof the cocoon, as it were, at the end of the period of gestation\r\nin the previous mode. Thus we can say that in the beginning\r\nthere was only Matter and Matter was being churned until\r\na point of tension or saturation was reached when Life precipitated&nbsp; and became embodied and evident in Matter. In the \r\nsame way, out of a concentrated incubation that Life underwent,&nbsp; it brought down Mind from the hidden mind-plane\r\nand the vegetable kingdom gave birth to the animal. Latterly\r\nwhen Intelligence and self-consciousness descended, it was\r\nMan that appeared on earth. </font>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"justify\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">Looked at from below, as the lower marches forward and\r\nupward, the scene presents itself as Evolution, growth, Nature\'s\r\ngradual unfolding of herself: looked at from above, as the\r\nhigher seems poised and descends when the time and occasion\r\nare ready, creation appears as a series of special intervention.\r\nBoth movements are facts of Nature and implement each\r\nother. </font>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"2\">Page - 357</font><hr>\r\n			<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n&nbsp;<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-1/_Gif_Image/house01_green.gif\" width=\"28\" height=\"23\" border=\"0\" alt=\"house06_white.gif\"></a></td>\r\n		</tr>\r\n	</table>\r\n</div>\r\n</body>\r\n</html>','-65_Evolution or Special Creation','','publish','closed','open','','65_evolution-or-special-creation','','','2021-11-23 17:58:08','2021-11-23 17:58:08','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/65_evolution-or-special-creation/',0,'post','',0),(1716,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>ON UPANISHADIC THOUGHT</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">ON UPANISHADIC THOUGHT</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:17.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n17.25pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:200%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Yama -\r\nNachiketa </font> <o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:200%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<b>&nbsp; </b>\r\n</font></span><b><font size=\"4\">(Katha Upanishad)</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:28.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">VAJASRAVAS desired that he would give away all he had. He\r\nhad a son named Nachiketas.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:8.6pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As the boy saw the gifts\r\nbeing given, his heart was filled with respect and devotion, and he pondered:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;The realm of\r\nundelight is his portion who makes a gift offering of kine that have drunk\r\ntheir last drop of water and eaten the last herb, have been sucked to the last\r\ndrop of milk and have worn out their organs.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.1pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So the boy said to his\r\nfather, &quot;To whom are you going to give me, father?&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfather did not give an answer to the senseless question of his ignorant son.\r\nBut the boy was insistent. . He asked the same question again, and a third\r\ntime. Finally, the father gave an angry reply, &quot;I shall give thee to\r\nDeath!&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe simplicity of his heart, the boy argued to himself thus: &quot;Among many I\r\noccupy the first place, with others I come second, so I am not wholly\r\nworthless. Hence, what my father said must have a meaning, I must have some\r\nwork to do with Yama, the Lord of Death.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nboy went on musing on the subject of death, &quot;Look, what has happened to\r\nthose who were there before, and to those also who came after. Mortal beings\r\nripen like the grains in the field and are shed, they come to birth again like\r\nthose grains.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.15pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nindeed is a mystery, a mystery to which the God Yama alone has a clue.\r\nThat is why Nachiketas left for the abode of Yama and came and sat on the\r\nlatter\'s doorstep.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-115<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There he lay in wait for\r\nthree whole nights in the hope of getting a chance to meet Yama.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even\r\nas the boys Dhruva and Prahlada had had a vision of God through their simple\r\nfaith, so did the simple but stout-hearted Nachiketas too reach the abode of\r\nYama and meet him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nminions of Yam a went and told him, &quot;There has been a Brahmin lad waiting\r\nat our doorstep for three days in order to see you - a Brahmin and on top of\r\nthat a guest; this is like playing with fire. You should go and greet him with\r\nall due ceremony. A Brahmin, as you know, arriving at somebody\'s house and left\r\nto starve, means the waning of all one\'s virtue and a grave risk to one\'s\r\nworldly state.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nshould take the word &quot;Brahmin&quot; here in the sense given to it by the\r\nGita: a Brahmin is one who is devoted to brahman, the Highest Reality;\r\nhe is a seeker of the Spirit and serves It. A particular duty laid on the\r\nsociety of that age was to support and give due respect to this topmost class;\r\nfor the true prestige and worth of a society depend not on its visible power or\r\nprosperity but on the richness of its inner growth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama\r\nthereupon appeared, as if in a bit of a flurry. Or, perhaps he was putting\r\nNachiketas\' sincerity to a little test. He offered Nachiketas a seat with all\r\ndeference and, as if to atone for his earlier neglect, addressed him thus in a\r\nhumble tone:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;You\r\nhave been made to wait here for three days without food, a Brahmin and a guest.\r\nAccept my salutations, may all be well with me.&quot; This meant, in modern\r\nlanguage, &quot;Do be kind enough to pardon me.&quot; Yama meant to suggest\r\nthrough this eminently human attitude that he was, in spite of being Death, no\r\nuncultivated boor! He continued, &quot;N achiketas, since you have been waiting\r\nhere for three nights, you should demand three boons from me.&quot; Nachi­ketas\r\ntoo accepted the apology with courtesy without an. other word, and asked for\r\nthe first boon thus:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:13.4pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-116<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.6pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;My\r\ndear father must be getting anxious on account of my disappearance, thinking\r\nthat I have been gripped by death and would not return. You please give him\r\npeace of mind, remove the feeling of displeasure he has about me, and grant\r\nthat when I return from your abode a free man, may he recognise me and receive\r\nme with joy. This, then, O Yama, will be the first boon I desire.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama\r\nsaid in reply, &quot;It will be certainly as you say. You will get back from\r\nhere, your father Auddalaka Aruni will be able to see you as before, he will\r\nhave his peace of mind on seeing you freed from the jaws of death, his\r\nannoyance will go, he will have good sleep at night.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nachiketas\r\nwent on, &quot;It is said: there is no fear in heaven, you too are not there,\r\nnor is there the dread of old age, people live in great joy when, after\r\ncrossing beyond both hunger and thirst and passing to the other shore of\r\nsorrow, they come to heaven. O Death, you know about that heavenly Fire, speak\r\nto me about It, I am listening with faith. The dwellers in heaven have gained\r\nimmortality. Please tell me about this mystery. This is the second boon I\r\ndesire.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nLord of Death said in reply, &quot;Nachiketas, listen then to the mystery of\r\nthis Fire. I have knowledge of this Fire. The Fire takes one to the world of\r\nInfinity. The Fire is the basis of this universe. He is abiding in a cave,\r\nhidden within our secret being.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama\r\nexplained to Nachiketas further, &quot;The Fire is the beginning of\r\ncreation.&quot; He also revealed the secret knowledge about the method of\r\nkindling this Fire, the number of bricks and their types needed in piling the\r\naltar. Nachi­ketas listened to all this with great attention, and repeated to\r\nthe Lord of Death what he had thus learned.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Death\r\nwas pleased and said to him again, &quot;Nachiketas, I am much pleased with\r\nyou, so I grant you another boon, namely, that the mystery of the Fire which I\r\nhave revealed to you will be named after you; henceforth people will call it\r\nthe Fire of Nachiketas. I also give this garland of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.1pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-117<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>many forms, take it.&quot;\r\nWhat this garland stood for was explained a little by Death, in the same\r\nlanguage of symbols which he had used in revealing the mystery of the Fire. He\r\nsaid, &quot;One who lights the three Fires is united with the Three, and goes\r\non performing the three Works, passes beyond life and death. He then comes to\r\nknow that adorable Deity who is born of the Supreme; knowing him he attains to\r\nthe supreme Peace.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama\r\nwent on dwelling on the same mystery, perhaps making it still more mysterious.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>.\r\n&quot;One who has gained the three Fires of Nachiketas, one who has gained\r\nknowledge of the Three, one who has thus seen and known and mastered the Fire\r\nof Nachiketas has pushed away from in front all the bonds of death, passed\r\nbeyond all sorrow, has enjoyed the bliss of heaven. This then is that heavenly\r\nFire of Nachiketas which you chose as the second of your boons. Henceforth, all\r\npeople will say, this is verily your Fire. Nachiketas, now you are free to\r\nchoose your third boon.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nachiketas\r\nanswered, &quot;Well, there rises a doubt as to the beings who depart from\r\nhence: some say they continue to exist, others say they do not. I want to know\r\nthe truth of this matter, you please give me this knowledge. This is the third\r\nboon I ask.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">This seemed to create a little difficulty for Yama.\r\nHe said, &quot;You see, this debate has been going on even among the gods from\r\ntimes sempiternal. This is a very subtle point, this knowledge is not easy to\r\nget, nor easy to grasp. You had better ask for some other boon, do not press me\r\nfurther on this point, give up this quest.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But,\r\nas we have no doubt seen by now, Nachiketas was not to be put off like that; He\r\nexclaimed, &quot;But this is strange! Even the gods find it a matter for\r\ndebate, you too are saying it is not easily grasped. But I am not going to have\r\nanother like you to speak to me about this matter. And do not con­sider any\r\nother boon worth having, as compared to this.&quot;<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\ncolor:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-118<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Death too on his part tried to cajole the boy into\r\nforgetting about it, perhaps taking him to be a mere child. He said,\r\n&quot;Nachiketas, choose sons and grandsons living to a hundred years, choose\r\nan abundance of cattle, horses and elephants, gold and jewels. Take as your\r\nportion vast stretches of land, live [or as many years as you please. If, in\r\naddition, you consider any other boon equally worth having, ask for it; choose\r\nas much wealth as you like and life eternal. Or else, if you desire a whole\r\nkingdom, I shall fulfil your wish for all these desirable things.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama\r\nwent on adding to the list of desirable things, in the hope that perhaps in the\r\nend the boy could be won over. &quot;All the desirable things that are hard to\r\nget on this mortal earth, you can demand exactly as you please. Charming\r\ndamsels with their chariots and song and dance, than whom there is nothing more\r\nacceptable to men - all this I shall give you for your enjoyment at will. But\r\ndo not ask any more about death.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nNachiketas was no mere boy or unripe youth. His reply was immediate, &quot;All\r\nthat you have named, O De­stroyer, lasts only till the morrow. There is no\r\norgan or sense that does not get blunt in course of time. And even if it lasts,\r\na whole life-time, that too is but little. Let yours, O Yama, be all those\r\nchariots and the damsels, yours the song and the dance. Man is not satisfied by\r\nriches, O Death. And here will be no dearth of wealth when I have looked upon\r\nyou in person. I shall live as long as you like, but my choice is for that boon\r\nalone. You might yourself consider this. Once a mortal being dwelling here\r\nbelow in the grip of physical matter has felt the presence of the unaging\r\nImmortals, gained the true knowledge, has realised the true nature of beauty\r\nand passion and pleasure, what joy can he have in this transient life? Tell me,\r\nO Death, more about this end­less debate on what is or is not after the great\r\nannihilation. The deep secret of the beyond, it is this that I want to under­stand.\r\nNachiketas demands no other boon of you.&quot;<span style=\'font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-119<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yama did not find it\r\npossible to put him off any more. <span style=\'font-size:7.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>He went\r\non expounding his secret knowledge to Nachiketas. He began with that secret\r\nWord which Nachiketas had al­ready received and grasped all by himself.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Man has open before him two doors leading to two\r\ndifferent paths: one is that of the good, the other of what is pleasant. The\r\ntwo lead in opposite directions; Nachiketas had renounced the pleasant and had\r\nchosen the good. On the basis of this choice depend, in the beginning and\r\nthrough­out at each step, the progress and upward evolution of man. He alone\r\nwho can recognise and choose the good gains the Highest, the supreme Reality.\r\nNachiketas too had made these gains; he had become foremost among spiritual\r\nmen, </span>brahmistha<span style=\'font-size:9.0pt\'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">There is in this story an unsolved problem which in\r\nits turn might give rise to a &quot;debate&quot;. I am going to take that as my\r\ntheme in what follows.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Yama taught Nachiketas about the mystery of the Fire\r\nas the second boon. The fruit of this knowledge, the gain it brings has been\r\ndescribed. It is the winning of the heavenly world where one enjoys\r\nimmortality; it is a world of delight where death itself is not, nor old age\r\nand fear and sorrow, nor hunger and thirst.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>And what is this Fire? Fire is the Origin of the\r\nworlds, the realms of Infinity; in Its very nature Fire is the Beginning and\r\nthe Infinite, Immortality and Delight. And where does It dwell? It lies hidden\r\nas in a cave. What cave this is will be discussed later. For the present, it\r\nwill be well to remember that the Fire is a doer of the Triple Work, and It has\r\nknowledge of Him or of what is born of the Supreme. The problem is: does not\r\nall this amount to what the Gita describes as &quot;a mixed word&quot;?\r\nNachiketas desired to know,</span><span style=\'font-size:16.0pt\'> </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>as his third boon, which of the two opinions\r\nconcerning the state of the embodied being on his departure from here after\r\ndeath, namely, that he continues to exist or ceases to be, is<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-120<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the real truth of the\r\nmatter. But has not the mystery of what lies beyond death been already revealed\r\nby what has been said, in connection with the second question or boon, about\r\nattaining the heavenly world, enjoyment of immortality, the companionship of\r\nthe gods and so on? Where then is the point in asking the same question again?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As\r\nan initial clue to the problem, we must keep in mind that the heavenly world\r\ncan be attained even without the death of the body, &quot;by pushing away from\r\nin front the bonds of death&quot;, as the text says, or as in the usual\r\ninterpretation, before succumbing to death. Nachiketas himself had achieved\r\nthis feat. The heavenly world has been conceived as just another neighbourhood\r\nor abode, a world of delight where there is no old age, death, or sorrow and\r\nsuffering. But it does not imply any victory gained in a battle with death, any\r\nmastery obtained over death. All that seems to happen here is that death has\r\nbeen pushed aside, or evaded perhaps. There is merely an absence of death here,\r\nit has not been brought under control. Death may not be present in this abode,\r\nbut he is sitting in his lair and is free to go where he wills, even if it be\r\nwithin some limits. There has been no annihilation of death.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nhis third boon, Nachiketas wants to know if there is beyond the physical\r\ndeath any surpassing of death. Granted that heaven is attained, but what\r\nhappens after that, beyond the heavenly world? For, this too is sometimes said\r\nthat the enjoyment of heaven is only for a time, no matter how long that time\r\nbe; after the term is over, one has to come back to earth, death has to be encountered\r\nover again. In this view, if the soul of man be immortal, the\r\nimmortality does not go beyond heaven, it is nothing more than the enjoyment of\r\nheaven.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In fact, the Upanishads speak of two kinds of\r\nimmorta­lity. One is temporal immortality, that is, living for ever, the other\r\nis beyond time, in the ultimate Reality or the su­preme- Truth; one is cosmic,\r\nthe other transcendental.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-121<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There are likewise two\r\nkinds of eternity and infinity. One is in relation to time, with time as its\r\nbasis and inseparable from the progress of time, what in the ordinary view is\r\ndescribed as &quot;lasting as long as the sun and the moon&quot;. The other is\r\nbeyond all creation or manifestation, poised above it in the supreme Status.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What\r\nNachiketas desired to know was this. The gods are temporal beings. However big\r\nand mighty they may be, they who endure for ever with a life eternal and have\r\nno death, cannot know the secret of death. They may live beyond the pale of\r\ndeath and death is foreign to them. But they are ignorant of the Truth that is\r\nbeyond time, that has to be reached through death and by passing to the other\r\nshore of death. That is why Yama says that the gods are full of doubts and\r\npuzzled about this matter. But Yama himself is in possession of this knowledge,\r\nhe is aware of the Truth that lies beyond him, on the other shore. Nachiketas\r\nsays to Yama, &quot;Since I have been able to find you, I am sure of gaining\r\nthis knowledge; there is none other so wise who can speak about it.&quot; The\r\nreason is that Yama has been called Vaivasvata, he is born of Vivasvan, the\r\nSun-god, Surya Savitri.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Surya\r\nSavitri stands for the highest Knowledge, He is the Supreme Consciousness from\r\nwhich comes the creation of the universe. Yama is the Life-Force, the Ordainer\r\nof the worlds with their rhythms of life. He is here in this manifestation of\r\nthe play of life the representative of Savitri, and Fire is his vehicle,\r\ninstrument or symbol. Just as Surra is Vivasvan, the Supreme Effulgent One,\r\nYama is likewise the Cosmic Being, all cosmic power and universal forces are\r\nhis. Surya is supra-cosmic, belongs to the Beyond. Fire is cosmic, belongs to\r\nour worlds. Or, to put it more exactly, Surya is the point of transition from\r\nthe Beyond to these worlds; Fire is such a point from the worlds to the Beyond.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nmystery of the Fire that was revealed to Nachiketas by Yama would give him the\r\nmundane realisation, namely,</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:10.55pt; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-122<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:3.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the\r\nconquest over time past, present and future, the attain­ment of temporal\r\nimmortality or heaven. The mastery thus obtained consists of a set of trios: it\r\nhas three lines of fulfilment, it acts in three ways, in the three worlds,\r\nthroughout the three divisions of time. The three worlds as we know them are\r\nmind, life and body; all endeavour and attainment here on earth are concerned\r\nwith this trio. The altar of the Fire here is provided by man\'s inner and outer\r\nframe; the bricks of this altar are his body, life and mind with all their\r\nactivities; the multiform garland spoken of by Yama is this lower nature with\r\nits multiple forms. Fire is the symbol of the conscious power and energy lying concealed\r\nwithin the innermost depths of the mortal frame, it is the inner being\'s power\r\nof askesis.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">By following the path of the triple Work;\r\nNachiketas could achieve the temporal realisation. What he needed now was the\r\nrealisation beyond time, this is what he demanded as his third boon: after the\r\nknowledge of the worlds the Knowledge of the Supreme, the transcendental\r\nrealisation after the cosmic.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:3.