 style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Even so the burning Truth brings me a male delight,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>It has drained and dried the marshes of small desires,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Scattered the fog and mist of doubting fearsome mind,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>A glorious <span class=SpellE>veilless</span> heaven it\r\nhas branded upon my earth!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><st1:date Year=\"1936\" Day=\"1\" Month=\"10\"><i>\r\n<font size=\"2\">October </font> </i><font size=\"2\">1,\r\n 1936</font></st1:date><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:10.1pt;font-weight:medium;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XL</b></p>\r\n		<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:10.1pt;font-weight:medium;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>WAVES come from the immemorial <span class=GramE>past,</span>\r\nthey sweep into the unending future;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>They who stand on the plains shall lose\r\ntheir foothold and be carried away.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Rise to the dry land of serene heights and let the flood\r\npass by underneath.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>There is no other way but to take wings and soar aloft -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Never be tempted to wait and brave the onset of\r\ncenturies,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The most <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>skilful</span>\r\nswimmer is sure to come to grief:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>None can stop or retard the inexorable wheel of Time,\r\nnone who is within it;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Only if you leap up and go beyond can you find the secret\r\nthat controls it. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>This human frame is a thousand-mouthed sponge,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>You cannot leave it on the flood-level and hope to find\r\nit free from slime and water;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Hold it up, as high as the farthest and bluest skies,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Let it drink in and be satiate with the golden light of\r\nthe sun.</p>\r\n		<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><i><font size=\"2\">October </font> </i>\r\n<font size=\"2\">3, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 335</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'>XLI</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>ASPIRE wholly,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Ask for the fullness of Grace -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>But weigh not the measure of Response,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Nor repine if it seems doled out scantily, niggardly.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The high wisdom knows and gives just what is needed -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Could we only rest contented and move in its rhythm an d\r\nnot transgress its will,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Serene would be the path and perfect and even prompt the\r\nachievement;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>But our greed and vanity and self-love<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Magnify our worth and distend our girth:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>We lay claim to that and pull at that which is beyond our\r\ndesert,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>We force the supreme Bounty and infinite Abundance,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>And in answer it condescends to come down....<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>But we are unable to contain it and the inflated\r\nreceptacle we have made ourselves to be<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Bursts and crashes a ruined and shattered heap!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Give yourself wholly and ever more and more,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>It is your unreserved giving that will create the\r\nspaciousness<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>to</span> hold safely the gift from the\r\nDivine.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><font size=\"2\">October 9, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>XLII<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>THE lamp <span class=GramE>lies</span> unlit and dismal\r\ndark -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Bring to it the spark of your morning love and life,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The lamp is lit and burns.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The lamp burns low and dim -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Bring to it your earnest loyalty and clear adhesion,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The lamp burns high and bright.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 336</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The flame mounts slow uncertain -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Bring to it your ardent yearning and unshakable faith,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The flame mounts swift and firm.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The flame sweeps tireless ever upward -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>Call unto it the bending Grace from beyond,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>The lamp has become the Sun!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><font size=\"2\">October 13, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XLIII<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>THE child has eyes for nothing else than its mother,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Its entire bound of vision is rounded in by the radiant\r\npresence of its beloved.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>It cannot but be so, for where does the Mother abide? -\r\nWithin its own eyes!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Fearsome figures appear now and then -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>A night rife with dark and dangerous bodings,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>A whole sky of cloud scowling and rumbling -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The child sees the mother at game and laughs-all\r\ndisappear:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The beaming smile of the adored one alone is there!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>All beauties-the rising morn, the reposing eve, the bloom<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>on</span> the rose, the light of the\r\nawakening soul in the human face -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>All, all are radiances from the sparkle of her eyes, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>The eyes that hide within the eyes of\r\nthe child.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The child looks at itself, its own person -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Lo, <span class=GramE>itself</span> has become the\r\nmother,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>And takes in its arms the entire world<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>And fondles it as its child<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>With the passionate love of innocence.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><font size=\"2\">October 18, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page <b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>-</b>\r\n337</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XLIV<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>WHITE - <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>colour</span>\r\nof the moon poised on high in an autumn night -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The soothing peace, the quiet heave of an in-gathered\r\nrapture!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White -<span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the sun glaring\r\noverhead in a midsummer sky -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White heat of the Energy that quickens the universe,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The creative <span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN-GB\'>ardour</span> of the light of Truth!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:.45in;line-height:\r\n150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White-<span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the pearl\r\nreposing in the womb of the mother-of-pearl -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>Innocence of a little heart, delicate\r\nand fine and strong in trust.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White - <span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the diamond,\r\nmiracle of the black-<span class=SpellE>souled</span> ore transfigured -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The immaculate consciousness of the Mother, the Mother\r\nyet of a sin-bred earth!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White-<span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the snow piled\r\non wind-swept peaks grim and bare -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Naked and frigid austerity that juts sheer into the\r\ninviolate worlds beyond!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White-<span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the foam\r\nbreaking and bubbling exultant -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>All the passions of my entrails surging and speeding to\r\nthe tranquil refuge of Thy embrace!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin:0 0in; line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>White-<span\r\nclass=SpellE>colour</span> of the jasmine so candid and pure and unpretending -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The smiling perfume of the Grace that has touched my\r\nsoul!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>White - <span class=SpellE>colour</span> of the lotus -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> endless commiseration of my\r\nLord<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>that</span> has taken body upon earth!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><font size=\"2\">October 30, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 338</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XLV<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>QUIET the waves that roll and ripple,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Hush the murmur that crowds the- air,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Let the myriad glistening sparks die out<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>In one seamless sheet of soothing blue.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Draw back from the <span class=SpellE>outgazing</span>\r\nfacets,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Veer round and dive into the core -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The stop and pause and perfect repose,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The rock of light self-luminous,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>The frozen sea of compact delight.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>This is the silence and annihilation,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Beyond the little voices and lesser forms,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The Mother of absolutes -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>This the</span> Void that has devoured\r\nall And still lies vacant!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><font size=\"2\">November 16, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XLVI<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:35.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:.5in;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-.5in;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>FIRE Red - the red wrath of <span class=SpellE>Rudra</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>that</span> burns the dead mass of earth, melts\r\nand consumes it<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>into</span> tongues of leaping <span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>ardour</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>that</span> cry out for Beatitudes beyond.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>Sun Red at dying eve - the breath of a god<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>sweeping</span> over the darkening horizon<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> debris of a vanishing life and world,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>scattering</span> the last shreds of mortal ties\r\nthat<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>yet</span> strive to linger.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>Blood Red -the red sap of life<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.15pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.15pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>that</span> anoints the far Spirit and sets it\r\nthrobbing<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:56.15pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-56.15pt;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 339</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> welling out into an earthly mould -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>immortal\'s</span> homage to flesh-<span\r\nclass=SpellE>throned</span> mortality.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>Wine Red - the quenchless thirst and passion,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>even</span> the lust of the body<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>wholly</span> uplifted and transfused into the\r\nethereal Bliss,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>Bliss made here and now a sensuous rapture -<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>poignant</span> and exhilarating and <span\r\nclass=SpellE>undecaying</span>.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'>Ruby Red - the concentrated essence of the supreme substance<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>brought</span> down into our lower sphere<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> glowing and blushing with new-born\r\nlove in a human frame.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:56.9pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-56.9pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><font size=\"2\">November 28, 1936</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:56.9pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-56.9pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>XL\r\nVII<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>O my soul, once you lay<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>Nude and innocent in the womb of the\r\nEternal.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>What dreams had you then?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>What hopes, what urges?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Were there star-lit expanses, <span class=SpellE>galaxied</span>\r\n<span class=GramE>blues,</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:43.9pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Constellated depths after depths?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>Or a rose-gold sun hanging on the rim\r\nof infinite horizons?</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span class=GramE>Or a radiant smile swaying the throb of\r\nTimelessness\' heart?</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:43.9pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>It stands today, the self-same soul<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>In daylight\'s rude broadness,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Amidst the stone-hard <span class=SpellE>reals</span>,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:43.9pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>In the externals and the crusts,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Under <span class=GramE>noon-tide\'s</span> blazing eye...<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Oh, no longer the sweet simple innocence of yore:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>The child has grown and now its limbs are <span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'>hewn</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>Out of a marble-consciousness!<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page - 340</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The Dream has become the\r\niron will,</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The secret urge the body\'s\r\nurgent gesture:</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>A human being that was has\r\nyielded to the godhead\'s devouring embrace,</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The Divine is set in human\r\nlimbs.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page - 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17:58:43','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN\">\r\n<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; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<title>SEER POETS</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 align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\ntext-indent:12.45pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\"mso-ansi-language:EN\"><b><font size=\"4\">SEER POETS</font><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:\r\ncenter;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=right style=\'margin:0 0in; text-align:center;line-height:150%\'><b><i>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><font size=\"4\">A Vedic Story</font></span></i></b><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin:0 0in; line-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><b>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>(RIGVEDA â€“ X. 51.)</span></b><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;mso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'font-family:Arial;mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'>THE </span><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>gods are in a great\r\nfix. Where is Agni? How is it that the comrade has disappeared all on a sudden?\r\nThe Sacrifice â€“ the great work has to be undertaken. And he is to be the\r\nleader, for he alone can take up the burden. There is no time to be lost,\r\neverything is ready for the ceremony to start and just at the moment the one\r\nneeded most is nowhere. So the gods organise a search party to find out the\r\nwhereabouts of the runaway god.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.6pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The search party consists of Varuna, Mitra and\r\nYama. We shall presently understand the sense of the selection. They look about\r\nhere and there â€“ in ten directions, it is mentioned â€“ and at last spot the\r\ndefaulting god hiding within a huge thick strong cloak or caul. They hail him\r\nand ask him to come out and take up his charge. Agni refuses: he says he is not\r\ncompetent to undertake the burden; indeed that is why he ran away and they must\r\nnot force him. The gods explain, entreat, encourage Agni. They say and assure\r\nhim that no harm will come to him, rather he will flourish and prosper and\r\nbecome immortal. He is mighty and he will become almighty as he takes up his\r\nwork and proceeds with it. Agni accepts in the end and marches out with the\r\ngods.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>What does this parable mean? First of all then we\r\nmust know what Sacrifice â€“ a Vedic sacrifice â€“ is. Sacrifice symbolises the\r\ncosmic labour, the march of the universe towards its goal, the conquest of\r\nLight over Darkness, the ascent of manhood to godhead, the flaming rise and\r\nprogress of consciousness to its supreme expression and embodiment. It is the\r\nrelease out of Inconscience and Unconsciousness to consciousness and finally\r\ninto the superconsciousness.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Page â€“ 157</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:10.75pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Sacrifice consists essentially in lighting the\r\nfire and pouring fuel â€“ offerings â€“ into it so that it may burn always and\r\nbrighter and brighter. It calls the gods, also, it is said, ascends to them,\r\nbrings them down here to live among men, in men. It lifts men from the ordinary\r\nlife and consciousness, takes them to the abode of the gods. In other words its\r\nfunction is to bring down and infuse into the human vessel the godly\r\nconsciousness and delight and power. Its purpose is to divinise human life.\r\nThrough the sacrifice man offers his present possessions, his body and life and\r\nmind to the Deity and deities and by this surrender and submission constant and\r\nunfailing <i>(namas) </i>he awakens the Divine in him â€“ the Agni that is to\r\nlead him to the divine consummation.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Fire then is the energy of consciousness secreted\r\nin the heart of things. It is that which moves the creation upward, produces the\r\nunfolding evolution that is history, both individual and collective. It is\r\nkindled, it increases in volume and strength and purity and effectiveness, as\r\nand when a lower element is offered and submitted to a higher reality and this\r\nhigher reality impinges upon the lower one (which is what the rubbing of the <i>ara</i></span><i><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-family:\"Luxi Serif\";mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Å†</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>i </span></i><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>or the pressing of the <i>soma </i>symbolises);\r\nthe limitation is broken, the small enters into and becomes the vast, the\r\ncrooked is straightened and lengthened out, what was hidden becomes manifest.\r\nThis is described as the progression of the sacrifice <i>(adhvara-advance </i>on\r\nthe path). That is also the victorious battle waged against the dark forces of\r\nIgnorance. The goal, the purpose is the descent and manifestation of the gods\r\nhere upon earth in human vehicles.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>But this Fire is not normally available. It is\r\nlost, imbedded in the thick petrified folds of unconsciousness and\r\ninconscience. Man\'s soul is not an apparent reality. It has to be found out,\r\ncalled forth, brought to the front. Even so, in the normal consciousness, the\r\nsoul, the divine fire is a flickering, twinkling, hesitating spark; it is not\r\nsure of itself, not certain of its destiny. Yet when the time is ripe and the\r\ncall comes, the gods, the luminous forces from above descend with all their insistence\r\nand meet the hidden godhead: Agni is reminded of his work and destiny which\r\nnothing can frustrate or cancel. He has to consent and undertake his\r\nsacrificial labour.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Page â€“ 158</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:12.45pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Agni feared and tried to escape from the burden of\r\nhis responsibility. He wrapped himself in a thick and vast cloak and hid in the\r\ndepths of far waters. That is the parable way of describing the difficulty, the\r\napparent impossibility of the undertaking Agni has to shoulder. Curiously\r\nhowever he has taken shelter just in the spot which seemed safest to him, from\r\nwhere begins his work, whose nature and substance he has to transform, that is\r\nto say, the nether regions of inconscience which is to be raised and\r\ntransfigured into the solar region of the supraconsciousness.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.9pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>One interesting point in the story is the choice\r\nof the gods who formed the search party. They were Mitra, Varuna and Yama.\r\nVaruna is the god of the vast consciousness (Brihat), the wide universal, the\r\nInfinite. His eye naturally penetrates everywhere and nothing can escape his\r\nnotice. Mitra is harmony and rhythm of the infinity. Every individual element\r\nhe embraces and he holds them all together in loving union-his is the friendly\r\ntie of comradeship with all. Finally Yama is the master of the lower regions,\r\nthe underworld of physical and material consciousness, where precisely Agni has\r\ntaken refuge. Agni is within the jurisdiction of this trinity and it devolves\r\nupon them to tackle the truant god.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-indent:11.9pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>There is another point which requires\r\nclarification. As a reason for his nervousness and flight he alleges that\r\ngreater people who preceded him had attempted the work, but evidently failed in\r\nthe attempt; so how can he, a younger novice, dare to go the same way? Putting\r\nthe imagery back to its psychological bearing, one play explain that the\r\npredecessors refer to the deities of the physical, vital and mental\r\nconsciousness who ruled the earth before the emergence of the psychic or soul\r\nconsciousness. It is precisely because of the failure or insufficiency of these\r\nanterior â€“ in the evolutionary movement â€“ and inferior gods that Agni\'s service\r\nis being requisitioned. Mythologically also a parallelism is found in the Greek\r\nlegends where it is said that the Olympian gods â€“ Zeus and his company â€“ were a\r\nyounger generation that replaced, after of course a bloody warfare, their\r\nancestors, the more ancient race of Kronos, the Titans. Titans were the Asuras\r\nand Rakshasas who reigned upon earth before the advent of the mental â€“ sattwic\r\nâ€“ human being, Manu, as referred here.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 2.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Page â€“ 159</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Now, here 1 give you the original text in\r\ntranslation:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>THE COLLOQUY OF AGNI AND THE GODS <o:p></o:p> </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>(Rigveda - X. 51.)</span><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The gods</span></b><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>1. Huge and\r\nfirm was that covering with which you shrouded yourself and entered into the\r\nwaters.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>O Agni! You\r\nare conscious from your very birth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The One God\r\nsaw you in all your multiple universal body.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>2. Who saw me?\r\nWhich of the gods saw my multiple body all around? 0 Mitra! 0 Varuna! Tell me,\r\nwhere do they dwell â€“ all the blazing fuel that move to the gods?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The gods</span></b><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>3. O Agni! god\r\nself-conscient, we seek you, you who have entered variably into the waters and\r\ninto the growths of the earth. You shine richly. Yam a has seen you as you\r\nflame out of your ten seats.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>4. O Varuna! I\r\nfled because I was afraid of the work of the priest. The gods must not yoke me\r\nto that work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>That was why I\r\nimbedded my body variably so that I as Agni may not know of that pathway.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:27.8pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;\r\ntext-indent:-.85pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>5. Come, O Agni! Man, the mental being,\r\ndesires to do the sacrifice, he has made everything ready, and you dwell in obscurity!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:27.8pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Make\r\neasy-going the path that leads to the gods, with a happy mind carry the\r\noffering.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 8.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 8.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Page â€“ 160</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.6pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;line-height:150%;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>6. There were\r\nelders before Agni who covered the same path, even as charioteers do their way.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>That is why, O\r\nVaruna! out of fear I have come away so far, even as an animal shrinks and\r\nshivers at a shooting arrow.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>7. We shall\r\nmake your life undecaying, O Agni! so that no harm comes to you when engaged in\r\nthe work.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>So, carry to\r\nthe gods their share of the offering; a happy birth you have, a happy mind you\r\nmust carry.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Agni<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>8. Then bring\r\nto me my share of the mighty offerings, those that are given before, those that\r\nare given after and those that are simply given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>O gods! Long\r\nlife to the being shining in the waters, to Agni himself lying in the growths\r\nof the earth.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nline-height:150%;widows: 0;orphans: 0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>The gods</span><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:\r\nEN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;line-height:150%;widows: 0;\r\norphans: 0\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;margin-left:28.65pt;\r\nmargin-bottom:0;text-indent:-28.65pt;mso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;\r\nwidows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'>9. The\r\nofferings that precede, the offerings that follow, offerings pure and\r\nsimple-all forceful, may you enjoy. May this sacrifice be yours entirely. The four\r\nquarters bow down to you, O Agni!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid black 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid black .75pt;padding:0in 0in 9.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p align=center style=\'margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:center;\r\nline-height:150%;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid black .75pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 9.0pt 0in;widows: 0;orphans: 0; margin-top:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-ansi-language:EN\'>Page â€“ 161</span><span\r\nlang=EN style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p align=right style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:28.65pt;margin-bottom:0;text-align:right;text-indent:-28.65pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.9pt;widows: 0;orphans: 0; line-height:150%\'><span lang=EN\r\nstyle=\'mso-ansi-language:EN\'><a href=\"-01-Index\"><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'></span><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'><a href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img border=0 width=39\r\nheight=50 id=\"_x0000_i1028\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\"></a></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=center> \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','-20_A Vedic Story','','publish','closed','open','','20_a-vedic-story','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/20_a-vedic-story/',0,'post','',0),(1974,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	\r\n	<TITLE>The\r\nMission of Buddhism</TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\" DIR=\"LTR\">\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\">The\r\nMission of Buddhism</font></B></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>BUDDHISM came as a blaze of lightning across the sky of\r\nIndia\'s tradition; it was almost a fiery writing on the wall, bearing\r\nthe doom of a world. Buddhism opposed and denied some of the very\r\nfundamental principles upon which the old world rested. It was\r\nperhaps the greatest iconoclastic movement ever thrown up by the\r\nhuman consciousness. First of all, it denied the tradition itself; it\r\ndid not <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">recognise</SPAN> the authority and\r\nsanctity of the p<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">u</FONT>rve pitarah<I>,\r\n</I>the ancient fathers, nor their revealed knowledge, the Veda.\r\nBuddhism enjoined the priority and supremacy of the individual\'s own\r\nconsciousness, own effort and own <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">realisation.</SPAN>\r\nBe thou thy own light. Work out thy own salvation. That was the\r\ninjunction given. Not to take anything for granted - not even God or\r\nBrahman - but to judge and see for yourself where and what is the\r\ntruth. It was the first <I>protestant </I>reaction recorded in human\r\nhistory.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Buddhism has sometimes been called the rebel child of\r\nHinduism. The word need not be a term of abuse. A rebel is not always\r\na mere destroyer, a pure negator. A negation can be only a form of\r\nstating something positive, an affirmation of a truth and reality.\r\nNot unoften a rebel means a call back to a truth that has been\r\nneglected, inadequately treated or completely omitted and by-passed;\r\nit is an urgent demand that that which has been forgotten and left\r\nbehind, uncared for and undeveloped, must now be taken up again and\r\nbrought forward, made a full-grown and mature element in a greater\r\nand more perfect <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisation</SPAN> of human\r\nconsciousness.