(1739,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n\r\n<title>BENGALI ESSAYS AND POEMS OF</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">BENGALI ESSAYS AND POEMS OF</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n18.45pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></span><font size=\"4\">SRI AUROBINDO</font><o:p></o:p></b></p><b>\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 style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:18.45pt;\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\n15.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Asceticism and Renunciation</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i>\r\n<span style=\'font-family:\r\nArial;\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p></b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'color:black\'>T</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;color:black\'>HE</span><span style=\'color:black\'>\r\nDiscipline (Dharma) spoken of in the Gita can be fol­lowed by everyone; it is\r\nopen to all. And yet the supreme status in this Discipline is not a whit less\r\nthan that of any other. The Discipline of the Gita is the Discipline of desire­less\r\nworks. In this country with the resurgence of Aryan Discipline a flood of\r\nasceticism has spread everywhere. A man seeking Rajayoga cannot rest content\r\nwith the life or the work of a householder. For the practice of his yoga he\r\nneeds to make tremendously laborious efforts to be able to meditate and\r\nconcentrate. A slight mental disturbance or contact with the outside upsets the\r\npoise of meditation or completely destroys it. Difficulties of this kind one\r\nmeets abundantly in home-life. Therefore it is quite natural for those who are\r\nborn with an urge for yoga, derived from past lives, to turn towards\r\nasceticism. When such souls with an inborn yogic urge begin to increase in\r\nnumber and by contagion to spread among the youthful generation a strong move­ment\r\nto asceticism, the doors are opened indeed for the good of the country, in one\r\nsense; but also along with the good there arise causes for apprehension. It is\r\nsaid that the ascetic discipline is the very best, but very few are competent\r\nto follow it. The incompetent who enter the path go a certain distance and then\r\nin the midway stop short through a kind of satisfaction arising from lethargy\r\nand inertia. One can in this way pass one\'s life upon earth in ease, but then\r\none does no good to the world and also it becomes very difficult for such it\r\none to rise to the higher reaches of the world.<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></span><b><i><span style=\'color:black\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-165<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'color:black\'>The\r\ntime and the circumstances in which we are at present demand that we awaken the\r\nqualities of dynamic energy (Rajas) and luminous poise (Sattwa), that is to\r\nsay, activity and knowledge, discarding the qualities of inertia and devote\r\nourselves to the service of the country and the world so that we may rejuvenate\r\nthe moral and spiritual strength of our land. This is our foremost duty today.\r\nWe have to recreate an Aryan people rich with knowledge and power and wide\r\ncatholicity, from out of the womb of this people weak and worn out, weighed\r\ndown with inertia, narrowed into self­ish bounds. It is for this reason that so\r\nmany souls, full of strength and yogic power, are being born in </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'color:black\'>Bengal</span></st1:place><span style=\'color:black\'>. If\r\nsuch people attracted by the charm of asceticism abandon their true law of life\r\nand their God-given work, then with the destruction of their true law the\r\nnation too will perish. The younger generation seems to imagine that the stage\r\nof the student (Brahmacharya) is the time fixed for the acquisi­tion of\r\neducation and character. The next stage as fixed is that of the householder.\r\nAnd when one has assured the preservation of the family and the future building\r\nof the Aryan race and thus freed oneself from the debts to the an­cestors and\r\nalso when one has paid off one\'s debts to society by the acquisition of wealth\r\nand by useful service and when one has paid off one\'s debts to the world by\r\nspreading know­ledge and beneficence and love and strength and finally when one\r\nhas been able to satisfy the Mother of the worlds by one\'s un stinted labour\r\nand high service for the good of Mother India, then it will not be amiss to\r\nretire from the world into the forest (Vanaprastha), and take to the ascetic\r\nlife. Otherwise there arises confusion of social values and growing dominance\r\nof the wrong law. I do not speak of young ascetics who have been freed from all\r\ndebts in a pre­vious life; but it would be wrong for one who has not made\r\nhimself ready for asceticism to take to it. Great and magna­nimous Buddhism has\r\ndone no doubt immense good to the country, yet no less harm, because of\r\nasceticism spreading</span><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-166<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'color:black\'>everywhere\r\nand the warrior class (Kshatriya) renouncing their appointed function; and in\r\nthe end, itself was banished from the country. In the new age the new\r\ndispensation must not admit this error.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'>In the Gita, Sri Krishna has time and again directed Arjuna\r\nnot to follow asceticism. Why? He admits the virtue of Sannyasa and yet, in\r\nspite of the repeated questionings of Arjuna overwhelmed as he was with the\r\nspirit of asce­ticism, abnegation and altruism, Sri Krishna never withdrew his\r\ninjunctions with regard to the path of action. Arjuna asked, &quot;If\r\ndesireless Intelligence, founded in Yoga, is greater than karma, then why do\r\nyou engage me in this terrible work of slaying my elders?&quot; Many have\r\nrepeated the question of Arjuna, some even have not hesitated to call him the\r\nworst Teacher, one who shows the wrong way. In answer, Sri Krishna has\r\nexplained that renunciation is greater than asceticism, to remember God and do\r\none\'s appointed work without desire is far greater than freedom to do as one\r\nlikes. Renunciation means renunciation of desire, renunciation of selfishness.\r\nAnd to learn that renunciation one need not take refuge in solitude. That\r\nlesson has to be learnt through work in the field of work; work is the means to\r\nclimb upon the path of yoga. This world of varied play has been created for the\r\npurpose .of bringing delight to its creatures. It is not God\'s purpose that\r\nthis game of delight should cease. He wants the creatures to become his\r\ncomrades and playmates, to flood the world with delight. We are in the darkness\r\nof ignorance; that is because, for the sake of the play the Lord has kept\r\nhimself aloof and thus surrounded himself with obscurity. Many are the ways\r\nfixed by him which, if followed would take one out of the darkness, bring him\r\ninto God\'s company. If anyone is not interested in the play and desires rest,\r\nGod will fulfil his desire. But if one follows His way for His sake, then God\r\nchooses him, in this world or elsewhere as His fit playmate. Arjuna was </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'color:black\'>Krishna</span></st1:place><span style=\'color:black\'>\'s\r\ndearest comrade and playmate, therefore he received the</span><b><i><span style=\'color:black\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-167<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;color:black\'>teaching of the\r\nGita\'s supreme secret. What that supreme secret is I tried to explain in a\r\nprevious context. The Divine said to Arjuna, &quot;It is harmful to the world\r\nto give up work, to give up work is the spirit of asceticism. And an asceticism\r\nwithout renunciation is meaningless. What one gains by asceticism one gains\r\nalso by renunciation, that is to say, the freedom from Ignorance, equanimity,\r\npower, delight, union with Sri Krishna. Whatever the man worshipped by all\r\ndoes, people take that as the ideal and follow it. Therefore, if you give up\r\nwork through asceticism, all will follow that path and bring about the\r\nconfusion of social values, and the reign of the wrong law. If you give up the\r\ndesire for the fruit of action and pursue man\'s normal law of life, inspire men\r\nto follow each his own line of activity, then you will unite with my Law of\r\nlife and become my intimate friend.&quot; Sri Krishna explains furthermore that\r\nthe rule is to follow the right path through works and finally at the end of\r\nthe path attain quietude, that is to say, renounce all sense of being the doer.\r\nBut this is not renunciation of work through asceticism, this is to give up all\r\nvital urge to action involving immense labour and effort through the rejection\r\nof egoism and through union with the Divine - and transcending all gun as, to\r\ndo works as an instrument impelled by His force. In that state it is the\r\npermanent consciousness of the soul that he is not the doer, he is the witness,\r\npart of the Divine; it is the Divine Power that works through his body created\r\nfor action by his own inner law of being. The soul is the witness and enjoyer,\r\nNature is the doer, the Divine is the giver of sanction. The being so illumined\r\ndoes not seek to help or hinder any work that the Divine Power under­takes.\r\nSubmitted to the Shakti, the body and mind and intellect engage themselves in\r\nthe work appointed by God. Even a terrible massacre like that of Kurukshetra\r\ncannot stain a soul with sin if it is sanctioned by God, if it occurs in the\r\ncourse of the fulfilment of one\'s own dharma (Inner Law), but only a few can\r\nattain to this knowledge and this</span><b><i><span style=\'color:black\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-168<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'color:black\'>goal.\r\nIt cannot be the law of life for the common man. What then is the duty for the\r\ncommon wayfarers? Even for them the knowledge that He is the Lord, I am\r\nthe instrument is to a certain extent within their reach. Through this\r\nknowledge to remember always the Divine and follow one\'s inner law of life is\r\nthe direction that has been given.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'>&quot;Better is one\'s own law of works, swadharma, though\r\nin itself faulty, than an alien law well wrought out; death in one\'s own law of\r\nbeing is better, perilous is it to follow an alien law.&quot;¹<b><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></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\nstyle=\'color:black\'>One\'s own law of life (swadharma) means the work governed\r\nby one\'s own nature (swabhava); one\'s own na­ture evolves and develops in the\r\ncourse of time. In the process of Time man develops a general nature of his\r\nown; the works determined by this formulation of nature embody the law of that\r\nage. In the process of a nation\'s life-movement the nation\'s own nature is\r\nbuilt up and the works determined by that nature are the nation\'s law of life.\r\nAnd in the course of the life-movement of an individual, the special nature he\r\ndevelops, determines the work that becomes the individual\'s law of life. These\r\nvarious laws of life are united together, organised in a com on ideal which is\r\nthat of the Eternal Law. This law is one\'s own law for all who seek to follow\r\nthe true law. As a spiritual student (brahmachari) one fol­lows this law to\r\ngather knowledge and strength. As a house­holder also one follows this law. And\r\nwhen one has com­pletely fulfilled this law, then one becomes eligible for the\r\nfinal stages, Vanaprastha or Sannyasa. Such is the eternal movement of the\r\neternal law.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<b>\r\n\r\n<i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'color:black\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;color:black\'>¹ Gita, III.35.</span><b><i><span\r\nstyle=\'color:black\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'color:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n	</i></b>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; 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\">\r\n<title>Hymn to Bhavani</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Bhavani</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>NOR father nor mother, nor friends nor brothers,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nor son nor daughter, nor servants nor master,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nor bride nor learning nor profession have I:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this world, this\r\nshoreless ocean brimming with its dread</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:6\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>suffering,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>I lie prostrate, full of desire, full of\r\ngreed, full of delusion;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>For ever entangled I am in\r\nthe meshes of Wrong movements:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou\r\nthe sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know neither benefaction nor meditation nor yoga,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nor do I know secret practices nor charms nor chants\r\noccult;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not rites of worship, nor the process of\r\nrenouncing: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not virtue, I know not pilgrimage,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not liberation nor any annihilation either,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know not devotion nor even ascetic discipline, O\r\nMother; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am a wrong-doer, wrong company, wrong-witted, wrong\r\n<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>servant,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n-27.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have abandoned all\r\ncustoms of ancestors and I have embraced all wrong customs;<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To see wrong, to speak\r\nwrong I am always prone:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge,\r\nthou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:168.0pt 242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>Page-55<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.1pt;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%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lord of the people, Lord of the Divine Mother,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>the great Lord Himself, the Lord of\r\nthe Gods, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lord of the day, Lord of the night,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I know none else among the Gods for everlasting\r\nshelter; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou the sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In strife and gloom, in error, in other lands,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>In water and fire, in the\r\nmountains and among enemies,<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>In forest-ranges I seek my\r\nshelter, protect me always: <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; text-indent: 260pt; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Thou art the refuge, thou\r\nthe sole refuge, O Bhavani!<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have no protector, I am\r\ndestitute, I am stricken with age</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:6\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>and\r\nailings,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wholly dispossessed,\r\nlowliest, ever reduced to an inert figure;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I have entered into\r\ncalamity, thoroughly undone:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thou art the refuge, thou\r\nthe sole refuge, O Bhavani!</p>\r\n\r\n<h2 align=center style=\'text-align:center;tab-stops:24.75pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;font-style:normal; font-weight:400\'>Page-56</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></h2>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<hr class=\"MsoNormal\">\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Story of Rishi Yajnavalkya</font><o:p></o:p></b><i><font size=\"4\">&nbsp;</font></i></h2>\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\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">(I)</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">YAJNAVALKYA was one of the\r\ngreat Brahmins and a supreme master of the Knowledge of Reality during the\r\nUpanishadic age. But it was not that he was only a man of Knowledge,\r\ndeep and serious; he was also a fine humorist. That is, he combined his\r\nKnowledge with a keen sense of irony and fun. Here are some stories about him.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.1pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">King\r\n<span class=SpellE>Janaka</span> was his contemporary. That would seem to place\r\nhis story in the Upanishads about the time of the Ramayana although <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Rama</span> or <span class=SpellE>Sita</span> does not figure\r\nanywhere there. King <span class=SpellE>Janaka</span> too was a man of\r\nKnowledge, a sage ­king, <span class=SpellE>rajarsi</span>. But\r\nhe had not taken any disciples. The seekers would come to him for the solution\r\nof their problems, and he used to hold the seat of umpire at the sessions of\r\nRishis and men of knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">As\r\nhe sat in his royal court at one such session, and numer­ous were the seekers\r\nand men of knowledge who had assem­bled there to see him, Rishi Yajnavalkya\r\nsuddenly made his appearance. The king greeted the mighty sage with due\r\nceremony and respect, and asked him, &quot;Yajnavalkya, what is the object that\r\nbrings you here? Is it the acquisition of Knowledge or of <span class=SpellE>kine</span>?&quot;\r\nYajnavalkya said, &quot;Both, my king, - ubhayameva <span class=SpellE>samrat</span>!&quot;\r\nwith a smile.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>There was a previous history to this\r\n&quot;both&quot;, to which the king had been referring. It happened like this.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>King <span class=SpellE>Janaka</span> had\r\nbeen celebrating a sacrifice, and had arranged for the gifts to be on a\r\ngenerous scale. The lure of</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-139<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:8.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:197.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span\r\nclass=GramE>the</span> gifts had brought together a number of Brahmins from the\r\nsurrounding country too. The measure of the gifts he had announced, that is to\r\nsay, the first prize, like the gold medal offered by our Academies, consisted\r\nof a thousand <span class=SpellE>kine</span>; and not only that, for each of\r\nthese thousand cows was to have, tied to each horn, a ten <span class=SpellE>pada</span>\r\nweight, equal to about three <span class=SpellE>tolas</span> of our\r\nmeasure, of purest gold, <span class=SpellE>kasita</span> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>kañcana</span>, not the fourteen-carat variety. A thousand\r\ncows meant two thousand horns; so you can figure out how much gold that would\r\nbe. King <span class=SpellE>Janaka</span> had it announced that the Brahmin men\r\nof learning and knowledge who had assembled there were all invited to\r\nparticipate: the prize would go to him who proved to be most proficient in the\r\nVedic lore. The best among these Brahmins was called upon to come up and lead\r\nthose <span class=SpellE>kine</span> home. But none among the learned Brah­mins\r\nhad the courage to declare <span class=GramE>himself</span> the best; they all\r\nsat in silence. Then Yajnavalkya stood up, and called upon his band of\r\ndisciples to take the herd of <span class=SpellE>kine</span> to his home. This\r\ncreated a sensation among the Brahmin crowd. What was this Yajnavalkya doing?\r\nHow very insolent of him! One of them came up - he was a priest of King <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Janaka\'s</span>, Asvala by name. He called out to Yajnavalkya,\r\n&quot;Yajna­valkya, do you then happen to be the best among us Brah­mins?&quot;\r\nYajnavalkya replied with folded hands, &quot;Saluta­tions to the best of Brahmins!\r\nWe have taken the cows because I need them. I am a seeker of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>kine</span>, not that I have the most Knowledge.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.5pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 59.25pt blank 197.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">But Asvala was insistent. He said, &quot;You have\r\ntaken the cows, now you have to prove that you are the best. I am putting you\r\nsome questions, let us see what answers you can give… All you see here is\r\nsubject to Death. Then how does the <span class=SpellE>sacrificer</span>, <span\r\nclass=SpellE>yajamana</span>, manage to escape from the clutches\r\nof Death?&quot; Yajnavalkya gave answer, &quot;Sacrifice implies the four: the\r\npriest of the offering and the priest of the call Fire and the Word, <span\r\nclass=SpellE>rtvika</span>, <span class=SpellE>hota</span>, <span\r\nclass=SpellE><span class=GramE>agni</span>, vak.\r\nIt is by virtue of these that the sacrificer escapes\r\nfrom Death.</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11.5pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page-140<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:11.5pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 59.25pt blank 197.75pt;\r\nmso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">But Fire alone is the\r\nPriest of the Call, he is the One who makes the Offering, the Word is no other than\r\nHe. Fire means freedom, not ordinary freedom but the supreme Liberation. Fire\r\nis the Conscious-Force, the Power of Aus­terity.&quot; But there was no end to\r\nAsvala\'s questionings; he went on asking and Yajnavalkya gave due reply. This\r\ndia­logue – between Yajnavalkya and Asvala forms a chapter in the Upanishadic\r\nScience of Reality.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.3pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">After\r\nAsvala had finished, another got up. This was the Rishi Artabhaga of the family\r\nof Jaratkaru. The dialogue that ensued between him and Yajnavalkya forms\r\nanother chapter of the Upanishadic lore. Then <span class=GramE>arose</span>\r\nRishi Bhujyu of the Lahya family. He began with a rather amusing story.\r\n&quot;Yajnavalkya,&quot; he said, &quot;when in my student days I was\r\ntravelling round the country, I happened to be in the Madra region once. 1 was\r\nthe guest of a householder whose name was Patanjala. Patanjala had a daughter\r\nwho was possessed by an evil spirit. We were familiar with this parti­cular one\r\n- it was a Gandharva. I asked him, \'Who are you?\' The Gandharva replied, \'I am\r\nSudhanvan born of the family of Angiras.\' From this Gandharva, we had learnt a\r\nfew things about the other worlds. That is why I am going to ask you,\r\nYajnavalkya, a few questions about those other worlds. If your answers tally\r\nwith those of the Gandharva, then I shall admit that you really know.&quot;\r\nYajnavalkya repeated exactly what the Gandharva had said. After Bhujyu it was\r\nthe turn of Ushasti Chakrayana, who was followed by Kahola Kaushitakeya.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">And\r\nnow there arose Gargi, the daughter of Vachaknu. Gargi began with the question,\r\n&quot;Yajnavalkya, all this here is permeated by the waters. What then\r\npermeates the waters?&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:justify\">&quot;The waters are\r\npermeated by air,&quot; said Yajnavalkya. &quot;And what contains the\r\nair?&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:justify\"><span class=GramE>&quot;The\r\nheavens.&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:10.05pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-align:justify\">&quot;And where are the\r\nheavens contained?&quot;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-141</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;In\r\nthe world of the Gandharvas.&quot;</span> <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;And\r\nthe world of the Gandharvas?&quot;</span> <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&quot;In the regions of\r\nthe Sun;&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;And\r\nthe solar regions?&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;In\r\nthe worlds of the Moon.&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;And\r\nthe lunar worlds?&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:9pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>&quot;In\r\nthe regions of the stars.&quot;</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Gargi went on thus with\r\nher seemingly endless questions, but Yajnavalkya had to cry halt when he came\r\nto the world of Brahman. Yet Gargi asked him again, &quot;And what con­tains\r\nthis world of Brahman?