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fire has been described as the Origin of the worlds, He is\r\nthe Beginning of the worlds, their Source. He is also the primeval World, for\r\nthe earth-principle, this earth of ours, this physical universe is the\r\nplace of Agni, His own abode and field of action. Underlying the gross physical\r\nis the Sub­conscient, and within the Subconscient, this Fire or power of\r\naskesis and conscious force keeps HimseIf concealed. It is under that secret\r\nImpulse that the creation moves. It is this Fire that gives Nachiketas his ultimate\r\nrealisation. We may say, in the words of the Isha Upanishad, that first, by\r\nvirtue of the second boon, he crosses beyond death by the knowledge of the\r\nIgnorance; next, by his third boon, he wins Immortality on mastering the\r\nsupreme Knowledge. This is the fruit promised to him in the end.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:3.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nachiketas gained this knowledge, the entire method of the\r\nYoga as revealed to him in person by the Lord of Death.<span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:3.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-123<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:3.85in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:5.75pt 202.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Freed\r\nfrom all impurity and the possibility of death, he at­tained the supreme state.\r\nAnyone else who would follow his path would likewise obtain this realisation of\r\nthe Self, even as Nachiketas did.<span style=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:5.75pt 202.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-124</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.45pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:5.75pt 202.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a>&nbsp;</span></i></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-25_Yama - Nachiketa','','publish','closed','open','','25_yama-nachiketa','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/25_yama-nachiketa/',0,'post','',0),(1717,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Satyakama and Upakoshala</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Satyakama and Upakoshala</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>S<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>ATYAKAMA</span> was now a Rishi, a <span class=SpellE><i>brahmarsi</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>a sage and seer who had realised the Truth. He was himself a teacher now,\r\nhad his own <span class=SpellE>Ashrama</span> where the seekers and aspirants\r\ncame to receive his instruction and guidance. Today I shall tell you something\r\nof the aim and method of <span class=SpellE>Satyakama\'s</span> work as teacher.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upakoshala\r\n<span class=SpellE>Kamalayana</span>, the son of Kamala, resided with Satyakama\r\nas a student of sacred lore for twelve years, tending his fires. What this\r\ntending of the fires really meant we shall learn as we proceed. There were\r\nother resident pupils along with Upakoshala; and after they had finished their\r\ntwelve-year course, they were permitted to return home, <span class=SpellE><i>samavartana</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>with the final words of instruction and blessings from the master. But\r\nSatyakama would not let Upakoshala leave.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On\r\nbehalf of the pupil a representation was made to the teacher by <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Satyakama\'s</span> wife - how and when Satyakama had obtained a\r\nwife and what she was called I have not been able to discover. The wife said,\r\n&quot;My lord, the pupil has been at pains to perform his austerities, he has\r\nbeen tending the fires with diligence and care. Lest the fires should place the\r\nblame on you, he should now be permitted to leave for his home with your\r\nblessings.&quot; But the teacher kept quiet and left on a journey without\r\nsaying a word on the point.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe grief of his heart Upakoshala undertook a fast. It seems that even in those\r\n<span class=GramE>days</span> ordinary people and aspirants<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-133<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>too</span>\r\nwere apt to fast unto death to get their wishes fulfilled. The good lady did\r\nher best to make the boy understand. &quot;Why don\'t you eat, my dear\r\nchild?&quot; she said, &quot;Do take something, at least for my sake.&quot;\r\nUpakoshala explained that his fast was not from any anger with the master, but\r\nwith himself and his own shortcomings. Here was then a difference between the\r\nolden times and now! He said, &quot;My lady, this body of mine is filled with\r\ndisease. Therefore I shall not eat.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thereupon\r\nthe three household Fires had consultations among themselves. &quot;See how\r\ndiligently this boy has been attending on us&quot;, they said, &quot;Come, let\r\nus instruct him ourselves.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nmight recall here that Satyakama too had attained the knowledge of Brahman in\r\nthis manner. The teacher had left him free to wander at will and knowledge had\r\nflashed upon him spontaneously. He was now trying the same method with his own\r\ndisciple. Words gleaned from an external source and received from the mouth of\r\nanother do not give the full knowledge. Knowledge implanted from without does\r\nnot enter one who is not inwardly clarified and ready; for knowledge blossoms\r\nforth from within. The teacher is there to give an occult help, but there is\r\nneeded a capacity to receive the teacher\'s help. That is how Upakoshala could\r\nhear in his wakened consciousness the conversation of the Fires.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:214.8pt 236.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They were saying, &quot;Life-force verily is the\r\nReality. <i>Ka </i>is the Reality, <span class=SpellE><i>kha</i></span><i> </i>is,\r\nthe Reality.&quot; And Upakoshala asked, &quot;There is proof that life-force\r\nis the Reality. <span class=GramE>But what is <i>ka </i>and what <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>kha</i></span><i>?&quot;</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.45pt 214.8pt 236.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Fires replied, &quot;What is\r\n<i>ka </i>is <span class=SpellE><i>kha</i></span><i>, </i>what is <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>kha</i></span><i> </i>is <i>ka.&quot;<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.45pt 214.8pt 236.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></i><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Both are terms that express the ether pervading life. <i>Ka </i>is\r\nthe ether of the inner consciousness, <span class=SpellE><i>kha</i></span><i> </i>the\r\nether pervading physical space. Space represents the extension of the\r\nlife-force. Fire is power, the power that achieves by force of austerity; and life-energy\r\nis the expression of that power<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.45pt 214.8pt 236.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-134<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.45pt 214.8pt 236.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:62.4pt 263.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>as</span> force of action. That explains\r\nthe Fire\'s emphasis on 1ife-force.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n62.4pt 263.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Fires are three in\r\nnumber. The Katha Upanishad also speaks of <span class=SpellE>Nachiketa</span>\r\nlearning the method of worshipping the three Fires; he thereby conquers death\r\nand comes to possess the three worlds, <span class=SpellE><i>trilokamaptim</i></span><i>.\r\n</i>Here too it is the same story.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfirst of the three Fires is Lord\' of the House, <span class=SpellE><i>garha­patya</i></span><i>.\r\n</i>He manifested Himself to. Upakoshala and said, &quot;Behold this earth and\r\nthe fire, food and the yonder sun. The Supreme Person you see in the sun, that\r\nPerson is my­self and no other. He who knows That, the Supreme Reality, in this\r\nwise and worships It thus, of him all sinful acts are destroyed, in all the\r\nworlds he finds his station, he reaches the full span of life, becomes\r\nimmortal. His progeny is not cut short; we enjoy him (take our delight in him),\r\nin this world and in that, him who knows and worships the Reality thus.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>Next appeared the second of the three Fires, the Fire of the Right,\r\n<span class=SpellE><i>daksinagni</i></span><i>. </i>He said,\r\n“Upakoshala, behold the waters, the four quarters, the stars and the moon. He\r\nwho knows them and worships them finds all his sins destroyed. He becomes\r\npossessed of all the worlds, he has the full span of life, becomes immortal.\r\nHis progeny\' decays not. We enjoy him, in this world and in that, him who knows\r\nIt thus and worships.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\nlast there came the Fire of the Call, <span class=SpellE><i>ahavaniya</i></span><i>.\r\n</i>He said, &quot;Behold my body which is the life-breath, the sky and heaven\r\nand the lightning. The Person that is seen within the lightning is none other\r\nthan <span class=GramE>myself</span>, verily it is me. He who abides in Brahman\r\nfirm in this thought finds all his evil acts dispelled. He becomes a dweller in\r\nall the worlds. He gains the full span of his life, becomes immortal.&quot;<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-135<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.55pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Perhaps\r\nit is necessary to add a word of explanation here about the four locations\r\ngiven to each of the three Fires. But these, have been described through the\r\nmedium of sym­bols, and symbols always leave a certain amount of mystery.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nFire that is Lord of the House, <span class=SpellE><i>grhapati</i></span><i>, </i>has\r\nfor its seat this material earth, that is, it burns within our physical frame.\r\nIt has steadiness for its quality, its flame shoots up­wards, it aims at the\r\nsun - for the light that illumines earth is no other than the sun. Its form is\r\nthat of the burning flame and its field of action is gross matter. Similarly,\r\nthe Fire of the Right, <span class=SpellE><i>dasinagni</i></span><i> </i>has\r\nfor its dwelling the waters, which imply movement. Its form is spread out in\r\nevery direction; its field is the region of the starry sky; its goal the moon\r\nof Delight, <i>soma. </i>Likewise, the Fire of the Call, <span class=SpellE><i>ahavaniyagni</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>has for its seat the life-breath, which gives the power to work. Its form\r\nis of the nature of extension; its field the heavenly <span class=GramE>regions\r\nof mind, the light which it seeks is</span> like the self-luminous lightning.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>After\r\nthus imparting the knowledge of the Reality, the Fires said to Upakoshala,\r\n&quot;Upakoshala, we have given you what knowledge of the Self we possess. Your\r\nteacher when he comes will explain to you what the aim is of this know­ledge,\r\nthe goal to which it leads.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>And now the teacher,\r\nSatyakama, was <span class=GramE>back</span> home. And he had a look at\r\nUpakoshala, and he broke out in words identical with those which his own\r\nteacher had used in greeting when he brought back the <span class=SpellE>kine</span>\r\nfrom their wanderings. He said, &quot;Your face shines like one who has\r\nrealised the Truth. Who has given you the instruction?&quot; Upakoshala felt a\r\nlittle embarrassed at this question. He sought to hide the true answer and\r\nsaid, &quot;Who else could have taught me?&quot; Perhaps he thought the teacher\r\nwould get annoyed on learning that he had been receiving instruction from\r\nothers. However, he gave a slight hint, saying, &quot;But these Fires that you\r\nsee here are of a rather unusual nature.&quot; The teacher then said to him,\r\n&quot;So, it is these Fires who have</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-136<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoBodyTextIndent align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>taught\r\nyou. What have they taught?&quot; Then Upakoshala had to explain everything in\r\nfull.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Satyakama gave reply, &quot;The Fires have told you\r\nabout the different worlds, I shall now tell you about the tran­scendent\r\ntruths. Earth, mid-air and heaven are truths that comprise the universal\r\naspects of Reality. But one must know the fourth or transcendent aspect of the\r\nTruth. Once you know <span class=GramE>That</span>, you will roam at will all\r\nover the worlds, even as a drop of water on the surface of a lotus leaf, <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>padma­patramivambhasa</i></span><i>.”</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The Fires are three. The first has its seat in the\r\nbody; it is the power of the body\'s upward endeavour. It is as if a coiled-up\r\nforce, <span class=SpellE><i>kundalini</i></span><i>. </i>When this coiled-up\r\nforce opens itself out and moves upward in a spiral curve, it goes on opening\r\nthe body consciousness wider and wider in a clock­wise or right-handed motion:\r\nthat is the Fire of the Right, the fire of aspiration, in the inner\r\nconsciousness of which mid-air is the symbol here. It is a right-handed motion\r\nbe­cause the movement is full of knowledge, instinct with the power of right\r\ndiscrimination, <span class=SpellE><i>daksa</i></span><i>, <span class=SpellE>daksnna</span>,\r\n</i>between the truth and the <span class=GramE>falsehood,</span> it is of the\r\nsubstance of knowledge. It merges up on high with the Fire of the Call, <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>ahavaniya</i></span><i>, </i>once it gets purified\r\nand gross into a spotless Flame. This Fire of the Call is the power of\r\nausterity that has to be called down from on high by an invocation. The tongue\r\nof this Flame lies hidden in the heavenly worlds of pure mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.85pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman,\r\nits manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer Satyakama\r\ncompletes the picture by revealing the <span class=SpellE>supracosmic</span>\r\nreality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That\r\nessence, Satyakama says in our first approach to it, appears as a twofold\r\nreality - it is a thing of light, <span class=SpellE>Bhamani</span>, and it is\r\na thing of delight, <span class=SpellE>Va­mani</span>, it is luminous, it is\r\ndelightful. We get here an early version of the later well-known formula - <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Sachchidananda</span> - <i>sat </i>is <i>cit </i>and <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>ananda</i></span><i>.</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:8.85pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-137<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>However, in this <span class=SpellE>Vedantic</span>\r\nformula we miss one element of the supreme reality; Sat or Brahman is not only\r\nlight and delight, it is also power, force, energy - <span class=SpellE><i>tapas</i></span><i>.\r\n</i>Agni dwells not only on the three cosmic <span class=GramE>planes,</span>\r\nthe god has his own home in the supreme status. Sat, Being or Reality is\r\nConsciousness or Light; Consciousness is Delight; it is also Power, not only\r\npotential but dynamic Power, Energy. Sri Aurobindo therefore speaks of Chit-<span\r\nclass=SpellE>tapas</span>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The omission, at least in the present context, could\r\nit be the shadow of the coming <span class=SpellE>Mayavada</span>? For, <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Mayavada</span> declares that Power, Shakti is Maya, Illusion.</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.0pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-138<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-27_Satyakama and Upakoshala','','publish','closed','open','','27_satyakama-and-upakoshala','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/27_satyakama-and-upakoshala/',0,'post','',0),(1718,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymn to the Mental Being</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p class=\"Heading\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to the Mental Being</font></b></p>\r\n		<p class=\"Heading\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mandala X:\r\nSukta 58</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>T<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>HAT</span> Mind of yours which has gone afar, to the\r\nsolar world of Divine Law ­—</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nbring back to you; so may you dwell here in life.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the Heaven, to the Earth­ —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to a realm whose four sides have crumbled down­ —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>(4)</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which has\r\ngone afar, to the great four quarters ­—</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We bring back to you; so\r\nmay you dwell here in life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-16</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the flooding ocean —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the flowing splendour —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the Waters, to the healing plants —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the Sun, to the Dawn —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the Vast mountains —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which has\r\ngone afar, to all this entire moving world, (creation) —</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-17</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, to the farther than the farthest —­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>We bring back to you; so may you dwell here in\r\nlife.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(12)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That Mind of yours which\r\nhas gone afar, even to the past and to the future — ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We bring back to you; so\r\nmay you dwell here in life.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-18</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-05_Hymn to the Mental Being','','publish','closed','open','','05_hymn-to-the-mental-being','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/05_hymn-to-the-mental-being/',0,'post','',0),(1719,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n\r\n<title>Hymn to Hara-Gauri</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Hara-Gauri</font><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></b></p><i>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:270pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span style=\'font-family:\r\nArial\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>SHE is anointed with camphor and sandal </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He with ashes of the funeral pyre;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:143.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She\r\nwears true ear-rings</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n143.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He rings of swaying\r\nsnakes;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n143.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to Her, I bow to\r\nHim.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n143.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is decorated with garlands of <span class=SpellE>Mandara</span>\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He with garlands of human skulls;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is girt with heavenly robes</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He with the vacant spaces;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to Her, I bow to Him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her anklets stir and jingle</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And His, the serpent-hoods, gleam and swing;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her limbs are decked with gold</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And His with the heads of\r\nhissing vipers;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to Her, I bow to\r\nHim.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her eye is as the tremulous blue lotus</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And His the red lotus blooming;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her globes of vision are a triplet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And His too have the same number uneven;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>I bow to Her,\r\nI bow to Him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is seated at ease on the back of <span\r\nclass=GramE>Her</span> devoted minion </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He in His deadly dance destroys the worlds;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She it was who created <span class=SpellE>Kama</span>,\r\nthe god of love,<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-53<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>And He destroyed him;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to Her, I bow to Him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her half of the body is golden like <span\r\nclass=SpellE>champa</span> flower, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His half is as white as camphor-dust;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Hers are the flowing tresses </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And His the matted hair;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to Her, I bow to Him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed, dark like clouds are <span class=GramE>Her</span>\r\nmassive hair</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And <span class=GramE>His the</span> twisted locks\r\nand a body smeared with ashes; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O, the Mother of the worlds! O, the Father!