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Buddhism cried halt because of two omissions: it turned\r\nman\'s mind to two new directions. In our eagerness to reach the\r\nspiritual and the supra-sensual, we gave scant recognition to the\r\nmental and the rational; and yet mind and reason should</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 280</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>be the very basis of the life spiritual. And in the\r\npursuit of God and the gods and the things divine, we became blind to\r\nhuman problems, things concerning man in the human way. The earlier\r\nvision gives us a happy picture of humanity. The world moves, it was\r\nsaid, from delight to delight, it was born in delight and it\r\nconsummates in delight. One sang of immortality, of the solar light,\r\nof men being children of Heaven and Beatitude. That this material\r\nstructure on which man leads his precarious existence is a texture of\r\nage and disease and death, that misery and undelight is of the very\r\nsubstance of human life was a hard fact that did not get due\r\nrecognition. Perhaps it was an earlier, that is to say, a younger\r\nhumanity</FONT></P>\r\n		<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-left:0.99in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A simple Child,</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-left:0.99in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That lightly draws its breath,</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-left:0.99in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And feels its life in every limb,</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-left:0.99in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>What should it know of death ?<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Yes, it was the age, almost a golden age, when man lived\r\nwith his sense married to the Dawn, spontaneous in his reflexes,\r\n<I>prime-sautier, </I>intuitive and imaginative, full of a natural,\r\nunspoilt, unsophisticated happiness and hopefulness. But the Age of\r\nReason had to come, and man\'s maturer nature, perhaps some &quot;sicklied\r\no\'er with the pale cast of thought&quot;. Such an age of Reason and\r\nRatiocination and pure brain power was ushered in by Buddha in India,\r\nand almost contemporaneously by Socrates in Greece and Confucius in\r\nChina. The rational, that is to say, the scientific or analytical\r\nattitude to things appeared in the human consciousness for the first\r\ntime in its fullness and almost exclusive sway. Neither the Vedas nor\r\nthe Upanishads knew of logic as an instrument-a necessary\r\ninstrument-for knowledge and expression. The old-world method was, as\r\nI said, intuitive, experiential, empirical, dogmatic. Also the\r\natmosphere of that world, the stress of the consciousness was\r\ntheocratic; what the new world brought in was what is called\r\nhumanistic.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We say then that it was a necessity: it was a necessity\r\nthat the rational, logical, ratiocinative, analytic mentality should\r\nbe brought out and given its play and place. It is perhaps\r\nan inferior power of the mind or consciousness, but it is a strong</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT> Wordsworth, &quot;We\r\nAre Seven&quot;.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 281</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>power and has its use and utility. It is the power that\r\ngives the form and pattern for the display of consciousness and\r\nintelligence in outward expression and external living; it is a firm\r\nweapon that gives control over these inferior ranges of\r\nconsciousness. The leap from the sense-consciousness or the ele­ments\r\nof consciousness, from a mental growth just adequate and not too\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">specialised</SPAN>, straight into the\r\nsupra-sensuous and the transcendent had been an inevitable necessity,\r\nso that the human consciousness might get the first taste of its\r\nsupreme status and value: a similar necessity brought to the fore\r\nthis element of the mind, the mind\'s own power - of <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">judgement</SPAN>\r\nand will-so that there might be a greater and wider integration of\r\nhuman nature and also that the higher realities may be captured in\r\nour normal consciousness. Even for the withdrawal of the mind from\r\nthe outer objects to the inner sources, the mind itself can be used\r\nwith much effect. And Buddha showed it magnificently. And of course,\r\nShankara too who followed in his footsteps.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>To abrogate the matter of fact, rational view of life in\r\norder to view it spiritually, to regard it wholly as an expression or\r\nembodiment or vibration of consciousness-delight was possible to the\r\nVedic discipline which saw and adored the Immanent Godhead. It was\r\nnot possible to Buddha and Buddhistic consciousness; for the Immanent\r\nDivine was ignored in the Buddhistic scheme. Philosophically, in\r\nregard to ultimate principles, Buddhism was another name for\r\nnihilism, creation being merely an assemblage of particles of\r\nconsciousness that is desire; the particles scattered and dissolved,\r\nremains only the supreme incomparable Nirvana. But pragmatically\r\nBuddhism was supremely humanistic.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>As it took man as a rational animal, at least as a\r\nstarting-point, even so it gave a sober human value to things human.\r\nA <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">rationalist\'s</SPAN> eye made him see and\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">recognise</SPAN> the normal misery of mankind; and\r\nthe great compassion goaded him to find the way out of the misery. It\r\nwas not a dispassionate quest into the ultimate truth and reality nor\r\nan all-consuming zeal to meet the Divine that set Buddha on the Path;\r\nit was the everyday problem of the ordinary man which troubled his\r\nmind, and for which he sought a solution, a permanent radical\r\nsolution. The Vedanist saw only delight and ecstasy and beatitude;\r\nfor</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 282</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>him the dark shadow did not exist at all or did not\r\nmatter; it was the product of illusion or wrong view of things; one\r\nwas asked to ignore or turn away from this and look towards That.\r\nSuch was not the Buddha\'s procedure.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>These are the two primary <I>truths - <FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>rya\r\nsarya-which </I>Buddha\'s illumination meant and for which he has\r\nbecome one of the great divine leaders of humanity. First, he has\r\ndiscovered man\'s rationality, and second, he has discovered man\'s\r\nhumanity. Since his advent two thousand and five hundred years ago\r\ntill the present day, in this what may pertinently be called the\r\nBuddhist age of humanity, the entire growth, development and\r\npreoccupation of mankind was <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">centred</SPAN> upon\r\nthe twofold truth. Science and religion today are the highest\r\nexpressions of that achievement.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>They speak of the coming of a new Buddha (Maitreya) with\r\nthe close of the cycle now, ushering another cycle of new growth and\r\nachievement. It is said also that humanity has reached its apex, a\r\ngreat change-over is inevitable: seers and savants have declared that\r\nman will have to surpass himself and become superman in order to\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">fulfil</SPAN> what was expected of him since his\r\nadvent upon earth. If we say that the preparation for such a\r\nconsummation was taken up at the last stage by the Buddha and\r\nBuddhism, and the Buddhistic inspiration, we will not be wrong. It\r\nwas a cycle of ascending tapasya for the human vehicle: it was a\r\nseeking for the pure spirit which meant a clearance of the many\r\nignorances that shrouded it. It was also an urge of the spirit to\r\nencompass in its fold a larger and larger circle of humanity: it\r\nmeant that the spiritual consciousness is no more an aristocratic or\r\nhermetic virtue, but a need in which the people, the large mass, have\r\nalso their share, maybe in varying degrees.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A new humanity broad-based to encompass the whole earth,\r\nexpressing and embodying the light and power and joy of spiritual\r\nheights, forming a happy world state, may very well announce in the\r\nnew age the descent of a supreme truth and principle of existence\r\nhere below.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; border-top-style:none; border-right-style:none; border-left-style:none; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 283</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; widows: 0; orphans: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"right\"> \r\n<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"37\" height=\"46\" border=\"0\"></a></P>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-43_The Mission of Buddhism','','publish','closed','open','','43_the-mission-of-buddhism','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/43_the-mission-of-buddhism/',0,'post','',0),(1975,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	\r\n	<TITLE>Appendix</TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\" DIR=\"LTR\">\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-bottom:0;margin-top:0\"><B>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Appendix</font></B></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">I \r\n</font></b> \r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">WORDSWORTH*</font></b></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>I\r\ndid not come to appreciate the poetry of Wordsworth in my school\r\ndays, it happened in college, and to a large extent thanks to\r\nProfessor Manmohan Ghose. In our school days, the mind and heart of\r\nBengali students were saturated with the poetry of Tagore: .</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=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.51in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>In the bower of my youth the love-bird sings,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.51in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Wake up, O darling, wake;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.51in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Opening thy lids lazy with love,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.51in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Wake up, O darling, wake. . .</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>This\r\npoetry belongs to the type once <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">characterised</SPAN>\r\nas follows by our humorous novelist Prabhat Mukherji through one of\r\nhis characters, a <I>s<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>dhu,\r\n</I>describing the charms of the Divine Name:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>It has the sweetness and the sugar</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>of <I>sandesh </I>and <I>rasogulla.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>It is needless to say that to young hearts enraptured by\r\nsuch language and feeling, Wordsworth\'s</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Oft I had heard of Lucy Gray!</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And when I crossed the wild,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>I chanced to see at break of day</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The solitary child...<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT>\r\n</FONT>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2>*\r\nTranslated from the original Bengali by Sri Sanat Kumar Banerji</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT>\r\n&quot;Lucy Gray&quot;.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page &amp;ndash; 230</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>would\r\nappear rather dull and dreary, tasteless almost.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Let me in this connection tell you a story. We were then\r\nin college. The Swadeshi movement was in full flood, carrying\r\neverything before it. We the young generation of students had been\r\nswept off our feet. One day, an elder among us whom I used to\r\nconsider personally as my friend, philosopher and guide, happened to\r\npass a remark which rather made me lose my bearings a little. He was\r\nlisting the misdeeds of the British in India. &quot;This nation of\r\nshopkeepers!&quot; he was saying, &quot;There is no end to their\r\ntrickeries to cheat us. Take, for instance, this question of\r\neducation. The system they have set up with the high-sounding title\r\nof \'University\' and \'the advancement of learning\' is nothing more\r\nthan a machine for creating a band of inexpensive clerks and slaves\r\nto serve them. They have been throwing dust into our eyes by easily\r\npassing off useless Brummagem ware with the label of the real thing.\r\nOne such eminently useless stuff is their poet Wordsworth, whom they\r\nhave tried to foist on our young boys to their immense detriment.&quot;\r\nThis remark was no doubt a testimony to his inordinate love of\r\ncountry. But it remains to be seen how far it would bear scrutiny as\r\nbeing based on truth.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>For us in India, especially to Bengalis, the first and\r\nforemost obstacle to accepting Wordsworth as a poet would be his\r\nsimple, artless and homely manner:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Behold her, single in the field,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Yon solitary Highland lass!</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>And,\r\nas a classic instance of that famous homely diction, the line that\r\nfollows:</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=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Will no one tell me what she sings?</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Who\r\nwould\' be moved by lines such as these?</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent:0.3in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>On the gates of entry to the poetic world of Wordsworth\r\nis engraved this motto:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	The\r\nGods approve</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	The\r\ndepth, and not the tumult, of the soul<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT>&quot;Laodamia&quot;,\r\n74, <I>Poems of the Imagination</I></FONT><I><FONT SIZE=1>.</FONT></I></FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2><I>Page &amp;ndash; 231</I></FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>It\r\nis as if the hermitage of old, an abode of peace and quiet,\r\n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">sa</FONT><I>nta-ras<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>spadam-<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">as</FONT>ramam-idam.\r\n</I>All here is calm and unhurried, simple and natural and\r\ntransparent, there is no muddy current of tempestuous upheavals. That\r\nis why the poet feels in his heart as if he were</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=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:1in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>. . . . quiet as a nun</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:1in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Breathless with adoration.<sup>1</sup></FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>or\r\nelse</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.99in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The winds come to me from the fields of sleep.</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:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Here is an easy, natural, limpid flow, undisturbed in\r\nits movement and yet with a pleasant charm and filled with an\r\nunderlying sweetness. But perhaps one has to listen intently to get\r\nat the sweetness and beauty of such lines. They do not strike the\r\nouter ear for they set up no eddies there; the inner hearing is their\r\nbase.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>She was a Phantom of delight</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>When first she gleamed; upon my sight<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Is this not a silent opening of the divine gates of\r\nvision?</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Ethereal minstrel! pilgrim of the sky!<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">³</FONT></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:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Do not these words bear us far away on some unknown\r\nwings?</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">Tranquillity</SPAN> and a pleasant\r\nsweetness are then the first doors of entry. Through the second doors\r\nwe come to a wide intimacy, an all-pervading unity, where man and\r\nnature have fused into one. This unity and universality breathe\r\nthrough and inspire such simple yet startling words:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>I wandered lonely as a cloud</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That floats on high o\'er vales and hills,<sup>4</sup></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT> &quot;It is a\r\nbeauteous Evening, calm and free&quot;, <I>Miscellaneous Sonnets.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT>\r\n&quot;She was a Phantom of delight,&quot; <I>Poems if the\r\nImagination, VIII.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">³</FONT>\r\n&quot;To a Skylark&quot;, <I>Ibid., XXX.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT SIZE=1 STYLE=\"font-size: 6pt\">4</FONT>\r\n&quot;I wandered lonely as a dud,&quot; <I>Ibid., XII.</I></FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; font-style:normal; text-decoration:none; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page &amp;ndash; 232</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Or,</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=\"margin-left:0.49in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her\r\nface.<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Or\r\nelse, this easy and natural yet deep-serious utterance carrying the\r\nburden of a mantra:</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=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Thou hadst a voice whose sound was like the sea:<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT></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:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Once we cross beyond these second gates we reach an\r\ninner region, a secluded apartment of the soul where poetry assumes\r\nthe garb of magic, a transcendent skill lends to words the\r\nsupernatural beauty and grace of a magician\'s art. How often we have\r\nread these lines and heard them repeated and yet they have not grown\r\nstale:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A voice so thrilling never was heard. . .</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Breaking the silence of the seas</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Among the farthest Hebrides</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>Or,</FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Have sight of Proteus rising from the sea</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Or hear old Triton blow his wreath<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">é</FONT>d\r\nhorn.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>This\r\nmagic has no parallel, except perhaps in Shakespeare\'s</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=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>						Daffodils,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That come before the swallow dares, and take</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The winds of March with beauty; violets, dim<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">³</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Sri Aurobindo has referred to another point of greatness\r\nin Wordsworth, where the poetic mind has soared still higher, opening\r\nitself not merely to an intimacy but to the voice of a highest\r\ninfinity:</FONT></P>\r\n		<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT> &quot;Three years\r\nshe Grew,&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT>\r\n&quot;Milton! thou shouldst be living at this hour&quot;, <I>Poems\r\nDedicated to National</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"text-indent:0.14in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2><I>lndepenrknce and Liberty, </I>XIV,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">³</FONT>\r\n<I>The Winter\'s Tale, </I>Act IV, Sc. 4.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page -233</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.49in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The marble index of a mind for ever</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.49in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Voyaging through strange seas of Thought, alone.<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Thus,\r\nwith this poet we gain admittance to the very heart, the innermost\r\nsanctuary of poetry where we fully <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">realise</SPAN>\r\nwhat our old Indian critics had laid down as their final verdict,\r\nnamely, that the poetic delight is akin to the Delight of Brahman.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But even the moon has its spots, and in Wordsworth the\r\nspots are of a fairly considerable magnitude. Manmohan Ghose too had\r\nmentioned to us these defects. Much of Wordsworth is didactic and\r\nrhetoric, that is, of the nature of preaching, hence prosaic and\r\nnon-poetical although couched in verse. Ghose used to say that even\r\nthe <I>Ode on the Intimations of Immortality </I>which is so\r\nuniversally admired is mainly didactic and is by and large rhetoric,\r\nwith very little real poetry in it. I must confess however that to me\r\npersonally, some of its passages have a particular charm, like</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Our birth is but a sleep and forgetting:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The Soul that rises with us, our life\'s Star,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>	Hath had elsewhere its setting,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And cometh from afar...</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But trailing clouds of glory do we come...</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Atul Gupta had seen perhaps only the adverse side of\r\nWordsworth. He had marked the heavy hand of the logician,\r\n<I>sth<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">u</FONT>la-hast<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>valepa,\r\n</I>but omitted to see the delicate workmanship of the artist. But a\r\nman\'s true quality has to be judged by his best performance, and the\r\nbest work of Wordsworth is indeed of a very high order.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Matthew Arnold brings out very well the nature of\r\nWords-worth\'s best work. Wordsworth at his peak, he says, seems to\r\nhave surpassed even Shakespeare. He is then no longer in his own\r\nself. Mother Nature herself has taken her seat there and 	she goes on\r\nwriting herself through the hands of the poet.<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>	Breaking the silence of the seas	.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Among\r\nthe farthest Hebrides,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT> <I>Prelude, </I>III.\r\nII. 62-63.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2>	<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">²</FONT>\r\n&quot;Nature herself seems, I say, to take the pen out of his hand,\r\nand to</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=2>write\r\nfor him with her own bare, sheer, penetrating power.&quot;-Matthew\r\nArnold, <I>Essays in Criticism.</I></FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; font-style:normal; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page <font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font> 234</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>or\r\nelse,</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=\"margin-left:0.49in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Or hear old Triton blow his wreathed horn</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=LEFT style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>are\r\nindeed the highest peaks of English poetry.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Sri Aurobindo has said that Vyasa is the most masculine\r\nof poets. Echoing his words we may say that Wordsworth is the most\r\nmasculine of English poets. This classification of poets into\r\n&quot;masculine&quot; and &quot;feminine&quot; was made by the poet\r\nColeridge. &quot;Masculine&quot; means in the first place, <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">shorn</SPAN>\r\nof ornament, whereas the &quot;feminine&quot; loves ornament.\r\nSecondly, the masculine has intellectuality and the feminine\r\nemotionalism. Then again, femininity is sweetness and charm,\r\nmasculinity implies hard restraint; the feminine has movement, like\r\nthe flow of a stream, the play of melody, while the masculine has\r\nimmobility, like the stillness of sculpture, the stability of a rock.\r\nThis is the difference between the Mahabharata and the Ramayana,\r\nbetween the styles of Vyasa and Valmiki. This too is the difference\r\nbetween Wordsworth and Shelley. The Ramayana has always been\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">recognised</SPAN> for its poetic beauty; Valmiki\r\nis our first great poet, <FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT><I>di-kavi.\r\n</I>In the Mahabharata we appreciate not so much the beauty of poetic\r\nform as a treasury of knowledge, on polity and ethics, culture and\r\nspirituality. We consider the Gita primarily as a work of philosophy,\r\nnot of poetry. In the same way, Wordsworth has not been able to\r\ncapture the mind and heart of India or Bengal as Shelley has done. In\r\norder truly to appreciate Wordsworth\'s poetry, one must be something\r\nof a meditative ascetic, <I>dhy<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">i</FONT>,\r\ntapasvi </I>indeed,</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=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>. . . quiet as a nun Breathless</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left:0.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>with adoration. . .</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page - 235</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" STYLE=\"margin-left: 0.5in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"> \r\n  <a href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"37\" height=\"47\" border=\"0\"></a></P>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-33_Wordsworth','','publish','closed','open','','33_wordsworth','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/33_wordsworth/',0,'post','',0),(1976,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	\r\n	<TITLE></TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\" DIR=\"LTR\">\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-bottom:0;margin-top:0\"><B>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Of\r\nDesire and Atonement</font></B></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>WHEREVER\r\nyou meet a ray of real light, a gleam of genuine beauty, a particle\r\nof true truth- go back with it to its original source. Follow the\r\ntrack to the end and you will find yourself in the embrace of the\r\nDivine.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Close not your senses -however earthly they may be.\r\nFling them all wide open -open always and everywhere, but to the\r\nDivine.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Life itself becomes Art - the very highest form of Art -\r\nwhen it is <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">moulded</SPAN> in the rhythm of the\r\nSupreme Beauty, when its steps follow the cadences of the Divine.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Every softening of the heart towards things of the earth\r\nis a hardening of it to the things of Heaven.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Of the host of desires you cherish, not many are really\r\nfulfilled; and even these are fulfilled only in a way.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Not much is lost by not <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">harbouring</SPAN>\r\ndesires; mostly, it is not enjoyment of desire, but the deceptive\r\npleasure of anticipation that you lose.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>	Desirelessness brings about a sovereign <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">fulfilment</SPAN>,\r\nnot of</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page -  353</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n \r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>desires,\r\nbut of the out - reachings of a divine Will in you, of which your\r\ndesires are the negation.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Desire lost opens the way to the enjoyment of Delight\r\nsupernal.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.14in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>There is not much virtue in going down the slope; all\r\ncan do that-for the natural gravitation of the consciousness is\r\ndownward.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>He is the hero who resists the temptation to let himself\r\nslip, even for a moment, even to the extent of a hair\'s breadth.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.13in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The only atonement for a wrong thing done is to do the\r\nright thing on the next occasion.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.13in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><I>***</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><I>Tapasy<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>: </I>Never\r\nto let yourself slip down, always to maintain your progress up the\r\nslope.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Never say, &quot;I cannot.&quot; Look more closely, you\r\nwill find that it means in reality, &quot;I want not.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Each difficulty can be an opportunity for a new\r\nprogress. For what is meant by a difficulty ? A flaw in the nature\r\nbrought before the consciousness that it may be dealt with and\r\nremedied. </FONT>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Behind every difficulty is hidden a Truth; overcome it\r\nand a passage is made clear for that Truth\'s manifestation.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	Every\r\napparent Negation is an index to an Affirmation waiting behind it.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 354</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>You increase your difficulty by thinking it difficult;\r\nconsider it easy and it will be made easy to you.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3><I><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Maya </FONT></I>is\r\nreal only because you - are unwilling to think it otherwise; once\r\nawake from <I><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Maya</FONT> </I>and\r\nyou will find not only that it is no more, but that it has never\r\nbeen.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Facts\r\nby themselves are not great or small; it is the forces behind them\r\nthat give them their real stature.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Facts have value in so far as they are\r\nsignificant-significant of forces, of dynamic possibilities that work\r\nout in and through them.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Facts in their outward form may even directly contradict\r\nthe very forces that manifest through them or are embodied in them.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Do not turn back seeing the desert in front. Traverse it\r\nwith courage and fortitude-for beyond is the promised land flowing\r\nwith milk and honey.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>None is truly weak, not even any limb or element in him.\r\nOne has only to open to the Universal Power, the Divine Mother; she\r\nis the origin and fountain-head of all strength and energy and she\r\ncan make the mute speak and the lame leap over the mountains.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>There is no error that cannot be repaired and even\r\nturned to advantage.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>There is no loss that cannot be made up and even turned\r\nto a greater gain.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Each fall or failure should be only a drawing back so\r\nthat you can leap to a greater height - till you reach the summit and\r\nfall and fail no more.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 355</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Your past has created your present; create by your\r\npresent the future.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>You can not only obliterate the past, but make it even\r\nas if it had never been.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; font-weight: medium; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>As the consciousness rises upwards from the Present and\r\nbroadens out, it not only creates the Future but also recreates the\r\nPast.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Years are not needed to undo the sins of years - a\r\nsingle moment can efface an age.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A solitary second can be the spark potent to explode a\r\nwhole past.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A dip into the ocean of Grace and you come out clean,\r\nshedding all the Past, reborn unto the Future.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A single drop of poison can vitiate the entire stream of\r\nwhole some blood in the body.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But there is too a Purity, a drop of which can render\r\ncrystal clear a whole morass of soil and dirt.