&quot; Thereupon Yajnavalkya exclaimed, &quot;Your\r\nquestions are now going beyond the limit, Gargi. You have been asking too much,\r\nand if you ask more, your head will fall off.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.75pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">But\r\nshe was going to make one last attempt. She told the learned assembly that she\r\nwas going to put her last ques­tions to Yajnavalkya, and this would be his\r\nfinal test. She then called out to Yajnavalkya, &quot;Yajnavalkya, I am going\r\nto put two more questions to you. They are like couple of arrows. When the king\r\nof Videha goes to war, he pulls the bowstrings and shoots his arrows. In<b> </b>like\r\nmanner, I am aiming these arrow-like questions at you. Let us see how you will\r\nward them off with the appropriate answers.&quot; Yajnavalkya said, &quot;Very\r\nwell, try.&quot; Then Gargi said, &quot;Can you tell me what is above the sky\r\nand what is below the earth, and what is in between the earth and sky?&quot; To\r\nthis Yajna­valkya replied, &quot;That is called sutratman, He binds all from\r\nwithin as by a thread and puts everything on as it were; He is Brahman.&quot;\r\nThis satisfied Gargi and she repeated her question to Yajnavalkya, - the very\r\nsame question again; and Yajnavalkya gave the self-same reply.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Now\r\nGargi turned to the learned men and addressed them thus, &quot;You had better\r\nbow down to Yajnavalkya and take your leave. No one among you has the power to\r\nget the better of him in the matter of learning or wisdom.&quot; <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">What\r\nYajnavalkya had really sought to convey in his<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-142</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:0\"><span class=GramE>final</span>\r\nreply to Gargi was this. Brahman is the supreme Seer, though He <span\r\nclass=GramE>be</span> invisible. He is beyond all hearing and yet is Himself\r\nthe Hearer. He is beyond the ken of mind, but is Himself the supreme Thinker.\r\nHe is Unknowable, but is the supreme Knower. There is none other than He who\r\nsees, hears, thinks and knows.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">(2)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">In that very assembly,\r\nduring all this discussion and deli­beration there took place an incident that\r\nwas rather sad, and of a lugubrious nature. It looks so unseemly to us, but\r\nperhaps to the seekers of the Truth in that distant age the whole thing might\r\nhave appeared quite natural.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.8pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">I\r\nthink I have already mentioned the name of Sakalya. He was very fond of\r\nargument and his series of questions one after another made Yajnavalkya almost\r\nlose his patience. Finally, Yajnavalkya had to warn him, &quot;You are s raying\r\nfrom the path of logic and are arguing beside the point. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Since you have been\r\nasking so many questions, let me put to you now one single question. <span\r\nclass=GramE>If you can give answer, so much the better.</span> But if you\r\ncan\'t, then your head will fall off.&quot; You may recall this manner of\r\nwarning in connec­tion with the Gargi episode. Perhaps this was the natural\r\nconsequence of arguing beside the point; perhaps it is so even today, though\r\nnot in such a gross form but in a subtler way. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:9.6pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Yajnavalkya\r\ncontinued, &quot;You have been raising so many points of inquiry in connection\r\nwith the Science of Reality. Now, can you tell me this: what is this Reality in\r\nits essence?&quot; Sakalya merely said that he did not know and held his peace.\r\nAnd immediately his head fell off. His retinue of disciples got up in a flurry\r\nand carried off the truncated corpse of their teacher, - ostensibly for the fu­neral\r\nrites, but actually in the hope of bringing it back to life by joining the head\r\non. But here too they had ill luck.</p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; padding:0in; border-style:none; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-143</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">As they carried the\r\ndead body along a deserted road beyond the limits of their hermitage, a gang of\r\nrobbers made their appearance. The robbers thought they must be carrying some\r\nprecious treasure. So they attacked and carried off the corpse as booty. Thus\r\ndid Sakalya meet his <span class=GramE>end.</span> The moral of the story, as\r\nthe Upanishad itself has pointed out, is that not by argument can this\r\nKnowledge be had, naisa tarkena matirapaneya.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">(3)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">YAJNAVALKYA AND MAITREYI<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">The next story belongs\r\nto an earlier stage in the life of Yajnavalkya. He had not yet become a prince\r\namong sages, the foremost of <span class=GramE>Brahmins,</span> although there\r\nis evidence that he was even then a seeker of the Truth and had some knowledge\r\nof the Reality.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent:11pt; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">By this\r\n&quot;earlier&quot; stage I mean his life as householder. The story relates to\r\nthe last phase of this life. He was now, wanting to give up the householder\'s\r\nstate and live the life of a forest recluse. He had been a family man, had two\r\nwives in fact, and some property as well. The wives were Katyayani and\r\nMaitreyi. Of the two, it was Katyayani who cared most for her position as wife,\r\nstriprajña; Maitreyi\'s interests were in spiritual things, brahmavadini.¹<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">So, one day he called Maitreyi in and said to her,\r\n&quot;Mai­treyi, I am forsaking all and leaving home. If you so desire, I can\r\nmake separate provisions for Katyayani and yourself.<span class=GramE>&quot;.</span>\r\nTo these words of Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi gave answer, &quot;If all my\r\npossessions were to fill the whole earth, would they<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:12.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>¹ <span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:9.0pt\'>One may recall here the story of the two women devotees\r\nwho followed the Christ, the two sisters Martha and Mary. Christ had noted in\r\nMartha this womanly concern of which the Upanishad makes mention, and said to\r\nher one day, &quot;Martha, Martha, thou art careful and troubled about many\r\nthings; but one thing is needful, and Mary has shown that good part which shall\r\nnot be taken away from her.&quot; (St. Luke, X. 41-42).</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-144<o:p></o:p></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; text-indent:0\"><span class=GramE>bring</span>\r\nme immortality, my lord?&quot; Yajnavalkya had to reply, &quot;No, that could never\r\nbe, that would be impossible. But you could thereby have a life of enjoyments,\r\nlike all other people who have wealth. But of immortality there would be no\r\nhope.&quot; Thereupon Maitreyi exclaimed, &quot;What then am I to do with that\r\nwhich does not make me immortal?&quot; On hearing this reply of Maitreyi\'s,\r\nYajnavalkya said, &quot;You have been always dear to me, Maitreyi; today you\r\nbecome still <span class=GramE>more dear</span>. Let me tell you more, in\r\nfuller detail. Listen to my words with care.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">And\r\nYajnavalkya began, <span class=GramE>&quot; Not</span> for the sake of the\r\nhusband does the husband become dear, O Maitreyi; the husband becomes dear for\r\nthe sake of the Self. It is not because of the wife that she is held dear; it\r\nis for the sake of the Self. The son is held dear, not for the sake of the son,\r\nbut for the sake of the Self. Wealth is dear, cattle are dear, not because of\r\nthe cattle or wealth, but because of the Self. Spiritual <span class=GramE>power,\r\nmilitary power, are</span> held dear not for their own sakes, but for the sake\r\nof the Self. The other worlds are held dear not for their sakes but for the\r\nsake of the Self. The gods too are held dear not because they are gods, but\r\nbecause of the Self. The Vedas are dear all created things are dear, not\r\nbecause of themselves, but because of the Self. Whatever else there be that is\r\nheld to be dear is so because of the Self. It is this Self that has to be seen,\r\nheard about, thought of, meditated upon. The Self being seen, heard of, thought\r\nabout, meditated upon, all else will be known, O Maitreyi.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.75pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&quot;Let\r\nme illustrate. You see this lump of salt. It is of one piece both within and\r\nwithout, has one pervading taste, the taste of salt. In exactly the same way,\r\nthe Self is of one pervading quality or taste; it is a solid mass of Knowledge.\r\nIf this Self were to depart from created things, then they would vanish into\r\nnothingness. It will then leave no form or name. That is the state of release\r\nor liberation.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:11.25pt; mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">On\r\nhearing these words of Yajnavalkya, Maitreyi had to say, &quot;What you say, my\r\nlord, about this Knowledge-Self<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; padding:0in; border-style:none; \r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-145</span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><span class=GramE>leaving</span>\r\nno form or name behind makes me perplexed.&quot; To this Yajnavalkya made\r\nanswer, &quot;There is nothing here to be perplexed about, Maitreyi. The Self\r\nis an entity that knows no change or destruction, it is left untouched by any\r\nkind of change, nor does it ever disappear.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:.15in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Yajnavalkya\r\nhad given his answer, but Maitreyi\'s problem remained unsolved. The world is\r\nbound to be reduced to nothingness on attaining Self-knowledge, form must dis­appear\r\non gaining the true status – these statements of Yajnavalkya, however impartial\r\nhe might try to be, ‘ubhayameva’ mantravadi, seem to be; wholly in <span\r\nclass=SpellE>favour</span> of the illusionist view. Maitreyi has hinted at\r\nanother possible solution.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\"text-align:center; padding:0in; border-style:none; \r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:33.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\nmso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-146<o:p></o:p></span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\">\r\n\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>&nbsp;<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>','-28_The Story of Rishi Yajnavalkya','','publish','closed','open','','28_the-story-of-rishi-yajnavalkya','','','2021-11-23 17:58:11','2021-11-23 17:58:11','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/28_the-story-of-rishi-yajnavalkya/',0,'post','',0),(1742,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>O, Wake Up from Vain Slumber</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><font size=\"4\">O,\r\nWake Up from Vain Slumber</font></b><i><span style=\'font-size:18.0pt;\r\ncolor:blue\'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I BRING no magic herbs,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bring only the blood of my veins—<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>­O, wake up from vain slumber!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I am struck blind,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If these eyes see no more your face,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If the whole earth is locked out utterly, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Well, let it be so ­—<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'margin-top:0;mso-line-height-alt:8.85pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>If you only open wide\r\nyour fiery eyes.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:160.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; 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;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I turn deaf, let it be so:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the molten fire of your voice<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I cannot bake the ribs of my breast,<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:1.65in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Well, let\r\nit be so -.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n1.65in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O, only keep open your\r\nsharp ears.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n1.65in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I am silenced forever<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And struck dumb,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If all the gathered words of my life remain<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Entombed, coursing within the sands of my bosom, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Well, let it be so ­—<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>If you only unveil your effulgent face.</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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you but cast a glance,<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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>This earth is youthful once again. ...<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page197<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you but lend your ear,<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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The air and the wind will voice their <span\r\nclass=GramE>mind ...</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n21.35pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If you speak,<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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The rivers and hills will be all ears!<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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>If I am sunk in sleep, stilled to the core<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the whole earth slips out through the fingers, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As though a half-eaten fruit,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Well, let it be so ­<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>If you only woke up from the vain slumber.</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; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I bring no magic <span class=GramE>herbs,</span> I\r\nbring only the blood of my veins: <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The earth is yours, wake up<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And hold\r\nit in your conquering hands!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<b>NABANITA DEBSEN<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></b></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-198<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n		<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"text-indent: 260pt; 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','-41_O,Wake Up from  Vain Slumber','','publish','closed','open','','41_owake-up-from-vain-slumber','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/41_owake-up-from-vain-slumber/',0,'post','',0),(1743,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Two Chains of the Mother*</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 style=\"line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\" align=\"center\"><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Two Chains of the Mother*</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><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\'>Excuse me if I sit like\r\nthis with my feet in the air. That\'s my way of making <span class=GramE>myself</span>\r\nat home: I feel at home. ... So, you expect me to speak to you something?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.25pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Well,\r\nI have talked a lot in my rather long life, have I not? I have talked a good\r\ndeal, written much more. All that forms now my Collected Works: eight volumes\r\nin English and as many volumes in Bengali. ...<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:232.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All of you are leaving our Centre of Education, a Centre\r\nwhere you have been for so many years. To complete your Course and come out of\r\nthe Centre, it\'s all right; but to go where? It seems you have already come to\r\na decision, there are many amongst you who have made their choice. That\'s good,\r\nfor it means choosing one\'s life.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></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;tab-stops:232.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I wanted to tell you only one thing: you are going out but\r\nwherever you go, you carry something within you, something that is permanent\r\nand eternal since the beginning of the world. I have sometimes spoken of the\r\ngolden chain of the Mother; I have said too that Mother had two chains, one of\r\ngold and the other of iron. These two chains are your eternal companions;\r\nwherever you may go, you will carry these two with you. You are bound to the\r\nMother forever - forever, be sure of that. It\'s the prop of your life, it\'s\r\nyour aspiration. These are not chains of bondage but of freedom and entire\r\nsatisfaction. You may ask: what are these chains of gold and of iron? The\r\ngolden chain is in<o:p></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;tab-stops:232.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>* A Talk to the outgoing students of the International\r\nCentre of Educa­tion (SriAurobindo Ashram) on </span><st1:date Year=\"1978\"\r\nDay=\"25\" Month=\"10\"><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>25-10-1978</span></st1:date><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:8.6pt;\r\nmso-line-height-alt:9.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page-208<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>your</span> soul and the iron one\r\nis in your body. The body, your body, is also bound to the Mother, to her\r\nPresence and Influence. Body means not only the material body, but the physical\r\nbody, the inner body. Now, the imprint of the Mother\'s Presence, you carry that\r\nin this physical body. You may not be always aware of that, but this makes no\r\ndifference, nothing at all. Here I may refer to something pertinent…One day\r\nsomeone went to see the Mother on his birthday; it was our Prithwi Singh. Now,\r\nPrithwi Singh plaintively said to the Mother: &quot;Mother, here I <span\r\nclass=GramE>am,</span> so near to you; it\'s my birthday, a day so nice and\r\nprecious to me, but I cannot see you, for I am blind in both of my eyes.&quot;\r\nThen the Mother answered: &quot;What does that matter? You cannot see me but I\r\nam seeing you.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dotted 60.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And this is always so. You cannot see with your physical\r\neyes but the Mother\'s look is always upon you, her look of love and protection:\r\nbe sure and certain of that. You carry that within you for all time and\r\nwherever you go, wherever in the entire world. You carry in you a portion, a\r\nspark of her Love; and that will save you from many difficulties, from much\r\ndanger. If you can keep that in your active memory, it will be still more\r\nbeneficial. That\'s all.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:dashed 64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;\r\npadding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\r\n\'>Page-209<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:dashed 64.05pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n		<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n		<i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a></span></i></p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-44_The Two Chains of the Mother','','publish','closed','open','','44_the-two-chains-of-the-mother','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/44_the-two-chains-of-the-mother/',0,'post','',0),(1744,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<title>VEDIC HYMNS</title>\r\n<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"Namo WebEditor v4.0\">\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body bgcolor=\"white\" text=\"black\" link=\"blue\" vlink=\"purple\" alink=\"red\" background=\"_Gif%20Image/marb03b.gif\">\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b><font size=\"4\">CONTENTS</font></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\"><b>VOLUME - 8</b></p>\r\n<div align=\"center\">\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>VEDIC HYMNS</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</div>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-01_Hymn-to--Indra\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Indra</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-02_Hymn-to-All--Gods\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to All-Gods</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-03_Hymn-to-Dawn\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Dawn</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-04_Hymn-of-Aspiration\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        of Aspiration</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-05_Hymn-to-the-Mental-Being\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to the Mental Being</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-06_Hymn-to-Sindhu\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Sindhu</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-07_The-Bride-of-Brahman\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Bride of Brahman</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-08_Hymn-to-Forest-Range\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Forest-Range</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-09_Hymn-to-the-Pillar\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to the Pillar</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-10_Hymn-to-Earth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Earth</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-11_Hymn-to-Peace-and-Power\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Peace and &nbsp;Power</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>OTHER HYMNS AND PRAYERS</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-12_Hymn-to-the-Sweet-Lord\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to the Sweet Lord</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-13_Hymn-to-Hara-Gauri\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Hara-Gauri</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-14_Hymn-to-Bhavani\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Bhavani</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-15_Hymn-to-Surya\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Surya</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-16_Hymn-to-Saraswati\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        to Saraswati</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-17_Who-Seeks-Holy-Places\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Who \r\n        Seeks Holy Places?