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow to <span class=SpellE>Ishwari</span> (<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Shiva</span>) and I bow to <span class=SpellE>Ishwara</span>\r\n(<span class=SpellE>Shiv</span>).</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ever <span class=GramE>She</span> embellishes the\r\ngood,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ever He embellishes the evil;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is one with <span class=SpellE>Ishwara</span> (<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Shiv</span>)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And He is one with <span class=SpellE>Ishwari</span>\r\n(<span class=SpellE>Shiva</span>);</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bow down to <span class=SpellE>Ishwari</span> (<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Shiva</span>)<span class=GramE>,</span> I bow down to <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Ishwara</span> (<span class=SpellE>Shiv</span>).<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-54<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:20.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"text-indent: 270pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-13_Hymn to Hara Gauri','','publish','closed','open','','13_hymn-to-hara-gauri','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/13_hymn-to-hara-gauri/',0,'post','',0),(1720,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n\r\n<title>OTHER HYMNS AND PRAYERS</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">OTHER HYMNS AND PRAYERS</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:17.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 270pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"3\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </font>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;Hymn to the Sweet Lord</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:270pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>S<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>WEET</span> are his\r\nlips, sweet his mouth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt 48.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>his eyes are sweet, sweet his smile,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his heart,\r\nsweet his gait,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet are his words, sweet his manners,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>his robes are sweet, sweet the folds (curves)\r\nof</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>his body</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt 210.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet as\r\nhe moves, sweet as he wanders, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his flute, sweet the dust,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>his hands are sweet, sweet his feet,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n18.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his dance,\r\nsweet his friendship,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet as he sings, sweet as he drinks,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>sweet as he eats, sweet as he sleeps,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his form,\r\nsweet the sandal-mark on his brow,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his deed, sweet his rescue,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>his escape is sweet, sweet his dalliance,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his conquest,\r\nsweet his appeasement,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-51<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet are the creepers, sweet the garlands,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Yamuna\r\nis sweet, sweet its surges,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is the water, sweet the lotus,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet are the Gopis, sweet the play,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>bondage is sweet, sweet is freedom,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet his look, sweet\r\nhis ways,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet are the cowherds, sweet the herds,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>his baton is sweet, sweet the creation –­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet is his\r\ndestruction, sweet his fulfilment, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>of the lord of sweetness all is sweet.<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:23.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; 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\">\r\n<title>Hymn of Aspiration</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=Heading align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn of Aspiration</font></b><i><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>\r\n	<p class=Heading align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mandala X: Sukta 57</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:30.7pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:.25in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>L</span>ET\r\n<span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>us not turn away from the Path nor from the\r\nSacrifice, O Indra, nor from those who pressed the wine of Immorta­lity. Let\r\nnot our enemies stand in between.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That weft which fulfils\r\nthe Sacrifice extends towards the Gods. That we call, to That we move.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nMind we now call by the Soma (immortal) drink that voices the Godhead, and by\r\nthe thought-powers of the Fathers.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May\r\nthe Mind come back to you again for the right Will, for the right Knowledge, for\r\nthe right living and for the uninterrupted vision of the Sun.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May\r\nthe Fathers give back to us again, may the Divine</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-14</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>People\r\ndo the same; may we cling to the Life with its com­plex (of divine work).</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>NOTES</span>: <i>Vratah =</i> sangha (Sayana), group\r\nmultitude.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-indent:.25in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>May we, O Immortal Delight, install the Mind in our bodily formation;\r\nmay we, enriched in our progeny, cling to your Divine Work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-15</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-04_Hymn of Aspiration','','publish','closed','open','','04_hymn-of-aspiration','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/04_hymn-of-aspiration/',0,'post','',0),(1722,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Who Seeks Holy Places</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Who Seeks Holy Places?</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WHO seeks holy places <st1:City><st1:place>Gaya</st1:place></st1:City>\r\nand <st1:place>Ganga</st1:place> and Prabhas and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Kashi\r\nand Kanchi and all,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I can tell to\r\nthe end the countless count of the name of</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Kali?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What need has one\r\nof rituals, if all the three holy hours</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>one\r\nutters the name of Kali?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The rituals\r\npursue him in vain and find him not.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Neither charity\r\nnor benevolence nor rites have any room</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>in his\r\nconsciousness.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He has done the\r\nsacrifice of the passions at the golden</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>feet\r\nof the Divine Mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'tab-stops:right 273.1pt; line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>Who can know the infinite power of the name, Kali?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The God of gods,\r\nthe great God, Mahadeva himself sings</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>multiple-tongued\r\npraises to her.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-59<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 273.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p> <i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\"></a></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-17_Who Seeks Holy Places','','publish','closed','open','','17_who-seeks-holy-places','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/17_who-seeks-holy-places/',0,'post','',0),(1723,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Great Time</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Great Time</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>W<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>HO</span> art Thou, in the, vast Finite,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou <span class=SpellE>flowest</span>,\r\nGreat Time, from the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE>Beginningless towards the Endless?</span>\r\n¹</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have seized your intent<span\r\nclass=GramE>,²</span> mighty Spirit of Time!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now the sky, <span\r\nclass=SpellE>irridescent</span> in the cataract of sun-rays</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Created the magic city of\r\nlimpid Eve-tide;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I wandered along river\r\nbanks seeking to attune my heart-strings</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>To the murmur\r\nand music of life voiced by <span class=GramE>her<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>rippling waves: </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night infinite descended with silent steps</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Casting the shadow of her coronet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon the wide sky, flinging the hem of her robe, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Laying\r\ndown the soft darkness upon earth\'s expanse.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Her\r\neyes lost in thought,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this\r\nvast Night, plunged in the contemplation of the supreme Void­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ndark Mother of the world in her stark ascetic mood lies in utter trance:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She\r\ndraws deep into her bosom all creatures stilled in peace,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She\r\nplays her role of goddess Sleep,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Comes\r\nand silences the Life\'s noise in an unending quiet. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now is\r\nthe honeyed Banquet of stillness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:262.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>¹ <i>Or<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Who art Thou, O Great\r\nTime, carrying in Thy flow the vast Finite</font></p>\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;From </font> <span class=GramE><font size=\"2\">the<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span><span class=SpellE>Beginningless</span>\r\ntowards the&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Endless?</font></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>² <i>Alternative: </i>\'soul\'.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-176<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>The crowded stars, like bees glowing, have flown out\r\nto feast and gathered in the heavens: ¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The luminous amphora of cool ecstasy,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The moon floats up in the night <span class=SpellE>bejewelled</span>\r\nwith stars. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this moonlit darkness, this gleaming Night²</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The immensity of that mood of mine³</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have drowned into this infinite Life</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And have heard the music of Silence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A vibrant sweetness rang in the soul,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The trance of the still world <span style=\'font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'>4</span> broke,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Someone awoke at the touch of the luminous robe,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some footfalls from far echoed into the heart.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Piercing the satiation and the massiveness of the\r\nVoid</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dawn rises and <span class=SpellE>colours</span> the\r\nfirmament with her smile: Even as a bewitching maid, delightfully radiant</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dances about in her joyous heart with frolicsome\r\nsteps</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Free in the mansions of her father.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet and gentle their call</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The birds communicate with each other ceaselessly</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In their delightful tune,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The innumerable wild branches, robed in green,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The woodland dances in the Feast of Light:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Veiled behind the festive illumination</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The hymn of delight I listened in the core of my\r\nheart</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>vedic</span>\r\nRishis chanted drunk with the heavenly Soma </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I realized the deep rapture that has bloomed</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>Into the Lotus-universe in the flow\r\nof the <span class=SpellE>Infinte</span>.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mid-day was asleep laying his head upon the blue sky</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:232.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Alone\r\nin the world\'s chamber:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:232.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹\r\nIn the shorter version of this poem the following line is added after this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>\'To smear with the rays of light the hearts of creatures.\'</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² In the shorter version the line reads like this:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>\'In this darkness illumined by dream-moonlight\'.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>³ In the shorter version the line reads as follows:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>\'The little human soul of mine\'.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>4 <span class=GramE><i>Alternative</i></span><i>: </i>\'<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Yogini</span>\'.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:18.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-177<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:243.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:243.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>There sounded\r\nin my heart the tremendous voice of triple<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>eternity</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>The\r\ngreat Mantra of the world-soul.</span> </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The soul satisfied, unifying unnumbered moods</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some high Creator, eternally calm, contemplates:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Eternal Poet is pleased with his epic</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The global rhythm of creation, Filled with felicity</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He carries the Finite as the wonder form of the\r\nInfinite </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the endless universe circles towards the feet of\r\nits Lord.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His austerities fulfilled, the strong rays far flung,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In his heroic majesty, the sun is descending</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>From heaven\'s height, guided by the\r\nLaw.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At the setting I have gathered in my heart the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>fulness</span> of Peace,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have drunk the honey of Life and emptied the goblet</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The great Song of the Supernal has satiated my ears.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Such is the unstinted revel of each day,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A single day capturing the eternity of time,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Life-Artist, Creator of forms,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pouring <span class=GramE>All</span> into a little it\r\nis your own figure you draw. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Seer, in ever new souls you enjoy in various ways.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Under Thy control, in Thy mood the dancing Earth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its mind stilled, spreads its ecstasy:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What <span class=SpellE>termless</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>tameless</span> dancing,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What unending rapture!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What a world-wide outburst, a tremendous explosion!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Carrying in the life-force days and nights and\r\nseasons and years</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have realised your mood, I have seen your body.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But which is Thy Self? What is that <span\r\nclass=GramE>Fate</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Compelling you to spin, O Mighty One, and to make the\r\nwhole world spin!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-178<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-35_Great Time','','publish','closed','open','','35_great-time','','','2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/35_great-time/',0,'post','',0),(1724,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:09','2021-11-23 17:58:09','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n\r\n<title>Hymn to Forest-Range</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Forest-Range</font></h1>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mandala X:\r\nSukta 146</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:34.55pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-22.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>FOREST-Range!\r\n<st1:place><st1:PlaceType>Range</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Forest</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ever forward you seem to move!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Wherefore do you not enquire</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>for a village? Are you not afraid?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here bellows the bull, there in answer</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>chirps a grasshopper –­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A musical chord, as it were, playing</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the glory of the woodland!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>These\r\nseem to be cattle grazing</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>and those are huts for habitation;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and at eve-tide there seem to\r\nfile</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>out of the forest a caravan of carts.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:21.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A call, as though, it is for a straying calf </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:21.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>or perhaps a tree is being cut down,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-26<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:21.35pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or even as we are in the woodland</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>now at\r\nnight-fall do we hear a moan trailing?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But the forest slays none indeed;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>unless there comes an intruder from outside.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here you regale yourself with sweet fruits</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>and wander about as you like.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweet-scented, loaded with natural yields,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>the Mother of animalkind,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To Her I raise this hymn of praise!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-27<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-weight:400\'><b><font size=\"4\">A Poem</font></b></span></h2>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:1.2pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">FRIEND! <span\r\nclass=GramE>you</span> received the mystic touch of love and your<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>gentle</span>\r\nheart fell into error!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A high desire caught you in the meshes of Sannyasa!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A mighty effort is <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>, the eternal Emanation:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dharma is fallen in the whirl of adharma in this age<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> \r\n    of Kali! <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vainly you find fault with the Path and blame it.