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page -  356</FONT></P>\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Here\r\nis the first one as I translate it:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3><B>BARITONE<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></B></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Let us all move together, one and all,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Together into the cavern of the ribs,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Raise there a song of discordant sounds <I>\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font>\r\n</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Red and blue and white, kin or alien.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Listen, the groan plays on:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Dreams as if possessed</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Swing, like bats on branches;</FONT></P>\r\n		<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<BR CLEAR=LEFT>\r\n		</p>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<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: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 212</span></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Is\r\nnow the time for the dance?</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Come,\r\nlet us all move together, one and all.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Let\r\nthe streams meet in the body, one -and all,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Yes,\r\nlet the bones brighten up still more;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Let\r\nus all go around the fire</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>And\r\nscrape and eat of the very Liver, the Muse\'s self <I>\r\n<font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font>\r\n</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Let\r\nus go, let us go, one and all.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 3in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>DIP AK MAJUMDAR</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Can you make any sense out of it? This seems to be\r\nsurrealistic with a vengeance. Anyhow there is no doubt that it is a\r\npuzzle, a veritable Chinese puzzle. The puzzle however appeared to me\r\ninteresting. I felt that the poet, through this <I>cryptic&nbsp; –&nbsp; mantric&nbsp; \r\n–&nbsp; collocation </I>of words and images, attempted to\r\ngive expression to an uncommon experience. It was as though I entered\r\ninto a Tantric experience <I>&nbsp;–&nbsp; </I>but of the left-handed path\r\n<I>(v<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>m<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>c<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>ra).</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.16in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>There is a Tantric discipline which speaks of the\r\n<I>body-fulfilment (k<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>y<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>siddhi),\r\n</I>a spiritual consummation in and through the body; the\r\nbody-consciousness, according to this view, is the greatest reality.\r\nAnd whatever is achieved must have its final and definitive\r\nexpression and manifestation there, in that concrete reality.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The body, the body-consciousness, our poet says here, is\r\nto be a confluence, where all the streams of consciousness, all the\r\nmovements of the being, flow in: movements of life-force, movements\r\nof the mind, secret 1.1.rges of the subliminal physical consciousness\r\n<I>&nbsp;–&nbsp; </I>pure and impure, things foreign to its nature, things\r\nthat are its own, elements friendly and unfriendly, all assemble in a\r\nmarket-place, as it were, the result being a huge horrid discordant\r\nmusic, a groaning, a bellowing of a queer orchestra <I>&nbsp;–&nbsp; </I>the\r\nbass, the lowest note of the system that the human vehicle is.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>There is a call for all the parts of the being to\r\nprecipitate to the very foundation of the being, coalesce and evoke a\r\nwild and weird, doleful and discordant symphony <I>&nbsp;–&nbsp; </I>a\r\npainful cry. Unrealised dreams, that had faded into oblivion, are now\r\nlike possessed beings and hang like bats on darkling branches:</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; border-top: medium none; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; padding-top: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 213</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-right: 0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>they are about to begin their phantom dance. Even so,\r\nthe body, the material precipitate into which they gather, gives them\r\na basic unity. These elements with their ardour and zeal kindle a\r\ncommon Fire. There is a divine Flame, Agni, burning within the flesh,\r\nburning brighter and brighter, making the bones whiter and whiter, as\r\nit were <I>&nbsp;–&nbsp; </I>the purificatory Flame, <I>P<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>vaka,\r\n</I>of which the Vedic Rishis spoke, Master of the House, <I>grhapati,\r\n</I>dwelling in the inner heart of the human being, impelling it to\r\nrise to purer and larger Truth. But here our modern poet replaces the\r\nHeart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human\r\naspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that\r\nthe French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position <I>&nbsp;–&nbsp;\r\n</I>and function <I>&nbsp;– </I> &nbsp;to the other collateral organ, the\r\nspleen. The modern Bengali poet considers that man\'s consciousness,\r\neven his poetic inspiration, is soaked in the secretion of that\r\nbilious organ. For man\'s destiny here upon earth is not delight but\r\ngrief, not sweetness but gall and bitterness; there is no\r\nconsolation, no satisfaction here; there is only thirst, no\r\ngenerosity but narrowness, no consideration for others, but a huge\r\nsinister egoism.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The cry of our poet is a cry literally <I>de prifundis,\r\n</I>a deep cavernous voice surging, spectral and yet sirenlike, out\r\nof the unfathomed underground abysses.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The cry has nothing in it, very evidently, like the\r\nthrill of a skylark\'s throat.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Something of the purer atmosphere of the heights and\r\nheavens we breathe in our second poem. We move no more here in the\r\ndarker left-handed labyrinthine path, but swim in a lighter clearer\r\nair through which passes the right-handed path. Here it is in its\r\nserene simplicity:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.17in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3><B>I\r\nEMBARK<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">¹</FONT></B></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Trampling\r\nmy own shadow</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	on\r\na long, long path I came</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>And\r\nsaw a river of gladness.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/Bengali%20poem%20-%201.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"84\"><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: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"> \r\n  <BR CLEAR=LEFT>\r\n  <FONT face=\"Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page\r\n- 214</span></FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n&nbsp;</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>I pushed the bank with my left foot</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And with my right landed in the boat.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Here a straw canopy over the head,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A wooden floor to sit upon,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A sure helm and an oar within reach</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And a sail to unfurl in the sky:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>All were there<I> – </I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1.99in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1.99in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>A whole lungful of breath</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1.99in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Grew into a flight of white pigeons</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1.99in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That found the sky.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=LEFT STYLE=\"margin-left: 1.99in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=RIGHT STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT FACE=\"Courier New, monospace\" SIZE=\"3\">PURNENDU\r\nPRASAD</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/Bengali%20poem%20-%202.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"257\"></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\"><BR CLEAR=LEFT>\r\n  <FONT SIZE=3><I>Kasmai\r\ndev<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>ya havis<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>\r\n vidhema? </I>To which god then shall we dedicate our offering?</FONT></P>\r\n		<P ALIGN=center STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height: 150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<BR>\r\n<span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">Page - 215</span> </P>\r\n<hr align=\"justify\" style=\"text-indent:0.14in; line-height:0.17in; margin-bottom:0in;\">\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"text-indent:0.14in; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0;margin-top:0\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"40\" height=\"52\" border=\"0\"></a></p>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-29_Two Mystic Poem in Modern Bengali','','publish','closed','open','','29_two-mystic-poem-in-modern-bengali','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/29_two-mystic-poem-in-modern-bengali/',0,'post','',0),(1978,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','<!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>â€œThe Marriage of Heaven and Hellâ€</TITLE>\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">William\r\nBlake: â€œThe Marriage of Heaven and Hellâ€</font></b></p>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=3>THE\r\nideal was Blake\'s. It will not sound so revolting if we understand\r\nwhat the poet meant by Hell. Hell, he explains, is simply the body,\r\nthe Energy of Life â€“ hell, because body and life on earth were so\r\nconsidered by the orthodox Christianity. The Christian ideal demands\r\nan absolute denial and <SPAN STYLE=\"font-style: normal\"><FONT FACE=\"Times New Roman\">rejection\r\nof life. Fulfilment is elsewhere, in heaven alone. That is, as we\r\nknow, the ideal of the ascetic. The life of the spirit (in. heaven)\r\nis a thing away from and stands against the life of the flesh (on\r\nearth). In the face of this discipline, countering it, Blake posited\r\na union, a marriage of the two, considered incompatibles and\r\nincommensurables. </FONT></SPAN><I>Enfant terrible </I>that he was,\r\nhe took an infinite delight in a spirit of contradiction and went on\r\nexpatiating on the glory of the <I>m<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&eacute;</FONT>salliance.\r\n</I>He declared a new apocalypse and said that Lucifer, the one\r\ncalled Satan, was the real God, the so-called Messiah the fake one:\r\nthe apparent Milton spoke in praise of God and in dispraise of Satan,\r\nbut the real, the esoteric Milton glorified Satan, who is the true\r\nGod and minimised or caricatured the counterfeit or shadow God. Here\r\nis Blakean Bible in a nutshell:</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But first the notion that man has a body distinct from\r\nhis soul is to be expunged.. . . If the doors of perception were\r\ncleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The eyes of fire, the nostrils of air, the mouth of\r\nwater, the beard of earth.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=3>Such\r\nis to be the ideal, the perfect, the spiritual man. Have we </FONT><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; margin:0; text-indent:0; 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%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 125</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=3>here\r\nthe progenitor of the Nietzschean Superman? Both smell almost the\r\nsame sulphurous atmosphere. But that also seems to lie in the\r\ndirection to which the whole world is galloping in its evolutionary\r\ncourse. Humanity in its agelong travail has passed through the agony,\r\none might say, of two extreme and opposite experiences, which are\r\nepitomised in the classic phrasing of Sri Aurobindo as: (1) the\r\nDenial of the Materialist and (2) the Refusal of the Ascetic.<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&sup1;</FONT>\r\nNeither, however, the Spirit alone nor the body alone is man\'s\r\nreality; neither only the earth here nor only the heaven there\r\nembodies man\'s destiny. Both have to be claimed, both have to be\r\n<I>lived â€“ ubhayameva samr<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>t, </I>as\r\nthe old sage, Yajnavalkya, declared.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The earliest dream of humanity is also the last\r\nfulfilment. The Vedic Rishis sang of the marriage of heaven and earth\r\nâ€“ Heaven is my father and this Earth my mother. And Blake and\r\nNietzsche are fiery apostles of that dream and ideal in an age\r\ncrippled with doubt, falsehood, smallness, crookedness, impotence,\r\ncolossal ignorance.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We welcome voices that speak of this ancient tradition,\r\nthis occult Knowledge of a high Future. Recently we have come across\r\none aspirant in the line, and being a contemporary, his views and\r\nreviews in the matter will be all the more interesting to us.<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&sup2;</FONT>\r\nHe is Gustave Thibon, a Frenchman-not a priest or even a religious\r\nman in the orthodox sense in any way, but a country farmer, a wholly\r\nself-educated <I>la<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&iuml;</FONT>que. </I>Of\r\nlate he has attracted a good deal of attention from intellectuals as\r\nwell as religious people, especially the Catholics, because of his\r\nremarkable conceptions which are so often unorthodox and yet so often\r\nringing true with an old-world authenticity.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Touching the very core of the malady of our age he says\r\nthat our modern enlightenment seeks to cancel altogether the higher\r\nvalues and install instead the lower alone as true. Thus, for\r\nexample, Marx and Freud, its twin arch priests, are brothers. Both\r\ndeclare that it is the lower, the under layer alone that matters: to\r\none &quot;the masses&quot;, to the other &quot;the instincts&quot;.\r\nTheir wild imperative roars: &quot;Sweep away this pseudo-higher; let\r\nthe instincts rule, let the pro-letariat dictate!&quot; But more\r\ncharacteristic, Monsieur Thibon has made another discovery which\r\ngives the whole value and</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=2><I><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&sup1;</FONT>\r\n The Life Divine</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=2><FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">&sup2;\r\n</FONT><I>The Times Literary Supplement, </I>January 15, 1949</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; margin:0; text-indent:0; 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%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 126</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=3>speciality\r\nto his outlook. He says the moderns stress the lower, no doubt; but\r\nthe old world stressed only the higher and neglected the lower.\r\nTherefore the revolt and wrath of the lower, the rage of <I>Revanche\r\n</I>in the heart of the dispossessed in the modern world.\r\nEnlightenment meant till now the cultivation and embellishment of the\r\nMind, the conscious Mind, the rational and nobler faculties, the\r\nheight and the depth: and mankind meant the princes and the great\r\nones. In the individual, in the scheme of his culture and education,\r\nthe senses were neglected, left to go their own way as they pleased;\r\nand in the collective field, the toiling masses in the same way lived\r\nand moved as best as they could under the economics of <I>laissez-faire.\r\n</I>So Monsieur Thibon concludes: &quot;Salvation has never come from\r\nbelow. To look for it from above only is equally vain. No doubt\r\nsalvation must come from the higher, but on condition that the higher\r\ncompletely adopts and protects the lower.&quot; Here is a vision\r\nluminous and revealing, full of great import, if we follow the right\r\ntrack, prophetic of man\'s true destiny. It is through this\r\ninfiltration of the higher into the lower and the integration of the\r\nlower into the higher that mankind will reach the goal of its\r\nevolution, both individually and collectively.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But the process, Monsieur Thibon rightly asserts, must\r\nbegin with the individual and within the individual. Man must &quot;turn\r\nwithin, feel alive within himself&quot;, re-establish his living\r\ncontact with God, the source and origin from which he has cut himself\r\noff. Man must learn to subordinate <I>having </I>to <I>being. </I>Each\r\nindividual must be himself, a free and spontaneous expression. Upon\r\nsuch individual , upon individuals grouped naturally in smaller\r\ncollectivities and not upon unformed or ill-formed wholesale masses\r\ncan a perfect human society be raised and will be raised. Monsieur\r\nThibon insists â€“ and very rightly â€“ upon the variety and\r\ndiversity of individual and local growths in a unified humanity and\r\nnot a dead uniformity of regimented oneness. He declares, as the\r\nreviewer of the London <I>Times </I>succinctly puts it: &quot;Let us\r\nabolish our insensate worship of number. Let us repeal the law of\r\nmajorities. Let us work for the unity that draws together instead of\r\nidolizing the multiplicity that disintegrates. Let us understand that\r\nit is not enough for each to have a place; what matters is that each</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; margin:0; text-indent:0; 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%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 127</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"><FONT SIZE=3>should\r\nbe in his right place. For the atomized society let us substitute an\r\norganic society, one in which every man will be free to do what he\r\nalone is qualified and able to do.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>So far so good. For it is not far enough. The being or\r\nbecoming that is demanded in fulfilment of the divine advent in\r\nhumanity must go to the very roots of life and nature, must seize God\r\nin his highest and sovereign status. No prejudice of the past, no\r\nnotion of our mental habits must seek to impose its law. Thus, for\r\nexample, in the matter of redeeming the senses by the influx of the\r\nhigher light, our author seems to consider that the senses will\r\nremain more or less as they are, only they will be controlled,\r\nguided, used by the higher light. And he seems to think that even the\r\nsex relation (even the institution of marriage) may continue to\r\nremain, but sublimated, submitted to the laws of the Higher Order.\r\nThis, according to us, is a dangerous compromise and is simply the\r\nimposition of the lower law upon the higher. Our view of the total\r\ntransformation and divinisation of the Lower is altogether different.\r\nThe Highest must come down wholly and inhabit in the Lowest, the\r\nLowest must give up altogether its own norms and lift itself into the\r\nsubstance and form too of the Highest.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Viewed in this light, Blake\'s memorable <I>mantra\r\n</I>attains a deeper and more momentous significance. For it is not\r\nmerely Earth-the senses and life and Matter that are to be uplifted\r\nand affianced to Heaven, but all that remains hidden within the\r\nbowels of the Earth, the subterranean regions of man\'s consciousness,\r\nthe slimy viscous undergrowths, the darkest horrors and monstrosities\r\nthat man and nature hide in their subconscient and inconscient\r\ndungeons of material existence, all these have to be laid bare to the\r\nsolar gaze of Heaven, burnt or transmuted as demanded by the law of\r\nthat Supreme Will. That is the Hell that has to be recognised, not\r\nrejected and thrown away, but taken up purified and transubstantiated\r\ninto the body of Heaven itself. The hand of the Highest Heaven must\r\nextend and touch the Lowest of the lowest elements, transmute it and\r\nset it in its rightful place of honour. A mortal body reconstituted\r\ninto an immemorial fossil, a lump of coal revivified into a flashing\r\ncarat of diamond-that shows something of the process underlying the\r\nnuptials of which we are speaking.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; margin:0; text-indent:0; 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%\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page â€“ 128</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" STYLE=\"margin:0; text-indent:0; line-height:150%\"> \r\n<a href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"39\" height=\"50\" 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</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-14_William Blake','','publish','closed','open','','14_william-blake','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/14_william-blake/',0,'post','',0),(1979,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','<!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>Vivekananda</TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en\">\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\">Vivekananda</font></b></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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>A\r\nPERSONAL reminiscence. A young man in prison, accused of conspiracy\r\nand waging war against the British Empire. If convicted he might have\r\nto suffer the extreme penalty, at least, transportation to the\r\nAndamans. The case is dragging on for long months. And the young man\r\nis in a solitary cell. He cannot always keep up his spirits high.\r\nMoments of sadness and gloom and despair come and almost overwhelm\r\nhim. Who was there to console and cheer him up? Vivekananda.\r\nVivekananda\'s speeches, <I>From Colombo to Almora, </I>came, as a\r\ngodsend, into the hands of the young man. Invariably, when the period\r\nof despondency came he used to open the book, read a few pages, read\r\nthem over again, and the cloud was there no longer. Instead there was\r\nhope and courage and faith and future and light and air.</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>Such is Vivekananda, the embodiment of Fearlessness â€“\r\n<I>abh<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>h , </I>the Upanishadic word,\r\nthe <I>mantra, </I>he was so fond of. The life and vision of\r\nVivekananda can be indeed summed up in the mighty phrase of the\r\nUpanishads, <I>n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>yam <FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>tm<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>\r\nbalah<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>nena labhyah . </I>\'This soul\r\nno weakling can attain.\' Strength! More strength! Strength evermore!\r\nOne remembers the motto of Danton, the famous leader in the French\r\nRevolution: <I>De l\'audance, encore de l\'audace, toujours de\r\nl\'audace!</I> </FONT>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.39cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The gospel of strength that Vivekananda spread was very\r\ncharacteristic of the man. For it is not mere physical or nervous\r\nbravery, although that too is indispensable, and it is something more\r\nthan moral courage. In the speeches referred to, the subject-matter\r\n(as well as the manner to a large extent) is philosophical,\r\nmetaphysical, even abstract in outlook and treatment: they are not a\r\ncall to arms, like the French National Anthem, for example; they are\r\nnot merely an ethical exhortation, </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.39cm; 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=2>Page â€“ 103</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>a moral lesson either. They speak of the inner spirit, the divine in\r\nman, the supreme realities that lie beyond. And yet the words are\r\npermeated through and through with a vibration life-giving and\r\nheroic-not so much in the explicit and apparent meaning as in the\r\nstyle and manner and atmosphere: it is catching, even or precisely\r\nwhen he refers, for example, to these passages in the Vedas and the\r\nUpanishads, magnificent in their poetic beauty, sublime in their\r\nspiritual truth, <I>nec plus ultra, </I>one can say, in the grand\r\nstyle supreme:</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3><I>	Yasyaite\r\nhimavanto mahitv<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT></I></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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	He\r\nwhose greatness these snowy ranges declare</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>or,</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3><I>	Na\r\ntatra s<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Å«</FONT>ryo bh<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>ti\r\nna eandrat<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>rak<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>m..</I>.</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	There\r\nthe\' sun shines not, nor the moon nor the stars</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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>or\r\nagam,</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3><I>	N<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>sad\r\n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>s<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>t\r\nna sad <FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>s<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>t\r\ntad<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>m</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3><I>	n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä</FONT>s<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>t\r\nraja no vyoma para yat..</I>.</FONT></P>\r\n<P style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	Then\r\nexistence was not nor non-existence, the mid</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>	world\r\nwas not nor the Ether nor what is beyond.</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:0.42cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The consciousness that breathed out these mighty words,\r\nthese heavenly sounds was in itself mighty and heavenly and it is\r\nthat that touches you, penetrates you, vibrates in you a kindred\r\nchord, &quot;awakening in you someone dead&quot; till then â€“ <I>mrtam\r\n<FONT FACE=\"Arial Narrow\">k<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä&ntilde;c</FONT>ana\r\n</FONT>bodhayant<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">Ä«</FONT>. </I>More than the\r\nmatter, the thing that was said, was the personality, the being who\r\nembodied the truth expressed, the living consciousness behind the\r\nwords and the speech that set fire to your soul. Indeed it was the\r\nsoul that Vivekananda could awaken and stir in you. Any orator, any\r\nspeaker with some kind of belief, even if it is for the moment, in\r\nwhat he says, by the sheer force of assertion, can convince your mind\r\nand draw your acquiescence and adhesion. A leader of men,\r\nself-confident and bold and fiery,</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=2 STYLE=\"font-size: 9pt\">Page â€“\r\n104</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>can\r\ncarry you off your feet and make you do brave things. But that is a\r\nlower degree of character and nature, ephemeral and superficial, that\r\nis touched in you thereby. The spiritual leader, the Guide, goes\r\nstraight to the spirit in you â€“ it is the call of the deep unto the\r\ndeep. That was what Vivekananda meant when he said that Brahman is\r\nasleep in you, awaken it, you are the Brahman, awaken it, you are\r\nfree and almighty. It is the spirit consciousness â€“ Sachchidananda\r\nâ€“ that is the real man in you and that is supremely mighty and\r\ninvincible and free absolutely. The courage and fearlessness that\r\nVivekananda gave you was the natural attribute of the lordship of\r\nyour spiritual reality. Vivekananda spoke and roused the Atman in\r\nman.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent:0.4cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Vivekananda spoke to the Atman in man, he spoke to the\r\nAtman of the world, and he spoke specially to the Atman of</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>India. India had a large place in Vivekananda\'s\r\nconsciousness: for the future of humanity and the world is wedded to\r\nIndia\'s future. India has a great mission, it has a spiritual, rather\r\n<I>the </I>spiritual work to do. Here is India\'s work as Vivekananda\r\nconceived it in a nutshell:</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>&quot;Shall India die? Then from the world all\r\nspirituality will be extinct.&quot; And wherefore is this call for\r\nthe life spiritual? Thus the aspiring soul would answer:</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>&quot;If I do not find bliss in the life of the spirit,\r\nshall I seek satisfaction in the life of the senses? If I cannot get\r\nnectar, shall I fall back upon ditch water?&quot;</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>The answer is as old as that of Nachiketas: &quot;These\r\nhorses and these songs and dances of yours, let them remain yours,\r\nman is not appeased with riches&quot;; or that of Maitreyi, &quot;What\r\nam I to do with that which will not bring me immortality?&quot; This\r\nis then man\'s mission upon earth:</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>&quot;Man is higher than all animals, than all angels:\r\nnone is greater than man. Even the Devas will have to come down again\r\nand attain to salvation though a human body. Man alone attains to\r\nperfection, not even the Devas.&quot; Indeed, men are gods upon\r\nearth, come down here below to perfect themselves and perfect the\r\nworld â€“ only, they have to be conscious of themselves. They do not\r\nknow what they are, they have to be actually and sovereignly what\r\nthey are really and potentially. This then is the life-work of\r\neveryone:</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.42cm; 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=2>Page â€“ 105</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;First, let us be Gods, and then help others to be\r\nGods. \'Be and make\', let this be our motto.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>That is indeed the only way of securing a harmonious and\r\nperfected humanity:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;Manifest the divinity within you, and everything\r\nwill be harmoniously arranged around it.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The path to this higher harmonious divine life is that\r\nof hard labour, of scrupulously untiring, conscientious work:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;It is struggle against nature and not conformity\r\nto nature that makes man what he is.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Work and not abstention from work is the way, but not\r\nwork for ignorant enjoyment:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;The dwelling-place of the Jivatman, this body, is\r\na veritable means of work, and he who converts this into an infernal\r\nden is guilty, and he who neglects it is also to blame.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>&quot;No work is petty ... He who can properly prepare a\r\n<I>chilam </I>(pipe of tobacco) can also properly meditate.&quot;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>These are luminous life-giving mantras and the world and\r\nhumanity of today, sore distressed and utterly confounded, have great\r\nneed of them to live them by and be saved.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.53cm; 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=2>Page â€“ 106</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" STYLE=\"text-indent:0.53cm; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"> \r\n<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"31\" height=\"44\" border=\"0\"></a></P>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-11_Vivekananda','','publish','closed','open','','11_vivekananda','','','2021-11-23 17:58:43','2021-11-23 17:58:43','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/11_vivekananda/',0,'post','',0),(1980,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	\r\n	<TITLE>Towards a New Ideology\r\n</TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\" DIR=\"LTR\">\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\">\r\n<FONT face=\"Times New Roman\"><B><font size=\"4\">Towards\r\n</font>\r\n</B></FONT><FONT face=\"Times New Roman,sans-serif\"><B><font size=\"4\">a New Ideology</font></B></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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>INDIA\r\nmust evolve her own political and social ideology; she must discover\r\nand establish in this domain also, as in all others that concern her\r\ncollective life, her own genius and rule. This is what Swaraj really\r\nmeans and demands.