</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>ON THE VEDA</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-18_An-Introduction-to-The-Veda\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">An \r\n        Introduction to the Vedas</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-19_A-Commentary-on-the-First-Six-Suktas-of-Rigveda\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Commentary of the First Six Suktas of Rigveda</a> </font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"143\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a style=\"text-decoration: none\" href=\"-20_The-Second-Sukta\">The \r\n        Second Sukta</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"143\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\"><a href=\"The-Third-Sukta\">\r\n		<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<a href=\"-21_The-Third-Sukta\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Third&nbsp;Sukta</a></span></a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-22_The-Fourth-Sukth\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Fourth&nbsp;Sukta</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"242\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-23_The-Fifth-Sukta\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Fifth&nbsp;Sukta</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"143\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"24_The-Sixth-Sukta\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Sixth Sukta</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"143\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>ON UPANISHADIC THOUGHT</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n            <table align=\"center\" border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n                <tr>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-25_Yama---Nachiketa\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Yama \r\n              - Nachiketa</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-26_The-Story-of-Jabala-Satyakama\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n              Story of Jabala-Satyakama</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-27_Satyakama-and-Upakoshala\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Satyakama \r\n              and Upakoshala</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-28_The-Story-of-Rishi-Yajnavalkya\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n              Story of Rishi Yajnavalkya</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n                <tr>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-29_Narada---Sanatkumara\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Narada \r\n              - Sanatkumara</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\">\r\n			<font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-30_Indra-Virochana-and-Prajapati\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Indra \r\n              - Virochana and Prajapati</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        \r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-31_Ushasti-Chakrayana\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Ushasti \r\n              Chakrayana</a></font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                    <td width=\"178\">\r\n                        <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n                    </td>\r\n                </tr>\r\n            </table>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>BENGALI ESSAYS AND POEMS OF SRI AUROBINDO</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-32_Asceticism-and--Renunciation\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Asceticism \r\n        and Renunciation</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-33_Hymns-and-Prayers\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Hymn \r\n        and Prayers</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-34_Mute\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Mute</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-35_Great-Time\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Great \r\n        Time</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-36_Living-Matter\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Living \r\n        Matter</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-37_Ravana-Vanquished\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Ravana \r\n        Vanquished</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-38_A-Poem\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Poem</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">&nbsp;</font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>MODERN BENGALI POEMS</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-39_Release\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Release</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-40_Just-Be-There-Where-You-Are\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Just \r\n        Be There Where You Are</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-41_O,Wake-Up-from--Vain-Slumber\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">O, \r\n        Wake Up from Vain Slumber</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"180\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-42_A-Prayer\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">A \r\n        Prayer</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>APPENDIX - I</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"366\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-43_November-24,-1926\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">&nbsp;November \r\n		24,&nbsp; 1926</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"366\">\r\n            \r\n      <p align=\"center\">\r\n		<font size=\"2\">\r\n		<a href=\"-44_The-Two-Chains-of-the-Mother\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">The \r\n        Two Chains of the Mother</a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"100%\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>&nbsp;</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>APPENDIX - II </b></p>\r\n            <p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>Original Texts of Translations</b></p>\r\n			<p align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"29\">\r\n    <tr>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-01_Appendix-II---Rig-Veda\">\r\n			<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n			<a href=\"-45_-Rig-Veda\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Vedic Hymns</a></span></a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-04_Appendix-II---Other-Hymns-and-Prayers\">\r\n			<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n			<a href=\"-45_-Other-Hymns-and-Prayers\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Other Hymns and Prayers</a></span></a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-05_Appendix-II---Bengali-Poems-of-Sri-Aurobindo\">\r\n			<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n			<a href=\"-49_-Bengali-Poems-of-Sri-Aurobindo\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">Bengali Poems of \r\n            Sri Aurobindo</a></span></a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n        <td width=\"181\">\r\n            <p align=\"center\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n			<a href=\"-50_-Modern-Bengali-Poems\">\r\n			<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">Modern Bengali Poems</span></a></font></p>\r\n        </td>\r\n    </tr>\r\n</table>\r\n<p align=\"right\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;</p>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','volume-8-00_Content','','publish','closed','open','','volume-8-00_content','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/volume-8-00_content/',0,'post','',0),(1745,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>The Story of Jabala-Satyakama</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">The Story of Jabala-Satyakama</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\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I THINK I told you once of\r\nthe story in the Upanishada bout a seeker of spiritual knowledge who had been\r\ngiven by his teacher as a first assignment the task of looking after his kine.\r\nThis was meant to serve both as an initiation and a train­ing; it was to be his\r\nwork and also his test. But the student had had to pass through another,\r\nperhaps somewhat minor, ordeal of a preliminary nature. Tagore has a well-known\r\npoem based on this episode. I begin my story with that narrative, giving it\r\nalmost <i>verbatim </i>as it appears in the Upa­nishad (Chhandogya, IV.4).<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:8.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:156.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Jabala Satyakama, says the Upanishad, approached his\r\nmother, Jabala, and put to her the question, &quot;What, O my mother, is the\r\nname of my<i> </i>caste and family, for I desire to become a student of sacred\r\nlore?&quot; To this Jabala replied, &quot;I do not know about that, my darling;\r\nbut I obtained you<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span>when I was young and\r\nwas serving maid to a number of different men. That is why I do not know what\r\nis the name of your caste and family. But my name is Jabala and yours is Satyakama.\r\nSo you may say that you are Satyakama, the son of Jabala.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n156.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Satyakama now went to Gautama, the son\r\nof Haridruman, and said, &quot;I come to you with the desire to stay as a\r\nstudent of sacred lore.&quot; Gautama asked him, &quot;What is the name of your\r\ncaste and family, my child?&quot; Satyakama answered, &quot;I do not know what\r\nmy caste or the name of my family is. But when I asked my mother, she said, \'I\r\nobtained<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:156.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-125<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:156.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you when I was young and\r\nwas serving maid to a number of different men. So I do not know who your father\r\nwas. But my name is Jabala, and yours is Satyakama. You should therefore say\r\nyou are Jabala Satyakama.\' This is the whole story.&quot; Thereupon Gautama answered,\r\n&quot;No one but a Brahmin could have spoken thus. Bring in the fuel, my dear;\r\nI shall take you as a disciple, for you have not swerved from the truth.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.15in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus\r\nwas Satyakama given admission to the Ashrama of Gautama. Now for his initiation\r\nand training and the tests. Gautama sent for him and said, &quot;Satyakama, I\r\nshall now I invest you with the sacred thread.&quot; This investiture is a\r\nsacred rite which &quot;sets one on the path&quot; - what the Buddhists call in\r\nPali &quot;sompatti&quot; <i>(srotapatti </i>in Sanskrit), that is,\r\n&quot;getting into the stream&quot; or starting on the way. He added, &quot;You\r\nbring in the fuel from the neighbouring wood.&quot; Satyakama did as he was\r\ntold and the ceremony of initiation was duly performed.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nteacher now sent for him again and said, &quot;Satyakama, I possess some four\r\nhundred kine. But they are all puny and weak. You should look after them.&quot;\r\nThis meant that he was to take them out to pasture. Satyakama replied,\r\n&quot;Very well, sir, it will be as you desire. I am leaving with the four\r\nhundred kine and I do not return till they are a thousand.&quot; Gautama sent\r\nhim off with his blessings.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Satyakama\r\nwent along with his herd of kine. He looked after them as they roamed over the\r\nmeadows and fields, through the forests and village settlements. Months passed,\r\nand years went by - many years. The kine had by now all gained in bulk and had\r\na well-fed look; their numbers too had reached the thousand mark. One day, all\r\non a sudden, a Bull from out of the herd appeared before Satyakama and\r\naddressed him in the voice of a man. &quot;Satyakama!&quot;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-126<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>he said. Satyakama took it\r\nas nothing unusual and answered in a polite tone, &quot;Yes my Lord.&quot; The\r\nBull went on, &quot;Satya­kama, now let us turn homeward. We have reached the\r\nthousand mark and all of us are fit and strong.&quot; Then the Bull added\r\nsomething more. &quot;Meanwhile, Satyakama,&quot; he said, &quot;let me tell\r\nyou something about the knowledge of Reality, <i>brahma-vidya </i>- the\r\nvery first lessons. Brahman has to be known in his four aspects; of these I\r\nshall tell you about the first just now. Of this first phase or aspect there\r\nare again four limbs. North, south, east and west, these four quarters are the\r\nfour limbs of the first aspect of Brahman out of the four. Through the four\r\nquarters Brahman ap­pears as the manifest One, <i>prakasavan. </i>And\r\nhe who realises this manifest aspect of the Brahman becomes himself mani­fest\r\nand wins all the manifest worlds. This is the first of the four aspects of\r\nBrahman. Now, Agni is going to tell you about the second.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The next day, Satyakama resumed his march\r\nwith the kine. As evening came, he gathered his herd together and penned the\r\nkine. Then he collected the fuel and lighted the sacrificial fire, and sat\r\nfacing the east with Agni in front. Now Agni called to him, &quot;Satyakama!&quot;\r\nAnd Satyakama gave reply with his usual humility, &quot;Yes, my Lord?&quot;\r\nAgni continued, &quot;Let me now, speak to you about the second aspect of\r\nBrahman. This too has four limbs; these are earth, mid-air, the heavens and the\r\nocean. This second aspect of Brahman that is constituted by these four is the\r\nInfinity of Brahman. He who gains it lives in Infinity even on this earth and\r\nwins all the worlds of Infinity.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Again\r\nthe homeward march began, and again the Bull came and informed Satyakama thus,\r\n&quot;Now it will be the Swan who will come and tell you about the\r\nBrahman.&quot; When it was eventide, Satyakama gathered his herd again, ­penned\r\nthem in, and lighted his sacrificial fire. Again he sat in front of the fire\r\nfacing the east. Then the Swan appeared as promised by the Bull and called in a\r\nhuman voice,<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-127<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Satyakama!&quot; And\r\nSatyakama made answer, &quot;Yes, my Lord?&quot; The Swan continued, &quot;I\r\nshall speak to you about another aspect of<i> </i>Brahman.&quot; &quot;Tell me,\r\nmy Lord.&quot; &quot;This the third aspect of Brahman consists of Fire, the\r\nSun, the Moon and Lightning. Through this quartet of the third aspect Brahman\r\nappears as the Effulgent One. He who realises this aspect of Brahman becomes\r\nhimself effulgent and wins all the worlds of effulgence even while on this\r\nearth.&quot;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Satyakama started on\r\nhis march again, and once again the Bull came and informed him that this time a\r\nFlamingo would come and tell him about the fourth aspect of Brahman. As\'\r\nevening came, Satyakama gathered his herd together and penned them as usual. He\r\nlighted the sacrificial fire and sat in front facing the east, and waited. The\r\nBird flew in and called, &quot;Satyakama!&quot; Satyakama replied, &quot;Yes,\r\nmy Lord?&quot; The Bird went on, &quot;I shall give you the know­ledge of the\r\nfourth aspect of the fourfold Brahman.&quot; Satya­kama replied in all\r\nhumility, &quot;Tell me, my Lord.&quot; The Bird said, &quot;The four limbs of\r\nthis aspect are the Life-force, the Eyes, the Ears and Mind. These four combined\r\nmake Brahman the All-Form. He who knows this becomes the All-Form and wins here\r\nitself the All-Form.&quot;<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.45pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>By\r\nnow Satyakama arrived at his master\'s home, accom­panied by his herd of a\r\nthousand well-fed kine in place of the original four hundred weaklings. As he\r\ncame to his master, Gautama gave him a look and came out with these words,\r\n&quot;Satyakama, I see your face shining with the light of Brahman. Who has\r\ngiven you the knowledge of the Brahman?&quot; Satyakama told him about the four\r\nstrange encounters. But he added, &quot;My master, you are my sale teacher, and\r\nmy knowledge will remain incomplete until I receive the knowledge directly from\r\nyou.&quot; Gautama then repeated to him the same things that he had heard about\r\nthe four aspects of Brahman, thus confirming what Satya­kama had already\r\nexperienced and realised; it was now<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-128<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>sanctified with\r\nGautama\'s blessings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:8.6pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>Thus did Satyakama become a knower of Brahman and foremost among\r\nBrahmins. In course of time he himself took the place of a Guru.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:8.6pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><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\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>(3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>I intend to tell you on another occasion the story of his dealings with\r\nhis own disciples. That story too appears in the Upanishad. Let me in the\r\nmeantime add some explana­tions of the knowledge given to Satyakama.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The knowledge and realisation that he had gained from\r\nhis life of a wandering cowherd are the basic truth of the world, the supreme\r\nsecret of creation. He realised that Brahman is the ultimate Truth, the one and\r\nonly Reality. The signs or qualities of this ultimate Truth or Reality are\r\nfour. Brahman may be described as if in a group of four aphorisms, like the\r\nfirst four aphorisms of the Brahmasutra, the basic compendium of Vedantic\r\nthought, which Shankara has commented on in-very clear terms. If you know his\r\ncom­mentary on these four aphorisms, you get to know practically the entire\r\nphilosophy of the Vedanta as interpreted by Shankara.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.35pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The first of the aphorisms taught to Satyakama implies\r\nthat Brahman has made himself manifest, for He is self­manifest. Another\r\nUpanishad has said the same thing: <i>tameva bhantam anubhati sarvam,\r\n</i>&quot;His is the Light that illumines all.&quot; Of this self-luminous form\r\nof Brahman or God the four limbs are the four quarters. He is manifest on all\r\nsides, above and below, in every direction, and he is not only thus manifest;\r\nthere is also no end or limit to his manifestation. Hence, as a second step in\r\nour knowledge, we learn that God or Brahman is the Infinite. This Infinity too\r\nhas four limbs or lines: (1) earth, or the physical and material extension, (2)\r\nmid-air, or the expanse of the vital worlds, (3) the vast expanses of mind, and\r\n(4) the oceanic reaches of the higher<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-130<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>worlds that stand above the mind. The third attribute or quality of God\r\nis Luminosity, He is the Bright, the Effulgent One - He is the supreme light.\r\nOf His Brightness or Efful­gence the symbols are four, the four that serve as\r\nthe me­dium or base: these are fire, the sun, the moon and the stars. Fire is\r\nenkindled on the solid earth of matter; the sun burns in the mid-regions of\r\nlife; the moon illumines with its cooling rays the regions of the quiet and\r\nhappy mind; and the stars give us the brilliance of the world beyond mind. It\r\nis needless to add that the Seer is not speak­ing here in terms of astronomy.\r\nHe has been expressing his meaning through the help of significant symbols or\r\nmeta­phors. And finally, the Reality or God is made up of Form: that is to say,\r\nHe has put Himself forth variously through a multitude of forms, <i>rupam rupam\r\npratirupo babhuva. </i>And the functions or instrumentalities through\r\nwhich Form has taken shape are the four main powers of sense-conscious­ness.\r\nThese are: (I) the power of sensitivity, the capacity of living contact and\r\nintimate or close experience, of which the sense of touch represents to us the\r\nexternal form or activity, for through it we get a sense of reality as living\r\nexistence; (2) the power of vision or sight, for through the eyes we get a\r\nsense of form and definite shape; (3) the power of hearing, for the organ of\r\nhearing gives us a sense of rhythm, of sound, the form of articulate speech;\r\nand (4) the power of mind which, being the centre of thinking, gives us a sense\r\nof meaning, builds the forms of thought.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>These then are the four aspects of Brahman, the\r\nfourfold quartet through which we get a glimpse of the wholeness of Brahman, <i>Purnabrahman.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.5pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>(4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>This story of Satyakama brings out a picture that tells us something\r\nabout the lines or circumstances of ancient Indian education.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-130<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>We know that the Upanishads are classed with the Ara­nyaka\r\nliterature; the Brihadaranyaka is a well-known name. The forest life of the\r\nrecluse was in those days inti­mately associated with education and learning,\r\nand espe­cially with the spiritual disciplines. The injunction for the seeker\r\nof truth was, &quot;Repair to the forest,&quot; <i>vanarm vrajet. </i>The\r\nseers, the Rishis, had their hermitages in the forests alone. That of course\r\nwas an age when the forest reigned upon earth. The greater part of the globe\r\nwas still a virgin forest. Cities and townships were not so common; there were\r\nonly a scattered few that glimmered like torches amid vast stretches of night.\r\nThere is also the point that the free and easy association of day to day with\r\nNature brings about a natural heightening and widening of the consciousness.\r\nThe English poet Wordsworth, as I told you the other day, had some experience\r\nof this to which he gave voice in lines like these:<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>And beauty born of\r\nmurmuring sound <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Shall pass into her\r\nface.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>The quiet beauty and rhythm of Nature permeate the limbs if one lives\r\nin close proximity to Nature. We in our country had, no doubt, the advantage of\r\nforests. But even in other countries like </span><st1:place><span\r\n style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Arabia</span></st1:place><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>\r\nor </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Egypt</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'> which had no forests but only desert tracts with\r\ntheir wide stretches of bare sand, the same method was followed. There the\r\nseekers and the saints and mystics lived in the heart of the desert and drew\r\nfrom that source its rhythm and harmony and inspiration.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>But in the modern world, under the circumstances of\r\ntoday, we no longer follow the ancient method either phy­sically or even\r\nperhaps psychologically. Man does not now depend on external props or\r\nsurroundings, nor does his consciousness either. Man\'s consciousness has grown\r\nto be in large measure free and self-reliant. It would rather bring external\r\nNature under its own control than be guided by its</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-131<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<hr>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'>influence. As in our outer so in our inner spiritual life, we are\r\nbecoming city-dwellers in place of the old forest recluses. Even when we repair\r\nto the forest we try to make it as far as possible akin to the city. But this\r\nneed not give rise to a quarrel or conflict between the forest and the city; it\r\nis possible to reconcile the two – the rural and the urban – ­even as it is\r\nnecessary to effect a reconciliation between the inner and the outer life,\r\nbetween the consciousness within and the conditions of life without.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-132<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n		<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<div class=Section1>\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</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-26_The Story of Jabala-Satyakama','','publish','closed','open','','26_the-story-of-jabala-satyakama','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/26_the-story-of-jabala-satyakama/',0,'post','',0),(1746,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Just Be There Where You Are</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<div class=Section1> \r\n\r\n<h1 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Just Be There Where You Are</font><o:p></o:p></h1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span style=\'font-size:\r\n15.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>BE there where you\r\nhave always been<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Fate is firm in its\r\nresolve, the will unbending.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Nor far, nor near,\r\nalways within sight, but beyond reach<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>altogether;<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>Without activity yet\r\nkeeping interest.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>The flame is out,\r\nstill neither hot nor cold.</span></p>\r\n	<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>\r\n	<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A luminous darkness, doors closed yet the breeze\r\nmoving</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>free:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A river with no currents yet a silent tide moving up\r\n...