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You cannot understand my violent purpose:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A slave of ignorance, of <i>sattva </i>(Light) mixed\r\nwith <i>tamas<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n    </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n76.05pt right 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or else even in this violent act you could recognise\r\nyour<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> </span>dearest\r\nfriend,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Recognise <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>. You .understand\r\nRadha, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Him you did not understand. Whenever he sees the Earth</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>besieged by the Asura,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He always comes down\r\nshaking the unshakeable; <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He turns round his spear\r\nand hurls it head foremost into the<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>hidden bottom of the\r\nocean. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You understand the Flute,\r\nyou understand Vrindavan, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You have not understood the\r\nkilling of Kamsa, you have not<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>understood the war of Kurukshetra. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You are a perfect\r\nVaishnava, you chant hymns to Buddha. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But<i> </i>Vishnu and Rudra\r\nare one body, they are only different<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> limbs â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 30.7pt left 76.05pt right 84.2pt 278.15pt 282.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Have you forgotten it?\r\nHave you forgotten that the very<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>\r\n</span>fount of kindness<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Page-188</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the cruel slayer\r\nKalki are one and the same Incarna&shy;tion?<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kanu withdraws the violent Kalki-mood within his bosom<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And kneels down at the feet of Radha.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The plenitude of kindness is kept imprisoned within\r\nthe <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> <o:p></o:p></span>Mother\'s heart,â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Demoness, Titaness, Ogress - all their brood run riot in<span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> wild strife.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This Buddhist cult was created in illusion and delusion<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&shy;Forbearance has made the spirit sluggish, compassion<span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> filled it with affliction â€”<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&shy;It has no ardent yearning for the good of the world,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It wields no sword of knowledge to cut down ignorance, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its humbleness makes it void of energy and its laziness<span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> empty of substance,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Proud of its shaven pate and an inflated belly&shy;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is not Buddha\'s spirit. He is free from illusion,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is calm and tranquil, he is a supreme ascetic of\r\niron will,<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> he is a mighty hero; <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Trampling friendship and riches on his path, he is\r\nwholly<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>given to his mission, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He never turns aside,-he goes on, his eyes fixed on\r\nhis journey. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">This Vaishnava path, its heart melting in pity,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Full of slothful compassion, feeble and withdrawn from life, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The body always lolling lazily, the mind stricken with<span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> kindness, â€” <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%;tab-stops:189.8pt right 282.45pt; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Drunk\r\nwith the wine of spiritual lust, this unheroic Dharma</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%;tab-stops:189.8pt right 282.45pt; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Declares\r\nthat it worships the world-hero <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And in act and word tramples upon his Word<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>and his Dharma,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n189.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Speaks always of kindness and love,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Has emptied real Kindness and Love of its burning truth&shy;â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nor is it Chaitanya\'s path. He is mighty and steadfast: <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Intense love, intense forbearance, free from <i>tamas, </i>heroic, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is the Fair-Body (Gauranga), child of the Effulgence <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>(Sachi).<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<font size=\"2\">Page-189</font></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Have you not seen the ocean?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>The Supreme God himself in hiding as though:\r\nlayer<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>after layer a mass <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Immobile, bottomless, still, stretching beyond sight,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The blue immeasurable\r\ndancing upon it.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The ripples laugh and weep, - the huge waves<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fall at the feet of\r\nthe Earth and kiss in playful moods.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But that delightful\r\nplay of the ocean<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Could never be if a\r\ndeep foundation<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Unmoved, unplumbed,\r\nsecreted, is not held firm<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By the great Ocean,\r\nconscious within, the expanse<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>\r\n</span>incommensurable,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%;tab-stops:.5in 76.05pt right 282.45pt; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nits self-luminous darkness, silent and alone.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this mighty\r\nstillness the dance-drama goes on.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And again, hast thou\r\nnot seen when lashed by the gale<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fierce unbridled it\r\nsprings up miles after miles? <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Roars the wild ocean,\r\nrelentless, bourneless.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Endless cruelty\r\nembodied, expanse of wrath<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Laughs covering the sky.\r\nDeafened with roars, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Scattering raucous cry\r\nand lion-growls lie the heartless<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> Ocean â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&shy;Boats sink, men sink.\r\nDoes it hear the weepings, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Maddened with the\r\nrelentless play in the embrace of the<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p></o:p></span> wind?\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is another game,\r\nanother dance, another note, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This kiss is other - still is the same ocean.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WouId you say then,\r\nsome demon<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Laughs this terrible\r\nlaughter, hurls this cry and call? <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who is this titan? Whose\r\nthis imperious tyranny<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the guise of a\r\nplay? Whose this ruthless embrace? <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You know well this\r\nRakshasa. Look well again,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The maids of Vraja\r\nrecognise in Vraja His flute.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In vain you say the\r\nevil is man\'s creation;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In vain you say\r\ncruelty is titan\'s fancy.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This violent cruel\r\nplay is His<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whom you call the God\r\nof Kindness, the God of Love.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Page-190</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;Why does he do so, why\r\ndoes he revel in this violent battle, â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Freedom from maya is\r\nthe price you have to pay to know <span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> <o:p></o:p></span>Keshava.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When we see good in\r\nevil in the creation,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In cruelty kindness,\r\nthen there is liberation.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All feelings break\r\ndown, all sins die,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Free dweller in\r\ninfinity moves the soul.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>None belongs to none, everyone\r\nis His,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the flow of life\r\nand death the world play moves on ceaseless.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The master of the\r\nplay, the master of Energy,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 278.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the\r\nSupreme God in the Universe<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 278.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is one with the infinite Consciousness,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 131.5pt 278.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>vibrating\r\nwith Delight.</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 131.5pt 278.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">&nbsp;Page-191</font></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; 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\">\r\n<title>A Commentary on the First Six Suktas</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">A Commentary on the First\r\nSix </font> <span class=SpellE><font size=\"4\">Suktas</font></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:171.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></span><font size=\"4\"><span class=GramE>of</span> Rigveda</font></b><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n<i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-weight:700\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-weight:700\'><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">THE FIRST SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nCOSMIC creation is a great\r\nand sublime sacrifice. <span class=SpellE>Sarvagatam</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Bramha</span>...¹ (The all-pervading Brahman is established in\r\nthe sacrifice), says the Gita. Each and every object offers itself into this\r\nsacrificial fire. Why? Sacrifice indicates movement, that is to say, an\r\never-proceeding course towards the greater and still greater fulfilment of\r\nevolution. Sacrifice is being per­formed; creation has become dynamic and\r\npresses forward with the self-sacrifice of the objects inherent in it. By self ­sacrifice\r\none creates another form and gets in it one\'s larger self. The plant has\r\nevolved from Matter; the animal after the plant; man from the animal, and God\r\nwants now to manifest Himself through man by virtue of this process of\r\nself-sacrifice. Sacrificing itself, the cloud comes down as rain. Parents\r\nsacrifice flesh and blood to give birth to their offspring. All these are but\r\ndifferent forms of this sublime sacrifice. We may quote the Gita again: <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sahayajnah</span> <span class=GramE>prajah;..</span>²\r\n(With sacrifice the Lord of creatures of old created creatures and said: By\r\nthis shall you bring forth (fruits or offspring), let this be your <span\r\nclass=SpellE>milker</span> of desires.)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nIt\r\nis the gods who are the primal powers holding and con­trolling this sacrifice\r\nand the cosmic creation. By his self offering man fulfils the nature of the\r\ngods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\nWhat is externally the\r\nsacrifice of physical <span class=GramE>elements</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt; \'>¹ Gita, III.15<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>²Gita, II.10<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-95<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>represents</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>aYoga</span> of union in the inner-consciousness. The\r\ndiscipline of human life is also a sacrifice. What is the aim of such a\r\nsacrifice? <span class=GramE>Evolution, ascension, from the little to the vast,\r\nfrom suffering, weakness and ignorance to delight, strength and knowledge.</span>\r\nHow is it possible? <span class=GramE>By the same self-sacrifice,\r\nself-offering, dedication and prostra­tion.</span> The lower levels and the\r\nlower <span class=SpellE>dharmas</span> in us have to be <span class=SpellE>quietened</span>\r\nand surrendered to the higher and higher levels and <span class=SpellE>dharmas</span>.\r\nThe Katha Upanishad declares:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=SpellE>Yacchedvammanasi</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>prajñastadyacchejjñana</span> <span class=SpellE>atmani</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nclass=SpellE>Jñamatmani</span> <span class=SpellE>mahati</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>niyacchettadyacchecchanta</span> atmani.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&quot;Let the wise man restrain speech in his mind and\r\nmind in <span class=GramE>Self</span>, and knowledge in the Great-Self, and\r\nthat again let him restrain in the Self that is at peace.&quot; (Translated\r\nby Sri Aurobindo)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The\r\nGita too says:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=SpellE>Sarvanindriyakarmani</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>pranakarmani</span> <span class=SpellE>capare</span>\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Atmasamyamayogagnau juhvati jnanadipite.\r\n²</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'font-size:8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&quot;And others offer all the actions of the sense\r\nand all the actions of the vital force into the fire of Yoga of self-control\r\nkindled by knowledge.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The\r\ninnermost and the uppermost &quot;commune&quot; of the divine energies <span\r\nclass=GramE>is</span> known as the gods. The aspirant will offer heart and soul\r\nand carry their prostration to the &quot;com­mune&quot; of the gods. Then alone\r\nwill the gods descend in him with all their divine plenitude. The truth-seeker\r\ngives birth to the gods in his being. Likewise the gods draw him towards them.\r\nWith regard to the mystery of this sacrifice Lord Sri Krishna proclaims:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:6.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>¹ Katha, I.3.13.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:6.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>² Gita, IV.27.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n6.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-96<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:6.7pt;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:13.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=SpellE>Devan</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>bhavayatanena</span> <span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE>te</span> deva bhavayantu vah<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=SpellE>Paraspararm</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>bhavayantah</span> <span class=SpellE>sreyah</span>\r\nparamavapsyatha.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:8.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&quot;Foster\r\nby this the gods and let the gods foster you; foster­ing each other, you shall\r\nattain to the supreme good.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">This\r\nmutual exchange of sacrifice between man and the divine forces leading to\r\nprogression, to evolution of life, is guarded by Fire, the light and\r\nheat that signify the power born of spiritual discipline. It is this\r\nenergy that enables the <span class=SpellE>practicant</span> to go forward on\r\nhis way of sacrifice. The aspi­rant offers as an oblation every limb of his\r\nbeing into this energy of spiritual practice which in its turn carries the self\r\noffering of the aspirant to his divinity, and continues to work for its\r\nestablishment; that is why Fire is the <span class=SpellE>offerer</span>. Fire\r\nis also called the carrier, for he brings down the divine powers into the\r\naspirant and carries him up into their region. This work Fire has undertaken to\r\nperform without the least violation of the rhythm of Truth day after day\r\nthrough the evolutionary process. Hence he is called the priest. The priest is\r\nhe who knows the proper time for the performance of the seasonal sacrifices.\r\nThe energy born of spiritual practice too has the spontaneous tendency\r\nto determine the spiritual course of the <span class=SpellE>practicant</span>.\r\nThe Fire of spiritual disci­pline burns up all the dross contained in the\r\nreceptacle of the aspirant making him more capable and bringing down into him\r\nthe divine power, knowledge and bliss - complete success. The power of Fire\r\nis no other than the dynamis of the Divine vision, the activity born of direct\r\nrealisation (kavi­kratu); therefore Fire<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'> </span>is\r\ncalled the protecting power of Truth (<span class=SpellE>gopam</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE>rtasya</span>). <span class=GramE>That which is the foundation\r\nof Truth, the Right, the Vast, the fourth world, is indeed <span\r\nclass=SpellE>svarloka</span>, the own home (<span\r\nclass=SpellE>sva</span> <span class=SpellE>dama</span>) of Agni and\r\nall the other gods. It is here that the gods reign supreme in their own\r\nreal form, in their true nature. But, then, every god has his assigned field of\r\nactivity here on earth through some suitable subtle </span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">¹ <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:9.0pt\'>Gita, III.11.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-97<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>embodiment</span>.\r\nThe seat of Fire, his field of action, is the earth, the gross sheath. The\r\nEnergy of spiritual discipline first possesses the <span class=SpellE>practicant</span>\r\nin his body, the body-con- <span class=SpellE>sciousness</span>; and gradually\r\nwith the help of the other gods this Fire-god leads him to the vital region and\r\nthen to the sphere of the mind, thence to the Supermind, the fourth heaven.\r\nEach god represents the divine embodiment of the special virtue of a particular\r\nregion or level. But Fire is the foremost God, and the aspirant who wants to\r\nhave an access to the secrets of spiritual practice and is eager to progress\r\nmust become a worshipper of Fire (<span class=SpellE>angiras</span>).<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">This <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> (the word\r\nliterally means &quot;well spoken&quot;, the faultless speech, the infallible\r\nwords of the seasoned seer of Truth) can be divided into three parts each\r\ncontaining three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> in accordance with the special\r\ndifferences in the current of thoughts. The first three <span class=SpellE>riks</span>\r\ndeal with the theme: Who is Fire, what are his particulars, name and form? The\r\nsecond three deal with the subject: What is Fire, what his virtues, nature and\r\ninnate tendencies? The third group describes the relationship between Fire and\r\nthe aspi­rant in the matter of spiritual practice, the holy sacrifice. The\r\nmantras are composed in the <span class=SpellE>metre</span> called Gayatri,\r\nwhich too has three feet. Thus every <span class=SpellE>rik</span> too has\r\nthree metrical divisions.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-98<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n  </div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-19_A Commentary on the First Six Suktas of Rigveda','','publish','closed','open','','19_a-commentary-on-the-first-six-suktas-of-rigveda','','','2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/19_a-commentary-on-the-first-six-suktas-of-rigveda/',0,'post','',0),(1727,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Ushasti Chakrayana </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Ushasti\r\nChakrayana </font> <span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; \r\n</font> </span></span></p>\r\n		<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p><i>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:33.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Chhandogya Upanishad)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:15.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:14.