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Russia has her Sovietic Communism, Germany, for the\r\npresent at least, her Nazidom, Italy her totalitarian Fascism, old\r\nEngland her Parliamentarianism and France her Bureaucratism; each\r\nnation finds the norm and scheme of self-rule that suits its\r\ntemperament and character and changes and modifies that also in its\r\nown characteristic manner. Even so India must find her own scheme of\r\nSwarajya. If she is to live and be great and contribute something to\r\nthe enrichment and glory of human <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">civilisation</SPAN>,\r\nshe must look to herself, enter into herself and know and bring out\r\nwhat lies there buried. It is a grievous blunder to try to transplant\r\na Mussolinian or Leninian or a Hitlerian gospel on an Indian soil. It\r\nis not desirable nor is it truly possible.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>If, however, we take a right about turn and look away\r\nfrom the West to the Far East, we already see in Japan a different\r\ntype of national self-government. It is based on an altogether\r\ndifferent basis which may appear even novel to the modern and\r\nrationalistic European mentality. I am refer­ring to the\r\nconception of duty which <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">moulds</SPAN> and upholds\r\nthe Japanese body politic and body social, as opposed to the\r\nconception of right obtaining royal rule in the Occident.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The distinction between the attitudes that underlie\r\nthese two conceptions was once upon a time greatly \'stressed by\r\nVivekananda, who was the first to strike two or three major chords\r\nthat were needed to create the grand symphony of the Indian\r\nRenaissance. It is true Europe too had her Mazzini</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.15in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page -253</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>whose\r\nscheme of a new humanity was based on the conception of the <I>duties\r\n</I>of man. But his was a voice in the wilderness and he was not\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">honoured</SPAN> in his own country.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The malady of the modern age springs precisely from this\r\npoisonous source, viz., it views man as a bundle of rights and its\r\nproblem of social <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisation</SPAN> is the\r\nproblem of safeguarding and, if possible, even of increasing\r\nindividual and collective rights. Thus came into being the\r\ncompetitive society-a society necessarily red in tooth and claw like\r\nNature.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Vivekananda pointed out that one should rather think of</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>one\'s\r\nduties, how best to accomplish them and leave the rights to take care\r\nof themselves. Such an attitude would give a man the correct outlook,\r\nthe correct poise, the correct inspiration in living the collective\r\nlife. Instead of each one demanding and claiming what one regards as\r\none\'s dues and consequently scrambling and fighting for them (and\r\nmost often not getting them or getting at a ruinous expense - what\r\nmade Arjuna cry, &quot;What shall I do with the kingdom and all if in\r\ngaining it I lose everything that makes it worth having ?&quot;) if\r\none were content with knowing one\'s duty and doing it with a single\r\nmind, not only would there be peace and amity on earth, but also none\r\nwould be deprived of anything that is really due to him.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>It may be answered that there does not seem to be any\r\nspecial virtue in the word &quot;duty&quot;; for, the crimes\r\ncommitted under that ensign are not less numerous or violent than\r\nthose inspired by the ideal of Rights. It was once considered in some\r\nreligions to be the duty of the faithful to kill or coerce or convert\r\nas many as possible of another faith; it was the bounden duty of the\r\ngood shepherd to burn and flay the heretic. And in recent times the\r\nceremony of &quot;purge&quot; be-speaks of the same compulsion of the\r\nsense of duty in the consciousness of modern Messiahs. But the true\r\nname of the thing in all these cases is not duty, but <I>fanaticism.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>For fanaticism may be defined as duty running away with\r\nitself; but duty proper, the genuine form of it is something\r\nself-poised, its natural and inherent tendency being rather to give\r\nthan to demand, it is less easily provoked to aggression and battle.\r\nEven so, it may be claimed on behalf of Right that the right hand of\r\nRight is not likely to do harm, for it</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.17in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page - 254</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>is\r\nthen another name for liberty, it means the freedom to live one\'s\r\nlife unhampered without infringing on an equal facility for others to\r\ndo the same. But the whole difficulty comes in precisely with regard\r\nto the frontier of each other\'s sphere of rights. It is easy to\r\ndeclare the principle, but to carry it out in life and action is a\r\ndifferent matter. The line of demarcation between one\'s own rights\r\nand the rights of another is always indeterminate and indefinable. In\r\nestabilshing and maintaining one\'s rights there is always the\r\npossibility, even the certainty of &quot;frontier incidents&quot;, of\r\nencroaching upon other\'s rights. Liberty, alone and by itself, is not\r\na safe guide - therefore so much stress is being laid nowadays upon\r\ndiscipline and obedience in modern ideologies.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But perhaps the real truth of the matter here is that\r\nall these terms - liberty or right or even duty - are mental\r\nconceptions. They are indeed ideals, that is to say, made of the\r\nstuff of ideas and do not always coincide with the deeper realities\r\nof life and hence are not able to produce the perfect and durable\r\nharmony among warring members whether in the individual or in the\r\ncollective life.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We had in India a fairer word than &quot;duty&quot;, a\r\ndeeper and more luminous mantra: it is <I>dharma. </I>The expression\r\nhas certainly &quot;\'fallen on evil days and on evil tongues&quot;;\r\nit smells today of <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">mediaevalism</SPAN> and\r\nobscurantism and whatever is not &quot;forward&quot; and &quot;radical&quot;.\r\nStill we hark back to it: it is high time that we should resuscitate\r\nthe old word mantra-in spite of its musty covering, it carries the\r\npurest nugget of gold.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Indeed, Right, Duty and Dharma are three terms that\r\nrepresent the three stages of an ascending consciousness in its play\r\nof forces. At the base and beginning the original and primary state\r\nof consciousness is dominated by the mode of inertia <I>(tamas); </I>in\r\nthat state things are an inchoate mass and are simply jumbled\r\ntogether; they are moved and acted upon helplessly by forces that are\r\noutside them. A rise in the scale of growth and evolution occurs when\r\nthings begin to be Drganised, that is to say, differentiated and coordinated. And this means at the outset the self-assertion of each\r\nand every unit, the claim and the right of the individual to be\r\nitself first and foremost. It is a necessary development, for it\r\nsignifies the growth of self-conscious units out of a general unconsciousness. </FONT>\r\n<BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.17in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page-255</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>It is the appearance of <I>rajas, </I>the mode of life and</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>activity.\r\nRight belongs to this field and level: it is the lever that serves to\r\nbring out the individual nuclei from a general formlessness, it is\r\nthe force that <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">crystallises</SPAN> and <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organises</SPAN>\r\nthe separative <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">centres</SPAN> for separate\r\n<SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">fulfilment</SPAN> in life. And naturally it is the\r\nfield also of competition and conflict. This is a stage and has to be\r\ntranscended, from the domain of differentiation and contrariety one\r\nhas to rise to the domain of co-ordination and co-operation. Here\r\ncomes in the concept of duty which seeks to remedy the ills of the\r\nmodus of rights in two ways, first, by replacing the movement of\r\ntaking by that of giving, orienting the consciousness from the sense\r\nof self-sufficiency and self-importance towards that of submission\r\nand humbleness; secondly, by the recognition of the just rights of\r\nothers also against one\'s own. Duty represents the mode of sattwa in\r\naction.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>But the conception of duty too has its limitations. Even\r\napart from the misuses of the ideal to which we have already\r\nreferred, the ideal itself, is of the mental plane; it is more or\r\nless an act of mental will that seeks to impose a rule of\r\nco-operation upon the mutually excluding and conflicting entities.\r\nThe result is bound to be imperfect and precarious. For mind force,\r\nalthough it can exercise some kin5f. of control over the life forces,\r\ncannot altogether master them, and eradicate even the very seeds of\r\nconflict that breed naturally in that field. The sense of duty raises\r\nthe consciousness to the mode of <I>sattwa; sattwa </I>holds <I>rajas\r\n</I>in check, but is unable to eliminate wholly the propensities and\r\nimpulses of aberration ingrained in <I>rajas, </I>cannot radically\r\npurify or transfigure it.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We have to rise above <I>rajas </I>and <I>sattwa </I>to\r\nenter a domain where one meets the source of inevitable harmony,\r\nwhere the units without losing their true self and nature and\r\nreturning to the undifferentiated primordial mass, <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">fulfil</SPAN>\r\nthemselves and are yet held together in a rich and faultless\r\nsymphony. This is Dharma, that which holds together. Dharma means the\r\nlaw of one\'s soul. And when each soul follows its own law and line of\r\nlife, there cannot be any conflict; for the essence and substance of\r\nthe soul is made of unity and harmony. The souls move like the\r\nplanetary bodies, each in its. own orbit, and, because they do not\r\ncollide or clash, all together creating the silent music of the\r\nspheres.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.18in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page-256</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>This then is the basis upon which the new society and\r\nhumanity have to be built up, if we want to have a life on earth\r\nreally worth living. Individuals have to find out their real being\r\nand nature and embody that in life. Individuals will associate and\r\ncombine and form groups in response to the urge and impetus of a\r\ngroup harmony that seeks expression and embodiment.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The system of <I>varnas </I>and <I>ashram as </I>of\r\nancient India -even if it be supposed that it never existed actually\r\nin its purest ideal form-serves as a graphic example of how man as a\r\nsocial being should create and <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organise</SPAN> his\r\nexistence in order that that existence might be rendered as perfect\r\nand integrally sound as things can be. That system we hold forth as\r\nonly an illustration; we do not mean that it is a pattern of life\r\nthat should be or could be implanted on our present day social\r\ncircumstances. These are certainly very different and demand\r\ndifferent groupings and hierarchies that must naturally grow out of\r\nthem.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>It should be noted that in contemporary life stress is\r\nlaid upon one side, one part and one function of human nature which\r\ncover only a superficial -however useful and necessary - area. Man is\r\nnot a political animal (even in the Aristotelian sense); and it is an\r\nerror to say that he is an economic animal. These notions divide\r\nman\'s integral being into various sectional views only; they seek to\r\ncut out and suppress all other members excepting the <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">favoured</SPAN>\r\none. The politically militant bourgeois ideal of the Nazi or the\r\nFascist and the economically militant ideal of the proletarian are\r\nequally guilty of this lapse. Even the ideal of man as a rational\r\nbeing does not go far enough to be able to save man and mankind. All\r\nof them evoke conflict, some deliberately, and the resolution of the\r\nconflict ends in suppression, amputation and atrophy.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.17in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>We have to <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">recognise</SPAN> that man,\r\nin his individual as well as in his collective being, is a complex\r\nentity, not something simple and one -dimensional. The healthy growth\r\nof himself and his society means a simultaneous development on many\r\nlines, all moving together in concord and harmony. And this movement\r\nof all-harmony can be found only when the movements are initiated\r\nfrom the very source of harmony which is the soul Certain\r\nsoul-principles that seek expression in life today that</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.17in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page- 257</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>are\r\nnecessary to the age or to the coming age, have to be <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">recognised</SPAN>\r\nand each given a field and a scope. That should be the basis of\r\nsocial groupings. And a composite variety of grouping with strands\r\nand strata, each expressing a particular mode of being of the one\r\ngroup-soul - which in its turn is an aspect of the Vishva Purusha in\r\nhis play-is the ideal pattern of social <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisation.</SPAN>\r\nWhat exactly the lines of grouping would be need not and perhaps\r\ncannot be settled now; a certain preliminary growth and change of\r\nconsciousness in man is necessary before anything definite and\r\nprecise can be foreseen as to the form and schema that consciousness\r\nwill manifest and layout.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.15in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>Still some kind of hierarchy seems to<I> </I>be the\r\nnatural and inevitable form of collective life. A dead level, however\r\nhigh that may possibly be, appears to be rather a condition of\r\n<I>malaise </I>and not that of a stable equilibrium. The individual\r\nman cannot with impunity be brains alone-he becomes then what is\r\ncalled &quot;a barren intellectualist&quot;, &quot;an ineffectual\r\nangel&quot; ; nor can he rest satisfied with being a mere hewer of\r\nwood and drawer of water - he is no more than a bushman then.\r\nLike-wise a society cannot be made of philosophers alone, nor can it\r\nbe a monolithic construction of the proletariat and nothing but the\r\nproletariat-if the proletariat choose to remain literally\r\nproletarian. As the body individual is composed of limbs that rise\r\none upon another from the inferior to the superior, even so a healthy\r\nbody social also should consist of similar hierarchical ranges. Only\r\nthis distinction should not mean-and it does not necessarily mean-a\r\ndifference in moral values, as it was pointed out long ago by Aesop\r\nin his famous fable. The distinction is functional-and spiritual. In\r\nthe spirit, all differences and distinctions are based upon and are\r\ninstinct with an inviolable and inalienable unity, even identity.\r\nDifferences here do not mean invidious distinction, they are not the\r\nsources of inequality, conflict, strife, but make for a richer\r\nharmony, a greater <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisation.</SPAN></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.18in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>However the crucial point arises here-how is the\r\ncollective life, the group existence to be made soul-conscious? One\r\ncan understand the injunction upon individuals to seek and find their\r\nsouls; but how can a society be expected to act from its soul and\r\naccording to the impulsions of its soul? And then, has a collectivity\r\nat all a soul? What is usually spoken of as the</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.18in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page- 258</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>group-soul\r\ndoes not seem to be anything spiritual; it is an euphemism for herd\r\ninstinct, the flair of the pack.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>The real truth is that a group has the soul-the\r\nspiritual being-that is put into it. How can that be done? It is done\r\nby the individual, in and through the individual. Not a single\r\nindividual perhaps, but a few, a select body, a small minority who by\r\ntheir conscious will and illumined <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">endeavour</SPAN>\r\nform the strong nucleus that builds up automatically and inevitably\r\nthe larger <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisation</SPAN> instinct with its\r\nspirit and dharma. In fact all collective <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisations</SPAN>\r\nare made in the same way. The form that a society takes is given to\r\nit by the ideology of one man or of a few men. All depends upon the\r\ntruth and reality, the depth and fecundity of the inspiration and\r\nvision, whether it will last a day or be the eternal law of life,\r\nwhether it will be a curse for mankind or work for its supreme good.\r\nNaturally, the higher the aim, the more radical the remedy envisaged,\r\nthe greater the difficulty that has to be surmounted. An aggregate\r\nalways tends to live and move on a lower level of consciousness than\r\nthe individual\'s. It is easy to <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organise</SPAN> a\r\nsociety on forces and passions that belong to the lower nature of man\r\n- although it can be questioned whether such a society will last very\r\nlong or conduce to the good or happiness of man.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>On the other hand, although difficult, it may not prove\r\nimpossible to cast the nature, character and reactions of the\r\naggregate into the <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">mould</SPAN> prepared out of\r\nspiritual realities by those who have <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">realised</SPAN>\r\nand lived them. Some theocratic social <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organisations</SPAN>,\r\nat least for a time, during the period of their apogee illustrate the\r\nfeasibility of such a consummation. Only, in the present age, when\r\nall foundations seem to be shaking, when all principles on which we\r\nstood till now are crumbling down, when even fundamentals - those\r\nthat were considered as such - can no more give assurance, well, in\r\nsuch a revolutionary age, one has perforce to be radical and\r\nrevolutionary to the extreme: we have to go deep down and beyond,\r\nbeyond the shifting sands of more or less surface realities to. the\r\nun-shaking bed-rock, the rock of ages. </FONT>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent:0.16in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=3>And India is pre-eminently fitted to discover this\r\npattern of spiritual values and demonstrate how our normal life<font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font>individual \r\nand collective <font face=\"Times New Roman\">–</font> can be moulded and built according\r\nto</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; text-indent:0.16in; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page -259</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><FONT SIZE=3>that\r\npattern. <SPAN STYLE=\"font-weight: medium\">It</SPAN><B> </B>has been\r\nIndia\'s special concern throughout the millenaries of her history to\r\nknow and master the one thing needful <I>(tamevaikam j<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>natha\r\n<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>tm<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT>nam\r\nany<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">a</FONT> vaco vimu<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">ñ</FONT>catha),\r\n</I>knowing which one knows all <I>(tasmin vij<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">ña</FONT>te\r\nsarvam vij<FONT FACE=\"Luxi Serif\">ña</FONT>tam). </I>She\r\nhas made countless experiments in that line and has attained\r\ncountless achievements. Her resurgence can be justified and can be\r\ninevitable only if she secures the poise and position which will\r\nenable her to impart to the world this master secret of life, this\r\nart of a supreme <I>savoir vivre. </I>A new India in the old way of\r\nthe nations of the world, one more among the already too many has\r\nneither sense nor necessity. Indeed, it would be the denial of what\r\nher soul demands and expects to be achieved and done.</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"border-bottom:1px solid black; padding-top:0in; padding-right:0in; padding-bottom:0.03in; padding-left:0in; 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=2>Page -260</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a title=\"Home\" href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"31\" height=\"40\" 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</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-37_Towards a New Ideology','','publish','closed','open','','37_towards-a-new-ideology','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/37_towards-a-new-ideology/',0,'post','',0),(1981,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC \"-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN\">\r\n<HTML>\r\n<HEAD>\r\n	\r\n	<TITLE>Of\r\nBeauty and Ananda</TITLE>\r\n	\r\n</HEAD>\r\n<BODY LANG=\"en-US\" DIR=\"LTR\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<P ALIGN=center STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><B>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Of\r\nBeauty and Ananda</font></B></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: -0.01in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>TRUTH\r\nis Beauty\'s substance-it is Beauty self-governed.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty\r\nis Delight perfectly articulate.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Love\r\nis Beauty enjoying itself.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Knowledge\r\nis the light that Beauty emanates.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.21in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Power\r\nis the fascination that Beauty exerts.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>All\r\nArt is the re-creation of Truth in Beauty.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Rhythm\r\nis the gait of Truth dynamic with Delight.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.19in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3><FONT FACE=\"Times New Roman\">The\r\nTruth of a thing is its native substance, the being in its absolute\r\nself-law. </FONT><I>Satyam </I>is that which is of <I>Sat.</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3><I>***</I></FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty\r\nis delight <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organised.</SPAN></FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Poetry\r\nis the soul\'s delight seeking perfect expression in speech. </FONT>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Speech\r\nis self-expression. It is the organ of self-consciousness. The nature\r\nof the speech shows the nature of the self-consciousness. The degree\r\nof perfection in utterance measures also the extent to which one is\r\nconscious of oneself.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.15in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty\r\nis the soul\'s delight perfectly articulate and <SPAN LANG=\"en-GB\">organised.</SPAN></FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.18in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Where\r\nthe soul does not speak out, where the rhythm of the spirit does not\r\nmanifest, there comes in ugliness.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Things are\r\nugly when they are not true to themselves, not sincere, not\r\nself-expressive.</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: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; font-weight: medium; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 357</FONT><BR>\r\n\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>In\r\na sense, natural and beautiful are the same, the perverse\r\ncommensurate with the ugly.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Beauty\r\nis not merely balance, symmetry, measure, a regular disposition of\r\nfeatures. A form, an embodiment, need not be pretty to be beautiful.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Mere\r\nformal beauty is a power, but a surface power; there is a deeper\r\nunity of rhythm in the embodiment that is beautiful by its\r\ntransparent soul-expression.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Art is\r\nthe incarnation of Truth in Beauty,</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nDivine the truest Truth and the Beauty most beautiful, The\r\nincarnation of the Divine the supreme Art.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>An\r\nart with the Divine left out is like a trunk without the head:</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>It\r\nis built with the lower members and not with the higher members of\r\nBeauty;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Skill\r\nit may possess but not greatness;</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>It\r\nmay please the senses, but cannot enrapture the soul.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nvery nature of Art is rhythm and harmony.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nDivine is integral harmony and perfect rhythm.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nelement of divine harmony and rhythm is the measure of the beautiful\r\nin Art.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>Even\r\nso it is with the art of life.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>All\r\nthings are beautiful, for the All-beautiful is in every thing.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\ndomain of Art encompasses the entire creation.</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: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 358</FONT><BR>\r\n		</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nDivine is present everywhere, but in essence.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>In the\r\nmanifestation there is a varying and developing degree of the\r\nPresence.</FONT></P>\r\n<P STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nBrahman is there equally in the saint and the sinner, in the\r\nknowledge and in the ignorance, - it is the static Brahman.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>But\r\nthe saint and the knowledge manifest and embody the dynamic Brahman.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><BR>\r\n</P>\r\n<P ALIGN=CENTER STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>***</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nstress of Life is to reveal and incarnate more and more of the\r\ndynamic Divine, the creative Ananda of consciousness in its\r\nself-nature.</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=JUSTIFY STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"><FONT SIZE=3>The\r\nprogress of art too consists in recording this march of .the soul in\r\nits ever-growing consciousness and ever-deepening Ananda towards a\r\nhigher incarnation of the Divine.</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: 0in; padding-bottom: 0.03in; padding-left: 0in; padding-right: 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\">\r\n<FONT SIZE=2>Page - 359</FONT></P>\r\n<P ALIGN=\"right\" STYLE=\"text-indent: 0.2in; margin-bottom: 0; line-height:150%; margin-top:0\"> \r\n<a href=\"-00_Ccontent\"><img src=\"/Nolini/Volume-2/_Gif_Image/home03a.gif\" width=\"39\" height=\"50\" border=\"0\"></a></P>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</BODY>\r\n</HTML>','-53_Of Beauty and Ananda','','publish','closed','open','','53_of-beauty-and-ananda','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/53_of-beauty-and-ananda/',0,'post','',0),(1982,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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>Translations</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=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB><font size=\"4\">Translations</font></span><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></span></i></b></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\nlang=EN-GB>I<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Ma soeur,\r\nqui donc a prononcé Ie Nom fatal?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Ce Nom,\r\ndès que je l\'ai entendu, a pénétré jusqu\'au fond de</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:233.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>mon coeur;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>II a\r\nremué mes entrailles dans des joies turbulentes.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Que de\r\ndélices sont enclosés dans ce Nom! Mes lèvres</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>                        </span>ne\r\nparviennent pas à l\'abandonner.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Je Ie répète\r\ncomme une prière; je Ie répète jusqu\'à ce que,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:1.0in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>là, je tombe de fatigue. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Dites-moi,\r\nsoeurette, comment pourrai-je Ie trouver? . . . </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Ah, si\r\nson nom seul a tant de puissance, que ne ferrait alors</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Ie toucher de son corps?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Et\r\ncomment donc gardent-elles leur virginité, les jeunes filles</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>                        </span>du\r\npays qu\'il habite,</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Elles qui\r\nIe voient de leurs propres yeux?</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Je veux l\'oublier et je ne peux pas; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Que faut-il faire? Qu\'adviendra-t-il? </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:-1.4pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>&quot;Les femmes chastes,&quot; dit Ie poète, &quot;perdent\r\nvolontiers leur</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n-1.4pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>                         </span>chasteté,\r\nelles mettent en vent leur belle</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>                        </span>jeunesse.&quot;!</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:3.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>L\' amour de Radha.. un poème<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:3.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'> </span>bengal du XV siècle<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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>II<o:p></o:p></span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Je suis femme, mon coeur est\r\nl\'innocence; je ne connais<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:40.5pt 43.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>                        </span>ni Ie bien ni Ie mal.<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>        </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.25pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Ma soeur assise toute seule\r\ndessine sur une toile; elle<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:7.9pt 43.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>                        </span>vient et me la montre<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:7.9pt 43.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page – 307<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.25pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:7.9pt 43.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Dieu! Dieu! Qu\'ai-je donc? . . .\r\nOn m\'a jetée d\'un coup<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>au sein d\'une mer enflammée! <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>II est. dans la.fleur de l\'age;\r\nil est beau, beau à ravir! <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Qu\'il est raffraichissant Ie\r\nregard de ses yeux, de ces<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:3\'>                                    </span>puits qui\r\ncontiennent l\'essence même de la joie.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Celui-là n\'est pas de mes\r\nconnaissances;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>il n\'est pas un proche. . . . <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Et pourtant je me fierais\r\naveuglément à ses paroles. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Dès que je l\'ai regardé, il s\'est\r\nglissé dans man coeur,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.9pt;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>ce coeur qui se fend maintenant!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Je voudrais m\'en délier, mais man\r\nâme n\'est autre chose<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>            </span>que Lui – Dites-moi donc ce que je\r\ndois faire.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>&quot;C\'est que,&quot; répond Ie\r\npoète, &quot;tu es capturée par l\' Amour<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>            </span>naissant, ô ma pauvre\r\nprincesse.