</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Field harvested, stacks of straw strewn over - the\r\nonly</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 275.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>comfort;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 275.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Out of the\r\nwatery tomb of the goddess floats up her</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 275.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>cardboard coronet.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 275.75pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Nothing\r\nis here yet something remains. An empty envelope </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With\r\nonly the address written in the dear familiar hand.—</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>A trifle, still invaluable!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>After the wild\r\npassion\'s play the fatigued floor lies with the</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>covering\r\ncarpet of memory­—</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Not a magic\r\ncarpet— it will take you nowhere!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You shall remain\r\njust there, where you have been forever.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:72.45pt 2.35in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-weight:700\'>HENA HALDER<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-196</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt; line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-40_Just Be There Where You Are','','publish','closed','open','','40_just-be-there-where-you-are','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/40_just-be-there-where-you-are/',0,'post','',0),(1747,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE THIRD SUKTA</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nclass=GramE><b><font size=\"4\">THE THIRD SUKTA</font></b></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n4.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">Life needs pure, calm and effectuating delight. It is\r\nthrough delight that knowledge, work and truth at revealed. The</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText 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-100<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoBodyText align=center style=\'text-align:center\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>more</span>\r\nthe inspiration of life-energy becomes divinely blissful and lasting, the more\r\nthe aspirant is endowed with the pure intelligence, divine power and\r\nfulfilment, and at last he manifests in the waking consciousness the streams of\r\nthe Vast, of direct sight and creation beyond mind and intelli­gence.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">In the present <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> there\r\nare four groups of three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> each, graded according\r\nto the spiritual progression.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.8pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfirst group begins with the invocation of the twin Riders. Who are these\r\nRiders? According to the narration of the <span class=SpellE>Puranas</span>,\r\nthe <span class=SpellE>Aswinikumaras</span> are generally known as the twin\r\nheavenly physicians. It means, they drive away disease, decay and incapacity\r\nfrom the being and make the life-energy pure, sound and indomitable. In other\r\nwords, they are the gods of immortality. Their work is to found immortality and\r\nan eternal youth of divinity in life. <span class=SpellE><i>Pranavayu</i></span><i>,\r\n</i>which is the conveyance of the divine power, has been symbolically\r\nexpressed as the horses. It may be asked why they have the twin forms. Perhaps\r\nit is because the one gives knowledge, the other the energy for work. Both are\r\nthe presiding deities of immortality and both of them embody the most\r\nbenevolent delight. Hence they are called <span class=SpellE><i>Subhaspati</i></span><i>.\r\n</i>Also they are called <span class=SpellE><i>Purubhuja</i></span><i>, </i>for\r\nthey bring into life the divine enjoyment in. profusion. However, the one gives\r\nmuch importance to the energy of work, the other to the powerful pure\r\nintelligence. Whatever may be the difference in their outlook, they are the\r\ntwin faces of one and the same God. The two horsemen open the fount of that\r\nvery divine exhilaration in life by which there awakes and ascends an upward\r\nflame in the being of the aspirant. As the aspirant has been the possessor of\r\nan intense diversified delight, he is now able to proceed farther and farther,\r\nhigher and higher by sacrificing his lower aspiration to the higher one. It is\r\nan <span class=SpellE>immortalised</span> life-energy that makes <span\r\nclass=GramE>all the</span> realisation effective, real and beautiful. It\r\ninfuses spirit and power into the intelligence. The aspirant</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span style=\'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;text-indent:9.8pt;\r\nline-height:12.95pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>is</span>\r\nendowed with an occult power of hearing and is initiate with the power of\r\nmantras which expresses and manifest the Truth. That is why the twin gods are\r\ncalled <span class=SpellE><span class=GramE><i>Nasatya<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp; </span></i>(the Guides\r\non the path). They are the leaders in our spiritual adventure. They lead us\r\nspeedily through the different levels of consciousness to the vast ocean of the\r\nhigher truth</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\'>The\r\nsecond group of <span class=SpellE>riks</span>: The spiritual delight and to\r\nimmortal power of life will found <span class=GramE>themselves</span> in a\r\ncalm, pill and firmly rooted basis of the entire being. And this immortal\r\ndelight will lead the spiritual <span class=SpellE>practicant</span> to the\r\nDivine Mind, to the pure Intelligence, to the realm of Indra. An ordinary man\r\nis unable to have a glimpse of the higher mind, the pure Intelligence because\r\nhe is confined to the narrow limits of the lower material world and his life\r\nabounds wit restless, impure and hurtful desires. It is not by a gross inert\r\ninspiration but by a subtle inward power that the enjoyment of life must be\r\npurified and <span class=SpellE>divinised</span>. Then only the slot of the\r\nmind will be replaced by the divine Intelligence. With the divine Intelligence\r\nof Indra the aspirant enjoys a pure delight in life. It is Indra who fills the\r\ndifferent aspects each object with a luminous truth. The inspiration surcharged\r\nwith the effulgent knowledge of Indra will bring down and manifest in the\r\naspirant the delightful truth of the Self which is the main support of the\r\ndivine in the aspirant.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:15.8pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nthird group: After this the aspirant rises into the realm of Truth, the Right\r\nand the Vast where his being will embody all the gods. The universal Godhead is\r\nthe collective power of all the gods. Each god has a different aspect and a\r\nparticular truth to stress. They at once carry out their own work and help one\r\nanother in performing their work. Thus in their combined efforts they give\r\nshape t diversified expressions of the one great and vast Truth When the power\r\nof these gods is established in the aspirant his aspiration rises higher and\r\nhigher unfalteringly an, infallibly. The body, life and mind which are the\r\ndifferent levels of the being are each a stream of truth and these are<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span class=GramE>imagined</span>\r\nas river or water.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:15.8pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-102<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.4pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nfourth group: <span class=SpellE>Saraswati</span>, the wealth of the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>fulles</span> inspiration of the complete Truth, signifies speedy\r\nand rhythmic truth. She is the divine hearing. No doubt, we see and meet the\r\nTruth with our divine vision, but to make, the Truth active and dynamic and\r\nfill the creation with the power of Truth we needs must take the help of divine\r\nhearing. As the truth possesses a form, even so it has a name. It is precisely\r\nbecause of form and name that the truth becomes concrete. The form of truth is\r\nVisible in the divine vision, the name of truth in the divine hearing. <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Saraswati</span> gives the divine name and <span class=SpellE><span\r\nclass=GramE>Ila</span> gives the divine form to the truth. Under the\r\ninspiration of Saraswati the truth casts aside all\r\nuntruths. Hence she is called <i>Pavaka </i>(the Purifier). Above the mind there abides the vast <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType>\r\n of <st1:PlaceName>Truth</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>. We have neither any\r\nknowledge nor any experience of it. In a sense, we are quite unconscious of it.\r\nSaraswati raises the intelligence into the vast <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>ocean</st1:PlaceType>\r\n of <st1:PlaceName>Truth</st1:PlaceName></st1:place> and purifies it Afterwards\r\nshe brings it down to our understanding. She manifests the complete knowledge\r\nin all its facets and <span class=GramE>make</span> them living.</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.05pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nthe Vedic literature, very often we get the reference to <span class=SpellE><i>vak</i></span><i>\r\n</i>(Word). So it will be no exaggeration on our par to hold that the aim of\r\nthe Vedic spiritual discipline is to get the significant sound aspect of the\r\ntruth. And for this the Vedic seers of truth are called the seers of mantras 0\r\nthe creators of mantras. <span class=SpellE><i>Vak</i></span><i> </i>is\r\nthe living image of truth There lies a rhythm in the being of truth and the\r\nmovement of this rhythm produces a note which was later on called <span\r\nclass=SpellE><i>nada</i></span><i> </i>(the unsounded sound) or <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Shabda</span> Brahman (the Brahman manifested as Sound). When the\r\nrhythm of this note is found in out intelligence and mind, it takes the form of\r\na sentence and this very thing is called a true mantra. The more a language can\r\nexpress intimately and direct the primal form and rhythm of truth, the more the\r\nmantra becomes living. Therefore the aspirant who has acquired<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:10.05pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span 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;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>this</span>\r\nmantra has also acquired truth and the power of truth. The Vedic seers have\r\nplaced the name of truth in different categories, e.g., <span class=SpellE><i>Rk</i></span><i>,\r\nStoma, <span class=SpellE>Uktha</span>, Brahman, </i>etc. At the beginning of\r\nthe present <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> too, in the spiritual practice of\r\ntruth <span class=SpellE><i>gih</i></span><i>, </i>the <span class=SpellE><i>vak</i></span><i>\r\n</i>or name that reveals the truth clearly in the consciousness of the aspirant\r\nhas been invoked with the help of the twin equestrians. Then with <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Indra\'s</span> help the Brahman, that is to say, the true message\r\nof the inner Self was invoked. When man gets a purified mind and purified\r\nintelligence, he discovers the real <span class=GramE>Being</span> within and\r\nanother name of this Being is <i>Brahmanaspati </i>(the Lord of the inner\r\nSelf). Finally comes in <span class=SpellE><i>Sarasvati</i></span><i> </i>who\r\nis the power of the Infinite Truth in which the multiple aspects of the truth\r\nof the universal God are manifest.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-104<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\"></a></span></i></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-21_The Third Sukta','','publish','closed','open','','21_the-third-sukta','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/21_the-third-sukta/',0,'post','',0),(1748,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE SECOND SUKTA</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">THE SECOND SUKTA</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\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n8.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The upward spirit, the\r\nconscious <span class=SpellE>energising</span> power, the aspiration-fire that\r\nresides at the root of all spiritual disci­plines as their fount and primal\r\ninspiration has been invoked in the first <span class=SpellE>sukta</span>. The\r\npresent <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> throws light upon the different steps\r\nand rungs of that upward spiritual discipline.</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\'>The\r\nVedic spiritual discipline aims at Truth, the Right and the Vast. The ordinary\r\nlife consists of body, life and mind. The trivial work, the insignificant\r\ninspiration</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-98<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>and</span>\r\nenjoyment of life, the limited knowledge of the mind - man is aware of nothing\r\nbeyond. But there is something above the body, life and mind. When one reaches\r\nthat higher plane, one becomes full of truth-consciousness, that is to say, one\r\nowns the nature and the law of conduct of, the Gods. Body, life and mind stand\r\nin the way of the aspi­rant to the realm of the Gods. However, for that we are\r\nnot to deny the existence of or do away with body, life and mind. What is\r\nactually needed is the purification and transforma­tion of these three\r\ninstruments. There are three stages of pu­rification and transformation;\r\naccordingly the present <span class=SpellE>sukta</span> has been divided into\r\nthree parts each containing three <span class=SpellE>riks</span>.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">The first three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> deal\r\nwith the purification and trans­formation of life-energy. <span class=SpellE>Vayu</span>\r\nis the presiding Deity of life-energy. <span class=SpellE><i>Vayuh</i></span><i>\r\n<span class=SpellE>pranah</span> </i>(<span class=SpellE>Vayu</span> is\r\nlife), says the <span class=SpellE>Mundaka</span> Upanishad. In the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Rigveda</span> too there is a clear<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>\r\nindication of it. It </span>says, <span class=SpellE><i>pratnat</i></span><i>\r\n<span class=SpellE>vayurajayata</span> </i>(<span class=SpellE>Vayu</span>\r\ncame into existence from the Supreme as Life). This <span class=SpellE>Vayu</span>\r\nor life energy is the <i>raison d’être </i>of all the activities of the\r\nordinary human life. Life abounds with desires and enjoyments of earthly\r\nobjects. The ordinary life is blind and ignorant. It hankers after the\r\nsatisfaction of desires. It gets satisfaction even in fleeting pleasures. But\r\nwhat an aspirant needs in life is to taste the pure and unalloyed nectar which\r\nis the perpetual divine delight inherent in each object.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\n<span class=SpellE><i>Somarasa</i></span><i> </i>is the transcendental Delight,\r\nand this De­light is nothing rather than Immortality. It is also an im­mensely\r\nconscious and luminous exhilaration of the divine existence of the Gods. Truth\r\nmust be revealed with the rhythm and words of direct knowledge, and the delight\r\nof the realised truth must be made manifest in life. Those who have done it are\r\ncalled &quot;<span class=SpellE>Aharvida</span>&quot;. It means they have now\r\nthe light of the day. No more do they crave for trivial enjoyments. All the\r\nparts of their being are vibrant, con­scious and filled with the immortal\r\ndelight.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Luminous delight in\r\nprofusion must be established in<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><span class=GramE>life</span>. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-99<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">And for that the mind must\r\nfirst be purified and made perfect. Indra is the presiding Deity of pure and\r\nperfect mind. Indra gives pure intelligence and with that pure intelligence the\r\naspirant establishes a pure enjoyment of the quintessence of truth, rich\r\ndelight and fulfilment in life. Therefore in the second three <span\r\nclass=SpellE>riks</span> Indra and <span class=SpellE>Vayu</span> are in- <span\r\nclass=SpellE>voked</span> together.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nlast three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> deal with the full realisation and\r\nthe goal of the aspirant. When life is purified, when mind is purified, the\r\naspirant will be established in that vast and luminous Heaven. <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Varuna</span> is the presiding Deity of vastness. The harmony and\r\nthe union that came into existence from the infinite expanse of <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Varuna</span> are the gifts of <span class=SpellE>Mitra</span>.\r\nLord <span class=SpellE>Varuna</span> removes the limitation, isolation and<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'> </span>disunion of our ordinary knowledge. He tears\r\naway the hostile force that compels us to remain narrow and small. Hence -he is\r\ncalled <span class=SpellE><i>Risadasam</i></span><i>. </i>And <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Mitra</span> is our divine Guide. With his clear vision he unites\r\nall the objects together in perfect har­mony. When an aspirant attains to the\r\nlevel of indivisible harmony in the infinite, in the limitless, he arrives at\r\nthe fundamental Truth and his action then becomes the in­fallible manifestation\r\nof that Truth. Indra possesses pure intelligence. Behind him stand the two\r\npowers of the Infinite <span class=SpellE>Varuna</span> and <span class=SpellE>Mitra</span>.\r\nIt is they who have made intelligence full or<i> </i>Knowledge and Energy. They\r\nare also called poets, <i>i.e., </i>the seers of Truth. It is because of their\r\ninfinite expanse, eternal rhythm, and inborn power of truth that the aspirant\r\nis able to draw the stupendous inspiration of <span class=SpellE>energising</span>\r\npower and an unobstructed pure genuine capacity to carry on all his activities\r\nin life.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-100<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal align=\"right\" style=\'text-align:center; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span><i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-20_The Second Sukta','','publish','closed','open','','20_the-second-sukta','','','2021-11-23 17:58:12','2021-11-23 17:58:12','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/20_the-second-sukta/',0,'post','',0),(1749,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymn to Dawn</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<span style=\'mso-bidi-font-size:15.0pt;\'><font size=\"4\">Hymn\r\nto Dawn</font></span></b></h1>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp; Mandala I: Sukta 92</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:28.3pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo! These Dawns bringing\r\nforth knowledge (consciousness): in the eastern hemisphere they spread out\r\nlight; like assail­ants with sharpened weapons, the gleaming Mothers move\r\nforward.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Easily they rise up, the\r\nglowing rays; they yoke the lumi­nous herds and yoke them perfectly. As of yore\r\nthe Dawns give forms to the perception, the bright rays merge in. the blazing\r\nSun.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As toilers giving the\r\nlead, with their illuminations equally yoked, they shine from beyond. They\r\nbring all impulsion and all daylight to the sacrificer who is a perfect doer of\r\nthe work, a perfect donor and a perfect distiller of wine (divine drink).<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As a dancer decorates her\r\nlimbs, as a cow displays her milk­-heavy udder, Dawn creates for the world the Light\r\nand opens out the darkness, even as a herd does its shelter-stall.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page-10<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo, her shining flame is\r\nbefore us: it is there spreading wide, holding back the mass of darkness. The\r\nDaughter of Heaven displays in our knowings the solar rays as though her own\r\nlimbs and then merges in the glory of the Sun.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We have crossed over to\r\nthe other shore of this Darkness. Dawn breaks out and creates all manifested\r\nform. She smiles as with the beauty of poetic rhythm. She shines out with her\r\nperfect face. She unveils herself and brings to us a happy mind.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Luminous she leads forth\r\nthe blissful truths. Daughter of Heaven she is hymned by the most enlightened:\r\nO Dawn, bestow upon us all the plenitudes of progeny and the hero-power and the\r\nlifeforce-consciousness and the herd with the front of light.</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\'>\r\n<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(8)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Dawn, may I enjoy that\r\nwealth full of glory and perfect hero-strength and the great host of servitors\r\nand the wakeful vital force. Thou bringest forth the plenitude, O Goddess of\r\nperfect enjoyment; thou shinest with the hearing perfect in action. Vast is\r\nthat wealth of thine.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Goddess looks forward\r\nto all the worlds and backward too her eye shines widely. She awakens all\r\ncreatures and makes them move forward. And for all minds she has found their\r\nutterance.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page-11<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(10)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She takes birth again and\r\nagain and shines with the same beauty of hue as of old. She, the Goddess, like\r\na cutter slays the morrow of creatures and diminishes the life-span of aging\r\nmortals.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(11)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Widely disclosing the ends\r\nof heaven She awakes and sends her sister far away from her. She shortens the\r\nhuman cycles - woman-like she shines wide with the eye of her Beloved.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(12)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lo! The luminous Goddess\r\nof Delight spreading out like a herd of kine! Like a river She extends herself\r\nwide over low lands. She never impairs the Divine Works, she awakes and becomes\r\nvisible with the rays of the Sun.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(13)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Bearing the plenitudes, O\r\nDawn, bring to us that brilliant richness by which we shall sustain (found) our\r\nbegetting and our progeny.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(14)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Dawn, break forth for us\r\nhere today with thy light and energy and lustre and joy and the blissful 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\'>(15)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Dawn, Goddess of\r\nPlenitude, yoke the luminous life-forces and bring to us all the felicities (perfect\r\nenjoyings).<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;\r\n\'>Page – 12 <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(16)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Aswins, you are luminous\r\nworkers, of golden hue and of one mind. Turn your moving chariots downward\r\ntowards our habitations.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(17)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Thus have you together\r\ncreated this lustrous hymn from heaven for the people. O Aswins, do you both\r\nbring to us the vital energy.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(18)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May the wakers in the Dawn bring here for drinking\r\nthe soma-wine the twin-gods who create delight, who do the work and follow the\r\ngolden path.