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>T<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>HIS</span> is the story of Ushasti Chakrayana, Ushasti the son of\r\nChakra. But could it be that the name means one who drives a wheel, like\r\nShakatayana<span class=GramE>,the</span> driver of sakata, the\r\nbullock­cart? Or is it something similar to Kamalayana, one who tends or enjoys\r\na kamala, the lotus, <span class=GramE>lotus</span>-eater? The\r\nChakra or wheel here might be the potter\'s wheel, or it might as well be the\r\nspinner\'s wheel or Charkha. Does the name then mean something like one who owns\r\nor plies a Charkha, just as we term Kamliwalla an ascetic with a Kambal or\r\nblanket? However that may be, here is the story.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nKuru country where Ushasti had his abode was hit by a natural calamity.\r\nHomeless, he wandered about with his young wife in search of food. On reaching\r\nthe <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>village</st1:PlaceType> of <st1:PlaceName>Ibhya</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>,\r\nhe found someone belonging to the village busy eating mouthfuls of beans.\r\nGoaded by acute hunger he begged a few grains of this man. The man said,\r\n&quot;Some leavings still sticking to my pot are all that I have.&quot; Ushasti\r\nsaid in reply, &quot;I will be happy to have even that little&quot;, and he\r\ntook what the villager offered him. After he had finished eating, Ushasti was\r\nasked, &quot;Would you have some water?&quot; To this he replied, &quot;But that\r\nwould mean drinking your leavings.&quot; The villager said, &quot;But you have\r\nalready eaten the beans, they too were my leavings.&quot; Ushasti an­swered,\r\n&quot;Those I took for the sake, of my life, or else I would have starved to\r\ndeath. The water is another <span class=GramE>matter,</span> one can do without\r\nit yet<span style=\'font-family:Arial\'>.&quot;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-157<o:p></o:p></span>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ushasti\r\nhad not eaten up all the beans. He had kept some and with these he returned to\r\nhis wife and handed them to her. The wife was more clever or perhaps more\r\nlucky. She too had in the meantime been out begging and obtained a few things.\r\nTo these she added what the husband gave and kept them all away.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Next\r\nmorning, on getting up from bed, Ushasti said to his wife, &quot;I am feeling\r\nawfully hungry. If there was some­thing to eat, I would get some strength, and\r\nthen I could present myself before the king. He is celebrating a sacrifice and\r\nmight perhaps get me a place among the chanters of the hymns.&quot; The wife\r\nwas not a person to be confounded, she said with a smile, &quot;Well, here is\r\nsome food for you, eat it up.&quot; Thanks to his wife, Ushasti had a good bite\r\nand, feel­ing hale and hearty, set off for the place of sacrifice. There he sat\r\namong the chanting priests, listened to them for a little while in silence,\r\nthen he called the Prastota, the priest who chanted the introductory hymns, and\r\nsaid, &quot;O Prastota, if one chants these introductory hymns without know­ing\r\nthe divinity that presides over the hymns, the head falls off.&quot; The same\r\nwords he repeated to the Udgata, who re­cited the udgitha or hymns\r\nof the middle: &quot;O Udgata, if one recites the udgitha hymns\r\nwithout knowing the divinity who presides over those hymns, he too loses his\r\nhead.&quot; Finally, he called the Pratiharta as well, the one who uttered the pratihara\r\nor conluding hymns, and said, &quot;O Pratiharta, one who utters the pratihara\r\nhymns without knowing their presiding divinity loses his head in like\r\nmanner.&quot; All the priests accepted with bowed heads in due reverence these\r\nwords of Ushasti.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nperformer of the sacrifice, on whose behalf the sacrifice had been arranged,\r\nwas struck by the wisdom of Ushasti, and he said, &quot;Lord, who are you? I\r\nwant to know about you.&quot; Ushasti replied, &quot;I am Ushasti\r\nChakrayana.&quot; The sacrificer now exclaimed, &quot;Then it is you I have\r\nbeen looking for! These men had to be engaged because I could not find<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-158<o:p></o:p></span>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'tab-stops:258.95pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span class=GramE>your</span>\r\nwhereabouts. Now be pleased to take charge of the chanting.&quot; Ushasti said,\r\n&quot;Very well, it will be as you say. Let them now chant the hymns according\r\nto my directions.&quot; In this way, Ushasti agreed to take charge of the\r\nchanting, but he added this proviso, &quot;Now that I have taken charge of your\r\nwork, you would not forget about my fees I hope. You may give me whatever\r\namount you would have given to these priests, I do not want more.&quot; The\r\nsacrificer&nbsp; gladly accepted this proposition. &nbsp;<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"left\" class=\"MsoBodyText\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Then the first of the chanting priests, the Prastota,\r\ncame up to Dshasti and asked him, &quot;Lord, you said that one who recited the\r\nintroductory hymns without knowing their deity would lose his head. What then\r\nis that deity?&quot; Ushasti replied, &quot;That deity is Prana – the\r\nLife-force. Life is the origin of all, in it they all dissolve. Life is the\r\ngodhead of the introductory hymns; if one does not know what Life is, and\r\nutters these <span class=GramE>hymns,</span> his head is bound to fall\r\noff.&quot; Next the Udgata came to him and put him his question: &quot;Lord,\r\nyou said that one who recites the udgitha hymns without knowing\r\ntheir presiding deity loses his head. Tell me, O Lord, who is that\r\ndivinity?&quot; &quot;Aditya, the Sun is that deity. The whole creation raises\r\na paean to Him as he ascends the skies. This Aditya is the godhead of the udgitha.\r\nIf you sing the udgitha without knowing Aditya, then, as\r\nI have warned you, your head will surely fall off.&quot; Finally, the\r\nPratiharta priest came to him and said, &quot;Lord, you said that if I\r\nperformed the concluding rites without knowing the divinity who presides over\r\nthem, <span class=GramE>then</span> my head was certain to fall off. Lord, I\r\nwant to know who <span class=GramE>is that deity</span>?&quot; Ushasti replied,\r\n&quot;Anna – Matter – Food is that deity. All these creatures find their\r\nsustenance by gathering food. Hence Food is the presiding deity of the\r\nconcluding rites. If you recite the concluding hymns without knowing what Food\r\nis, your head will certainly fall off.&quot;<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:7.9pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:205.65pt 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this manner Ushasti gave the teaching about the\r\nTriple Principle, the Trinity represented by Life, Mind and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-159<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Body; Bhuh,\r\nBhuvah, Svar, that is, Earth, Sky and Heaven. He gave an indication of\r\nthese three levels of manifested being, the triple world of this universe, <span\r\nclass=GramE>spoke</span> of the divinity that presides over this Triplicity.\r\nFirst of all <span class=GramE>comes</span> the God of Life. This is the deity\r\nthat is invoked at the outset, has to be so invoked in every act, in all\r\nceremonial function, even in the effort at an inner perfection. He is the <span\r\nclass=GramE>Creator,</span> all that is manifested has Him for its driving\r\npower, sarvam ejati nihsrtam. Creation begins with a vibration of this\r\nLife - Force. The first thing necessary is to infuse Life into things. When we\r\nworship a divine image, we begin the rites with an invocation to this\r\nLife-force to enter the image; what was just an idol is awakened to life by the\r\ninfusion of this Force. Life and Life-Force, this comes first. Next comes\r\nconsciousness, knowledge, light, that is, the Sun-God, Aditya, and ordinarily,\r\nmind is His field. But by itself force is not enough, knowledge is not enough;\r\nthis force and this light have to be embodied and given a form, they have to\r\ntake physical shape with matter as the basis; they have to become an integral\r\npart of this earth of matter. Force and Light and Being are the three cosmic\r\nPrinciples, and. they have three Deities presiding over them. In establishing\r\nthem in their unity in his awakened being man finds his entire and all round\r\nfulfilment.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nmay notice here one thing. Many of these Rishis in the Upanishads are found\r\nsometimes using a threat that if anything or anyone deviated from the truth or\r\nthe accepted norm, &quot;the head would fall off&quot;. It seems to mean this.\r\nIf one commits an error or there is a fault in the course of one\'s spiritual\r\neffort and if one continues on the wrong path without acknowledging the error or\r\nshortcoming, then it implies a movement, a gesture against the Truth and the\r\nRight, and this default carries in itself the possibility of a derange­ment of\r\nthe head. The actual physical calamity befell an ancient seeker, Shakalya; we\r\nalready know that story. In this age we do not perhaps come across an actual\r\nphysical<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-160<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>instance</span>\r\nof such a mishap; but we are certainly familiar with something analogous, a\r\nderangement of the brain instead of the physical falling off of the head. As\r\nthe Mother has said, the spiritual force is a kind of fire, to play with this\r\nfire without an inner devotion and sincerity invites dangers of this sort.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let\r\nme here draw your attention to another <b>–</b> a rather interesting <b>–</b> aspect\r\nof this story; it is both amusing and instructive. Ushasti is the example of a\r\nman who, though a Rishi with a true knowledge of the Reality and a powerful <span\r\nclass=GramE>realisation,</span> is in other respects, in normal life, a\r\nperfectly incapable and helpless man; his capacity for an inner life seems to\r\nbe matched by his incapacity in the outer. He had to bring himself down to the\r\nlevel of an abject beggar in his ordinary life; at every step he had to depend\r\non his wife\'s assistance, without her co-operation he found it an unmana­geable\r\naffair to procure even a grain of rice for the mainte­nance of life. It would\r\nnot of course be logical or proper to conclude from this that the Rishis had\r\nneed of their wives for this as the sole or primary purpose: the word\r\n&quot;life ­partner&quot; used for the spouse does imply a help-mate or means\r\nfor the sustenance of life, but it carries no derogatory sense.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthose days there was in many cases an indifference towards the things of\r\nworldly life. This led to a certain weakness and poverty in this respect.\r\nPerhaps it was due to the necessity of an exclusive preoccupation with and con­centration\r\non the inner life. Only one or two Rishis like Yajnavalkya for instance had\r\ndemanded an equal fullness and power. <span class=GramE>in</span> the outer as\r\nin the inner life. Yajnavalkya\'s great dictum that he had need for both, ubhayam\r\neva, was indeed uttered in no uncertain terms and without hesita­tion in\r\nthe presence of all. The first and foremost aim of the Rishis was to acquire an\r\ninner mastery, what they called the realisation of self-rule, svaraya-siddhi.\r\nBut a certain fullness of the outer life as well was not entirely beyond\r\ntheir ken;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Pafe-161<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>this</span> they called the\r\nrealisation of outer empire, samrajya­ siddhi. These two, the\r\nrule over self and the domination of the outer life, svarajya and\r\nsamrajya, would constitute the integral realisation of the\r\nintegral man.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-162<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; padding:0in; border-style:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a></span></p>\r\n\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-31_Ushasti Chakrayana','','publish','closed','open','','31_ushasti-chakrayana','','','2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/31_ushasti-chakrayana/',0,'post','',0),(1728,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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\">\r\n<title>Hymn to the Pillar </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">Hymn to the Pillar </font> <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:75.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>(Skambha)<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:75.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-family:\"Courier New\"\'>A</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Courier New\"\'>THARVAVEDA</span><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Courier New\"\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kanda X: Sukta 7</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[The\r\nritualistic or the naturalistic symbolism. of the Veda is at its minimum in\r\nthis hymn of the Atharvaveda, trans­lated almost literally. The Pillar, it is\r\nexplicitly said, is the Brahman, the Supreme Reality. It is <i>sarvadhara, </i>the\r\ncontain­er of all, the total or integral existence. It upholds the crea­tion,\r\nit has entered into the creation and it has become the creation. It is the\r\ntree, the Aswattha tree as the Upanishad also describes, with its branches\r\nspreading out, <i>i.e. </i>all the multiple aspects of the creation. Even the\r\ngods, all of them, find shelter here in one form or other. All gods it is: Agni\r\nthe Divine Force, Indra the Divine Mind, Soma the Divine Delight. It is Tapas,\r\nthe upward urge in the Universe, it is Satyam the Truth and Ritam the\r\nTruth-action, Vak the Truth-word.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Day\r\nand Night also are its dual aspects, Light and Dark­ness - evolution and\r\ninvolution, expression and withdrawal, Being and Non-Being, Knowledge and\r\nIgnorance. The image of twin sisters (rivers) refers also to this double move­ment\r\nof consciousness, everywhere in Nature: ascent and descent, inward and outward,\r\nthe two wings of the Cosmic Bird flying through eternity and infinity. To mark\r\nthe pro­gress of Time or in Time, cycles of duration (months, half months,\r\nseasons etc.) are also noted here as limbs of this Supreme total Reality. To\r\nthis double movement there is to be added a third movement: if the double\r\nmovement means</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-28</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>thesis and antithesis,\r\nthere is a movement of synthesis also. To the movement sideways there is to be\r\na movement beyond. We know of this threefold movement in the mystery of the\r\nKundalini Force: the two currents <i>ida </i>and <i>pingala </i>on either side\r\nof the spinal cord and in between the mounts the <i>susumna </i>heading towards\r\nthe beyond, to the Crown of the head. The Beyond is of course the Transcendent,\r\nthe supreme status of Brahman, the All Container.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nconclusion of this Hymn gives succinctly another image of this triplicity of\r\nEnergy at work in the universal loom of Nature – the warp, the woof and the\r\nresultant weft stretching endlessly – to the Beyond.]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>N</span> which limb of That does <i>Tapas</i>¹<i> </i>lie? In which\r\nlimb is <i>Ritam² </i>deposited? Wherein lies the Work? Wherein the Faith? In\r\nwhich limb is the Truth established?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From which limb does <i>Agni</i>³<i>\r\n</i>blaze forth? And from which limb does <i>Matarisvan<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt\'>4</span> </i>blow? On which limb does the Moon repose\r\nas it moves out measuring the limb of the mighty Pillar? </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On which limb of That does\r\nthe Earth dwell and on which limb does the Mid-sphere dwell and in which limb\r\nis the heaven placed and has its dwelling and in which limb reposes the higher\r\nheaven?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:10.3pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>1 Energy, Energisation, Will, Divine Energy-will often identified with\r\nAgni.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>2 Truth in action.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>3 Divine Force or Will.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>4 Life-force, \'Mother Breath\'.</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-29<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whither does Agni yearn to\r\nreach and blaze up and whither does the Mother-Breath yearn to reach and blow\r\nforward? There where they yearn to reach and round which they circuit, speak of\r\nthat Pillar – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whither do the half-months\r\ngo? And whither the months in consonance with the whole year? Where the seasons\r\ngo and the seasonals, speak of that Pillar – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whither impelled are they,\r\nthe twin damsels of different hue, Day and Night, there they rush moving in\r\nconsonance with each other. There they go impelled, the waters; speak of that\r\nPillar – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wherein the Lord of\r\ncreatures upholds all these worlds firmly lodged, of that Pillar speak – which\r\none indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(8)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is the highest, that\r\nis the lowest, that is the midmost, that is the world-figure the Lord of\r\ncreatures has created. How much the Pillar has entered therein? How much it did\r\nnot enter – and how much it has become that?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>How much did the Pillar\r\nenter into the past? How much into the future? How much of the future stretched\r\ninto that?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-30<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its single limb it has\r\nmade thousandfold, therein how much did the Pillar enter?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(10)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There the worlds are and\r\nthere cells and the waters and Brahman, so the people have known: Where there\r\nis the Non-Being and also the Being, of that Pillar speak - which one indeed is\r\nThat?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(11)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Tapas is there in its\r\noverwhelming force upholding the Higher Law, Truth-in-action is there and Faith\r\nand the Waters and the Brahman firmly established. Of that Pillar speak – which\r\none indeed is That?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(12)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Therein the Earth, the\r\nHeaven and the Mid-sphere are settled, there the fire, the moon, the sun and\r\nthe winds dwell as offerings. Of that Pillar speak - which one in­deed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(13)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In whose lap the three and\r\nthirty-three Gods, all of them, are established - of that Pillar speak – which\r\none indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(14)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wherein there are the first\r\nborn Seers and the Riks and the Samas and the Great Goddess. In<b> </b>that is\r\nreposed the Sun, sole Seer. Of that Pillar speak – which one indeed is it?<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-31<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thereupon the Person is\r\nlaid, Immortality and Death also; upon the Person the sea also is placed as\r\nnerves and sinews of the Pillar; of That speak – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(16)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There lay the four Quarters and the prime nerves and\r\nsinews, therein the sacrifice moves inviolate; of that Pillar ­speak – which\r\none indeed is it?<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>(17)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>The Man who\r\nknows Brahman knows also the very Supreme and he who knows the Supreme knows\r\nalso the Waters and the peoples. They who know Brahman, the most ancient One,\r\nhave always been knowing the Pillar.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(18)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Universal fire is its\r\nhead, the flames of the fire are its eyes, the sorcerer spirits are its limbs;\r\nof that Pillar speak – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(19)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brahman is its mouth, they\r\nsay, a very scourge of sweetness is its tongue and they say, the Vast¹ is its\r\nbreast; of that Pillar speak – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(20)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out of that they carved\r\nout the Riks, out of that they fa­shioned the Yajur: the Samas are its hair.\r\nThe line of the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹\r\nStainless.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-32<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Atharvas and the line of the\r\nAngirasa are its mouth. Of that Pillar speak – which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(21)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Men established the line\r\nof Non-Being and knew it the Sup­reme. Others, on the contrary, recognise the\r\nBeing and follow that line of theirs.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(22)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There all the <i>Adityas</i>¹<i>,\r\n</i>all the <i>Rudras</i>² and all those born of <i>Indra</i>³ are lodged.\r\nThere what was, what will be and all the worlds are established. Of the Great\r\nPillar speak ­which one indeed is it?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(23)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is one whose wealth is\r\nalways guarded by the three and thirty Gods – who knows today of this wealth\r\nprotected all around by the Gods?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(24)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There where the Gods who\r\nknow of the Brahman; worship the Brahman the most Ancient. He who knows them\r\nthrough direct sight\' becomes indeed the Knower, Brahman itself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(25)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Great is the Name of the\r\nGods5 who are born upon the Non­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>1 Children of the sun.