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:43.9pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'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:4.0in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>[ le même ]<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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.05pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>III<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Voici,\r\nma mère, Ie jour s\'efface de la nappe du ciel; leg jeux<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>ne me plaisent point aujourd\'hui.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>L\'heure\r\navait sonné la sortie et c\'était déjà tard; tout<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>d\'un coup je me souviens de toi et je quitte\r\nleg jeux.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Aujourd\'hui c\'est man congé, man\r\ncongé de cher Samedi; <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>laisse donc tes travaux, ma mère,\r\nque je puisse me reposer dans tes bras.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:1.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Viens, assied-toi, devant </span><st1:City><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>la porte</span></st1:place></st1:City><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>, près du seuil; dig moi<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-indent:.5in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>maintenant où se trouve les\r\nvastes landes enchantées.<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 lang=EN-GB style=\'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:1.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-13.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Regarde,\r\nma mère, la pluie arrive vêtue de sombres nuées;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>et l\'éclair léger qui serpente fend Ie ciel.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Lorsque\r\nIe dieu gronde, j\'aime en avoir peur et trembler,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>que je puisse t\'étreindre à mon coeur.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Lorsque la pluie tombe à verse\r\nsur les arbres et les buissons, <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>j\'aime m\'asseoir au coin de ma chambrette,\r\nj\'aime écouter tes contes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Regarde,\r\nma mère, l\'averse entre par la fenêtre; dis-moi<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:1.0in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>maintenant où se trouvent leg vastes landes\r\nenchantées.<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 lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;text-indent:.75in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Au bard de quel\r\nocéan, ma mère, au revers de quelle<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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page – 308<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:15.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</span></div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>montagne, au pays de quel roi, ma\r\nmère, au rivage de queue rivière.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:.5in;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'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:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Où se fait-il qu\'il n\'y a pas de\r\nborne qui marque la droite et la gauche? Où se fait-il qu\'il n\'y a pas de\r\nsentier qui conduise Ie voyageur à un village quelconque?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Est-ce un désert sans bornes où\r\nmeurent à toute heure des herbes desséchées? N\'y a-t-il qn\'un seul arbre\r\ndéfeuille où demeure un couple d\'oiseaux monstres?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Le bûcheron, ne passe-t-il point\r\npar là avec son faisceau de bois? Oh! dis-moi où se trouvent les vastes landes\r\nenchantées?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'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:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-4.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Quels\r\nsombres nuages ont couvert la voûte entière! Et Ie Prince traverse Ie champ,\r\nseul sur son cheval.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-13.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Le\r\ncollier de perle se balance à son cou; comment donc a-t-il su où demeure la\r\nPrincesse lointaine?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-22.5pt 0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Lorsque\r\nIe ullage s\'illumine de l\'eclair à un coin du ciel ne se souvient-il pas de sa\r\nmère – la reine en disgrace?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>La pauvre mère s\'occupe\r\nmaintenant à nettoyer la vacherie; mais à travers quel champ voyage-t-il le\r\nPrince?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:11.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'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:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-22.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Regarde,\r\nma mère, pas un seul qui passe par leg chemins du village; aujourd\'hui les\r\npâtres sont déjà rentrés du pâturage.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Regarde, la unit vient aujourd\'hui\r\navant que Ie jour s\'en rut aIlé; les ouvriers ont etendu leur nattes sur la\r\nvéranda et s\'y sout assis.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>         </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Ce soir, ma mère, j\'ai caché tous\r\nmes livres; ne me demande done pas d\'apprendre.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Quand je serai aussi grand que\r\nmon père, alors je prendrai ma première leçon; aujourd\'hui raconte-moi, ma\r\nmère, où se trouvent les vastes landes enchantées.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB\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:3.5in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Un poème de Rabindranath Tagore<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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page\r\n– 309<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center\'><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</span></div>\r\n\r\n  <p align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><i><span lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:20.0pt;font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\ncolor:blue;mso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><a href=\"file:///F|/Inetpub/wwwroot/new-saa.info/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04-Early-Disciples/-01-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Works-of-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Volume-1/index\"><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'></span><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=71\r\nheight=19 id=\"_x0000_i1030\" src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\"></a></span></a></span></i></b><i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB\'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\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','-63_Translations','','publish','closed','open','','63_translations','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/63_translations/',0,'post','',0),(1983,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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 ANGER</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">ON ANGER</font><o:p></o:p></b></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; 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\'>[1]</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 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\'>Abandon anger; reject\r\negoism; overcome all bondage. No suffering assails him, who has no attachment\r\nfor name and form, <span class=GramE>who</span> possesses nothing.</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 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 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 call him a charioteer\r\nwho controls his anger that is like a straying chariot; the others merely hold\r\nthe reins.</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 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 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\'>Conquer anger by freedom\r\nfrom anger. Conquer the evil one by goodness, the \'miserly by generosity and\r\nthe false by truth.</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\'>[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 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\'>Speak the truth, never be\r\nangry, <span class=GramE>give</span> when asked even if there be little. These\r\nare the three ways by which one approaches 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\'>[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 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>The\r\nsages who are self-disciplined, who have control over their body go to that <span\r\nclass=SpellE>undecaying</span> status where one grieves no more.</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\'>[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 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\'>They who are wakeful, who\r\ntrain themselves day and night, who are open to Nirvana, will find their\r\nblemishes all dis­appearing.</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 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 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\'>This is something\r\nunexampled; it is of yore, not of today: those who are silent are censured,\r\nthose who speak much are censured, <span class=GramE>even</span> those who\r\nspeak with moderation are also censured. There are none in the world who are\r\nnever censured.</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 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 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 never was, there\r\nnever will be, there never exists now anyone anywhere who is wholly censured or\r\nwholly praised.<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 – 227<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[9\r\n&amp; 10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.5pt;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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.5pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If the wise\r\non a day to day observation praise someone as of flawless conduct, intelligent\r\nand endowed with knowledge and character, who then would dare to blame him who\r\nis as it were a coin of gold? The gods praise him, even the Creator praises\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; 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 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 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\'>Restrain the body from its\r\nupsurges, keep it under control. The body must reject bad habits, it must\r\nacquire good habits.</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 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 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\'>Restrain the tongue from\r\nits upsurges, keep it under control. The tongue must reject its bad habits, it\r\nmust acquire good habits.</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 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 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\'>Restrain the mind from its\r\nupsurges, keep it under control. Mind must reject bad habits, it must acquire\r\ngood habits.</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 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 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 wise <span\r\nclass=GramE>who</span> have control over their body, who have control over\r\ntheir speech, who have control over their mind are indeed wholly and perfectly\r\ncontrolled.</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 – 228<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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:20.0pt;color:blue;\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"69\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\"></a></span></b></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','-49_On Anger','','publish','closed','open','','49_on-anger','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/49_on-anger/',0,'post','',0),(1984,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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>OF THE JUST</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">OF THE JUST</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\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\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></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]</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></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 class=GramE>One</span>\r\nwho comes hastily to a judgement, cannot be just. He indeed is wise who can\r\ndistinguish between the just and the unjust.</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 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 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\'>Who judges others in full\r\nknowledge, according to law and equity; the wise one who guards the Law is\r\nindeed called &quot;the just&quot;.</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 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 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\'>One does not become wise\r\nby talking much; one is called wise if one is forbearing, without fear or foe. </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\'>[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 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 not that the more\r\nyou talk the more you become the upholder of the Law. Even if you hear a little\r\nof the Law, but observe it by your body, if you do not deviate from the Law,\r\nthen you become the upholder of the Law.</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 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 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 is not an Elder whose\r\nhead has turned grey; he has simply grown in years, he has become old in vain.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is\r\ncalled an Elder in <span class=GramE>whom</span> dwell Truth and Law, amity and\r\nself-control and self-restraint, the wise one who is cleansed of all\r\nimpurities.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 231<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One cannot\r\nbe saintlike by the finish of one\'s speech or by the polish of one\'s complexion\r\nif one is jealous and envious and malicious.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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 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 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 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 indeed is said to be\r\nsaintlike, he is wise in whom all these things have been eradicated, uprooted\r\nfrom the very bottom, <span class=GramE>who</span> is cleansed of all\r\nimpurities.</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 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 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\'>One who does not follow\r\nthe Path, who speaks untruth, who is full of desire and greed cannot be the\r\nsaint-mendicant by merely shaving his head.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:147.1pt;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:147.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:147.1pt;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 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 is the saint-mendicant\r\nwho has eradicated all impurities, great or small, because of this eradication\r\nof impurities.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.7pt;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 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 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\'>One does not become a\r\nsaint-mendicant simply by begging alms of others <span class=GramE>nor</span>\r\nby observing all the cults.</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 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 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 indeed is called a\r\nsaint-mendicant who transcends here below both sin and virtue, remains wholly\r\npure and leads a life of knowledge in the world.</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 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 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\'>One who is foolish and ignorant\r\ndoes not become a Hermit by merely keeping silent. He is wise who holds the\r\nbalance, as it were.</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 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 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\'>Keeping the good and\r\nrejecting the evil: he is a sage because of <span class=GramE>this,</span> he\r\nhas a right knowledge of both the worlds.</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 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 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 is not <span\r\nclass=GramE>Noble</span> who hurts living creatures; one becomes Noble by not\r\ndoing violence to anyone.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 232<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[16\r\n&amp; 17]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is not\r\nthrough moral precepts nor ritual observances nor through much learning nor\r\nthrough still meditation nor a lonely life nor by thinking. <span class=GramE>&quot;I\r\nhave attained the felicity, the Deliverance which men of the world never\r\nenjoy&quot;, that you can be a Disciple.</span> Do not believe it, until you\r\nhave achieved the total extinction of desire.<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; 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\">\r\n<title>THE WISE</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">THE WISE</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\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\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></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]<b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><o:p></o:p></b></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\'>If you meet someone who\r\nshows you a thing to be cast out, even like one who tells you of a secret\r\ntreasure, seek such a</p>\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\'>&nbsp;</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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ Kusa grass has in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>India</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'> a sacred character. To eat\r\nfood with the tip of Kusa blade is taken symbolically here as an act of\r\nasceticism.</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 208<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n13.2pt;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\'><span class=GramE>wise</span>\r\nsage though he censures you. In such a seeking only good will come to you and\r\nnot evil.</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 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 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 will rebuke, he will\r\ncommand, he will prevent wrong doing. Such a person is loved by the <span\r\nclass=GramE>good,</span> he is disliked by the wicked.</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 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 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\'>Seek not a friend who is\r\nfull of evil, seek not a friend who is among the vilest of men, <span\r\nclass=GramE>seek</span> your friend who is to your good, who is among the best\r\nof 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\'>[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 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\'>One who drinks deep of the\r\nDivine Law lives happy in the serenity of his soul. The wise always finds\r\ndelight in the Divine Law as declared by those who have the <span class=SpellE>Realisation</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\'>[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 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 diggers bend the water\r\nto their will, the arrow-makers bend their arrow to their will, the carpenters\r\nbend the wood to their will, <span class=GramE>even</span> so the wise bends\r\nhis self to his will.<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 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\'>As a solid rock is not\r\nshaken by the blast, even so the wise is not shaken by praise and blame.</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 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 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\'>As a deep lake is serene\r\nand clear, even so the wise listens to the Divine Law and attains serenity.</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 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 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 wise may go anywhere,\r\nbut being wise they do not prattle of desires and longings. Whether touched by\r\nhappiness or sorrow, the wise do not show any ups and downs.</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 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 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>Not for\r\none\'s own sake nor</span> for the sake of others, shall one desire for a son or\r\nwealth or a kingdom. One must not either through the evil path desire for one\'s\r\nprosperity. Then one becomes virtuous and wise and righteous.<span style=\'font-family:Arial\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 209 <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-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=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 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\'>Few are they among men who\r\nreach the other shore, ordinary creatures run up and down along this shore\r\nonly.</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 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 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\'>And <span class=GramE>they</span>\r\nwho follow the Divine Law as ordained, reach the other shore beyond the\r\nimpassable domain of Death.</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 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 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\'>Leaving the way of\r\ndarkness, the wise man must cleave to the way of light. Leaving home, homeless\r\nhe must come into the solitude where there are no pleasures.</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 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 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 must seek\r\nhappiness, abandoning desires, possessing <span class=GramE>nothing,</span> the\r\nwise man must cleanse himself of all the impurities of the mind.</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 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 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\'>Those whose mind is well\r\ngrounded on all the degrees of Enlightenment, freed from all attachment, <span\r\nclass=GramE>who</span> delight in detachment, shorn of appetites, resplendent,\r\nin this world itself, attain the Supreme Nirvana.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 210<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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:20.0pt;color:blue;\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"72\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\"></a></span></b></p>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-38_ The Wise','','publish','closed','open','','38_-the-wise','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/38_-the-wise/',0,'post','',0),(1986,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; charset=utf-8\">\r\n<title>OCR Document</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in;text-justify-trim:\r\npunctuation\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\'><b>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><font size=\"4\">EIGHT TALKS</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:16.55pt;\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-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n16.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n16.55pt;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\">To Read Sri Aurobindo</font></b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:18.0pt;color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></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\'><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\'>I LEARNED that you want to\r\nknow something about Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from me. But then there are\r\nthree lines of approach: you may want to know <i>about </i>them, know <i>of </i>them\r\nor know them. Of course the last is the best. Indeed if you want to know truly something\r\nyou have to become it. Becoming gives the real knowledge. But becoming Sri\r\nAurobindo and the Mother means what? Becoming a portion of them, a part and\r\nparcel of their consciousness <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nthat is what we are here for. And if you can do that, you know enough. . . .<i><o:p></o:p></i></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\'>Once\r\nI told you, I think, how to study or approach Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in\r\norder to read them or understand their writings. There are two things: studying\r\nand reading; I made a distinction between the two. To study Sri Aurobindo is <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> I won\'t say fruitless, that is too\r\nstrong a word, but it can only be an aid or a supplementary way. Study means:\r\nyou take the text, you understand mentally each word and phrase; if you don\'t\r\nunderstand, you take a dictionary and try to catch the external meaning\r\nexpressed by the words. That may be necessary but it is not the way to\r\napproach their works.</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\'>Simply\r\nto read them in the right way is sufficient. Read, it does not matter what you\r\nunderstand and what you do not, simply read and wait in an expectant silence.\r\nIn studying you approach them with your external mind, your external intelligence.\r\nBut what is there in the text is beyond your mind, beyond your intelligence.\r\nAnd to understand mentally means you drive your intellect forward into the\r\nthing. It is an effort and takes you only to the outside of the thing. It is an\r\nexercise of your brain, developed in that way, but it doesn\'t take\' you very\r\nfar. Instead of that, suppose you could keep quiet, silence your mind, and only\r\nread, without unduly trying to understand,\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.15in;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\nâ€“ 35<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>and wait\r\nfor what is there in the text to enter into you. Instead of your intelligence\r\ndriving forward, pushing forward and trying to catch the thing, let the thing\r\ncome into you; for what is there in their writings is not words and phrases,\r\ndead material, it is something very living, something conscious, that they have\r\nexpressed in the words, phrases and the sound and rhythm. And I may tell you\r\nthat each sentence anywhere, not to speak of <i>Savitri, </i>is a living being\r\nwith whom you have to make acquaintance <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nnot that you understand or are able to explain, but it is a living being, an\r\nentity, a friend, even a Lover whom you have to know. And your attempt in that\r\nway will be rewarded. You</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\'>will enjoy much more. You\r\nmay ask: &quot;Just because I open a book and read, how can what are in the\r\nlines come to me?&quot; But I say they are living entities <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> if you approach in the right\r\nspirit, they come into you. The consciousness, the being in each line comes to\r\nyou. And you find how beautiful it is. This is an approach of love, not of the\r\nintellect to understand and explain. Take for example, the very first verse of <i>Savitri:<o:p></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\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:27.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It\r\nwas the hour before the Gods awake.<span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1;<o:p></o:p></span></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\'>It\r\nis a Mantra, a living person, how beautiful it is, you needn\'t understand much <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> and a whole world is there. </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\'>Or,\r\ntake the opening sentence of <i>The Life Divine <span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> the </i>rolling cadence of the vast ocean is there. It\r\nbrings you a sense of vastness, a sense of Infinity and takes you there. And,\r\nas I said, it is a very living entity and personality. </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\'>Here\r\nis the whole passage:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n8.85pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>The earliest\r\npreoccupation of man in his awakened thoughts and, as it seems, his inevitable\r\nand ultimate preoccupation, <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nfor it survives the longest periods of scepticism and returns after every\r\nbanishment, <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> is also the\r\nhighest which his thought can envisage: It manifests itself in the divination\r\nof Godhead, the impulse towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and\r\nunmixed Bliss, the sense of a secret immortality. The ancient dawns of human\r\nknowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration; today we see\r\na humanity satiated </p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:\r\n8.85pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1;</span> <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Book I, Canto 1.<o:p></o:p></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\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\nâ€“ 36</span></p>\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 class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-left:9.0pt;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>but\r\nnot satisfied by victorious analysis of the externalities of Nature preparing\r\nto return to its primeval longings. The earliest formula of Wisdom promises to\r\nbe its last, <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> God, Light,\r\nFreedom, Immortality.<span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis indeed a personality behind it and you have to make acquaintance with that\r\npersonality. That is what I meant when I said: become it, by an approach through\r\nlove, an approach through your soul. Even in studies you shouldn\'t approach\r\nwith the mere intellect, mere mental understanding; however fine an\r\nunderstanding or intellect you may have, it won\'t lead you very far. Only\r\nthrough your soul you can go far. Even intellectual things can be approached\r\nthrough your soul <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> because the\r\nsoul is the very essence of all your faculties and being. The soul is not mere\r\nconsciousness, mere being, it gathers in all the elements of your personality.\r\nThe seeds of your mind, your vital, even of the physical personality, the true\r\nphysical personality, are there in your soul, and you can establish a true\r\nrelation with things and persons through that part of your being <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> your soul. And remember the soul is\r\nnot very far from you because you are that-rather your mind, your vital, your\r\nphysical are away from you; they are not your true personality. It is your soul\r\nthat is nearest to you.</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\'>In\r\nthis connection you may remember what the Mother has said more than once: what\r\nis one here for? What are the children here for? And what is she giving here in\r\nthe school, in the playground, in all the activities? It is not simple\r\nefficiency in the outer activities that is given here, or meant to be given\r\nhere. For such things one can get outside in a more successful way-external\r\nefficiency of your intellect, of your mind, of your vital capacity and your\r\nphysical strength-the Russian or the German type. Our records don\'t match\r\ntheirs, do they? But we don\'t aspire for those records. For, as the Mother has\r\nsaid: &quot;I am giving here something which you won\'t get anywhere else in the\r\nworld-nowhere except here.&quot; In your external expression you may cut a very\r\npoor figure: low marks-but that is not the sign of the Truth that we acquire\r\nhere. You acquire it even without your knowing it. When you are in the swimming\r\npool you are soaked all through, aren\'t you? </p>\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\'>&nbsp;</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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1;</span> <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Book I, Chapter 1.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.75pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page\r\nâ€“ 37<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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\'>You can\'t help it; so here\r\nalso; even without your knowing it you are soaked with the inner consciousness\r\nof your soul. It is a very precious thing <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nI should say, the only precious thing in the world. And through that, if you\r\nstudy, you learn <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> if you\r\napproach that way, you will get another taste, another interest in things.