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-13</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-03_Hymn to Dawn','','publish','closed','open','','03_hymn-to-dawn','','','2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/03_hymn-to-dawn/',0,'post','',0),(1750,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns:st1=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Living Matter</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h2 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Living Matter</font><o:p></o:p></b></h2>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I\r\nKNOW not</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Where had I wandered about\r\nand then reached afar this dreamland: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I found myself standing\r\non the brink of a fluent river.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Above,\r\nthe vast empty pale azure</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Firm and high up. Here\r\nupon our globe</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Twin\r\ncomrades Earth and Heaven ever</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Play their love-game\r\nintimate together.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Green earth only looks\r\nupward</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Towards her lover\'s\r\nface, shivers in intense delight</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the thousand\r\ntremblings of the leaves, among the cool grasses.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n184.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The blue sky holds in embrace</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The whole body of his Beloved enveloping it with\r\ndelight,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lifts up his high head, spreads aloft his laughter of\r\nlove. </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This is the play here. In our ealm here</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Exists no cruel separation. But there</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Earth is dying as though in grief, in fear,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Left alone in an empty universe. Swallowed in that\r\nInfinite, </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Frightened by the heights, surrounded by nightmare,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lies the little human life. Limitless expanse of land</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Silent vast empty pale grey</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Extends the unbroken wideness of the lifelessness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of the great Void. No tree is there,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No grass, no stone, nor any human habitation</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Could one see. The eyes move ever forward, move ever,\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No end is there; yet though tired</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-179<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am unable to return! A cruel landscape in its\r\ncruel pull</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Carries away a prisoner as though to an enemy-land </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Afar, afar into a bourneless world</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the stilled infinity.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I forced my eyes to return<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Towards the other shore. It is hard stone</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A fierce strength has moulded together, a long\r\nlabour,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As though the artifact of a titan. During the wild\r\nrains</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On the banks abroad spreading its body allover the\r\nskies </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In rude delight the titan has laboured,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Happy at Nature\'s cruel game.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fancy dawned in him to make it still more cruel.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Line after line it has carved smilingly on the stone.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Like a huge skeleton lies the wet shore of the river,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The mere bones as it were, bereft of flesh, of dead\r\nearth: </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It lies immemorially with no solace of last rites\r\ndone for </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>At that solitary end of things on that river-verge. I</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No bend is in view, no grass nor flower. Erect,\r\nproud, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Firm, solid, despising, all softness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Goes down into the water the lifeless heartless\r\nstone.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beyond afar, the desert land has moved lazily</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To unite with the stone. No softness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No love is there in the union, it is matter\'s love,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Stone\'s kiss.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; I looked towards the\r\nstream.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It flows in silent speed - the stream of dreamland;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Asleep, mighty, calm, as though the violent\r\nlife-force</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is imprisoned in Nature\'s arms on the crest of the <st1:place>Himalayas</st1:place></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Away lies the exit, the way out. Where the meadow</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Meets the stone, a narrow space, as though</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The throat of hungry death, there</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the land\'s perilous life-line, Death himself</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lay asleep like a python with his stone-figure </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Possessing the universe. With slow wide-moving speed</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-180</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height:150%;text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Proud of its long strides advances the dream-river.</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In its winding, the miraculous vedic steed Dadhikra,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>God incarnate as life-force, bridled in his breast\r\nand face, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lifting his proud neck rushes on taking man</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On heaven\'s path to the world of Truth. But on that\r\nway</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is this the cataract of Life\'s river flowing down?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is this the true consummation?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It hurtles down like a sinner in an unmeasurable\r\nspeed </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Towards a crueller country. The wailing</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of the river adown comes into my ears as though from\r\na</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>thousand sufferers!</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I looked about, my mind full of sadness,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And thought, &quot;Oh, the dead land! the still\r\nworld!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the noise what a silence, in the speed what an\r\nimmobility!</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Will ever man come to live in this inert country?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pour his own life-force and make it living?</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is there no purusa for this prakriti?&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rejected, as if through fear, thought returns</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Into her own dwelling. Motionless is the earth-life\r\nas ever.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; All on a sudden I woke up\r\nand looked within myself.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>With a startle\r\nI saw the inert realm alive,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Alive the waters, alive the cruel</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Endless wasteland, even the sky up above</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Conscious, alive the stretched neck of death, ­</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The stone-figure has assumed the shape of a sleeping\r\npython.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And the sound of the waterfalls carries afar</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The mourning of a living soul.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I understood why it is there Erect and proud the\r\nstone with no softness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>No pity no happiness in it. I understood the hope</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The river nourishes in its bosom, flowing towards its\r\nvast end</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beyond sight, as if the mighty life-force is in\r\ntrance</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Filled with its own force of speed. And I knew here</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>None speaks of any other person, they know not each\r\nother</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They want not each other. Each is engrossed in\r\ntrifles, </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Each is bound to himself, muses all alone,<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-181<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Each is confined to his own act and own mood.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But when they stumble upon each other, they tremble\r\nwithin,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The body, stunned and bound, thinks, &quot;Lo, this\r\nis another I</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That falls upon my body, this touch is full of\r\njoy!&quot; </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That is the end of it. There does not bloom the\r\nsecret </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:6\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Yearning</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Neither in speech nor in movement nor in thought.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; In my hopelessness</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I see as though the whole world is a prison.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All on a sudden a sweet voice sounded within me:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&quot;Look back, understand the hope of Prakriti,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Understand the dead prison-house is a mother\'s heart,\r\n</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The hidden significance understand that is in this\r\ngame.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I lifted my burning eyes, I saw afar</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the wasteland human figures. A boy and a girl </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Embracing each other in mad delight in this expanse\r\nof</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; matter,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In this inert dreamland two living beings are there\r\nfree </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With no fetters, rapt in trance in each other\'s delight.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>They disappeared from the sight. And that living\r\nmatter</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With no hope in it, is bound in its own mood as\r\nalways.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But my mind freed out of the matter\'s touch,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I recognised the intent of the veiled conscious\r\nBeing,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I captured in my spirit Nature\'s hidden desire.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My eyes capturing the whole landscape, consoled I\r\nreturned </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To earthly sphere.</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-182<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Ravana Vanquished</font><o:p></o:p></b></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:284.25pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:15.0pt\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>TITANS,\r\nassembled here, the race supreme on this earthly<o:p></o:p> globe!<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:249.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A city supreme bejewelled in this sea-girt isle<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>On a stony crest they shall set up in their own\r\nmight,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fearless defying the King of the gods, in disregard\r\nof the world.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But listen! What is this rumour<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All along the walls surrounding the city of Lanka, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>What is this tumult unprecedented in this land?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is this the roar of a puny army in laughter and jeer,<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:92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dancing\r\nover the head of the Mother of rakshasas, reveling<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:92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:2\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>in\r\npride and victory?<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:92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nwhom do I fear? Why am I confined, a prisoner in my<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; own city?<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:92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mute\r\nI look at their mad dance, hear their loud boast?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Protected by\r\nVaruna in this sea one .can never cross,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We warriors\r\nenjoyed the wide universe.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A little island\r\nhas proudly trampled over the whole mankind, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And is the\r\nmaster of it, possessed as its own<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The wide earth\r\nwith her million habitants.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The haughty\r\nKing of the gods, who names himself<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The imperial\r\nmajesty of the triple worlds,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is himself\r\nimprisoned and works as a slave here today in our Lanka&shy;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n92.6pt 180.95pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is through the might of your arms.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Here are we the same Titans. Here is our city, Lanka.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-183<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is that might of the arms turned limp?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Say, Titans, has that pride lost its brilliance? </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Has\r\nthat power evaporated unnoticed<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As we lay courting sleep at night without care?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Who has stolen your blazing might?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is it Krishna or Mahadeva or any other bold enough <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the still night trembling to enter Lanka while she\r\nlay asleep?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Oh! the irony of Fate! the unconquerable race<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Is conquered at last in a petty skirmish!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Petty man is victorious in Titan\'s land!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I could understand, if Rudra with his trident rushed\r\nin,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His Cosmic might teeming with demi-gods and demons<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And for days and nights\r\nand centuries battled and battered<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; and\r\nbroke through <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And at last, Providence\r\naiding, ravaged and destroyed the<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; city\r\nof Lanka. </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I could also understand if\r\nthe great Vishnu spread<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>His net of duplicity, cast his spell of darkness<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon the intelligence of the Rakshasas and stole away\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Fair Royal Deity of Lanka.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:9.35pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But we are\r\nconquered by the arms of Rama,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Men have trampled upon the\r\ncity of Ravana!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Smile happily, O vanquished gods now in heaven, </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There\r\nis no fear of punishment for you any more. </p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Smile, O Indra, in happiness, the\r\nlord of the gods is now<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; free from slavery. <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I do not blame you, if you take pride in this victory\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That should be a shame for you.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Luminous is the city of Heaven, eternal Spring is\r\nthere, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Enjoy the garden of Paradise there through the\r\nmortal\'s<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>grace.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\nright 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ravana, enemy of\r\nthe gods, is vanquished at the hands of<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>a\r\nhuman being<span style=\'font-size:11.0pt\'>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-184<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vanquished! Listen! O\r\nlisten! on the mighty rock afar,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The fierce echo hears and\r\nlaughs at the word:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>It is the daughter of the\r\nMountain in this Isle of Lanka and<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>her thundering voice.<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:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Vanquished!\r\nIt rends the mind and heart to utter the word. <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:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nTitan\'s tongue cannot speak it out.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A\r\nproud Rakshasa clad in iron-strength, with iron weapons,<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:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Not\r\ncontent with earthly victories I roamed in all the three<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:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>heavens,<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:center 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Not\r\ncontent, I assailed the very crest of the triple world.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>You say that\r\nrace is vanquished! A mirage is this truth,<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>False is this history.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brothers,\r\nfriends and sons are killed; in my vast bejeweled<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>halls,\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Crowded\r\nwith slaves and servants I wander all alone<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In\r\nsearch of friendly faces but in vain.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwomen\'s quarters are crowded too; there with a dry<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>and desert heart <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I look\r\nupon mothers who have lost their sons.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the\r\nAssembly Hall, in the battlefield,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the\r\njoyless taverns, in the insipid playfield<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>My eyes\r\nin vain look-for the glories of Lanka.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Silent\r\nis the lion roar. Into these ears used to be poured<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&shy;A\r\ntorrent of delight, the trumpet call of victory,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nwild war-cry, the leonine yell of my brother<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Kumbhakarna.<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But O Aksha, O Indrajit, why are you silent at this\r\nhour<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>of\r\nperil!<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Why does not your ever victorious voice delight our\r\nears<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:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>anymore!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O my children, is the embrace of Death so fast, so sweet!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pardon me, Titans, for the first time today the earth <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\ncenter 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Under Ravana\'s power is wet with Ravana\'s tears.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:260pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:center 177.6pt 259.65pt right 278.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:260pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But\r\nnay, let them be slain, I am yet there.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Shall history write in its\r\npages in iron letters as truth<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-185<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That the world conquerors\r\nat last were conquered by Rama,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>the little feeble man!<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:180.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This\r\ndark infamy shall never be written down in the history<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:180.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>Of\r\nthe Rakshasas.<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:180.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Let the\r\nworld hear of the past history and wonder<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:180.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And\r\ndeclare that the son of Dasharath enjoyed a momentary<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:180.2pt 242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>victory<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:180.2pt 242.6pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Because of the negligence\r\nof the Rakshasas.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Now, the wonderful news will spread, unique on earth,\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A thing to madden a hero\'s heart, that sons killed, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Friends killed, killed all the great heroes,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Yet Ravana, the Rakshasa, rises again with a roar, <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Leaps mad into battle, and a few of Lanka\'s men<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Kill countless enemies in a few days,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With little effort enthrall again the whole rebel\r\nworld.</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;Arise once more, wipe away the memory of grief,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Wipe off from your heart all shadow of sorrows,</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;Kindle fire of wrath in your blinded eyes.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Forget pity, forget weariness, O heaven-conquering\r\nrace.</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In<b> </b>an iron body, an iron mind and heart befits the race of\r\nRakshasas.