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>2 Children of the Violent One, the Lord of Might.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>3 The Lord of Mind or the Divine Mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>4 Who has thus the immediate vision of all these gods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>5 Great indeed are the Gods.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-33<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Being;\r\nthat become one limb of the Pillar, thus said the the ancient peoples.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(26)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There the Pillar gave\r\nbirth to the ancient One and turned it round1; that is one ancient limb of the\r\nPillar. This they have been knowing always,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(27)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From the body of That the\r\nthirty-three gods cut out each his respective limb – a few only who know of the\r\nBrahman know of the thirty-three gods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(28)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>People knew of <i>Hiranyagarbha</i>²<i>\r\n</i>as the Supreme, the Insuper­able³ but the Pillar was there existent before and\r\nsprayed the gold into the bosom of the creation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(29)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the Pillar lie the worlds, in the Pillar lies\r\nTapas, in the Pillar lies Ritam firmly held; the Pillar thou knowest directly.\r\nIn Indra all is firmly established.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(30)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In Indra lie the worlds, in\r\nIndra the Divine Energy, in Indra lies the Truth-in-action firmly held. Indra\r\nthou know­est by direct sight; in the Pillar all is firmly established.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>1 Rolled it out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>2 The Golden Womb. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>3 Unsurpassable</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-34<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(31)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He calls the Name by the Name\r\nin front of the Sun, in front of the Dawn when the Unborn first came into\r\nbeing; in­deed he moved into self-empire than1 which no other sup­reme exists,\r\nnone existent.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(32)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Vast Earth measures\r\nout That, the mid realm is its great belly, the heaven it created as its head.\r\nWe bow to the most Ancient, the Brahman.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(33)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Sun and the\r\never-renewing Moon are the eyes of That. Agni is its mouth. We bow to this most\r\nAncient, the Brah­man.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(34)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Winds are its higher\r\nand lower breath, the <i>Angiras</i>²<i> </i>became its eyes, That created the\r\ndirections as openings to knowledge. To That the most Ancient, the Brahman we\r\nbow down.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(35)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Pillar upholds here\r\nboth Earth and Heaven. The Pillar upholds the vast Mid-Sphere, the Pillar\r\nupholds the six quarters; thus the Pillar has entered this wide creation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(36)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is born from Labour,\r\nThat is born from the Supreme Energy. All the worlds it has encompassed. It\r\ncreated</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>1 Beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>2 Fire-adept Rishis</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-35<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Soma,</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>¹</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>the\r\nsole reality.. To That the most Ancient, Brahman I bow. ­<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(37)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>How is it that the wind does not move? How is it that the mind does not\r\ntake delight? How is it that the waters impelled towards the Truth move no\r\nmore?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(38)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>A mighty Spirit within the creation, upon the waters is engaged in\r\ntapas – in That the gods, one and all, take re­fuge as the branches assemble\r\naround the trunk of the tree.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(39)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>To That through the hands and feet, through speech and hearing and\r\nsight, all the gods make their offering, to That, the Measureless in the\r\nmeasured. Of this Pillar speak ­which one indeed is it?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(40)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>The darkness\r\nslipped from him, He turns round from Evil, all Lights are in Him; threefold³\r\nare they in the Lord of Creation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(41)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>He knows the golden reed lying in the waters. He is the secret Lord of\r\nCreation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(42)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Two young maids, of different hue, weave assiduously a<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>1 Divine Delight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>2 Has lost taste.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.0pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>3 Sat-Chit-Ananda, body-life-mind.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 0in 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 0in 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-36<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>six-pronged web: One draws out the thread, the other holds it. They do\r\nnot stop nor do they go to the end.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(43)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>They are dancing about me, as it were, and I do not know which one\r\nbelongs to the beyond.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(44)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>A human it is who weaves, and also one who receives, a human it is who\r\ncarries towards the other world. These radiances held firm the Heaven, created\r\nthe Sarna Songs for realising their extensions.</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-37<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</i></div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-09_Hymn to the Pillar','','publish','closed','open','','09_hymn-to-the-pillar','','','2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/09_hymn-to-the-pillar/',0,'post','',0),(1730,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymns and Prayers</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=\"right\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymns and Prayers</font><o:p></o:p></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE seeker, the seeking\r\nand the sought are the three limbs that go to the making of the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Quarternary</span> – the Four Norms or Objects of life – the Right\r\nLaw, Interest, Desire and Liberation (Dharma, <span class=SpellE>Artha</span>, <st1:place><span\r\n class=SpellE>Kama</span></st1:place>, <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Moksha</span>).\r\nSeekers have different natures; therefore different ways of seeking have been\r\nprescribed, and the goal sought is also different for each. But even if the\r\nouter view sees many goals, the inner vision understands that the goal sought\r\nis one and the same for all seekers: it is self-fulfilment. In the Upanishad\r\nYajnavalkya explains to his wife that all is for the self. The wife is for the\r\nself, wealth is for the self, love is for the self, happiness is for the self,\r\nsuffering is for the self, life is for the self, and death too is for the self.\r\nTherefore the importance and necessity of this question as to, what the self\r\nis.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Many\r\nwise and learned people ask <span class=GramE>what is the use of worry­ing over\r\nthe problem of self-knowledge</span>. To waste one\'s time in such abstruse\r\ndiscussion is madness, better to engage one­self in the more important subjects\r\nof worldly life and try to do <span class=GramE>good</span> to the world. But\r\nthe problem as to what are the things important in worldly life and in what way\r\ngood will come to humanity, needs for its solution <span class=GramE>a\r\nknowledge</span> of the self. As is one\'s knowledge so is one\'s goal. If one\r\nconsiders one\'s body as the self, then one will sacrifice all other <span\r\nclass=SpellE>reasonings</span> and considerations for its sole satisfaction and\r\nthus become a selfish demon in human form. If one considers one\'s wife as the\r\nself, loves her as one\'s self then one becomes a slave to her, ready to die to\r\nplease her, inflict<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-170<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>pain</span>\r\nupon others for the sake of her happiness, do harm to others in order to\r\nsatisfy her desire. And if one considers one\'s country as the self then he may\r\nbecome a mighty patriot, perhaps leave behind- an immortal name and fame in\r\nhistory, but then one may reject all other ideas and ideals, injure and rob and\r\nenslave other countries. Again, if you consider God as your self and love Him\r\nas your self, then too it would be the same thing. For love means supreme\r\nvision: if I am a yogi, full of love for the Divine, if I am a man of action\r\nacting <span class=SpellE>desirelessly</span>, then I shall be able to pos­sess\r\na power, a knowledge or joy beyond the reach of the common man. And finally, if\r\nI consider the indefinable Su­preme Reality (Brahman) as the self then I may\r\nattain the sovereign peace and dissolution. As is one\'s faith, so one becomes —\r\nyo <span class=SpellE>yat</span> <span class=SpellE>sraddha</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>sa</span> eva sah. Mankind has all along been pursuing a development:\r\nit started with a small objec­tive in view, then through comparatively greater\r\nones it realised the highest transcendent reality. Finally it is now entering\r\nits goal, the supreme status of the Divine. There was an age when mankind was\r\nsolely preoccupied with the body; the cultivation of the body was the law of\r\nthe age. That was the way to Good in that age even if it meant depre­ciating\r\nall other laws. Otherwise the body, as it is the means and the foundation for\r\nthe fulfilment of the law of the being (dharma); would not achieve the required\r\ndevelopment. Similarly there was another age in which the family and yet\r\nanother in which the clan became the object of develop­ment as in modern times\r\nit is the nation that is the objec­tive. However, the highest, the transcendent\r\nobjective is the Supreme Lord or the Divine. The Divine is the real, the\r\nsupreme self of all, therefore the real, the supreme objec­tive. So the Gita\r\nsays, &quot;<span class=GramE>abandon</span> all laws, remember me alone.&quot;\r\nAll laws are harmonised in God. If you follow Him, He\r\ntakes charge of you, makes you His instrument and works for the sovereign\r\nwelfare and happiness of your family, your clan, your nation and the whole of\r\nhumanity.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-171<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Even if the objective be the same, different seekers\r\nhaving different natures, the way also differs in each case. One important way\r\nfor <span\r\nstyle=\"font-size:11pt;\">realising the Divine is through prayers and\r\nhymns. But this is not suitable for everybody. One who follows the path of\r\nknowledge takes to meditation and concentration. For the worker, dedication of\r\nworks is the best way. Prayers and hymns form a limb of devotion; even \'then it\r\nis not the highest limb; for unqualified love is the highest perfection of\r\ndevotion. That love can realise God\'s true self through hymns and prayers and\r\nthen, transcending their necessity, merges itself in God\'s self-enjoyment. And\r\nyet there is hardly a man of devotion who can do without hymns and prayers.\r\nWhen there is no need of the process and practice (sadhana) even then the heart\r\nwells out in hymns and prayers. Only one has to remember that the way is not\r\nthe objective and my way may not be another\'s. Many men of devotion have this\r\nnotion that one who does not take to hymns and prayers, who does not take\r\ndelight in them, is not a spiritual man (one following the true law). This is a\r\nsign of error and narrowness. Buddha did not indulge in hymns and prayers but\r\nwho would declare that Buddha is unspiritual? Hymns and prayers have developed\r\nfor the practice of devotion.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Men of devotion are also of many kinds and hymns and\r\nprayers are used in different ways. A man becoming a devotee because of\r\ndistress takes to hymns and prayers in order to cry out to God, to pray for His\r\nhelp in the hope of getting relief. One who is a devotee with a purpose takes\r\nto hymns and prayers in the hope of the fulfilment of his pur­pose, with the\r\nintention of securing wealth, fame, happi­ness, prosperity, victory, welfare,\r\nenjoyment, liberation, etc. Devotees of this category at times even try\r\nto tempt God and<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:12.7pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>propitiate Him;, some failing to achieve their objective get terribly\r\nindignant with God and abuse Him calling Him names such as that He is cruel, He\r\nis a cheat, declaring they would never more worship God, never see His face,\r\nnever<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Page-172<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>accept\r\nHim. Many again in despair turn atheists and arrive at the conclusion that this\r\nworld is a domain of suffering, a kingdom of torture, that there is no God.\r\nThese two cate­gories of devotion are an ignorant devotion; even so it is not\r\nto be despised; for from the lesser one rises to the greater. The discipline of\r\nignorance is the first step to the discipline of knowledge. The child is\r\nignorant; but there is a charm in the ignorance of a child. The child too comes\r\nweeping to its mother, demands redress from suffering, rushes to her for the\r\nsake of some satisfaction and self-interest, laments, </span>pleads and when\r\nrefused gets enraged, creates trouble. Even<span style=\'font-size:6.0pt\'> </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>so, the Mother of the </span><span class=GramE style=\"font-size:11pt;\">worlds<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>\r\nbears with a smiling face all the claims and </span>clamours<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>\r\nof the ignorant devotees.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Now, a devotee in quest of\r\nknowledge does not take <span style=\"font-size:11pt;\">I to hymns and prayers for the\r\nsake of securing a desired object or for pleasing God. For him, hymns and\r\nprayers are only<span style=\'font-size:5.0pt\'> </span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>a way to </span>realising<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> God\'s\r\nself-being and developing his own consciousness. But for the devotee who has\r\nalready the </span>know­ledge, that<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> necessity too disappears;\r\nbecause he has realised his self-being, his consciousness has become firm and\r\nwell established: hymns and prayers are needed only for the outpouring of the\r\nfullness of the heart. The Gita says, these four categories of devotees are all\r\nlarge-hearted, none negligible, all are dear to God, but of them the devotee\r\nwho has the </span>kowledge<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> ranks highest; for one who has\r\nthe knowledge and God are the same in being, For a devotee God is the\r\nobjective, that is to say, He is to be known and realised as the self; the\r\ndevotee who has the knowledge and God are related to each other as the self and\r\nthe Su­preme Self. The self and the Supreme Self are united to­gether through\r\nthis triple bond, knowledge and love and work. Work is there but the work is\r\ngiven by God, there is no necessity of it, no self-interest in it, there is\r\nnothing to desire here. There is love, but that love is free from con­flicts\r\nand quarrels; it is selfless, stainless, </span>pure<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>.\r\nKnowledge is there but that knowledge is not something dry and devoid</span></span></span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-173<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>of</span> feeling, it is full of a deep\r\nand intense joy and love. The objective may be the same, but the way differs\r\naccording to the aspirant. For different aspirants even the same way admits of\r\ndifferent applications.</p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-174<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-33_Hymns and Prayers','','publish','closed','open','','33_hymns-and-prayers','','','2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/33_hymns-and-prayers/',0,'post','',0),(1731,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Indra - Virochana and Prajapati </title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">Indra - Virochana and Prajapati </font> </b><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> </b></span></p>\r\n		<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:33.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Chhandogya Upanishad)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:89.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><b><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>P</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>RAJAPATI,</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'> the Lord and Creator, once declared himself\r\nthus:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>&quot;The Self is the sinless, ageless and\r\ndeathless One; it has no sorrow nor hunger and thirst. The goal of all its\r\ndesire is the Truth, Truth is the one thing worthy of its resolve. It is this\r\nSelf that has to be sought after, it alone one should seek to know. And one who\r\nseeks after the Self and knows it, gains possession of all the worlds, wins all\r\nthat is desir­able.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>The message of the Lord reached both the\r\ngods and the demons. They discussed it among themselves. &quot;If the Self is\r\nsuch a thing as can win all the worlds and every object of desire, then, come,\r\nlet us go and seek it.&quot; The gods sent Indra as their representative, the\r\nAsuras chose Viro­chana. The two of them came to Prajapati separately and\r\nunknown to each other, carrying fuel in their hands in token of their offering.\r\nBoth lived as disciples taking the vow of chastity, for a period of thirty-two\r\nyears. This was their first period of trial.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>At the end of this period, Prajapati said to\r\nthem both, &quot;You have stayed here for thirty-two years, but what has been\r\nyour aim?&quot; Both gave the same reply: &quot;We have heard this message of\r\nthe Lord, that the Self is sinless, age­less, and immortal; it has no sorrow\r\nnor hunger and thirst; its aim is the Truth, Truth is the one thing worthy of\r\nits resolve; that it is this Self that has to be sought after and known, one\r\nwho seeks and knows this Self gains all the worlds, wins everything desirable. </span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11.25pt; padding:0in; border-style:none; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-152<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>To know this Self has been the sole object of our stay\r\nhere.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.3pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Thereupon the Creator made reply,\r\n&quot;Behold, the Self dwells in the eye, one can see it there. That verily is\r\nthe Self that is immortal and fearless, and that is the ultimate Reality.&quot;\r\nBoth of them asked the same question: &quot;Who is that person whom the eye\r\nsees reflected in water, within a mirror?&quot; To this the Creator replied,\r\n&quot;In all this the Self has been manifested.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>The language here used by Prajapati nearly\r\nborders on a riddle; it is the language of symbol or metaphor. What He means to\r\nsay is that the Self (God or Supreme Reality) dwells in the eye because That\r\ncan be seen by the eye, though not by this physical eye but by another kind of\r\nvision. But both Indra and Virochana gathered from this that because the Self\r\ndwells in the eye, in one\'s own eye, and one cannot see one\'s own eye, the\r\nreference here must be to the reflected image. They thought they were being\r\nvery clever and had got the sense of Prajapati\'s words very well. But Prajapati\r\nadded to the riddle and said, &quot;Verily, this Self dwells in all&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>&quot;You look at yourself,&quot; He\r\ncontinued, &quot;in a vessel full of water. Then if there is anything you do\r\nnot understand about the Self, come and ask me.&quot; They saw their own image\r\nin the water and approched Him once again. Prajapati asked, &quot;What is it\r\nyou saw?&quot; Both came out simultaneously with an eager reply, &quot;Lord, we\r\nsaw the whole of the Self, from the top of the hair to the tip of the toes. We\r\nsaw the true form of the Self.&quot; Then Prajapati said, &quot;Very well. Now\r\nyou look into the water again after getting yourselves beautifully adorned and\r\ndressed.&quot; They acted accordingly: they tidied themselves up, adorned their\r\nbodies with fine ornaments and dresses and looked at their forms in the water.\r\nPrajapati asked them, &quot;What did you see now?