</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\'>When\r\nI was reading with Sri Aurobindo, he didn\'t lay much stress upon the grammar or\r\nthe language <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> just the most\r\nelementary grammar that was necessary. He used to put me in contact with the\r\nlife, the living personality of the poet <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nwhat he was, what he represented in his consciousness. That was the central\r\ntheme, because a truly great poet means a status of consciousness; in order to\r\nunderstand his consciousness you must become identified with his being.</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\'>Amrita\r\nalso used to say the same thing, because he was learning the Gita from Sri\r\nAurobindo. He could feel the spirit of <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place> and the\r\nspirit of Arjuna throughout <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\ntheir relations and the atmosphere they created. It is not the mere lesson, the\r\nteaching, that is important <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nthat is secondary. The person is the primary thing. And the person in the book\r\nor outside, you can approach only through your soul, through love. The soul\r\nalone can love.</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\'>I\r\nthink I told you that once somebody asked me: &quot;You speak of the soul but\r\nwhere is it?&quot;</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\'>I\r\nsaid: &quot;It is very near you; still you don\'t believe. If you see into\r\nyourself quietly, you will find that there are very many good things in you,\r\nnot only bad things <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> bits\r\nperhaps, shades or shadows perhaps, but you know this is a good thought in you,\r\nthis is a noble impulse, a sweet feeling. Each one has all these things, you\r\nhave only to recognise them. All this is the expression of the soul in you.\r\nThe beautiful, the luminous, the noble things that appear to you, in your\r\nconsciousness, from time to time, all come from your soul.&quot; Even the\r\ngreatest villain has such moments. You remember Lady Macbeth <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> known as the cruellest woman; well,\r\nshe said about <st1:City><st1:place>Duncan</st1:place></st1:City>, &quot;I\r\nwould have killed him myself but he looked like my father&quot;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1; â€• </span>well, that is the feeling even\r\nshe had. So let us not despair, even 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;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\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-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>&sup1;</span> <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Shakespeare: <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Macbeth,\r\n</span>Act II, Scene 2.<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:5.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span>Lady Macbeth: ... Had he not resembled<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:52.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><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; </span>My father as he slept, I\r\nhad done\'t.<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:52.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page â€“ 38<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;tab-stops:52.05pt;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<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>weakest among us should not despair. First\r\nof all, each one has a soul, and secondly, we have the luminously strong sup\r\nport of the Mother. It is the nature of the Divine that even if you don\'t think\r\nof Him He thinks of you. It is true, very true; because you are part of the\r\nDivine. Only you have to concentrate consciously on that part, that portion;\r\nthen gradually it will increase. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Question: What is the\r\ndistinction you make between &quot;to know about Sri Aurobindo and the\r\nMother,&quot; and &quot;to know of them&quot;?<o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; 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;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>ANSWER:\r\n&quot;About&quot; means what a man does, what his profession is, his\r\noccupation<i> <span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span>\r\nkim<span style=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>Ä</span>sita vrajeta kim? <span\r\nstyle=\'font-family:\"Book Antiqua\"\'>â€•</span> </i><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>and &quot;of &quot;means his personality, his character, nature.</span><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:12.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page â€“ 39<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.7pt;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 align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><a href=\"file:///F|/Inetpub/wwwroot/new-saa.info/_StaticContent/SriAurobindoAshram/-04-Early-Disciples/-01-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Works-of-Nolini-Kanta-Gupta/Volume-1/index\"><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'></span><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'></span><span\r\nstyle=\'text-decoration:none;text-underline:none\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img border=0 width=69\r\nheight=19 id=\"_x0000_i1033\" src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\"></a></span></a><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n  <div align=center> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </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','-06_To Read Sri Aurobindo','','publish','closed','open','','06_to-read-sri-aurobindo','','','2021-11-23 17:58:44','2021-11-23 17:58:44','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/06_to-read-sri-aurobindo/',0,'post','',0),(1987,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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>Soul\'s Freedom</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h2 align=\"right\" style=\"text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<span\r\nlang=EN-GB><font size=\"4\">Soul\'s Freedom</font></span></b></h2>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>THE pressure\r\nfrom above has been withdrawn and normalcy restored to the earth-consciousness.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Pressure meant a separation:\r\nsomething foreign acting from elsewhere, <span class=GramE>an interference</span>.\r\nAs a process, a passage needed for a time, for a special purpose and under\r\nspecial circumstances, it was necessary and welcome. But circumstances have\r\nchanged.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The higher consciousness is not to remain always high but become\r\nlevel with the normal. Either the higher must come down and mingle totally with\r\nthe lower or the lower has to rise and merge altogether into the higher, or\r\nboth meet and unite midway somewhere. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Earth or material nature does not easily tolerate any thing unknown\r\nand foreign to it. Even if it is for its own well-being, a foreign touch makes\r\nit shrink and turn on itself. It is even painful for it to bear. In the end the\r\nearth is not to be goaded on or driven along: it has to go on its own. It must\r\ndepend entirely on itself, bring out what it carries within itself or has\r\nacquired or stored. It has to outgrow its childhood or apprenticeship, the\r\nperiod when an intelligent amount of pressure or even coercion might be needed\r\nor inevitable. But that stage passed, the higher realisation is to be the\r\nnatural expression of ordinary earth-life: its normal state is to be the state\r\nof the higher consciousness, its life naturally moved by its self-nature\r\nexpressing its own truth.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>If there is to be a Divine\r\ndestiny for earth, it must be because of its free choice. There must be no\r\npressure or even solicitude from any agent outside itself to compel it or force\r\nit that way. It must be a glad and spontaneous impulse from within to follow\r\nthe line of destiny it has itself chosen.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:13.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>As the original\r\nbirth of Ignorance was a free choice of<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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 lang=EN-GB\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 101<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;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Ignorance, even so the return of Ignorance to consciousness is to be\r\na matter of spontaneous self-seeking. It may be true or it is true in a deeper\r\nway that a mortal is chosen whom the Divine has already chosen, but that is\r\nanother matter. Here upon earth we, mortal souls, are free agents, we choose or\r\nwe do not choose.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>In any case if one is to possess truly something one must acquire it\r\nby one\'s exertion and in one\'s complete liberty. A free gift or an imposition\r\neven of a precious object is always something foreign and unnatural to it. One\r\nmust learn to love a thing in order to have it wholly for oneself, it must be\r\nmade part and parcel of one\'s being. And true love can exist only in free\r\nchoice.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.4pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Latterly the Mother was saying whenever the question of the descent\r\nof supermind was raised that there was no descent any longer: for, the thing\r\nhas descended and it is here, it is no more a question of descent, that is to\r\nsay, something arriving from elsewhere that was not here before. At present it\r\nis simply the question of manifestation of the thing that is with us and among\r\nus.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.7pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:190.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>At one time Mother was asking for, even\r\npleading for collaboration from the material nature. It was accorded in\r\nprinciple but in act it was found wanting. Now the tables are turned. The earth-consciousness\r\nhas now to ask for, pray for collaboration from the Divine. The material\r\nconsciousness has to come forward and take the lead and play the frontal role\r\nin the working out of the evolution. The collaboration of her physical body has\r\nbeen withdrawn, in order to leave us free in our physical movements so that we\r\nmay learn to labour and labour in full freedom for the service expected of us.\r\nWe say she has withdrawn herself, that is to say, in her physical body, but she\r\nis still there, and her being there, her very existence is force, a helping\r\nforce and that is collaboration enough and is always at our disposal.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Now at present it all depends how much the earth consciousness has\r\nreceived, imbibed or assimilated of the Divine Presence. That will be the\r\nmeasure of the fulfilment human being can achieve. As much as we\r\nearth-creatures feel and express of the higher reality, that much we shall. <span\r\nclass=GramE>become</span> truly and divinely. If we continue to be the old\r\nstock with no or<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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n102</span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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\'><span class=GramE><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>little change, well, we shall have to\r\nwait perhaps for another million years.</span></span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>It would mean for us naturally a change of dress for good many a\r\ntime perhaps. There seems to be no other way. But a change of dress is\r\ninevitable and should be welcome, for kept on too long it would stink. A dip in\r\nthe Vaitarni or Acheron (if we happen to be in </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span\r\n  lang=EN-GB>Greece</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span lang=EN-GB>)\r\nwould be wholesome. There is however always the possibility of a miracle\r\nhappening: to this Mother was referring very often. In that case you might\r\nlearn to change, to renew yourselves in the inner way, even like the Vedic\r\ncows: as the Rishi <i>says – Paliknirid yuvatayo bhavanti – </i>even those of <span\r\nclass=GramE>them</span> who were grey with age, became young again.¹</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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Naturally it does not matter at all to the Divine, the supreme\r\nconsciousness – the whole eternity is his play-field, a million years this side\r\nor that <span class=GramE>do</span> not count for Him anything.<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>And yet, we are human beings and we can have other vistas equally\r\ndivine. </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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The Mother became a human being like us as totally as possible for\r\nthat purpose, to shorten the million years.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:71.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\' lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The Mother continues to do what is necessary under the circumstances\r\nand perhaps more, she has not stopped her work. But the most crucial thing and\r\nthe most critical – turning the corner – has been done. Sri Aurobindo has\r\nspoken of it in memorable words-we know the passage in <i>The Mother – I </i>quote\r\nthe lines and conclude:</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into\r\nthis lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements\r\nof the Ignorance, are herself in veiled power and her creations in diminished\r\nsubstance, her Nature-body and Nature-force, and they exist because, moved by\r\nthe mysterious fiat of the Supreme to work out something that was there in the\r\npossibilities of the Infinite, she has consented to the great sacrifice and.\r\nhas put on like a mask the soul and forms of the Ignorance. But personally too\r\nshe has stooped to descend here into the Darkness that she may lead it to the\r\nLight, into the</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:0in;\r\nmargin-left:.5in;margin-bottom:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>¹ </span><i><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>Rigveda, </span></i><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>V, 2.4.<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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 103<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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\'><span lang=EN-GB>Falsehood\r\nand error that she may convert it to the Truth, into this Death that she may\r\nturn it to godlike Life, into this world-pain and its obstinate sorrow and\r\nsuffering that she may end it in the transforming ecstasy of he sublime Ananda.\r\nIn her deep and great love for her children she has consented to put on herself\r\nthe cloak of this obscurity, condescended to bear the attacks and torturing\r\ninfluences of the powers of the Darkness and the Falsehood, borne to pass\r\nthrough the portals of the birth that is a death, taken upon herself the pangs\r\nand sorrows and sufferings of the creation, since it seemed that thus alone\r\ncould it be lifted to the Light and Joy and Truth and eternal Life. This is the\r\ngreat sacrifice called sometimes the sacrifice of the Purusha, but much more\r\ndeeply the holocaust of</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>Prakriti, the\r\nsacrifice of the Divine Mother.¹</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><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 lang=EN-GB>¹ </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Sri Aurobindo\r\nBirth Centenary Library, Vol. 25, p. 24-25</span><span lang=EN-GB><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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page –\r\n104<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"70\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\"></a></span></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\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-20_Souls Freedom','','publish','closed','open','','20_souls-freedom','','','2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/20_souls-freedom/',0,'post','',0),(1988,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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>Mater Gloriosa</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\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><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><font size=\"4\">Mater Gloriosa</font><o:p></o:p></span></b></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 lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>I</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>J\'adore la femme. . . .</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>C\'était ma faiblesse, c\'est <span class=GramE>mon</span> salut.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Dans mon ignorance, lorsque je n\'étais qu\'un adolescent – <span\r\nclass=GramE>en<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>âme et en esprit –\r\nje suivais la forme humaine du féminin et je désirais les délices terrestres\r\nqu\'elle verse.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB>C\'est l\'Eternel Féminin qui m\'avait tenté, qui m\'avait\r\ncapturé.</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB>L\'Eternel Féminin, c\'est la Nescience, Ie bras\r\nsinistre du Divin.</span></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\nlang=EN-GB>Maintenant que je suis devenu homme, et que mon âme et mon espirit\r\nont atteint l\'âge mur, c\'est encore la femme qui me tente irrésistiblement<span\r\nclass=GramE>,­</span>–</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;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><span lang=EN-GB>mais c\'est la femme\r\ndans sa vérité plenière, dans sa réalité souveraine, et je la poursuis d\'une\r\nardeur plus vive encore qu\'autrefois. . . .</span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Et c\'est avec aisance, n\'est-ce pas, que je me suis jeté droit dans\r\nIe sein étoile de la Conscience suprême, de l\'Energie créatrice, de la Mère\r\nDivine!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>L\'Eternal Féminin a cedé au Féminin\r\nTranscendant!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>II</span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><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;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>La matière, n\'embrasse\r\npoint la matière; elles demeurent toujours à coté, <span class=GramE>et</span>\r\nséparée l\'une de l\'autre.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>La chair n\'enlace la chair\r\nque par <span class=GramE>Ie</span> contour; et leg contours passent l\'un\r\nautour de l\'autre, mais se séparent toujours.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>La vie pénètre la vie <span\r\nclass=GramE>et</span> la Conscience; seul l\'Etre se dissout dans l\'Etre et tous\r\ndeux ne font qu\'un.<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:.15in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB style=\'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:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.15in;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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE><span lang=EN-GB>Et quand l\'être\r\nainsi s\'unit à l\'autre, la conscience à la conscience et la vie à la vie,\r\nalors, ô mystère! la matière se dissout dans la matière\r\net toutes deux ne font qu\'un!</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\'><i><span lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p 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; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>III</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.05pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>La chair n\'est pas la matière seul; elle <span\r\nclass=GramE>est</span> aussi la vie, la vie concentrée et concrète.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>La chair en <span class=GramE>sa</span> vraie réalité est une fleur,\r\nune fleur qui s\'est developpée, qui a évolué pour avoir un mouvement plus\r\narticulé, une substance plus consciente d\'elle-même.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:10.55pt right dotted 287.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span lang=EN-GB>La chair pure <span class=GramE>et</span>\r\nradieuse – dont peut-être l\'enfant est petrié – a Ie parfum, la beauté, la vie\r\nde la fleur. Mieux encore, comme la fleur elle <span class=GramE>est</span> un\r\nmessage vivant d\'Audelà jeté ici-bas.</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\nlang=EN-GB><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\nlang=EN-GB>IV</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 lang=EN-GB><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>La brise matinale – Ie premier rayon du soleil levant – <span\r\nclass=GramE>un</span> brin d\'herbe qui se perle de la rosée.</span></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\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Ton haleine, Ie souffle embaumé de l\'Infini, de la Vie immortalise –\r\nTon sourire annonciateur de la Conscience souveraine – Mon coeur qui scintille\r\nmouillé d\'une goutte de ton amour divin.</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 lang=EN-GB><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\nlang=EN-GB>V</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\'>\r\n<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\' lang=\"EN-GB\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>La nuit – La flèche d\'un clocher – Le ciel parsemé d\'étoiles. </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:13.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nlang=EN-GB>Des profondeurs insondables de <span class=GramE>mon</span> âme\r\ns\'élance vers toi un Désir aigu et aveugle…. et soudain s\'immobilise à l\'ap­proche\r\nde tant de caresses lumineuses que verse à pleines mains ta Miséricorde\r\ninfinie.<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\nlang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page – 122<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">TRANSLATIONS</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;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;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sanskrit<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bengali<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>French<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.2pt;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 align=right 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\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i><u><font size=\"4\">Sanskrit</font><o:p></o:p></u></i></b></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><o:p>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">HYMN TO DAWN</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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rishi\r\n<span class=SpellE>Kutsa</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.55pt;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\'>(Rig-Veda –\r\nMandala 1, Sukta 113)<o:p></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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo, the supreme\r\nLight of lights is come:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>a</span>\r\nvaried knowledge is born in front spreading far and wide.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\ntab-stops:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is born to\r\ngive birth to the Sun,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>even</span> so Night opens her womb for the\r\nDawn. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; 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:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With her reddening child, the white Mother comes blushing</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in .5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>red</span>: the dark Mother flings open her\r\ndark chambers.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Both have the same\r\nComrade, both are immortals, they<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>follow</span> each other, as they move measuring\r\nout earth<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>and</span> heaven and the hue beyond. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; 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:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They have the same path, the two sisters, the eternal Path</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>which</span>\r\nthey follow one after the other as ordained by the Supreme:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They do not mingle, nor do they halt, the perfect Progenitors;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Night and Dawn unlike in\r\nform are like in mind. [3]</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The shining One, the\r\nLeader, she awakens the right<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:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>movements</span>: she opens wide for us many a variegated door.<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\'>She moves the creation <span class=GramE>forward,</span>\r\nshe discloses for us felicity;<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:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn\r\nmanifests here all the worlds. [4]</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.45pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>He who lies crooked, him\r\nyou impel to walk straight,<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:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>O\r\nGoddess of Plenty: you are there for our wide<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:21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>enjoyment</span>, for our right impulsion, for our felicity.<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=\'font-size:11.0pt;\'>Page – 129<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.35pt;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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He who sees small, for him you saw vastly,<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:.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn manifests here all the worlds.\r\n[5]<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:.3in;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\'>You are for warrior strength, you are for the mighty<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:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>impulsion</span>, you are the Purpose of our <span class=SpellE>travelling</span>:<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\'>Dawn fronts all creatures of all varieties,<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:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>she</span> manifests here all the worlds. [6]<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:.3in;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=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Behold, the Daughter of Heaven\r\nappears in front,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.3in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:\r\n1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> young damsel rises clothed in\r\nwhite:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is the Ruler of the\r\nuniverse, Ruler of all earthly treasure: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Dawn, O\r\nPerfect Delight, appear here today. [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;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=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She follows the path of those\r\nthat are passing away,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; 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>she</span> is the first in the eternal\r\nseries that is coming.<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\'>She rises and impels the soul upward,</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-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Dawn\r\nawakens someone who lay dead. [8]</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=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Dawn, you set the Fire to be perfectly kindled,</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-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>through</span> the eye of the Sun, you manifest all:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You awaken mankind to \r\nperform the Sacrifice</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>all</span>\r\nthis happy work you accomplish for the sake of<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;\r\n</span>the gods. [9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;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=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Since when has she been coming\r\nnearer unto us?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>when</span> did she rise in the past, since when has she been\r\nrising now in the present?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She desires and follows after\r\nthose that are gone,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>she</span> sets her thought forward and unites herself with the\r\nothers. [10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;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=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Earlier mortals who saw the\r\nrising Dawn have departed;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>now</span> she appears before our eyes;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And they who shall see in other\r\ndawns</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>are</span> yet to come. [11]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;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=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You disperse the enemies, you\r\nfoster the truth, <span class=GramE>you</span> are born</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>of</span> the truth, you are made of felicity, you impel the right\r\nmovements.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You are the supreme <span\r\nclass=GramE>Good,</span> you bear in you what the gods<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 130<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>desire</span>. O Dawn, appear here today\r\nat your best and highest. [12]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goddess Dawn appeared always of yore:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>even</span> so, O Queen of Plenty, manifest all this here today.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And may she appear also in days to\r\ncome:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>ageless</span> and deathless she moves in her self-law. [13]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She shines with her <span\r\nclass=SpellE>gleamings</span> in the spaces of heaven, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Goddess has discarded her dark robes.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Awakening all, Dawn comes with rosy\r\nsteeds</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>well-yoked</span> to her chariot. [14]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'tab-stops:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is the Fosterer, she brings\r\ndesirable things:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> as she\r\nawakes, she creates a varied knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-bottom:0\'>The image of those that are passing endlessly,</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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>the</span> \r\nfirst of those that are manifest, Dawn rises wide refulgent. [15]</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; 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\'>Climb high, O soul; strength is come to us,</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-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Darkness\r\nhas fled; behold, the Light approaches. </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\'>She has opened the path for the passage of the Sun:</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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>\r\nWe go there where life is carried ever forward. [16]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The flame-bearers, the adorers sing to the rising Dawn,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>they</span> utter\r\nthe right-minded word.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Appear this day, O Goddess of Plenty, to him who expresses</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>Thee</span>, in me illumine a life rich with its fruitfulness. [17]</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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Dawns appear, luminous and omnipotent,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>for</span> the sake of the mortal who makes the offering.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Even like the God of Life, they bestow as the right\r\nimpulsions break forth, life\'s energies;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>and</span> \r\nthese he enjoys who has the immortal drink purified. [18]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">O Mother of the gods, the very Army of Aditi, the flaming</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>knowledge</span> of sacrifice, shine forth in thy vastness.