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Once more we shall slaughter all and each.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall cross the seas and depopulate<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The land of birth of the son of Wind-god.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With myriads of prisoners, slaves unnumbered<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall repopulate to overflowing the isle of Lanka,\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Beget in the wombs of the enemy womanhood a new race\r\nof children.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>But what has gone, let it go&shy;â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We shall build again, we shall destroy again.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>We are not puny human hearts,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Ravana\'s thirst is not quenched with scanty blood! <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The flaming grief dies not in this vast heart<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Satisfied with a feeble revenge.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A little enjoyment does not enfeeble the ardour of\r\nthese senses.<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-186<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n11.0pt\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span>I am a Rakshasa, once more\r\nI shall conquer <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All the world and enjoy\r\nthe Infinite itself.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Otherwise rest content, O jackals of Shiva\'s consort,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Rest content, O you host of vultures &shy;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A deathbed for me shall I build up like a hill<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>With thousands and thousands of human and ape heads.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Or I shall throw into devouring fire, like faggots,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>All the rich treasures, things of beauty and art of\r\nancient Lanka &shy;<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I shall throw down all this peerless grandeur:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>This entire great city I shall light up into a\r\ntitanic funeral<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>pyre.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The three heavens with Earth I have won in battle,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I imprisoned all the gods, I enjoyed fame\r\nincomparable; <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I am as though the all-enveloping world-eye of the\r\nSun,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I burn at <st1:time Minute=\"0\" Hour=\"12\">noon</st1:time>\r\nof mid-summer; afflicted by its heat <o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The world adores the scorching Fire.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I shine over the universe, displaying my effulgence.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>As the sun reddens the blue of the firmament with its\r\n<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span>own blood<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And goes down at setting in all its glory,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>So shall I sink into the <st1:place><st1:PlaceType>sea</st1:PlaceType>\r\n of <st1:PlaceName>Death</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>I was at dawn, during my sway, head uplifted,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fierce and radiant.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And at the setting I will be there still,<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In<b> </b>death and destruction unconquerable, a\r\nfierce lustre and<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:21.8pt 205.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>a\r\nmighty blaze.<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:21.8pt 205.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-187<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;tab-stops:21.8pt 205.4pt;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</i></div><i>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></p>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"text-indent: 260pt; line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n</i></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-37_Ravana Vanquished','','publish','closed','open','','37_ravana-vanquished','','','2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/37_ravana-vanquished/',0,'post','',0),(1752,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\">\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">\r\n<title>Bengali Poems of Sri Aurobindo</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<b><i><font size=\"4\">Bengali Poems of Sri Aurobindo</font></i></b></p>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20asfut.jpg\" width=\"282\" height=\"494\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 240</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20mahakal.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"640\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 241</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20mahakal001.jpg\" width=\"374\" height=\"640\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 242</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20mahakal002.jpg\" width=\"277\" height=\"637\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 243</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20jivant%20jang.jpg\" width=\"239\" height=\"637\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 244</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20jivant%20jang001.jpg\" width=\"209\" height=\"638\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 245</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20jivant%20jang002.jpg\" width=\"261\" height=\"640\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 246</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20jivant%20jang003.jpg\" width=\"234\" height=\"394\"></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\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 247</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20parajit%20ravan_.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"637\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 248</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20parajit%20ravan_001.jpg\" width=\"218\" height=\"638\"></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\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 249</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20parajit%20ravan_002.jpg\" width=\"236\" height=\"639\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 250</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20parajit%20ravan_003.jpg\" width=\"286\" height=\"642\"></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\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 251</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20ekati%20kavita_.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"641\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 252</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20ekati%20kavita_001.jpg\" width=\"237\" height=\"639\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 253</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20ekati%20kavita_002.jpg\" width=\"249\" height=\"374\"></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\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 254</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n		<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n		<a href=\"-00_Content\">\r\n		<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\"></a></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-49_ Bengali Poems of Sri Aurobindo','','publish','closed','open','','49_-bengali-poems-of-sri-aurobindo','','','2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/49_-bengali-poems-of-sri-aurobindo/',0,'post','',0),(1753,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\">\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; charset=windows-1252\">\r\n<title>Modern Bengali Poems</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\"><b><i><font size=\"4\">Modern Bengali Poems</font></i></b></p>\r\n<p dir=\"ltr\" align=\"center\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20mukti.jpg\" width=\"284\" height=\"513\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 255</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20thik%20sekhaneii%20thakbe.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"397\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 256</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20tumi%20shudhu%20moh%20nidra%20bhango.jpg\" width=\"238\" height=\"640\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 257</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20tumi%20shudhu%20moh%20nidra%20bhango001.jpg\" width=\"272\" height=\"167\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 258</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20prarthana.jpg\" width=\"316\" height=\"433\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 259</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n\r\n		<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n		<a href=\"-00_Content\">\r\n		<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\"></a></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-50_ Modern Bengali Poems','','publish','closed','open','','50_-modern-bengali-poems','','','2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/50_-modern-bengali-poems/',0,'post','',0),(1754,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\">\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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charset=windows-1252\">\r\n<title>Vedic Hymns</title>\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 5pt; font-weight: 700\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">APPENDIX - II</font></span></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" dir=\"ltr\">Original Texts of Translations</p><hr>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b><i>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Vedic Hymns</font></i></b></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_.jpg\" width=\"395\" height=\"576\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 213</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_001.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"621\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 214</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_002.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"642\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page\r\n</font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 215</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_003.jpg\" width=\"372\" height=\"647\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 216</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_004.jpg\" width=\"382\" height=\"644\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 217</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_005.jpg\" width=\"376\" height=\"641\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 218</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_006.jpg\" width=\"380\" height=\"638\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 219</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_007.jpg\" width=\"351\" height=\"644\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 220</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_008.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"638\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 221</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_009.jpg\" width=\"373\" height=\"642\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 222</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_010.jpg\" width=\"385\" height=\"641\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 223</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_011.jpg\" width=\"378\" height=\"644\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 224</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20rig%20veda_012.jpg\" width=\"381\" height=\"59\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 225</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n\r\n		<p align=\"right\"><span style=\"text-transform: uppercase\"><font size=\"2\">\r\n		<b><a href=\"-02_Appendix-II---Atharva-Veda\">\r\n		<span style=\"text-decoration: none\">\r\n		<a href=\"-46_-Atharva-Veda\" style=\"text-decoration: none\">continue</a></span></a></b></font></span><p align=\"right\">\r\n<a href=\"-00_Content\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\" width=\"62\" height=\"19\"></a></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-45_ Rig Veda','','publish','closed','open','','45_-rig-veda','','','2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/45_-rig-veda/',0,'post','',0),(1756,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:13','2021-11-23 17:58:13','<html>\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Language\" content=\"en-us\">\r\n<meta http-equiv=\"Content-Type\" content=\"text/html; 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margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20hargauryashtakam.jpg\" width=\"334\" height=\"473\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 236</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20bhavanyashtakam.jpg\" width=\"250\" height=\"643\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 237</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20saraswatistrotam.jpg\" width=\"279\" height=\"415\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 238</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<img border=\"0\" src=\"/Nolini/Volume-8/_images/appendix%20ii%20-%20gaya%20ganga%20prabhasadi.jpg\" width=\"271\" height=\"196\"></p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" dir=\"ltr\">\r\n<font size=\"2\">Page </font><font size=\"2\" face=\"Times New Roman\">– 239</font></p>\r\n<hr dir=\"ltr\">\r\n\r\n		<p align=\"right\" style=\"line-height: 150%; 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margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Sindhu</font></b></p>\r\n<p class=\"Heading\" align=\"center\" style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(The Mother of Rivers)</i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:center;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 align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Mandala X: Sukta 75</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:27.8pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[These Rivers, named after\r\nthe well-known ancient rivers of the <st1:place>Punjab</st1:place>, are here\r\nsymbolic of the streamings, the forces of consciousness. They are, as it is\r\nsaid, solar powers, the radiant energies of the Sun – the Supreme Light, their\r\nseat and source. They are encompassing and flooding the whole universe\r\nincluding the three domains, the Earth, the Heaven and the mid-region. The\r\nforemost among them is the Sindhu; all the others are its branches and\r\ntributaries. Indeed, they represent the Supreme Power (Parashakti) and her\r\nemanations and manifestations and personalities.]</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'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;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O <span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>WATERS</span>, the Poet-Creator proclaims your supreme great­ness in\r\nthe House of the Sun.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The Waters move out in\r\nseven streams in each of three channels. Sindhu surpasses all hastening streams\r\nin her stupendous urge.</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>God Varuna dug out the\r\npath for your going when, O Sindhu, you rushed to meet the Plenitudes.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>You surge over the fields and up along the\r\nplateaus when<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-19</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>you move in front of these\r\nmoving streams as their Master and Ruler.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>To the Heaven the echo\r\nperseveres. And on the Earth the Sindhu by her lustre impels upward the sweep\r\nof Infinity.</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\'>It is\r\nas though from the clouds pour out floods of rain. Indeed as she flows down,\r\nthe Sindhu comes roaring like a mighty bull.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Towards you, O Sindhu, as\r\ntowards their child the Mothers bellowing rush forth, heavy with milk they are.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Like a warrior king you\r\ntake lead in the outpouring when you drive forward all these streamings.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.0pt;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;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:3.1pt;\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-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O <st1:place>Ganga</st1:place>\r\nand Yamuna and Saraswati! O Shutudri with thy companion Parushni! Cling to this\r\nhymn to you.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:.25in right 3.95in;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>O Marutbridha\r\nwith thy companion Asikni, O Arjikiya with\r\nthy companion Vitasta and Sushoma lend your ears to me.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:right 5.75pt 3.95in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The first on your way you\r\njoined with is Trishtama and then with Susartu and Rasa and Shwetya.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent2 style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>O Sindhu, with Kubha you joined Gomati, and Krumu with Mehatnu: with\r\nall of them you move forward in one single movement.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Driving straight, bright\r\nand gleaming in her greatness, she overflows the wide spaces of speeding\r\nrealms.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-20</span>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:justify; text-indent:10.55pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">Sindhu,\r\ninviolate, the greatest worker among workers, she is like a marvellous-hued steed,\r\nbeautiful like the body of a woman.</p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.55pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(8)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sindhu\r\nrides the perfect steed, drives a perfect chariot, wonderfully robed,\r\ngolden-hued, great deeds she does, full of the plenitudes is she.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent3 style=\'text-indent:.25in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:\r\n12.0pt\'>Youthful she is, rich in fine fleece, rich in fibrous reeds, she glides\r\nover honey-bearing growths, she brings perfect delight (enjoyment).<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:9.8pt;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;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Sindhu has yoked horses to\r\nher happy-going chariot. With that help she wins the plenitude in this\r\nsacrifice.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Great is its greatness\r\nthat is at work. It is inviolate, shines in its own glory, exuberant in its\r\nstrength.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.3pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-21</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-06_Hymn to Sindhu','','publish','closed','open','','06_hymn-to-sindhu','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/06_hymn-to-sindhu/',0,'post','',0),(1758,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE FIFTH SUKTA</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">THE FIFTH SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The present <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sukta</span> also tells us that we are to conquer all the\r\nterrestrial powers with the help of pure delight and establish in pure mind the\r\nfoundation of Truth, the concrete mani­festation of Force, Knowledge and the\r\nGood, the manifold fullness and perfection of Indra.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:9.1pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\ndiversity in the creation is a profound and sublime Truth. So the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>sadhaka</span> also has to manifest in his being and nature this\r\nimmensely diverse play. The manifoldness of Form is revealed consciously\r\nthrough the mind. When the true mental being awakes, all the formations lose\r\ntheir divided and mortal nature and appear as immortal, cadences and\r\nexpressions of the Truth. That is why the mental <span class=SpellE>Purusha</span>\r\nor Indra is called <span class=SpellE><i>Purutamam</i></span><i> <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Purunam</span>. No </i>other god has so many diversified\r\nforms as Indra. It is because he is at the root of all manifold diversities.\r\nIndra comes with plenitude; he conquers for the <span class=SpellE>sadhaka</span>\r\n<span class=SpellE><i>sahasrinam</i></span><i> <span class=SpellE>vajam</span>\r\n</i><span class=GramE>(a <span class=SpellE>thousandfold</span>\r\nplenitude). <span class=SpellE><i>Vajam</i></span><i> </i>is the\r\nfullness-which is indivisible; it is the vessel of a <span class=SpellE>thousandfold</span>\r\nmovement of creation; Indra is the eldest of all, because the primal form of\r\nthe external manifestation appears first in the heart of the mental being.\r\nLater on it becomes manifest in the outward nature. After his very birth Indra\r\nwants to be the eldest of all, <i>i.e., </i>as soon as the pure mental being\r\nawakes</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:9.1pt;\r\nline-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-107<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.7pt;\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>in</span>\r\nthe aspirant, it becomes the master and guide of his sadhana and his new\r\nspiritual creation. For this reason Indra is called <span class=SpellE><i>Isana</i></span><i>\r\n</i>(Lord) and <span class=SpellE><i>Sukratu</i></span><i> </i>(the all-accomplishing\r\nPower of action). It is in him that all the masculine powers of God are\r\nmanifest. In accordance with the Will of the <span class=SpellE>Purusha</span>\r\nall the forms of <span class=SpellE>Prakriti</span> take shape. The vessel and\r\nfoundation which Indra is shaping anew in the aspirant is firmly established on\r\nTruth and Knowledge.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:12.2pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:210.0pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Pure mental being is endowed with knowledge which makes an\r\nobject stand revealed to the knower. This know­ledge of Indra is many-sided.\r\nThe real function of Indra is to <span class=SpellE>harmonise</span> the hidden\r\ntruth of all objects and movements. Hence he is called <span class=SpellE><i>Purarmdhih</i></span><i>\r\n</i>or <span class=SpellE><i>Purudhi</i></span><i>, i.e., </i>a city made\r\nof comprehensive intelligence as it were. Indra does not want dissolution in\r\nthe One Existent, but he wants a diverse and many-sided manifestation. In\r\nunfolding or blossoming alone is his joy. He seeks for a vibrant cadence of the\r\nTruth. The Bliss of Indra is founded on Truth. That is why this Bliss is pure\r\nand tranquil and yet dynamic. The joy of sensuous pleasure of an ordinary man\r\nis emotional and fleeting, Man cannot hold it and an aspirant cannot build\r\nanything on it. That joy flows out and man spills it away in trying to hold it.\r\nThat is the reason why this joy of the senses has to be purified and made noble\r\nwith the light of pure mind, intellect and knowledge. Then alone that joy will\r\nbe beneficial, capable of doing works and yielding fruit. When the pure mental\r\nbeing, immortal in this Bliss and supported by the pure vital energy, marches\r\nforward driving his two luminous horses of knowledge and power to the\r\nbattlefield to advance in spirituality, the dumb material forces of Ignorance\r\nfail to oppose them. Cutting asunder all limitations of the earthly\r\nconsciousness and the powers of Death, Indra founds a full-fledged bliss of\r\nimmortality in the aspirant. He enables the creative genius of the aspirant to\r\nblossom in the <span class=SpellE>untrammelled</span> expanse of the infinite\r\nconsciousness.