&quot; Both gave answer in the\r\nsame enthusiastic way, &quot;We saw the Self, but this time we found him\r\nbeautifully adorned and<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-153<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>dressed.&quot; Prajapati seemed satisfied. He said, &quot;Very well, it\r\nis just as you say. You have seen no other than the Self that is Immortality,\r\nFearlessness, the Supreme Reality.&quot;<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:245.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>When the two had\r\ntaken leave and departed, Prajapati said to Himself, &quot;O the unfortunate\r\nones! They left without a knowledge of the Self. If either of them should imagine\r\nthat the body is the supreme reality, that this is the sacred lore, the\r\nknowledge of the Truth, then he is doomed to perdition.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:245.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:264.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Virochana did in\r\nfact return to his people, happy and satisfied. He imparted to the Asuras this\r\nteaching as<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>supreme secret, &quot;This\r\nbody that you see, this alone is the Self. You should glorify this body as the\r\ntrue form of Self, you should serve this body alone. By glorifying the body\r\nwhich is the Self, by serving it well, both the worlds are won, this world and\r\nthe world beyond.&quot;<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:264.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>That is the\r\nreason why those of little faith, who make no gifts, do no sacrifice, are\r\ndescribed as Asuras. This is the Asuras\' gospel, that the body has to be\r\npampered by luxurious living, adorned with fine ornaments and cloth thus can\r\nthe worlds be conquered; this is what the Asuras imagine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.75pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:264.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Indra on the\r\nother ha d as he was going back home beg to ponder. &quot;By making the body\r\nbeautiful, its reflected image too grows beautiful; by adorning it the other\r\nalso gets adorned; by cleaning the one the other too looks clean. But if it\r\nbecomes blind, its reflection too will look blind; this becomes lame, the other\r\nalso will limp; if it loses&quot; limb, that also will lose the same limb.\r\nWhatever happens to the body, the same is reflected in its image. If that be\r\nso, then I do not see where is the gain.&quot;<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>So he came\r\nback again, with fuel in his hands. On seeing it him back, Prajapati inquired,\r\n&quot;You departed along with Virochana, seemingly happy and contented. What no\r\nbrings you back?&quot; Indra replied, &quot;Lord, I have perceived<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.65pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-154<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>indeed that\r\non adorning this body, its image reflects the adornment; on dressing it up, the\r\nother looks dressed..<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Not only that,\r\nbut when the one becomes blind the other too looks blind, when it becomes lame,\r\nthe other also limps, when it loses a limb the same happens to the other. I do\r\nnot see any advantage in all this.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Prajapati said, &quot;It is as you say. But\r\nI shall explain to you more fully again. You live with me for another\r\nthirty-two years.&quot; Indra stayed with Prajapati for the next thirty-two\r\nyears and then approached Him once again. Prajapati gave a fuller explanation\r\nthis time. &quot;I have already told you,&quot; He said, &quot;about the waking\r\nself. But the person that moves about in the dream-state is the one to be\r\nglorified. He is the Self, He is the Immortal, the Fearless, the Supreme\r\nReality.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Indra was satisfied and he started going\r\nback again, his doubts set at rest. But a fresh doubt arose as he was wending\r\nhis way. &quot;Granted,&quot; he thought, &quot;any harm done in the waking\r\nstate to the physical body does no hurt indeed to the dream-self, it does not\r\nreflect any flaws of the other. But one does feel during sleep, in the\r\ndream-state as if some­one is coming to attack, one does feel that one is being\r\npur­sued. If the dream-self too feels sorrow and affliction, then where is the\r\ngain, what makes it worth while?&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Indra went\r\nback to Prajapati, related to Him his expe­rience. And once again Prajapati\r\nsaid, &quot;What you say is right. I shall speak about it in more detail, if\r\nyou can wait for another thirty-two years.&quot; At the end of the thirty-two\r\nyears, Prajapati spoke again about still more fundamental things. Beyond dream\r\nis the state of dreamless sleep, in which the entire consciousness becomes calm\r\nand still, where there is no sense of movement, The Person in this state of\r\ndreamless sleep is the Self, the Immortal, the Fearless, the Supreme Reality.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.3pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Indra now left for home, satisfied as\r\nbefore. But again a doubt arose in his mind. He began to think, &quot;In this\r\nstate of sleep there is no consciousness or thought, there is no sense<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-155<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>of I-ness. Even if the I remains, the world does not exist, nothing\r\nexists, all becomes non-existent. I do not see the utility of this kind of\r\nexperience.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Again he came back to Prajapati, and as on\r\nthe previous occasions, Prajapati said once again, &quot;What you feel is true.\r\nBut if you stay with me for another five years, I shall give you my final\r\ninstructions and you will have the realisation.&quot; Indra spent another five\r\nyears with Prajapati, making in all a stay of thrice thirty-two plus five, that\r\nis a hundred and one years.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:12pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Thereafter, Indra was initiated by Prajapati\r\ninto the last secret, he was told about the All-Conscious Self or Reality that\r\nstands as on a peak above the states of waking, dream or deep sleep. This\r\nfourth or supreme status of the Self is the Reality that abides beyond all\r\nIgnorance, on the other </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>shore</span></st1:PlaceType><span\r\n style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'> of </span><st1:PlaceName><span\r\n  style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Darkness</span></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>; for our waking, dream and deep sleep are\r\nno other than states of Ignorance and Darkness. It is this state of\r\nsuperconscient Being that is the true Immorta­lity and Fearlessness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>The Asura had remained contented\r\nwith the first steps of the true Knowledge. Their strength is the strength of\r\nthe body, to them the strength of arms is the one source of strength. Quick is\r\ntheir gain and early their victory. The effort of the gods is long. Their\r\ndesire is for the true Truth, the integral Truth, not any half-truths or\r\nanything that mas­querades as the Truth. Their victory is in the end, they have\r\nto wait for it long. What they have to acquire is not the mere strength of\r\nbody, but the power of the Self in its integrity. And why this insistence on a\r\nhundred and one years? A hundred denotes perfection; one added to it makes the\r\nperfection perfect. The mystery of the other figures remains still a mystery.</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; padding:0in; border-style:none; text-indent:.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-156<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n        <p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\">\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">A Prayer</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:left;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n16.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">IF thou must give something<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">Give me the undying lamp,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span\r\nclass=GramE>the lamp of thy Love:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">And silently <span class=SpellE>shalll</span> bow down<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span\r\nclass=GramE>and quietly depart.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">Give to my beggar heart the touch of thy Light,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">May it bloom like a morning flower on my bosom!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">O Mother, thy seat bounded by the moon and the stars<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>is</span> spread in the vast stilled\r\nspaces!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">And yet afar from there, oh, touch the earth\'s heart<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>and</span> pour down thy Grace!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">Let my soul, drowned here in loud noises,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span class=GramE>listen to the music, <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">The music of silence filling my whole being: <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">May the world with eyes wide open <span class=GramE>see</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span class=GramE>Peace\r\ncome down unending: <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">O <span class=GramE>pour</span> out the delight that\r\nshall enliven my journey, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">The light of thy Grace shining like the<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-indent:140pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span class=GramE>pole star in the sky: <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">In darkness, unmoving, alone, <span class=SpellE>uncompanioned</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">May it flare like a torch and illumine the path<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;text-indent:\r\n140pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>carrying</span> the\r\ninfinite Love.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;text-align:left;text-indent:\r\n140pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:20.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">I ask for nothing - only\r\nthis that thy Love</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span class=GramE>bring</span>\r\ndown upon the worn out bosom of this earth</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span class=GramE>the</span> endless flow of\r\nImmortality.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.5in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\">That I ask for, grant it,\r\nO Mother!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"left\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b>BHASKAR GUPTA</b><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page</font><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:8.0pt;\'> – 199<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:11.0pt\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; text-indent:140pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 140pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-42_A Prayer','','publish','closed','open','','42_a-prayer','','','2021-11-23 17:58:10','2021-11-23 17:58:10','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/42_a-prayer/',0,'post','',0),(1733,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>MODERN BENGALI POEMS</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span\r\nstyle=\'font-weight:700\'><font size=\"4\">MODERN BENGALI POEMS</font></span></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n15.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">Release</font></b><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WILL the sun rise tomorrow?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It is here now evening. Darkness spreads</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>into every\r\nnook and corner, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And in a blind rage drives\r\nonward a desperate cry. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night comes down the sky:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Will the spell of darkness\r\ndissolve?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>New-moon Night is\r\nblack.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>There is no mistaking;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>And the full moon even\r\nat stand-still<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>With all its\r\nwitchcraft cannot turn black.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh, where is the heart kind to the poor?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>And\r\nwhere the generous soul?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The honey-bee has ceased\r\nto hum and buzz:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.7pt 22.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Only the chains jingle,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.7pt 22.05pt .6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>fettering the honesty of the\r\nhonest.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:18.7pt 22.05pt .6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now it is time</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>to journey back to you:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall your eye ever turn</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>to a helpless yearning gaze?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:43.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall the\r\nsun rise tomorrow?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall the\r\nsun rise ever?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt; font-weight:700\'>JYOTIRMOY MUKHOPADHYAY<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; 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\">\r\n<title>Hymn to Saraswati</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h2 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Saraswati</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>WHITE-hued — white as the Kunda flower or the moon</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>or</span> the snow-range, robed in white</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She bears in her\r\narms the marvellous vina, seated on</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> lotus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is ever adored by Brahma and Vishnu and Shiva</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>and</span> all the Gods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May Saraswati save\r\nus, the Goddess, may she wipe out</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>all</span> our slothness unto the last.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 3.6in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh Saraswati, thou art the great destiny, the supreme</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 259.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Knowledge, oh Beauty\r\nwith lotus-eyes!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 259.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The universe is\r\nthy form, thy gaze ranges wide,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 259.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Oh Goddess, give\r\nus the Knowledge,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 259.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\nbow to thee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 259.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May she dwell on our tongue—she holds the Vina and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Book,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The consort of\r\nthe Supreme, the Mother Divine,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>gleaming</span> white, O Saraswati!<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-58<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 258.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<b><i><font size=\"4\">Other Hymns and Prayers</font></i></b></p>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20madhurashtakam.jpg\" width=\"314\" height=\"469\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 235</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20hargauryashtakam.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"473\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 236</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20bhavanyashtakam.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"643\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 237</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20saraswatistrotam.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"415\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 238</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20gaya%20ganga%20prabhasadi.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"196\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 239</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n\r\n		<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n		<a href=\"-00_Content\">\r\n		<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\"></a></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-45_ Other Hymns and Prayers','','publish','closed','open','','45_-other-hymns-and-prayers','','','2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/45_-other-hymns-and-prayers/',0,'post','',0),(1736,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>VEDIC HYMNS</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-style:normal;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">VEDIC HYMNS</font><o:p></o:p></span></h1>\r\n		<hr>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=right style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Indra</font></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i>RIGVEDA</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Mandala I: Sukta 84</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:29.5pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O\r\nINDRA, the delightful wine (Soma) has been pressed out for thee, most powerful\r\nart thou and the smiter of foes. May this Indra-Power fill thee even as the sun\r\nfills the firmament with its <span class=GramE>rays.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ntwin bright carriers bring near unto us lndra of indomi­table might and also\r\nthe Hymns of the seers and the sacrifices of men.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>Take thy seat in the chariot, O slayer of\r\nVritra the Coverer, the twin bright steeds have been yoked by the Supreme Word;\r\nmay the stones, pressing out the wine of Delight by their perfect utterances,\r\nturn thy happy mind downward here.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:3.8pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-3.8pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:4.3pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O lndra, drink of this\r\npressed Soma, the ecstasy supreme and immortal. Towards thee flow the streams\r\nof pure light in the Home of Truth.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-3<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>For Indra now raise the luminous chant, utter the expres­sive Word; the\r\nflowing streams delight the Supreme; bow down to this great Power.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:5.5pt;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-5.5pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O\r\nIndra, thou yokest the twin bright ones; none other charioteer is swifter than\r\nthee. None other is near unto thee in <span class=GramE>strength,</span> none\r\nother can find a mightier rider than thee.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He alone is the one who can\r\nbring wealth to the mortal donor. Indeed Indra is the unrivalled Supreme\r\nMaster.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(8)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When will he with his footfall\r\nmake the joyless mortal bloom like a mushroom? When indeed will Indra listen to\r\nour words?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out\r\nof the many, whoever releases springs of delight and dwells in Indra, to him\r\nindeed Indra sends forth a mighty force.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(10)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus\r\nthe white kine drink of the sweet wine that has been. <span class=GramE>pressed</span>\r\nout, they in the company of the Male Indra rejoice, they dwell gloriously as in\r\ntheir own domain.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(11)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Desiring\r\nhis touch, the dappled cows distill the Soma drink.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-4<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The <span class=GramE>herd of\r\ncows dear to Indra hurl</span> arrows of thunder; they full of riches, move as\r\nto their own domain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(12)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They,\r\nthe enlightened ones, by their obeisance, serve his might. They adhere to his\r\nmany deeds for acquiring fore­knowledge: full of riches they move as to their\r\nown domain.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(13)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indra,\r\nthe inviolable, with the help of the bones of Dadhichi (strong formations of\r\nsettled intelligence) slew the ninety-nine Vritras, the Coverers.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(14)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He\r\nsought the head of the Horse that lay sheltered in the hills and found it in\r\nthe lake growing reeds (honeyed delight).</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(15)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indeed\r\nhere he recognised the bright Name of the Fashioner thus hidden away in the\r\nhome of the Moon.