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page-131</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">O Creator of the perfect expression, <span class=GramE>manifest</span>\r\nyourself in us for the sake of the supreme word:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O All-desirable, bring us to birth\r\nin the birth. [19]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The varied work which Dawns bring forward for him who\r\naccomplishes the sacrifice,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>who</span> gives\r\nthe perfect expression- that is the Supreme Good,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">That may Mitra and Varuna, and Aditi, and the waters and\r\nEarth and Heaven protect for us. [20]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:16.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>HYMN TO THE SUN<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rishi Dirghatama</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nI, Sukta 164)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is the delightful ancient One.\r\nHe is the Summoner. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Next to him is the second brother: he is the Devourer.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The third\r\nbrother is the one with blazing front: here I saw the Lord of the Universe with\r\nhis seven sons. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Seven yoke the chariot that has\r\none single wheel: the Horse with seven names draws it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The Wheel\r\nhas three naves. It is <span class=SpellE>unaging</span> and irresistible.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">All the worlds repose upon it. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seven are they who drive the <span\r\nclass=GramE>chariot,</span> seven are he horses that draw the chariot with\r\nseven wheels. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seven are the sisters who together\r\nmove there where the herds with seven names are pent in. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has been the First One taking\r\nbirth: boneless himself he <span class=SpellE>upbears</span> that with bones.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who was the Energy, the Blood, <span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Soul of this earth? And did any one ever approach the wise\r\nwith the question? [4]<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>\r\n<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page-132<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;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am young,\r\ntherefore do I ask: with my mind I am unable to know of those secreted seats of\r\nthe Gods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Upon\r\nthe moving seat the Seers spread out the seven threads as warp and woof. [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have not the\r\nconsciousness, so do I ask here of the seers who have the consciousness: not\r\nhaving the knowledge I ask for the knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Some one who is\r\none and single has transfixed these six worlds as forms of the Unborn. [6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Here\r\nlet him speak who knows of the secret step of this delightful one in his wide\r\nwinging.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>From\r\nhis head the white herds draw sweet milk: they put on a covering and drink\r\nwater by their feet. [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the Truth the\r\nMother adores the Father: from the very beginning she has been united with him\r\nin consciousness and thought.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She quivered,\r\nher womb charged with streaming delight: they that carried their obeisances\r\napproached and found the Word. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Mother was\r\nunited to the yoke by the right side: the embryo lay within all that was\r\ncrooked.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The child\r\nlowed after its mother and saw her as the world form in the three expanses.\r\n[9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Three are the\r\nmothers, three the fathers, upborne by <span class=GramE>One</span> standing\r\nabove: they do not tire him down.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There, in that\r\nheaven, they utter the word which has the knowledge of the universe, which the\r\nuniverse cannot encompass. [10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The wheel of\r\nTruth with its twelve spokes rolls on round the heaven and decays not.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Agni, here the\r\nsons stay in pairs, seven hundred and twenty in number. [11]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The father who\r\nhas five feet and twelve forms, they say, is on the higher hemisphere and he is\r\ndelight itself.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 133<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-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And there are those who say that\r\none with clear vision is placed high above upon the seven wheels and six\r\nspokes. [12]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All the worlds repose upon that\r\nwheel rolling on with its five spokes.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>It axle is\r\nnever over-strained, in spite of the heavy load, it never wears out in the\r\ncourse of eternity, fixed on its nave. [13]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The ringed wheel rolls on\r\nundecaying: the ten are yoked and they carry it upward.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo! <span class=GramE>there</span>\r\ncomes the sun\'s eye, encircled by the spaces. All the worlds are placed in\r\nthere<span class=GramE>.[</span>14]<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sevenfold are\r\nthey, born together: the seventh is born of the one, they say, and these six\r\nare seers and gods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Their movements\r\nare fixed according to the status: they move out in varied forms for the sake\r\nof him who upholds them. [15]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Women are they\r\nand they are also men, it is said. He who has eyes is able to see, one blind\r\ndoes not know.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Son, the\r\nseer, is aware of it; and he who knows is the father of the father. [16]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The mother cow holds the hind legs\r\nof her calf by her fore legs and its fore legs with her hind legs and moves\r\nupward.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whither, to\r\nwhich hemisphere, she is stepping across? Where does she give birth to the\r\nchild? Not indeed in the midst of the herds. [17]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He, indeed, integrally knows the\r\nFather who knows the lower by the higher and the higher by the lower.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has the poet\'s vision to tell\r\nus where does the Divine Mind take birth? [18]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; 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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They that turn\r\ndownward are said to turn upward and they that turn upward are said to turn\r\ndownward.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Indra and thou,\r\nO Soma, both together have done deeds that upbear the luminous worlds as though\r\njoined to the yoke. [19]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 134<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-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The birds with wings of beauty\r\nunited together and as comrades cling to the same tree.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One of them eats\r\nof the sweet fruit; the other does not eat and looks about. [20]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There, where the\r\nbirds with wings of beauty, in perfect knowledge, sing of their share in\r\nimmortality.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Lord and Protector of all the\r\nworlds, the Supreme Intelligence, enters into one young and ignorant as I am.\r\n[21]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon the tree\r\ndwell the birds of beautiful wings who eat of honey; from there they made the\r\ncreation upon earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And on its top,\r\nthere is the sweetest fruit, they say; none can reach it who knows not the\r\nfather. [22]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon Gayatra is set the Gayatra,\r\nthe Tristubha is carved upon Tristubha.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And that which is called Jagat, is\r\nset upon Jagat; they who know this attain immortality. [23]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; 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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The luminous\r\nverse is fashioned after the rhythm of Gayatra and with the verse is fashioned\r\nthe chant of Soma and the Word with the rhythm of Tristubha.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Word is\r\nfashioned with the Word, the Word has a two-fold and a four-fold stepping and\r\nthe seven vocables are fashioned with the syllable. [24]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With Jagat the Stream was\r\nestablished firm in the Heaven; with Rathantara the Sun is seen all around up\r\nabove.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The rhythm of Gayatra, they say,\r\nhas a three-fold kindling; hence it goes farther beyond in its mighty\r\ngreatness. [25]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That giver of\r\nmilk, her I called here who yields milk readily: she is milked by a hand\r\nskilled in milking.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May the creator\r\ncreate for me the very best creation; the heat blazes; towards that I utter my\r\nwords. [26]<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; 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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Professor of all\r\nwealth, she yearns with her mind and heart after her child: lo, she comes\r\nuttering her cry.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Inviolable may\r\nshe yield the drink for the twin riders. May she grow and increase for the sake\r\nof the vast felicity. [27]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 135<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;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The mother\r\nanswered back to her child that was gazing at her; she cried aloud, as though\r\nto measure its head.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She desires after its foaming\r\nmouth; she shapes its form giving it to drink all her milk. [28]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There he is who\r\ncries out encompassing the white mother, he fashions the form seated secure\r\nabove all disruption.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She builds up\r\nthe mortal from within with her modes of consciousness. She has become the\r\nlightning and has shaken off her covering. [29]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The living one\r\nbreathes and moves fast when it lies at rest: when it races along it holds\r\nitself firm within its station.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The soul in the\r\nmortal moves by its self-law; the immortal springs from the same source as the\r\nmortals. [30]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I saw him who protects, who never\r\nstumbles, <span class=GramE>who</span> moves by paths here below and beyond.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is with all, he is around all, <span\r\nclass=GramE>he</span> circles under cover, within all the worlds. [31]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He who has created this does not\r\nknow it and he who has seen it is hidden away from it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is enclosed\r\nwithin the womb of the Mother: he produced the many and entered into untruth.\r\n[32]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Heaven is my\r\nfather who created me: here is my central cord: the Mother, this vast Earth,\r\nbinds me down.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The twin vessels\r\nare turned upward; within there the Lord ordained the birth of the daughter.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[33]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I ask you of the\r\nfarthest end of the earth; I ask you where lies the nave of this world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I ask you of the\r\nenergy that the Horse rains down; I ask you of the supreme status of the world.\r\n[34]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This altar is\r\nthe farthest end of the earth; this sacrifice is the nave of the world.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This Soma (the\r\nimmortal drink) is the energy that the Horse rains down; and Brahman is the\r\nsupreme status of the world. [35]<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 – 136<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;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The seven\r\nhalf-embryos are the energising sap of the world. As the infinite Lord ordained,\r\nthey became the varied laws.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They are the\r\nknowers and with their intelligence and thought they encircle all around and\r\nthey take from everywhere. [36]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I do not know\r\nwhat this is that I am, I am bound deep within and I roam about with my mind.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But the\r\nfirst-born child of Truth came to me, I had then my portion of the Delight in\r\nthe Word it uttered. [37]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The one below\r\ngoes upward seized by its own self-law: the mortal is one with the immortal at\r\nits origin.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They are eternal\r\nand move about divergently; one knows the other within oneself, another knows\r\nnot the other within itself. [38]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the luminous\r\nworld, in the supreme status where the Gods have taken their seat over the\r\nuniverse – </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He who does not\r\nknow it, what can he do with the Word; but he who knows it sits in the company\r\nof the Gods. [39]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You have eaten\r\nof the sweet corn, may you possess the Divine Delight, <span class=GramE>may</span>\r\nwe too possess the Divine Delight.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>None can slay\r\nyou through all eternity: may you eat of the grass and drink of the pure water\r\nand roam at ease. [40]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The luminous one\r\nmeasures and gives form to the waters: she has a single status, a two-fold\r\nstatus and a four-fold status.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She has an\r\neight-fold status, a nine-fold status and still becomes the thousand-fold\r\nletters in the supreme status. [41]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From <span\r\nclass=GramE>Her</span> the oceans flow out everywhere; by that the four directions\r\nlive their life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From there flow\r\nout that which does not flow; based upon that the universe lives its life. [42]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I saw from afar\r\nthe smoke in its energy spreading high and wide.<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 – 137<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;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The heroes\r\nprepare the dappled Scatterer even like food; such were the first and pristine\r\nlaws. [43]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Three are the\r\nShining Ones who see widely in accordance with the law of the Truth: of them\r\none plants the seed throughout the year, another labours upon the world with\r\nhis effulgences, of still another the mighty rushing is seen, not the form.\r\n[44]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Four-fold is the\r\nWord as measured into steps: they are known to the poet-seers and to the great\r\nminds.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Three are\r\nembedded deep within and they do not move; the fourth is the speech that men\r\nutter. [45]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They say, it is\r\nIndra or Mitra or Varuna or Agni: it is the divine Bird with wings of beauty.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The One alone\r\nexists: the wise speak of it variously, they call it Agni or Yama or Matarishwan.\r\n[46]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The luminous\r\nbirds with wings of beauty have clothed themselves with waters and they surge\r\nup along a dark path towards the heaven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They have returned\r\nfrom the seat of Truth and in their bright energy lift up the earth to the\r\nwideness. [47]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Twelve are the\r\nspokes, the wheel is one and four are the naves: who indeed has known of them?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With them fixed\r\ntogether there are three hundred and sixty poles, that appear as though moving\r\nand yet not moving. [48]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That eternal breast of yours yields\r\nsupreme delight: with that you nourish all desirable things.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That establishes felicity,\r\ndiscovers treasures, gives lavishly; O Saraswati, that do thou here affirm. [49]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The gods carry\r\nout the sacrifice with sacrifice; those were the first and pristine laws.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Those\r\ngreatnesses cleave to heaven, there where dwell the gods who have been the\r\nancient goal. [50]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 138</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><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;text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The same waters\r\nflow upward and again flow downward, day by day.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\ndivine showers give life to the earth; the fires give life to heaven. [51]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\nDivine Bird, vast in its wings of beauty, is the source of the waters, the seer\r\nof earthly growths.¹</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With its showers pouring all around\r\n<span class=GramE>he</span> brings felicity. He flows ceaselessly on and on:\r\nhim I call for the vast protection. [52]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>AGNI AND THE GODS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nX, Sukta 51)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE GODS<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Huge and firm was that covering\r\nwith which you shrouded yourself and entered into the waters.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Agni! You are conscious from\r\nyour very birth. The One God saw you in all your multiple universal body. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>AGNI</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who saw me? Which of the gods saw\r\nmy multiple <span class=GramE>body</span> all around? O Mitra! O Varuna! Tell\r\nme, where do they dwell-all the blazing fuel that move to the gods? [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE GODS</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Agni! <span class=GramE>god</span>\r\nself-conscient, we seek you, you who have entered variably into the waters and\r\ninto the growths of the earth. You shine richly. Yama has seen you as you flame\r\nout of your ten seats. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>AGNI</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Varuna! I fled because I was\r\nafraid of the work of the priest. The gods must not yoke me to that work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">¹ <span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>Or,\r\nis seen in the womb of the waters and of the earthly growths.</span><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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 139<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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That was why I embedded my body\r\nvariably so that I as Agni may not know of that pathway. [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE GODS</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Come, O Agni! Man, the mental\r\nbeing, desires to do the sacrifice, he has made everything ready, and you dwell\r\nin obscurity!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Make easy-going the path that\r\nleads to the gods, with a happy mind carry the offering. [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>AGNI</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There were elders before Agni who\r\ncovered the same path, even as charioteers do their way.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is why, O Varuna! out of\r\nfear I have come away so far, even as an animal shrinks and shivers at a\r\nshooting arrow. [6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE GODS</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall make your life\r\nundecaying, O Agni! so that no harm comes to you when engaged in the work.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So, carry to the gods their share\r\nof the offering; a happy birth you have, a happy mind you must carry. [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>AGNI</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Then bring to me my share of the\r\nmighty offerings, those that are given before, those that are given after and\r\nthose that are simply given.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O gods! Long life to the being\r\nshining in the waters, to Agni himself lying in the growths of the earth. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>THE GODS</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The offerings that precede, the\r\nofferings that follow, offerings pure and simple – all forceful, may you\r\nenjoy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May this sacrifice be yours\r\nentirely. The four quarters bow down to you, O Agni! [9]<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 – 140<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 align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>HYMN TO THE PURUSHA<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nX, Sukta 51)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He has a thousand heads, the\r\nSupreme Being, a thousand eyes and a thousand feet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He has covered the entire\r\nextended universe and exceeded it by the measure often fingers. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All this is the Supreme Purusha,\r\nall that has become, and all that will become.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is the master of Immortality\r\nand through Matter crosses beyond it. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All this is His mightiness and\r\neven greater than all this is the Supreme Being.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All the worlds are His feet, His\r\nother three steps are the Immortality in heaven. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Supreme Being with his three\r\nsteppings went upwards, He came down again in his fourth stepping:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And then spread Himself out\r\nvariously towards the living and the non-living (that which eats and that which\r\ndoes not eat). [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From <span class=GramE>That</span>\r\nwas born the Vast, the Wide-ruling, the Over-Lord.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Even as He is born, He transcends\r\nall, He is behind the earthly world and He is in front. [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Through the Supreme Being the Gods make the offering and\r\naccomplish the sacrifice.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The Spring is its first primal offering, Summer is its fuel\r\nand Autumn the final giving. [6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Supreme Being took birth in\r\nthe forefront, He is the sacrifice, Him they sanctified seated on the altar. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Through Him they accomplish the\r\nsacrifice, the Gods, the demi-gods and the Rishis. [7]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 141<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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All are offered unto Him and from\r\nHim are gathered the various elements of offering. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">And That created all the animals, all that are in the air,\r\nin the forests and the homesteads. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">All are offered unto Him and from Him are born Riks and\r\nSamas and the Chhandas and Yajuh. [9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From Him are born the horses and\r\nthey who are of either kind and the cows and from there are born even the\r\ngoatkiml.¹ [10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>When they established Him vastly,\r\nin how many ways did they conceive Him? What was His face, how were His arms\r\nand how His feet they spoke of? [11]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Brahmanas were His face, the\r\nroyalties were made His arms, the traders were His thighs and the labourers\r\n(proletarians) were born of His feet. [12]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The moon was born from His mind,\r\nthe sun from His eyes, the Lord of the senses and the Divine Fire from His\r\nmouth and air from the life-force. [13]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From the navel came out the\r\nmediate spaces, from His head rose the heavens, from the feet this earth, from\r\nHis ears the ten directions. Thus were the worlds conceived. [14]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Seven were the circles around\r\nHim, the fuel made were three times seven. When the Gods were preparing the\r\nsacrifice, they tied the being as the offered animal.² [15]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Through the sacrifice did the\r\nGods perform the sacrifice; such were the primal laws.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>¹ Horses = vital energy; cows=light-energy; either\r\nkind = mixture of the two, e.g., mental energy; goat <i>=<span class=SpellE>aja</span>\r\n</i>= (lit.) unborn; the primal or pristine energy, that of Mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\nmso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'>² The Supreme Consciousness sacrificed <span\r\nclass=GramE>Himself,</span> descended into Matter and became the Inconscient.</span><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 142<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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus indeed they reached the\r\nheavens in their mightiness where dwell the the ancient Gods and demi-gods.\r\n[16]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>HYMN TO HIRANYAGARBHA<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nX, Sukta 121)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the beginning there was the\r\nGolden Child in the Womb. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>From the very birth he became the\r\nsole Lord of creation. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He upheld the earth and this\r\nheaven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He gives us our self, he gives us our strength!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">His is the law that all the gods, all obey and adore. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Deathlessness is his shadow, and to him also Death belongs. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He by his greatness became the one king</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Of all that lives and breathes, indeed of the whole world. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He is the Master of the race of men and of animals. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [3]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">These snowy mountain-ranges are his greatness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">His are these oceans with all their sweet streams,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">All these spaces are his, extended as his arms.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Through Him the heavens are high and the earth firm. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Through Him the world of light is steadied and the world of\r\nBliss beyond;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In the inner ranges He measures the extensions.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Him the two firmaments in their vastness have transfixed: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">They gaze at Him with their luminous mind:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">There the sun rises up above and shines wide:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [6]<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 – 143<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">As the vast waters came down filling the universe,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">They held Agni in their womb and gave him birth; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Then came forth the One Force of all the Gods:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In his greatness He saw the waters all around,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Holding in himself the clear perception and ushering the sacrifice,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He is One God, Lord over all the Gods:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">May He not hurt as, He who is the Father of the Earth, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He the Lord of Truth who brought forth the heaven, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">He who brought forth the delightful wide Waters.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Who then is the God to whom we make our offering? [9]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">O Lord of creatures, through none else, none else</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Are all these worlds born everywhere;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Whatever prayer we offer to you, may that be granted to us, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">May we become master of all delights. [10]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>HYMN OF THE SUPREME GODDESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nX, Sukta 125)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I move with the Rudras and the\r\nVasus, with the Adityas, yea, with all the gods. I bear both Mitra and Varuna,\r\nboth Indra and Agni and the twin Aswins. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bear the Soma that is to be\r\npressed, I bear the Fashioner and the Fosterer and the Enjoyer. I give the\r\nTreasure to the sacrificer who carries the offering and delivers it, one who\r\nhas brought out the perfect Soma drink. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am the Imperial Power, all\r\nwealth I gather together. Being conscious of all, I am the first of all\r\nsacrificial elements. Me the gods have established widely, in multiple places,<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 144<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>me</span> who am seated multiply and\r\nmultiply entered into things. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Through me he eats his food, whoever\r\nsees, whoever hears. They who do not recognise me, perish. You who have ears,\r\nwho have faith, listen to what I tell you. [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I utter here that which is adored\r\nby the gods and by men. The one I choose, I make him supreme and he knows the\r\nWord and possesses the Knowledge. [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rudra\'s bow I bend for him to\r\nslay the fierce enemies of the Truth; I am in the battle for the sake of the\r\npeoples, I have entered into heaven and earth. [6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have given birth to the Father,\r\nwhose head is my birthplace – in the waters, in the ocean. From there I have\r\nentered into the worlds and have established myself wide and I touch with my\r\nbody the far heaven. [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I rush like the wind as I drive\r\nall the worlds. That reaches beyond the heavens, beyond this earth, – such is\r\nthe greatness that has manifested. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>ODE TO DARKNESS<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda-Mandala X,\r\nSukta <span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\"Arial Narrow\"\'>127)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-family:\"Arial Narrow\";mso-bidi-font-family:\r\n\"Arial Narrow\"\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Night spreads\r\nwide, she comes everywhere, a Goddess with shining eyes – she looms over these\r\nglories as their overlord. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Immortal\r\nGoddess fills up the Vast above and below. She compels the darkness with her\r\nlight. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Goddess\r\ncomes and veils her sister, the Dawn, and glows through the blackness. [3]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 145<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-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She is now that to us wherein we\r\nshall rest even as birds do on a tree. [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In her repose all habitations, all\r\nthe footed and winged creatures, even the fast racing eagle. [5]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Ocean-born Goddess! Smite the\r\nwolf, he or she, smite the robber! Carry us safely through. [6]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in; 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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Black darkness\r\nclings to me all around, it stands here firm. O Dawn! clear it even as you do\r\nmy debts. [7]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in; 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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Daughter of\r\nHeaven! A Herd of light is this hymn of victory that moves towards you. I have\r\nmade it for your sake. Do thou accept it, O Night. [8]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; 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:.25in; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>LAST HYMN<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; 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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(Rig-Veda – Mandala\r\nX, Sukta 191)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; 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%; 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:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Flame! Master\r\nStrength! O Leader! You gather around you all the peoples of the world and bind\r\nthem together. You burn bright in the high seat of Revelation, you bring us all\r\nthe riches. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify; 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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Come together,\r\nall of you, speak in one voice, know with one mind, even like the gods who, of\r\nyore, knew with one mind and together had their share of enjoyment. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Together may\r\nthey utter the mantra, may they unite together, may their mind be one, their\r\nconsciousness mingle.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I utter the same mantra with you\r\nall, with you all equally I make the offering. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in; 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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May your\r\nyearning be one, may your hearts be one, may your mind be one, so that your\r\nunion be perfect. [4]<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 146<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">THE ABOVE HYMN AS TRANSLATED BY SRI AUROBINDO:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Fire, O strong one, as master\r\nthou unitest us with all things and art kindled high in the seat of revelation;\r\ndo thou bring to us the Riches. [1]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Join together, speak one word,\r\nlet your minds arrive at one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one\r\nknowledge partake each of his own portion. [2]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Common Mantra have all these, a\r\ncommon gathering to union, one mind common to all, they are together in one\r\nknowledge; pronounce for you a common Mantra, I do sacrifice for you with a\r\ncommon offering. [3]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>One and common be your\r\naspiration, united your hearts, common to you be your mind, – so that close\r\ncompanionship may be yours. [4]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>VICTORY TO THE WORLD MASTER</b><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\'><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\'>(THE TEN AVATARAS OF\r\nGITA GOVINDA)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In the waters of the Great Deluge, serving as a boat</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>untroubled\r\nyou upbear the Book of Knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Fish. Victory</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>to</span> the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The earth reposes on your far vaster back, heavily crusted</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>with</span> scales because of the load upon it.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Tortoise. Victory </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>to</span> the\r\nLord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The earth clings to the edge of your tusk, even as the lunar</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>stain</span> is imbedded in the moon.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Boar. Victory</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>to</span> the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 147<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The digits of your hands are like rose petals but the nails </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>at</span> the end\r\nare like some strange horns, and these have </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>ripped</span>\r\nopen the body of the Asura, as through the body </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>of</span> a bee.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Man-Lion. Victory</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>to</span> the\r\nLord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">A strange Dwarf, you duped <st1:place>Bali</st1:place> with\r\nyour cunning; the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>water</span> touched by your feet purifies human peoples.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the body of a Dwarf. Victory to</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In the streaming blood of the warrior tribe you have bathed </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span> world,\r\nwashed out all its sins, soothed the burning</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>pain of\r\nearthly life.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Parasurama. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In the ten directions, to the ten godheads you have </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>distributed the ten heads of\r\nRavana, as a happy offering</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>desired by\r\nthem.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of the Prince of Raghus. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">On your white body you have put on a blue robe that </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>matches beautifully with the blue\r\nYamuna clinging to </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>you</span> for\r\nfear of being dragged by your ploughshare.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Haladhara (the </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>wielder of the plough). Victory to\r\nthe Lord! Victory </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>to</span> the\r\nMaster of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Oh, you condemn the sacrificial rites as ordained by the </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Holy Scriptures, your heart melting at the sight of animals</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>being</span> slaughtered.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of the Enlightened One </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(<span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nBuddha). Victory to the Lord! Victory to the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Master of\r\nthe World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">To slay the whole host of the Invaders, you have unsheathed </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>your</span>\r\nsword, how frightful, even as a streaming comet!<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 148<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Lo, the Lord has assumed the form of Kalki.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Victory to the Lord! Victory to the Master of the World!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Listen to the sublime hymn that brings happiness and </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>welfare, the very cream of\r\ncreation, sung by the </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>poet</span>\r\nJayadeva.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">I bow down to <st1:place>Krishna</st1:place>, to his ten\r\nincarnations, to him who </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>saves the Vedas, who bears the\r\nworld, uplifts the earth,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>slays the Titans, confounds <st1:place>Bali</st1:place>,\r\ndestroys the Kshattriyas, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>conquers the son of Pulastya,\r\nwields the Plough, who </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.5in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>pours out his compassion, to him\r\nwho routs the Hostiles.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>A HYMN<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The high\r\nThought, the mighty Strength, the living Sap, the Delight streaming in the\r\nhearts of things, the treasure-house <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Qf</span>\r\nall that we gain and hold, all Fulfilment lie at her feet. We bow down to her.\r\nShe is the Mother, the nectar agleam in Sri Aurobindo\'s eyes: she upholds the\r\nvery frame of all existences, she is Mira, the luminous, the dispeller of inner\r\ndarkness, <span class=GramE>she</span> maintains this wide and entire earth.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Victory, to\r\nHim, our Lord Sri Aurobindo, Reality whole and global! Victory to the sustainer\r\nof the worlds, the Mother Mira <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE>Qf</span>\r\nwhite radiance! To their integral Yoga all victory – may it manifest fully on\r\nearth! And victory to those who follow it, the fortunate spiritual brotherhood!</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His smile,\r\nshadow less and luminous, lifts up the earth into a joyous blossoming; his\r\nflaming eye of Light destroys the darkness; he carries in his hands the supreme\r\nGood of the future in all its richness. Lo, our Lord and Master <span\r\nclass=GramE>shines</span> resplendent.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She brings into our path of vision\r\nthe Essence however difficult to perceive, she brings into the sphere of speech\r\neven<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 149<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%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>that which is too remote for\r\nwords; she draws from the dry being the flow of the sap of life: she sustains\r\nthe smallest of the small to the end of the ages. A Force indefinable, of\r\nmarvellous plenitude, she is fostered and impelled – as though herself\r\npossessing no autonomy of her own – by the ever-victorious golden glance\r\ngleaming from the divine lotus-eyes of our Lord.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We bow, we bow\r\nto the resplendent Light of the Master, the Light that has assumed the supreme\r\nform of a woman, the Light that liberates the imprisoned power of humanity from\r\nthe bonds of weakness and ignorance and fashions it for the New Age.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Glory to Mother\r\nMira, in <span class=GramE>whom</span> are constellated the world-rejuvenating\r\nradiances, Glory to the Lord, the Master, Sri Aurobindo, who reigns victorious\r\nwith the Gracious Mother.<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\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:\r\nnormal\'>A PRAYER<o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sweats of\r\npassion flow in streams down his temples, Their fragrance draws swarms of bees\r\nthat swirl about driven by his fanning ears. Gods and angels and seraphs sing\r\nto Him. He is Shiva\'s son, Shiva who bears the Goddess Ganges on his head. In\r\nHim I take refuge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He dwells in\r\nthe thousand-petalled lotus, luminous cool like the full orb of the moon, his\r\nlotus-hands carry grace and protection. He wears a robe of pure sweet-scented\r\nflowers, ever-smiling and gracious-looking. He embodies all the gods. He is the\r\nSpirit, the soaring Bird on the crown of the head. Remember Him and worship Him\r\nin any fair form. He is the Guru.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He shines bright\r\n\'within the lotus-centre of the head like the soothing moon; like the brilliant\r\nsun he flashes; his arms extend to protect and to give. He is radiant like\r\nburning camphor. He wears a white robe and white garlands, he is anointed\r\nwhite. His consort gleams like lightning, as she clings to him athwart \r\n<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 150<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=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE>one-half</span> of his body. He is the\r\nGuru, full of Grace. I worship him in adoration.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"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:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>He is the warp\r\nwith which this world of moving and unmoving things is woven, he is the woof\r\nthat runs through all. His grace releases even the animal-kind from all bonds.\r\nHe dwells in the sounds, as of <st1:place><span class=SpellE>Om</span></st1:place>,\r\nthat <span class=GramE>are</span> uttered as mantra, he is the light of all the\r\nluminaries. He is vast as the skies, he is the Supreme, he is Shiva, he is the\r\nfullness of Light, <span class=GramE>to</span> Him I surrender with a steadfast\r\nthought.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Goddess,\r\nprotect us by your spontaneous Grace, forgive all our offences, against the\r\nsupreme Light of all lights. It is he who assumes a multitude of forms; he\r\ndwells in the lotus heart of the universe, he makes the laws that upbear the\r\nstatus and dynamism of the cosmos, he alone is able to awaken all to knowledge.\r\n0 Goddess, remove all evil forthwith and for ever, be constantly present in us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May the divine\r\nMaster, Guru Bhaskara, protect us from every evil and danger. May he manifest\r\nhimself to reveal the essential mystery of his path of worship and to spread\r\nthe true tradition of Knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>OM! I bow to the lotus feet of the\r\nmost revered Guru!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Supreme\r\nShiva is an intense and concentrated Delight, luminously aware of his integral,\r\ninfinite and supreme consciousness, with all the gathered rays of the supernal\r\nawareness. He has no other form than that of light. He is whole and undivided.\r\nBut when he emits the rays of his light he assumes the form of the Eternal Benign,\r\nreplete with the manifoldness of his own Ananda. The Supreme God, the adorable\r\nShiva, thus took a manifest form to create the universe. He then brought forth\r\nthe eighteen Sciences and all the systems of philosophies; he assumed the forms\r\nof various personalities by his own Lila.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thereupon\r\nquestioned by his Divine Consort who is All-awareness, who is one and\r\nidentical with him, he uttered five sacred scriptures with his five mouths, the\r\nscriptures which are the essence of the true spiritual knowledge. He\r\nintroduced, established and spread them through the great preceptors, divine or\r\nhuman, through those who are perfect or realised Beings, for the supreme good\r\nof the world. This is what is called Tantric Process.<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 – 151<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;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\nin the path of Tantra, widely extended as it is through the long tradition of\r\nits preceptors; the meditative concentration on the image, the repetition of\r\nthe sacred formulas, <i>Mantra-Japa, </i>and other various methods mentioned in\r\ndifferent scriptures are meant to provide easy ways suited to the sadhaks of\r\nthe different natures. They make no difference to the fundamental Truth and\r\nprinciple which remains always the same. And this is called Sri Vidya which is\r\nthe essential substance of all the sacred Scriptures, the essence of the four\r\ngreat steps of Tantra <i>(Charya, Kriya, Jnana </i>and <i>Yoga) </i>expounded\r\nin all its precepts.</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\'>This\r\nHigh Knowledge (Vidya) has been very secretly taught by the different branches\r\nof Yajurveda in their hymns and their <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>U</span>panishadic\r\nversions. It has been mysteriously revealed by the various branches of Rigveda\r\nin their hymns or their Upanishadic versions. It is mystically awakened through\r\na certain subtle duct in the body, evoked by manifold metrical hymns of the\r\nSarna Veda. This Vidya is commonly <i>found </i>in all the Vedas. It is the\r\nessence of all Vedic mantras, Brahmanas and Upanishads. It is the Queen of the\r\nShaktichakra, a wave of supremely great light, a form or embodiment of supreme\r\nconsciousness. This is a mystic truth inherited from a tradition of Gurus.</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\ntradition enjoins that to realise this Maha-Vidya a sadhaka should take an\r\ninitiation and do the ceremonial worship as directed. And when initiated by a\r\ntrue adept he must first meditate on the Holy Feet, Sri Mahapaduka, uttering\r\nthe sacred words that mean &quot;I adore the Sri Mahapaduka in the\r\neight-petalled white lotus that looks upward, that has twelve extremities and\r\nthat is established within the womb of the thousand-petalled lotus, spread out\r\nlike an umbrella and facing downward. The great Holy Feet is possessed of all\r\nsciences, embodies the Powers of all deities. It represents the three strides\r\nof the holy preceptor in the three centres, the crown (Brahma-randhra), the\r\nheart and the lower abdomen, even as it is richly decorated with resplendent\r\nornaments.&quot;</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\'>Then\r\nthe sadhak must contemplate the Twin Deity, Shiva and Parvati, the aggregate of\r\nall the gods, and possessed of the Gnostic Light displayed in the burning of\r\nthe three cities of demons. They wear red and white garlands and garments,<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 – 152<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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>ointments</span>\r\nand ornaments. They shower the desirable boon of divine protection with the\r\ntwin hands outstretched in mysterious gesture of lotus embrace; delightful\r\nface and eyes they have, the mind enraptured in knowledge and bliss, their form\r\nis the very image of the supreme Guru, with his\' red and white lotus-feet.</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\'>Next\r\nthe sadhak must think himself flooded in his body with the outpourings of\r\nnectar from His lotus-feet; the immortalising streamings from the wash of those\r\nFeet purge him of all evil and free him from all the impurities obstructing the\r\nfulfilment, viz., the inflow of the Force <i>(Shakti-pata) </i>that must result\r\nfrom the Shiva-Initiation, contemplation on the Supreme Shiva as Guru, uttering\r\nthe Japa-mantra of the Holy Feet. It is thus that the sadhak must adore the\r\ndivine Master.</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\'>Then\r\nhe must contemplate, as force in his mantric vision, the Light wave ranging\r\nfrom the lowest mystical circle to the opening in the crown he must know and\r\nrealise it as rising up from the bottom of the spine to the crown of the head.\r\nHe should meditate on it and realise that it is the tan-coloured point of\r\nlightning and the golden rising sun; it is a flaming Force which is no other\r\nthan the Original Consciousness, it acts like a kindled fire that burns the\r\nknots of sin. Then he should contemplate on himself and see that his tangles of\r\nevil and sin that impede the fruition of Initiation and the flow of <span\r\nclass=GramE>shakti</span>, have all been burnt out by the gathered rays\r\nreflected from the spontaneous Grace of the original consciousness-force. All\r\nthe bonds of evil and sin having thus been destroyed by its rays, he must\r\nremember in his inner heart the original Divine Knowledge with the following\r\nprayer:</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\'>&quot;May\r\nthe Goddess Kundalini, luminous as the new-risen sun, rise up from her abode,\r\nin her graceful movement to open the centres (lotuses) in succession on her way\r\nupwards and kindle the spiritual light by the nectarous rays of the Abode of <span\r\nclass=GramE>Shiva.</span>&quot;</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\'>&quot;The\r\nKundalini Power rises up with all her immortal sweetness and through various\r\nprocesses that consolidate the vehicle, by worshipping Shiva, the seed of the\r\nthree <span class=GramE>status</span>; may She, Shiva\'s consort, bring the\r\nsupreme good.</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\'>She\r\nis Shiva\'s Consort. May she bestow on us an immeasurable <span class=GramE>splendour.</span>\r\nShe has the glow of a mass of vermillion and<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 – 153<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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>the</span>\r\ncrescent moon as her crest ornament, her face agleam with the triple eyes of\r\nbliss, bent with \'the weight of the full breasts, She is the supreme charm of\r\nLove.</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\'>She\r\nis Shiva\'s Consort. She shines like a Bandhuka-flower, may <span class=GramE>She</span>\r\nmanifest in my heart. She graces all quarters of the sky with her wide\r\neye-lotuses, her lotus-feet are swept by the crests on the crowns of Gods, as\r\nthey humbly bow down to her; she is heavy with her rounded breasts. She bears a\r\nnewly risen crescent. May she the Supreme Goddess of the three worlds create\r\nbliss in the inner instruments of my consciousness. May she pierce and open the\r\nsix centres that are now closed and inhabited by ghouls and goblins; and may\r\nshe open them in an intimacy with the gods, Brahma and others, through the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>the</span> action of the mystical letters [numbered four, six,\r\nten, twelve, sixteen and two respectively, beginning with \'sa\' to which \'ksha\'\r\nand \'ha\' are also added.]</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\'>&quot;The\r\nsadhaka, whose body is graced in quality and movement should contemplate on\r\nParvati. She will swiftly pierce the three knots from the lowermost centre\r\n(Muladhara) upward, open the lotuses and awaken the dense intense bliss laden\r\nwith consciousness, she will come forth from the fountain of nectar that flows\r\nfrom the nectared home of the vibrating heaven and shine like the impetuous\r\nlightning.</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\'>&quot;May\r\nthe embodied form of Parvati grant us the abode and status of Shiva which is\r\nthe crown of bliss and is constantly sought for by the highest scriptures,\r\nShruti; <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>that<i> </i></span>the\r\ncrescent moon illuminates, <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>that<i> </i></span>presides\r\nover all the worlds, <span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>that<i> </i></span>eliminates\r\nthe sufferings of the <span class=GramE>devotees.</span> May She constanly\r\nbestow on us all the blessed things.</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\'>&quot;Let\r\nme take refuge in the Consort of Shiva (his left half), her anklets tinkle\r\nsweetly, and <span class=GramE>She</span> is the origin of the Universe as also\r\nof all speech.</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\'>&quot;We\r\ntake shelter with the Consort of Shiva (his left half) who is not divided from\r\nhim. She is resplendent like a huge sapphire. Bended with the weight of her\r\norbed breasts, she looks harmoniously elegant with all the splendour of her\r\nbrilliant ornaments on her body, she is the sole origin of the Universe,\r\nconstantly sought by the highest scriptures.</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\'>&quot;The\r\nYogi must dissolve all the five causes into the supreme Shiva, who is beyond\r\nTime and Space etc., into the Void that<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 – 154<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.0pt;\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-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>is</span> nothing else but Consciousness, and is not dependent on\r\nanything. He must fix and finally settle himself into that Void Shiva with a\r\ncalm and steady mind and merge all his senses into it. Thus he attains easily\r\nthe fruit of the Yoga, viz., the ever-existing Immutable.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'>In this manner he must meditate on the Kundalini as his\r\nTutelary deity, remember the multitude of marshalled rays and complete the\r\nremaining process. Then he must control the movements of his senses and his\r\nconsciousness in the self-existent and self-contained Void that is. <span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> cause of all, and</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nclass=GramE>should</span> perform the worship in his outer body (in its\r\nphysical force) or in the twin life-principle or the essential consciousness\r\nitself according to his stage of sadhana or his inner fitness. He must finally\r\nsettle himself in the wideness of the Highest Consciousness, from where there\r\nis no beyond, and thus move freely and blissfully.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\nis the highest truth of Tantra which can only be attained by the Grace of the\r\nGuru. This has been expounded by Yogishananda Nath Nilakantha Sharma Joshi, the\r\ndisciple of Sri Amba Nanda Nath, as commanded by the Mother, the incarnate\r\nDivine Force, for the delight of the sadhakas who are freed from all evil by a\r\nsingle ray from the glance cast by the Grace of Sri Aurobindo, the great seer.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bliss\r\nfor all!<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 155<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"71\" height=\"19\" 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\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-27_Sanskrit','','publish','closed','open','','27_sanskrit','','','2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/27_sanskrit/',0,'post','',0),(1990,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\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 PATH</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"6\" style=\"border-collapse: collapse\" 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\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">THE PATH</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\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\'><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\'>[1]</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 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\'>Of all the Paths the best\r\nis the Eightfold one, of all the Truths the .best is the Fourfold one, of all\r\nthe Rules of life the best is detachment and of all men the best is one who has\r\neyes.<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 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 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\'>This indeed is the <span\r\nclass=GramE>Path,</span> none other exists for the purification of vision. Take\r\nto this Path. This alone confounds Mara.</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 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 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\'>Take to this Path and you\r\nshall end your suffering. I have known where the thorn hurts and I am\r\nexplaining the Path.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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 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 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\'>You must yourself make the\r\neffort, the Master only explains. They who take to meditation and follow the\r\nPath are freed from the bond ages of the Adversary.</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 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 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\'>All becomings are\r\ntransitory. When one sees by the right knowledge, sufferings vanish. Such is\r\nthe Path of purity.</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 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 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\'>AIl becomings bring\r\nsuffering; when man sees by the right knowledge, his sufferings vanish. Such is\r\nthe Path of Purity.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 233<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.0pt;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 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 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 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\'>All movements are without\r\nbeing; when one sees by the right knowledge, sufferings vanish. Such is the\r\nPath of Purity.</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 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 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\'>When it is time to be up,\r\none keeps lying down, when young and strong one indulges in indolence, when the\r\nmind is full of vain notions, when one is so slothful, then one never finds the\r\nway to right knowledge.</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 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 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\'>Keep guard on your speech,\r\ncontrol your mind, <span class=GramE>let</span> not the body act wrongly. Keep\r\nthese three laws of action clean and follow the Path as directed by the sages.</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 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 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\'>Concentration brings <span\r\nclass=GramE>knowledge,</span> lack of concentration brings lack of knowledge.\r\nKnow this double Path, one leading to progress, the other to the contrary;\r\nengage yourself so that your knowledge may increase.</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 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 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\'>Cut down the forest of\r\ndesire, not merely one tree. Danger lies in the forest. Cut down the forest and\r\nits bushes, be out of it and free.</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 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 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\'>As long as a man has not\r\nrooted out the last of his desire for woman, his mind remains tied down even as\r\na suckling child is to its mother.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[13]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n11.75pt;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 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\'>Pull out your\r\nself-attachment even as one does an autumn lotus out of the pond. Speak of that\r\nPath of Peace alone as is directed by the Buddha.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:11.75pt;\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 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 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 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\'>Here shall I stay during\r\nthe rains, and here during autumn and summer. A fool only contemplates in this\r\nway. He does not know what may just stand in the way.</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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 234<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.2pt;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 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 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 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\'>Death seizes a man\r\nengrossed in his children and cattleheads and carries him away, even like a\r\nmighty flood overwhelming a sleeping village.</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 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 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\'>Children or parents or\r\nfriends are of no avail in serving you. When Death seizes you none of your\r\nfamily will be your saviour.</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 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 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 wise man shielded by\r\ncorrect conduct knows this perfectly and blazes his way to Nirvana.<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;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\'>Page – 235<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n12.2pt;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</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><span style=\'font-size:20.0pt;color:blue;\r\nmso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><a href=\"-00_-Content\"><img src=\"_Jpeg%20image/set10_home_on.gif\" width=\"70\" height=\"18\" border=\"0\"></a></span></b></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\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-52_The Path','','publish','closed','open','','52_the-path','','','2021-11-23 17:58:45','2021-11-23 17:58:45','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/52_the-path/',0,'post','',0),