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-108<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n10.8pt;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\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;<i><a href=\"-01-contents\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0></a></i></p>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-23_The Fifth Sukta','','publish','closed','open','','23_the-fifth-sukta','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/23_the-fifth-sukta/',0,'post','',0),(1759,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymn to Earth</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Earth</font><o:p></o:p></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:14.6pt;\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-family:\"Times New Roman\"\'>A</span><span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt;font-family:\"Times New Roman\"\'>THARVAVEDA</span><span style=\'font-family:\r\n\"Courier New\"\'><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:14.6pt;\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-family:\"Times New Roman\"\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Kanda XII: Sukta 1<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:14.6pt;line-height:\r\n150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>[This is a selection from\r\nthe original Hymn which is some­what longer. There is here a double series of\r\nnumbering of the slokas, put side by side – except those that have the same number\r\nin the original as well as the selection; the first one gives the order of the\r\nslokas as selected: the other one refers to the number as in the original\r\ntext.]<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(I)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>T<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>HE</span> vast Truth, the Mighty Law, the Consecration, the austere\r\nWill, the Word, the Sacrifice – these uphold the Earth. She is the guardian of\r\nour past and of our future. May she create for us the wide Realm.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Man offers no barrier:\r\nmany are the hills and dales and plains (ups and downs and levels) there; of\r\nmultiple varie­ties are the plants she nourishes. May the Earth spread wide for\r\nus; on us may she bestow the plenitudes.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In her are the oceans and\r\nrivers and all the waters – In her, aliments have grown and the people as well,\r\nin her all</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-38</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>this lives, breathes and moves;\r\nmay the wide Earth give us her very first yield to drink.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'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 style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Fourfold are the expanses\r\nto which this Earth turns; in her have grown the food and the human workers:\r\nshe nourishes in various ways, she breathes, she moves. May the wide Earth\r\nestablish us in Light and in the Matter.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><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 in ancient days our\r\nancient fathers did their deeds. Here the Gods routed the Asuras. This is the\r\nhome of kine and horses and birds. May the Earth bestow upon us en­joyments and\r\nsplendours.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>She contains all things.\r\nShe holds the very Substance. She is the Foundation. Gold-breasted, she\r\nharbours the World. She harbours the whole world. The vast Earth carries in her\r\nAgni, the all-power. May she under the protection of lndra establish us in his riches.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Her the unsleeping Gods\r\ngive protection eternally; the Vast Earth, the unfailing giver of all things,\r\nmay she pour out for us the milk, the sweet delight, the honey, and sprinkle us\r\nwith the lustre.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(8)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the beginning she was\r\nas water on the bosom of the ocean; men of intelligence with their creative\r\nformations</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.85pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-39</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:176.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>followed\r\nher in her wake. The heart of Earth lay immortal, robed with Truth, in the\r\nhighest spaces; may the wide Earth establish for us strength and a flaming energy\r\nin the supreme kingdom.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There the waters move all around equally night and\r\nday and flow unerringly.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That wide material earth\r\nopulent in her streams yields water like milk, may she pour upon us a shower of\r\nlustres.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.55pt;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(10)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The twin Aswins have measured\r\nher out; upon her Vishnu strode wide. Indra, the Lord of the Lights, for his\r\nown sake, has freed her of enemies.</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\'>That\r\nwide material earth of ours as a mother to her son pours out her sweet drink\r\nfor us.</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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(11)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>May the hills, the snowy ranges, the forests bring\r\nhappiness to thee, O Earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.15in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Brown or black or red, in\r\nall forms upon this wide secure Earth that is protected by Indra (the Divine\r\nMind), I stand firm and conquer, unslain, unhurt.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.15in;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O Earth, that which is thy\r\nmiddle, that which is thy navel, and those lofty formations of thine, establish\r\nthem in us. Flow towards us, O Mother Earth; I am the son of the Earth, the God\r\nRain (Parjanya) is my father, may he bring fulfilment to us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-40</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(13)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>There on a high ground the\r\nuniversal workers stand en­circling the altar, there they conduct the\r\nsacrifice; there the stakes are planted straight and luminous before the\r\noffering is made; may the wide Earth herself grow and make us grow.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(14)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>They that hate us, O Earth,\r\nthey that war with us, they that obstruct us by their thought or by their\r\nmissile (weapon), may our land forestall them and subdue them.<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\'><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\'>(I5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Born of thee, the mortals\r\nmove in thee. Thou nourishest the twin-seats and the fourfold seats. Thine are\r\nthese five human races for whose sake, for these mortals, the sun rises and\r\nspreads with his rays the immortal Light.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(16)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyTextIndent style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>May this whole world\r\nof creatures give us their yield (the sweet drink). O Earth, establish in me\r\nthe sweetness of speech (the Word).<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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(17)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>S4e begets all things, the\r\nMother of healing plants, the firm, the wide Earth, upheld by the Divine Law,\r\nfull of bliss, full of happiness: upon this earth may we live and move ever and\r\never.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(18)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>A mighty abode thou hast become\r\nmightiness itself: a great, speed and vibration and energy are thine. The great\r\nIndra<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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.15pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-41</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>protects thee unfailingly,\r\nO wideness, illumine us with that perfect sight as of gold. May none bring hurt\r\nto us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(19)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:139.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Upon\r\nthe earth they offered to the Gods the sacrifice and the oblation perfectly\r\nprepared. Upon earth men, mortals, live by their own inner nature and outer\r\nneed (self-nature and food). May that wide earth establish in us the vital\r\nforce and a long span of life. May Earth grace me with a ripe old age.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:139.65pt;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:139.65pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(20)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The aroma, O Earth, that\r\nrises out of thee, that which the healing plants and that which the waters\r\ncarry, that which delights the heavenly beings and the celestial nymphs, with that\r\nmake me sweet-scented, O Earth, may none bring harm to us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(21)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That expanse which is to\r\nthy east and that which is to thy north and that, O wide Earth, that which is\r\nbelow and that too which is behind, may all bring bliss to me who am moving\r\nhere, may there be no stumbling for me, a dweller upon this wide Earth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(22)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>O Earth, that which I am\r\ndigging out of thee, may it grow forthwith; O Purifier, let me not disturb thy\r\nheart nor thy soul.<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\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(23)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%;tab-stops:12.2pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>The Earth carries multiple riches in her cavern, may\r\nshe yield to me jewel and gold. Giver of wealth may the God</span>dess </p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:12.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-42</span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>bestow upon us\r\nwealth; in her delight, in a happy mind may she establish them in us.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(24)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Whatever villages and forests\r\nare there, whatever gatherings and meetings, to all, for your sake, may we\r\nspeak beautiful words.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(25)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>O vast Mother, firmly\r\nestablished I am, implant in me the supreme good; O seer, in conscious union\r\nwith the heaven, establish upon the wide Earth the supreme beauty.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n        <p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\"font-size:10pt;\">\r\n		<font face=\"Times New Roman\">Page-43</font></span></p>\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; 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margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><b style=\'mso-bidi-font-weight:normal\'><i>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Peace and Power</font><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n26.15pt 118.55pt 312.4pt right 6.0in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(Sam yoh)<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:26.15pt 118.55pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>YAJURVEDA<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Chapter 36<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>I\r\nSEEK the Grace of Rik, the Word. I seek the Grace of Yajur, the Mind. I seek\r\nthe Grace of Sam a, the Life-Force. I seek the Grace of the Eye and the Ear;\r\nmay the energy that is Speech, the Energy that is Power and the Life-Force,\r\nboth the higher and the lower, there be ever in me.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(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;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:2.5in;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Whatever rift is there in my vision, in my\r\nheart, in my mind, or whatever there is torn, may the Master of the Word heal\r\nit; may the Master of the Universe be all Peace and Grace to us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(3)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Lo, the Earth, the Mid-region, the Heaven! I contemplate upon that\r\nSupreme (Sovereign) Light of the Sun who im­pels to us all intelligence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(4)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>O the manifold Delight, what is that vastness by which thou </span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>becomest</span><span\r\nlang=EN-GB style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'> </span><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>our ever-increasing comrade and what is that Supreme Flaming Lustre\r\nwhich surrounds thee?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Page-44<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p>(5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>What is that Mightiest of Drinks, full of\r\ntruth which gives you the ecstasy of the divine Soma-juice and breaks open even\r\na stronghold?</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>All around us with thy vastnesses thou becomest hundred­fold, the\r\nprotector of thy comrades and adorers.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(7)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Oh,\r\nthe Mighty, what is that vastness with which thou delightest us? And how is it\r\nthat thou bringest gifts to thy adorers?<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(8)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>lndra with his lustres rules all the worlds. May there be Peace and\r\nGrace for us in the twofold status as well in the fourfold status.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(9)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>May\r\nMitra be Peace and Grace to us. May Varuna be Peace and Grace to us. May\r\nAryaman be Peace and Grace to us. May lndra be Peace and Grace to us. May\r\nBrihaspati be Peace and Grace to us. May the vast-ranging Vishnu be Peace and\r\nGrace to us. <o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(10)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>May the Wind blow to us the Peace and the Grace, may the Sun bring to\r\nus the warmth of the Peace and the Grace, may the Rain-God roar and thunder and\r\npour shower to us of the Peace and Grace.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:7.9pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n7.9pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-45<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(11)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>May\r\nthe days be Peace to us, may the nights be Peace and upbear us; may Indra and\r\nAgni with their protection be Peace to us, may Indra and Varuna pour their\r\noblations and give Peace to us, may Indra and Pushan who conquer the plenitudes\r\nbe Peace to us, may Indra and Soma be Peace to us for our perfect journey. May\r\nPeace and Power be there for us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(12)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>May the Goddesses, the Waters, bring to us the Peace and the Grace so\r\nthat we may have the right impulsions and drink of the Perfect Delight. May\r\nPeace and Power flow towards us in a stream.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(13)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>O\r\nEarth, be delightful to us and a </span><span lang=EN-GB style=\'font-size:12.0pt;\r\nmso-ansi-language:EN-GB;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>thornless</span><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'> habitation; bestow upon us\r\nthe all-round welfare.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(14)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>O\r\nDivine Waters, you are there indeed, creators of delight, uphold us so that we\r\nmay attain to the Might, the great Delight and the Perfect Sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(15)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>With that pure Delight which is full of your utmost blessed­ness, do\r\nyou nourish us here, like a loving mother.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(16)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>May we approach Him towards whose dwelling you move; O Waters, increase\r\ntoo our progeny.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.6pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:\r\n8.6pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;\r\nborder:medium none;mso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:\r\n0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-46<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(17)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>Peace\r\nbe the Heavens, Peace the Mid-region, Peace the Earth, Peace the Waters. May\r\nthe Healing Plants be Peace, the great Trees be Peace; may the all-Gods be\r\nPeace, may Brahma, the Supreme, be Peace, may all be Peace: may Peace be Peace,\r\nmay that Peace come to us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(18)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Firm thou art, make me firm. For me may they with the eye of Mitra look\r\nat all beings. May I with the eye of Mitra look at all beings. May we with the\r\neye of Mitra look at all beings.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(19)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Firm thou art, make me firm! Constantly may I dwell in thy happy sight.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(20)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Obeisance to Thee, O wrath, O Flame, obeisance to Thee, O Radiance.\r\nThey who are other than us, them do thou afflict with thy weapons (missiles).\r\nFor us do thou be the Purifier and the Benign Lord.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(21)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Obeisance to Thee, the Lightning, obeisance to Thee, the Thunderer,\r\nobeisance to Thee, the Supreme Lord, whence thou impellest the Sun-world.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(22)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>From\r\nwheresoever Thou willest us away, may we have no fear thence. May our progeny\r\nhave thy Grace and our live­stock thy protection.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal 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;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-47<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.7pt;\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=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(23)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Perfect friends may to us be the waters and the plants; un­friendly let\r\nthose be who discard us and whom we discard.<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-bidi-font-style:italic\'>(24)<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>May we see that bright &quot;Eye&quot; founded on the Divine arise in\r\nfront of us for a hundred autumns. May we live a hundred autumns, may we\r\ncontinue to hear for a hundred autumns, may we continue to speak for a hundred\r\nautumns, may we be without want for a hundred autumns, a hundred autumns over\r\nagain, indeed beyond a hundred autumns.</span></p>\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt;mso-bidi-font-style:\r\nitalic\'>Page-48</span><i><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a><o:p></o:p></i></p>\r\n  <i>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; 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margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">The Bride of Brahman</font></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>RIGVEDA</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span>Mandala X: Sukta 109</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;text-indent:34.55pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(1)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; O<span style=\'font-size:\r\n10.0pt\'>F</span> the stain in Brahman the first to speak were: God Varuna the\r\nVast (shoreless), the Wind-God Matarishvan, Vayu, who blows away even a\r\nstronghold,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>The\r\nviolent God, Agni, the Goddess Water <i>(Apah), </i>mother of Delight: these\r\nare the first-born by their power of Truth.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>King Soma was the first to\r\nlead out Brahman\'s bride once again, – he had no hesitation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>Varuna and Mitra followed\r\nsuit. And Agni as the su­preme priest took her hand and led on.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.55pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>“You can seize her body by\r\nthe hand, she is the bride of Brahman”, they said:</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>&quot;She was not meant\r\nfor the missioned messenger; ever she is protected even like the kingdom of a\r\nking.&quot;</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:11.5pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Of\r\nthis the ancients spoke, the seven seers engaged in tapas.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-22</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The\r\nmighty bride stood by the side of the <i>Brahmana, </i>He who has the divine\r\nWord: she takes up and places the den­sest material into the highest heaven.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:10.3pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>One who lives and moves in\r\nBrahman enters into all the domains and becomes one limbed with all the Gods.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>The Master of the Word\r\nfollowed in that way and found the Supreme bride led by the God Soma, even as\r\nthe Gods found and possessed the oblation.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.05pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(6)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Once again the Gods gave\r\naway and men also</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:-13.5pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>And royal beings also who create the Truth gave back to\r\nBrahman his bride.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n9.8pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(7)</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>The bride of Brahman is\r\ngiven back to him, made stainless by the Gods.<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:230.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>It is\r\nfor the mighty fulfilment of earth that they have taken their seat near unto the\r\nvast-ranging Divine-Sun.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-indent:10.3pt;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:230.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>N<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>OTE</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; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>It\r\nis the story of Redemption of Maya, the Lower Nature (Apara Prakriti), its\r\npurification or uplifting into the higher Divine Nature (Para Prakriti). The\r\nquestion is always asked how did Maya enter into and possess Brahman, how did\r\ndarkness envelope and eclipse Light? It was the result of a separation, a rift\r\nbetween Brahman and his Shakti. Originally it was one unique indivisible\r\nReality. But this rift came and the Supreme Prakriti was thrown down into</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-23</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:288.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>the ignorance\r\nof densest matter (and the Supreme Brahman went off into mere <i>Sat </i>or <i>Asat,\r\n</i>Shunyam).<span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp; </span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:288.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:288.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>The Rishi says here that this fall and eclipse was for a\r\ngreater Rising, this eclipse was for a supreme Revelation. It is for a\r\nsovereign Fulfilment, a mighty Enjoyment <i>(urjam prthivya bhaktvaya) </i>of\r\nearth, upon earth. The Rishi speaks of how the ignorant dark material nature is\r\nraised, trans­muted step by step into the supreme nature and unified with the\r\nSupreme Reality, Brahman. The agents, the powers that help and operate the\r\nprocess are the high Gods who belong to the Super-nature, God\'s own pure\r\nnature. The principal Gods mentioned here are Varuna which means Infinite\r\nConsciousness, Mitra, Supreme Harmony and Love, Agni, the Fiery Force of\r\nascension or Tapas, Soma, the supreme Delight and Vayu, the Lord of the vital\r\nwho breaks down all barriers and difficulties and forges on. Now the pro­cess\r\nof redemption is a sacrificial journey, the image of the progressive forward\r\nand upward march of the consciousness profusely described in the Vedas and so\r\ndear to the Rishis. The process here described is also a process of <i>re-marriage.