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(16)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\nyokes today the radiant herds of Truth? They are the workers blazing, violent\r\nand wrathful, their mouths hurling arrows, herds flaming, <span class=GramE>creators</span>\r\nof bliss. <span class=GramE>He alone lives who serves (fosters) their growth.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(17)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\nimpels? Who hastens? Who is there to be afraid of? And who is it that knows?\r\nWho has Indra beside him?<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-5<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\nis for our sons and who for our followers? Who is for our welfare? And who\r\nshall speak for our progeny and who for our people?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(18)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who\r\nworships Agni with offering and libation and obla­tion? Who sacrifices through\r\nthe fixed sessions? To whom the gods carry forthwith the call? Who is it that\r\nknows the one who has received the call and attained godhead?<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(19)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You\r\nare indeed a most potent god; you find the perfect self-expression for the\r\nmortal. O holder of riches, O Indra, none other than thee can bring the\r\necstasy. To you I utter these words.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(20)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Never\r\nthy riches, never thy safeties (safeguarding) O Master of riches, do thou\r\nwithhold from us. O human (as a human) do thou measure out and bring to us, who\r\nhave the sight (seeing men) all your riches. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Chhandas:<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>1 – 6 Anushtubh<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>7 – 9 Ushniha<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>10\r\n– 12 Pankti<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>13 – 15 Gayatri\r\nI<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>16 – 18 Trishtubh<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>19 – 20 Brihati.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:86.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; 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\">\r\n<title>A P P E N D I X - I</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p class=\"MsoTitle\" align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=\"MsoTitle\" align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">A P <span\r\nclass=SpellE>P</span> E N D I X - I</font></p><hr>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><st1:date Year=\"1926\" Day=\"24\" Month=\"11\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">November 24, 1926</font></st1:date><span style=\'font-size:\r\n18.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>E<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>VEN</span> before that date for some time past, Sri Aurobindo had been\r\nmore and more withdrawing into himself and retiring within. An external sign of\r\nthis became visible to us as his lunch hour shifted gradually towards the\r\nafternoon. We used to have our meal together and the Mother too ate with us, at\r\nthe Library House, in the room now used by <span class=SpellE>Ravindra</span>\r\nas the fruit-room. There used to be about eight or ten of us. On the previous\r\nday, Sri Aurobindo came down to lunch when it was past four. We would naturally\r\nwait till he came.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then\r\nthe great day arrived. In the afternoon, it was in fact already getting <span\r\nclass=GramE>dark,</span> all of us had gone out as usual. I was on the\r\nsea-front. Suddenly, someone came running at full speed and aid to me,\r\n&quot;Go, get back at once; the Mother is calling everybody.&quot; I had not\r\nthe least idea as to what might be the reason. I came back running and went\r\nstraight up, to, the verandah facing the Prosperity room. Sri Aurobindo used to\r\ntake his seat there in the evening for his talks with us or rather for\r\nanswering our questions. As I came up, a strange scene met my eyes. Sri\r\nAurobindo was seated in his chair, the Mother sat at his feet, both of them\r\nwith their faces turned towards us. I looked round to see, if all were present.\r\n<span class=SpellE>Satyen</span> was missing and I said, &quot;<span\r\nclass=SpellE>Satyen</span> has not come. Shall I call him in?&quot; The Mother\r\nspoke out, &quot;Yes, all, all.&quot; All were called in, everybody was now\r\npresent. We took our seats before Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, both of whom\r\nwere facing us. The whole<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-203<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span class=GramE>scene</span>\r\nand atmosphere had a heavenly halo.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Sri Aurobindo held his left hand above the Mother\'s\r\nhead and his right hand was extended to us in benediction. Everything was\r\nsilent and still, grave and expectant. We stood up one by one and went and\r\nbowed at the feet of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. After a while, both of them\r\nwent inside. And then, <span class=SpellE>Datta</span> who had been among <span\r\nclass=GramE>us,</span> suddenly exclaimed at the top of her voice, as though an\r\ninspired Prophetess of the old mysteries, &quot;The Lord has descended. He has\r\nconquered death and sorrow. He has brought down immortality.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From\r\nthis time onwards, Sri. Aurobindo went into <span class=GramE>retire­ment, that</span>\r\nis to say, did not come out any more for his evening talks. The Mother made her\r\nappearance and it was with the Mother that we started our contacts.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The Mother would now sit down daily for her medita­tions\r\nwith all of us together, in the evening after nightfall. That was the beginning\r\nof collective meditation. She made a special arrangement for our seating. To\r\nher right would sit one group and to her left another, both arranged in rows.\r\nThe right side of the Mother represented Light, on the left was Power. Each of\r\nus found a seat to her right or left according to the turn of our nature of the\r\ninner being. I was to her right, Amrita sat on her left.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">A strange thing used to happen every day at these\r\nmedita­tions. <span class=SpellE>Purushottam</span> was one of our <span\r\nclass=GramE>number</span> in those days. He used to sit directly in front of the \r\nMother, a little apart from the rest of us. As soon as the meditation began, he \r\nwould begin to sway his body and even move about with his eyes closed while \r\nstill meditating. He would come and get hold of some of us, give them a thorough \r\nkneading and would not even hesitate to tear at the hair on their head or face. \r\nIn those days, almost all of us sported a beard and a moustache and wore our \r\nhair long. He used to say that this was his allotted work, this work of \r\npurification and helping in the purification. Not only did anyone ever<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-204<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>raise</span> an objection to this kind\r\nof molestation, it was accepted by all with perfect equanimity, with joy\r\nalmost; it was considered to be a necessity, a sign of the Mother\'s Grace. But\r\nthese attentions were reserved only for two or three people. During this\r\nprocess, the Mother of course remained silent and engrossed in meditation. All\r\nwas done, no doubt, under her control and guidance, but from an inner poise.\r\nOne day, <span class=SpellE>Purushottam</span> proclaimed to the Mother in a\r\nloud voice, &quot;Mother, I do not mean it as a boast, I mention this to you in\r\nutter humility: Mother, just as you are the highest Force of the Supreme, even\r\nso I am the lowest force of this earth-nature. You have given me the privilege\r\nof being a collaborator in your Work.&quot; He used to say that <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Sesha-­naga</span>, the primal energy that sustains the material\r\nworld, had manifested in him, that he was <span class=SpellE>Sesha-naga</span>\r\nitself. He was the spirit of <span class=SpellE>Inconscience</span>, of the\r\nForce in the nether world; his task was to work in that darkness, sweep it\r\nclean and make room for the Light, the Higher Forces of the Mother. This manner\r\nof working continued for some time; then it came to a halt, and we had only\r\nmeditations.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nMother\'s endeavour at that time was for a new crea­tion, the creation here of a\r\nnew inner world of the Divine Consciousness. She had brought down the Higher\r\nForces, the Gods, into the earth atmosphere, into our inner being and\r\nconsciousness. A central feature of that endeavour was that she had placed each\r\nof us in touch with his inner god­head. Every individual has what may be\r\ndescribed as his line of spiritual descent and also ascent; for into each indi­vidual\r\nconsciousness has come down from the supreme <span class=SpellE>Maha</span>\r\nShakti an individual divine being, a particular god­head following a particular\r\nline of manifestation of divine power, <span class=SpellE>vibhuti</span>.\r\nTo bear inwardly the touch of this divinity and found it securely within\r\noneself, to concentrate on it and become one with it, to go on manifesting it\r\nin one\'s outer life, this was the aim of the <span class=SpellE>sadhana</span>\r\nat the time. This was a period of extreme concentration and one-pointed<span class=GramE>ness</span>, </p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-205<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>a &quot;tortoise phase&quot; of the <span class=SpellE>sadhana</span>\r\none might call it. Like the tortoise one had to gather oneself in, limbs\r\nand all, and hide as in a shell by cutting oneself off from all outward\r\ntouches. This was a temporary necessity in order to main­tain the consciousness\r\nof the individual and the collectivity always at a high level and keep it\r\nunsullied and unchanged. Our give and take with the outside world was very\r\nlittle indeed and it was carried on under the strictest vigilance. All around\r\nus there had been fixed a cordon, an iron curtain almost. Even among ourselves,\r\npersonal contacts like meeting one another or the paying of visits had been\r\nreduced to the barest minimum. To use the poetic language of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Tagore</span>, we seemed to be blossoming forth<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Like a\r\nflower in the air, <span class=SpellE>stemless</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span class=GramE>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; And sufficient unto\r\nitself...</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nafter following out this line for some distance, the Mother could see that the\r\nnew creation, even if it came about, would be something narrow and confined to\r\na limited circle, and for the most part effective only for an inner action. But\r\nthat has not been her aim. The new creation must embrace the entire human race,\r\na new race of men must be created and not merely a small select group. And in\r\nthat new creation must be included not only the inner being of man but also his\r\nvital and physical life. In other words, we have to come down to the\r\nlower levels and work for the purification there, in order to raise them beyond\r\nthemselves by the infusion of the higher consciousness and make them fit\r\ninstruments for the higher things. We are still continuing with that work,\r\nthrough the &quot;ups and downs of an uneven path&quot;.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let\r\nme just illustrate, from my own experience, to what extent we had become\r\nself-gathered and indrawn. One day, for some reason or other, I happened to\r\nhave come out of the Ashram precincts and away from its atmosphere;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-206<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>that</span> is to say, I was going about\r\nthe town and through the market area. Suddenly I began to feel rather queer, as\r\nif &nbsp;I were not walking on the ground. There was no weight in my legs, I floated\r\non air through a mist as in a dream and there was no solid ground or a settled\r\npath. I felt terribly uneasy, almost like a fish out of water. I hurried my\r\nsteps back and it was not till I had reached the Ashram precincts that I could\r\nheave a sigh of relief.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We\r\nhave left that stage far enough behind us now. We have in. fact reached the\r\nopposite end perhaps. We have taken a plunge outwards, identified ourselves\r\nwith the outer being - a tendency against which the Upanishad has used a word\r\nof warning: <span class=SpellE>parañci</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>khani</span> <span class=SpellE>vyatrant</span>, our\r\nsenses have a natural pull towards the outer things. But this too was necessary\r\nand still is. We form part of the <span class=GramE>world,</span> we are united\r\nwith it and inseparable. We are an image of the entire world, its symbol and\r\nrepresentative. We have to share in its work and suffer its deeds. Even Sri\r\nAurobindo and the Mother have not spared themselves this, but that is another\r\nmatter. Whatever changes we succeed in effec­tuating in ourselves here will\r\ninitiate similar changes <span class=GramE>all the</span> world over.\r\nTherefore, not to become wholly exter­nalised, – a tendency which is uppermost\r\nhere in our col­lective life today, – but to keep the path open for the inner <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sadhana</span>, this should be our\r\nendeavour. We have to <span class=SpellE>harmo­nise</span> the two extremes,\r\nfor not to disjoin but to unite, that is Yoga.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.05pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-207<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n</i></div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-43_November 24, 1926','','publish','closed','open','','43_november-24-1926','','','2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/43_november-24-1926/',0,'post','',0),(1738,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE SIXTH SUKTA</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">THE SIXTH SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The theme of this <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sukta</span> is to awaken the power of Indra with the help of his\r\nfollowers, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. Who are the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Maruts</span>? We find in the Puranas that <span class=SpellE>Vayu</span>\r\n(the Wind-God) in the womb of <span class=SpellE><i>Diti</i></span><i> </i>(the\r\nconsciousness of duality) had been divided into forty-nine parts by the Lord\r\nIndra. As a result, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>, sub-divisions or\r\nvarious forms of Wind, came into existence. We also know that <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Vayu</span> is the life-energy and Indra is the divine mental\r\nbeing. <span class=SpellE><i>Diti</i></span><i> </i>is the divided\r\nconsciousness, the source of multiplicity. <span class=SpellE><i>Aditi</i></span><i>\r\n</i>means the undivided, indivisible and infinite consciousness. When the wave\r\nof life-energy rises into the mind and expresses itself as multiple thoughts,\r\nit turns into <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. In the Rigveda the God <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Marut</span> has always been invoked and worshipped along with Indra.\r\nThat is to say, without Indra, the mental being, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>,\r\nthe mental faculties, have no separate existence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>1.\r\nThe seat of pure mind is a chariot. The chariot signi­fies movement and it is the\r\nemblem of the spiritual progress. The spiritual adventure of the purified mind\r\ngradually rises up. The movement of the purified mind is at- once free and\r\nvast. Division and littleness are not to be found there. It is fully illumined\r\nby the light of knowledge. The purified mind is replete with thought-powers, in\r\nother words, the <span class=SpellE>Maruts</span>. And it is the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Maruts</span> who help the mind in its march towards the Goal.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>2.\r\nSpiritual progress takes place by the conjoint force of two powers. They are\r\nnothing but the twin horses that carry farther the power of Indra. Of the two\r\nhorses one is the symbol of knowledge, the other is that of power. The more the\r\nknowledge and the power of the aspirant increase, the more awakes in him the\r\ndivine mental being in all its virtues. And the pure thought-powers or the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Maruts</span> turn the flow of knowledge and power towards an\r\ninner spiritual discipline.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Page-109<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.3pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>3.\r\nIt is the power of pure-thoughts that manifests the light of knowledge in the\r\ndarkness of Ignorance. With the gradual development of such thoughts the true\r\nmental being takes birth in the aspirant, <i>i.e., </i>it becomes vivid and\r\nreal to the aspirant.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>4.\r\nThe true nature of the pure thought-power is to reveal the mental being by\r\ndegrees. It is in the true mental being that the real existence and nature of a\r\ncreature abide. The mental being becomes more and more manifest by fresh\r\nflowerings of the pure thought-power. The pure thought­ power, being manifest,\r\nshapes a form of the mental being. Then it plunges into the heart of the\r\naspirant and emerges from there with a new form and truth. Thus the pure\r\nthought-<span class=GramE>power,</span> supported by the presiding divine Deity\r\nof sacrifice, of spiritual progress, manifests further truths. A \'name\' is the\r\nmanifest power of truth, called \'<span class=SpellE>numen</span>\' in Latin. The\r\nstream of sadhana does not proceed in a constant flow but in a sequence of\r\nabsorption and manifestation – it withdraws within itself and emerges again\r\nwith new truths from the secret regions of consciousness. The Vedic seers used\r\nto express- this idea thus: Dawn follows Night, Night follows Dawn, Dawn\r\nmanifesting itself again and again in a never-ending series revealing infinite\r\ntruths.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>5. In the innermost recesses of consciousness, in the\r\ndepth of the Night, in inert matter lie hidden the Light of know­ledge. The\r\ndivine mental being, in search of <span class=GramE>that</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>kine</span> of Light, delivers them by breaking down those firm,\r\nsecret and dark recesses. It is he indeed who brings into the waking\r\nconsciousness the dawn of knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>6. What does actually happen when Indra reveals the Light\r\nof knowledge dissipating the darkness of ignorance? There echo in the occult\r\nhearing the concrete messages of the vast truth. And of what type are those\r\ndivine messages? They are the divine existences, they follow the divine na­ture.\r\nThey infuse the aspirant with a clear and pointed intellect which can discern\r\nthe quintessence of truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.25pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:273.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-110<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:8.4pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>7.\r\nThe true mental being and his pure thought-powers, Indra and <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Maruts</span>, are reflected in that pure divine mind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>8. Indra\r\nis the being of knowledge and delight and <span class=SpellE>Marut</span> is\r\nhis power of divine play. On one side is the pure mental existence, on the\r\nother there rise and spread the pure thoughts from that mental existence. With\r\ntheir united help the spiritual Sacrifice of the aspirant becomes a receptacle\r\nof luminous fulfilment.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>9.\r\nThen the truth and riches of all the levels and worlds of consciousness make\r\ntheir appearance in the aspirant, the truth that comes from beyond the fourth\r\nworld or <span class=SpellE><i>Mahas</i></span><i> </i>- called in the\r\nUpanishad as the <i>asau <span class=SpellE>lokah</span> </i>- the truth that\r\nsubsequently takes form in the pure mental world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>10.\r\nThe process does not end here. The truth contained in the material earth which\r\n&quot;is illumined by the mental light as well as the truth of the vital world\r\nfilled with pure enjoy­ment and inspiration are concretely apprehended by the\r\naspirant. Earth, mid-region, sky and <span class=SpellE><i>svar</i></span><i>, </i>that\r\n<i>is </i>the body, life, mind and the vast Truth beyond mind become manifest\r\nin their divine essence in the human aspirant inhabited by the mental being.\r\nIndra is the divine mental being and Indra is the power of revealing the truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>NOTE<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nremaining <span class=SpellE>suktas</span> of <span class=SpellE><i>Madhuchchhandar</i></span><i>\r\n<span class=SpellE>Mantramala</span> </i>also deal with Indra. So there is\r\nhardly any necessity of commen­taries. The commentaries given from the fourth <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sukta</span> to the present one will serve as an aid to make the\r\nsubsequent <span class=SpellE>suktas</span> comprehensible.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.6pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-111<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.6pt;\r\nline-height:12.7pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;text-indent:9.6pt;\r\nline-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp; &nbsp;<i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','24_The Sixth Sukta','','publish','closed','open','','24_the-sixth-sukta','','','2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/24_the-sixth-sukta/',0,'post','',0),