\r\n</i>Brahman\'s dark bride is the fallen dark Nature: She is being taken back to\r\nhim led by the Gods, each bringing his own gift and pouring into and securing\r\nthe ascent and Redemp­tion. In secular marriage seven steps are spoken of which\r\nthe couple has to take and go forward towards the complete union. Here the\r\nbride is made to take three major steps, and at each step she is married to a\r\nhigher and diviner mode of being. The first transformation is done when she is\r\nunited with Brahmana.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:11.0pt;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:288.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>Brahmana is Brahman as the Divine Word, the expres­sion or\r\nembodiment of the soul-truth. In the ordinary nor­mal path of sadhana, it is\r\nthe stage when one has got the mantra and inner initiation, and starts on the\r\njourney. The Divine Bride has now the firm stand and reveals herself as the\r\nmighty traveller on the path; even the basest material she can handle and turn\r\ninto the divine stuff.</p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:8.15pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-24</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>Thenceforth one is living\r\nand moving in Brahman – is Brahmachari in active life: it is the\r\nBrahman-consciousness that expresses itself in all movements. That is the stage\r\nwhere the Shakti arrives: she is now one with all the Gods and she enters into\r\nall their domains and movements, she becomes universalised. Finally the Divine\r\naspirant is not only the possessor but the master of the Word, Brahmanas­pati\r\nor Brihaspati, the embodiment of the vast dynamic Truth. Now on there is no\r\nshade of darkness or eclipse here in the being or consciousness; the Bride is\r\none with the Brahman and regains her original unity and identity with the\r\nSupreme.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'>This\r\nseparation and division is a play through which a higher union is effected – a\r\npanorama of gradual mani­festation of the infinite riches that Brahman\r\nenshrines in his bosom. The creation of inconscient earth and material nature\r\nhas to be accepted so that nature is purified and re­created and a divine race\r\nof beings is established upon earth for a richer and a glorious fulfilment here\r\nbelow.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;text-indent:.25in;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0; line-height:150%\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=Pagenumber style=\"margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\" align=\"center\">Page-25</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n\r\n</div></td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-07_The Bride of Brahman','','publish','closed','open','','07_the-bride-of-brahman','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/07_the-bride-of-brahman/',0,'post','',0),(1762,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymn to Surya</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=blue style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h2 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to Surya</font></b></h2>\r\n		<p align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; G<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>LOWING </span>like the\r\nred passion-flower,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>born of the Supreme Light,</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"center\"><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>lo, the Mighty Splendour!</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\' align=\"center\">He dispels darkness, he slays</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\' align=\"center\"><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>all ills, I bow to the</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\' align=\"center\"><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>creator of the Day. </p>\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\' align=\"center\">&nbsp;</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- 57<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\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=right style=\'text-align:right; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n  <div align=right> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-15_Hymn to Surya','','publish','closed','open','','15_hymn-to-surya','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/15_hymn-to-surya/',0,'post','',0),(1763,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','<html xmlns:v=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml\"\r\nxmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>THE FOURTH SUKTA</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">&nbsp;</p>\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<b><font size=\"4\">THE FOURTH SUKTA</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:10.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The gradual progression of\r\nthe spiritual discipline takes place by virtue of the bliss-power in the pure\r\nmind. It is with that power that a spiritual seeker overcomes all the obstacles\r\nand the downward pull of ignorance <span class=SpellE>symbolised</span> by <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Vritra</span> and creates beautiful forms full of knowledge in the\r\nfullness of the Vast.</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\'>In\r\nthe first three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> the nectar-emitting light and\r\npure thought-power of Indra have been invoked. Indra is a <span class=SpellE>milch</span>\r\ncow, that is to say, the inexhaustible source from which a seeker draws the\r\nnectar of immortality.</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\nclass=GramE>But why?</span> Because it is thus that a spiritual seeker can see\r\nthe manifestation of the All-Blissful, in the Vast. In our normal\r\nlife-activities we have a partial consciousness and our mind remains narrow,\r\ndegraded and twisted. So whatever we do turns out to be imperfect. And if we\r\nwant to make our creations beautiful, blissful and perfect, we must break the\r\nbarriers of this division, pettiness and poverty and rise into the everlasting\r\npoise and pure existence of</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; text-indent:11.75pt; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-104<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>the</span>\r\nVast. We are satisfied with a little, for our happiness and delight and <span\r\nclass=GramE>enjoyment are</span> confined to this material world alone. And\r\nfrom this sense-pleasure which is the outer form of the <span class=SpellE><i>Somarasa</i></span>\r\nwe shall have to squeeze out true delight and immortality. This is possible\r\nonly after one has invoked Indra, the Lord the senses and the presiding deity\r\nof the pure intellect. <span class=GramE>When the mind has become pure, when\r\nthe Divine Being Within it<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>has awakened,\r\nthe aspirant’s delight gets satisfaction no longer in the little imperfect\r\npleasures of the material world. The ecstasy of the <span class=SpellE>divinised</span>\r\nmind is surcharged with the divine light. One who has achieved this delight has\r\nalso achieved the all the well-ordained rhythmic play of Truth inherent in the\r\npure mind. It is there that an aspirant must pay particular attention to one\r\nthing. If all on a sudden truth and power descend from above into the\r\naspirant’s mind in an excessive manner, then there is every possibility of his\r\nmental balance; even if it is not so, the manifestation of this truth and power\r\ntakes place in a very distorted way. That is<span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;\r\n</span>why the aspirant has been asked to pray in this fashion:</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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>“O\r\nIndra, do Thou manifest thyself before me to the extent of my receptivity and,\r\nI pray, exceed not the limit.”</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'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\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The\r\naspirant has to purify first his lower nature before invoking the truth and\r\npower in a large measure. Otherwise a reaction may at once take place. The\r\nsubsequent <span class=SpellE>riks</span> deal with this matter. The second\r\ngroup of the three <span class=SpellE>riks</span> indicates the process of the\r\ngradual ascension of the aspirant. Spirituality is, as it were, a long upward\r\nmarch and the aspirant has to fight and toil faithfully all the way in order to\r\ngo ahead. It will not do for an aspirant to make an effort to pull the power\r\nfrom above, <span class=GramE>himself</span> remaining below. He has to raise\r\nhimself. He has to look upon the Divine Being that resides in Indra, the deity\r\nof knowledge, in the pure mind, and according to the inspiration and guidance\r\nof the Being the aspirant has to proceed. When we shall be fully Prepared for\r\nthe realization of the Godhead of Indra, the obscure and</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"center\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-105<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>impure</span>\r\nforces of ignorance cannot keep us enchained in the lower regions. They themselves\r\nwill then open the new vistas for a higher journey and declare, &quot;You have\r\nconquered us. Now go up, march onward, <span class=GramE>conquer</span> all the\r\nforces that are challenging you from the higher regions.&quot; Even obstacles\r\nare necessary and useful. We become stronger when we meet with oppositions in\r\nour life. The foundation gets firm only after it has weathered some storms.\r\nWhen we are established in the quiet foundation of Indra, the powers that help\r\nthe aspirant - the <span class=SpellE>vigour</span> behind his spiritual\r\nendeavour and power of action - will be able to make us the possessors of the\r\nhighest good and perfect bliss.</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\nclass=GramE>In the three successive <span class=SpellE>riks</span> of the third\r\ngroup the forces by which all obstacles in our journey are removed have been\r\ndescribed. <span class=SpellE>Vritra</span> is only a name for the\r\nobstacles in one\'s spiritual practice. <span class=SpellE>Vritra</span> means\r\nthe coverer (derived from the root <span class=SpellE><i>vr</i></span><i>) </i>who\r\nkeeps an aspirant in darkness. These blind forces of the lower plane do not\r\nallow the <span class=SpellE>liglit</span> of knowledge to dawn on the\r\naspirant. Drinking the nectar of <i>soma </i>(delight) Indra kills <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Vritra</span>, <i>i.e., </i>the forces of pure intelligence become\r\nfiery, as well as acute and sharp, with the pure and intense <span\r\nclass=SpellE>Ananda</span> by which is expelled the darkness of ignorance. The\r\naspirant gets strength to fight against the attraction of the <span\r\nclass=SpellE>unregenerated</span> nature and to climb up and move in the higher\r\nregions. His conscious being gets intoxicated with the nectar of delight, <span\r\nclass=SpellE>armoured</span> with a hundred powers. He surmounts all the\r\nobstacles of the spiritual adventure and makes the aspirant firmly established in\r\nall the accomplishments of perfection.</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\'>In\r\nthe last <span class=SpellE>rik</span> the nature of the divine mental being is\r\ndescribed: In this divine mental being the vast delight of the Infinite has\r\ndescended and with the help of its inspira­tion the aspirant goes on safely and\r\nsecurely from one level to another, from one shore to another and. climbs up\r\nfrom the <span class=SpellE>unregenerated</span> lower nature to the divine\r\nstatus.</p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the present hymn we can\r\nnotice one <span class=SpellE>speciality</span> of Vedic<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-106<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n<div class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:12.95pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none\'>\r\n\r\n<hr size=2 width=\"100%\" align=center>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span class=GramE>discipline</span>.\r\nVedic discipline was not something personal and individual. It was essentially\r\ncollective, <i>i.e., </i>for the community as a whole. That is why we often\r\nhear an aspirant of the Vedas calling his friends to assemble in spiritual\r\npractice and bring down the divine force with a collective effort. The\r\ncollective life flourished in those days with the help of companions and\r\nhelpers in sadhana. The gods too were companions and helpers in the spiritual\r\nendeavour. Hence they were addressed as friends.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n    <p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .75pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n	<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-107<o:p></o:p></span>&nbsp;</p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p align=\"right\" class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align:center; line-height:150%;margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\">\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>&nbsp;</span><i><a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a><span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>&nbsp;</span></i></p>\r\n<i>\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"> </div>\r\n<div class=Section1>\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</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','-22_The Fourth Sukth','','publish','closed','open','','22_the-fourth-sukth','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/22_the-fourth-sukth/',0,'post','',0),(1764,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','<html xmlns:o=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office\"\r\nxmlns:w=\"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word\"\r\nxmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40\">\r\n\r\n<head>\r\n<meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=\"text/html; \">\r\n<title>Hymn to All-Gods</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><b>\r\n<font size=\"4\">Hymn to All-Gods</font></b></h1>\r\n		<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:13.2pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;\r\ntext-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<font size=\"4\">RIGVEDA</font><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:\r\nnone; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><font size=\"4\">Mandala I: Sukta 89 </font> <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\'>(I)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>MAY the happy (blissful)\r\nSacrifices come to us from every­where, indomitable, invincible, <span\r\nclass=GramE>upsoaring.</span> May the Gods be there for our increase, may they\r\nnever abandon us, may they protect us day after day.</span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(2)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>May the perfect, the happy\r\nMind of the Gods who move in the straight <span class=GramE>path,</span> and\r\ntheir gifts be turned towards us. May we share the friendship of the <span\r\nclass=GramE>Gods.</span> May they carry forward our span of <span class=GramE>life.</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(3)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\'line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>With\r\nthe ancient mantra we invoke them all – Bhaga and Mitra and Aditi and the\r\nunstumbling Daksha, Aryaman too, and Varuna and the twin Aswins. May Saraswati,\r\nMother of bliss, create happiness for <span class=GramE>us.</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(4)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>That healing draught,\r\ncreative of Delight, may the Wind blow over to us; may Earth the mother and\r\nHeaven the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></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<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-7<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>father and also the Grinding Stones that press out\r\nsoma-juice and create delight blow over the same to us. O Aswins, Masters of\r\nknowledge, listen to us, both of you.</span></span><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(5)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Him, the Supreme Master,\r\nLord of the moving and the unmoving, approachable through the understanding, we\r\ncall for protection. May the Fosterer be there too to increase our realms of <span\r\nclass=GramE>knowledge.</span> May he be there for our welfare, the inviolable\r\nguardian and <span class=GramE>saviour.</span><o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal 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)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>May lndra of the full-grown\r\nhearing bring to us the Su­preme Welfare. May the all-knowing Fosterer also\r\nbring to us the Supreme <span class=GramE>Welfare.</span> And the Fashioner\r\nwhose cha­riot wheels move on unhurt, may he too <span class=GramE>bring</span>\r\nto us the Supreme Welfare. And the same Supreme Welfare may Brihaspati\r\nestablish in us.<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\'><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)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Dappled steeds are the\r\nStorm-Gods and their Mothers are of dappled hue. Happy is their journey and\r\nthey move from knowledge to knowledge. They have tongues of fire, thinking\r\nbeings are they, sun-eyed, may all these Gods come to us for guarding us.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal 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)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Happy <span class=GramE>be</span>\r\nthe hearing to our ears, happy be the seeing to our eyes. O Gods, Lords of the\r\nSacrifice, we invoke them with all our limbs firm and steady; may we enjoy that\r\nspan of life established in the Gods.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-8<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>(9)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoBodyText style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><span class=GramE><span style=\'font-size:12.0pt\'>Beside us\r\nstretch a hundred autumns. They bring\r\nage to our bodies there, therein the sons become fathers. In this fleeting\r\nlife-span do not be hostile to us, O Gods.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;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)<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>The One Mother is the\r\nheaven and the mid-space. She is the mother and the father and the son. All the\r\nGods are Herself, Herself are the Five Peoples. The One Mother is the creature\r\n(created being) and the creatrix.<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>\r\n<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-9<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<div align=\"right\"> \r\n	<p style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i></div>\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-02_Hymn to All  Gods','','publish','closed','open','','02_hymn-to-all-gods','','','2021-11-23 17:58:14','2021-11-23 17:58:14','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/02_hymn-to-all-gods/',0,'post','',0),(1765,1,'2021-11-23 17:58:15','2021-11-23 17:58:15','<html xmlns: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>Mute</title>\r\n\r\n</head>\r\n\r\n<body lang=EN-US style=\'tab-interval:.5in\'>\r\n<table border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\r\n	<tr>\r\n		<td>\r\n<h1 align=\"center\" style=\"line-height: 150%; margin-top: 0; margin-bottom: 0\">\r\n<font size=\"4\">Mute</font><o:p></o:p></h1>\r\n<div class=Section1>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>E<span style=\'font-size:10.0pt\'>VER</span> in the\r\nheart\'s core rings a faint strain,<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:18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The ringing of His hidden flute:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Its dumb utterance\r\nevokes a sweet pain,<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:18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class=GramE>The ardent desire of a\r\nburning love.</span><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:18.7pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the moonlight haze, in the love-game, steps around\r\nme<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:19.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Brush past to avoid eyes meeting:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n19.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Half-seen the body,\r\nfoot-fall muffled, &shy;<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:19.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>The soul is ever athirst.<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:19.2pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>In the dark a flickering smile, glimmering limbs,<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:25.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Some one unseen spinning around:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n25.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Love binds my soul as if\r\ntrapped in a prison,<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:25.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>I am in search of the body, the golden\r\nmine of love.<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:25.4pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;mso-line-height-alt:3.8pt;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:\r\nnone;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Lip to lip, hand in hand anon,<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:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>A vain moment\'s thrill:<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Failure increases the\r\ngreed, hopelessness sweetens the regret,<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:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Sorrowful am I in my happiness.<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:20.15pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;tab-stops:248.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>O! <span\r\nclass=GramE>when</span> woulds\'t thou come into my arms with thy smile <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:248.85pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span style=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>divine</span><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:21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Pouring out all the treasure of thy\r\nheart?<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'line-height:150%;mso-pagination:none;tab-stops:\r\n21.1pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>A mere touch is a world\r\nof delight, Beauty universal<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:21.1pt 220.3pt;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span style=\'mso-spacerun:yes\'>&nbsp;</span><span\r\nstyle=\'mso-tab-count:1\'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span\r\nclass=GramE>incarnate</span> &shy;â€•<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>Revealed in one body!<o:p></o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n<div style=\'border:none;border-bottom:solid windowtext 1.0pt;mso-border-bottom-alt:\r\nsolid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in\'>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal align=center style=\'text-align:center;line-height:150%;\r\nmso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none;border:medium none;\r\nmso-border-bottom-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:0in 0in 1.0pt 0in; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'>&nbsp;<span\r\nstyle=\'font-size:10.0pt;\'>Page-175<o:p></o:p></span></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n<p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%;mso-pagination:\r\nnone;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\'><i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></i></p>\r\n\r\n  <p class=MsoNormal style=\'text-align:justify;line-height:150%; text-indent:260pt; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0\' align=\"right\"><i>\r\n	<a href=\"-00_Content\"><img\r\nwidth=62 height=19 id=\"_x0000_i1034\" src=\"_Gif%20Image/board_d_home.gif\"\r\nborder=0 align=\"right\"></a></i><o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>\r\n\r\n</div>\r\n\r\n		</td>\r\n	</tr>\r\n</table>\r\n</body>\r\n\r\n</html>\r\n','-34_Mute','','publish','closed','open','','34_mute','','','2021-11-23 17:58:15','2021-11-23 17:58:15','',0,'http://collectedworksofnolinikantagupta.com/index.php/2021/11/23/34_mute/',0,'post','',0);
